Thank you for reading SkyWaves! SkyWaves is the official newsletter of the Sachse Amateur Radio Association. We meet on the second Thursday of every month. You are invited! If you enjoy SkyWaves I challenge you to send me a photo of your shack! In spite of it being April 1st, we do have a monthly cover photo competition going. Email the newsletter editor with photos you would like to enter for consideration. Download Please enjoy our newsletter. It is very Technician accessible, and there is a comic section for those of you who are trying to gently teach something about the hobby. Special finds: The DentureKey Radio Quest; the continuing fun self-challenge, how many points do you have? John Smyder, W5JWS merit award from Steve Lott Smith of the ARRL Reader-contributed antenna story QRP in an apartment Reader-contributed Shack Photos Download the April SkyWaves newsletter, now published in a magazine format. Click here to download or copy this link into your browser's address bar: https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1mRw5MuRNWLyWlt8C4OP6M89ss5DFmoRD Show me your RadioQuest cards! There is one in every newsletter. How far have you been able to progress? Reply with a screenshot or the number of points you have! I fear you guys are going to find the dumbest typos ever Hop on your radio and keep having fun! KG5WHQ
The SARA board chose to suppress the April 1 newsletter and censor the April Fool's Day content. Here is the original newsletter, as published. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qG7P8JgVxCM9V5Fk5AK2Szysn_p5QKAM/view?usp=drivesdk Original thread: https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/april-1st-2025-skywaves.949986/
For those who love April Fool's Day, here is the uncensored newsletter. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qG7P8JgVxCM9V5Fk5AK2Szysn_p5QKAM/view?usp=drivesdk
there used to be a bunch of stations through out the past years that would have the call signs, F0OLS, FO0L FO0LS, AP1IL, PR0ANK, F7AKE, C0ON. Head one guy sending on 10 meters one year signing F0OLS and had an address of a ham in a nearby town and he got dozens of qsl requests and had dozens of qsls and he had no idea what this was about. The fake station was using his qsl address as his manager. KB1MY.
Thanks for pointing that out! It stands to reason there would be a few! Did you check out the uncensored newsletter (above)?
our radio club had a " APRIL 1 DUMMY LOAD QSO PARTY " back in 1985. I was surprised, I worked 2 of our members and another one of our members worked 3 others and won.
Lonnie, You have really done a great job with the news letter, and quickly I might add. Layout is looking great, and the content is good. It was just a few short months ago when you were asking for suggestions and you have really come a long way in a relatively short time.. Nice Job Sir!
I haven't been an active radio club member in the last few years. Really don't have the time working and being a member of our local LIONS CLUB. Going to be the incoming president of the ORFORD LIONS CLUB in June. Most of the radio clubs I've belonged to, don't value my input, so I just stay away and pay my dues. I have enough to do with the LIONS CLUB. I'm asking, are there any other hams here that belong to the LIONS, MASONS, ELKS, MOOSE CLUBS?
