Welcome to the MSU ARC!
The first radio station at Michigan State University was established through the efforts of the Amateur Radio Club in 1919 using the call letters of 8YG – broadcasting weather reports and farm market prices.
In 1925 8YG became WKAR, the public broadcast station of Michigan State University, while a ham radio station was formed using the call letters 8XBU. In 1927 the call 8SH was issued to the amateur radio station. Today the MSU Amateur Radio Club operates W8SH and W8MSU from the campus in East Lansing.
Introducing MSU ARC Radio Tools
Creative and Simple-To-Use Ham Radio Tools by Dong Duong
POTAVis is a tool for visualizing your POTA experience that maps both your activations and your hunted parks, making it easier to keep track of which ones you still need and provides a way to show your accomplishments.
FoxHuntr uses Bayesian statistics to assist with triangulation of an RF signal. Just provide 2 (or more) bearings on the map and the area in green will be the most likely location. Use it to find anything RF, visual or audible.
Find them in the “Radio Tools” menu above.
3 Rules Yagi – John W6NBC
With the Yagi build being such a success, I thought it might be prudent to post the inspiration for the so-called “3 Rules Yagi” by John Portune W6NBC. John is an avid ham and brilliant individual who enjoys making antenna projects easier for the non-technical amateur operator. He commonly donates his time to clubs and…
MSU ARC Fox Hunt!
Though a bit chilly, the ARC gathered for it’s October meeting at the Engineering building ready to take on a fox hunt! It took just about an hour for the first group to find Charlie KE8ZRH on campus near the Horticulture Gardens and Arboretum off of Farm Lane while tracking down the looping Jeopardy timer…
Receiving ISS SSTV with Homebrew Yagis
This last week, several students including Rohan, Sawyer, and club president Charlie KE8ZRH were able to pull slow scan TV pictures from the ISS with their home-made 2 meter Yagis! If you’re interested in building antennas or contacting the International Space Station, let us know and we’ll get you started.
2 Meter Yagi Build Meeting
Thank you so much for coming to last night’s ARC meeting for the 2 meter Yagi build! A total of 10 students were in attendance plus 2 alumni and myself. About half the antennas were finished last night, with the remaining half very close to completion. We’ll have a makeup day scheduled very soon, followed…
MSU ARC POTAVis Launch
Dong, student member of the MSU ARC, has written a web app for visualizing POTA (Parks On the Air) entities. It displays both hunted and activated parks plus optionally any unactivated parks as well. It’s clean, simple, and fast.Check it out here! Just dump your POTA Parks CSV file into the app. For more information…
Sparticipation 2025
Great job yesterday at Sparticipation! Excited to see what comes from the new faces we saw. We collected over 50 names on the show-of-interest form and demonstrated both digital and CW forms of communication. Ed taught a ton of Morse code names yesterday with his QRP lightbulb setup, and every continent was represented on the…