Circle The Bay

Circle the Bay is coming up on Saturday August 9th. This is an all-hands on deck event similar to Tour de Fronds or the Prefontaine Memorial run.

The run starts at 8am and ends at Ferry Park in North Bend and is generally over by 1PM.

Please let us know if you can come out and participate with communications on the course or if you have any questions.

Please send your RSVP and where you were located on the course last year if you participated to:

cooscountyares@gmail.com

Dell KE7EIB will be in charge and taking care of communicating with the race director.

Thanks Everyone!
Gary N6BLU

Circle The Bay Run

Coos County Radio Club to assist Coos ARES doing Radio Communication Services for the race.

CCRC members wishing to assist – RSVP. Mention where you were located on the course last year if you participated.

cooscountyares@gmail.com

Dell KE7EIB will be in charge and taking care of communicating with the race director.

30K (18 mile) 3-person relay or 1-person 30K run
  • August 9th

Start/Finish at Ferry Road Park, 496 Park Avenue, North Bend, OR 97459

Circle the Bay

NAQP

The summer North American QSO Party (NAQP) contests are almost here!
NAQP RTTY on July 19
NAQP CW on August 2
NAQP SSB on August 16

Please add them to your calendar, and start talking with your friends
if you want to do a Multi-op, or assemble a Team of Single-ops.

Rules, results and records are all at the National Contest Journal:
https://ncjweb.com/naqp/ <https://ncjweb.com/naqp/>

The North American QSO Party contests are fun, friendly and fast.
Exchange is a Name and State (or Province or DXCC).

Party time is Saturday afternoon and evening, starting at 1800Z for 12 hours.
Single-ops add score for up to 10 of the 12 hours, so can you have 2 hours off
for meals, family, etc. … Plan your time off to maximize your score or fun.

NAQP contests have both Assisted and Non-Assisted categories for Single-ops,
and lots of State and Province Records in Assisted are yet to be claimed.
Assisted may help when chasing Multipliers across the five bands (10m – 80m).

There is a Multi-Two category for groups of operators,
and any group of two to five Single Operators can form a "Team", to combine
their scores under their latest "clever team name."

You have a chance to get your picture and story in the contest results
by sending them to the contest manager. You’ll be famous!

First up is NAQP RTTY on July 19, 2025.
RTTY Practice is available every Thursday night at 0145Z (Friday UTC).
https://radiosport.world/wrt.html <https://radiosport.world/wrt.html>

See you in the NAQP contests, starting July 19, 2025.

Mark K6UFO
NAQP RTTY Contest Manager

Field Day Notes – What Radio?

User modded operations – The Xeigu x6100

Thank you fellow CCRC members and visitors who stopped past my table and asked questions Here are some notes on the radio I was operating to fill in the picture.

At full power the Xeigu x6100 transmits 10 watts. Many acquire the radio for POTA/SOTA operation. It has an internal battery that will last several hours, but it reduces transmission power to 5 watts or less. The radio runs on a Linux-based system. (I think their other Xeigu models do too, but I haven’t paid attention.)

Importantly, a user community has grown up around building modifications to improve the system.

There are two software elements in the x6100: 

User modified GUI version R1CBU update - May 27th, 2025
  1. BASE which is the radio. 
  2. MAIN – which supplies the UI/Controls

Both can, and have been, modified by users. (More or less a reflection of PC architecture – A BIOS ROM/NVRAM and Bootable OS.)

A user community has grown up around customizing the radio

The x6100 can store a list of BASE code files. (Unusual) Which are user selected within the radio system menu, and then flashed into the hardware via power cycle. Moving forward and reverse between FW releases is just that easy. 

Loading BASE code files into the directory involves connecting to the radio via WiFi and issuing Linux command line instructions from a PC interface like PUTTY. Boutique BASE files are downloadable from the community on GitHub.com.

My radio currently operates the OEM BASE (Last updated by Xeigu September 2024) and I boot to the Boutique GUI portion of R1CBU – via micro SD.

I’m in the process of copying a list of BASE codes into the radio as part of keeping up with the community. Some of the BASE versions require building the binaries with Linux… others don’t. More Linux hacker stuff isn’t important, but you get the idea.

Anyway, I had a blast at Summer Field Day!

David KK7WXV

Care to share your Summer Field Day experience? Send the story and photos to Editor@coosradioclub.com

Free Technicians Class & Test

July 4th Weekend Ham Radio License Class!

The online course covers obtaining the TECHNICIAN license. FREE!
July 4-5, 2025 (Friday – Saturday)

Via ZOOM meeting. 

  • The class and materials are FREE, but you MUST register.
  • Study Ahead. Very helpful.
  • For students, this is a great way to stay sharp!
  • Open to all ages.
  • Learn new skills, serve your community, and have fun.
  • Earn radio-based scholarships.

To join the fun, contact:

Scott Rosenfeld, N7JI, ARRL Registered Instructor
Please EMAIL your name, e-mail, and phone number.
Email: ars.n7ji@gmail.com