Several College Club stations will be operating on February 18th in the first college club QSO party. This QSO party is an excellent opportunity for students to experience the HF amateur radio bands. The goal is to have college club stations from all over the country on the air making contacts at the same time. Hopefully stations in the Northeast will be able to hear stations on the west coast across all the bands. Feel free to invite your club alumni to participate as this is an event open to all hams. For further information check out this link for the rules and more info. If your club is interested in participating e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

     For the last several months those of us over at the Rochester Institute of Technology ARC, K2GXT, have been experimenting with MediaWiki hosted on CollegeARC. This wiki is located at Projects.CollegeARC.Com. The wiki has been setup to allow clubs to have a common area in which to document their projects. The first major project documented with this system has been the RITCHIE-1 High Altitude Balloon. Before letting other clubs know about this part of CollegeARC we wanted to not only test if it was a correct solution but also to fill it with some content as a basis for other clubs to see how they might want to documetent their own projects. Easy access to the wiki has been provided with the additions of a button called "Projects" on the left sidebar.