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Click for more detail... A HUGE thank you to everyone that pitched in an extra buck or two to help make the above 2009 W9IMS cards possible! Click on the image to see a larger image of all four cards. It's your donations that allow us to make new cards every year! We also want to thank our new printer, GG Graphics (www.gggraphicsstore.com), for doing such a great job and giving us a discount. For 2009 QSL Info, please scroll to the bottom! W9IMS HISTORYIn April 2004, the owner of The Saturday Evening Post and club member Beurt SerVaas met with Indianapolis Motor Speedway CEO Tony George, and on May 25, 2004, W9IMS became the Official Amateur Radio Club of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway -- the first time in history that a ham radio club has received this designation. W9IMS conducts special event operations for all three races that make up the Triple Crown on Indy's legendary 2½-mile oval - the Indianapolis Motor Speedway http://www.indianapolismotorspeedway.com . These events are the Indianapolis 500 http://www.indy500.com , the Brickyard 400 http://www.brickyard400.com , and the Indianapolis MotoGP http://www.redbullindianapolisgp.com Unfortunately, the United States Grand Prix, http://www.usgpindy.com which was run from 2000-2007, will not be returning to the IMS in 2008. 2004 INFOW9IMS talked with 7,766 people from 81 different countries during the three races. 2005 INFOW9IMS talked with 5,475 people from 70 different countries during the three races. We had a special guest in the shack. Mike King, the chief announcer for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network and the voice of all IndyCar Series events, stopped by and talked with hams around the world. Those lucky hams also got their QSL cards signed by Mike. http://home.earthlink.net/~w9ims/2005/Mike_King_at_W9IMS.jpg In addition, Mike King mentioned W9IMS on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Radio Network during the live worldwide broadcast of the Indy 500! http://home.earthlink.net/~w9ims/2005/W9IMS_on_Indy_500_broadcast.mp3 One of our members, David Spoelstra, N9KT, did an interview with 2005 Indy 500 winner Dan Wheldon! http://home.earthlink.net/~w9ims/2005/Dan_Wheldon.mp3 2006 INFOW9IMS talked with 7,537 people from 96 different countries during the three races. We had a guest op for the 90th running of the Indy 500. Nine year old YL Extra Amanda Feriante and her family of hams from California visited us and worked stations from W9IMS! http://www.qrz.com/af6yl 2007 INFOW9IMS talked with 8,994 people from 91 different countries during the three races. During the Indy 500 Special Event our guest op, Amanda Feriante, had interviews with the local radio and TV stations. Hear her on WIBC at http://home.earthlink.net/~w9ims/2007/Amanda_Fariante_WIBC.mp3 and see her (and some of our shack) on WXIN Fox 59 at http://home.earthlink.net/~w9ims/2007/Amanda_Fariante_WXIN.wmv One of our members, Brian D. Smith, W9IND, wrote an article that was published in the November 2007 QST about our Indy 500 Special Event titled "Girl Meets Brickyard - A Ham Radio Adventure." It was announced that the 2007 USGP would be the last one run at the Brickyard. That makes those USGP QSL cards you have quite collectable! On the plus side, we are all looking forward to the inaugural running of the Red Bull Indianapolis MotoGP race! The Indianapolis Motor Speedway has now come full circle because the first land-based vehicle race held there *was* a motorcycle race on August 14, 1909! 2008 INFOW9IMS talked with 7596 people from 90 different countries during the three special events. On May 24, 2008, as a special "event within an event," we staged our first-ever Chick Factor Night during our annual Indianapolis 500 operation. Only YLs were allowed on the air during this three-hour effort, and we amassed hundreds of QSOs while demonstrating the power of the Chick Factor. This event helped launch our new YL-only club, Chick Factor International (W9YL); for more information, click here: http://www.freewebs.com/chickfactor We also celebrated the Inaugural Red Bull Indianapolis MotoGP race! The last motorcycle race held at the IMS was in 1909! It was a great event and the stands were packed even though it was raining. 2009 INFOThanks to your donations and the discount from our new printer, GG Graphics (www.gggraphicsstore.com) we have beautiful new 2009 cards (pictured above). To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the construction of the track, we made a separate Centennial QSL card (see the picture above) which was included with every QSL card we sent. The new QSL cards must have been a huge hit because we talked with a record 12,016 people from 78 countries! 2010 SCHEDULEIndianapolis 500 - May: Allstate Brickyard 400 - July 23-25: FREQUENCIESW9IMS will operate on or near: 1.840, 3.840, 7.240, 10.140, 14.070 PSK31, 14.240, 18.140, 21.340, 28.340, 50.140, 144.240 SSB and 146.52 simplex FM. Watch for spots at sites such as DX Summit http://oh2aq.kolumbus.com EQUIPMENTW9IMS uses Icom 756 Pro 2s and 3s with a variety of commercial and homemade amps. We have towers ranging from 110 feet to 200 feet. We have monobanders on 40m, 20m, and 10m. We have dipoles at 150 feet for 80m and 200 feet for 160m. We have a WARC dual bander at 110 feet. We use the excellent freeware programs N1MM (www.n1mm.com) and XMLog (www.xmlog.com) to log all our contacts. UX5UO (www.ux5uoqsl.com) did our 2008 QSL printing and GG Graphics (www.gggraphicsstore.com) is doing our 2009 QSL printing. QSL INFOA *BIG* thank you to everyone who donated to make the new Indy 500 Centennial cards happen! We are *NOT* supported by the Speedway and all donations go *DIRECTLY* into buying the QSL cards every year. We send the cards out as soon as possible, but it is a huge task. They have to be designed, approved, printed, and shipped to us. Then, we need to fill them in. With over 12,000 QSOs this year alone, that's a lot of cards. So, please give us until December of the year you worked us to get you the cards and certificates. A full-color custom two-sided QSL card will be available for EACH race. A certificate on heavy photo paper will be available for working ALL three races (Indianapolis 500, Allstate 400 at the Brickyard and Red Bull Indianapolis GP) in the same year. The cost for printing these comes out of our own pockets. We are *not* supported by the IMS. So, we must insist on an SASE for QSL cards and an SASE and $1 for certificates! NO SASE, NO CARD - NO EXCEPTION. Any additional donations are GREATLY appreciated and will go directly into the fund for printing NEW cards every year. Thank all of you who threw in an extra buck so that we could do the new cards pictured above in 2009! NON-USA STATIONS - QSL direct or via the bureau. For a certificate, please follow the directions below for USA STATIONS FOR CERTIFICATE. USA STATIONS (FOR QSL CARDS) - send your QSL card with an SASE (#9 or #10 Business Envelope -- our QSL cards are 3.5" x 5.5"). If you are going to try for the certificate, please wait and follow the certificate directions below. USA STATIONS (FOR CERTIFICATE) - send a QSL for the three different races in the same year (you can list all three on one QSL card) along with $1 and an 8.5" x 11" SASE. We will send back the three different QSL cards and the certificate. The certificate is on heavy photo paper. MAKE SURE YOU INCLUDE ENOUGH POSTAGE! SWL STATIONS - Follow the directions above for USA or NON-USA stations and substitute an SWL report for a QSL card. Please email W9IMS if you have any questions. -David Spoelstra, N9KT Last modified: Sun Oct 11 09:10:29 2009 Does this page contain inappropriate content? If so, Report this page... |
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