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K0JO - WD2XSH/13 (SK)
We regret to
report the loss of one of our members.
John
G.Oehlenschlager,K0JO, WD2XSH/13, has become a Silent
Key.
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OEHLENSCHLAGER, JOHN GARY - 1940-2009

John Gary Oehlenschlager, born
in Wadena, Minnesota on September 28, 1940 to Alice Elizabeth (Marshall)
Oehlenschlager and Archibald Hans Oehlenschlager. He was the oldest of four
children and grew up on the family farm near Nimrod. John attended country
school (55 N.) through the seventh grade. He graduated from Sebeka High School
in 1958. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy in August 1958. During his enlisted time
in the Navy he attended E.T. School, Submarine training, Nuclear Power School,
Qualified as a nuclear reactor plant operator, spent four years at Purdue
University as a N.E.S.E.P. student. John graduated from Purdue with a BSEE and
Postgraduate minor in Nuclear Engineering. After Purdue John attended O.C.S. in
Newport, R.I. and was commissioned as an Ensign. He was EMO on U.S.S.
MacDonough DLG-8, E.M.O. on Staff of DESRON 6 in Charleston, S.C., CIC Officer
on U.S.S. Sellers DDG-11, a Surface Ship Supt. at Charleston Naval Shipyard.
John attended the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA for his MSEE. John
worked as an E.M.O. at NAVELEX, was OIC for JUSMAT Det., Golcuk, Turkey for 18
months, then returned to NAVELEX. He was honorably retired from the US Navy
after 20 years 7 months. John then worked for Sperry Univac (under their many
names) in Arlington, VA and Eagan, MN for 20 years as a Staff Engineer,
Applications Analyst, Senior Staff Engineer, and Systems Engineer, retired from
Lockheed Martin (Current name) in 1999, and moved back to land near
Nimrod.
John married Judith Kay
McKinney in 1962 in Delphi, IN. They adopted two children, Mary Alice Stiles
(Jim) of rural Nimrod and John Jr. of Farmington, MN. John is survived by his
wife (Kay), mother (Alice Oehlenschlager), 2 children, 5 grandchildren, 1
great-grandchild, two brothers, Steve (Dionne) Alexandria, MN and Richard
(Margaret Mary) Mounds View, MN, a niece and nephews and his special son, Klaus
Kronschnable. John's father (Archie Oehlenschlager) and sister (Carolyn
Oehlenschlager Koskiniemi) preceded him in death.
John began a hobby of working
with radios, electricity and electronics as a youngster that led to his career
in electronics and his prolific hobby in Amateur Radio. John had many call
signs from K0MOC to his final K0JO. John experimented in designing and building
his own equipment and he enjoyed being one of the pioneer HAMS who were allowed
to operate at 500KC. His home became an antenna farm and he enjoyed every facet
of the hobby. John was involved in helping the Hospitals and Public Health
communicate in preparation for disaster. He was a qualified weather watcher for
Skywarn. John kept bees, and enjoyed working with the resulting beeswax. During
the years in Washington, D.C. area John founded the Virginia Van Pool Assoc.
with over 200 member vanpools. He received a National Energy Efficiency Award
for his work with Van Pooling.
John was a member of the Sebeka
United Methodist Church, Nimrod Board Member of the West Central Telephone
Co-op, President of the Nimrod Lions, President of the Wadena Ham Club, member
of the Old Crows Organization, a life member of the ARRL. President of the
Nimrod Hall Assoc., Co-Secretary and hard worker for the Sebeka Area Food
Shelf, he served on various Committees to help Wadena County grow.

December 2008 Status
Report
The WD2XSH quarterly report has been
released. We now have over 31,000 interference-free on-the-air operating
hours.
Click HERE for a PDF copy of the
report.
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Want to know
how many hours we have accumulated on the air and how many QSO's have been
made? Read about it all here in the
November
08 Log Summary Report by Rudy Severns,N6LF.
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I have an
article about my new 500 Watt output 4-400A linear amplifier for the ARRL 600
Meter Experimental Project. It is posted on my other web site,
W5JGV.COM. The direct link to the article is
HERE. Please use the
BACK button on your web browser to return to the
500KC.COM web site.
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KC3OL, Ted
Holdahl,has set up the Kansas
Grabber.
This is in
addition the other ARGO Grabbers that are available on the
Grabber Page
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Please check the
NEWS ARCHIVE for all previous
happenings.
RECEPTION REPORTS
You do not have to
be a member of this group to send us a reception report.
Reception reports
are welcome for ANY 600-meter station - not just WD2XSH stations. Multiple
reports on the same station on different dates and times are encouraged as they
allow us to see that communication is repeatable
The entire Amateur
Radio community stands to benefit from your assistance!
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Ever wonder
what happens to your Reception Reports?
Take a look at these excellent
RECEPTION
REPORT maps for the WD2XSH stations as compiled by Ralph Wallio,
W0RPK.
If you have
anything to contribute - news, construction articles, data files, interesting
links or whatever - please email w5jgv at w5jgv dot com. Thanks from the 500 KC Experimental
Group!
Operational
Specifications
Frequency of Operation -
505 to 510 KHz Maximum ERP -
20 Watts Emission Modes - CW - PSK / FSK / MSK-31 Number of Stations - 21
The permitted Modulation Modes
are:
CW / QRSS - 150HA1A
PSK-31 - 62H0J2B
FSK-31 - 62H0F1B
MSK-31 - 62H0G1D
Part 5
Experimental Station WE2XGR joins in experimental
project on the 600 Meter band.
The license for WE2XGR was issued
by the FCC on September 5 with the following specifications:
Power 200 Watts ERP, Frequency
505-515 KHz , Modes CW, SSB, and data, Term 5 Years (expires Sept 1
2012)
For information
about individual WE2XGR stations, click HERE. For the WE2XGR license, click
HERE.
Additional information about
Amateur Radio and Part 5 Experimental Operation may be found on my other web
site at W5JGV.COM
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