Welcome to MIRATS!

This is the homebase for the Michigan Radio Amateurs Technological Society, callsign: WE8CHZ – An FCC registered amateur radio club.

The society is primarily geared towards Michigan residents, but is open to all who wish to participate. It has a general focus on the exploration of radio technologies, the use of technology in practical applications, and other offshoots of the radio hobby depending on the mood.

We’re an Internet-based society, meaning that there is no regional or geographical home location within Michigan. We meet and socialize primarily on Discord, but can also be found and contacted via Facebook.

You’ll often find our members on the IRA Linked Repeater System (w8ira.org), W8BCI in Lansing (w8bci.org), as well as other area repeaters like WM-CONNECT on Wires-X.


Recent Posts from the Shack

ai generated image of a mouse using radio equipment. a radio tower with large dish antennas is in the background

Michigan Digital Voice Code Plug Library

This is a library of user-submitted code plugs for digital voice radios, including DMR, C4FM and D-STAR. If you want to submit a code plug for a different voice protocol, I’m happy to create a heading for it. Email your code plug with a short description to gordonthree-we8chz @ gmail.com...
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How to Hack into a Bricked Flex 3000 that has Improper Firmware Installed

Bricked your Flex 3000 with bad firmware? Maybe not. Hack your radio...
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The “DX FT8” Portable QRPp FT8 Transceiver Project

A 5-band FT8 QRP transceiver with a wonderful color GUI is a good looking open source project you can build yourself...
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WT2p CJ Johnson

Icom IC-7300 USB for Radio Control + FSK Keying

Originally Published on March 21, 2017 by WT2P, CJ Johnson...
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Field Spotter – A Handy Tool of Visualizing POTA Spots

A new tool for visualizing current POTA stations from M0TRT...
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An Elevated Radial Vertical Antenna for POTA

Harness the power of elevated radials with this antenna...
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N8GMZ's RFI Rig

N8GMZ’s RFI Hunting Rig

Hunt RFI on the cheap with this easy to build, powerful, direction finding radio/antenna combo...
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Michigan QSO Party – Score

NOARC (North Ottawa County ARC) sponsored its members and the MI RATS at Kirk Park on Lake Michigan for 2024. The final score was 171,146, with 694 Qs and 166 Multipliers. Thanks to everyone that participated and worked us!...
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Michigan QSO Party 2024

The Michigan QSO Party is quickly approaching. Starting at 12:00 PM EDT on 4/20/2024 and running until 12:00AM EDT on 4/21, the rats will be in the race to win the event. We’ll be operating under the callsign W8CSO. The event is organized by the MI RATS and sponsored by...
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