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
KB9VBR has recently released a video in which he demonstrates the use of elevated radials with a vertical antenna. The setup, geared toward POTA activators, uses tuned elevated radials, along with an elevated vertical antenna to “Limit your ground losses and eliminate the Earth inconsistency variables”. While he doesn’t get...
Read MoreA compact, easy to build, sub-$100 direction finding setup Utilizing a small 70cm Yagi and a Quansheng UV-K5 radio running modified firmware you can hunt and locate signals and RFI sources quickly and easily, without having to fabricate parts or empty your wallet. In this article I am going to...
Read MoreNOARC (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!...
Read MoreThe 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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