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BRISTOL AMATEUR RADIO CLUB VIRGINIA/TENNESSEE - USA
The Next Meeting *** May 1st, at 7:00 P.M.
*** “Magnolia” Meeting Room/Lower Level, BRMC
The next meeting is slated for Thursday, May 1st. The weather is warming up and hopefully we will see many of our group out at the meetings this summer and in the warm weather. Our program will be presented by Mike Otis K0TIS baluns and feed lines.
Dues for 2008
It is still not too late to pay dues for 2008. The dues are still $12.00 a year and run January 1-December 31st of the same year. You may give your dues to Toni Ward, KF4BMW at the next club meeting or you can mail a check for $12.00 to BARC C/O Toni Ward 305 Honeysuckle Lane, Bristol, Tennessee, 37620.
Everyone remember to check into the Bristol two Meter Net every Tuesday night at 9:00 P.M. It is one of the oldest two-meter nets around. Charlie, K4CWA and Dale, KT4SQ are net controllers. They invite you to check in and see what is going on between club meetings.
VE Testing
The Bristol Club continues to offer testing on the last Thursday of the “Odd” number months. The next session will be May 29th at 7 PM in the Poplar/Azalea room of Bristol Regional Medical Center. The VE group tells me that the Extra Class question pool changes in June, so if you are looking to upgrade to Extra this is a good chance. Anyone looking to test for Technician and General are always welcome.
For some reason Charter has changed the IP address here after allowing the same one for well over a year.
Here is the new one.
24.159.45.170
port 7300
Sorry.
The last login was by ZP6CW on Apr 20 at 0415z logout 30 minutes later.
No other history shown as to why the change. No indication of software boot or power loss here. Dave N4DW
Field Day 2008
It is not long until Field Day arrives for 2008. Field Day is set this year for June 28 and 29. The BARC activity will be at our fun spot at the Bristol Lifesaving Crew camp out off US 421 on South Holston Lake. The club will provide supper of hamburgers and hotdogs with all the trimmin’s. Club members are asked to bring a covered dish or desert and as always, please bring a bag of ice with you when you come out! We plan to run 3A again and any CW op’s that want to burn the midnight oil are welcomed to come and play as long as you would like. We will be discussing what we need to do for Field Day at the next couple of meetings. If you have any questions on Field Day, contact Ben Morris K4EDI at utben@earthlink.net.
BARC members,
Once again this month has been a slow news month. However field day is fast approaching. I'm really looking forward to the cook out portion and Lonnie’s special steak sauce.
The program for this month will be presented by Mike Otis K0TIS. We will be back in our new meeting room. I would like to encourage my fellow Hamericans (hi hi) who have some old dust collecting editions of QST magazine laying around to bring them to the meeting. We can share these with the new hams and maybe those interested in the hobby. Also your local library is a good place to take these.
Hope to see you all at the next meeting. May 1st 2008 at 7:00PM.
73 for now Adam Dye AD4FF
Southcars Annual Hiawassee Picnic Information
The phone number for the Fairgrounds is 706-896-4191.
I have invited the members of the Tri State Amateur Radio Club in Blairsville to attend. Some of them are members of southcars, and the rest might be interested at some point. There are some 25 t0 30 active members. I will try to get an actual count of how many will actually attend.
Looking forward to seeing you in June. From www.southcars.com
Where “HAM” Originated
Hello fellow Hams !!
Ham is the word used to describe an Amateur Radio Operator. And why are we called Ham's? The word Ham was applied in 1908 and was the call letters of one of the first Amateur wireless stations operated but some members of the Harvard Radio Club. They were Albert S. Hyman , Bob Almy , and Peggie Murray. At first they called their station Hyman-Almy-Murray. Tapping out such a long name in Code soon called for a revision and they changed it to HY-AL-MU, using the first two letters of each name. Early in 1909 , some confusion resulted between signals from Amateur wireless HYALMU and a Mexican ship named HYALMO, so they decided to use only the first letter of each name and the call became HAM. In early pioneer unregulated days of radio, Amateur Radio Operators picked their own frequency and call letters.
Then, as now , some Amateur had better signals than some commercial stations. The resulting interference finally came to the attention of congressional committees in Washington D.C. and they gave much time to proposed legislation designed to critically limit Amateur activity. In 1911, Albert Hyman chose the controversial Wireless Regulation Bill as the topic for his thesis at Harvard. His instructor insisted that a copy be sent to Senator David I. Walsh, a member of one of the committees hearing the bill. The Senator was so impressed, he sent for Hyman to appear before the committee.
He was put on the stand and described how the little Amateur station was built. He almost cried when he told the crowded committee room that if the bill went through , they would have to close up the station because they would could not afford the licensee fees and all the other requirements that were setup in the bill. The debate started and the little station HAM became a symbol of all the little Amateur stations in the country crying out to be saved from menace and greed of the big commercial stations who did not want them around. Finally, the bill got to the floor of Congress and every speaker talked about the poor little station "HAM". You can find the whole story in the Congressional Record . And that is how an Amateur Radio Operator got associated with the word "HAM" from now to end of
James R. Peters USA
Court Finds FCC Violated Administrative Procedure Act in BPL Decision
(Apr 25, 2008) -- The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit today released its decision on the ARRL's Petition for Review of the FCC's Orders adopting rules governing broadband over power line (BPL) systems. The Court agreed with the ARRL on two major points and remanded the rules to the Commission. Writing for the three-judge panel of Circuit Judges Rogers, Tatel and Kavanaugh, Judge Rogers summarized: "The Commission failed to satisfy the notice and comment requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act ('APA') by redacting studies on which it relied in promulgating the rule and failed to provide a reasoned explanation for its choice of the extrapolation factor for measuring Access BPL emissions." From www.arrl.org
Upcoming Hamfests:
May 3rd Spartanburg, SC
May 3rd-4th Birmingham, AL
May 10th Mountain City, TN
May16th-18th (Hamvention) Dayton, OH
May 24th Durham, NC
VHF/UHF Calendar:
May 10th-11th 50MHz Spring Sprint
May 10th-11th 1.2 GHz EU EME Contest
May 10th-11th 2 GHz & Up Contest
Contest Calendar:
May 3rd-4th 10-10 Spring CW & Digi Contest
May 10th FISTS Spring Sprint
May 24th-26th CQ WW WPX C.W.
May 31st Kid’s Roundup
Upcoming DX Activations:
May 1st ZS8 Marion Island
May 3rd-30th A52TL Bhutan
May 15th-26th 3V8SS Tunisia
May 17th-31st 3D2 Fiji
May 19th-24th V63DX Micronesia
May 24th-June 6th OH0 Aland Island
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