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Tubes Available!

FARA has a large supply (several hundred) of vacuum tubes available. Mostly receiving type of unknown quality. We got them from Marlboro, who doesn't want them back.
Boatanchor fans, listen up! We want them out of our storage area. You have to take all of them. They're "sorta" sorted. Come and get them before they get trashed!

See W1VIV's Latest Article on the

Internet

Sumner Weisman, W1VIV, has published a new ham radio article. It's not in QST, but in the December 15th edition of the ARRL's new Members Only Internet Magazine. The article is called "Hams and their Antique Automobiles" and shows more than one FARA member in beautiful color.
To check it out, go to www.arrl.org/members. You have to be a member of ARRL, and will have to register if you haven't done it already.

Signing onto the FARA email reflector, [email protected]

The email reflector works like an email repeater.  Whatever you send to [email protected] gets rebroadcast out to everyone else who has signed up.  You can set the reflector to send you each message as it comes in, or to batch them all up into a "digest" and send you one of those a day.  To sign up, send a message to:
[email protected] with contents "subscribe FraminghamARA-L".
(Without the quotes, of course).  The subject can be left blank, the server only looks at the contents of the message.  You'll get back a confirmation, follow its instructions exactly, then you're on the list!

QSL Card

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The two CQWW contests also showed us that our link to the PacketCluster network was unreliable. After discussion with the YCCC Sysops Association (YSA), we changed our network connection from KB1H to K1EA in mid-December. This link is much more reliable. The acid test will be the two parts of the ARRL DX contest, coming up in February and March.
For various reasons, we also replaced both TNCs, thanks to donations from Jim, N1XAS and Pete, W1VAB.
The temperature problems led us to seek an equipment enclosure that would stabilize things. What we needed was a large, well-insulated cabinet with shelves. Pete, W1VAB, stepped forward and offered us an unused, vertical freezer... just the ticket. Peter, KA1AXY, picked it up and arranged for the freon to be drained in an environmentally-sound manner. Next, he removed the compressor and brought it in for recycling. K1KTK and K1NGI donated a thermostat, which Peter is using to control two muffin fans. Each of the air holes and cable penetrations are being mouse-proofed. We will have a "General Electric" PacketCluster node when we're through!
Get the idea this is a team effort? There are countless other ways that people have contributed; there's not enough space to cover them all. All this has led to a great system. Please encourage your friends to check us out!

Dear Rob:
A few weeks ago two great members of FARA: Julie Hoffer and Sumner Weismann worked for several hours putting up a new dipole for me at Heritage in Framingham. They did a great Job - for which I'm eternally grateful. I'm 97 and can no longer do such jobs for myself. Julie (W1DL) supplied all the material and would not let me pay for it.
I am hard of hearing but competent in the Morse code as I was a seagoing sparkgap pro in my early days. CW is therefore a real life saver for me. I have trouble understanding callers on LL, so when Julie phones me I tell him to fire up his rig on 7035 and we have FB copy. I think this is a good argument for keeping CW alive, at least for me -and I'm sure there are others who benefit in the same way.
Better late than never: Holiday Greetings to all -and a healthy and prosperous 1999!
73s and CW forever
Fred Rosebury -KA1GEN

The Circuit is in need of QSL cards!!!
If you would like to share your favorite QSL card, which could be your own, with the club, please send it my way!  A caption or story would be appreciated also.