PRESIDENTS CORNER
The Sky warn Training meeting was well attended. We had 60 people sign in. John Paul from the weather Service gave a very enjoyable presentation. Thanks also to Gary Kostelecky, and Joe N0QAU, for getting everything set up for the meeting and to Margaret KB7ITR, Laurie KC0NHW, and Irene WD0DAW for the refreshments, N0DK Emil, KC0APN Darrel, and crew for setting up the chairs. The Armory gives us more room. We should try and remember next year to open the windows early.
Nice to see WD0DAJ Stan, and KB0NVT Betty, They are back from wintering in Arizona, California, and West Coast, We will have to have them fill us in on their trip. Welcome Home!
We have some work to do on the generator, and the club trailers, also will have to visit the repeater sites, and check things. Out. Batteries etc. STAN WD0DAJ and JOE N0QAU have been working on the repeaters and have got the 442.675 machine working again. Thanks.
Field Day will be here before long, the forth weekend in June. Anyone that would like to operate at any certain time, contact me and we will set up an operating schedule. This may help give people that may be working a chance for them to operate. We will also have to check with the Trap Club to set up our Field Day, and Picnic dates.
There was an APRs meeting in Billings Mt. But no one from our group was able to attend. I sure would have liked to make it. It would be nice if we could get together at the Fathers Day Picnic, for an APRs Form.
Karl from the weather Service has set a few of their digi's to relay our APRs positions. This should help fill in some of the areas that we did not have coverage. We will see how this will work. Thanks to Karl for His help.
I hope that all had a very Happy and Blessed Easter. One of these days we are going to get some spring weather. One good thing about this cool weather is that it should help get rid of some of the grasshoppers.
God Bless. 73 Bill K0UB
Theodore Roosevelt Amateur Radio Club Meeting Minutes No minutes for April due to Sky Warn meeting. SB QST @ ARL $ARLB012 "Because the ARRL petition addresses the operating privileges of all classes of licensees on these Amateur Service bands, we believe that the ARRL petition provides a basis for a comprehensive restruc turing of operating privileges," the FCC said. The ARRL referenced its Novice refarming proposal in its recent Petition for Rule Making, RM-10867, which, along with three other petitions remains open for comment until April 23. The FCC also has proposed essentially eliminating its rules prohibiting manufacture or marketing of Amateur Radio Service power amplifiers capable of operating between 24 and 35 MHz. The current rules "impose unnecessary restrictions on manufacturers of Amateur Radio equipment and are inconsistent with the experimental nature of the Amateur Service," the FCC said. The FCC proposed amending Section 97.201(b) of the rules to permit auxiliary operation on 2 meters above 144.5 MHz, with the exception of the satellite subband 145.8 to 146.0 MHz, in addition to frequency segments already authorized. The FCC proposed extending the bands available for spread spectrum experimentation and use to include 222-225 MHz as well as 6 and 2 meters. Current rules limit SS emissions to frequencies above 420 MHz. Among other things, the FCC also proposed to prohibit acceptance of more than one application per applicant per vanity call sign; permit retransmission of communications between a manned spacecraft and its associated Earth stations, including the International Space Station; allow current amateurs to designate a specific Amateur Radio club to acquire their call sign in memoriam; eliminate Section 97.509(a) of the rules, which requires a public announcement of volunteer examiner test locations and times; and add to Section 97.505(a) to provide Element 1 (5 WPM Morse) credit to any applicant holding a Technician license granted after February 14, 1991, and who can document having passed a telegraphy examination element. The Commission ordered some changes in Part 97 without requesting comment. It ordered, among others, the revision of the definition of an "amateur operator" in Section 97.3(a)(1) to reflect that entry in the FCC Universal Licensing System (ULS), not a license document, determines whether a person is an Amateur Radio operator. The FCC adopted a technical change to specify that the mean power of any spurious emission from a new amateur station transmitter or amplifier operating below 30 MHz be at least 43 dB below the mean power of the fundamental emission. Among other petitions, the FCC turned down a proposal to establish distinct CW and phone segments in the 160-meter band. Also denied were petitions that would have imposed restrictions on the time, length or transmission frequencies of bulletins or informational transmissions directed at the amateur community and a request to add to the special event call sign system certain call sign blocks designating territories and possessions that lack mailing addresses. The FCC Notice of Proposed Rule Making, on the web at, http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-04-79A1.doc, in WT Docket 04-140, is available on the FCC Web site. As soon as the document has been posted, comments on the NPRM may be filed via the FCC Electronic Comment Filing System at, http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/ecfs/. Click on "Submit a filing." To view filed comments, click on "Search for filed comments." In either case enter the NPRM number in the "Proceeding" field as "04-140" (without the quotation marks). NNNN /EX | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||