It is March madness!  Not basketball, but Tech class starts on March 20th at 7:00 PM at the club meeting site at 4th and "C" Streets. I hope you know someone who needs to get a ticket and you tell them about the class.

We should have a good time at club and I hope to see you all there. 

CUL, Jim, WA6OTP

Happy St. Paddy's Day! I know there was corned beef and cabbage on many tables, but how about green eggs and ham? I guess that?s another story.

The weather's getting better and outside work beckons. I got an ODF grant to clear some of my land and there's a lot of work to be done! Now is the time to prepare your emergency gear for another summer of forest fires, lost tourists, and river rescues, all of which we hope won?t happen. As the Boy Scouts say: "Be Prepared"!

Don't forget to pay your dues! If you can?t make it to a meeting, just mail a check to the post office box.

If you have anything to submit for publication in the Gnus, see the contact information below the masthead.

73, Mike, N7GEI

Are we safe in Southern Oregon?  Is it safe to fly out of Medford?  Why does Medford have so many security personnel?  Why do Medford passengers seem to be searched so "completely"?  What is the 4th Amendment involvement?

I will be presenting a brief discussion on Homeland Security as it relates to my job working for the TSA at the Medford airport.  While there is much that I cannot talk about, for those who fly (and have seen me at work), I can field many questions and talk a little about the huge matrix that has been formed called HSA. I also will cover some of our almost daily training and alert notifications.

Be there and be safe.

Bill Tyner, WX7U

Western Belles is a women's ham radio chat group that meets at 7:30 PM on the 1^st and 3^rd Thursdays of every month on the 147.300 repeater. Please check in!

The ladies get together regularly for lunch and all female hams are invited to attend.

Our next luncheon will be at 11:30 on April 5th at Rupert's, 314 SE H Street.

73, Wilma, W1LMA, and Anita, KC7MGH

SOARC-sponsored ARRL VE license exam dates for 2003 will be May 30, September 26, and November 28.

The tests will be administered at 6:30 PM at the Senior Programs Center (our regular meeting place) at 4th and C Streets in Grants Pass.  VE's will be coming at 6:00, as per custom.  Remember, the front door to the building may be off of B St., but it is locked and access is from the parking lot doors that are off of C Street.  Entry is made into the parking lot from either C or B Street access points.

Don't forget--we will need a copy of your driver?s license (need to see picture ID) and a copy of any CSCE's you may hold and want to use (make sure they have been awarded within the one-year time limit).  Anyone who will grandfather into general class needs proof of their license

status prior to April 1987.  It's surprising what will pass for proof nowadays. Walk-ins are welcome.

73, Bill Tyner, WX7U

VE Liaison

Thanks to Gary Ingram, KB7FCI

( If you are interested in some really interesting radio modifications, check out the following website, also courtesy of KB7FCI: http://www.mods.dk/)

By Glen E. Zook, W5UOJ

Copyright 1997

Every once-in-a-while, many amateurs like to take time to reflect, a time to remember. About 20 years ago, I wrote a similar article which Wayne Green published in 73 Magazine which met with a favorable response from the readers. This one has been up-dated somewhat, but is still aimed at the over-25 crowd. Over 25 years as an amateur, that is, the QCWA crowd. However, newer amateurs might just get a kick out of trying to make sense of the following list. But, if you have to ask any questions, then you really don't remember.

So, without further ado, do you remember:

The "Sixer", "Twoer", and "Tener"?
ARC5s?
The "Dream Receiver" (the one I owned was more like a "nightmare"!)?
The BC779?
The "My QTH" QSL cards?
When VO was a separate country from VE?
When the "ideal" novice rig was a DX40 and an SX99?
Controlled carrier modulation?
DSB?

The SX101A?
The VF-1 VFO?
The DX20, DX35, and DX60?
The 30L1 transmitter (not the 30L1 linear!) by Collins?
The KWM1?
The original "Bandit"?
The TBS50D (160 through 2!)?
The HRO series?
When an 807 was tube, not a drink?

The 814?
The G66 and G77?
The one-eyed "Gooney Bird"?
The second generation "Gooney Bird"?
When Novices could operate 2 meter phone but not the Technicians?
Crystal control and 75 watts?
When the "Adventurer" and "Challenger" were not space vehicles?
The Drake TV300HP?
Using a BC459 or BC457 as a VFO?
"Rice boxes" and "Japtracs"?
8th MOs (and even earlier!)?

The 41V and 80D?
The AF67 (or even earlier, the A54H)?
When a "Tribander" was a converter, not an antenna?
The NC-2-40D?
The NC183D (or even earlier, the NC173)?
The "Sky Buddy"?
The S40B?
The S77?
Globe Chiefs and Globe Scouts?
The Apache, Mohawk, and Seneca?
The Mohician?

The KWS1?
The orange QSL cards from Walter Ashe?
The logbook QSLs from GE?
HI HI HI HI from space on CW?
The Invader and Invader 2000?
Pedestals?
The Quad at HCJB?
The Central Electronics 10B and 20A?
The CE 100V?
Modifying a BC458 to use with a CE 10B or 20A?
The Techcraft coverters?

International Crystal six meter rigs?
The Lincoln?
Knight Kits?
The Space Spanner?
The R100A?
The Swan 120 (or 175, or 140)?
The Swan 240?
Heath monobanders?
The HQ129X (or, even earlier, the HQ120X)?
The SP600?
Your first QSO?
"Bugs", not keyers?

The Vibroplex Champion and Standard?
Astatic?
The 75A4?
The HQ105TR?
When Johnson built only ham gear?
The AT-1 and AR-1 (I owned an AR-3)?
6AG7-807 (or even 6V6-6L6)?
The 2E26 and 6146?
When the 829B was the "cats meow" on 2 meters?
The SCR522?
ROWH (Royal Order of the Woulf Hong)?
ROHO (Royal Order of the Hoot Owls)?

"No lids, no kids, no space cadets......."?
W2OY (I got on his "reserved" frequency once!)?
W5IO ("I know this guy, he bought a donkey........")?
ZL2BE (and his 20 wavelengths on a side rhombics)?
The rhombic?
100 North Western in Chicago?
When Lafayette was across the street from Allied?
When Radio Shack bought Allied?
Olson?
"California Kilowatts"?
AGL Electronics?
6 Up Magazine?

Western Radio Amateur?
When W2NSD ran CQ, not 73?
Cowan Publishing?
Zepp Antennas?
The T2FD?
"Radiates equally as poor in all directions"?
The DX100?
The SB-10?
The quad versus yagi debate?
AR22 rotors?
Prop pitch motors?

Selsyns?
The Communicator III?
WR calls?
When an "X" call meant experimental?
QBE?
The 310B?
Any Hunter rig?
The Drake 1A?
Hammurlund, Hallicrafters, and National?
ICE?
Varitronics?

Sideband Engineers, Gonset, and Central Electronics?
Heathkit, Johnson, and Collins?
The Swan 500?
Twin Vs (not "Twin Peaks")?
The "Outercom"?
The 200V?
When all major companies had QSL cards for their employees?
The Warrior?
The 2B (or was it "not to be")?
The SW3?
The Ocean Hopper?