My busy summer has turned into a busier fall! No rest for the weary!

We will accept nominations for officers and board at the November meeting. Please consider how you may be able to serve your club. There are some committee positions available also.

See you at the meeting.

73, Dennis Recla, WA5KTC

It's hard to believe we only have about two months before our Christmas party!

The $200.00 we collected for the Gospel Rescue Mission bought toilet paper, paper towels, cooking oil, bleach, peanut butter, coffee, tea bags, and sugar. They were particularly glad to receive the donations as their giving is down about 38 per cent due to the diversion of regular giving to hurricane relief. Please consider putting them on your Christmas list.

Don't forget--you can list your "for sale or trade" or "wanted" items in the newsletter. Please limit them to ham or computer-related merchandise or services.

If you have anything to contribute to the Gnus, see the contact information above.

73, Mike Wright, N7GEI

Western Belles is a women's ham radio group that gets together regularly for lunch and all female hams are invited to attend.

Our next luncheon will be at 11:30 on November 5th at Taqueria Mexico, 137 SE H St., next to the Rogue Theater, in Grants Pass.

October 18 – 1800: SOARC Board Meeting

October 18 – 1900 SOARC General Meeting

October 22 – Swaptoberfest, Rickreall, OR

October 29-30 – CQ Worldwide SSB DX Contest – 0000Z 10-29 to 2400Z 10-30

November 15 – 1800 SOARC Board Meeting

November 15 – 1900 SOARC General Meeting – Nominations for SOARC officers and board

November 29 – VE Testing

December 20 – SOARC Christmas Party/Potluck/Gift Exchange, Redwood Grange, Grants Pass

The last SOARC VEC exam session will be November 29th at the regular meeting site. The fee is $14.00 per license class exam. As usual, if you take a written and code test together you only pay the single fee. Either one by itself is $14.00. Should you take two written tests to upgrade twice in one session it will cost $28.00. Even if you don't take any tests, the fee for an upgrade (in this instance, the invoking of the grandfather privilege for pre-1987 technicians) will be $14.00.

Walk-ins are dandy with no pre-registration required. If there are many of you arriving in a group, or are examinees requiring special accommodation (PWD), then

please do advise me in advance so that we can best meet your needs.

Register between 6:00-6:15 PM. Exams begin at 6:30. Plan on spending from one to two hours.

Contact: Bill Tyner, WX7U, by e-mail at
goodgrendl@aol.com or leave a phone message at (541) 476-2703.

73, Bill Tyner, WX7U

VE Liaison

FOR SALE

TEN-TEC ORION - Mint condition, original owner, non-smoker, with all factory roofing filters, internal antenna tuner, boxes, manuals, etc. $2395.00

ALINCO DR 605 Dual Band 2m/440 transceiver. 50W vhf, 35W uhf, good condition. $185.00

SCHURR PORTABLE SM-020 Precision German dual paddle key for electronic keyer. Compact size, good for QRP - unused like new condition. $185.00

KENWOOD TH-75A Dual Band hand held 2M/440 with speaker mic, desk charger, AEA 2M Hotrod antenna, case, new NIMH battery pack. Original owner, good condition. $125.00

YAESU FT-897 HF/VHF/UHF transceiver with optional Collins mechanical filter and internal optional power supply. Original owner, non-smoking, little used. $740.00

HAL DXP 38 ASCII, Baudot, Amtor, Pactor, and CloverII high end DSP data modem with Windows software. $285.00

Contact Gary Harwell, AA6CC, at 541-261-2768.

Used 30-foot tower with an eight-element, five-band beam for all bands from 10 to 20 meters. Setup includes rotator, control box, and cable. $100.00

Contact Don Hurd, N7GCZ, at 474-6747.

This is a History Exam for those who don't mind seeing how much they really remember about what went on in their life.

Get paper and pencil and number from 1 to 20.

Write the letter of each answer and score at the end.

1. In the 1940s, where were automobile headlight dimmer switches located?
a. On the floor shift knob.
b. On the floor board, to the left of the clutch.
c. Next to the horn.

2. The bottle top of a Royal Crown Cola bottle had holes in it. For what was it used?
a. Capture lightning bugs.
b. To sprinkle clothes before ironing.
c. Large salt shaker.

3. Why was having milk delivered a problem in northern winters?
a. Cows got cold and wouldn't produce milk.
b. Ice on highways forced delivery by dog sled.
c. Milkmen left deliveries outside of front doors and milk would freeze, expanding and pushing up the cardboard bottle top.

4. What was the popular chewing gum named for a game of chance?
a. Blackjack
b. Gin
c. Craps!

5. What method did women use to look as if they were wearing stockings when none were available due to rationing during WW II?
a. Suntan
b. Leg painting
c. Wearing slacks

6. What postwar car turned automotive design on its ear when you couldn't tell whether it was coming or going?
a. Studebaker
b. Nash Metro
c. Tucker

7. Which was a popular candy when you were a kid?
a. Strips of dried peanut butter
b. Chocolate licorice bars
c. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside

8. How was Butch wax used?
a. To stiffen a flat-top haircut so it stood up.
b. To make floors shiny and prevent scuffing.
c. On the wheels of roller skates to prevent rust.

9. Before inline skates, how did you keep your roller skates attached to your shoes?
a. With clamps, tightened by a skate key.
b. Woven straps that crossed the foot.
c. Long pieces of twine.

10. As a kid, what was considered the best way to reach a decision?
a. Consider all the facts
b. Ask Mom
c. Eeny-meeny-miney-mo

11. What was the most dreaded disease in the 1940's?
a. Smallpox
b. AIDS
c. Polio

12. "I'll be down to get you in a ________, Honey"
a. SUV
b. Taxi
c. Streetcar

13. What was the name of Caroline Kennedy's pet pony?
a. Old Blue
b. Paint
c. Macaroni

14. What was a Duck-and-Cover Drill?
a. Part of the game of hide and seek.
b. What you did when your Mom called you in to do chores.
c. Hiding under your desk, and covering your head with your arms in an A-bomb drill.

15. What was the name of the Indian Princess on the Howdy Doody show?
a. Princess Summerfallwinterspring
b. Princess Sacajewea
c. Princess Moonshadow

16. What did all the really savvy students do when mimeographed tests were handed out in school?
a. Immediately sniffed the purple ink, as this was believed to get you high.
b. Made paper airplanes to see who could sail theirs out the window.
c. Wrote another pupil's name on the top, to avoid their failure.

17. Why did your Mom shop in stores that gave Green Stamps with purchases?
a. To keep you out of mischief by licking the backs, which tasted like bubble gum.
b. They could be put in special books and redeemed for various household items.
c. They were given to the kids to be used as stick-on tattoos.

18. Praise the Lord, and pass the _________?
a. Meatballs
b. Dames
c. Ammunition

19. What was the name of the singing group that made the song "Cabdriver" a hit?
a. The Ink Spots
b. The Supremes
c. The Esquires

20. Who left his heart in San Francisco?
a. Tony Bennett
b. Xavier Cugat
c. George Gershwin

ANSWERS

1. b) On the floor, to the left of the clutch.. Hand controls, popular in Europe, took till the late '60s to catch on.

2. b) To sprinkle clothes before ironing.. Who had a steam iron?

3. c) Cold weather caused the milk to freeze and expand, popping the bottle top.

4. a) Blackjack Gum.

5. b) Special makeup was applied, followed by drawing a seam down the back of the leg with eyebrow pencil.

6. a) 1946 Studebaker.

7. c) Wax coke bottles containing super-sweet colored water.

8. a) Wax for your flat top (butch) haircut.

9. a) With clamps, tightened by a skate key, which you wore on a shoestring around your neck.

10. c) Eeny-meeny-miney-mo.

11. c) Polio.. In beginning of August, swimming pools were closed, movies and other public gathering places were closed to try to prevent spread of the disease.

12.. b) Taxi. Better be ready by half-past eight!

13. c) Macaroni.

14. c) Hiding under your desk and covering your head with your arms in an A-bomb drill.

15. a) Princess Summerfallwinterspring. She was another puppet.

16. a) Immediately sniffed the purple ink to get a high.

17. b) Put in a special stamp book, they could be traded for household items at the Green Stamp store.

18. c) Ammunition, and we'll all be free.

19. a) The widely famous 50's group, The Inkspots.

20. a) Tony Bennett, and he sounds just as good today.

SCORING

17- 20 correct: You are older than dirt, and obviously gifted with mental abilities. Now if you could only find your glasses. Definitely someone who should share their wisdom!

12 -16 correct: Not quite dirt yet, but your mind is getting keen.

0 -11 correct: You are not old enough to share the wisdom of your experiences.

Via Ham Radio

Civilian space traveler Greg Olsen, KC2ONX, wears a Russian Sokol spacesuit in this portrait shot during his training in Russia. [NASA Photo]

NEWINGTON, CT, Oct 10, 2005--During his eight days in space, Greg Olsen, KC2ONX, the International Space Station's third civilian space traveler, touched base via ham radio with students at three high schools, including his alma mater. He spoke October 5 with Princeton High School in Princeton, New Jersey, October 6 with Ft Hamilton High School in Brooklyn, New York, and October 7 with Ridgefield Park High School in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey. Olsen, who lives in Princeton, was born in Brooklyn and graduated from Ridgefield Park High School. One Princeton student wanted to know how much less time would pass on the ISS than on Earth due to relativity.

"That depends on how long you're up here," responded Olsen, who has a master's degree in physics and a doctorate in materials science. "Every second you lose about a billionth of a second. That's because we're going 17,500 miles per hour." Eschewing a more technical explanation, Olsen said the difference worked out to "about a microsecond a month."

Another student asked Olsen what luxuries he missed most. "It's either good food or a hot shower," he quipped.

Olsen said his experience aboard the ISS has "more than fulfilled" his expectations. m about what it's like to float about for a long time," he said. "When you do it for a sustained period of time, it's really different and exhilarating."

While in space, Olsen did some medical experiments for the European Space Agency. He also took swab samples from various parts of the ISS for later biological analysis. "I just love it up here," he said, but added, "I'd hoped to do more science."

Olsen was able to answer 16 of the Princeton students' questions, and 11 of those put to him by the Ft Hamilton students.

--From the ARRL website.