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November 2006

MINUTES OF GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING OF

SILVER SPRINGS RADIO CLUB, INC.

October 16, 2006

The meeting was called to order by President Bill Miller, N6WGM, at 7:30 p.m. Present at the meeting were Officers, President Bill Miller, N6WGM, Vice President Richard Moss, KF4ML, Treasurer, Bill Britt, KQ4UJ, and Secretary, Jeanette Frantz, KG4DJA. Board Members present were Walter Hill, W0WRH, and Russ Merkel, WB9GIU. There were 18 members and one visitor in attendance. A quorum was present.

The invocation was given by Walt Hill, W0WRH.

The membership recited the pledge of allegiance.

The membership introduced themselves.

Upon motion made, seconded and adopted, the September General Membership Meeting Minutes were approved as published in The Oracle.

Upon motion, made, seconded and adopted, the Treasurer's report was approved as published in The Oracle.

Committee Reports:

MARS: There was some discussion about the cost of repairs for the amplifier at the MARS Station.

TECH CLASS: Earl Sweeney, K4LSB, and Ron Toller, N4US, reported progress on the Tech Class.

HAMFEST: The membership discussed the HamFest scheduled for December 9, 2006.

CHRISTMAS PARTY: A question was raised about the cost of the Christmas Party Banquet. The reason - the menu.

NOMINATIONS AND ELECTION OF OFFICERS:

Nominations for officers and board members of Silver Springs Radio Club were presented: The following individuals agreed to serve:

Earl Sweeney, K4LSB President

Ron Toller, N4US Vice President

Jeanette Frantz, KG4DJA Secretary

Bill Britt, KQ4UJ Treasurer

Wayne Hodgman, W1EXT Board Member

Walt Hill, W0WRH Board Member

Carlos Checker, CX8BZ/W4 Board Member

There being no further business to come before the membership, the meeting was adjourned at 9:00 p.m.

Jeanette Frantz, KG4DJA,Secretary

Silver Springs Radio Club Net, 7:30 p.m. Local time
K4GSO Repeater (146.610-) PL 123
EVERY TUESDAY


MEETING NOTICE
The General Membership Meeting of the Silver Springs Radio Club takes place on the third Monday of each month, except December. The November 2006 meeting will take place on Monday, November 21, 2006, at 7:30 p.m. at the Health Department Auditorium, 1801 Southeast 32nd Avenue, Ocala, Florida. All members are urged to attend.

FINANCIAL REPORTS
The financial reports of Silver Springs Radio Club, Inc. are not available on the website. If you are a member and entitled to view the financial reports, please contact the Oracle Editor or one of the club's officers or board members to secure a copy of the financial reports. By Direction of the Silver Springs Radio Club Officers and Board of Directors. Thank you.The Editor.

FCC Releases Long-Awaited

''Omnibus'' Amateur Radio

Report and Order

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ARRL Bulletin 19 ARLB019

From ARRL Headquarters

Newington CT October 12, 2006

To all radio amateurs


NOTE: The new Amateur Radio rules detailed in the recent "omnibus" FCC Report and Order (R&O), WT Docket 04-140, will go into effect at 12:01 AM EST December 15. See "Amateur Radio 'omnibus' rule changes," below.

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ARLB019 FCC releases long-awaited ''Omnibus'' Amateur Radio Report and Order

Ending a protracted waiting period, the FCC's Report and Order in the so-called ''Omnibus'' Amateur Radio proceeding, WT Docket 04-140, was adopted October 4 and released October 10, 2006. In it, the FCC adopted nearly all of the proposed changes in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking released back in 2004. The FCC has:

expanded the phone sub-bands in the 75 and 40 meter bands;

permitted auxiliary stations to transmit on portions of the 2
meter band;

permitted the use of spread spectrum on 222-225 MHz;

permitted amateurs to retransmit communications from the International Space Station;

permitted amateur licensees to designate a specific Amateur Radio club to receive their call sign in memoriam;

prohibited an applicant from filing more than one application for a specific vanity call sign;

eliminated certain restrictions on equipment manufacturers;

permitted Amateur Radio stations in Alaska and surrounding waters more flexibility in providing emergency communications;

clarified that ''amateur stations may, at all times and on all frequencies authorized to the control operator, make transmissions necessary to meet essential communication needs and to facilitate relief actions'';

deleted the frequency bands and segments specified for RACES stations; and

deleted the requirement for public announcement of test locations and times.

In addition, the FCC took several other miscellaneous actions.

In ''refarming'' the frequencies currently authorized to Novice and Technician Plus licensees, the Commission increased the voice segments for General, Advanced and Amateur Extra licensees.

On 75 meters, Generals will be able to use voice from 3800-4000 kHz, an increase of 50 kHz. Advanced class licensees will be able to use voice from 3700-4000, an increase of 75 kHz, and Amateur Extras will be able to use voice from 3600 to 4000 kHz, a generous increase of 150 kHz.

On 40 meters, Advanced and Extra Class licensees will be able to use voice from 7125-7300 kHz, an increase of 25 kHz. General class licensees will be able to use voice on 7175-7300 kHz, an increase of 50 kHz.

On 15 meters, General class operators will have phone privileges on 21275-21450 kHz, an increase of 25 kHz.

ARRL President Joel Harrison, W5ZN, expressed the ARRL's gratitude to the FCC Commissioners in a letter dated October 11: ''On behalf of the ARRL and the Commission's licensees in the Amateur Radio Service I want to express appreciation for your release yesterday of the Report and Order in WT Docket 04-140 (FCC 06-149) amending Part 97 of the Commission's Rules. The Commission's action in clearing this pending proceeding will assist the Amateur Radio Service in meeting its objectives, particularly with regard to providing emergency and public service communications.''

The changes will go into effect 30 days after the R&O is published in the Federal Register.

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Thanks very much to Walt Hill, W0WRH, and Earl Sweeney, K4LSB for submitting this article, reprinted from the ARRL. Your Editor.
AMERICANS

"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language. And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

Theodore Roosevelt 1907

NOTICE OF ELECTION OF

OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS

OF SILVER SPRINGS RADIO

CLUB, INC.

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the annual election of officers and/or board members of Silver Springs Radio Club, Inc. will take place at the General Membership Meeting on November 20, 2006, at 7:30 p.m.

PLEASE BE GOVERNED ACCORDINGLY.

THE COMPUTER CORNER

by Kevin Young, KC7FPF

MORE MICROSOFT OFFICE

SHORTCUTS ON YOUR KEYBOARD

Ctrl Z is the magic undo combo. It simply undoes your last action, say, the paragraph you accidentally erased (it works in other applications, too--try it on the Photoshop filter you really wish you hadn't applied, or after renaming a document or a folder in a Windows directory).

Programs vary in the number of times you can undo something, but some will let you Ctrl Z all the way back to the beginning. (And, yes, there is a redo command, just hit Ctrl Y.)

Ctrl B, Ctrl I, or Ctrl U apply bold, italics, or underline to highlighted text, respectively.

Ctrl P prints whatever is in an active window.

Ctrl Backspace erases an entire word at a time, instead of a letter. Ctrl up or down arrows let you scroll an entire paragraph at a time, instead of one line, and Ctrl Shift up or down arrow will select an entire paragraph.

Ctrl Enter inserts a page break in Word.

Alt Ctrl C inserts the copyright symbol (Alt Ctrl R inserts the registered trademark symbol, and Alt Ctrl T makes the trademark symbol).

In Outlook, you can jump to the section you want: Ctrl 1 switches to the Mail window, Ctrl 2 switches to the Calender, Ctrl 3 to Contacts, Ctrl 4 to Tasks, and Ctrl 5 to Notes.

Ctrl Shift M starts a new message in Outlook. (Use Ctrl Shift C for a new contact.)

In Outlook e-mail, hit Ctrl N to compose a new message, Ctrl R to reply to a message.

The only Excel shortcut I've ever known, Ctrl , enters the date. (If you live in Excel, you should have the Excel Keyboard Shortcuts page in your Favorites!

Internet Explorer and Firefox

Shortcuts on Your Keyboard

Ctrl D adds the current page to your Favorites/Bookmarks file.

Alt Home takes you directly to your home page. (IE and Firefox)

Use the Tab key to jump your cursor to the next entry in a form or the next section of a Web page. (IE and Firefox)

Ctrl F launches Find for the page you're on. (IE and Firefox; Firefox's implementation is particularly cool, as it scans the page for the term you want as you type)

F11 shifts between regular and full-screen views of your browser window. (IE and Firefox)

F5 or Ctrl R refreshes the page you're on. (IE and Firefox).

ESC stops downloading a page. (IE and Firefox)

Ctrl T opens up a new tab and puts your cursor in the URL field, in Firefox. Ctrl L puts your cursor in the URL field and highlights the current text, while Ctrl Tab does the same for IE.

Ctrl W closes a tab in Firefox or the current window in IE.

Ctrl + or Ctrl - increases or decreases the text size in Firefox

MERT (Marion County Emergency Radio Communications Team) NET, every Thursday at 7:30 p.m. LOCAL time. K4GSO Repeater (146.610-) PL 123
EVERY THURSDAY

FLORIDA HAMFESTS

November 2006

Compiled by Bill Britton KB4VOL/AAM4AFL

THESE LISTS ARE ONLY AS ACCURATE AS THE INFORMATION RECEIVED.

PLEASE SEND CORRECTIONS OR ADDITIONS---SEE BELOW. SEND PL FOR REPEATERS WHERE NEEDED.

DATE LOCATION NOTES

Nov 18
Coral Gables FREE! At U of Miami Physics Dept., 5001 San Amero, Talk-in on 146.865 PL 103.5. INFO: Bill, WA4TEJ (305) 264-4465

Dec 2-3
Tampa Bay Manatee Civic Center, One Huber Blvd in Palmetto, Talk-in on 145.190
INFO: Jim, KG4JSZ (863) 422-0176

Dec 9
Ocala At Marion County Ag Extension. Complex, 2232 NE Jacksonville Rd., Talk-in on 146.610 PL 123.0, INFO: Bill, N6WGM (352) 873-2017

2007

Jan 20
Fort Myers, at Araba Shrine Auditorium, 2010 Hanson Street, Talk-in on 146.880, PL 136.5; INFO: Earl, K4FQU (239) 282-1536

Jan 27
Arcadia, at Turner Civic Center, 2160 Northeast Roan Street, Talk-in on 147.075, INFO: Doug, KN4YT (863) 491-0618

For a complete listing of Hamfests in Florida, please visit the Florida Ham Website at its new location, http://bellsouthpwp.net/k/b/kb4vol.

Barbara Million has been under the weather for several weeks. Keep Barbara in your thoughts and prayers.

Click here for printable page.

SILVER SPRINGS RADIO CLUB

CHRISTMAS BANQUET

December 11, 2006 Monday

Ocala Palms Subdivision - White Swan Café

5174 NW 26th Lane - (1 mile west of I-75, just off US-27)

Social 6:00PM, - Dinner 7:00PM

Drinks - available

Mark your calendar for December 11th , Monday, for the

Annual Christmas Awards Banquet and with it a Chinese Auction

Bring a BROWN (Grocery) PAPER BAG un-wrapped gift (man-woman)

In the range of $3.- $5., please avoid gag gifts.

Our total meal cost is $19.00 per person, including tax and tip.

MAIL CHECK WITH FORM or BRING TO NOVEMBER MEETING. Hope to see you there. For questions contact:

Barbara at 694-5744, or E-mail to funyet2@earthlink.net.

SSRC CHRISTMAS PARTY - December 11th, 2006

NAME _ Spouse

TOTAL ($19.00 EACH) ENCLOSED: __________________

ENTRÉE : Chicken Marsala _________ Prime Rib of Beef__________

PLEASE PARTICIPATE IN THE GIFT EXCHANGE. (Not required but lots of fun.)

RESERVATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY November 21st, 2006

Mail to: Silver Springs Radio Club, P.O. Box 787, Silver Springs, FL 34489

Silver Springs Radio Club, Inc.

CLUB MEETINGS are the third Monday of each month 7:30 PM At the Health Department Auditorium, 1801 Southeast 32nd Avenue, Ocala, Florida., Ocala, Florida. Coffee & Doughnuts are available.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS meetings are the first Monday of each month, 7:30 PM at the Marion County Health Department, 1801 Southeast 32nd Avenue, Ocala, Florida.

K4GSO, club station, Green Clover Hall, is available to all members. Contact Bill, KQ4UJ, 694-1605.

MARS, club station located at 161 Oak Circle, Silver Springs Shores. Phone number is 680-1528. Contact Bill KQ4UJ, at 694-1605.

LICENSE TESTING, on the second Monday of each odd number month, except July, 7:30 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, Room 18, located on East Silver Springs Boulevard, Ocala.. Call Otto Hoel, N1OH, 291-4934.

RADIO NETS are conducted over the club repeater, K4GSO, on 146.610 MHz (-600).

LADIES AUXILIARY. Sunshine - Provides flowers and get-well cards for members or members' family. Also orders SSRC logo shirts and caps, Barbara Million, KE4ZTW, 694-5744.

NOTE: For change of address or corrections (with SSRC) contact the Membership Chairman.

SSRC NET, every Tuesday at 7:30 (local time). Contact Jeanette at (352) 489-0571.

MERT (Marion County Emergency Radio Communications Team) NET, every Thursday at 7:30 p.m. LOCAL time. Contact Jeanette Frantz, KG4DJA at (352) 489-0571.

President William Miller, N6WGM 873-2017

V. President Richard Moss, KF4ML 873-2079

Secretary Jeanette Frantz, KG4DJA 489-0571

Treasurer Bill Britt, KQ4UJ 694-1605

Trustee Bill Britt, KQ4UJ 694-1605

Board

Members: Russ Merkle, WB9GIU 624-2285

Walter Hill, W0WRH

Tony Blalock, K4OCF 622-4960

Oracle

Editor: Jeanette Frantz, KG4DJA 489-0571

Oracle _editor@prodigy.net

Membership Phillip Frantz, KF4QIC 489-0571

Ladies'

Auxiliary Barbara Million, KE4ZTW 694-5744

Email: funyet2@earthlink.net

Silver Springs Radio Club Website:

http://www.qsl.net/ssrc/

Ocala Radio Amateur's Candid Letter of Enlightenment

SILVER SPRINGS RADIO CLUB

P.O. BOX 787

SILVER SPRINGS, FL 34489

November 2006