January 2000
NEXT MEETING
T
he January meeting of the Tar River Amateur Radio Club will be held Monday, January 3rd at RYAN'S FAMILY STEAK HOUSE located at 1968 Stone Rose Drive in Rocky Mount. The supper meeting will start at 6:30 p.m.Bert, WA4TLI will have a demonstration of the new Club's Web Site.
CLUB'S WEB SITE
Check out the new Tar River ARC web site at
www.qsl.net/w4dcg. Thanks to Bert, WA4TLI, for putting together this first class web site for our club. If you have any suggestions, corrections, or information to be posted to the web site, contact Bert at wa4tli@arrl.netCLUB ACTIVITY CALENDAR
January
1 Happy New Year
3 Tar River ARC Meeting
16 Frostfest, Richmond Va
20 RMARS Meeting
22 VE Session, Rocky Mount
February
7 Tar River ARC Meeting
17 RMARS Meeting
VE EXAM UPDATE
The Tar River ARC VE exam schedule for 2000 is as follows.
January 22
March 25
May 27
July 22
September 23
November 25
The exam sessions will be held at the J C Penney Department Store, Golden East Crossing Mall, conference room. All sessions will begin at 9 a.m. The exam fee for 2000 has not yet been set.
Recap of 1999 exam sessions. There were 5 test sessions (September was canceled due to Hurricane Floyd)
Total Candidates 16
Total Elements Given 36
Total Upgrades 14
Upcoming Hamfests
January 16 Richmond, VA<web site
February 5 Charleston, SC
March 11/12 Charlotte, NC<web site
March 25/26 Timonium, MD<web site
Richmond Frostfest 2000 <web site
January 16 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Show Place U.S. 360
Come up I-95 until you reach Exit 75 in Richmond. (This will be an exit for I-64 East)
Take Exit 75 for I-64 East (towards Norfolk - Virginia Beach)
Go approximately 1.5 miles to Exit 192 (Route 360) Take Exit 192 for Route 360 East
Go approximately a half-mile, and turn left into The Showplace.
Ticket pricing for FrostFest 2000 has been set to $6.00 per ticket.
Tickets will be available at the door on the day of the show
ARRL MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS
If your ARRL membership is about to run our, please renewal via the Tar River Amateur Radio Club. It is easy, just complete the ARRL renewal form and send that form and the renewal fee payable to TRARC to me and I will do the rest.
Mail to: TRARC
C/O Lonnie Pridgen
P.O. Box 267
Sharpsburg, NC 27878-0267
YEAR 2000 CLUB DUES
. Full Membership is $15.00 and Family Full is $6.00 each. Associate Membership dues are $10.00 and are for Non-license persons only.
Please make check payable to the TRARC, and bring to the January meeting or mail to Lonnie Pridgen, the club's treasurer.
Click here for application form.
Tar River Amateur Radio Club
P. O. Box 267
Sharpsburg, NC 27878
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Copyright by Tar River ARCCreated December 26, 1999
