April 2000
NEXT MEETING
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he March meeting of the Tar River Amateur Radio Club will be held Monday, April 3rd at the Golden Corralin Wilson. The supper meeting will start at 6:30 p.m. The Weather Service out of Raleigh will be putting on the program.CLUB ACTIVITY CALENDAR
April
2 Kinston, NC Hamfest
3 Tar River ARC Meeting
20 RMARS Meeting
May
1 Tar River ARC Meeting
18 RMARS Meeting
19-21 Dayton, OH
27 VE Session, Rocky Mount
27 Durham Hamfest
SKYWARN PIONEER
SHERMAN C. CARR, W9NGT, SK
ARRL NEWSLETTER
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he man credited with being the father of SKYWARN--Sherman Carr, W9NGT, of Hartford, Wisconsin--died March 15. He was 83. Carr was an ARRL member for nearly 40 years.Begun more than 30 years ago, SKYWARN is a cooperative effort through which real-time weather information is relayed via Amateur Radio to NWS offices during severe weather conditions. Carr was Wisconsin Section Emergency Coordinator in the late 1960s when he established the first Amateur Radio weather-spotting network, the Weather Amateur Radio Network--WARN-with assistance from Dave Theophilus, W9KWQ, a NWS meteorologist in Milwaukee. In those largely pre-repeater days, the network operated on 75 meters. Carr's idea worked so well that other states adopted its basic structure, which eventually was implemented as SKYWARN.
Last June, the National Weather Service honored Carr for his role in helping to create the SKYWARN program by presenting him with its Central Region Special Service Award.
ARRL MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS
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f 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 restMail to:
TRARC
C/O Lonnie Pridgen
P.O. Box 267
Sharpsburg, NC 27878-0267
HEAVENS-ABOVE
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eat star/satellite tracking site: A new star/satellite tracking site, Heavens-Above, is on the Web at http://www.heavens-above.com/. The site is primarily devoted to visual observing, but it recently added the capability to provide Amateur Radio satellite pass predictions. Heavens-Above draws on the support of the German Space Operations Center, which hosts the Web SiteHAM LICENSE VERIFICATION
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ontacting ITS to verify a prior Amateur Radio license: Those electing to contact FCC archives contractor ITS Inc. to document having held an amateur license in the past are advised to telephone ITS instead of e-mailing. For a fee, ITS will research prior licensing records and should be able to provide you with the necessary documentary proof. Call ITS at 717-337-1433 to place an order (eg, for "verification of a pre-March 21, 1987, amateur license"). The verification letter you receive will be on FCC stationery and stamped with the FCC seal. The ITS Web site is http://www.itsdocs.com/. Credit card orders are welcome.
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