Prepared - June 7, 2009 By: Darrell R. Norris - WA3AJQ ===================================================== ARRL Field Day ARRL Field Day ARRL Field Day Remember, the ARRL Field Day is June 27th & 28th Our club will be participating. Set up will occur Friday evening around 6:00PM at our repeater site and a covered dish picnic will be held Saturday evening around 6:00 PM at the same location. Breakdown will be Sunday morning. Our Field Day organizers are: Fred Maize KM3M and Dave Dzelsky N3DZ; ============================================================== ARRL Bulletin 22 ARLB022 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT May 19, 2009 To all radio amateurs :
SB QST ARL ARLB022 ARLB022 FCC Looks to Raise Vanity Call Sign Fees for Second Consecutive Year The FCC released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Order (NPRM) on May 14 seeking to raise fees for Amateur Radio vanity call signs. Currently, a vanity call sign costs $12.30 and is good for 10 years; the new fee, if the FCC plan goes through, will go up to $13.40 for 10 years, an increase of $1.10. ===================================================== The following is an excerpt taken from a recent ARRL bulletin, I can't imagine anyone copying code at a speed of 52.2 words per minute.
The ARRL Letter Vol. 28, No. 22 June 5, 2009 HIGH SPEED TELEGRAPHY ON THE WORLD STAGE The October 1936 issue of QST reported on the first official "Amateur
Code Speed Contest" ever held. Eugene A. Hubbell, W9ERU, took home the
silver trophy with his wining speed of 52.2 words per minute. Held at
the ARRL Central Division Convention that year, the contest required
operators to decipher plain language text for two minute intervals that
ranged in speed from 25 to 52.7 words per minute. "Only bona-fide
amateurs, holding at least an amateur operator's license, were eligible"
to compete in the contest, the article stated
=========================================================== Club Activities We still have our ARES net every Monday night on the two meter repeater, 146.190. Terry Carnahan KB3JOD, is our net coordinator and is looking for people to serve as net control, so please consider helping out. Robert Zugates, KB3JOF, is our Indiana County ARES Emergency Coordinator. Our clubs covered dish picnic is tentatively scheduled for September 20th at Jimmy St Clairs, around 1:00 PM, I'm hoping for a good turnout. ===================================================== Thanks and 73's, Darrell R. Norris - WA3AJQ | |
------------------------------------------------ Meeting of June 2,2009 MINUTES =============================================== _Jerry WB3DUD________, called the meeting to order at 7:40PM_local time. President and V.P. was absent READING OF THE MINUTES Approved as read FINANCIAL REPORT: REA electric bill paid on April 28, 2009 for 174.74 BREEZE SHOTER TICKETS FOR JUNE 7, HAMFEST USE THE 50/50 TICKETS FOR THE DRAWING 2 TICKETS WINNERS FOR THE TICKETS: FRED KM3M DENNIS KB3LBQ ________________________________________________________________________ OLD BUSINESS:ARES: E.C. ROBERT ZUGATES, KB3JOF ARES CONCERNS: NBEMS DIGITAL DEMO ROBERT WOULD LIKE invite Mr Harry Bloomburg W3YJ to a meeting for a demo
NEW BUSSINESS:Field Day Activity for June 26,27 weekend. Need grass cut: Larry N3LT Chairman for the grass Rusty had the grass cut. On Sat 13 Finished in cleaning the gounds up and also the repair shack Thank everyone for the time and efforts Larry N3LT,ELMER KB3WG, FRED KM3M, BILL W3LAB, JERRY WB3DUD, DAVE N3DZ Chairperson for field day. 1.Fred KM3M 2.David N3DZ Dave is going to give a instruction on using the cpu program for logging at field day. It lets you see what contacts the stations operating of all operating bands. This should cut down on dups. Good luck on the program and thanks for your time and efforts. Chairperson for picnic supper Bev Sorisio Have any question call Bev For field day evening meal will be at 6 Pm which is a covered dish type, so bring what you like and share with others. The club will funish Paper plate and cups. Thanks you for your help. `Friday Night June 25 Antenna Setup Chairperson: Fred KM3M AND DAVE N3DZ & LARRY N3LT WILL BE ON DECK FOR THIS EVENT. COME AND HELP TO SET UP FOR SAT. Start time 6PM Fri Eve REMINDER NET COORDINATOR: TERRY KB3JOD Terry is looking for volunteers for the Monday night net. To conduct the net, you may take it for a month or week by week. Please contact Terry to sign up. For the month of July Darrell WA3AJQ will operate the net. Thank Darrell for his time. REPEATER ACTIVITY: Monday after net, there has been some activity on the repeater, for round table discussion. Club Picnic N3TQR Jimmy announced that we can have the club picnic at his QTH Date September 20 Time 1PM By announcing the date and time at this time, we hope to see you all there. The 50 /50 drawing: WINNER __Terry KB3JOD Meeting AJURNED BY Fred KM3M AND Larry N3LT at 8:15PM______________________ Note: Bill W3LAB At the Sat June 13 breakfest announced that he would like have a fund raiser supper at Marion Center on a Friday nite. He will announce which Fri it will be. More details at July meeting. NEXT MEETING TIME PLACE EAT & PARK DATE JULY 7,2009 Time 7Pm Board Meeting and 7:30 Pm Main Meeting Place: Eat & Park of Indiana, Pa.
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