Radioactivities March 2004 AARC Newsletter

RADIOACTIVITIES Newsletter of the Argonne Amateur Radio Club
Volume XLV, Number 1	March, 2004

Club meeting
Beginning Tuesday, March 2, the Argonne Amateur Radio Club will hold monthly lunch meetings on the first Tuesday of each month, 12:00 noon - 1:00 PM, in a private dining room at the Argonne Cafeteria, building 213. All club members are encouraged to attend. These meetings will provide an opportunity for AARC members to get to know one another. Club business will be conducted at these meetings and there will be short presentations on a variety of amateur radio subjects. Suggestions for speakers are welcome. Those who attend can purchase lunch at the Cafeteria or bring a brown-bag lunch, if desired. Club members who do not have an Argonne badge can gain access to the site for these meetings by calling or emailing Jim Jorgensen (phone/voice mail: 252-5513; email: JJorgensen@anl.gov), who will arrange clearance at the Argonne Visitors Reception Center. A meeting reminder will be emailed to all club members for whom we have email addresses. Please join us at our first meeting of 2004. Let’s get to know each other.

AARC Interim Officers Appointed
Normal AARC elections were not held at the end of 2003, leaving the club with no elected officers for 2004. In a meeting of the Board, interim officers were appointed. They will serve for a brief period until elections can be held. The interim AARC officers are:

	Acting President:	Jim Jorgensen
	Acting Vice President:	Chuck Doose
	Acting Treasurer:	Dale Travis
	Acting Secretary:	Loren Thompson
	Director & Repeater Chair:	Dick Konecny
	Director:	Torben Lauritsen

The treasurer’s computer:
by Dale Travis, AG9H
Members: East 27; West 2; Associate 71; Newsletter 6; Retired 27
Balances: Checking $6040.27; Cash $0.00; ANL fund = $32.00
Distributed as: Club $1595.90; Equipment $1296.76; Repeater $1970.71; Packet $1176.90
For the period Jan 1, 2004 thru Feb 18, 2004:
Income: Dues $0.00; Club $0.54 Eqp $0.44 Rptr $0.67; Pkt $0.40; ANL $0.00
Expenses: Club $0.00; Eqp $0.00; Rptr $0.00; Pkt $0.00
An application sheet is attached if you have not signed up for 2004.

REMINDERS:
CLUB BREAKFAST: Always the 2^nd Sat. of each month, 8:30 am. This month it is the 13^th at:
Old•Country Buffet•

PLEASE NOTE THE LOCATION:

59^th Street and LaGrange Road in LaGrange

CLUB NETS: Thru our Club Repeater 145.19.
SKYWARN NET: 7 pm / Denny, W9DS (Mondays in season).
THE CLUB’S 9PM NET: every Monday with Roger Adams, WA9PUE.
THE NIGHT PATROL: every night at 10:30 PM with Paul, W9FNM.
THE BREAKFAST CLUB: every morning 8 am.
THE NOONTIME NET: every weekday at noon.

Mil’s Corner for March

01 N9JFW Robert Plainfield, IL
03 WD9GOL Robert New Lenox, IL
05 WA9KPI Robert Lockport, IL
13 KA9BUL Scott New Lenox, IL
14 KB9WLV Robyn Carol Stream, IL
15 W9SKD Dick Plainfield, IL
16 WD9AGR Jeanne Plainfield, IL
17 W9TIE Bob Glen Ellyn, IL
28 K9RJ Jim Downers Grove, IL
28 KA9H Bruce Downers Grove, IL
29 KC9DVU Ken Wheaton, IL
30 KB9UMF Chuck Clarendon Hills, IL
30 WA9ZBW John Dwight, IL
31 N9NWA Randy Downers Grove, IL

ARGONNE AMATEUR RADIO CLUB
9700 S. Cass Ave.
Bldg. 222 - A253, Argonne IL 60439
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PRESIDENT
VICE PRESIDENT
V.P. IDAHO
SECRETARY
TREASURER
DIRECTOR
DIRECTOR
DIRECTOR
DIRECTOR

Jim Jorgensen K9RJ
Charles Doose KB9UMF

Loren Thompson KB9CTJ
Dale Travis AG9H
Dick Konecny K9IB
Torben Lauritsen KF9MI

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e-mail: w9anl@bigfoot.com
http://www.bigfoot.com/~w9anl

MEMBERSHIP is open to all who are interested in amateur radio. This club is sponsored by Argonne National Laboratory. Employees of ANL or DOE-Chicago are eligible for Full membership. Auxiliary membership is available to non-employees.

W9ANL/R is an open repeater, coordinated on 145.19 MHz (-600 input). The AARC repeater has been in operation on this frequency pair continuously since February 5, 1982.

W9ANL Packet node runs MSYS on 145.09 MHz.

CLUB NETS: 2 meter fm (1) Regular, every Monday evening at 9:00, and (2) the Night Patrol every night at 10:30, both on W9ANL/R. There is an open packet conference on W9ANL packet node every Monday evening at 8:00; type C at the BBS prompt. The Peanut Whistle Net (PWN) every Sunday at 1:30 p.m., and many evenings at 8:30 p.m. on 1932 kHz (cw/am/ssb), QRP.

RADIOACTIVITIES is published monthly by the Argonne Amateur Radio Club as a nonprofit newsletter intended only for the use of its membership. Material appearing here does not represent the official position of Argonne National Laboratory or the U. S. Department of Energy. Please give credit to the author and to Radioactivities or the Argonne A.R.C., when using original material published here. Deadline for submissions normally is the fifteenth of the preceding month.

EDITOR
EVENTS
SKYWARN ACTIVITIES
PACKET RADIO

Dale Travis AG9H

Deni Lamoreaux W9DS
Loren Thompson KB9CTJ

Please send club and editorial correspondence to the club address, or to Dale Travis. Please include "AARC" in the subject.

Argonne Amateur Radio Club Board Meeting
by Joe Kilar, February 17, 2004
Attendees: Dale Travis, Chuck Doose, Jim Jorgensen, Dick Konecny, Loren Thompson, Torben Lauritsen, Joe Kilar.

Since the officers’ terms have all expired, we unanimously decided to have Jim lead the meeting.

Jim led a discussion on the current status of the club. There were no elections for 2004 officers, all officer positions were vacant. Regular meetings and board meetings have been sporadic and the club newsletter was sporadic too and had not been issued in several months.

Jim suggested that we schedule monthly meetings on a set, publicized schedule for the year that members could depend on. We decided to use the first Tuesday of the month as had been traditional. We decided to go with a slimmed down newsletter. Dale was willing to compile this smaller version of the newsletter if others feed him the text via emails. We also decided to set up a table occasionally in the cafeteria at lunch to publicize the club and recruit new members.

We agreed that the core of the club must be among Argonne employees though involvement and participation by others outside Argonne is desired and encouraged.

We decided upon the following interim roles:
Jim Jorgensen - President
Chuck Doose - Vice-President
Loren Thompson - Secretary
Dale Travis - Treasurer
Dick Konecny - Repeater Chairman and Director
Torben Lauritsen - Director?
Joe Kilar - receive incoming club mail and distribute, send newsletters for internal distribution.

That leaves two or three (depending on Torben) director positions temporarily vacant. We decided on the following action items:

Joe will find out who is the President of the Argonne Club (it is Todd Hayden).
Joe will locate the applications, checks and membership cards originally placed in Bruce’s mailbox and forward to Jim or Dale. (they were found and given to Dale.)
Dick will contact the NWS about conducting a Skywarn meeting. (done, they are booked, they suggest we connect with another nearby already scheduled session.)
Jim will book a meeting place for first Tuesday of the month meetings. (done, $27.50/month fee to be paid from our account and dining room in cafeteria now reserved for those meetings.)
Jim will find out the procedure for setting up a table at lunchtime in the cafeteria. (done, all we need to provide is a day’s notice.)
Jim will make arrangements to place advertising info in the Argonne News. (in progress)
Dale will mail out membership cards with the March newsletters and handle applications and checks.
Joe and Loren will meet later this week to transfer secretary duties and material from Joe to Loren.

01	N9JFW	Robert	Plainfield, IL
03	WD9GOL	Robert	New Lenox, IL
05	WA9KPI	Robert	Lockport, IL
13	KA9BUL	Scott	New Lenox, IL
14	KB9WLV	Robyn	Carol Stream, IL
15	W9SKD	Dick	Plainfield, IL
16	WD9AGR	Jeanne	Plainfield, IL
17	W9TIE	Bob	Glen Ellyn, IL
28	K9RJ	Jim	Downers Grove, IL
28	KA9H	Bruce	Downers Grove, IL
29	KC9DVU	Ken	Wheaton, IL
30	KB9UMF	Chuck	Clarendon Hills, IL
30	WA9ZBW	John	Dwight, IL
31	N9NWA	Randy	Downers Grove, IL