RADIOACTIVITIES
Newsletter of the Argonne Amateur Radio Club
Volume XLVI, Number 8 August, 2005

Club Meeting
We won’t be having a General AARC meeting this month, but I would like to remind everyone to try and check into the Monday night net with Jack WA9FVP at 9:00 PM.

The antenna installation is almost complete for the Emergency Response Center in building 201. This will enable the AARC to augment the Argonne emergency communications with local Amateur radio emergency organizations.

The treasurer’s computer:
by Jack Albert, WA9FVP
Members: ANL 25; Associate 52; Newsletter 6; Retired 21
Balances: Checking $4863.86; Cash $0.00; ANL fund $50.00
Distributed as: Club $1327.62; Equipment $316.91; Repeater $2032.48; Packet $1186.85
For the period Jun 29 thru Jul 21, 2005:
Income: Dues $0.00; Club $0.54; Eqp $0.13; Rptr $0.84; Pkt $0.49; ANL $0.00
Expenses: Club $60.00; Eqp $0.00; Rptr $0.00; Pkt $0.00

REMINDERS:
CLUB BREAKFAST: Always the 2nd Saturday of each month, 8:30 AM at:
Old•Country Buffet•
59th 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 Jack WA9FVP.
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 August
06 KA9QAD Don Plainfield, IL
08 AA9WT Wayne Hickory Hills, IL
09 AG9H Dale Decatur, IL
09 K9TP Mark Bonfield, IL
15 N9FFT Ronald Downers Grove, IL
22 K9LJK Dennis Palatine, IL
27 K9IB Dick Downers Grove, IL
29 WA8LIS Jan Homer Glen, IL
29 N9UWK Joan Joliet, IL

Amateur Radio News Line
by Jack, WA9FVP
Now that I’m net control for the Monday Night Net, I made several improvements. The Amateur Radio News Line is transmitted using a direct connection from my computers sound card to my Icom IC-746. During the transmission the repeater’s 3 minute timer is disabled allowing the recording to be played in its entirety. There is a 10 minute break for station identification. The logging of “check ins” is done using a Microsoft Excel spread sheet and from time to time, there is a “Tech Talk” session.

To guarantee that I have the latest update, I normally download News Line an hour before the net starts and play the recording through my computer. What you don’t hear is a 3 minute announcement, before the actual report begins, from the News Line treasurer asking for donations. Donations to News Line come from private individuals and clubs that transmit the bulletins during their local 2 meter nets. I’m not sure if the Argonne Amateur Radio club ever made a donation to News Line but I can say that there was a donation of $100 that was recently made by a private individual for the club.

I updated the AARC Membership application form to include our new P.O. Box number and I added a line so that members can donate money to News Line. When the new application forms are sent, I hope that this will encourage every one to fill in the blank and donate at least one dollar to News line. Even if you listen to News Line on another net you can a donation using the AARC form. The money will be sent directly to them and will not come out of the general fund. News Line, in turn, will mention our club in one of the bulletins. The new membership form will be uploaded to the club’s web page in PDF format as well as .doc format.

ARGONNE AMATEUR RADIO CLUB
9700 S. Cass Ave.
PO Box 8283, Argonne IL 60439
———— Officers ————
PRESIDENT
VICE PRESIDENT
SECRETARY
TREASURER
DIRECTOR
DIRECTOR
DIRECTOR
DIRECTOR
DIRECTOR		 Jim Jorgensen K9RJ
Charles Doose KB9UMF
Joe Kilar WB9THV
Jack Albert WA9FVP
Dick Konecny K9IB
Torben Lauritsen KF9MI
Bruce Epperson KA9H
George Mosho KB9YYW
Tim Smith N9UEB
e-mail:
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.

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. 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 Argonne Radio Club, when using original material published here. Deadline for submissions normally is the 20th of the preceding month.
EDITOR
EVENTS
SKYWARN ACTIVITIES		 Dale Travis AG9H

Deni Lamoreaux W9DS
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