The Starved Rock Radio Club (SRRC) meets on the first
Monday of every month, unless otherwise scheduled, at 7:00 p.m. at the
SRRC clubhouse in Leonore, Illinois. Club nets are held on the SRRC repeater
(W9MKS) every Wednesday evening at 7:00 p.m. The W9MKS repeater operates
on a frequency of 147.120 MHz (+ 103.5 PL). The Starved Rock Radio Club
is an official ARRL affiliated club.
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Silent Key
It is with deep regret that we inform you of the
death of long time SRRC member Hugo Borri, W9LIG. Mr. Borri passed
away late last year, and he was a resident of Mark, Illinois.
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Secretary’s Report – January Meeting Notes
Attendance was 23 members and 2 guests. We
talked about the digital interface boxes available from MFJ and West Mountain.
No decision was made on the club getting one. KB9RKU lost a lot of
accumulated data when someone vandalized a
Laptop he left at the club, to say nothing of the working
computer being trashed. If anyone knows who did this, or where any
of the missing parts are, talk to Kurt. The new combination door
lock has been acquired. It should be installed shortly (This week?)
The new committee Chairs were appointed as follows:
Activities...................................KB9TMA
Building & Grounds...................N9HON
Equipment................................KB9RKU
Field Day.................................KB9EZZ
Food........................................KB9WPT
Net Control..............................N9PLM
Training....................................KB9EZZ
Repeater Maint.........................KF9NZ
Repeater Monitor.....................N9OUW
We need to
have an antenna party, and a meeting to gather all the information about
the club inventory. KB9TMA and KB9RKU will try to schedule these
gatherings. The hamfest worksheet is going around. Sign up
early and often
Talk to KB9VZH. We agreed to purchase the General
Class CD and training material. Kurt announced that the BBS will
be down for a week or two for revisions. He also is on the lookout
for another computer for the HF op position. The one he had planned
on went belly-up. He would also like donations of any CD-Rom drives
you may have The APRS site, W9MKS-10 is running on a KPC-3
now, and seems to be doing a good job. We need to look for a KPC3plus,
or upgrade the firmware to really get cookin' on APRS.
FLASH! TE SYSTEMS SHIPS REPAIRED AMPLIFIER - I got a call this evening (Wednesday 1/9), and the 100W amp is repaired and on its way back!! Cost will be minimal ($20.00 + shipping) and it should be here mid-week.
SKYWARN RECOGNITION DAY RESULTS
You can go
to the hamradio.noaa.gov Internet site (http and all that in front, but
no www) and see all of the results. We came in fourth as follows:
QSO's NWS STATIONS STATES
Des Moines, IA..…1339............……65...........................48
Buffalo, NY..........…838...........……55............................47
Goodland, KS...........728.……...........60...........................47
Chicago, IL..……….566............……40...........................48
Topeka, KS...............550…...............53............................46
New York City.........549..……..........44............................48
I don't have the names or calls of everybody who was there, but we had good representation, and the B.A.R.S. club had a bunch. There were a couple of hams from NW Indiana too. From our club I can recall KB9PZA, KB9ZWJ, K9ZQ, KB9EZZ, K9PHW and myself. If I missed anybody, sorry. We had a great time. I have asked Bill Wilson for the complete data on the event, but don't have it yet. If I get it in time, I'll shoot it over to KB9TMA to be added, but if later I will put it out on he reflector myself.
AR de KF9NZ
SK CL
The following is a submission by Jeff Johnson, N9OWP.
This article can also be viewed on the web at http://www.webdeals.net/lid.htm.
This article will be appearing in two parts, due to its longer length.
Look for Part II in the February 2002 issue of “Static.”
"How to sound like a LID" – Part I
On two meters I have noticed a tendency of people making
an effort to sound like a "LID". Since this appears to be the new style
in Amateur Radio, I thought I would present this funny guide to radio nerd-dom.
Step One: Use as many "Q" signals as possible. Yes, I
know they were invented solely for CW and are totally inappropriate for
two meter FM, but they are fun and entertaining. They keep people guessing
as to what you really meant. I.E. "I'm going to QSY to the phone." Can
you really change frequencies to the phone? QSL used to mean, "I am acknowledging
receipt", but now it appears to mean, "yes" or "OK". I guess I missed it
when the ARRL changed the meaning. It is also best to use "OK" and "QSL"
together. Redundancy is the better part of Lid-dom.
Step Two: Never laugh when you can say "HI HI". No one
will ever know you aren't a long time CW rag-chewer if you don't tell them.
They'll think you've been on since the days of Marconi.
Step Three: Utilize an alternative vocabulary. Use words
like "destinated" and "negatory". It's OK to make up your own words here.
I.E. "Yeah Tom, I "pheelbart zaphonix" occasionally myself."
Step Four: Always say "XX4XXX" (Insert your own call)
"for I.D." As mentioned in Step One, anything that creates redundancy is
always encouraged. That's why we have the Department of Redundancy Department.
(Please note that you can follow your call with "for identification purposes"
instead of "for I.D." While taking longer to say, it is worth more "LID
points".
Step Five: The better the copy on two meter FM, the more
you should use phonetics. Names should be especially used if they are short
or common ones. I.E. "My name is Al... Alpha Lima" or "Jack.. Juliet Alpha
Charlie Kilo." If at all possible use the less common HF phonetics "A4SM...
America, Number Four, Sugar Mexico." And for maximum "LID points", make
up unintelligible phonetics. "My name is Bob... Billibong Oregano Bumperpool."
Step Six: Always give the calls of yourself and everyone
who is (or has been) in the group, whether they are still there or not.
While this has been unnecessary for years, it is still a great memory test.
You may also use "and the group" if you are an "old timer" or just have
a bad memory. Extra points for saying everyone's call and then clearing
in a silly way "K2PKK, Chow, Chow."
Step Seven: Whenever possible, use the wrong terminology.
It keeps people guessing. Use "modulation" when you mean "deviation", and
vice-versa.
Step Eight: If someone asks for a break, always finish
your turn, taking as long as possible before turning it over. Whenever
possible, pass it around a few times first. This will discourage the breaker,
and if it is an emergency, encourage him to switch to another repeater
and not bother you.
Step Nine: Always ask involved questions of the person
who is trying to sign out. Never let him get by with just a "yes" or "no"
answer. Make it a question that will take him a long time to answer.
Step Ten: The less you know on a subject, the more you
should speculate about it in the roundtable. Also the amount of time you
spend on the subject should be inversely proportionate to your knowledge
of the subject even though you have no damn clue.
Step Eleven: Always make sure you try to communicate
with only a handheld and a rubber duck antenna. Also, make sure you work
through a repeater that you can hear very well, but it cannot hear you.
This will put out a kind of "LID mating call": "Well, Joe, I can hear the
repeater just fine here. I wonder why it can't hear me?" You will score
maximum LID points if you are mobile, and with the radio lying in the passenger
seat.
Step Twelve: If you hear two amateurs start a conversation,
wait until they are twenty seconds into their contact, and then break in
to make a call, or better yet to use the auto-patch. Make sure you keep
the repeater tied up for at least three minutes. This way, once the two
have re-established contact, they won't even remember what they were talking
about.
Step Thirteen: You hear someone on the repeater giving
directions to a visiting amateur. Even if the directions are good, make
sure you break in with your own "alternate route but better way to get
there" version. This is most effective with several other "would-be LIDs",
each giving a different route. By the time the visiting amateur unscrambles
all the street names whizzing by in his mind, he should have moved out
of the range of the repeater. This keeps you from having to stick around
to help the guy get back out of town, later.
Step Fourteen: If an annoying station is bothering you,
make sure your other "LID" buddies have a "coded" frequency list. Even
though "CODES" are strictly forbidden on Amateur Radio, it's really neat
to practice "James Bond" tactics.
Step Fifteen: Always use the National Calling Frequency
for general conversations. The more uninteresting, the longer you should
use it. Extra points are awarded if you have recently move from an adjacent
frequency for no reason. Make sure when DX is "rolling" in on 52.525 that
you hang out there and talk to your friends five miles down the road about
the good old CB days!
To be continued………………………..
Submission by Jeff Johnson, N9OWP.
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A QUICK PRIMER ON DX SPOTTING
With the coming
of packet radio to amateur radio, DX hounds found a new tool that created
a revolution in DX. Packet may have lost the pizzazz that it had
when first introduced to ham radio, but the DX spotting networks seem to
keep running along, and in many areas of the country they are linked with
the internet and high-speed network connections between nodes - a very
successful marriage of the internet and ham radio.
Well, what is DX spotting? If you have a packet
system, tune it to 144.910 and listen with your monitor turned on.
Pretty soon you should see a one-line transmission that looks like this:
DX de W4XYZ 14195 BG2YYI
Big pileup 1534
What this
message is telling the ham world is that BG2YYI is being heard by W4XYZ
on 20 Meters at 14195 KHz, and the comment is that there is a big pileup.
The time the spot was entered was 1534Z. Now if you connect
to one of these packet cluster stations, you can send dx spots too.
If you hear some rare DX, and you haven't seen someone else send a spot
telling about this one, you just send a message to the cluster too.
You may hear more than one station on the 144.910 freq if you are not connected.
Most all DX packet cluster stations are part of a nation-wide network which
receives spots relayed from all over the country - and in fact the world.
How much value a spot from a JA station telling that he hears a VK station
is to a W9 station I don't know, but you will see them. Many packet
cluster stations filter these out though. In this area, the Northern
Illinois University station. W9NIU in DeKalb has a very good DX packet
cluster system, and it is usually up and running - more than I can say
about some of them.
Of course the problem with DX spotting nets is that the
instant a spot hits the network, the pileup becomes immense if the DX is
at all rare. At times you will see what I call "ho-hum" spots.
People will spot Spanish or Italian stations for example. If
you want or need these countries on the band or mode in question, fine
- go get 'em. But when you see Mongolia or Namibia or such, you can
be sure the frequency will be a big roar when you tune to it. One
thing you usually don't see in the spot message is the mode. You
have to assume that if the freq given is in the CW portion of the band,
it will be CW, and if in the 'phone portion, that it will be SSB.
If the DX is using RTTY, PSK31, or other mode, it should say so in the
comment portion of the
spot.
If you don't have packet, the DX cluster is available
over the Internet too. It uses telnet, and if you have "chat" software,
you can go to 131.156.2.132 and you should connect to the W9NIU telnet
site. There are a couple of software packages available that are
designed especially for ham radio Internet telnet. I think
the coolest of these is one Is DXTelnet, a program written by an Italian
, Fab Sartoni. You can download it from www.golist.net. In
order to continue to use it, you must pay for it. I don't know how
much it costs now, but it is not a lot, probably around $20.00 -a ND worth
it if you
are real DX hounds. You will find some interesting
telnet sites - DX IC for example - a worldwide ham chat site with DX spots.
De KF9NZ
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Activities Report / Calendar of Events
¨ North American QSO Party, CW, sponsored by the National
Contest Journal, 1800Z Jan 12-0600Z Jan 13 on the 160-10-meter bands. SOAB-LP
and M2 categories with max power 100 W, operating a maximum of 10 hours
(off times must be at least 30 min and M2 entries may operate the entire
contest). Exchange name and SPC. Score is QSOs × States + Provinces
+ NA DXCC entities (count each once per band). For information, see http://www.ncjweb.com/naqprules.html.
Logs must be emailed or postmarked by Feb 12 to Bob Selbrede, K6ZZ, 6200
Natoma Ave, Mojave, CA 93501 or cwnaqp@ncjweb.com.
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¨ The Michigan Valley Hamfest Association will hold
their 25th Annual South Bend Hamfest & Computer Expo on Sunday, January
13th 2002, from 8:00 am – 3:00 pm. The hamfest will be held at the
Elkhart County Fairgrounds in Goshen, Indiana.
TI: 145.290 (-). For more information, contact
Denny, KA9WNR, M-F 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. EST by calling 219-291-0252.
To order advance tickets, send a SASE to: Michigan Valley Hamfest
Association – 21970 Kern Road – South Bend, IN 46614-9295.
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¨ ARRL January VHF Sweepstakes will be held the weekend
of January 19-20--see page 111, December 2001 QST or http://www.arrl.org/contests/
for more information.
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¨ North American QSO Party, Phone, 1800Z Jan 19-0600Z
Jan 20 (see Jan 12-13). Logs must be emailed or postmarked by Feb 19 to
Bruce Horn, WA7BNM, 4225 Farmdale Ave, Studio City, CA 91604 or ssbnaqp@ncjweb.com.
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¨ CQ WW 160-Meter Contest, CW, sponsored by CQ Magazine,
2200Z Jan 25-1600Z Jan 27 (Phone portion is Feb 22-24). SO-QRP (<5
W) -LP(<150 W) -HP, MO categories; no time limit. Enter as MO if packet
or spotting nets are used. Exchange RST and SPC. QSO Points: own entity--2
pts, same cont--5 pts, diff. Cont--10 pts, /MM stations count 5 points,
but no multiplier. Score is QSO points × states + VE call areas
+ DXCC entities (KH6 and KL7 count as DXCC only). For information, http://www.cq-amateur-radio.com/cq160rules.html.
Logs (Cabrillo format preferred) must be emailed (no paper logs) by Feb
28 to cq160@kkn.net.
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¨ The Wheaton Community Radio Amateurs, W9CCU, will
host their annual Mid Winter Hamfest on Sunday, January 27, 2002, from
8:00 am – 1:00 pm. The hamfest will be held at Hawthorne Race Course,
3501 S. Laramie, Stickney, IL. TI: 145.390 (-). This location
borders Chicago, Stickney, and Cicero. Tickets are $6 in advance
with four door-prize stubs or $8 at door with one stub. For more
details, call 630-545-9950 or send e-mail to info@wheatonhamfest.org.
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¨ The Streator Amateur Radio Club will be hosting
their monthly dinner/meeting on Saturday, February 2nd 2002 at Chippers’
Grill, route 23 North in Streator. The dinner/meeting begins at 5:30
p.m., and everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend!! If you would
like to attend the monthly dinner/meeting, please make reservations no
later than Friday, February 1st by contacting Jesse Risley, KB9TMA on the
air, or by phone at 815-673-1023.
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¨ Ten-Ten International Winter Phone QSO Party, sponsored
by Ten-Ten International, 0000Z Feb 2 until 2400Z Feb 3, 10 meters only.
Exchange call/name/state and 10-10 number (if a member). QSO Points: nonmembers--1
pt, members--2 pts. Score is total points. Send logs by Feb 18 to Gateway
Chapter c/o Don Ward, WØRTV, 4514 Ferrer Dr,St Louis, MO 63129-3741.
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¨ North American Sprint--Phone, sponsored by the
National Contest Journal, 0000Z-0400Z Feb 3. (CW is Feb 10.) Frequencies--3.850,
7.225, 14.275 MHz, work stations once per band. North American stations
work everyone; others work NA stations only. Exchange other station's call,
your call, serial number, name, SPC. QSY rule: Stations calling CQ, QRZ,
etc, may only work one station in response to that call; they must then
move at least 1 kHz before working another station or 5 kHz before soliciting
another call. Once you are required to QSY, you may not make a new QSO
on the previous frequency until you have made a contact at least1 or 5
kHz (as required) away. (see http://www.contesting.com/articles/198 for
beginner's guide) Score is QSOs×SPC (count each only once). For more
information, http://www.ncjweb.com/. Logs must be emailed or postmarked
within 30 days to ssbsprint@ncjweb.com or to Jim Stevens, K4MA, 6609 Vardon
Ct, Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526.
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¨ The next regular monthly meeting of the Starved
Rock Radio Club will be held on Monday, February 4th 2002 at 7:00 p.m.
at the SRRC clubhouse in Leonore, Illinois. Everyone is welcome and
encourage to attend the meeting. There is a “pre-meeting” over dinner,
held prior to the regular meeting, beginning at 5:00 p.m. at Schmitty’s
Grill. Come on over for some casual chat, and enjoy the evening steak
dinner special!
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¨ The Illinois Valley Radio Association (IVRA) will
host their next monthly meeting on Tuesday, February 5th 2002 at 7:00 p.m.
at the Hennepin Town Hall in Hennepin, Illinois. Everyone is welcome
and encouraged to attend the meeting!
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¨ Special Event Station - Chicago, IL: Metro Amateur
Radio Club (MAC), K9Y. 1800-0002Z Feb 9-10 to 1800-2400Z Feb 10. The Activation
of Chicago Harbor Lighthouse (USA 171). 21.370 21.030 14.270 14.030. QSL.
Michael Dinelli, N9BPR, 9423 Kolmar Ave, Skokie, IL 60076-1321. See http://www.qsl.net/mac
for times and more information.
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¨ North American Sprint, CW 0000Z-0400Z,Feb 10 (see
Feb 3). Frequencies--3.540, 7.040, 14.040 MHz. Logs to cwsprint@ncjweb.com
or Boring ARC, 15125 Bartell Rd, Boring, OR 97009.
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¨ Winter 6-Meter Contest--CW/Phone, sponsored by
the Six Club, 2300Z Feb 8-0300Z Feb 11. Exchange RST and grid square.
QSO Points: 1 pt in same country, DX (incl. KL7 and KH6)--2 pts. Score
is QSO points×grid squares. For more information--6mt.com/contest.htm.
Logs must be emailed or postmarked by Mar 15 to ka0nno@arkansas.net or
Sixclub, PO Box 307, Hatfield, AR 71945.
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¨ The National Weather Service, in conjunction with
the La Salle County ESDA, will co-sponsor their annual severe weather spotter
training session on Monday, February 11th 2002 at Illinois Valley Community
College. This annual spotter training session is free and open to
the public, and anyone interested in acquiring the necessary skills to
become a trained severe weather spotter is encouraged to attend the seminar.
The seminar will be held in the auditorium at IVCC, and the program begins
at 7:00 p.m.
73's DE
Jesse L. Risley, KB9TMA
SRRC Activities Chairman
Around the Hobby – Stray Items Relating to Amateur Radio
As hams, we can share our hobby with our community by being prepared! The Ottawa Red Cross is helping us be prepared by offering the “Introduction to Disaster" course on:
Saturday Jan 19 1:00 pm
Thursday Jan 24 5:30 pm
Also, the state training caravan will be visiting in February to offer these courses: Mass Care, Shelter Management, and Damage Assessment
Please call Elaine Baker or Stormy Miller at 433-1909
(arcot@theramp.net) for more information. Hams bring a needed skill
to the Red Cross volunteers. Please call today
for more information
73 and thanks
Joe, KB9EZZ
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From Doc Ollie in Dwight; the following gear is for sale:
This gear is for sale, as the owner is going to go QRP.
All items for sale are going for a total of $550. These items make
a complete HF station: Kenwood 140S 160-10.....100 watt
xsvr; MFJ Deluxe Versa Tuner II; AstonRS 35M pwr sply with meters.
If interested, please call 815-584-2493 or email docz@btc-skynet.net
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SRRC Members:
Be sure to read the article submitted by SRRC member Joe, KB9EZZ, titled "Illinois Vets Discover Amateur Radio" in this month's Strays column, QST January 2002, page 108. Thanks also go to Ottawa American Legion Post 33 for their support and getting involved, and the donation of equipment by an electric utility that helps with this worthwhile program. For your information, QST magazine is devoted entirely to Amateur Radio and serves as the official journal of ARRL, the national association for Amateur Radio. It is mailed to all members of the American Radio Relay League, and is available at better bookstores and magazine vendors.
Congratulations to Joe and others of the Starved Rock Radio Club who have successfully started this program at this Illinois Veterans Home, and for getting veterans involved in the amateur radio hobby and in public service at the LaSalle, Illinois location. They all bring credit to the amateur radio service, our Starved Rock Radio Club, and will warm the hearts of veterans everywhere.
vy 73 de Pat Ryan,
ARS: KC6VVT
P.O. Box 24
Tonica, IL 61370-0024
Email: kc6vvt@arrl.net or visit http://www.qsl.net/kc6vvt
FCC INVITES COMMENTS ON FOUR AMATEUR RADIO PETITIONS
The FCC is seeking comments on four Amateur Radio rule-making petitions filed recently and put on public notice this week. Comments are due by February 7, 2002, in petitions seeking to legally separate wideband and narrowband modes on 160 meters; to allow hams to bequeath their call signs "in memoriam" to a specific club; to expand HF operating privileges for Novice and Tech Plus operators; and to permit retransmission on amateur frequencies of NASA manned spacecraft communications.
A proposal from veteran Top Band operators and contesters
Bill Tippett, W4ZV, and Jeff Briggs, K1ZM, asks the FCC to subdivide 160
meters into mode-specific sub bands. The petition, submitted to the FCC
last September, has been designated as RM-10352. Tippett and Briggs contend
that the ARRL band plan for 160 meters--modified last year after lengthy
consideration by the ad hoc ARRL 160-Meter Band Plan Committee on which
both men sat—does not go far enough and is unenforceable. They want the
FCC to prohibit SSB, AM and other wideband modes below 1.843 MHz--something
the revised ARRL band plan <http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/regulations/bandplan.html#160m>
already recommends.
A copy of Briggs' book, DXing on the Edge--The Thrill of 160 Meters, accompanied their 18-page petition to the FCC. The book is published by ARRL <http://www.arrl.org/catalog/6354/>. Tippett and Briggs made it clear that while the topic of their petition did arise during the ARRL committee's deliberations, their petition is an independent effort with no connection to the committee or the ARRL.
Excerpted from The ARRL Letter Vol. 21, No. 02 - January
11, 2002
SRRC Net Control Script
After hearing the Net Control Script discussion on the net last night I thought I would extract this page from our new member booklet and send it out separately. With a little ad-lib this will work for either net.
STARVED ROCK RADIO CLUB NET CONTROL SCRIPT
GOOD EVENING! It is now 7:00 and time to begin the Starved Rock Radio Club Net. This net meets every Wednesday at 7:00 P.M. on the W9MKS Starved Rock Radio Club repeater. The repeater is located at the La Salle County Complex on Etna Road in Ottawa, Illinois. This repeater operates on a frequency of 147.120 MHz. There is a + offset of 600 kHz and a PL tone of 103.5 . This is (callsign), my name is (name), and my QTH is (town),IL. I will be your Net Control for tonight. The purpose of this net is to pass (1) any traffic, (2) Emergency weather information, (3) Make any announcements pertaining to amateur radio or the SRRC, and (4) to enjoy a few minutes of good fellowship with other members of the amateur radio community. You need not be a member of the SRRC to participate. This is an informal net. We welcome all radio amateurs to check in. In case of a repeater malfunction or shut down due to maintenance, the net will be held on 147.120 MHZ simplex. The club meets at 7:00 P.M. on the first Monday of every month in Leonore, IL at the SRRC Clubhouse and everyone is invited to attend.
Before we take check-in's we will stand by for any EMERGENCY OR PRIORITY TRAFFIC: (pause)
This is (callsign) now taking any stations
on SHORT TIME that are wishing to check-in:
__________ __________
__________ __________ __________
_________
(identify all stations on the list and continue to ask for SHORT TIME check-ins until no more reply) (call stations, one at a time, asking for any traffic)
(Hearing none) This is (callsign) now taking regular check-in's. Please space them out and go slowly so I may copy all stations calling:
__________ __________ __________ __________ __________ _________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ _________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________ __________
(identify all stations on the list and continue to ask for check-ins until no more reply)(make any announcements at this time) (call stations on the list, one at a time, asking for any traffic) (at the end of the list ask for more check-ins) (alternate between asking for check-ins and calling on them until no more are heard)
We had _____(number) check-ins. I would like to thank each and every one of you for taking the time out of your evening to check-in with the Starved Rock Radio Club. Your participation is greatly appreciated. This is ___________(callsign), net control closing the net on _________(date) at ________ (time) P.M. and returning the repeater to normal amateur use. 73 and I hope to hear all of you next week.
Submitted by Mark Gebhardt, KB9JTL.
From the Editor’s Desk
Greetings. I hope that everyone had a very festive and joyous holiday season. It is hard to believe that we have entered the year 2002. Things are happening fast with “Static,” just as time is flying by. I received no complaints in regards to my first re-induction as editor of the newsletter. However, I will continue to work towards the improvement of the newsletter, so that we have a product that benefits every single member of the club. Remember to keep those submissions coming my way, as we have already had a few submissions for the past couple of issues. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to forward amateur radio related items for submission in “Static.”
Feel free to notify me of any upcoming activities events as well. I will be happy to report on anything amateur radio related within our general area. As always, if there is anything that you feel I can do to better the publication of the newsletter, please feel free to inform me. If you would rather receive the newsletter in a different form than you have been currently receiving it (e-mail or snail mail), please inform me as well. I can send out the newsletter either way, your preference. Stay active and I hope to run into many more of you at some of the upcoming hamfests and/or club functions.
Regards,
Jesse L. Risley, KB9TMA
Kb9tma@yahoo.com; 815-673-1023 (home phone)
SRRC “Static” Editor