Upcoming Events (contact)
28AUG SRRC Leonore 7pm Repeater/Equipment Committee meeting (KF9NZ)
04SEP Labor Day-have a safe holiday
11SEP SRRC Leonore meeting 7pm (KB9JTL)
25SEP Ottawa Etna Road Complex training for Nuclear Drill (KF9NZ)
04OCT LaSalle County Nuclear Drill 9am-1pm (KF9NZ)
11OCT Ottawa 5-9pm VE session 1 mile North of I-80 & IL 23 exit 90 (KB9EZZ)
14-15OCT Spring Valley Scouting (KB9EZZ)
21-22OCT Jamboree-On-The-Air location to be determined (KB9EZZ)

>From the President-KB9JTL
I now have in my possession the three legal documents from the Tabor Grain
folks that it takes to give them an easement on our property. The documents
are what we agreed to with a couple of exceptions, which I will talk to Jeff
about. We will probably need to have a special meeting for an acceptance
vote. I will wait to schedule the meeting until after the final details are
worked out because I have no idea how long that might take.

There is a couple of scouting events in October that the SRRC will be
participating in. As usual your help is needed. Both events Oct 14th & 15th
and Oct 21st & Oct 22nd will be field day style from what I understand. The
14th has to do with outdoor / wilderness survival and the 21st is Jamboree
on the air. We will have more details at the September meeting.

I will be having more hand votes at the meetings when the vote is not
unanimous. The yea and nay plan, although faster, can be misleading. This
fact was pointed out to me at the last meeting by one of our former
presidents who is more experienced at these matters than I am. Thanks KC9NL.

We still have the opportunity to have some Red Cross training if anyone is
interested. I forgot to bring this up at the last meeting. Let me know if
you are interested.

73 for now. This is KB9JTL and I will be listening.

SRRC August meeting in Leonore-KF9NZ
It was voted to hold a 50/50 drawing in connection with the hamfest.
Tickets will be $1.00. KB9UIU will print the tickets and we will begin to
sell them right away. Club members ARE eligible!

We agreed to buy current copies of "Now You're Talking" for the 10 libraries
where we have found that the present books have been loaned.   We voted to
again hold the LST Special Event Station this December.

REPEATER HAPPENINGS-KF9NZ
The PL functions are not working.  The new service monitor the club acquired
blew a voltage regulator.   Parts are on order.  Without the monitor, it is
just about impossible to set the sub-audible tone levels to make the PL
system work.  Until the monitor back is in working order, you will be able
to access the remote receiver without a PL tone, and the CW ID from the
remote site will be retransmitted. Please leave your PL tone ON!  Once this
system is aligned properly, the remote ID will not be retransmitted since
the remote transmitter will not send PL tone when it ID's.

We need to hold a repeater maintenance committee meeting soon and make some
basic decisions. For the time being, let's leave the repeater at Etna Road
and consider two more remote receive sites - one North (Mendota area) and
one West (Peru?), but this will depend partly on how well the remote site
works at Tabor Grain.  Eventually, we can turn the Etna Rd receiver off, and
bypass the resonant cavities. Etna Rd will then be the transmit site - at
150 Watts!

No one showed up for the Saturday (12AUG) antenna party. We need an active
member to be Equipment Chairman, and we should make some decisions about how
things are going to be done. Such as:
1. Take the HF triband beam and rotator off the existing tower.
2. Put the Comet UHF/VHF vertical on top
3. Remove the guys from the tower.
4. Relocate the remote receive equipment and both antennae to the Tabor
Grain site.
5. Mount the new HF beam on the roof on the rooftop tower

How does a repeater committee & equipment committee joint meeting on Aug 28
sound to
everybody??

Here is the budget as revised and adopted:

For Sale 87 x 52 Library Carrel...four positions--perfect for the shack!
Each desk is 42" x 22" deep with a 9" ledge 15" above the desk.  The desk is
27" above the floor.  Asking $300...or best offer.  Please call kb9ezz at
433-2347 or at kb9ezz@arrl.net

Amateur Radio assistance needed for October 4th drill.
Every two years each Nuclear Power Plant holds a graded exercise. LaSalle's
will be Wednesday October 4th.  It typically runs between 9am and 1pm.
During the last two exercises, local hams helped out at the Grand Ridge,
Brookfield, Seneca and Manlius townships and also at the Etna Road EOC.
There have been many favorable comments from local, state and federal
officials on the superior volunteerism and professionalism exhibited by our
Amateur Radio Operators.  Training will be 25SEP in Ottawa.  Contact KF9NZ
if you would like to help.

ARRL Certification
The American Radio Relay League has been working on certification programs
for Amateur Radio Operators. You can view a draft they are working on for a
certificate in Emergency Communications at
http://www.svvi.net/w0ipl/emcom-rd.htm

FEMA'S Independent Study Program    http://www.fema.gov/emi/ishome.htm

FEMA's Emergency Management Institute (EMI) Independent Study(IS) Program
consists of self-paced courses designed for both the general public and peop
le who have emergency management responsibilities. Each Independent Study
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Those who score 75 percent or better are issued a certificate of completion
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IS 2 Emergency Preparedness, USA
This independent study course contains information about natural and
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