The Official Newsletter of the Stanly County Amateur Radio Club
STANLY COUNTY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB
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WEDNESDAY ARES NET 146.985 - @ 9:00PM                                     FRIDAY NET 147.390 + @ 9:00PM

                           PRESIDENT:                                                        SECRETARY / TREASURER: 
                   Lee Zehmer - W4ALZ                                      CARL STARNES -  W4EAT

                                                 STANLY COUNTY AMATEUR RADIO
                                                              CLUB 2002 CALENDAR

                                                                       OCTOBER 02
Breakfast Every -Saturday @ 8:00 a.m. @ Locust Restaurant - Monday @ 8:30 a.m. @ Stanfield Restaurant
Lunch Every - Wednesday @11:30 a.m. Locust Restaurant - Friday @ 11:30 a.m. @ Stanfield Restaurant
Club meeting topic: ARES - EOC Building - 201 South Second Street - Albemarle
Date: 10/24/02 County Court House - Aaron Deese (Emergency Service) @ 7:00 P.M.

Special Event: QRP PARTY @ Locust Park DON (AE4AH) October 12, 2002 @ 9:30 am

                                                                   NOVEMBER 02
Breakfast Every -Saturday @ 8:00 a.m. @ Locust Restaurant - Monday @ 8:30 a.m. @ Stanfield Restaurant
Lunch Every - Wednesday @11:30 a.m. Locust Restaurant - Friday @ 11:30 a.m. @ Stanfield Restaurant
Club meeting topic: Message Handling - Presenter: CARL (W4EAT)
Date: 11/21/02 Stanly Community College (Kelly Building) @ 7:00 P.M.
Where to have message handling - Location and date not set at this time.

                                                                 DECEMBER 02
Breakfast Every -Saturday @ 8:00 a.m. @ Locust Restaurant - Monday @ 8:30 a.m. @ Stanfield Restaurant
Lunch Every - Wednesday @11:30 a.m. Locust Restaurant - Friday @ 11:30 a.m. @ Stanfield Restaurant
Club meeting topic: No Club Meeting

Special Event: Christmas Dinner: December 14^th @ 6:00 p.m. (Saturday) @ New London Fire Department
$10.00 per person. Listen on our local nets on how to get there.

Albemarle Christmas Parade
Message Handling at the Mall 

                                                               From The Old
                                                            Prez
It's with a heavy heart that I have decided not to run for another term as president. As a great man once said "if elected I will not serve". Well I didn't mean to say it like that. What I would like to say is most of you know I have been sick lately. The Doc feels like that he has me headed in the right direction and soon should be under my control. I feel like that I need to give up my duties as President until I recover completely. Being the President of the Club (K4OGB) has really been exciting for me and I have enjoyed most of it, except for bouts with being sick over the past twelve months. Thanks, to all those that participated and to the Field Day Coordinator for his efforts at field day. Thanks to all those ARES members that have participated and helped make us a better club. I may consider rerunning at a later date but for now good luck to the new President and may the force be with him.

Thank you for electing me the president of the Stanly County Amateur Radio Club for 2002-2003. You have given me a great honor and an important responsibility, and I hope that I will earn the trust you have placed in me.

For those of you who do not know me, let me introduce myself. My name is Lee Zehmer. I was born and raised in Newport News, Virginia. I went to college at James Madison University majoring in Communications. During college I discerned a call to ministry, and following graduation in 1988, I went to Union Theological Seminary in Virginia. I graduated in 1991 and went to serve the Lexington Presbyterian Church in Lexington, Virginia. It was during my 5 years in Lexington that I was introduced to ham radio by my good friend Robert, KE4JDY. I bought the books and studied, but never got around to taking the test. It was always at the back of my mind, however.

In 1996, I moved to Monroe to become the Pastor of Bethlehem Presbyterian Church. In September of 1997, I received an e-mail from the Union County club that they were going to hold a testing session in Monroe. That was a Thursday. I broke out my books and studied like mad until Sunday. I went to take the test and quickly realized that the question pool had changed. However, all went well, and I passed. I immediately purchased a 2-meter HT. After a few weeks, I received the call KF4UAY. The first person I spoke with was Jerry (N4JAT, then KF4NJF). He invited me to join the club, and I have been a member ever since.

I changed the call to W4ALZ in the summer of 1999 to go along with my upgrade to Advanced Class. The following year I earned the Amateur Extra license. I have also been accredited by W4VEC and the ARRL as a volunteer examiner. My ham interests include DX chasing, rag-chewing, public service, and experimenting with antennas. I have an ICOM-746 and a number of small radios including a Radio Shack HTX-10 and an ADI AT-201 HT. My main HF antenna is an 80 meter dipole complements of John (KF4CWZ).

On the personal side, I have been married to Brooke for 9 years, and together we have three beautiful girls - twins Madison and Kinsley (5 years) and Mollie (1 year). My biggest accomplishment this year (aside from surviving the first year of Mollie’s life) was graduating from Columbia Theological Seminary with a Doctor of Ministry Degree.

My main goal for SCARC this year is to increase involvement by the members in the club. I hope to do this by sharing leadership responsibilities with more members and providing interesting programs and activities that will draw more members to participate. Along this line, I would encourage each of you to fill out the survey found in this newsletter and send it to me either through regular mail or e-mail.

Thanks again! I look forward to a great year!

                                                                       MEMBERSHIP STATUS
Here it is mid September already. In less than two weeks I will be sending out post card notices to those that have not paid their dues for July 1 2002 through June 30 2003. If your call sign is NOT listed below you will receive said post card. If you get this newsletter and wish not to renew please let me know and I will not send you the arrears notice and will remove you from the club roster. After cards go out on September 30 I will wait until October 31 before purging the roster and have an up to date roster prepared. Membership dues are still at the 1956 level of $12 a year and $6 a year for family and student members. Please send to Stanly County ARC, PO Box 188, Stanfield, NC 28163. If you have changed e-mail, address, phone number or any information during the past year please let me know so that the roster can be updated. That includes your status as an ARRL member. I will be updating the numbers with ARRL soon and need the most current information in order for the club to remain an affiliated club. Have a good fall.

Paid through June 2003
W9ZM         KD4RFU         K4MGA         WA4CFQ         K4HTJ         KF4HOP         KG4HJF
KG4ULX     K4VET            N4DNC          W4KMA          N4WIK        KC4JAD         KC4TDC
KS4PG        KF4PEF          WA4NLF         KE4TGX         KK4UH       W4OXH          W4WWX
KD4OZI      KG4DWT       KF4CWZ         KF4ZZF          W4EAT        KD4VKG        KD4KPM
N4JAT        AG4KP           KE4IHZ           KD4TLG         W4ALZ        KG4IFD

Paid through June 2004
AE4AH         KA4KTU         W4YN         KA4ECD         N4NMS         K4WC
February 2004                      WA4WSA

Paid through June 2005
KC4JLX

Paid through June 2006
KG4DVH

Records indicate the following are ARRL members.

AE4AH W9ZM KD4RFU K4MGA KA4CMC KG4IFD WA4CFQ

KF4HOP KG4HJF KG4DVH KD4RLH K4VET N4DNC W4KMA

KC4JAD KE4KQQ KC4TDC KS4PG KF4PEF KA4KTU WA4NLF

KE4TGX KK4UH W4OXH W4YN KD4OZI KF4CWZ KF4ZZF

KA4ECD N4NMS K4AHC K4WC W4EAT KD4KPM N4JAT

AG4KP WA4WSA N4ZIT KC4JLX KD4TLG WB8ZRP W4ALZ

73, Carl W4EAT
Sec/Trea

                                                   DEC AREA-12 MEETING
Well I thought the Area-12 meeting held on August 24th went very well. Special thanks to Jeff (KU4KM), for attending. First time that I have come face to face with the Western Branch. Jeff and I have traded a lot of phone calls as well as e-mail messages if was nice to meet him.

Thanks to Milton for hosting the meeting in Gaston County. Milton, good job on your selection of the informative film on ARES.

I would also like to thank Gene (KG4IMC) for his display of what I will call a quick set up of his antenna (J-Pole and Fishing Rod). Gene has put together many of these for the Gaston County group. Several of those that saw Gene's setup were impressed. It will make a good antenna for emergencies or for anyone that need on a moments notice.

I learned a lot from the input from all 6 counties on what they are doing in their own county. I see that a lot of work is taking place in each county. I also see that plans are being developed for more activities and problem solving in each County. By hat is off to each of you.

Cliff will host the next meeting on November the 16TH in Lincoln County. Cliff will keep us informed on the start time and the place. If you have an assistant emergency co-coordinator that can not make the dates set for our meeting it would be nice if you invited another member from your ARES organization to take their place at our meetings. This will help us keep our members informed as to what we are doing to help our ARES organization. It should also keep them dated to what is going on in each of the counties in Area-12. Both of these items should be beneficial to all of us.

As a side note John (W4CC) just sent out a request that each of us needs to stay aware of any possible water shortage in our counties. Please read John's note. I would think that you may want to check with your Emergency Manager and see if they have a contingency plan in place for the towns that could be affected when (if) listed as critical.

Thanks to all of those that attended the meeting. I will look forward to seeing you in November.

Cabarrus County - KA4ATT - Sam
Gaston County - KC4YOT - Milton, KG4AWO - Mike, W4RDT - Rick and KG4IMC, Gene
Lincoln County - WD4PIC - Cliff
Mecklenburg County - W4OH - DARYL, WB2NHQ - John and KB5WY - Elmo
Stanly County - AE4AH - Don, KF4CWZ - John and K4HTJ - Med
Union County WA3RTC - Steve, K4RLD - Bob
Assistant Section EC Western Branch - Geoffrey Russell - (KU4KM)

November
  9 Beachfest 2001 Flea Market - Myrtle Beach, S.C. (169 MILES)
17 Jarsfest 2001 @ American Legion - Benson, N.C. (119 MILES)

Club Survey:

1) What are some programs you would like to have presented at our monthly meeting?  (Examples: Message handling; basic antennas; stealth antennas; APRS; Packet; repeaters; Dxing; SSTV; making sense of propagation; skywarn; etc.)

2) What are some special events or activities that you would like to see the club participate in and in which you would participate? (Examples: QRP party; foxhunts; public service events; SET drills; Field Day; Christmas parade; Christmas Party; etc.)

3) Is there a topic of interest that you would like to present at a club meeting? If yes, what is it.

4) What do you feel should be the purpose of the Stanly County ARC.

5) Would you please update your address, phone number, email address, and birthday.

Please send the answers to this survey to:
Lee Zehmer
7604 Concord Hwy.
Monroe, NC 28110

Or you can email the answers to [email protected]

                                              Bear Report   
                    Sleeper Strikes At Morrow Mountain Area
 

Smokey, say's someone has been sleeping in my chair. It looks like he has slept all day, all night and all day again.  Several other bears thought they saw him move but he was soooo sloooow they are really not sure what they saw. Now we know what a field day coordinator is really good at.  

Photograph provide by Donna Drye

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