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Texas Adventist Emergency
Communications Newsletter Dear Members, Hello Again! First of all I would like to apologize for the extended length between the last and this newsletter. Things have been a little hectic in my life here lately. I would also like to apologize for those of you that didn’t receive the reminder for the meeting today. Last week my computer crashed and I still have not got my PC back up to the way it was. However, I will remedy the small problem of our mailing list tonight. We had a very good meeting today. There was a lot of good experience passed on by those who went to Oshkosh, WI., last week. We had very good training class also. Carl talked about amateur radio nets. Explaining the difference between each of them and the proper procedures to use in each of them. He also talked about the National Traffic System, NTS. Explaining how it worked and how messages are passed from one place to another. There is a good article in the September issue of QST, on page 50 I believe. It tells about the 50 years of service and implementation of the NTS. If you get QST, please do take the time to read it, if not get in contact with someone who does and get a copy of the article, it is a good article. Another topic was discussed in this months meeting. Someone sent our president a flyer asking him to sponsor someone for a 26.5 mile walk-a-thon for Arthritis. This was put before the club as to the possibility of our club providing communication for this event. The membership voted that we should find out more about this walk-a-thon and tabled it until more information could be presented to club for voting on providing communications for this event. I brought up the idea that we should take a donation in the club and this money be donated to the Arthritis Foundation in the name of TAEC. The membership present thought this was a good idea and in the next meeting we will be accepting donations for our club donation. So, please, try to do as I will and try not to forget your pocket books :-) Our next meeting will be on September 19th. Please everyone try to be there so we can continue to have a good turn-out. Thank you for your continuing support and your help in all our functions. Hope to see you at our next club meeting!! What's New! The Federal Communications Commission has developed a system of licensing. It is called Universal Licensing System(UTS). This system was developed to speed up the time it takes to process license applications. As of August 16th, UTS has been implemented for amateur radio. Any Licensing done after the 16th, will not go through unless you have registered with UTS. According to QST, all renewal, address changed, etc. will be discarded unless s/he is registered with UTS. The new system is designed especially for internet browsers. If you would like to register with UTS go to, http://www.fcc.gov/wtb/ULS In the September meeting we will be discussing some very important issues. We need everyone there so please plan to attend. Update I'm a trying to change the looks of our newsletter. This newsletter has so far been nothing but letters from our president. We would like to have articles in the newsletter from members. We will decide next club meeting when the newsletter will be sent out each month. Our officers are working to get our club ARRL Affiliated. In order to do this we must have an official newsletter. We have this one but it would be a much better newsletter if there was a more purposeful use to it. Therefore, our president has asked that I put some type of articles in it. I'm asking for help from the membership on helping me write these articles.
Aug 28 Gainsville, Gainsville Civic Center
TAEC Website The KC5PWQ Web Site The KC5PWP Web Site Official Austin Ham Home on the web (ARO & AARC) ARES info can be found at: Newsline, P.O.Box 660937, Arcadia, California 91066 The Texas VHF-FM Society Take practice Ham Tests on the web. A few locations are: FCC's Universal License System http://www.fcc.gov/wtb/ULS |
