Club
Meetings & Net Information Page
Club Meetings The Massillon Amateur Radio Club
meets on the first Friday of every month at the Massillon Senior Citizens Center located
at 39 Lincoln Way West in downtown Massillon at 8:00 PM. Club meetings are open to all
visitors and you are welcome to attend. We conduct a short business meeting followed by a
break and if we're lucky a dynamite program!
West Stark Information Net
The Massillon Amateur Radio Club also
conducts a weekly West Stark Information Net on the clubs 147.18+ mhz repeater. The
net is open to all licensed amateurs and you are encouraged to join us every
Friday evening at 8:00 PM (except for club meeting night) and hear the latest
club news as well as current events in the amateur radio service. Net Manager
Don Wade, W8DEA is always looking for club members willing to act as net control
for the net. This is a great way to gain net experience, please contact Don if
you can help out !
W8NP The Club Station of the MARC
The club station of the MARC is fully equipped
for all bands and modes of operation. Current station equipment
includes a Ten Tec Trition 4 for HF plus a Kenwood 2 Meter
all-mode transceiver. The club recently added a IBM class 500 Mhz
computer system that runs a packet station. Antennas include an HF
log periodic plus a 100 foot long wire. Other equipment is
available when needed.
The MARC Club Library
The MARC Club Library, under
the direction of club librarian Bruce Putnam, AB8FB, is a new service available
exclusively to club members. Available during club meetings, amateur magazines,
as well as amateur books, CD's and various club newsletters (including both
current and back issues of our own "FEEDBACK") maybe signed out for a
two month period or articles & stories may be photocopied at no charge.
Periodicals are constantly being added & updated to better serve our
members. The list below is currently available. Contributions to add missing
issues are always welcome, contact Bruce if you have something to add to our
library !
Executive Board for 2003
Standing Committees
The Current MARC Library
QST Magazine
YEAR |
ISSUE |
1932 |
All
except Jan, Mar & May |
1933-34 |
Complete |
1935 |
All
except Feb |
1936-45 |
Complete |
1946 |
All
except Jan |
1947-48 |
None
! |
1949-68 |
Complete |
1969 |
All
except Jul, Aug, Sep, Nov |
1970 |
Complete |
1971 |
All
except Feb |
1972 |
Complete |
1973 |
All
except May |
1974-75 |
Complete |
1976 |
Complete |
1977 |
All
except Sep |
1978 |
Complete |
1979 |
All
except May |
1980 |
All
except Mar, Nov |
1981-86 |
Complete |
1987 |
Only
have Oct - Dec |
1988 |
Complete |
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YEAR |
ISSUE |
1989 |
None |
1990 |
None |
1991 |
None |
1992 |
Have
only Nov -
Dec |
1993 |
Complete |
1994 |
Complete |
1995 |
All
except May |
1996 |
Complete |
1997 |
Complete |
1998 |
Complete |
1999 |
All
except Feb |
2000 |
Complete |
2001 |
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to Jun |
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We also have the
following ARRL Publications
The Antenna Compendium
- Volume 3
The Radio Buyers
Sourcebook - 1991 Edition
Antennas and
Techniques for Low Bank Dxing
Previous Meeting Programs
February Program Mel Vye, W8MV
The MARC officially began its 2001 season with Don Finley, W8DEF at the helm
and new Vice-President Gene Beckwith, W8KXR as second in command. Gene already
tested the waters by deciding that coffee should be ready before the meeting. He
must have needed a jolt to calm the nerves !
The new year also began with a super club
program. Mel Vye, W8MV long time friend of Perry Ballinger, W8AU and of the
Massillon Amateur Radio Club again captivated us with his most recent DXpedition
memories. You will remember last year at our February meeting Mel presented a
terrific program on his journey to St. Pierre & Miquelon Islands (FP land).
This year was just as exciting as Mel recounted his trip last July to Midway
Island in the South Pacific.
One of the world's last unspoiled, secluded
paradises, it was closed to the public for more than 50 years and just recently
opened to visitors. Midway Island is known primarily for World War II's decisive
"Battle of Midway". Serving as a United States Naval Base from before
the war until 1996, when Midway Phoenix Corporation and the United States Fish
& Wildlife Service entered into an agreement which opened the island as a
travel destination. Only 100 visitors are permitted at any one time as this
island is more of a quiet resort, lacking the traditional commercialism of most
other tourist sites.
The Naval Base is now used for tourist use
and this is where the modest ham shack is located, appropriately set in the old
communications shack on the base. Complete with a nice tri-band beam and several
other antennas, it also has several Kenwood radios left behind by the Navy.
Imagine the radio traffic that has passed through this tiny shack over 50 years
ago !. Talk about radio atmosphere !
It is from here that Mel spent a great
deal of his time, racking up over 3000 contacts during his week long stay. He
did take some time to enjoy the natural beauty of this paradise island, taking
many wonderful slides that detailed the true beauty of this island including the
famous Gooney bird (the Laysan Albatross).
It was a terrific program and many thanks
to Mel for allowing us to escape with him to this South Pacific Paradise if only
for a short time in the dead of winter ! What a great place for a Club Field Day
operation, I wonder if our meager treasury could swing it !!!!. I wonder what
far off exotic world Mel might be off to next ?. I hope Mel will share it with
us next year !
If you would like to learn more about this spectacular island
paradise go to www.midwayisland.com
for lots of great information.
March Meeting Program Jeff Covelli,
WA8SAJ Avid ATV'er
The club was honored to have Jeff Covelli, WA8SAJ of Willoughby,
Ohio as our guest speaker for the March club meeting. An avid Amateur Television
(ATV) operator for many years, Jeff captivated the crowd with his personal
experiences in this exciting aspect of amateur radio. Jeff opened with a little
history of this mode and explained some of the technical details of this unique
mode, including equipment requirements and antenna types. He noted that even
though some parts of this mode can be expensive, anyone with a cable ready TV
can join in on the reception of ATV signals by tuning to either cable channel
58, 59 or 60. A video was shown detailing some interesting actual on-air contact
of Jeff and his friends in the Cleveland area. Did you know that the Rose Bowl
Parade in Pasadena, CA is nearly fully covered by amateur operators using ATV to
give continuous on-the-spot coverage to local authorities ?
Jeff indicated that some fantastic "DX" contacts are also possible
during certain atmospheric band openings, he is especially proud of his
confirmed contact with a station over 500 miles away a few years ago using ATV.
A number of MARC members are currently experimenting on this mode. Evenings and
weekends tune your TV to cable channel 58, 59, or 60 and listen to either the
147.18 repeater or 144.34 simplex (the ATV talk about frequency) and you just
might see one of our smiling faces having a great time using this exciting new
mode of amateur radio ! A special thanks to Jeff for sharing his hobby with us
!
April Meeting Program
on The Civil Air Patrol
Continuing a great year of club programs, the MARC April meeting was honored
to have one of our own, Don Wade, W8DEA present a program on the Civil Air
Patrol (CAP).
Don, a 6 year veteran, hold the rank of 1st Lieutenant
and is currently a Communications Officer over 10 squadrons in the Akron/Canton
Wing.
The CAP was established on December 1, 1941 and is the
civilian Auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force and organized along military lines.
There are more than 1,700 active units across the United States. Organized to
perform vital support functions in its early years, today's CAP has specialized
programs in Aerospace Education, Cadet Programs that continue to introduce
thousands of young people to aviation and perhaps best known for its Emergency
Services role. CAP air & ground teams perform 85 percent of the inland
Search and Rescue missions across the United States.
Don's specialty
as Communications Officer is the training and maintaining of the vast data &
voice communications network built to survive the loss of civil communications.
Don's program included a short video of the history and current mission of the
CAP, discussions of several recent CAP missions right here in the greater Ohio
area as well as question & answer session after the formal program.
Their communications network is not unlike our
own in the Amateur Radio Service using both simplex & duplex communications
as well as both data & video, except that operations are carried out on
specific frequencies assigned to the CAP. We even found out that they often use
Fastscan Television in many of their Search & Rescue missions.
This was a fastening program and we want
to thank Don and the entire Civil Air Patrol organization for our April program.
Don is the MARC's only active CAP member but after this fascinating program he
may have a few prospective volunteers !
To learn more about the Civil Air
Patrol, you are encouraged to check out their excellent website located at http://www.cap.gov
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