Musings

By KE2LJ

 

 Our Editor Dave (KA2FEA) is home from  the hospital. He isn’t well, and we don’t expect him to return to producing the newsletter. He is confined to bed for the immediate future. We have no contributed articles as always, so you are again left with me. Our Secretary was not present at the last meeting, so we don’t have any minutes to print either. Today I’ll write about a few small items.  With Dave being out, we need a newsletter editor. The editor has the freedom to choose the articles that appear in the paper, and Dave liked the World Radio Articles.  Others have told me that they don’t like them so much, so there’s that matter of differing tastes. I am now asking for a volunteer to be editor. It requires access to a computer with Microsoft Word, in which the newsletter is composed. Dave would assemble the whole thing, and email it to me at work each month. I then add my two cents, and send it off (via email) to my secretary, who prints 120 copies directly from her email. That’s why we need to use Word. If a volunteer doesn’t have Word, we would be breaking this process considerably. But, there still might be alternatives that are very workable, so I am open to suggestions. I have a fulltime job, and a part time job, so I wont be able to put a newsletter together. If we don’t get a volunteer, the newsletter will be reduced to the inane garbage that spews from my brain every month.

          Last month we had a lot of people who couldn’t make the Board meeting, so we cancelled it. But, we did have a regular Club meeting, and our featured Speaker was George Tranos, N2GA, our Section Manager. George spoke eloquently to the members, and had a lot of good things to say. He is running for re-election, and we certainly will vote for him. If you haven’t sent in your ballots yet, there may still be time. The Club meeting attendance has been getting smaller. We’re not doing a good job of attracting new members.  We do have an edge, in that our fine VE team makes a good first impression on these new Hams. They are always invited to Club meetings, and many of them do appear for awhile.  But, sooner or later, they disappear for good. I suppose they don’t find our meetings very interesting. And that’s something we should try to correct. Most Radio Clubs are in the same boat, so I don’t have much hope of changing this situation ever.

 

Our Holiday party will be at UL on 12/15. We’ll have the usual casual meeting with food. We probably will need $5 fro each of the attendees to cover the catering costs. Same as last year, no increases, unlike gas and oil here. It’s also an opportunity for us to pay dues, so bring a few extra bucks.

We’re also having issues with Board members. Tom Lovelock has been a marvelous Treasurer, but now finds he can’t continue in the position any longer. We need to find a replacement as soon as possible. If we can’t, that will hobble us some, as it’s the Treasurer that keeps the books, and makes the labels each month for the newsletter.

Our last Board meeting was basically cancelled. Some of the members were on travel, and we had no newsletter, so we cancelled. No reason dragging 2 or 3 guys to the trailer for almost no reason.

 

The January meeting will be a program on old radio pioneers, presented by George, W2RKM. He has some operational spark equipment that he likes to demo. But, we cant do that in UL, so we probably will do this offsite. It’ll most likely be at Briarcliff in Bethpage (old Plt 35). If we cant get a room there, we’ll try for the Bethpage Library. Keep an eye on our web site for updates. This is a very cool presentation, and you won’t want to miss it. The picture of N2SFT on our web site is Bill doing CW on that spark system. We’ll all have the opportunity to try our fist at that demo.

 

HRU 2005 will be held on January 9 at Briarcliff. There will be 5 parallel tracks of forums, as opposed to the 4 we had last year. Marty and I will be doing the DX forums for LIDXA. Bob will be doing a digital presentation. The Friends of LI Wireless will also be there, and I may actually have my latest Tesla Coil on display. So, this also will be a great Saturday to learn about new Ham Radio things. There will not be any dealers or sellers this year, so just a great opportunity to learn things. It was moved to Briarcliff from East Woods in order to have bigger classrooms and fit more people in comfortably. It’s also a much easier place to get to from anywhere on LI. I think you would really enjoy it.

 

One of my friends here has a Dad who was a Ham, and he passed away during the summer. I was asked to try to sell some of his gear and return some money to the widow. Most of the gear was pretty old, but I’ll mention it here. I put it in the trailer, and if you are interested, make me an offer over the phone or by email. The main items are a TS680 160-6 HF and Icom 575H 6 and 10 meter radio. There’s a D104, some 2 meter gear,  small power supplies and SWR meters.


GARC VE EXAMS

 

We are continuing to proctor exams for all classes of ham licenses on the  second Tuesday of each month, starting at 5:00 PM.

 

The present exams are: Element 1: 5 WPM CW, Element 2: Technician,

Element 3: General and Element 4: Amateur Extra Class. The fee for 2003 is $12 for all exams taken in one sitting. Applicants for upgrading

should bring a photocopy of their present license and their FRN number.

 

New, first time, applicants should be aware that their Social Security

number will be required on their application form. All applicants should bring drivers license or other picture ID. The exams are now given at the Underwriters Lab in Melville. This is the same building where GARC meetings are presently held.

 

For any further information e-mail: -

[email protected] or phone: - (631) 499-2214

 

Study material information is available at the http://www.arrl.org web site.

 

All VECs use the same  Q & A pools.

 

Bob Wexelbaum, W2ILP

 

 

CQ de WA2LQO

 

AUGUST 2004

 VOL.  78,  NO.  9

 

EDITOR

DAVE ANDERSON, KA2FEA

 

ASSISTANT EDITOR

ED GELLENDER, WB2EAV

 

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

PAT MASTERSON, KE2LJ

PETE RAPELJE, N2PYV

 

CQ de WA2LQO is published monthly by the Grumman Amateur Radio Club for its members and friends. Send articles and amateur equipment advertisements to:

Dave Anderson

743 Meadow Road

Smithtown, NY 11787

Phone (631) 361-8910

 

ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS

If you want to submit articles or amateur equipment ads via e-mail do the following:

1. For submission direct to editor call him at above number to set up a transfer.

2. For e-mail transfer:

Internet Address

[email protected]

 

 

 
EDITORIAL

 

 

None today

 

 

 

GRUMMAN AMATEUR RADIO CLUB OFFICERS FOR 2004

 

President               Pat Masterson              KE2LJ              D07-01    516-346-7125

Vice President       Gordon Sammis             KB2UB            C62014    516-575-1846

Secretary               Peter Rapelje              N2PYV      Retiree     516-676-0694
Treasurer               Tom Lovelock                KC2HNN              

1Yr Board Member    Zack Zilavy               WB2PUE        Retiree     631-667-4628
1YrBoard Member     Dave Ledo               AB2EF

1Yr Board Member   Hank  Neimczyk    W2ZZE               Retiree      631-421-1689

2Yr Board Member   Bob Wexelbaum    W2ILP                 Retiree     631-499-2214

2Yr Board Member    Jack Cotterell        WA2PYK            Retiree     516-249-0979

Trustee WA2LQO       Ray Schubnel        W2DKM           Retiree

 

STANDING COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN

 

Meeting Programs       Contact a Board Member

FCC Exam Coord.         Bob Wexelbaum       W2ILP                           631-499-2214

 

 

GRUMMAN AMATEUR RADIO CLUB OFFICERS FOR 1997

 

President                       Pat Masterson          KE2LJ             B38-111          346-6316

Vice President               Gordon Sammis        KB2UB           C63-005          575-1846

Secretary                       Peter Rapelje             N2PYV           Retiree            676-0694

Treasurer                       Phil  Simonetti           N2ZED           K10-14            346-8124    

2Yr Board Member       Paul Chalson             WA2FOF       A16-043         224-8153

2Yr Board Member       Howard Liebman      W2QUV         Retiree            433-7487

2Yr Board Member       Martin Miller             NN2C             Retiree            423-8153

1Yr Board Member       Zak Zilavy                 WB2PUE       Retiree            667-4628

1Yr Board Member       Hank Niemczyk         W2ZZE          Retiree            796-3212

Trustee WA2LQO       Ray Schubnel           W2DKM        C31-005          575-5036

 

STANDING COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN

 

Meeting Programs       Contact a Board Member

FCC Exam Coord.         Bob Wexelbaum       W2ILP                                    499-2214

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 


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