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
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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 1Yr Board Member
Zack Zilavy WB2PUE Retiree 631-667-4628 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
EDITORIAL
Treasurer Tom Lovelock KC2HNN
1YrBoard Member Dave Ledo AB2EF
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