April 2008 Edition
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important items from the McMinn Co Amateur Radio Club: Item 1. The MCARC Picnic is this Saturday (April 19th) at Hornsby Hollow Campground Pavilion. Rain or Shine, 9AM - ??, Lunch at Lunch time. Members need to bring: Baked beans Potato salad, pasta salad Coleslaw Deviled eggs Chip and dip Cakes, pies, cookies Club is furnishing everything else. Please contact Barbara at 423-745-8815 to let her know what you will bring. Also, we will have the MCARC band playing again. Bring your harmonica, washboard, guitar, juice harp, kazoo, whatever you play and we'll do some HAM JAM! I have it from a good source Daris has been practicing up for this one! Item 2. In preparation for an event at Watts Bar Nuclear Power Plant, we are required to attend annual training, in the event an emergency situation occurs at the plant. McMinn County has to be able to verify that the training has been conducted; therefore, it is essential that hams that would respond to an incident involving the plant attend one of the scheduled sessions. They are: Tuesday, May 13, 2008, 9:00 a.m., 2:00 p.m.,,6:00 p.m. Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 9:00 a.m., 2:00 p.m. *NOTE: You only need to attend one (1) session. All sessions will be at the McMinn County EOC Please contact Evan Ray ASAP to sign up for your session you wish to attend. Evan's contact info is: wa4pni@comcast.net 423-263-9300 or call on 145.310 We will be doing a Special Event Station. The National Moofest is going to be May 31st in Athens, at the old Athens Supply site. The Moofest website is http://www.nationalmoofest.com . We have special event call sign "N4M", "National 4 MOO". Scott, NA4IT, has a list for those who are operating and those who are logging (paper logs). It is broken down in one hour time slots. Probably need one operator and one logger for each slot. The operating hours will be 11AM to 7PM. Contact Scott to put your name in the pot to operate! We will also need to get there early for setup, and probably need to do a good check out on the trailer before hand. We will be loated almost at the intersection of Madison Ave. and Green St. More to come! Digital Messaging presentation: Scott will be traveling down to the Bradley ACS (Auxilary Communications Service) meeting on Thursday April 18th to give a presentation on digital messaging. I hope to do the same at a MCARC meeting soon. We are beginning to get a good infrastructure in SE TN on packet radio that is bridged into Winlink. This could prove a good means of communication during a served agency event. (And it is a lot of fun to just use it to chat during everyday use! LOTS to learn...) VERY IMPORTANT MCARC DATES to write down: April 19th Picnic at the Lake May 31 Athens MOOfest Special Event Station June 28 & 29, Saturday & Sunday, ARRL Field Day (NOTE: Our location is moving to Athens Regional Park at the Lower Pavilion, next to the pond. July 19th, Saturday, 4th Annual MCARC Hamfest, Athens Regional Park. Be sure to check out the Hamfest Calendar elsewhere on this web site for upcoming hamfests. Be sure to check out the trading post! Till next month, 73, and Gud DX! |
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RAISER: Chris Bindrim, KE7GZ, owner of MouseWorks has made up some MCARC logo items and is selling them to help support the club. Here is what he has: Buttons = $5 dollars 24 inch stickers = $50 dollars 12 inch stickers = $15 dollars 6 inch stickers = $5 dollars 3 inch stickers = $2.00 1.5 inch sticker 50 cents or 3 for a dollar Magnetics 12 inch $26.50 Magnetics 6 inch $12.50 Contact Chris, KE7GZ, or go by his store on Jackson St. to purchase any of these items. They have the same logo the MCT and our homepage have. |
TRADING POST
Buy, sell, trade, ham radio & related equipment. Local hams McMinn
& surrounding counties only please.
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| Chris Hinson, K4OSK has a LDG
1000 Pro tuner for sale. $499 invested, he will take $300. contact him
at "chinson1 at mindspring dot com". |
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