THE ARLINGTON BEACON

The Official Organ of the Arlington Amateur Radio Club
April 2006
President: Jack Reed WA4FXX
Vice President: Dennis Bodson W4PWF
Secretary: Adam Hahn KG4VNC
Treasurer: Mike Ingles KG4RKL
Activities Chairman: Alan Bosch KO4ALA
Editor: Adam Hahn KG4VNC
Meetings: Usually Third Tuesday of each month, 7:30 P.M., Red Cross, 4333 Arlington Blvd. (US 50), Arlington,VA. Nonmembers are invited to attend.
Net: Tuesday (except meeting nights) at 7:30 P.M., 144.87/145.47 MHz FM
WWW: http://www.w4wvp.org/
Affiliate: ARRL, FAR
Information: Jack Reed, WA4FXX, wa4fxx@amsat.org (e-mail), (703) 685-7933 (phone).
THE NEXT REGULAR MEETING OF THE AARC WILL BE TUESDAY, APRIL 18
April Meeting Information Events since the last meeting Notes from club members Minutes of the March meeting

April 18 Meeting: Emergency Training

The April 18 meeting of the Arlington Amateur Radio Club will be held at the usual time (1930L) and place (4333 Arlington Blvd).

For this month's program, Jack Gunther/KB3KKY will be talking about the ARRL Emergency Communications courses that he has recently taken.

Hope to see everyone there!

73,
--Adam, KG4VNC, AARC Secretary

Events since the March Meeting

AI4GO Antenna: We had a huge turn-out on the ninth to get Roy's antenna up in the air. Sounds like it's up and working! Huge thanks to everyone who helped make this happen!

Notes from club members:

Mike/KG4RKL suggested that we include a long count by each station on the weekly ARES net with some way of noting who heard what when listening on the repeater input, as a way of having regular updates for simplex availability. There's been some traffic on the members list about this, and we'll talk about it more during this month's meeting.

Minutes of March 21, 2006 meeting

Call to Order

At 1940L Jack/WA4FXX called the meeting to order.

In addition to WA4FXX the following members were present: Activities Chair Alan/KO4ALA, YT Secretary Adam/KG4VNC Attendees: Mike/NW3V, Roy/AI4GO, Bob/WB4KLJ, Chuck/KI4DHW, Ian/KI4DTP, Arthur/W4ART, Paul/WG4M, Jim/K9AUC, Keith/KG4UIR, George/KR4MU, Dan/K2WYE, Dan/N8YSZ

Minutes and Finances

WA4FXX- moved to approve the minutes as published on the web. Approved.

Treasurer's Report

WA4FXX: Treasurer Mike/KG4RKL not present but he gave info to WA4FXX. WA4FXX gave report. In addition to cash balance, the club has 5 patches remaining. NW3V: Do we need a plan for when we run out of patches? WA4FXX: KG4RKL has a plan...

ARRL Report

Dennis/W4PWF not present.

Emergency Communications

KO4ALA: nothing worth talking about

Old Business

WA4FXX: Virginia QSO Party a success- several members came in on Sunday 3/19 for a few hours and made some contacts. N8YSZ and KG4VNC operated portable as W4WVP/P on 3/18.

KG4VNC: Had fun, but it was COLD. Set up at Hogwallow Flats Overlook on Skyline Drive as planned. N8YSZ made 20+ contacts on 40m, KG4VNC made about 50 contacts on 2m FM. It was a lot of fun, maybe we'll get more participants next year... [Did I mention it was COLD? - Ed.]

WA4FXX- club application was put on web

W4ART: NERA event 2/26, nobody from club came

WA4FXX: W4ART was our representative (got a laugh)

W4ART: meeting was mostly about restructuring of the network. logs of noise, some of the solution will be making transmissions digital, also may resite DC station to Beltsville. There may also be a new site in Frederick.

WA4FXX: check the website at www.neradc.org

WA4FXX: any progress on formalizing the net script?

NW3V: asked for volunteers

KO4ALA: resending revisions

NW3V: Sim volunteered as NCS during summer when school is out.

WA4FXX: KA8OPJ still out of town so the club 440 antenna is still on hold. We found out during the VAQP that the Red Cross 440 antenna works fine.

New Business

WA4FXX: Start thinking about field day!

W4ART: Moving to Arlington- hsa 60 feet of Rohm tower free to a good home. TH7 antenna and others as well, must be gone by next month.

KG4VNC: Roy/AI4GO has antenna tuner, need to get his antenna up.

KI4DHW: Lew/WB6YGX provided truck, need to call Miss Utility.

Adjournment

The meeting was adjourned at 2040 local time.

Program

Dan Zeitlin/K2YWE came to talk about "Little Pistol" contesting.

Respectfully submitted,
--Adam, KG4VNC
AARC Secretary

Links to Bulletins


27-Mar-2006 ARLB005 Vanity call sign fee poised to drop slightly later this year
27-Mar-2006 ARLS002 ISS Expedition 13 two-ham crew set to launch
03-Apr-2006 ARLB006 W1AW 2006 Spring/Summer Operating Schedule

This is just a sample. For other recent bulletins, check out http://www.arrl.org/w1aw/, or listen to W1AW.

Accessing Web Pages by Email

Arlington ARC web pages, and most web pages, can be accessed by email. For details, address an email message to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu and send only the following line as the body of the message:
send usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email

To get an ASCII text version of the latest issue of The Arlington Beacon, just address an email message to agora@dna.affrc.go.jp and send only the following line as the body of the message:
send http://www.w4wvp.org/latest.html

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