THE ARLINGTON BEACON
The Official Organ of the Arlington Amateur Radio Club
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February 2007 |
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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. |
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Net: |
Tuesday (except meeting nights) at 7:30 P.M., 145.47- MHz FM |
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Information: |
Jack Reed, WA4FXX, wa4fxx@amsat.org (e-mail), (703) 685-7933 (phone). |
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THE NEXT REGULAR MEETING OF THE AARC WILL BE TUESDAY, JANUARY 16 |
January Meeting Information Minutes of the December meeting
February Meeting
The February 20th meeting of the Arlington Amateur Radio Club will be held at the usual time (1930L) and place (4333 Arlington Blvd).
I will be sending a packet of QSL cards to the outgoing bureau at ARRL shortly after the meeting- if you have cards you want to send out please bring them to the meeting and give them to the acting Secretary. Please remember that we must provide proof of ARRL membership for everyone using a club packet like this, so please bring a copy of your ARRL membership card or QST mailing label. I'll keep these on file once I get them so this should be a one-time thing.
Hope everyone else can make it to the meeting!
73,
--Adam, AI4QB, AARC Secretary
Minutes of the January 16, 2007 meeting.
Call to Order
President Jack/WA4FXX called the meeting to order at 1935L. Attending,
besides FXX, were:
Adam/AI4QB, Arthur/W4ART, Roy/AI4GO, James/KB1JMV, Ken/WB4AKK, Mike/NW3V, Dennis/W4PWF,
Ian/KI4DTP, Paul/WG4M, Jim/K9AUC, Chuck/KI4DHW, Laura Barrett-Oliver/SWL, Aric
Letzring/SWL, Mike/KG4RKL
Minutes and Finances
WA4FXX asked if there were additions or corrections to the minutes as published. Hearing none, he moved to accept the minutes as amended. Seconded and passed.
KG4RKL gave the treasurer's report.
EmComm
WA4FXX- KO4ALA got
Roanoke devision service award.
ODEN net monday nights-
1st and 3rd, 3.947 1830L.
Jim/K9AUC- Club
registered for echolink, everything setup.
ARRL Report
W4PWF: FCC has a "boatload" of
stuff. Refarming: errors and 80m
changes. ARRL met with Mr. Cross
and fixed a few things. Petition
for stay on 80m rejected. Petition for reconsideration still
pending. Code- not required tech and tech+ get same privs- phone on
28.3-28.5, 50mhz and above all privs
Another omnibus with
NPRM0 including elimination of automatic power limiting of spread spectrum, regulation by
bandwidth out for comments, 80% negative.
Old Business
RTTY Roundup- 16 states,
3 provinces, few DX. 55 QSO total.
WB4AKK- Looking at
9xURC116 radios, 9xURC992 radios, channelized HF radios by Sunair
WA4FXX- VA 400
anniversary- still looking for info
New Business
WB4AKK- donating hamset
frequency guide
WA4FXX- welcome to out
guest, Ms. Oliver- cert member, and other guest. Web application from Jeff/KB3OKG- lives in Pittsburg works
from here
W4ART- Historical note-
1906 first AM xmission
AI4QB- ARRL VHF test this
weekend
AI4QB- Frostfest coming
up, should club get a table? 2/18
W4PWF- presenting Hiram
P. Maxim award to Jimmy Carter (not former president of the US and A, another
person of the same name)
MD. Mobileers fest Sunday
1/28
WA4FXX- next use of room
is VAQP March 17 & 18
Program
WA4FXX- brought video on DXpeditions
Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 2037L
Respectfully submitted,
--Adam, AI4QB
AARC Secretary
Links to Bulletins
09-Feb-2007 ARLB008 FCC Now Processing Amateur Radio Vanity Call Sign Backlog<BR>
07-Feb-2007 ARLB007 No Code-Free Upgrades Available Until February 23<BR>
26-Jan-2007 ARLB006 ARRL Board accepts National Emergency Response Planning <BR>
24-Jan-2007 ARLB005 It's official! Morse code requirement ends Friday, February 23.<BR>
19-Jan-2007 ARLB004 Codeless Amateur Radio testing tentatively begins February 23<BR>
12-Jan-2007 ARLB003 FCC suspends vanity call sign processing<BR>
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
The Arlington Amateur Radio Club
4333 Arlington Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22203