| President: | Jack Reed | WA4FXX |
| Vice President: | Dennis Bodson | W4PWF |
| Secretary: | Adam Hahn | AI4QB |
| Treasurer: | Mike Ingles | KG4RKL |
| Activities Chairman: | Gary Sessums | KC5QCN |
| Editor: | Adam Hahn | AI4QB |
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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. |
| Net: | Tuesday (except meeting nights) at 7:30 P.M., 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). |
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The March 18th meeting of the Arlington Amateur Radio Club will be held at the usual time (1930L) and place (4333 Arlington Blvd).
73,
--Adam, AI4QB, AARC Secretary
Attending, besides Jack/WA4FXX, were:
Gary Sessums/KC5QCN, Aric Letzring/KI4THM, Jim/K9AUC, Judie/KJ4BQQ, Ian Sterne/KI4DTP, Dennis Bodson/W4PWF, Travis Betz/International Disaster Response American Red Cross, James Tuttle/KB1JMV, Roy/AI4GO, Arthur/W4ART, Cynthia Kellams/KJ4BQV, Beth Scott/KJ4DQL, Pat Sheehan/KJ4BVI, Deb Castellano/SWL, Dan Brown/N8YSZ, Chuck/KI4DHW, Adam/AI4QB, George/KR4MU, Randy Kelly/WB4MJF, Mike/NW3V, Jack/KB3KKY
Minutes were published on the web.
KR4MU: Correction: Neither KR4MU WB4MJF are listed as present in last months minutes.
MSP to accept as corrected.
Dennis/W4PWF is looking for October 2007 Beacon, AI4QB will send copy to him.
Has 20 pelican cases of equipment to deploy with. Looking for technical folks to help set things up and get them working.
Has small team, all equipment purchased, starting to kit everything out. Team in New York ARES/ARRL helping out there. Looking for similar help here. Logistics support team, here in Washington DC area to help rapidly deploy team around the world. Also need to rebuild equipment because ERU leaves radio equipment on location and donates it to local organization. Rebuild: repurchase, reconfigure, and rekit infrastructure items.
Don't always deploy, and work in conjunction with other similar organizations. Looking to put together team in national HQ to help with these things. If anyone is interested, please contact Travis. Would entail becoming Red Cross Volunteer.
Dennis W4PWF- Year ending December 2007- broke even for the year financially. Had one big estate donation come in at the end of the year. Still selling bricks on the Diamond Terrace, $250 each. Granite benches are $10k each- sold four already.
Board meeting- very quiet.
Membership up 3% for the year. Better than negative growth in previous years. Membership department still working hard, more growth already this year. Made presentation to board of appeals on BPL case, no response yet. Industry claimed "20db S/N ratio shouldn't be problem to Amateur Radio Operators", this was buried in the report.
Can't see anything urgent on the horizon. Regulation by bandwidth doesn't appear to be going anywhere.
New section manager Carl Clements apparently.
Jack/WA4FXX: Alan/KO4ALA SK, was ARES coordinator for Arlington. Looking for volunteers for that position.
Jack/KB3KKY- 29th March National Marathon, looking for volunteers. Looking to run two nets. WinLink/APRS as well as bicycle mobile stations. Setting up tent at start/finish line, people deployed to medical stations. Best place to observe is NCS tent at RFK Stadium. Hoping to have bigger/better event than last year. Race Director looking to recognize Hams for service to event. Thinking of using ATV this year to show who's ahead etc from the lead car, probably won't happen for political reasons.
Jim/K9AUC- still need foam to put in go-kits for putting around cables going out windows.
KI4DTP- ECRV training coming up this or next weekend for people who are interested.
WA4FXX: Girl Scouts sent thank you for coming to club. [Secretary accepted thank you for notes]
A few people showed up for CQ WW RTTY contest- 37 contacts.
Repeater: W4ART: got new transmitter- shown. 110W radio. Motorola Spectra T83something. Tuned it down to 50W output instead of normal 110W. A little warm after half a minute or so. Will add a fan to it. One thing that is impressive: audio processing very different than what we're used to- very clean, very nice. Checked it out on a service monitor. Same connectors as old radio. WA3KOK/Larry D'Anna helped us out with it.
Set it up with 107.2 tone on output. Dan put together a power supply, just got circuit diagrams. [$150 cost- an informal kitty was collected to pay back Art] Current power is 15W. Plan for getting new radio on the air- working with power supply, as soon as that's straightened out people can get up to the site it'll go on the air. Still need to work on IDer, previous one is archaic and probably needs to be replaced. Badges are out, if anyone needs one let WA4FXX know.
KB1JMV- any new hams who don't have a radio- currently have a club 2m HT programmed for local repeaters, will bring it in. If anyone needs a starter radio let him know.
WA4FXX- March is Red Cross month. Won't be able to do VAQP from the club station. Field Day coming up as well, can start planning for that.
KB3KKY- ARRL propagation charts from web site are useful.
W4PWF- looking for volunteer for webmaster position for ARRL Roanoke Division. No website currently, if anyone is interested in helping out please contact Dennis.
2045L end of regular meeting.
Respectfully submitted,
--Adam, AI4QB
AARC Secretary
13-Mar-2008 ARLB006 FCC Fixes Typographical Errors in Part 97
10-Mar-2008 ARLB005 W1AW 2008 Spring/Summer Operating Schedule
20-Feb-2008 ARLB004 ARRL Section Manager election results
This is just a sample. For other recent bulletins, check out http://www.arrl.org/w1aw/, or listen to W1AW.
The Arlington Amateur Radio Club
4333 Arlington Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22203