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2012 Whitewater Valley Amateur Radio Club Officers

President Craig Spada WA2TWF
Vice-President Mike Chambers W1IDX
Secretary-Treasurer Steve Shank KB9HQX

*If you are interested in joining, please come to one of our meetings and fill out the application. Here is the location.

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Events

Updated 17 April 2012

 Upcoming WVARC Events:

Next Club Meeting: Tuesday, 8 May 2012 7:00PM Click for location 
Supper before-hand at Westside McDonald's ~5:30PM (K-mart parking lot)
-January's meeting was cancelled due to inclemant weather
 
Next Test Session: Saturday, ????
Breakfast at the VFW before-hand from 7:00AM
 
 
Next Net: Every Sunday! 7:00PM *147.270 Repeater*
Net control operators will rotate.
 

Lunch on Wednesdays at the VFW, 11AM

QCWA breakfast at the VFW: Saturday, 21 January 2012 8:00AM

Future Events:

Christmas Party: 11 December 2012
 

Fort Wayne Hamfest: 17 & 18 November 2012

Festival of Lights @ Glen Miller Park:

 

 

This post will be updated as I learn new information.

 

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Info on Palitem.com to come.

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Webelos Camp

 We had fun at Webelos camp this week, Pictures are here:

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or here:  http://tinyurl.com/webelopics

July Newsletter

 July's newsletter is here. Thanks Dave N0EOP!

At the end of the newsletter are some old newspaper clippings from Herb. There's a rather impressive fox hunting rover at the end.

Field Day 2011

Had a blast operating from the EOC. Had way to much food! But, I guess that is better than running out. No idea what out score will be. Most of the folks that visited the EOC this week-end operated the radio and made at least one contact. Plans are already on the way for another effort for nest year. This that we will be 2F next year. Talked about setting up a GOTA station (but due to space that might not happen). The main purpose of the EOC Field Day was to give out new station baptism by fire and we did that. A couple of members decided to try and set up station for digital late Saturday night. But, they were unable to get it configured properly. I'll check out the digital setup within the next couple of weeks (I had it working a couple of months ago. So, not sure what they were doing wrong). The other reason for the Field Day effort at the EOC was to have fun and show off the EOC/RACES to some of the community. We also were successful in doing that. We had a County Commissioner, the County Emergency Manager, and the County Assistant Emergency Manager pay us a visit. Thanks to everyone that helped and visited the EOC for Field Day.

73,

Dave

June Newsletter is here!

 Dave has released the latest newsletter. June 2011 Newsletter

 

James
N9XLC

HAMVENTION and FIELD DAY

WOW!!! WOW!!! From what I saw this was a great SHOW. Lots of folks (initial count is well over 25,000) looking at Flea Market (fantastic weather and almost a sold out Flea market), inside exhibits were almost sold out and some really GREAT Forums this year. Did you see Joe (The Cat in the HAT)? See and or hear the Astronaut? See Bob Heil's forum on how to use the menu's on your radio? Were you there when the restrooms were closed? Did you see all of the great prizes donated this year? Did you stop at the 10-10 booth? What else did you see or hear? What did you enjoy the most? What would you like to see different? Did you take a pictures? Send me anything that you would like to see in the Newsletter?

Ready for field day? This is the BIG yearly event when hams demonstrate their ability to operate under emergency conditions? If everyone in the club shows up, helps with setup and tear down, sits in a chair and operates for at least an hour, N9JM will have a GREAT field day!

If you want a little different flavor for field day come down to the EOC. If you get there and the door (we use the EOC backdoor located at the NW corner of the annex) just call me at 969-2212 and I will let you in. Wayne County RACES will be operating our station to see how well our equipment will operate over a 24 hour period.

73,

Dave NØEOP

 

Dayton Hamvention

Stop by the prize booth in the main arena and say hello to Laura KC9PXX. She is the Assistant Chair this year and next year she will be the Chair. The prize committee has a lot of great prizes for this year. Remember to say thanks to the prize committee and also tell the vendors that donated the prizes this year.

I will be located in the Forums Office most of the time. Stop by and say hello. Make sure to take a look at the Forums line up. Some teriffic presentations and the volunteers that provide the presentations have put in a great deal of effort to provide only the best for all of the guests attending the Hamvention this year.

73 and ENJOY yourself,

Dave NØEOP

May Newsletter

 The May Newsletter is online. You can snag it here. Thanks to Dave Sloan for all his hard work putting this together!

 

73s
James
N9XLC
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