RARC July 10 meeting reminder and short note


The next Rochester Amateur Radio Club (RARC) monthly meeting is at 7pm this coming Tuesday July 10th at the American Red Cross Building, 310 14th Street SE, in Rochester. 

All members are encouraged to bring a guest or encourage a new licensee to attend (and bring their radio and questions for any on the New Hams committee to assist before the meeting!)
The program will be two parts:

  1. De-brief and re-cap Field Day events - a scoring summary if it is available at that time. We might have a short slide show too.
  2. Scott Wright - KØMD will give a short presentation on radio activities in China from his recent trip.
Here are a some old and new business items for discussion:
  1. Old business
    This is a continuation of discussion on the College for Kids program where we need a few ham volunteers to stop by RCTC for an hour or so Tues Aug 7- Fri Aug10 and work with ham instructor Jerry Nau on some simple ham radio demos or short 5-10 minute talks. We need to get names to Jerry at or shortly after this July 10 RARC meeting.
  2. New business
    • Discuss the August 14 RARC picnic, time and location - which includes a foxhunt activity that ABØBW and KCØWIP have put together. Simple handhelds work (you do not need fancy directional antennas!).
    • Please pass on any other new business to Bill KØRGR prior to the meeting.
We still continue to have a few members pay their dues - Thank you for supporting your local club!

73s 2007 FIELD DAY - Wow! Incredible WX and great participation. Expect to hear more on results at the July meeting. Many THANKS to all our volunteers and operators. Please continue to thank the businesses that donated supplies to our Field Day event - our web site has details. Just in the past week I have patronized Subway east of IBM, Panera NW and today Famous Daves where the management appreciates hearing how we enjoyed their "goodies". Be sure to check out our RARC web site for a great set of photos. Daryl ACØID is doing a super job on keeping our web site interesting and up to date. Oh yes, speaking of internet info ... some of you may remember the DVD the late John Reed KØKTY was putting together. Niel WØVLZ has posted some of these videos on YouTube, if you have a high speed connection see http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rarchams.

One last item, I got a note right before Field Day and will post most of it here in case anyone remembers this former RARC member/officer from the 60s:
Dave Thomas, ex KØUKU: I stumbled across RARC's web site tonight and was excited to see that RARC is still operating. I got my ticket back in the late 50s and was VP of RARC and three time Canoe Derby chairperson in the early 60s. I still have my three trophy canoe paddles from those days. I was also the second EC for the PICONET after Milt Miller, WØTJA, quit. While I was in the Air Force, I forgot to renew my license, so I became ex KØUKU :-( I didn't see any of my old pals on the membership list, but I saw some in the history. If anyone remembers me, tell them I said hello, and if anyone wants to get in touch with me, they can email eshdave@aol.com

73s Dave KØVH

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