RARC June 12 meeting reminder and short note

The next Rochester Amateur Radio Club (RARC) monthly meeting is at 7pm this coming Tuesday June 12th at the American Red Cross Building, 310 14th Street SE, in Rochester. 
 
The program will be a discussion on our RARC Field Day (FD) Plans.  More FD information follows below.
 
All members are encouraged to bring a guest or encourage a new licensee to attend (and bring their radio and questions!)

Here are a couple of old and new business items for discussion:

  1. Old business
    I wanted to acknowledge those who volunteered to be elmers/mentors on a "New Hams" committee: Peter N8MHD, Bill WMØWM, Fred K4IU, Scott KØMD, and yours truly.   We are still looking for other experienced hams to be a part of this group!!!  Its main purpose is to:
    •  Get new hams on the air!  Answer questions, help them with their station setups either home or mobile.
    •  Help in the schools to give demos to potential programs at Schaefer Academy, Century HS and out to the summer College for Kids.
    •  Help with building simple HF dipoles or 2m FM mobile whips including tuning for low SWR.  Some starter contesting and basic DXing workshop tips.

  2. New business
    •  We are looking for a new RARC webmaster.  If you are interested but unable to come to next Tuesday's meeting please contact me.  Thanks to Don ADØF, who is now very involved in classes and outside activities.
    •  Purchase a starter ham library for Century HS.  Doug Broeren. 
    •  Any interest in a one month summer VHF FM contest, similar to last summers?  Note this weekend June 9-10 is the  ARRL June VHF QSO Party.
    •  Please pass on any other new business to Bill KØRGR prior to the meeting.

We continue to have a few members pay their dues  - Thank you for supporting your local club! 

CQ CQ FIELD DAY - Many of you are aware one of the major club events of the year is Field Day/FD.  This year it starts with setup mid morning on Saturday June 23 with events wrapping up after lunch on Sunday June 24.  This is a combined club social event (particularly the Saturday evening pot luck for families), contest to rack up a lot of contacts & point multipliers, and most important a training exercise for new hams on how to operate "out in the field".  Many thanks to the FD committee who looked at many alternatives in setups and operating options.  We will again be operating at Pat's NØADQ  farm SW of Byron and are looking for volunteers to help in many areas.  All should try to make the Tuesday meeting to learn more and sign up for help and operating times. In the meantime please read the June QST with a special center section on FD or see ARRL Field Day http://www.arrl.org/contests/rules/2007/fd.html  particularly the 7.3.x sections on extra points.  We plan to operate A class with SSB voice, CW morse code and PSK31 digital plus a VHF station and GOTA for new hams to get experience.

73s  Dave KØVH



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