Our next club meeting is Thursday, February 9.

Program: Andrew Rohne, AC8JO, will be doing a presentation on WSPR and JT65.

The VE testing session starts at 6:00 PM and our meeting follows at 7:30 PM. You do not have to be a member to attend a meeting.

MARC 2012 Officers

President: Mike Ernst, AE8U
Vice President: Jeff Clemmons, KD8LZK
Treasurer: Jim Linn, WB8RRR
Secretary: Mike Kieffer, KD8OUT

Meeting Time

Meetings: 2nd Thursday at 7:30 PM (except for March, and December, when there is a party in lieu of the meeting)
VE Session: Every month at 6:00 PM, prior to the meeting (same location). Call or email Barb Steward for any changes at (513) 625-8651 or wsteward@fuse.net.

Meeting Location

Faith Church
5910 Price Rd.
Milford, OH 45122

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Updated by Mike Nie, W8VMX at WARN

The annual severe weather spotter training sponsored by the Weather Amateur Radio Network has been scheduled for Friday, March 30 at 7:00pm. After many years at the old location, we are excited about a change of venue. This year the training will be in the Golder Conference Rooms at Bethesda North Hospital at 10500 Montgomery Road. Up-to-the-minute information on the class can be located at WARN website. As always, amateur radio operators are encouraged to attend this spotter training session, but it is open to the public, so you do NOT have to be an amateur radio operator to attend. The same training content is included as all spotter classes taught by the National Weather Service office in Wilmington.

With the change in venue, we’ll have to keep an eye on how many people will attend. So, we’re doing online registrations for the class to track how many people will be there. Please register each person that will attend. We’re only asking for 3 pieces of information – Name, phone number, and email address. The sooner you register, the better.

We’ll be updating the training page referenced above with more information on the new venue in the coming weeks.

We think everyone will like our class location. We’ll send updates as necessary.

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Provided by Steve Lewis, N8TFD

Please see the WARN website for the announcement.

Note the *change of venue* and the request to register so WARN can comply with the person-limit of the room(s).

This announcement is going to ham radio operators before other members of the public.

-73- de N8TFD/Steve

THE BUTLER COUNTY AMATEUR RADIO ASSOCIATION (BCARA), will be conducting an amateur radio “special event” February 18-26, 2012 to commemorate a historic Washington’s Birthday amateur radio message relay which was conducted on February 22, 1916 by members of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL); formed in 1914; and members of the Radio League of America (1915-1921).

The special event will be conducted from BCARA’s club station W8WRK located in the original station building of Special Land Station “8ZU” (1915-1919) which was one of the twenty-seven primary receiving and sending stations used for the February 22, 1916 radio message relay!

For more information on this special event station operation, please go to www.bcara.net

Provided by Steve Lewis, N8TFD, via ARRL

On Sunday, February 12th at 5 p.m. Eastern time, ARRL and Al Petrunti of The New Day Group will webcast a LIVE tour of W1AW – the ARRL flagship station. Amateurs around the country (and the world) will be able to watch it at http://www.awecast.tv/channels/arrl/ .

“Hams around the world know of W1AW and thousands have made contacts with this impressive station, but most never get to see it,” said Allen Pitts, W1AGP, who is producing the event. “Thanks to Al Petrunti’s group, we hope that folks enjoy seeing what’s at the other end of the signals.”

You will be there as Petrunti, KA1TCH, local weatherman Geoff Fox, K1GF, and others are given a tour by Station Manager Joe Carcia, NJ1Q. As in all live broadcasts, you never know just what might happen. We invite you to join us. Petrunti, KA1TCH, also created the video about HR-607 for ARRL.

You can learn more about W1AW at www.arrl.org/w1aw and about the New Day Group at www.NewDayHD.com .

Allen Pitts, W1AGP
Media & PR Manager
ARRL – the national association for Amateur Radio
225 Main St. Newington, CT 06111
(860) 594-0328
www.ARRL.org

Provided by Jim Linn, WB8RRR

It’s time for MARC’s annual Christmas Party which takes the place of our December meeting.

For new members, and old members that have forgotten, the Club holds this party each year to celebrate Christmas. This party is for the family. Each brings a favorite dish to share and the Club furnishes the meat and drinks.

An evening of great fellowship at this time of the year together among our members and their families!

The party will be held at the Milford Masonic Temple, 32 Water St., Milford OH on Saturday, December 10th.

This location on Water St. is in Old downtown Milford between Main St and the river behind the bank. Take Garfield Ave Northwest off Main St to Water. Turn left and you’re at the Temple. After 6:30 P.M. you can park in the Bank lot or any other time on the street, across the street in the empty lot or the lot on the right side of the Temple.

We will gather around 6:30 P.M. and probably eat around 7:00 P.M.

We need to have a count, so send me an e-mail, call on phone, leave a message, send a letter… Anything you can with your count.

Tnx
CU THERE!

Jim wb8rrr@arrl.net or wb8rrr@juno.com

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Our next club meeting is Thursday, January 12.

We do not have a club meeting OR VE testing in December. Our Christmas Party (December 10) is held in lieu of a meeting.

Program: Lyle will be doing a presentation on APRS.

The VE testing session starts at 6:00 PM and our meeting follows at 7:30 PM. You do not have to be a member to attend a meeting.

MARC 2011 Officers

President: Mike Ernst, AE8U
Vice President: Jeff Clemmons, KD8LZK
Treasurer: Jim Linn, WB8RRR
Secretary: Mike Kieffer, KD8OUT

Meeting Time and Location

Meetings: 2nd Thursday at 7:30 PM (except for March, and December, when there is a party in lieu of the meeting)
VE Session: Every month at 6:00 PM, prior to the meeting (same location). Call or email Barb Steward for any changes at (513) 625-8651 or wsteward@fuse.net.

Faith Church
5910 Price Rd.
Milford, OH 45122

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Wardenclyffe, Nikola Tesla’s last laboratory will be on the air November 5th as special event station W3T! Wardenclyffe is located in Shoreham, NY on Long Island. W3T is part of a network of special event stations that are helping to raise awareness for the effort to purchase the laboratory and restore it into a science museum. To read more about the effort to restore Wardencyffe, please check out http://www.teslasciencecenter.org. The other stations in the network are N3Y which will transmit via satellite and possibly HF from the New Yorker Hotel, Tesla’s last home in Manhattan, and YU0TESLA which will transmit on 20m as well as other HF bands from the Tesla Museum in Belgrade. For the latest updates on what frequencies to catch the stations on and a sneak peek at the QSL cards and QTHs, go to http://copaseticflows.appspot.com/teslaevent.

If you’re in the Shoreham area on the 5th, please stop by the station!

Also, be sure to check out the Radio Central Amateur Radio Club. They will have the Marconi radio shack on the air a few miles away transmitting as a special event station commemorating the 90th anniversary of the opening of the RCA transmitting antenna farm in Rocky Point, NY. More details are available at http://www.rcarc.org/. Without the RCA club W3T would not be on the air. Their help has been invaluable!

And, this just in, we are proud to announce that one more historic station will be on the air with us on the 5th of November, the Police Athletic League Amateur Radio Club of Yonkers, NY, a mere few meters from the site of the first FM transmission 66 years ago on November 5th of 1935 will be on the air with same call sign as the historic station: W2XAG.

If you have any questions, or you’d like to help out, please feel free to contact me at hcarter333@gmail.com.

73 de KD0FNR Hamilton Carter

This is a quick way to build a cell phone battery booster while inside a Radio Shack or similar store. You may want to have one of these ready if you want to livestream or record an event, and don’t have time to order a proper battery booster because the event starts in an hour or so. Build time is about five minutes.

Source: Ersatz battery booster

Final REMINDER! Please use the “Surveymonkey” RSVP link if you’re sticking around for some grub after the meeting, as I need to know if we’ll be close to the number I gave the place. Thanks!

(Current RSVPs: N8TFD, N8PEE, KC8HQT, N2TUN/N2TUJ, KD8ILV, N8JBL, N8MDH, KD8PAT, W8NFM, KA8DME, KB0SLY, K8EAF, W8WTD, KC8KXC.)

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As some of you may know, the Cincinnati and Dayton Area Chapters recently consolidated operations, including Disaster Services, to form a Region with this map:

http://www.dac.redcross.org/about/service-area

Also, Red Cross has demonstrated some flexibility towards what an acceptable background check can be (which may not be required in some circumstances shorter than 6 days):

http://www.arrl.org/ares-el?issue=2011-07-20#toc08

The result is a massive 36-county area in 3 states, across 8 ARES districts (OH-3, OH-4, OH-7, OH-8, IN-6, IN-9, KY-7, KY-8), with hopefully a lot of amateur radio operators willing/able to serve if needed.

Before this consolidation occurred, the generosity of a Red Cross donor allowed for the construction of a “ham radio room” at the Cincinnati Area Chapter. And, our volunteer efforts all “roll up” under the same “org chart” now.

The “ham radio coordinators” for both the Dayton and Cincinnati Chapters have spoken, and decided this would be a good time for an Open House at the Cincinnati Region office, and an opportunity to break bread after (at a location “on the way home” for anyone coming from north).

The Disaster Services Director for the combined operation (Fran O’Shaughnessy) will speak briefly to all in attendance — this is an excellent opportunity for Cincinnati-area hams who have not met her yet.

Here are the details:

October 21 Meeting
WHERE: 2111 Dana Ave. Cincinnati, OH/45207 (within feet of I-71)
WHO: any currently Red Cross affiliated ham radio operator, or anyone who might be interested in serving in the future
WHEN: “tours” at 7pm, quick business mtg at 730pm, eyeball QSOs follow

After Meeting:
WHERE: http://www.champps.com/restaurantinfo.aspx?location=champps-west-chester — we have the “party room” reserved under my name
WHO: anyone!
WHEN: 930pm – ???

If you are coming to the AFTER meeting, please RSVP: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7HNP8DZ

RSVP is *NOT* necessary for the meeting/open house, just for headcount at the restaurant.

Thanks for your interest…Red Cross nationally is typically the “main consumer” of amateur radio services annually.

-73- de N8TFD/Steve – Cincinnati office

and N8JBL/Larry – Dayton office
n8jbl@frontier.com