Welcome to new club members Jerome Franklin N7JFF and Tim Nolan, N7MDT.
Congratulations to
Diane Ernest, KC7TJH, Jerome Franklin, K7JFF, and Tandika Star, KE7WSU, on upgrading their licenses to General, at the VE exam, held on April 5th.
Good Job, folks.
As the snowbirds begin their annual exodus, keep in mind, that the Snowbird net will start on Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 1:00 P.M. local time, 2000 Zulu on 20 meters 14.242 mhz.
Two big events this week; Our April meeting is scheduled for THIS WEDNESDAY, April 8th, at the SAV office, at 7:00 p.m. Dale Lang, AA2SZ, has an interesting program planned.
AND, THERE’S MORE!
Start your diet now, because it’s going to be over on Thursday, April 9th, when we have our SPRING PICNIC, at the WHITEHOUSE PICNIC GROUNDS, at Madera Canyon. Whitehouse is the first picnic ground you come to, it’s about a mile past Proctor…the area where you’d pay, if they were collecting…and, as of last Thursday, they weren’t.
They don’t take reservations for the picnic areas at Madera, so I’m going up early, on my bicycle to reserve it till Ron and Dee get there. I’ll have my H-T in my pocket, so, if any of you are monitoring 2.7, or 2.9 between 8 and 9 a.m., say hi.
I’ll be listening, but unless I’m already up there, I’m not even going to try to answer.
Students are busy completing their projects with only 4 weeks to go. Our robot team will be leaving for Dallas on April 29 to compete in the international tournament. At the last GVARC meeting, I mentioned our difficulty in buying small low cost items for the club due to the school requirement that all expenditures be on purchase orders. Rudy, N3EBG suggested we pass the wastebasket to start a fund for the school club to buy small items as required. A total of $176 was collected. Ruth, K0RAM has agreed to be the treasurer and administer the fund. Thanks to all who contributed, Lloyd N7GV
For the last couple weeks I have been working on a non-governmental disaster drill. You might ask what a "non-governmental" disaster drill is. In two words it's the Ragnar Relay. Disaster by appointment! The Ragnar Relay is a long distance foot relay, this year with the new course was a touch over 200 miles from the start in Prescott to the finish in Mesa. Not only spanning a long distance, it covered just under 36 hours and some rugged terrain.
MCECG, with the help of the Yavapai County ARES/RACES team, provided a communications safety net for this event. Utilizing more than 70 amateur radio operators, 4 mountain top linked repeaters, a stand alone repeater, amateur radio was able to cover the 36 exchange or "hand-off" points and the start finish line.