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April 2010 General Membership Meeting

The April 13, 2010 General Membership meeting will be held at 7:00pm

To accommodate our growing attendance we will meet again at the Kollen Park Fire Station

Map to Meeting

Conference Room
Kollen Park Fire Station
279 Kollen Park Drive
Holland, Michigan

Limited parking is available next to building.
Additional parking is available directly across the street.

DO NOT PARK IN FRONT OF VEHICLE DOORS!

Board of Directors Meeting

The monthly Board of Directors meeting will be held at 7:00pm on March 2, 2010 at the clubhouse.

**** FEBRUARY 9, 2010 MEETING CANCELED ***

Due to expected inclement weather conditions, the February 9, 2010 General Membership Meeting has been canceled. The next scheduled meetings are:

March 2, 2010 – Board of Directors
March 9, 2010 – General Membership

Shuttle Columbia Special Event Station

The Nacogdoches Amateur Radio Club will again hold a special event station in remembrance of the shuttle disaster on Feb. 1, 2003. The event will occur on Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010. Ham operators from other areas are welcome to attend the event. If you cannot come to Nacogdoches, we would like to hear from you on 20 or 40 meters. Operation will begin at 0800 CST (1400 UTC) and end at 1500 CST (2100 UTC).

The station will be set up at the McMichael Middle School located at 4330 SE Stallings Drive in Nacogdoches. This is on Loop 224 between Hwy 21 east and FM 2259. The event commemorates how the ham radio operators from the local area went into action immediately after the shuttle crash to provide emergency communications and relay traffic necessary to the coordination of the event. Within hours, ham operators from across the state of Texas and other states as well also became involved. Many ham radio clubs sent members to assist in providing communications for the varied search teams. Other clubs provided towers and repeater equipment necessary to relay vital information.

In honor of the work performed by Amateur Radio, the Nacogdoches Amateur Radio Club has a special event station on the first Saturday in February of each year. The special event station allows ham radio operators to meet together in person to discuss the events of the fateful day in February 2003. Local club members operate radios set up at the school to make contacts across the country via various frequencies. We plan to operate on 7200 and 14270, plus or minus QRM. The local vhf repeater of 146.84, negative offset, 141.3 PL will be monitored as a talk-in channel.

For additional information, please contact Rusty Sanders, kd5gen@arrl.net.

Check out the new HARC Calendar page

Check out our new Holland Amateur Radio Club calendar.

Go ahead, click on the HARC Calendar tab.

Comments, questions or corrections?  Contact Jim N8QMD n8qmd@arrl.net

DECEMBER MEETING MINUTES

December 8th, 2009 Meeting Minutes

The Meeting was called to order at 7:15. 21 people filled in the sign-in sheet

Phil K8PHV gave the treasurer’s report : the main account had a balance of $1965.07 and the swap account had a balance of $2500.00. The 2009 Ham swap made $1356.66

Meg W0MEG said she got a message from Ed K8EV to announce that CW class and the general class will start on January 18th. And to bring up the topic of getting a projector for the club. The club will table the projector discussion until January meeting.

Tom K8TB wanted to thank all the membership that helped with the ham fest and a big thank you to John KC8QDE for all of this help.

Jim KC8KE and Dave WA8RSA presented the Ham of the year award to both Tom and Sheila Bosscher.

Dave WA8RSA talked to the club about dropping the DSL line and phone line at the repeater site.
We now have the IRLP running at the clubhouse and not at the repeater site. Tom K8TB made the motion, Jim Heyl seconded and the club voted to drop the DSL line now and the phone line at the end of the month (December 2009).

Chuck W8GCW talked about renewing the clubs internet domain for 5 years for $114.95 The club vote to pay for the domain for 5 years.

Meg W0MEG talked about membership dues and that now is the time to pay up. Dues are $20 a year. A discussion of mailing out post cards as reminders for dues for the upcoming year was batted around.
Phil K8PHVsaid he would post a reminder about dues on the HARC user group. The discussion was tabled for the January meeting.

Chuck W8GCW started the election of officers and stated that if the VP wants to be president they have to option to take it. Meg W0MEG said she would like to be president for 2010. Phil K8PHV said he would stay on as treasurer for 2010. Meg nominated Jim Heyl N8QMD for club Secretary. Hank KA8COB seconded and the club voted him in. Meg W0MEG nominated Jim KC8KE for VP. Phil seconded it and the club voted Jim KC8KE in as VP.

Program: Elections.

50/50

Jim KC8KE won the jackpot of $9.00

The meeting was adjourned at 8:47 pm.

Submitted by Chris Dandrea KC8RQT

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GENERAL LICENSING CLASS January 2010

Winter Class announcement:

A General licensing class will be offered beginning January 18, 2010 and will run for about seven or eight weeks. Each class meeting will begin at 7:00 pm. and last about 2 hours. Join us at the Ken Groom Technical and Training Center 280 East 8th Street Holland.

The cost for the class is $20 and a book will cost another $20.

To reserve a seat and to order a book, contact Ed, KF8EV

kf8ev@arrl.net
(616) 772-4811

October Meeting Minutes

October 13th, 2009 Meeting Minutes

The Meeting was called to order at 7:15. 26 people filled in the sign-in sheet

Chuck W8GCW gave the treasurer’s report : the main account had a balance of $1219.73 and the swap account had a balance of $2436.21

Meg W0MEG talked about events coming up before the end of the year. She also passed out a year end event calendar. Ham of the year ballets where also passed out.

Ed KF8EV Said the Monday night net is going well. we had 19 check in. If you would take a turn at running the net just let Ed or Meg know. The Tech class is over and we have about 6 people that are ready to take the test at the hamfest on Saturday.

ED KF8EV  Education report, a brief discussion was held about the need for either a projection machine or a flat screen tv for use in the licensing classes. This would also be valuable when obtaining speakers for the monthly business meetings. We also want to formerly thank Ernie, W8EL for the use of his projecter during the last couple of years. Tom, K8TB let us use his projecter for the tech licensing class this Fall. Your kindness is appreciated.

Chris KC8RQT told the club about the upcoming Nov 21st event for The Girls on the run. More information will be posted at a later time.

Program: Tom K8TB Hamfest Prep and update.

50/50

Hank KA8COB won the jackpot of $16

Mark KD8HDQ won a hat, band chart, map and bag.

Ike K8EMU won a lanyard

Chuck W8GCW won a $5 gift card

The meeting was adjourned at 8:50 pm.

Submitted by Chris Dandrea KC8RQT

September Meeting Minutes