Madison County ARC

Madison County ARC “QSO” for June

Home of the W9VCF 145.39 Repeater

Web site: w9vcf.org

MCARC Net on 145.39 every Wednesday evening at 8PM

Officers for 2008:

President: Dick Elmore, WA9STB Email rdelmore@sbcglobal.net

Vice President: Mike Cook, KC9DJU

Secretary/Treasure: Kevin Etchison, KB9NTH etchison.e@sbcglobal.net

Activities Director: Susie Weaver, N9HJK stargayzer@sbcglobal.net

Trustee: Terry Zivney, N4TZ 00tlzivney@bsu.edu

Technical Committee Chairman: Dennis Owen, N9OWN doowen2@insightbb.com

Newsletter Editor: Mike Brown, K9MI k9mi@sbcglogal.net

Meeting Dates: Thursday May 29^th at 10AM Monday June 2^nd at 7PM

Dick, WA9STB spent most of May up north “working” on his cabin at Lake of the Ozarks. This is just a test to see if anyone actually reads this. Really Dick is at one of the lakes north of here, and south of Lake Michigan. Maybe it’s Little Barbee or Big Barbee or one of those bee places. Rumor has it he is washing dishes for gas money to come home on. But you didn’t hear that from me.

It was nice to see the turnout for the Indiana Qso Party. Although there were not very many qsos, it was nice to see everyone again. We quit somewhere around 8PM. Other IN stations were hard to work with band conditions being so poor. We were not the only ones who had that trouble as I noticed postings on the HDXCC reflector stated other stations had the same problem.

The antenna situation at the club has improved with Jerry, N9RAB getting the TH5 attached to the mast again. However we ran out of time and much work needs to be done to the 60’ tower. Hopefully this can be taken care of by Field Day and I’m not sure where we stand as far as having enough stubs for the hf rigs. We still may have some work in that area.

WA9STB Dick opened the meeting of the Madison County Amateur Radio Club at 7:00 with 12 members and 1 guest attending. K9MI Mike will do a presentation on PSK 31 after the meeting.

WA9STB asked for corrections to the April minutes as they appeared in the Newsletter, none. KC9DJU Mike made a motion to accept the minutes as published, N9HJJ Larry seconded. Motion passed on voice vote.

Correspondence KB9NTH Kevin 1 Insurance Premium $244.00 for $16,265.00 of coverage. Secretary/Treasurer KB9NTH Savings $615.41. Checking withdraws stamps $82.00 (200 before the May 12 increase),$7.49 Newsletter,$16.83 Account Analysis Fee, total $106.32.Deposit $15.85. Balance 469.13. Combined balance $1311.54. Motion to accept Treasurer report by N9HJJ, second by KC9JWO Alan, passed by voice vote.

OFFICERS REPORT V.P. KC9DJU nothing out of the ordinary. Trustee N4TZ Terry not here. K9MI report on the repeater. Mike could not get the Mark4 repeater to mess up. WA9STB passed around a message and response from K9FOI about help from the County EMA. The message that EMA might be able to give us one of their old repeater packages and the prices that Lectro charged them for the Kenwood repeaters they purchased recently. $1700 for 25 watts and $5500 for 50 watts. ACTIVITIES N9HJK Suzie June Field Day 10 to 15 scouts will visit us for a demonstration of Ham Radio. Speaker for July Frank Dick WA9JWL and a speaker for August. September and October are open.WA9STB will check the distances to see if the scouts can camp out during Field Day, RF exposure the concern. Dayton is May 16 to 18. KC9JWO noted that Saturday morning there is a seminar on Scouting and Amateur radio at 9am. NEWSLETTER EDITOR K9MI everything is fine. TECH COMMITTEE CHAIR N9OWN Dennis not here, antenna party got the HF beam working and lined back up with the other beam. The 2 meter beam could not be tuned for SSB, K9MI found out later that Cushcraft made 2 beams 1 for SSB, 1 for FM, we have an FM. UHF antenna is not up yet, 6 meter antennas are working. N9HJJ stated for 2 meters Cushcraft has an antenna that has 10 elements vertical for FM and 10 horizontal for SSB, R&L sells for $156. AWARDS KB9NTG Dave not here. Silent Key Arnold Setzer W9JCP. N9HJK asked if the club sent anything to the family, we do not. WA9STB will go to the funeral home for the club.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS Field Day with the scouts, the contest starts at noon June 28 ends at noon the 29th. In '07 we scored about 600 points. Mike Milliner KC9IOG is here representing the scouts, we will have 1 pack arriving around 5 pm.

KB9TFV Carl asked if we would provide food for the scouts. WA9STB mentioned we could get pizzas again. N9HJJ made a motion to allocate $150 for pizzas, KB9ZLR Russ second, passed. WA9STB said we will make final plans at the June meeting.

WA9STB got some hand-outs from the ARRL . Our tailgate hamfest is August 9 at Lectro. K9MI, N9ERN has given the club another A-3 beam, we must tranport. The antenna is partially disassembled. K9MI also stated, out of the blue Ferrin Knight gave the club an older model Rohn tower, tail twister rotor and a TH 5 HF beam. Tower is 48 feet and needs painting. K9MI we should keep the antennas as a backup for our current hf beams. WA9STB we need to label it so everyone knows who owns it. We will offer the tower for sale. Ask WB9AL Al or W9SEP Brad to look at the rotor control box it may need repairs. K9MI has put N9RAB Jerry's phone number on the board in the club room.

NEW BUSINESS N9HJJ motion to buy a147T Cushcraft antenna, N9HJJ , KC9KHP, WA9STB, KB9ZLR, KC9DJS and N9HJK donate money ($150) to buy the 2 meter antenna, N9HJJ wil call R&L. KC9JWO motion to buy the dual band vertical

K9MI has for $60, N9HJJ second passed. KB9ZLR would like to get some HF operating experience, we told him to talk to some of the retired members and they could come to the club and get him some help. We asked if we need coax? And KB9ZLR asked if we could sell the ATV equipment since it was not being used? N9HJJ motion to close meeting second N9HJK meeting ends at 8:20.

Kenwood TS 850 AT 160-10 meters, manual and hand mic. In good shape, $750. Dick,W9KWI (765) 724-2604