[Alexandria Radio Club Reflector] MEETING NOTICE - ARCSHORTS OCTOBER 2008

[Bunn, Richard, Mr, OSD-ATL]

The next club meeting is this FRIDAY OCTOBER 10th at the Fire Training =
Center at 7:30 PM.  Many of us meet at the Chicken Out Restaurant at =
about 6 PM for dinner prior to the meeting.

OCTOBER MEETING
I've asked our resident AMSAT guru,  Jim N8OQ to provide us an update on =
Amateur Satellites.
We also need to nominate a slate of officers for next year.  If you do =
not attend you may find yourself nominated!
The December dinner is coming up quickly.  Mango Mike's was good but =
they are booked on Dec 12th.  Sandy has checked with Red,Hot and Blue.  =
Estimated cost per person is $27.  Both Sandy and Deanna are tied up and =
we need some help with setting up the dinner.

LAST MEETING

Our program at the last meeting was Howard, WD5DBC, who is the lead =
amateur for the Marine Corps Marathon and also our ARES District EC.  =
His talk about how the effort is organized and how the race operations =
are run was an interesting view that most volunteers don=92t see.  For =
most volunteers it=92s a few hours to prepare their gear and a day at =
the race.  For folks like Howard it=92s 6 months of effort to make sure =
amateur radio provides a very professional product to the Marine Corps =
and the runners.

Our TECH-GENERAL classes have started and are going well with 12 =
students.  Tim KT4MV started off with a great class in electronics =
fundamentals.

Our D-Star stack has been humming (or hamming) right along with stations =
from all over the world coming in and available to those with VHF/UHF =
D-Star radios.  IF the sunspots don't come back soon, this may be the =
next form of DX.

PUBLIC SERVICE EVENTS

We had two events this last month.  Venture Quest, Mike KD4LQS, Shawn, =
KA3RQR, Rick, N4ASX and Richard KI4AJL participated. The MS Walk was =
also done two weeks ago and Rick, N4ASX volunteered.

Marine Corps Marathon - OCTOBER 26th

We can use a few more volunteers, but we have enough to make it work.  =
IF you can volunteer, call Rick, N4ASX at (703)317-9305 and go to =
www.ncacdc.com and sign up.

The briefing will be held at the Armed Forces Retirement Home on the =
18th.  More info on that will be sent to volunteers.

CITY DRILL at GOODWIN HOUSE.

I desperately need about 4 volunteers with mobile or handheld VHF radios =
to support this short City Drill.  I've sent out the information =
separately.  If your not a first timer for the MCM and can support, =
please let me know at the meeting or by phone.

Look forward to seeing you at the Friday's meeting.

73 Rick
N4ASX