[Alexandria Radio Club Reflector] Club DSTAR NET Tonight 2000hrs on 145.380 // Ref 097C

[Sean Gallagher]

Greetings to All!
 
In looking at Bryan's last Net Control schedule, it appears that we are a little lite on bodies this month so tonight you're stuck with me!  Fire up those radios and bring those smaht remarks to our little electronic gathering.  I will light up Ref 97C for those of you that might be out of town or just don't live in the shadow of the repeater.  
 
Bring your favorite topic and we'll discuss.  I'll start you all off. 
 
There's a good effort afoot to start a loaner program using Club Ham gear.  It's focused mainly but not exclusively on getting new operators out on HF without actually having their own gear.  This does a couple of things.  It helps put new operators on the air on HF, allows us to get some better use out of Club gear that we have collected thorough various means and reduces the total storage requirement for "spare" Club gear.  There's some more work to be done on this plan relative to antennas and power supplies but please let us know what you think of the idea and what recommendations you'd like to see incorporated. 
 
Looking forward to hearing from many of you tonight!
 
Your Humble Net Control Operator.