[FARC] Reminders, Etc: First Friday Luncheon, Hamfest & Estate Sale

[Bob Moroney]

Here's the monthly reminder from Rolan W3FDK on the Golden Corral lunch 
get-together, plus notes on Sunday's Hamfest over in Howard County and 
the sale of equipment owned by Ray W3UT (sk).

73, Bob K9CMR

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	this fri, 1130 , golden corral ( trough) at FSK mall complex
Date: 	Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:36:37 -0400
From: 	Rolan O. Clark <rolan.clark at comcast.net>
To: 	A Cast of Thousands



All,
 
This Friday, October 2, 2009, is our first Friday of the month luncheon, 
1130, at the Golden Corral restaurant in the FSK mall complex. You can 
practice how your would celebrate eating for Halloween !
 
A few weeks ago we lost Ray Poulin, W3UT, who was a member of the 
Frederick Amateur Radio Club and the Frederick Amateur Repeater Group 
for many years. As per his wishes, he has some Amateur Radio equipment 
for sale and he wants the proceeds to go to the radio clubs so we will 
divide the proceeds between the two clubs.
 
Radios:
 
TenTec Omni V
Ten Tec Scout with 80,40,30 and 10 meter plug in modules.
Heathkit 2 meter synthsized radio
 
These have all been check out with lab quality equipment and meet mfg. 
spec as near as we can tell.
 
Ray's son called this week and said he found 3 portable radios so I will 
list them as we find out what they are and he is going to look for any 
manuals he can find on the above equipment.
 
I have  an Omni V and it is one of the best CW radios made and if we 
can't find the manual you are free to copy my manual if you buy the 
radio that Ray had. I use it for digi hf and it has a vox input and 
audio out RCA type connectors on the back that will go directly to the 
line/mic in and line/audio out from sound cards although I use isolation 
audio transformers between the radio and computer, that is advisable. 
You don't have to worry about a serial PTT this way and the audio out is 
after the filters and band pass adj so you have that capability to 
refine the audio signal from the radio to the sound card on rx.
 
There are many odds and ends that will delight those that build antenna 
tuners and other home brew equipment  that we will hopefully be selling 
this Sunday at the CARA hamfest at the Howard County Fair grounds. Look 
up the tailgate spot with Phil, W3ICF and , W3FDK. Also I hope to have 
up, depending on the wx, my 80-10 mtr portable field antenna and it 
sticks up in the air 40 ft so you can't miss that. I want to demo FLDIGI 
and check into the 80 mtr wpaNBEMS Olivia digi net at 1000 on Sunday 
with my portable set up so hopefully I can do that for those of you 
interested in digi comm.
 
Please call Phil, W3ICF, at 301.831.6472  if you are interested in any 
of the radios listed above. We will also have them at the CARA hamfest 
on this Sunday.
 
Hope to see you Friday if I make the luncheon,
 
Please keep Ray, W3UT, and his family in your thoughts.
 
73 de rolan w3fdk