[FARC] Carafest?

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Jeff and all, 



Take care, 



73 de rolan w3fdk 





This Sunday, October 6, is the CARAfest and the Maryland State 
Convention at the Howard County Fair Grounds. 

Gates open at 8 am for shopping at the vendor’s tables and finding 
those both radio-related and other items from the tailgaters.   

The Maryland State Convention begins at 8:30 with the ARRL Forum led by 
Atlantic Division Director Bill Edgar, N3LLR.  Between 9 and 10 am 
Section Emergency Coordinator Jim Montgomery, WB3KAS, will give a brief 
talk on the statewide Simulated Emergency Test that is being conducted 
on October 5 followed by our guest speaker from the ARRL, Chuck 
Skolaut, K0BOG.  Chuck is in charge of the Official Observer program of 
the ARRL and will be discussing what Official Observers do, how they do 
it and why.  Following that, there will be a discussion/demonstration 
of the use of Narrow Band Emergency Messaging System (NBEMS).  At 11 am 
will be the second meeting of the year of T-MARC, the frequency 
coordinating committee for our area with elections and various motions. 
  

There will be a license test session provided by the Laurel Amateur 
Radio Club VE team beginning at 0900. 

Bring your QSL Cards and Bill Dobson, N3WD, will check them for you. 
Bill doesn't check cards for 160 meters, however, newly appointed card 
checker Mike Cizek, W3MC, will also be there to check cards and can 
check 160M.  Bill will also be selling envelopes for the ARRL Incoming 
QSL Bureau for the 3rd and 4th call areas.  He sells the envelopes 
basically at cost in batches of 5. Five envelopes with a single forever 
stamp is $3 and five envelopes with two forever stamps is $5.25.   

If you'd like to renew your ARRL membership or become an ARRL member, 
we’ll have Repeater Directories and some antenna books at the ARRL 
table to select from as a thank you for joining our national 
association.   

The purchase of an entry ticket will also allow you and your spouse to 
enjoy The Maryland Suburban Home Show at no additional charge. 


ARRL Maryland State Convention (CARAFest) Sunday, October 6, 2013 
Sponsor: Columbia Amateur Radio Association PO Box 911 Columbia, MD 
21044-0911 
Website: < www.carafest.org > 
Location: Howard County Fairgrounds 
2210 Fairgrounds Road 
West Friendship, MD 
Talk-In: 147.135+ (PL 156.7) 
Contact: Dave Prestel, W8AJR 
10160 Tanfield Court 
Ellicott City, MD 21042-5808 
Phone: 443-812-4403 
Email: < dave.prestel at gmail.com > 

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----- Original Message -----


From: "Jeff Fishman" <ljfish1 at comcast.net> 
To: "FARC reflector" <farc at mailman.qth.net>, "MADXRA" <madxra at madxra.org> 
Sent: Saturday, October 5, 2013 7:41:13 PM 
Subject: [FARC] Carafest? 

Does anyone know what the seminar/forum schedule is for tomorrow's State Convention at Carafest? Thanks. 

73, 

Jeff KB3FIO 
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