[KCDXC] KCDXC club meeting programs-Jan.26, Feb.23, Mar.31.

[Alex, KU1CW]

KCDXC Members,
 I have reserved room for the Club meeting as follows:
January26 (Monday)
February 23 (Monday)
March 31 (Tuesday)
 All meetings will be held during hours of 6.30-8.30pm in the BIG room at the JoCo Library. Room reserved 6-8.45pm-so come over at and chat before the meetings! We may bring snacks and soft drinks there, under certain rules. Ask library or talk to me about it.
 All of the meetings are followed by Perking's pie and coffee-everyone are welcome!

 I'm exited to announce that Duncan, KU0DM, new ARRL (QST) Youth Editor would like to become Kansas City DX Club and will be at the meeting as well.
 We will dedicate special part of the KCDXC WEB to youth involvement in the Amateur Radio, with Duncan in charge of the material there. 
 Bill, K0VBU, our WEB Master will be helping with the task. As you probably know by now-we have special KCDXC CW pileup tab on our WEB with good advice of the winner and CW practice files. That what KCDXC is known for and we will try to improve things in this direction as much as possible.
  
 January program is pretty exiting. I personally don't know too much about APRS and looking forward to this meeting!

 Brian Short, KC0BS, will be presenting APRS at our January 26th meeting.  He will cover all you need to know to get started in APRS including its history, hardware, software and functional applications to Disaster and Public event communications.
 Brian says, "No other ham radio mode gives you as much distributed situational awareness.  Thanks to the efforts of kcaprs.org and k0ham.com, you can use APRS effectively in every county in Kansas!  My goal is to give you the tools and motivation to try APRS for yourself!"
Brian was first licensed in 1987 due to the cajoling of his father K0CEY (SK). Since then, he has made ham radio his primary activity in his free time.  His interest in repeater building began while at K0KU, where he also picked up a weakness for dx and contesting. 
Brian currently serves as President of the Kansas Amateur Repeater Council, Emergency Coordinator for Johnson County Kansas, Coordinator for kcaprs.org, Vice President of the Metropolitan Emergency Coordinating Council, Chairman of the KC Hospital Emergency Amateur Radio Team, and President of K0HAM which maintains 23 repeaters, and 31 APRS digipeaters throughout the Midwest.  
He is an active evangelist for amateur radio, and through his work with Matt May-KC4WCG, in the last two years, has brought more than 300 new hams (as young as 7 years old) into the hobby via their ham class.  His ham youth proteges include his nephews and nieces (who all have their licenses), and Duncan, KU0DM who he works closely with in order to promote ham radio to youth and scouts.  
In the few remaining hours of the day, Brian is a Project Manager for the software company Compuware. 
 Program is about 1 hour long.

 Second presentation is still open, but I'm planning it to be about K-3 and FT2000 comparison-pro and cons of the one radio against another. Will start with ARRL reviews and will go over personal experiences in contest and daily DX operation. Video clips will be included. Program is about 30min in length. K3 and FT2000 owners are welcome to participate.
 Will inform on February and March programs later. 
 

 As always- projector, big screen and Internet connection will be there.
 Looking forward to seeing you there.
 Thanks to all presenters and see you at the meetings!
73. Alex, KU1CW, KCDXC President.