[LeArc] [Fwd: SRRC W9MKS Hamfest Tables]

[Jay Hainline]

Dave, check out the ARRL web site club affiliation page at

http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/club/

Don't know about the 2 meter repeater problem you are referring to. Maybe
someone at the club meeting tomorrow can advise.

73 Jay

Dave Nissen wrote:
> 
> See http://www.qsl.net/learc/ for club information.
> 
> Annual Christmas meeting December 10, 2002.  Bring your appetite and a dish to pass.
> 
> Please join us on Sunday Evenings for the
> Lamoine Emergency ARC Sunday Evening Net.
> Net time is 8:00 PM local time.
> 
> Interesting Jay..
> 
> Always made me think and now I will ask, what if any advantage to being an
> ARRL club? I am not a ARRL member for various reasons (used to be, years
> ago), dues are a bit high, many of the articles in QST are above my level of
> expertise, and ARRL seems to want to run the whole show of amateur radio
> from time to time.
> 
> On the other hand they seem to keep big brother (FCC) in check and no doubt
> do a lot for the hobby. Perhaps I should reconsider.
> 
> IMHO Princeton has become one, if not the best, "local" hamfests in the
> area. A club table might be nice. I know I have some things that would be
> far better off in the hands of someone else. And the cash in my pocket.
> 
> Another note. At least twice now in the past few weeks I have been working
> K9HLT on the 2 meter repeater. During the course of our conversation I have
> heard what sounds like some arcing and then the .06 machine goes dead. We
> went to the 440 machine and I checked it later and found it to be working
> properly again. Is it something that Ed and I said?? Or is it the continued
> use for 30 minutes more than it could stand? I figure that it is because
> BTT, OKO, HZU, OH, and others have not been active that sometimes the .06
> machine goes to sleep. Sigh.. I fondly remember the "good old days" of the
> nightly rag chew on .440. IXE (SK), MSC (SK), KT9Z (SK) "the two Terrys",
> and the rest of the group. I remember when I was first a Novice and didn't
> have a 2 meter rig. Used to listen on a scanner to catch up on the news. I
> wonder how many of the new hams have never heard these calls.. Ah for the
> good old days.. Gone, but never forgotten.
> 
> 73
> Dave de W9COP


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Jay Hainline  KA9CFD  EN40om
Colchester, IL
ka9cfd@arrl.net
http://www.qsl.net/learc