[Wswss] ARRL Southwestern Division e-Communicator

[k6tsk at juno.com]

Hay guys, why is it that The Southwestern Div. Convention is also held
during the Sept. VHF contest???????
Will this ever change????

73  Ralph K6TSK

 
On Tue,  7 Jun 2011 09:42:41 -0400 (EDT) "ARRL Members Only Web site"
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> Here's your update on major items of interest to us in the ARRL
> Southwestern Division...
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> 
> 2011 Santa Maria Hamfest - June 18
> 
> The Santa Maria Hamfest is returning to the oil field picnic 
> grounds
> where the event formerly drew several thousand attendees on 
> Saturday,
> June 18 this year. Admission is free, and an economical chicken or
> tri-tip meal will be available.  Details are at
> http://www.satellitearc.com/swapfest.html .
> 
> 2011 Southwestern Division Convention - Torrance, CA - Sept 9, 10, 
> and
> 11
> 
> Early bird registration has been extended to the end of June, and a
> significant early bird registration prize has been added. For
> additional information, see http://www.hamconinc.org/
> 
> Field Day Notes
>  
> ARRL's Field Day, the most popular operating event in the country, 
> is
> now just a few weeks away. You can easily find local Field Day 
> groups
> at http://www.arrl.org/field-day-locator . The Field Day groups 
> posted
> there welcome visitors, and often find new members for their clubs
> through Field Days.
> 
> If your club or group wants to make its location easy for visitors 
> to
> find, be sure to have one of the organizers post it's location to 
> the
> ARRL Web site's Field Day Locator. 
>  
> For those planning to enter Category 1A, remember that you are now
> eligible to have a "free" VHF station (previously available only to 
> 2A
> and higher).  This is a great way to keep your Technician-class
> participants in the operating chair and perhaps let them explore
> something besides FM.  Those who have little or no experience tuning 
> in
> SSB signals can give it a try on six meters, where even modest 
> antennas
> and low power can generate many contacts when sporadic-E propagation 
> is
> present. 
>  
> If you are entering Category 2A or higher, be sure to set up a
> Get-On-The-Air (GOTA) station, where visitors (kids, reporters, 
> agency
> and government officials) can get a taste of making contacts under 
> the
> guidance of an appropriately licensed control operator.
>  
> Regulations and Legislation
>  
> Radio Amateurs in Glendale, Arizona recently faced the introduction 
> of
> a overly restrictive municipal antenna ordinance.  Thanks to the
> efforts of Volunteer Consulting Engineer Rick Tannehill, W7RT, and 
> many
> other local Hams who contacted their city council representatives, 
> the
> bill was pulled and appears to be dead.
>  
> In Palmdale, California, a replacement for the antenna ordinance
> invalidated by the court in the Zubarau case was introduced 
> containing
> many unfavorable provisions.  Local Hams, assisted by Vice-Director
> Marty Woll N6VI and Los Angeles Section Manager David Greenhut 
> N6HD,
> managed to get their message through to the city council not once 
> but
> twice, each time sending the city planiers back to work more
> cooperatively with the Amateur Radio representatives.  The next, 
> and
> hopefully last, hearing is scheduled for early August.
>  
> On the Air
>  
> The ARRL's VHF - UHF Advisory Committee (VUAC) is seeking member 
> input
> on ways to attract more participants to VHF-and-up contests. 
> Contesting has benefits foe even those Amateurs whose primary 
> interests
> lie elsewhere.  You can share your ideas with our Division 
> committee
> member Wayne Overbeck, N6NB, at woverbeck at exchange.fullerton.edu .  
> 
> 
> On a related note, this coming weekend, June 11 - 12, is the ARRL 
> June
> VHF QSO Party.  Get on the air from six meters on up, send and 
> receive
> Maidenhead Grid Locators (e.g., DM12) and see how far your VHF, UHF 
> or
> microwave station can reach.
>  
> For this year's IARU Radiosport Competition on July 9 and 10,  
> ARRL's
> Headquarters station will actually be on the West Coast  as W1AW/6,
> with the operation hosted by K6NA and W6YI of the San Diego Section. 
> 
>  
> ARRL Web Site
>  
> After a difficult start, the ARRL Web site has now added 
> significant
> new capabilities for users, from downloading public-relations spots 
> to
> accessing databases and readability on mobile broadband devices.  
> You
> may still find occasional broken links or other errors, and you can
> report them to our Headquarters Web team by clicking "About ARRL" /
> "How to Contact ARRL" and leaving a message for Website Support..
> Remember that you can navigate quickly to the pages you visit most
> frequently by setting them to show up as as "Favorites" in your 
> log-in
> box.
> 
> Other
> 
> Vice Director Marty Woll, N6VI, and I both continue to welcome
> opportunities to address your radio clubs and hamfests about ARRL
> national issues, and welcome your inputs regarding ARRL policies.
> 
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> ARRL Southwestern Division
> Director: Richard J Norton, N6AA
> n6aa at arrl.org
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