Androscogin Amateur Radio Club News Letter for January 2013
Note: Meeting room has been changed to the Potvin Room for the meeting January second.
Contesting
Jan 6, 1800Z to 2400Z, Kids Day, Rules: www.arrl.org/kids-day
Jan 19, 1800Z, to Jan 20, 0600Z, NA QSO Party, Rules:
www.ncjweb.com/naqprules.php
Jan 19, 1900Z to Jan 21, 0400Z, ARRL JAN. VHF CONTEST, Rules:
www.arrl.org/contests
Jan 26, 1700Z to Jan 27, 1700Z, Winter Field Day, Rules: www. spar-hams.org
SPECIAL EVENT STATION
*Jan 12,* 1700Z-2359Z, NI6IW, San Diego, CA USS Midway (CV-41) Museum.
Uss Nautilus first ship underway on nuclear power 1954; US Seal Teams
established 1962. 14.320 & 7.250
QSL; USS Midway Museum Radio Room, 910 N. Harbor Dr., San Diego, Ca 92101
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Club Meeting Jan 2, 1900 Potvin Room
99 Campus Avenue Lewiston, Maine
ARES Meeting Jan 16, 1800L Androscoggin Unified EMA Office
Basement of Central Fire Station
2 College Street Lewiston
Club Breakfast Jan 30, 0730L Ramada Inn 490 Pleasant Street Lewiston, Maine
***ARES/RACES Comments by Ivan N1OXA Androscoggin EC*
The December meeting for ARES/RACES was cancelled by Tim, due to him
going to Logan to pick up his son at the airport. But, we had the
Quarterly Hospital Radio test on Dec 19, 2012. we had the following
hospitals checked in: CMMC and St Mary's from Androscoggin, Franklin
Memorial from Franklin, Maine General from Kennebec, and Stephens
Memorial from Oxford. Also, Androscoggin and Franklin County EMA's. The
net was one hour long, we tried three other Repeaters and had mixed
results. Tim did not get a response from Poland
School Maint. Director, so we are delaying the Antenna installing to
spring of 2013. The other news is that our School to ISS has be changed
by NASA to April 2013. This is a better time for us because of better
weather. More info will be given as we get near April. I hope
all had a great Christmas and hope that you all have a Happy New Year.
Ivan, N1OXA
Secretarys' Report
The Androscoggin Amateur Radio Club held a meeting Wednesday December
5, 2012 at the Lepage Conference Center in Lewiston Maine. In
attendance: n1jd, k1wtx, kg1q, n1dot, w1box, kb1qhr, w1ltx, wa1skp,
kb1doi, w1scm and son Charles, n1oxa, n1svb, n1kat, w1lwt and n1nyw.
We showed up early and set up buffet tables and had a Christmas party
feast around 6:30 p.m. The meeting was called to order at 7:07 p.m. by
President Bill Woodhead. Bob w1ltx made a motion to accept the
Secretarys’ report as printed in the Acorn. Motion seconded by Andy
kb1doi. Vote: approved.
Ivan gave a Treasurers’
report and said we now have all but 5 of the newsletters sent by
computer now. Andy kb1doi made a motion to accept the report. Jerry
k1wtx seconded the motion. Vote: approved.
Bill
reports that the room rate to stay at the Ramada during the convention
will be the same as last year, $ 65 and reservations to get that price
should be made directly with the Ramada Inn. There was a quick
discussion about the preparation for the hamfest / convention, the
paper work to sign up vendors etc. is in the works.
Bill told us that the contact with the International Space Station will
probably be held the last weekend of February or the first day of
March. A ham from New Hampshire, n1fcc will be supplying most of the
equipment for the space station pass. The school would like more visits
from hams to explain how ham radio works before they try to communicate
with the space station.
Bill also passed on to us
that he talked with Bob n1wjo who is working on setting up a technician
class in Rumford.
Ivan just got an email from an
organization that wants to hold a seven day bike trek from September 7
to the 14th next year that will cover about 70 miles per day and will
want hams to help. There was concern that Loon Echo may tie up
operators at that time but a check of the w1npp.org web site shows Loon
Echo will be September 21 so there is no conflict.
Winter Field Day will be held again this year on the last weekend in
January at Lee w1lwts’ house in Lisbon. More information at w1npp.org
thanks to David we1u for providing the info.
Bob
w1ltx made a motion to adjourn that was seconded by Andy kb1doi. Vote:
approved so the meeting was adjourned at 7:23 p.m. to make sure we eat
the rest of the food so there will be no evidence any of us were off
our diets.
Thank you to Ivan for catching a mistake
last month that I have made more than once in recent months, I wrote
that Shawn w1sab was at the meetings but the report should have shown
that is was really Mark kg1q. It was my error.
Respectfully submitted,
Dick Knight n1nyw Secretary
DX NEWS NOTES
December, 2012
During the past month we made 21 DX contacts representing 14 different
countries.
Countries contacted were:
5N54EAM, Nigeria; OY1OF, Faroe Is.; D44AC, Cape Verde Is.; TR8ON,
Gabon; HC2AQ, Ecuador; II5LDV, Italy; CN2OS, Morocco; EA9/EC7DZZ,
Ceuta & Melilla; A5A, Bhutan; ZV7O, Brazil; PZ5T, Surinam; 6W/UN7LZ,
Senegal; PJ7TM, St. Martins; J79WTA, Dominica;
We had no Pacific contacts this month,
There are several DXpeditions to various parts of the world coming up in
January. Some haven?t been assigned a call as yet or the operators will
use the country prefix and their home call.
Jan. 03 to Jan.17 V31ME Belize
Jan. 04 to Jan.18 V5/ Namibia
Jan. 05 to Jan. 18 6W7SK Senegal
Jan. 09 to Jan. 14 T88 Palau
Jan. 11 to Jan. 14 C6AVA Bahamas
Jan. 12 to Jan 16 XV4LU Vietnam
Jan.
12 to Jan. 20 ZF2PG Cayman Is.
Jan. 15 to Jan. 21 PY0F Fernando de Noronha
Jan. 17 to Mar. 10 6W2SC Senegal
Jan. 25 to Mar. 10 J5UAP Guinea Bissau
Jan. 26 to Feb. 02 ZF2TA Cayman Is.
The above DXpeditions are correct to the 10th of the month prior to printing
The A.C.O.R.N. For additions after that date, go to my web page and click
On the link ?Reported DXpeditions by NG3K?
I invite any club members that have a computer to visit my web page. The
address is: http://www.qsl.net/n1svb/
Earle Gilmore N1SVB