HUNTSVILLE AMATEUR RADIO CLUB

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1 HUNTSVILLE AMATEUR RADIO CLUB Huntsville, Alabama Volume 48, Number 1 January, 2008 Rocket City Marathon The 31st running of the Rocket City Mar a thon is in the books. On Sat urday, De cember 8th, 2007, reason able tem - per a tures, and at times a very light rain, made for good running conditions. Thanks to the following hams who came out to help, or stood by in case of need: Kris Kirby KE4AHR, Andy Setlow, N4PDQ, Marylin Setlow N4PCW, Woody Zeigler K8GNM, John Reynolds N5AYD, Brigit Reynolds KI4YRQ, Lee Rizor KD4TSV, Steve Bell KD4TFN, Tom Duncan KG4CUY, John Stensby N5DF, Bill Adams KB4NEI, Char lie Tedder KI4MYU, Dick Curtis W1TV, Peggy Bell K4EGB, Kevin Bar - don KG4RCP, Christopher Best KB3DXR, Josh Free man KI4ITI, Dan Miller KI4PMW, and yours truly. 73, Leigh Bartlow WD4CPF From The Southeastern Div Dir I am excited that Jay Isbell, KA4KUN from Bessemer AL is taking over as the Ala bama ARRL Section Manager! Jay has been a great Section Emergency Co or dinator for Alabama and we look forward to the new leadership and a smooth transition for Alabama ARRL. Please welcome and support Jay in his new position! 2008 will be a new and exciting year for Amateur Radio. I am look ing for - ward to learning and working in my new Southeastern Division Director role. I appreciate the support and votes from this area in the election and thank you for your continued work and the im provement of all phases of Amateur Ra dio! 73, Greg Sarratt, W4OZK ARRL South east ern Division Director ARES District 6 The Tennessee Valley has lots of great things going for it nice cli mate, great peo ple, low taxes. As 2008 begins, I hope you remember how valuable your Am a teur radio license can be to your John Reynolds, N5AYD And Daughter, Brigit, KI4YRQ On Duty At The Mar a thon s Half Point. Photo by Greg Reynolds, N4LO fellow-cit i zens dur ing their time of need. Take time dur ing the year to par - tici pate in ARES and SKYWARN nets. Go ahead and take the FEMA In de - pend ent Study courses (IS-100, IS-200, IS-700, IS-800). Take time to think ahead to the Spring tor nado sea son and get your go kit ready. Take time to help out some of the young folks who don t know how cool ham ra dio is (can some one please write a Morse code pro gram for the Wii con sole?). Help build Al a bama ARES Dis trict 6 lead er - ship by vol un teer ing to help out. Ask the Spe cial Li ai son, Mike, KF4BOG, how you can help hams with spe cial needs. Chuck, N4NM, can use some help with the VOAD pro gram. We have new ARES lead er ship in the state contact the new Sec tion Man ager, Jay, KA4KUN and ask how you can help. Did you no tice how many hams par tic ipated in the nets this year? Time to find out about D-STAR. Time to get seri ous about Winlink How about Page 1 that PSK-31 stuff you ve been meaning to try? CW any one? Worked any new DX lately? How about some QRP? Can you be lieve it there s a Hamfest that pro motes cold weather? It s FreezeFest and it s January 5, in Blount County. It s well-worth the $1 ad mis sion. By the way, they advertise free cof fee and do nuts that s the kind of ham fel low ship that makes our hobby re ally nice! Have a great 08! If you would like to discuss ARES, RACES, EMCOMM, WinLink, Army MARS, or any Dis trict 6 issues, I want to hear from you. AL_ARES_DIST6_EC (at) YAHOO (dot) com 73, Doug Hilton, WD0UG / AAV4YP Al abana ARES District 6 EC ARRL Some In ter est ing Web Sites Check out this web URL for a good writeup on Am a teur Radio s efforts

2 Huntsville Amateur Radio Club Information Club Officers President: Rolf Goedhart, K4RGG Vice President: Robby Lock KG4PLK. Secretary: Elizabeth Wilhour, KI4VQJ Treasurer: Heath Thorson, KC4HRX, The club's address is Box 423, Huntsville, Ala Meetings are held each Friday night at 7:30 P.M. at the American Red Cross Building, 1101 Washington Street. Dues are $12.00 per year, family memberships are $15.00 per year. The club maintains a Web Site at The North Alabama Repeater Association operates repeaters on / , / , / and / NARA dues are $16.00 per year and may be sent to NARA at P.O. Box Huntsville, AL The club's packet radio interest group, HUNTSPAC, maintains an extensive packet network for the Huntsville area. Dues for use of this network are $15.00 per year, and can be paid through the HARC Secretary-Treasurer listed above. The club's ATV special interest group, TVATV operates an ATV repeater. It's input frequency is MHz and its output is MHz. A voice coordination repeater is operated with output frequency of MHz, input 600 khz down. The Vox is published the third Friday of each month Editor of the Vox is Frank Emens, W4HFU, 3714 Lakewood Circle, Huntsville, Ala or femens@hiwaay.net. Material of interest to the HARC membership should be submitted to the editor by Wednesday before the third Friday of the month of publication. Vox, Vol 47, Nr 11, November, 2007 A Newsletter published monthly by the Huntsville Amateur Radio Club, CAVEC Li cense Exams Exam ses sions are held at 9:00 AM the first Sat urday of each month un less a hol i day causes the ses sion to be de layed for one week. Up com ing ses sions are: Sat ur day, Jan uary 5 Sat ur day, Feb ru ary 2 For in for ma tion con tact: Larry Frost, KR4GU, kr4gu@hamfest.org Org Don Tunstill, W4NO, dontunstill@hamfest.org Ath ens Exam Sessions are held the 3rd Sat ur day of each month at 1:00. They are held at the Ath ens EOC. For in for ma tion contact Bob Hud son, W4RKH, HARC ACTIVITY CALENDAR FOR Jan u ary, 2008 Sunday Mon day Tues day Wednes day Thurs day Fri day Sat ur day *TWIAR Cavec Exams Session, 0900 Red Cross Bldg Joint HARC/NARA Membership Meeting 12 *TWIAR *TWIAR *TWIAR *TWIAR Cavec Exams Session, 0900 Red Cross Bldg *TWIAR -- This Week In Amateur Radio, PL Hz 8 PM Ev ery Sat ur day ATV 20:00, Check in on , Tuesdays South east Linked Repeater Net on , PL 20:00, Wednes days Mad i son County Emergency Net on Thurs days SkyWarn Net on 20:00, Thursdays Page 2

3 dur ing weather emergencies in Ore - gon. e tail.html And check this one (en ter your year of birth in - stead of xxxx ) to see what was mak ing news in the year you were born. Steve Bell KD4TFN: sbell@hiwaay.net The Gig gle Box HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO EVERYBODY THAT WAS BORN IN JANUARY!! A note from Giggles: We had a lot of fun at the HARC Christmas Party. We played Dirty Santa and ate a lot of food. Of course, there was a lot of food left, but nobody went away hungry un less they chose to. Everyone seemed to en - joy the different conversations and hope fully got to know other people. I use to be shy and wouldn t talk to new people, but now I try to meet the new ones that come to the club meet - ings. I, sometimes am surprised at peo - ple when they call me by name but I can t remem ber theirs. Just a month or so ago, I talked to some one from Eng - land and he was an in ter est ing per son to talk to. I wish ev ery one at the club would make a New Year s res o lu tion to speak to a new per son once a week this year. CUL A Story or Two 1. A vul ture boards an air plane, car - rying two dead rac coons. The stew ard - ess looks at him and says, I m sorry, sir, only one car rion al lowed per pas sen - ger. 2. Two hy dro gen at oms meet. One says, I ve lost my Elec tron. The other says Are you sure? The first re plies, Yes, I m pos i tive. 3. A woman has twins and gives them up for adop tion. One of them goes to Spain, they name him Juan ; the other went to a fam ily in Egypt and is named Ahmal. Years later, Juan sends a pic ture of himself to his birth mother. Upon re - ceiv ing the pic ture, she tells her hus - band that she wishes she also had a pic ture of Ahmal. Her hus band re - Page 3 sponds, They re twins! If you ve seen Juan, you ve seen Ahmal. 4. A group of fri ars were behind on their bel fry pay ments, so they opened up a small flo rist shop to raise funds. Since ev ery one liked to buy flowers from the men of God, a rival florist across town thought the competition was un fair. He asked the good fathers to close down, but they would not. He went back and begged the friars to close. They ig nored him. So, the rival flo rist hired Hugh MacTaggart, the rough est and most vi cious thug in town to per suade them to close. Hugh beat up the fri ars and trashed their store, say ing he d be back if they didn t close up shop. Ter rified, they did so, thereby prov ing that only Hugh can prevent flo rist fri ars. Things to make you go HMMMM!! I used to eat a lot of natural foods un - til I learned that most people die of nat - u ral causes. Gar dening Rule: When weeding, the best way to make sure you are remov -

4 ing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it co mes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement. Never take life seriously Nobody gets out alive any way. There are two kinds of pedestrians: the quick and the dead. Life is sexually transmitted. Health is merely the slow est pos si ble rate at which one can die. The only differ ence between a rut and a grave is the depth. Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, ly ing in hos - pitals dying of nothing. Have you noticed since everyone has a camcorder these days no one talks about seeing UFOs like they used to? When ever I feel blue, I start breathing again. All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no atten tion to criticism. In the 60 s, peo ple took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal. How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes nearly a box full to start a camp fire? *** A couple drove down a country road for sev eral miles, not saying a word. An earlier discussion had led to an ar gu - ment and neither of them wanted to concede their po si tion. As they passed a barnyard of mules, goats, and pigs, the hus - band asked sarcastically, Relatives of yours? Yep, the wife replied, in-laws. The Hint for the Month of Jan u ary Scaling a fish is easier if vinegar is rubbed on the scales first. The Thought for the Month of Jan u ary Don t ask your self what the world needs; ask your self what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Be - cause what the world needs is people who have come alive. Howard Thurman - Solve the Puzzle: A LECDNA SSELO OTNHGIN BY GGIHTLIN OHTERNA LECDNA. - Erin Majors - Peggy Bell (Giggles) K4EGB pbell@hiwaay.net Joint HARC/NARA Mailing There was a pretty good turnout on December 14 to help in pre paring the mailout for the joint HARC/NARA mem ber - ship drive. The goal was to send re-up material to all cur - rent members of each organization as well as to as many of the li censed ham families we could in the area cov ered by the two organizations. It is a really co operative effort, with costs shared by HARC, NARA and the Huntsville Hamfest. The Hamfest pro vides the software used to prepare and sort the address list for bulk mailing and it ain t cheap!. The actual mailing will take place, probably on December 27 or 28 so as to get the ma te rial in ev erybody s hands before the joint membership meet ing sched uled for January 11. Folks work ing away at preparing the joint HARC/NARA membership mailing Photo by Joe Sturbois, WB4RIU From The Editor s Wastebasket From the short age of Vox ma te rial this month, I d guess that just about ev ery body is oc cu pied with various end-of-year hol i day ac tiv i ties seems to have been a pretty good year for HARC, and if plans that are being con - sid ered reach re al ity, 2008 should be a banner year. We should see the Ex tra Class study pro gram launched early in the year and, if we re lucky, fi nally get something accomplished on 501-C sta tus. The one thing we need is in ter est ing programs at the HARC meet ings. I ve said it to the point, I m sure, of bore - dom, but I still think that al most any mem ber of the club could put to gether a pro gram that would be of interest to the mem ber ship. It would be a real boost to the interest and, prob a bly, the turn out at meet ings if we had a reputation for in ter est ing pro grams. Why don t you see what you could do along those lines in Congrats to Greg Sarratt, W4OZK on his elevation to ARRL South east ern Di vi sion Di rec tor. Ex pect the on line Vox to change back to it s usual less col - or ful state next month. I fig ured to go with it for one more month, since this will reach most of you be fore Christmas and New Year s Day. My best to ev ery body dur ing this hol i day season. I hope ev ery body has a great (and safe) time. Be careful on New Year s Eve, you want to be sure and be around for the bowl games. 73, Frank Emens, W4HFU Page 4

5 Brigit Reynolds, KI4YRQ at the Marathon mid point Peggy Bell, K4EGB communicating for the Sag Wagon at marthon mid-point Page 5

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