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Gastonia Area Amateur Radio Club |
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News & Meeting
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It is
with great sadness that I write this e-mail to inform you that Pam
Huffstetler, KG4ENT became a silent key at 11:30am today March 2, 2005.
Love to you all,
Mike Huffstetler (KG4AWO)
Arrangements for Pam Huffstetler's funeral:
Funeral: 3 p.m. Sunday, Long Creek Memorial Church, 210 Long Creek
Church Road, Dallas, NC
Interment: Church cemetery
Visitation: 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Saturday at the Dallas Funeral Home, 212
West Trade Street, Dallas, NC
The family will receive friends other times at the home at 306 Worth
Street, Dallas, NC |
2004 annual Swap-Fest update:
We had approximately 175 guests
We are planning on hosting the Swap-Fest again next year on Saturday,
December 3, 2005 at the Farmer's Market.
Thanks to all who volunteering their time & energy to make the Swap-Fest
a huge success. |
Congratulations to our 2005 Officers:
Glenn Adams - President
Don Wankel - Vice President
David Hook - Treasurer
Paul Williams - Secretary
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K3GTE:
Gene Ewing - is in the hospital @ CMC, here's hoping for a speedy
recovery. Get Well Soon!! |
Backup Repeater Work Day:
November 17, 2004 at 8:30 a.m. at the Bessemer City Water Tower -
146.805 (talk-in frequency) |
Swap Fest 2004:
December 4th at the Gastonia Farmers Market
A Swap Fest Committee has been formed:
Glenn Adams (KD4TLC), Milton Rice (KC4YOT),
and Paul Williams (K4PJW) |
Aug 2nd, 2004:
The portable building for the backup repeater has been delivered to our
backup repeater site. Our next project will be to paint the
building and run electricity to it. |
Club meeting minutes from May 6, 2004:
New Cell tower under construction in BC--unfortunately not on
our site!
Motorola backup repeater still not finished. The repeater is
also planning a maintenance trip to Crowders in the near future.
FIELD DAY: (June 26-27, 2004 at Gaston College at old tennis
courts). Help needed from everyone. Will have Phone, CW and
Digital. Public Service cooking trailer with grill will be on site for
hot dogs, etc.
Needed: Chips, cookies, condiments,
chairs, tables and tents if you can assist.
PLAN NOW TO ATTEND |
GOALS for Second Quarter 2004:
Get backup repeater operationalAcquire building for BC site
and install 2M repeater. (Maybe 6 meter and 440)
Each GAARC member asked to invite one ham (or potential ham) to the
June 3rd meeting. We either grow and prosper or DIE.
Congrats to the No-Code Tech Class graduates in April. You are
WELCOME to come visit us anytime.
GAARC Swapfest 2004 is now planned for Saturday, November 13,
2004 at the Sundrop Bottling parking lot on W. Franklin Ave. (same
location as last year). |
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The club voted to have the Motorola backup repeater made
operational.
This will take a while to complete at which time we
plan to locate this new unit to the Bessemer City site. |
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January 8, 2004 minutes summary:
Master 2 Repeater guide has been found and returned to the club.
Copies to be made for backup.
Morse Code class ended 12-22-03. Thanks to Frank, W4VFA for three
months of efforts. Also, thanks to each and every participant
whether checked in or a member of the 'silent listening arena'.
February 5, 2004 minutes summary:
New 'no code technician' class beginning February 17,
2004 discussed and endorsed. Also discussed the 440 repeater being
put on the air for usage. New DVR committee (KC4YOT; KG4TQE;
KD4GCD) appointed to better use DVR
March 4, 2004 minutes summary:
Ken Ledford was present with discussion about repairing
the 440 machine on Crowders for usage with efforts by several to try to
get this machine operational.
ARES to assist (along with GAARC) in boy scout merit badge 'ham radio
day'
Program done by KC4YOT on adapting a computer power supply as a portable
power source. THANKS. |
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Gaston ARES to use repeater on Second Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm
for net...all invited to participate.
NEW website at www.gaarc.com is now
fully operational. Thanks to Paul (K4PJW) for all his assistance. |
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News & Meeting
Minute Archives 2003: |
Club meeting minutes from December 4th, 2003:
Swap-Fest report
(club netted $525.25 from the event), Recognition: KD4GCD, KG4LVV,
KI4CBI, W4VFA, and the Repeater Committee.
Picked on Sam Adams
(W4SAM).
Project Cell Phone: Cell phone signal reports to be
monitored and called in for next 30 days.
2004 Club officers
elected.
Plus good food, fun, and fellowship was had by all. |
Monday, September 29th, 2003 at 7:00 p.m.
Beginning September 9th, then again on each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday thereafter; the club
repeater will be used for a "Morse Code Training Class". Frank
Putnam (W4FVA) will be the instructor. Frank will be teaching
and sending code over the repeater, while participants can study from
their own shacks or together in a group if they choose. The
repeater has a three minute time-out timer... Should it go down, please
be patient as it will automatically come back up and class can continue. |
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June 5th, 2003:
We will begin leaving the 100Hz tone continuously due to fact of
interference. Please advise any user or potential user that they
will need to encode the 100Hz tone for repeater usage. We will be
looking for other identifiers to help with any potential problem in the
future. (please be on the lookout for the source of the malicious
interference). |
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The club voted to have the Motorola backup repeater made
operational.
This will take a while to complete at which time we
plan to locate this new unit to the Bessemer City site. |
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