DIXIE AMATEUR RADIO CLUB

FEBRUARY 2005 NEWSLETTER

FEBRUARY 2005 CLUB MEETING

Jack Reed, WA7LNW, has graciously consented to educate - and very likely awe us - with a special multimedia presentation on the Hurricane Mesa Test Facility. Jack's bio on the QRZ.com web site indicates that he is a high speed photometric and instrumentation sciences test engineer for Goodrich Aerospace. He supports high speed fighter jet ejection seat testing at the Hurricane Mesa Test Facility.  His presentation should be exciting to experience.

  Wednesday, February 16, 2005
7:00 P.M.

 AT THE 

FIVE COUNTY ASSOCIATION OF GOVERNMENTS
Tonaquint Center Office Building
1070 West 1600 South, Building B
(Just off of Dixie Drive)
St. George, Utah

Click HERE for a map and driving directions to the meeting.

V.E.TESTING

A Volunteer Examiner (VE) test session will be held on Wednesday, February 16, 2005
at 6:00 P.M.  at the FCAOG Office building location:
1070 West 1600 South, Building B
Tonaquint Center Business Park
St. George, Utah

The FCAOG building will be open at 5:45 P.M.
 for those coming for the test session.

  If you are a person desiring to take an Amateur Radio test or a ham wanting to upgrade this month,
or are a Volunteer Examiner who would like to help out, please contact Dan Farwell at 668-2436

Message From the President:

Thank you in advance for your help this year in making what I believe will be a great year for the Dixie Amateur Radio Club.  We have a quality and dedicated Board this year and many members who are willing to help out when needed. The problem I can see is that we have not had an organized training regiment to make sure that we are all up to the task at hand.  Over the next several months we will have a planning team draft an Emergency Preparedness Plan for the Dixie Amateur Radio Club. We will bring this back to the membership for comments (likely posting sections on the web site Library for your review).  The Plan will be published and given out to each member who wishes to participate actively in ARES. I think through proper training, organization, readiness and active participation in Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES), we can be the "When All Else Fails" organization that we are capable of being.

73, Gary N7ARE

Please help support the club!

Dues for 2005 are being solicited. Dues are $15.00 per member ($20.00 per family for multiple ham families).
Please make your check payable to "DARC" and bring it to the meeting or mail it to the club address:

Dixie Amateur Radio Club
P.O. Box 422
Santa Clara, UT 84765

DARC IS AN ARRL AFFILIATED CLUB

2005 Board of Directors
President: Gary Zabriskie, N7ARE
Vice President: Dan Hinkle, KD7RSR
Secretary: Hal Whiting, KD7TKP
Treasurer: Leila Horne, KF7HW
Board Members:
Casey Lofthouse, KD7HUS
Dave Owens, K7VNH
Dan Farwell, W8EQA

 AREA REPEATER INFORMATION:

It's the only organization that represents hams at the government level. The current resources available to us through the ARRL are astounding. Check out their web site and find out what's going on!    Click HERE for the ARRL website.

ARRL Trademark and logo courtesy ARRL

Amateur Electronic Supply Swapmeet
 4640 S. Polaris Ave., Las Vegas, Nevada
First Saturday of every month
Starts at 7:00 AM Pacific Time (8:00 AM Mountain Time)

Don't forget the DARC Sunday evening net!

THE SUNDAY NIGHT NET   MEETS AT 7:00 P.M. MST ON THE 146.91 REPEATER

In the event that the 146.91 repeater is not operational we will conduct the Sunday evening net on 145.49.
If none of these repeaters are operational we will conduct the DARC Sunday net on 146.91 Simplex.