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Please help support the club!

Dues for 2006 are being solicited. Dues are $15.00 per member ($20.00 per family for multiple ham families). Check the Club's membership ROSTER to see that you are shown as current. We will even accept your tardy dues for 2005 if you feel the slightest bit of guilt.  If you know you were negligent in 2005, you are on the honor system.  To pay your membership dues, please make a check or money order 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

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More Interesting Links

Southern Utah Weather Radar

Click on this link to see what's happening weather wise in southwestern Utah.

Sidewinders on Two Radio Club

There are quite a number of hams in the Dixie area who are gearing up to be quite active on the other modes available on the VHF and UHF bands. The SWOT organization has been around for a long time. It is hoped that a local SSB net will be established weekly for southern Utah/Southern Nevada. If you have a multi-mode two meter rig (i.e. on of the new DC to Daylight rigs) take a listen on the 2 meter SSB calling frequency: 144.200 on USB. Here is a link to the SWOT web site.
 (Gary N7ARE, SWOT #2625)

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HAM CARTOON
OF THE MONTH

The Callsign of the Dixie Amateur Radio Club is: Our Club has members who are primarily located in southwestern Utah in the greater St. George City area: HAM ITEMS FOR SALE BY CLUB MEMBERS ARE ON THE DARC WEB SITE LIBRARY PAGE: http://www.dixieham.org/DARC4sale.html   IF YOU ARE NEW TO AMATEUR RADIO AND JUST CHECKING IT OUT .... CLICK ON THE LOGO BELOW TO VISIT THE ARRL WEB SITE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT AMATEUR RADIO: Please help make this Club RADIO-ACTIVE!!

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Ham Radio Study Information:

Board Member Dan Farwell, W8EQA, passed along the following excellent Ham license and Morse Code study aids all from this Great ham radio website:
www.ac6v.com/

You can find any information you want on Ham Radio right there!

Here are some particularly interesting links:

http://ac6v.com/morseaids.htm  Many links to good Morse study aids

http://www.aa9pw.com/radio/morse.html  Great license and Morse study aid

http://rivat.chez-alice.fr/software.htm   CW Player program - used for our DARC 2 meter code sessions

http://www.ac6v.com/morseprograms.htm Wealth of Morse resources

http://ac6v.com/help.htm#STUDY Multitudes of Ham license study aids

Diabetes Walk Recap:

Reported by Leila Horne, KF7HW

The 2006 Diabetes fund raiser was a course at Coral Canyon and was held on the streets going through the area of homes constructed there recently. Leaders came from Salt Lake City and stayed three days organizing the activities.

The approximately 163 participants were from all age groups, and some ran the course instead of walking. It started with a breakfast for all volunteers and participants, Great Harvest provided their delicious breads and I don't know the source of the drinks, bananas, oranges, and bread spreads. The walk started about 7:45 a.m. while it was still cool, and covered two courses - - - two and a half miles for one, and five miles for the other. The first to return were some young teenagers who ran instead of walking. The rest came in at odd times and all received a bag of goodies. 

There were several tents offering information by vendors, and a medic was present as well as a group who performed massages for the participants.  All volunteers were given a Diabetes Walk T-shirt as thanks for their efforts. The final event was the lunch provided by Outback; hamburgers that had a better flavor than any burger I have ever bitten into, salad, one piece of banana and one of orange, and a can of soda. KA7DZJ, KE7DZI, KF7HY, KD6JFS, KK7GC, N6MKR, KF7HW organized by W8EQA participated by parking visitors cars and monitoring progress of the walkers. (I hope I didn't miss anyone.)

Operation On Target:

By Casey Lofthouse, KD7HUS

Click Here for the Minutes from April 2006 Club Meeting

It was requested that the Preamble and Roster for the Sunday night DARC net be posted online. It will be made a permanent fixture elsewhere on the web page but is posted here for the first time this newsletter:

DARC Sunday Evening Net Preamble:

Good evening, this is _______________
opening the Dixie Amateur Radio Club Sunday evening net.

This net is being conducted weekly at 8:00 PM local time for the purpose of handling traffic, making announcements, selling or trading ham related items and to get acquainted with call signs and fellow hams.

The DARC meets the third Wednesday of every month at 7:00 PM. Please see our club website (www.dixieham.org) for a map and details or listen to this net for upcoming meeting locations until we have a permanent meeting place for 2006.

There is a VE session before each meeting at 6:00 PM.

Emergency traffic may be indicated by a triple break and will be accepted at any time.

This is a directed net. Please do not transmit unless directed to do so by the net control station.

You may be placed on the roll by checking in three times a month and remain on the roll by checking in at least two times every calendar month.

Any station with traffic or news for the net, please check in now.

Unless otherwise directed by net control, all stations will please remain on frequency until all traffic has been listed and assigned.

The following is roll call………

Any late or missed member check ins please call now…

Any visitors or echo link check ins please call now ……….

Last call for check ins….

At this time the Dixie Amateur Radio Club would like to thanks all those who checked in.

This net is now closed.

DARC SUNDAY NIGHT NET ROSTER: