DIXIE AMATEUR RADIO CLUB

AUGUST 2004 NEWSLETTER

The Dixie Amateur Radio Club meets on the third Wednesday of each month
 (with the exception of December) at 7:00 PM

The August DARC Club Meeting will be held at the
 Five County Association of Governments Building.

PLEASE SEE THE CLUB MEETING INFO BELOW

VE TESTING

A Volunteer Examiner (VE) test session will be held on Wednesday, August 18, 2004
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.

  The VE test fee for 2004 is $12.00.

If you are a Volunteer Examiner and would like to help out, please contact
 Ron Sappington, WI7Z, at 673-4552 or 467-4552.

MARK THIS DATE ON YOUR CALENDAR:
  Wednesday, August 18, 2004

THIS MONTH'S MEETING WILL BE HELD AT
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.
Please note that the new Santa Clara River bridge crossing from Hilton Drive
 directly onto Dixie Drive is complete and makes access to the building very easy!
The online map does not yet reflect that change.

The August meeting agenda includes the following:

Vanity fee update from the ARRL

Broadband over Powerlines (BPL) update.

Pre-discussion and preliminary planning for the St. George Marathon

Current news in the world of DX & Contesting

Our own Bob Peterson W7UT operates from W1AW/0 during IARU Contest

Expeditions to Isla de Aves and Peter Island

Dan W8EQA - Virtual Shack tours

Dixie Amateur Radio Club logo shirt, hat and safety vest orders will be taken at the August meeting. A separate e-mail will be sent to each member with pictures of the shirts prior to the meeting and samples will be available for a "hands-on" before you decide to order. We will then have the hats vests and shirts available for either pickup from Gary Zabriskie's (N7ARE) office at the FCAOG or at the September meeting, whichever you prefer.

Everyone is encouraged to attend the DARC Meetings!
 Let's have a great turnout for our meetings!

Anyone interested in HAM Radio is welcome!

  AUGUST LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

DAN FARWELL, W8EQA

 

DEAR DARC MEMBERS:

AT THE AUGUST MEETING I WILL BE PRESENTING MY TOP TEN SHACK VIRTUAL TOUR PRESENTATION.

THE FIELD DAY APPLICATION HAS BEEN SUBMITTED.  PLEASE SEE BELOW ON THE WEB SITE FOR SOME ADDITIONAL PICTURES FROM THE EVENT COURTESY OF  LEILA HORNE, KF7HW.

NEXT MONTH (SEPTEMBER) WE WILL HAVE HERB BASSO FROM ST. GEORGE CITY RECREATION DEPARTMENT AT OUR CLUB MEETING TO HELP US PREPARE FOR THE ST. GEORGE MARATHON.

CU

DAN, W8EQA

 

Ogden Hamfest

 

The Ogden ARC will Sponsor a Hamfest this summer on Saturday 14 August 2004.  It will be held at the National Guard Armory in South Ogden.  This will be the first time in many years that a Hamfest will be held along the Wasatch Front Area and I would like to encourage everyone to make plans to attend and support this event.  Please note that the Utah Hamfest (Usually held at Bryce Canyon will not be held this year but will return in 2005).  I will provide more information as it becomes available Please feel free to contact Mel Parkes, AC7CP, Utah Section Manager at AC7CP@aol.com if you have any questions.
 

2004 ARRL Southwest Division Convention
Phoenix, Arizona - August 27-29, 2004

 

Bob Peterson, W7UT,  passed along this information on an upcoming  hamfest in Phoenix along with a web link to thier web site for information:

<<<<<<     This looks to be one of the better hamfests in the area, although I'm not too sure Phoenix in August is such a great idea - hi!!

                          http://www.hamradio2004.com/swdc2004/

                            73,
                            Bob, W7UT                  >>>>>>>>>>

          (Webmaster Note:  Phoenix heat can't be THAT much more intolerable than Utah's Dixie.... Hot is Hot!!!)

 If you haven't paid your dues yet for this year, if you haven't looked it's already 2/3 over.
Look at the calendar and you'll see that pretty soon it'll be this time of the year!


Don't be a "Grinch" ! Please help support the club and pay your dues!

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

2004 Board of Directors
President: Dan Farwell W8EQA
Vice President: David Owens KD7VNH
Secretary: Gary Zabriskie N7ARE
Treasurer: Gordon Shipley KD7SGN
Board Members:
Casey Lofthouse KD7HUS
Chuck Hardy KD7RZF
Mark Sherbert KM7DX

 

HAPPENINGS AND OTHER

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Field Day 2004 More Pictures

Special Thanks to  Leila Horne, KF7HW. She provided the following pictures of the fund raising yard sale held in conjunction with Field Day 2004 at Santa Clara Park.  See the July Newsletter for the other pictures.

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 8:00 P.M. MDT 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.