News From W9GRS – Oct/Feb School Round-up Results

6th Place – 46 QSO’s (11 states, 7 schools, 18 DX, 1 Club, 1 Province)  3,082 Pts
I’m pretty sure only 6 jr.high schools participated during Oct., but it was a good experience to build on.

February 2009 Results

4th Place – 92 QSO’s (20 states, 8 schools, 31 DX, 4 Provinces) 16,150 Pts

I’m not sure how many were in our division this time, but I know we had considerable more success than some of the other schools.

I’m heading to Dayton/Cincy for a couple days, but W9GRS will be operational Friday morning to work VP2 DXpedition and if bands hold out like they have been work some Asia QSO’s

73!!

-Troy and W9GRS Crew

ICARC Meeting May 2009

–Iroquois County Amateur Radio Club–

Minutes of the May 14, 2009 Meeting

President Mike opened the meeting at 7:05 pm at the Watseka Park District Office in Watseka.

The April minutes were read and approved. The treasure’s report was read and approved.

Committee Reports

Incorporation and Non-Profit Committee—None

Technical Committee—Benny reported that both repeaters were working.

Program Committee—Work on field day prep.

Publicity Committee—KC9GNH reported that web site has been improved and signed up

those present for an email list if they wanted to be included.

ARES Liaison—Roy is retiring on May 29 and will be going to southern Illinois soon after.

Red Cross Liaison—W9QKF reported the Doug Walker and Lou came to Watseka to teach

a Disaster Assessment class on May 9th. Carl and Tim have taken more Red Cross classes

and Doug and Lou will provide more if we come up with interested students

ESDA Liaison—Drills planned with public health dept and hospital. This is to be a full scale in

June of this year. This drill may be cancelled because we had the real thing at the end of April.

VE Liaison—Troy reported that testing could be at Glenn Raymond School on May 21st, also

testing will be held at the Kankakee ham fest on July 19th.. VEs that are planning to be at the

test session are Tim, Sam, Mike and our leader Carl.

OLD Business

Dues for 2009 were collected from a total of 19 members and we hope that a few more will pay

dues next month.

ESDA had a weather spotting school on April 14, 2009. The meeting place was in Crescent City

grade school at 6:30 pm.

Thanks to Clay N9IO the APRS machine is now a super digi and seems to work very well

at the east site.

Field Day fever is planned for Glenn Raymond again this year. Field Day captains are Carl, Tim, Chris M. and Troy.

Operation is from noon to 6PM on Saturday June 27. Setup is from 9am to noon. Sam is to buy food out of club treasury.

Will use GRS radios and other to bring their radios. Could use W9RWX or W9GRS call sign.

We hope to plan our antennas at the June 11 meeting by meeting at FD site at 6:00 pm to look over and decide

on antenna placement.

Troy and Justin bring tents. Phil has main generator with Rollie to bring back up generator.

Talked about have 80, 40, 20, 15, 2, and 6.

Field day 2009 garb is on sale on the ARRL web site.

NEW Business

As Sam is going to 70 years old next year he will not be running for the Sec-Treas job.

He will be transferring the trusteeship of W9RWX to a younger club member. He also

plans to donate full ownership of the W9QKF repeater to the club. Thirty years has been fun

but time for new blood to take over.

Justin has transferred to a new server but we should not notice any big difference in the

ICARC web site.

Snacks for this month were by Justin. June snacks are to be brought by Justin.

Net control for 5/18 Chris M, 5/25 Sam, 6/1 Jake, 6/8 Scott, 6/17 Benny

Members present for the Feb meeting were, Troy, Tim, Keith, Chris M, Gery, Rollie, Mike,

Justin, Benny and Sam.

Meeting was adjourned at 8:16pm.

Program was by Justin and Benny on laptops and wireless internet cards.

Sam Ripple W9QKF Sec.

Sam Ripple W9QKF KAE7607