Pitt County ARES Net

Beginning Monday, March 1, 2010, the Pitt County ARES net will begin at 8:30 pm instead of 9:00 pm. 

The main reason for the change is to reduce the amount of time between the BARC Ragchew Net at 8:00 pm.  This is expected to help some of the folks who get involved in other activities in between nets from losing track of time and missing the ARES net. 

We also have a need for more people to step up and become a net control operator.  Everyone who is an ARES member should be able to run a net if needed during an activation.  The time to learn to run a net and become comfortable with it is during the Monday night net.  

There is a new Pitt Co. ARES net script posted on the BARC web site that will be used starting March 1.

If you would like to volunteer to run a net or have any questions or suggestions, please contact me at kg4czv@gmail.com.

Pitt County ARES Net Script:  http://www.w4amc.com/ares/pitt_county_ares_net_script.pdf Updated 3/2/10

KG4CZV

February VE Session Results Updated 2/18/10

Three candidates were at the February 12 BARC VE session.  Joseph Minton, K4ORH, Murfreesboro, passed the Amateur Extra Class exam.  James Lyle, KJ4SHO, Roper, and John Wuest, KJ4SHP, Greenville, passed the Technician Class exams.  They received their new call signs February 18, 2010.  BARC congratulates all for their achievement. 

The VE's were VE Liaison Ted Bertrand, KI4PWX, Tom Parsons, W4TEP, Richard Cox, K4CRD, Bob Moore, N4USB, Thomas Styron, KB7L, and Dave Langley, W4YDY. 

The next regular VE session will be April 16, 2010.

New date for Down East Hamfest

The Down East Hamfest in Kinston will be held Saturday, June 19, 2010.  This is about 3 months later that those of the past.

Membership dues for BARC are due January 1.  Those who have not paid their dues will not be listed on the roster and will be removed from the Ham Chatter mailing list starting in April. Membership dues are the same as they were in 2009 and are as follows: 

Please mail your dues, along with the member application form to: Brightleaf Amateur Radio Club, P.O. Box 8387, Greenville, NC 27835. We are requesting that you send the application form in so that we can have your correct information on file. The form can be downloaded from http://www.w4amc.com/application.pdf. If anyone has any questions concerning their membership status or their dues, please call Dave Pulver, KG4CZV, BARC Treasurer, at (252) 353-7161 or e-mail   kg4czv @ gmail.com.  Thank you for your support and participation in BARC.

Ham Chatter and BARC photos on CD

A CD with the first 103 issues of Ham Chatter edited by Dave Langley, W4YDY is available.  They are from June 1997 to December 2005 in the PDF format and Adobe Reader Ver. 7 is included on the CD for those that do not have it installed. 

Also, 10 years of photos and commentary for BARC Field Day operations from 1996 to 2005 is on the CD along with several special event station operations.  The menus and photo pages are in the HTML format and it will use your browser. 

Other features of the CD are some Amateur Radio software for CW training, PSK, RTTY, SSTV and logging.  The 2005 ARRL video with Walter Cronkite narrating is also included.

Cost was $5.00. PRICE CUT! It's cheaper now.  It will be used for a small fund raiser for BARC.  Anyone who may be interested may contact Dave Pulver, KG4CZV, BARC Treasurer, kg4czv @ gmail.com or pick up one at the club meeting or email barc (at) w4amc.com.