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December 20, 2011 BARC VE Session Results Three applicants attended the December 20 BARC VE session and all were successful and the FCC database was updated on 12/29/11. Matthew McMahon, N2RPO, Greenville, upgraded to Amateur Extra. Joseph Jeansonne, KK4FYK, Farmville, and Nicholas Zedlar, KK4FYL, Hampstead, both received new Technician licenses and new call signs. Congratulations to all. The VE's that attended were VE Liaison Ted Bertrand, KI4PWX, Gerry Clayton, K4IDD, Byron Highland, K4BMH, Bob Moore, N4USB, Thomas Styron, KB7L, and Richard Campbell, W4JNC, attending his first VE session as an examiner. The next regular VE session will be February 21, 2012. |
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| Peer Awards announced at Christmas Party
The following awards and certificates were presented at the 2011 Christmas party held on December 13. John Prokop, N8MPX, was given a plaque for his service as president of the club for the years 2010 and 2011.
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Ham Chatter Editor resigns The following is a reprint of Yakkey-Dee-Yak from Dave on page 3 of Ham Chatter I have sent my resignation as Editor of Ham Chatter to the Brightleaf Amateur Radio Club board. After over 14 ˝ years, it is time for someone else to do the job. My first issue was June 1997 and this will be # 175. I had started the first web site for BARC 10 months earlier in August 1996. I will continue to do that at the clubs direction. What success I have had with the newsletter is due to the help and input from many members over the years. I sure could not have done it by myself. I know if I start naming names, I will forget some so I will just name the past Assistant Editors that helped with articles and the many Meet the Member columns. Murray Merner, K4MHM, was the assistant first and the longest and really helped when I needed some fill. He said he really enjoyed doing the Meet the Member column because he had a chance to meet and talk to some members at length. He always talked about his time with Charlie Wells, K4SKI. Charlie had a lot of information for him. After Murray resigned, Amanda Karr, KI4IWS, volunteered and helped very much with the Meet the Member column. Of course she was a very good writer because she worked for the local newspaper. But she moved to Virginia to go back to college after a time. Tim Nelson, WA4TMN, (SK) volunteered next and he was a great help also. But sadly, Tim's time was cut short by illness. I will have to mention the secretaries who sent me the minutes of the board and regular meetings each month. That helped fill a page or so with great copy and news of BARC activities. Just because many members did not write articles, they helped very much with ideas for me to use. Thanks to everyone for the kind words about Ham Chatter. I hope the newsletter was not too hard to read because I am not a writer and I have never had any training in writing and grammar except what I had in high school. How I ended up editing radio club newsletters for 20 years is a mystery to me. In 1969 when I helped start the Raleigh Amateur Radio Society, I was asked to edit a simple newsletter until they could get someone to be the regular editor. A little over 5 years later, I moved to Oklahoma City and got out of that job! Then in 1997, as Jackie Gleason would say “I got a bigggg mouth!”. I volunteered for HC editor. Whoever is the new editor, I will help all I can in the transition to make it easier. Of course, my wife, Anne, supported me, put up with me and helped when I needed it throughout my term as editor. - W4YDY |
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October 18, 2011 BARC VE Session Results Three applicants attended the October 18 BARC VE session and all
were successful and the FCC database was updated on 10/21/11. Richard
Campbell, W4JNC, Farmville, passed the Amateur Extra Class exam to upgrade from
General. Joshua Steele, KB3VKH, Greenville, passed the General
Class license to upgrade from Technician. Darryl Derstine,
Belhaven, passed the Technician exam and was assigned the call sign KK4EWN.
Congratulations to all. The VE's that attended were VE Liaison Ted Bertrand, KI4PWX, Gerry Clayton, K4IDD, Byron Highland, K4BMH, Bob Moore, N4USB, Thomas Styron, KB7L, and Dave Langley, W4YDY. The next regular VE session will be December 20, 2011 NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE The BARC VE Session location and dates were changed effective with the August 16, 2011 session. VE Sessions are now scheduled to be held at VFW Post 7032 on 1108 Mumford Road in Greenville. Go HERE for more information. Map to VFW Post 7032 |
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2012 Dues 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 2011 and are as follows:Regular Member $20.00 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 email Ted Bertrand, KI4PWX, BARC Treasurer, at bertrandf @ ecu.edu. (remove spaces in email address)Thank you for your support and participation in BARC. |
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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 3/2/10KG4CZV |
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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 are 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 Ted Bertrand, KI4PWX, BARC Treasurer, at bertrandf @ ecu.edu. (remove spaces in email address) or pick up one at the club meeting or email barc (at) w4amc.com. |
