The winner of the Garmin Nuvi 650 GPS device was Scott Langley, KD4YIM, Grimesland. His ticket was drawn about 6 PM on June 28 at the BARC Field Day.

In the picture,  Dave Pulver, KG4CZV, right, is presenting the unit to Scott at the Field Day event on June 28. 

Results of Special BARC VE session on Field Day June 28
Update 7/3/08

There were six successful candidates at a special VE session on Field Day afternoon. Members of the North Carolina Canine Emergency Response Team had instruction from Ted Bertrand, KI4PWX, and Bernie Nobles, WA4MOK, for the Technician license. Five of the members came to the VE session and all passed with almost perfect scores. One did ace the test. Their new call signs and license were assigned by the FCC on 7/3/08. The new Technician Class licensees are Terry Wollard, KJ4FBF, Washington, Ronald Marriner, KJ4FBI, Washington, Thomas Lester, KJ4FBJ, Bath, John T. Smith, KJ4FBG, Winterville and Benny Davis, KJ4FBH, Chocowinity.

Ted Bertrand, KI4PWX

Also, Ted Bertrand, KI4PWX, passed Element 4 to upgrade to the Amateur Extra Class and his license update is also effective 7/3/08. Congratulations to all.

The VE's were acting VE Liaison Bob Moore, N4USB, Richard Cox, K4CRD, Terry Monday, K4ZYD, Susan Langley-Jones, WA4AKB, Raleigh, and Dave Langley, W4YDY.

BARC thanks Terry Monday, K4ZYD, for the use of his office for the exams.

Marie White, Gaston, NC, successfully passed the Technician Class exam at the BARC VE Session on June 13.  Now she is waiting anxiously waiting for her new call sign from the FCC.  Beatrice is 17.  Her Dad is Frank, KB4DJT and Mom is Bea, KC4NAW.  Marie is pictured proudly holding her brand new CSCE.  Update:   Marie was granted the call sign KJ4EUS on June 17, 2008.

The VE's were acting VE Liaison Bob Moore, N4USB, Murray Merner, K4MHM,  and Dave Langley, W4YDY.

The next regular VE session is August 15.  There will be a special session on Field Day June 28.  See the June Ham Chatter, page 5 for location. 

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 2006, 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 Richard Cox, K4CRD, BARC Treasurer, at (252) 524-4089 or e-mail   k4crd @ embarqmail.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 Richard Cox, K4CRD, BARC Treasurer, k4crd @ embarqmail.com or pick up one at the club meeting or email barc (at) w4amc.com.