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The Ninth Edition of the ARRL Operating Manual Hits the Bookshelves:
The ninth edition of The ARRL Operating Manual for Radio Amateurs is no available for purchase. According to 

ARRL Publications Manager and QST Editor Steve Ford, WB8IMY, "This flagship book has had a most extensive update. 

About 80 percent of the book was completely rewritten." If you're an active ham radio operator, you probably 

have a story about your first radio contact. Many hams remember that experience even more than their first 

license examination. That's because operating is fun and exciting! This edition is the most complete book about

Amateur Radio operating. It was written to help guide hams, both expert and novice, through the dozens of ways 

amateurs communicate with each other.

February 21, 2008 Agenda
Call Meeting to order by President, Bill, KM0F at 7:00 PM at LDS Church located at 1450 Frank St. SE, Huron, SD 

Old Business: Read minutes of previous meeting -- Report results of VE test -- Dues are due!! 

Events: Feb 23 NAQP-RTTY -- Bismarck Hamfest -- Mar 1-2 ARRL INT DX – Mar 8 VE Test - Huron – Mar 15 BARTG- 

RTTY Mar 22 Faribault, MN Hamfest -- May 1-2 Sioux City Hamboree 

New Business: Handout newsletter -- Collect Coborn's receipts -- Received check from Coborn's $20.30 -- 

Read letter from SD Social Services -- Select VE Examiners - March 8 –VE TESTING -HURON 

Meeting called to order by President, Bill, KM0F at 7:00 PM at LDS Church located at 1450 Frank St. SE, Huron, SD with 10 members present.

Old Business: Read minutes of previous meeting – 13 attended Christmas Party Dec 20, 2007 – REMINDERS Renew ARRL membership through club -- Check your license expirations -- W0NOZ expires 06-08

Events: Jan 19-20 VHF SS NAQP SSB Feb 16 VE Test – Huron -- Feb 16 St. Cloud, MN Hamfest – Feb 23 NAQP RTTY Feb 23 Bismarck, ND Hamfest.

New Business: Handout newsletter -- Collect Coborn's receipts -- Report on DARN meeting in Pierre -- Treasurer's Annual Financial Report -- Election of Officers -- DUES are due!!!

The ninth edition of the ARRL VEC/VE Manual

<http://www.arrl.org/arrlvec/vemanual/> is now online on the ARRL Web site. The manual, the most complete source on the Amateur Radio Volunteer Examiner Program, has everything you need to know in order to be an ARRL Volunteer Examiner.

The ARRL Letter is available to ARRL members free of charge directly from ARRL HQ. To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your address for e-mail delivery: ARRL members first must register on the Members Only Web Site

<http://www.arrl.org/members/>.

FIELD DAY 2008 RULES AND FORMS NOW AVAILABLE It's that time of year again -- time to start gearing up for Field Day, ARRL's flagship operating event. Field Day, held the fourth full weekend in June, brings together new and experienced hams for 24 hours of operating fun. ARRL Field Day Manager Dan Henderson, N1ND, says there are several rules changes this year, mainly concerning "Get on the Air" (GOTA) stations and the elimination of the Demonstration Mode Bonus Category. The complete Field Day Packet can be downloaded from the ARRL Web site

<http://www.arrl.org/fieldday>.

ARRL to Offer Award for 6-Meter Operations: Attention 6-meter operators there's a new award to work toward! The ARRL Board of Directors approved a new award honoring the late Fred Fish, W5FF, the only amateur who worked and confirmed all 488 grid squares in the 48 contiguous United States on 6 meters. The Fred Fish Memorial Award will be granted to any amateur who duplicates Fish's accomplishment.

Two new Field Organization positions were created by the Board at the recommendation of the Programs and Services Committee: Assistant Section Emergency Coordinator and Assistant District Emergency Coordinator. The Board authorized Dave Patton, NN1N, Manager of the Membership and Volunteer Services Department, to develop and implement terms of reference for these positions.

HOT SPRINGS AMTEUR RADIO CLUB We held our annual Christmas/ Valentines supper on Feb. 2. There were 43 in attendance that came from Scottsbluff, NE to Sturgis. Bill, KC0WIC, was awarded his "First Contact" certificate. Glen, KA0SIN, received the "Old Timers Club" award and Josh, KC0WIA, was honored with the "Field Day Muscle" award. John, KC0WIB, presented a super video that he produced of our 2006 Field Day. Everyone had a great time. K0OR is starting a new Technician license class. There are at least 7 in the class, with a majority of the group being school age youngsters. Stay tuned! 73 K0OR Tim Hub

Area Radio Klub

A very good program was presented by WD0HWL Ron on PL 259’s and RG8 coax. Rolly brought up communications for CERT and ham radio operators: volunteers Randy Imberi-Rich Kezar Adjourn Rolly/Randy K

PIERRE AMATEUR RADIO CLUB President's Time: 1) WBØRJH, President Greg Hall thanked Jim W for his help with the State. 2) He also thanked Jim Z for his help on the background work on many items and for taking nets when others were not available. 3) He indicated that help is needed in running the Link Net and encouraged others to help out. Activities: Islands On The Air (IOTA) awarded La Framboise Island to a ham from New Mexico. We will look into activating more islands in the area. $400 was paid for the electric bill for the Reliance repeater. This was paid by Eldon from funds received from the Medicine Butte repeater organization. There is about $500 left in this fund. No electric payment has been made for the Murdo tower. The Snake Butte digi will be moved to Phillip. It is duplicating the service of the Grasslands digi and will be of more use at Phillip. Old Business: KDØS and WØRTD are our representatives at the DARN meeting on Saturday January 12, 2008 to be held at Pizza Ranch in Ft. Pierre. Everyone is invited to attend. New Business: Dave and Mark are interested in setting up a ham club in the Mission area. They want to know when we will have a test session.  Jim Hammond has had bypass surgery. The club sends him our best wishes for a speedy recovery. Greg H brought up the subject of CERTS. The club and members needs to decide if we wish to become certified. Meeting adjourned at 9:01 p. m. Minutes recorded and submitted by AAØLY.

The regular monthly meeting of the Northern Hills ARC was held on Friday, 25 January 2008 at the Sturgis Firehall. The meeting was called to order by President Gene McPherson at 7:30 PM with 15 members and guests Scott Rausch reminded members of the ARES planning meeting to be held in Hermosa on Sunday 03 February and encouraged all members to attend who are interested in emergency preparedness or participating in this summer's public service events. An agenda for the meeting was previously emailed out by Jerry Hawley and Frank Shaw. Scott Rausch represented the club at the Dakota Amateur Radio Network (DARN) meeting held in Pierre on 12 January. Highlights of the DARN meeting were: discussion of the constitution and by-laws, establishment of a committee to write a state wide emergency plan and a tour of the new communications facility. Scott Rausch announced that the several area hams have volunteered to organize Boy Scout merit badge classes in Rapid City on 7 & 8 March: - Chris Stallkamp: Electronics - Ken Kjar: Electricity - Scott Rausch: Radio Other possible merit badge classes to be hosted by area hams have not been firmed up as yet: - Energy - Chemistry - Nuclear Science - Medicine Scott Rausch reviewed the public service events for 2008. Chuck Palmer, Jack Brand, and Scott met earlier in January with the intent of reducing the number of events (from 15 to 9). Chuck contacted the event managers and confirmed our participation and passed along our regrets for the events we proposed not to support. Chris Stallkamp reported that the 9:00pm 2 meter net is continuing in fine shape, with the number of check-ins about 20 per session. The meeting was adjourned at approximately 8:15 PM. Bob Streich gave a presentation on Red Cross frequency allocations and the status of the Rapid City Red Cross communications system. Scott Rausch Scribe for the Evening

The ARRL Board of Directors held its Annual January meeting January 18-19 in Houston, Texas. One of the first items on the agenda was the election of ARRL officers and members of the Executive Committee. Members of the Administration and Finance Committee and Programs and Services Committee were selected Saturday morning.

Field Day Packets Coming Soon:

Get ready for ARRL Field Day, June 28-29, 2008. Packets will be available during the first week of February. Packets include the complete rules (including changes for 2008). Other reference items that will be available include forms, Section abbreviations, a kit to publicize your event with the local press and more.

The 2007 ARRL Periodicals on CD-ROM includes all 2007 issues of QST, NCJ and QEX every word and photo published throughout the year is included. Search the full text of every article by entering titles, call signs, names or any word. See every word, photo (most in color), drawing and table in technical and general-interest features, columns and product reviews, plus all advertisements. Print what you see, or copy it into other applications. The CD also includes Section News and ARRL Contest Results, including individual scores and Contest Soapbox. System Requirements: Microsoft Windows and Macintosh systems, using Adobe Acrobat Reader (included). Get your copy at

<http://www.arrl.org/catalog>.

The National Conference of Volunteer Examiner Coordinators (NCVEC) has released a new pool of 741 questions and 12 graphics

<http://www.ncvec.org/page.php?id=338>

for the Amateur Extra class license. This pool will become effective for examinations given on or after July 1, 2008, and should be in service until June 30, 2012.