JULY HARM NEWSLETTER

Lloyd, WBØULX Aug 12, Sep 23, Nov 4, Dec 16

Don, KØHHZ Aug 26, Oct 7, Nov 18, Dec 30

Bill, KMØF Jul 22, Sep 2, Oct 14, Nov 25

Terry, KIØBV Jul 29, Sep 9, Dec 2

Jack, KØOH Aug 5, Sep 16, Oct 28, Dec 9

Sam, NØOTB Aug 19, Sep 30, Nov 11, Dec 23

The FCC has proposed reducing the regulatory fee to obtain or retain an Amateur Radio vanity call sign by more than 40 percent starting later this year. In a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) released

April 18, "Assessment and Collection of Regulatory Fees for Fiscal Year 2007," in MD Docket 07-81, the Commission is proposing to cut the fee from its current $20.80 to $11.70. If ultimately adopted,

that would mark the lowest fee in the history of the current vanity call sign program.

ARRL Membership Numbers on the Rise

With now close to 152,000 members, the ARRL is going, and growing, strong. ARRL Customer Service Manager Amy Hurtado, KB1NXO, says the "ARRL is a viable, up-to-date organization that every ham should be a part of."

July 19, 2007 Agenda
Meeting called to order by President, Bill; KM0F at 7:00 PM with 8 members present at LDS Church located at 1450 Frank St. SE, Huron, SD.
Old Business: Read minutes of previous meeting – Report on Field Day operations – Wessington Springs Special Event Station – Laura Ingles Wilder Special Event Station – Sioux City.
Events: 
Events: July 21 -22 CQ WW VHF
 28 Clear Lake Hamfest
New Business: Handout newsletter
 Collect Coborn's receipts
 Discuss finances
 Read correspondence: 
 Flanagan Agency
 Hieber Salvage
Adjourn:

 Field Day at W1AW: "It Was a Blast!" 
With the 2007 Field Day now a part of history, it's time to begin planning for 2008. With that in mind, ARRL Regulatory Information Branch Manager and Field Day Coordinator Dan Henderson, N1ND, said, "From the phone calls and e-mails I have received, people all over the country had
a great Field Day. It was a blast. Now it's time to get started planning for next year!" 

W1AW Station Manager Joe Carcia, NJ1Q, said, "Field Day conditions were weak, but we managed some good contacts, nonetheless. All the W1AW Field
Day bulletins were sent without a hitch." 

Henderson agreed. "Propagation was not the best but we managed to pull through". W1AW made a total of 804 contacts: 317 on CW, 466 on Phone and 21 on the digital modes; each mode ran at 100 W. Taking into account all the bonus points available, W1AW's claimed score is 2284. "We ran Field Day as 4F. Since W1AW is an EOC station, we are allowed the 'F' designator. Although we didn't make any satellite contacts, we did demonstrate it to staff and visitors," Carcia said. W1AW managed to make contacts with 42 of the 50 US states. Unfortunately, operators were not able to make contact with South Dakota, Wyoming, Alaska, Hawaii, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon or Kansas.

Meeting called to order by President, Bill; KMØF at 6:30 PM at LDS Church located at 1450 Frank St. SE.

Old Business: Read minutes of previous meeting -- Update on Special Events Stations- Wessington Springs will be July 4, 2007 and Laura Ingles Wilder will be July 7 & 8, 2007.

Events:

New Business: Handout newsletter -- Collect Coborn's receipts –

Program: Set up Emergency Trailer for Field Day.

1. Three operating positions – call sign W0NOZ.
2. Two Honda EU 3000 3KW generators w/ synchronizing cable.
3. Air conditioning.
4. Mobil UHF repeater.
5. Yaesu 7000UD on 443.850 MHz.
6. 40 watts Icom 746 all band.
7. Icom 7000 all band.
8. Icom 2720h Dual band VHF/UHF.
9. 6 FT60r Hand held dual band portables with extra batteries.
10. 2 Trailer mounted vertical push up masts with 2 dual band vertical antennas.
11. 2 HF wire antennas (dipoles).
12. 2 Logging Computers (may be used for digital communications).

The trailer is 7x18, tandem axle, with a drop down ramp door on the rear, and walk in door curbside.

A consumer electronic magazine, This Week in Consumer Electronics

(TWICE), reports that Kenwood has agreed to merge in 2008 with Victor

Company of Japan (JVC) under a holding company.

Here is the section news for South Dakota, if there are any clubs that have material that they wish to have posted please email me the information no later than the 5th of the month so that I can get it posted to both the summary and the web site before the cut off date.  I received very little news this month so the section news is pretty short, I suppose everyone is busy with summer outdoor projects. Jerry KGØGG

Our Field Day was a huge success. With set up at the world famous Mammoth Site on Friday night and had everything ready to go at noon on Saturday. We even had air conditioning in our army field tent! Our SSB and CW totals were some of the best we have had in a few years. We had 3 of our teenage hams get on the air and make lots of contacts. Our pile up on 1Ø meters was solid for 3 hours. The only mishap was the flagpole breaking in the wind on top of our 5Ø' tower. The transmitter hunt on July 5 was a lot of fun. Glen, KAØSIN, made a good fox and gave us some much needed practice. We will probably try another hunt this summer. Our new storage shed should be in place by the time you read this and our new crank up tower has now been ordered. 73 and CU down the log.

Tim KØOR

WBØRJH expressed his appreciation of those helping in the May Emergency drill and cited positive comments from others in the after action report. Certificates in recognition of their dedicated service were issued to:

Laura-KCØYCB, Eldon-WØRTD, John-NØPIZ, Karen-KCØOCH, Bob-WBØNNI,

Vickee-NØRQY, Randy-KBØGGM, Sara-KCØWVG, Greg-NØNPO, Rod-KCØZHF,

Gary-AAØCT, Ed-NØOMP, Jody-WBØQVE, and Zeke-KI4NEA.

 WBØRJH asked for a vote by PARC to accept the merger of the Medicine Butte Radio Association into PARC. Jim-KCØWVF made a motion to accept the merger of Medicine Butte Radio Association and PARC, with their members becoming PARC members for the current year with Medicine Butte being responsible for their current liabilities and the termination of their legal status.Eldon-WØRTD second. The motion passed unanimously.

Jim-KDØS discussed future support of the Reliance and Murdo repeater sites. Electrical costs will have to be absorbed at both Reliance and Murdo. KDØS reported that cost for the 2 sites is estimated at $35-$4Ø per month. PARC has been donating surplus equipment such as feed line, antennas, etc but has not directly contributed cash to the support of the Murdo and Reliance site. WØRTD pointed out that PARC had made a direct cash contribution to the SD Amateur Radio Council but that money did not go directly to the support of either Reliance or Murdo and that the electrical costs for Murdo have ranged from $15 to $25 per month for the last 5 years and this should be caught up to date. KDØS reported that at the link meeting held in Pierre in 2ØØ5, PARC was asked to be responsible for Pierre, Reliance, and Murdo repeaters but PARC had never stepped up to the plate and voted our support. KCØOCH asked if membership could be assessed to support the link. WBØNNI offered that PARC members that wanted to use the link could be assessed dues with the proceeds going to SDARC. KDØS asked for a motion to support the link with the extent of monetary support to be voted on later. The motion died without a second.

Jim-KDØS made a motion to appoint Greg-WBØRJH as mediator between SDARC and PARC in setting up a meeting in Pierre that PARC would sponsor. Bob-WBØNNI second. Motion carried. All members will be notified of the meeting.  Greg-WBØRJH reports the MOU with the state has stagnated and we need to have another meeting with them. Kristi Turman needs to address the issues between State and OEM.

Rich KØPIR talked about field day. The location will be at the KDØS-WDØT property 6 miles east of Pierre on highway 14. WDØT and KDØS both have camper trailers that will be available. KCØWVF will check to see if OEM trailer is available.  KØPIR needs a list of radios and computers that will be available. A GOTA station will be set up this year. The tri-band antenna donated by WBØRJH will be used on the clubs crank-up tower. Members are asked to bring their own meat and a covered dish for the barbecue and to kick in $5 each for the breakfast on Sunday morning. WBØRJH said we need 2-1ØØ ft and 2-5Ø ft extension cords. We will meet at noon at EDØT-KDØS property. VE testing will be held at 4PM at fire station #4. KDØS showed slides of the 2ØØ7 Dayton Hamvention as well as a video of the K3LR contest station. Meeting was adjourned at 21:45.

KDØS

General Meeting Minutes June 15th, 2ØØ7.

Meeting called to order by Gary Peterson at 1933 MDT. Twenty-seven (27) members and guests were present.

Gary Johnson, KØKLR, reported to Gary Peterson that he may have come up with some very large batteries for our repeaters. The 1ØM Dish is going to be removed.

The light timer was inquired about and it has been decided that all outdoor projects are going to be suspended until we know more about the Radar project. A motion was approved to allow the treasurer investigate CDs and reinvest at his discretion. Jay Roman took the floor to talk about his work with youth on the OST. His group works with the NSF and NASA/JPL. Their work is in simulations of Mars and Moon exploration programs. He asked for help with coordinating and working with him to get youth involved in HAM radio. Field day is impromptu this year, show up at the clubhouse on next Saturday morning. It was voted on and approved that the dish group fund would be rolled into the general fund. Meeting was adjourned at 2Ø:Ø3 MDT.

Respectfully Submitted,

Charles M Douvier, Secretary