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2004 OFFICERS
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February Program:Mike, K8EHP, will present his 80 meter "Fox Hunt" directional antenna. NEXT NCARC MEETING TO BE HELD ON THURSDAY, February 12th. And on March 11th, (second Thursday) NCARC will meet at the Brookpark branch of Cuyahoga County Public Library. The Library is located on: 6155 Engle Road, at the intersection with Sylvia Rd., in Brook Park, Ohio. This will be the NCARC meeting place through June 2004. General Meeting 7:00PM, Trustee meeting 6:30 PM (STAY TUNED TO 145.29 FOR ANY LATE CHANGES) |
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Coast Amateur Radio Club - Called to order at 8:21 PM by KB8A, 12 Trustee's in attendance Vote taken for the 2004 Officers and Trustee's Pres. = WB8RNI VP = KB8A Treas. = K8MLS Sec = WD8EFK Trustee 1 = WB8UDA Trustee 2 = WD8EFF Trustee 3 = N8QXC Trustee 4 = Serving the remaining period for WB8RNI = AA8ZK Motion to Destroy the ballots by K8SCI 2nd by K8KQJ : Vote taken - Motion Passed A Motion to adjourn the Combined Trustee & General meeting by Mike (K8EHP)) 2nd by Diane (K8KQK) Vote taken, motion passed. Meeting Adjourned. *** AMATUERS IN ATTENDANCE ***
HANK
HAUSMANN - WB8RNI / FRED HEYSE - N8AHS / TOM HOLMES - WD8EFF - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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Coast Amateur Radio Club - Called to order at 6:45 pm by WB8RNI, 11 Trustee's in attendance Motion to Approve the Minutes as published in the last newsletter: by K8RDK 2nd by K8EHP vote taken motion passed. Reading of the Treasure's Report by Mary Lou K8MLS Unfinished Business: New Business: K8EHP is now the new Foxhunt Committee Chairman K8MLS is the new Sunshine Committee Chairman A Motion to adjourn the Trustee meeting by Rick (K8SCI) 2nd by Mike (K8EHP) Vote taken, motion passed. Meeting Adjourned. |
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NCARC Treasurer's Report 11/13/03 Beginning Balance: $ 440.48
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Beginning Balance: $ 440.48 73, de Mary Lou - K8MLS |
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NCARC Treasurer's Report 12/11/03 Beginning Balance: $ 531.90
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NCARC Treasurer's Report 01/08/04 Beginning Balance: $ 292.65
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FOLLOWING FROM ARRL "LETTER" LEAGUE FILES "A PLAN FOR THE NEXT DECADE" WITH FCC
The
ARRL has filed a Petition for Rule Making asking the FCC to amend
its Part 97 rules to complete the Amateur Service restructuring the
Commission left unfinished in 1999. The League wants the FCC to
create a new entry-level license, reduce the number of actual license
classes to three and drop the Morse code testing requirement for all
classes except for Amateur Extra (see "ARRL to Propose New
Entry-Level License, Code-Free HF Access" The ARRL says its petition follows in the footsteps of changes in Article 25 of the international Radio Regulations adopted at World Radiocommunication Conference 2003. Among those changes, WRC-03 left it up to individual countries to determine whether or not to mandate Morse testing for HF access. While several countries--including Germany, the UK and Australia--already have dropped their Morse requirements, the ARRL emphasized in its petition that Morse code is not the central issue. "Changes in Morse telegraphy are one aspect of the proposal, and it would be insufficient for the Commission to address those issues in a vacuum," the League said, calling its licensing proposal "a plan for the next decade." The ARRL said that plan's overall intention is "to encourage newcomers to the Amateur Service and to encourage those who enter its ranks to proceed further on a course of technical self-training and exposure to all aspects of the avocation." Last fall a total of 14 Morse-related petitions were filed with the FCC. Several called on the Commission to drop the Morse requirement altogether, while others proposed to keep and even expand the requirement or put forth various license restructuring schemes of their own. The petitions, RM-10781-10787 and RM-10805-10811, attracted thousands of comments from the amateur community.
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the Morse question, the ARRL says, the time is right--now that
WRC-03 has finished its work--to follow through on the restructuring
process the FCC began with its 1999 restructuring Report and Order
(WT 98-143) Among other things, that landmark Order, which became effective April 15, 2000, reduced the number of Morse code test elements from three to a single 5 WPM requirement for all license classes offering HF privileges. Simply dropping the Element 1 (5 WPM) Morse requirement, the ARRL asserted, would fail to address the critical need for an entry-level ticket other than the Technician. Calling the Technician license "a dead end" for many people, the ARRL said its proposed entry-level license--being called "Novice" for now--would offer newcomers a much wider sampling of Amateur Radio. It would require passing a 25-question written examination--but no code test--and offer limited HF phone, image, CW and data privileges at modest power output levels. "This structure provides a true, entry-level license with HF and other operating privileges which will both promote growth in the Amateur Service and integrate newcomers into the mainstream of Amateur Radio," the ARRL told the FCC. "It will better introduce newcomers to more seasoned licensees who will assist them." The League proposal also would consolidate current Technician and General licensees into General class without further examination. Future General applicants would not have to pass a code test, but the written exam would remain the same. Current Advanced licensees would be merged into Amateur Extra class without further testing, and the Extra exam would remain intact. The ARRL proposal would retain the Element 1 Morse exam for Extra class applicants. The ARRL said its overall plan dovetails with the FCC philosophy and goals stated in its 1999 Report and Order--to simplify the license structure and streamline the licensing process. The League said its plan would implement licensing requirements and privileges that are in harmony with each other and is designed to attract and retain "technically inclined persons, particularly the youth of our country" and encourage them to advance in areas "where the United States needs expertise." "Now, the issue is not merely whether there should or should not be Morse telegraphy as an examination requirement," the ARRL said, "but rather what is the best overall approach for positioning the Amateur Service for future growth and incentive-based self-training." A copy of the ARRL's Petition for Rule Making is available on the ARRL Web site <http://www.arrl.org/news/restructuring2/restrux2-petition.pdf>. The FCC has requested that individuals refrain from contacting or attempting to comment to the FCC on the ARRL's restructuring proposal before the FCC issues a Rule Making (RM) number for the ARRL petition and invites public comments on it. Until that happens, it is premature to comment to the FCC. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Shuttle Columbia commemorative special event set: The Nacogdoches Amateur Radio Club (NARC) in Texas will mark the first anniversary of the shuttle Columbia disaster February 1 with a daylong special event operation from W5NAC. The club says the operation will honor the lost Columbia astronauts, recovery workers and volunteers and agencies involved in the debris recovery effort. More than 350 Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES), Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES) and Deep East Texas SKYWARN volunteers assisted with the shuttle recovery effort by providing the other responding agencies with a unified radio communication system as well as providing up-to-the-minute weather information. "The amateur radio community really came together to serve during that time," commented NARC President Kent Tannery, KD5SHM. "That is what we train to do." Tannery said the special event is the club's way of showing respect to all of the volunteers and especially the Columbia crew members and their families. Details are available on the NARC Web site <http://www.andersoft.com/narc>. Supply rocket sans ham gear to arrive at ISS: NASA says the next Russian Progress supply rocket will arrive at the International Space Station January 31. On hand to greet and unload the unmanned rocket, which carries 2.5 tons of food, fuel and supplies, will be Expedition 8 crew Mike Foale, KB5UAC, and Sasha Kaleri, U8MIR. Not aboard the Progress will be additional Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) SSTV equipment and a Yaesu FT-100D HF/VHF/UHF multimode transceiver that ARISS had hoped might be able to go into space aboard this Progress flight. ARISS International Chairman Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, says the gear likely will be transported to the ISS during an April Progress resupply flight instead. ARISS-JA made arrangements for the donation of the Yaesu transceiver and of a Kenwood TM-D700E VHF/UHF transceiver now on board the ISS and installed in a second NA1SS amateur station in the crew's quarters. Bauer expressed his gratitude to both manufacturers for donating the gear. |
NCARC Communicator Editor - Hank WB8RNI
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