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| November, 2008 | Vol. 18 No.11 |
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Hope everyone enjoyed our three days of Indian Summer (November 4-6). It certainly was pleasant. Now I guess we are waiting for snow and cold to settle in for the winter. N1EVO and KB1OWW went up to Rocky Mountain on November 5th. They took the new antenna and installed it, along with a new cable. However, the repeater still is not working as it should. It was heard only from the base of Rocky Mountain. The Harvest Get-Together at Lakeview Restaurant was very pleasant. There were nineteen people in attendance. The food was good. The three door prizes were a fall cornucopia decoration, an Oreck cordless iron, and an ARRL publication of choice. | Sky Warn Appreciation Day will be held on December 5 & 6. The National Weather Service in Caribou has contacted me and asked me to see if any of you would like to take part. The radio equipment and antennas are set up Friday late afternoon. The event starts at 19:00 and runs for 24 hours. Our Christmas Potluck supper will be at the Northern Door Inn on Tuesday, December 9. Members, family and friends are invited. Some people have already told me what they will be bringing for the potluck. There will be a gift exchange, limit $5.00 on the gifts. Gale Flagg 108 Franklin School Rd Fort Kent, Maine 04743 Phone: 207-834-6670 E-mail: galeflagg@sjv.net Christmas Potluck, Dec.9, 6:00 PM, Northern Door Inn |
| Schedule of Coming Events | ||||||
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| Date | Event | Place | Contact | Sponsor | Time | Freq |
| SUN | Net | NB | VE1PIN | IRG | 2000 | 145.130 |
| MON | Net | Fort Kent | N1FG | SJVARA | 1900 | 146.64 |
| MON | Net | Presque Isle | WA1YNZ | AARA | 2000 | 146.73 |
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Start Time: 18:12 Members present: N1FG, W1TCP, KB1OWW, and N1EVO. Treasurer's Report: N1FRX:
Old Business: 1. Rocky Mt.: Rocky Mountain:Putting the new antenna up at Rocky Mountain has not solved the problem. N1EVO and KB1OWW tried everything they could think of after they installed the new antenna on Nov. 5th. They believe the problem is in the radio. They will try to bring the radio down if the the weather allows. The old antenna was tested and found to be intermittent. There was a short in it. They think that the finals in the radio may be burned due to that short. There was discussion about the Can-Am dog races and what we can do if the Rocky Mountain radio can not be retrieved. It was suggested that a good amplifier at Maibec and a good antenna might make reaching 146.640 possible. Randy Lewis, at Maibec last year, says he did reach 146.640 last year. |
2. 146.640 Repeater: 13.43 volts at 11:42 hrs November 11th.
N1EVO and KB1OWW will put the charger on 146.640 and test the batteries.
Anybody who can use 146.52 for long conversations, please do so.
New Business: 1. ARRL AUCTION: N1FG showed the Emergency Starter kit won in the ARRL auction. It included an orange vest, a big gear bag, a new repeater directory, an ARES Field Resources Manual and an ICOM V82 handheld radio, and a smaller bag for small items. 2.Christmas Party It was decided that we would have a potluck supper like last year, at the Northern Door Inn. Gift exchange with a $5.00 limit. Program: Due to poor attendance, we decided to hold the Kingman Reef DXpedition video
for another meeting. ( It is a very good video and not too long.)
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| Happy Birthday | |
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| Geminid Meteor Shower December 13-14th. Best viewing is all night. 65 meteors per hour, originating form the NE. Hopefully, we will have clear weather. This is usually a spectacular meteor event. | |
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"'It would be shortsighted to ignore the personal cultural value of amateur radio. . . . Amateur radio gives to ordinary men, leading the circumscribed lives of ninety out of a hundred people, a release from humdrum existence and routine compulsions; it makes them freer men.' So might the amateur radio hobbyist -- often called a "ham"--of the mid-twentieth century describe his activities. But where some saw liberation, others saw escapism. In 1956 the wife of one ham radio operator called practitioners 'truly the lost souls of the hobby world, lost to all sense of time, responsibility or physical comfort.' The men described by these quotations used radio to gain social and spatial distance in the midcentury American home, and the discourse that grew up around ham radio practice provides insight into how tensions between personal identity and responsibility altered family dynamics, particularly marital relations. That discourse and its implications for the social geography of the middle-class, postwar American home are the subject of this article.
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Later in the article it states that 95 to 99% of hams were male. "Drawn together by their technical interests and skills, hams thought of themselves as a fraternity." |
Heavy duty 40' galvanized steel tower, 16" X 16". Includes mounting hardware. $200. N1FRX. Force 12 EF-510, 5 ele 10m Beam w/balun New in the box, never installed Retails at $470/$480 ... asking $350 Call Don, K1FTK, at 543-6033 | Science Students collected by Richard Lederer |
F E E D - P O I N T November, 2008
Published by the St. John Valley Amateur Radio Association
| and distributed free to members and friends of Amateur Radio.
| President: Gale Flagg N1FG
| Vice President: Gil Daigle, N1JHD
| Secretary: Sandra Daigle, N1QMC
| Treasurer: Charles Zafonte, N1FRX
| Public Information: Charles Ames, N7GLR
| Technical Advisor: Carl Pelletier, N1EVO and June Despres, KB1OWW
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| Gale Flagg - N1FG / Stan Flagg 834-6670
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| Charles Ames N7GLR
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