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Enterprise Amateur Radio Society
April 2003 Newsletter |
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Amateur Radio Exams are given after each monthly EARS meeting. Please contact Tom/WA4YQT at 763-0532 at least 24 hours in advance to schedule an exam. |
Please try to attend the April 17th EARS meeting as a quorum is desired
in order to nominate/elect a new Vice-President.
Sonny/KD4IDG recently resigned his VP post for personal reasons.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has named
veteran Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko (RK3DUP) and veteran NASA
astronaut Ed Lu (KC5WKJ) as the primary crew for Expedition 7 on the
International Space Station (ISS).
This will be the first two-person ISS crew as well as the first primary
crew to journey to the space station on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
Launch from Kazakhstan is currently scheduled for April 26th.
ISS Expedition 6 Commander Ken Bowersox (KD5JBP), Flight Engineer
Nikolai Budarin (RV3FB), and NASA Space Station Science Officer Don
Pettit (KD5MDT) were due to return to Earth in March aboard the space
shuttle Atlantis, but will instead return aboard a Soyuz spacecraft in
May. They have been aboard ISS since November 23rd.
For more information: www.arrl.org
April 18th has been designated as Amateur Radio Day. This year's theme is Amateur Radio Supporting Technology Education in the Classroom. Amateur Radio Day is an annual event that marks the founding of the International Amateur Radio Union in 1925. |
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Gary/WA9WZV, your highly indecisive newsletter editor, has once again made a callsign change and will be officially known as K4EXT on or about April 18th.
The Boll Weevil Net meets every Tuesday evening at 8:00pm on the 147.24+ repeater frequency. Recent activity has been as follows:
Date Net Control QNI Total
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03/11 W4UZR/Jack 7
03/18 W4UZR/Jack 8
03/25 N4RYC/Jerry 8
04/01 WA4WQW/Duane 8
04/08 WA4WQW/Duane 7
Also please note that weekly Boll Weevil Net statistics are now
available online from the EARS newsletter site at:
Two Kenwood TS-941A tri-band transceivers. 146 MHz, 440 MHz and 1.2 GHz.
Also, a Minolta Maxim 9000 35mm SLR camera system. And a Sears electric
Treadmill with power elevation. Contact N4JAG.
3 Nokia Model 918 Cellular phones. Leather case, cigar-lighter plug,
extra battery. Contact KA4AFI.
Contributions (articles, stories, equipment ads, tidbits, etc.) to the EARS
newsletter are definitely welcome! Please Email your creative works to:
... or catch Gary on the Tuesday night Boll Weevil Net. |
Please note that the following member's annual dues of $20 ($5 Associate)
are due:
Saturday April 26th Gainesville, Florida www.gars.net
Cherokee Capital Amateur Radio Society
Birmingham Amateur Radio Club
Dayton Hamvention®
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