ENTERPRISE AMATEUR RADIO SOCIETY PO BOX 310034 ENTERPRISE, AL 36331-0034 Pres - WA4YQT barefeet@alaweb.com VPres - KD4FNI kd4fni@wd4roj.ampr.org Sec/Treas - N4JAG rickpal@snowhill.com PIO - KD4KT leobet@snowhill.com Newsletter - N4RYC geleam@snowhill.com The September meeting of the Enterprise Amateur Radio Society will be held at 7:00 PM on the 20th in room S-100 of Enterprise State Junior College DUES REMINDER The following members annual dues of $20 ($5 Associate) are due. July - N4IGG. August - KF4WWA, KE4AYM, KG4IXC, W4PTG, September - W4FOS, N4XGT, KL0LN/KB40XW, N5TKT, KF4JCG. Please remember that after you are three months overdue, you will be dropped from the club roster. If you can't attend a meeting, please mail your check, payable to EARS, to the club address. Thank you for your support. EVENT CALENDAR EARS September Meeting - 20 September Dothan Hamfest - 29 September EARS October Meeting - 18 October Jacksonville, FL Hamfest - 27 October Montgomery Hamfest - 10 November EARS November Meeting - 15 November Boll Weevil Net on 147.24+ each Tuesday at 8 PM. Saturday morning breakfasts at Larry's in Daleville at 7 AM and at Ann's in Ozark at 8 AM. Wednesday lunches at the Deli in Daleville at 11:00. Amateur Exams following EARS meetings. Contact Tom, WA4YQT, at 464-0532 at least 24 hours in advance to schedule a test. ROSTER UPDATE Please drop AA4EQ and WA6GBJ from your roster. REPEATER NEWS The Enterprise 147.24+ machine is doing fine. The new Ozark 146.98- machine is sounding pretty good. The voice ID is that of Jodi Brooks from WKMX. Nothing new to report on the UHF machine. SEPTEMBER 11 2001 September 11th ,2001 is probably one of the worst days for American that most of us can remember. I can remember JFK and Challenger that left me feeling the same way. I am sure that each of you have your own memories that are strong for you. From what I have seen on the TV these last three days lets me believe that much good can come from this disaster. I have seen New Yorkers come together as a community. I have also seen our political leaders from both parties work together for a common goal. It appears that we have something to draw us together for a while. Let us hope that that continues for a long while. I am sure that many facts will have changed from the time that I write this and the time that you read it, but this remains. This story will go on for some time and we need to stay together to the finish. Meanwhile, we all need to do our part in ensuring that our leaders not only do something, but do the right something. To that end, we need to do our part with our prayers for our country and our leaders as well as for those victims and their families of the terrorists acts of SEPTEMBER 11, 2001. N4RYC --------------------------------------------------------------- Electronic Edition: Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television Commentator. What follows is the full text of his trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record. Just thought you might be interested. N4JAG America: The Good Neighbor. "This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth. Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of these countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States. When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it. When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped. The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans. I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the International lines except Russia fly American planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy, and you find men on the moon - not once, but several times - and safely home again. You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here. When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke. I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake. Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of those. Stand proud, America! Wear it proudly!!"