ENTERPRISE AMATEUR RADIO SOCIETY PO BOX 310034 ENTERPRISE, AL 36331-0034 Pres - N4WIG ironmike@snowhill.com VPres - KF4JTF rbmesser@snowhill.com Sec/Treas - N4JAG rickpal@snowhill.com PIO - KD4FNI kd4fni@wd4roj.ampr.org News Editor - N4RYC geleam@snowhill.com SEPTEMBER 1999 NEWSLETTER The September meeting will be held at 7:00 PM, Thursday, 16 September, in Room S-100 at ESJC. DUES REMINDER The following members annual dues of $20 ($5 Associate) are due. August - KE4AYL, WA6GBJ (Assoc), KG2JD (Assoc). September - W4FOS, N4XGT, KL0LN/KB4OXW, 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. ROSTER UPDATE Let's welcome a new member this month - KF4WWA, Michael Goddard of 109 Oliver Drive, Enterprise, 347-5934. Say hello and make him feel welcome when you hear him on the repeater. EVENT CALENDAR EARS Meeting - 16 September Hamfest - Mobile - 25 September EARS Meeting - 21 October Hamfest - Montgomery - 13 November EARS Meeting - 18 November Hamfest - Dothan - 4 December EARS Christmas Dinner - TBA Boll Weevil Net on 147.24+ each Tuesday at 7 PM. Saturday morning breakfasts at Dottie's in Enterprise at 7 AM and at Ann's in Ozark at 8 AM. Wednesday lunches at the Deli in Daleville around 11:00. Amateur Exams following EARS meetings. Contact Tom, WA4YQT, at 464-0532 at least 24 hours in advance to schedule a test. EARS meeting location - Room S-100 at ESJC FROM THE OVAL OFFICE I look forward to seeing everyone at the September meeting. The meeting this month should be very interesting. Rick N4JAG is arranging for a guest speaker to talk about the Inter-City Link. Also this month we will accept nominations for Officers. Positions to be filled are President, Vice-President, Secretary/Treasurer and Public Information Officer. Elections will take place during the October meeting. If you nominate someone please ask that person first. You may also nominate yourself so this is you opportunity to serve. We have been asked to help with the Boy Scout Camporee again this year. JOTA is on October 16. We provided radios last year for the Scouts. There were many that wanted to talk on the radio and all had a good time. If you think you would like to be involved and work with kids, come to the meeting or contact me. Mike N4WIG REPEATER NEWS This month, Bob Luman ,W4MPQ, will be informing us on the re-instution of the Intercity Link and how we can help. Please attend so the we can do our part. Jerry N4RYC -------------------------------------- ELECTRONIC EDITION (from N4JAG): Jerry's spelling errors aside (hee hee), there are a number of Hams trying to get the AICN back in operation using 'existing' local-area repeaters. Our 147.24 machine could be one of them. Try to make the meeting and hear what is going on and find out how we can help. ------------- AMATEUR RADIO "COMMUNITY SITE" eHAM.NET IS ON-LINE Dubbed an Amateur Radio "community site," eHam.net, debuted September 2 at http://www.eHam.net. eHam.net can best be described as a community of ham radio operators from all over the world," said Bill Fisher, W4AN, one of the amateurs behind the new site. He says the site is--among other things--aimed at giving hams a place to share ideas through a chat program, as well as to contribute news, buy and sell, take practice exams, see equipment reviews, and get propagation information and DX spots. eHam.net includes a call sign server. Users will be able to add an e-mail address, Web site address, personal biography, and picture. Search tools will allow users to find community members with the same ham radio interests. The site also includes an unlimited number of real-time chat rooms. eHam.net also offers free ads to buy, sell or swap on-line. The eHam.net "Detective" search tool lets users find ham radio information on the Web. "We have indexed all of the archived mailing lists at contesting.com, qth.net, and others to provide you with one place to search for answers to your questions," Fisher said. The site also lets users view DX spots from all over the world and locate QSL managers quickly. A "Friends Remembered" department lets hams post reminiscences of Silent Keys. The site also includes various Amateur Radio-related links. The site includes news items from the ARRL and other sources. In addition to Fisher, others behind eHam.net include Randy Thompson, K5ZD, Garth Hitchens, KG7GA, and Trey Garlough, N5KO. (From The ARRL Letter, Vol. 18, No. 36, Sep 10, 1999) I have a link to their site from the EARS links page, and they have our site listed, as well. Check it out - they have a lot of information. ---------- Just a reminder that I'm sending out this electronic edition of the newsletter in plain text format, not MIME. The reason for that is so that you can print out a simple text document of it if you wish, and because I'm not certain which of you can *not* properly read MIME e-mail with different type sizes and styles, pictures, etc. I also keep the line length short because I don't know what your word-wrap length is set for. Some of you may view your e-mail in a full size window, while others might use a small window and the lines would break at unusual places. (I hate it when that happens.) Anyhow... just so you know. ---------- Don't forget to check out the EARS page at http://www.snowhill.com/~rickpal/ears.htm CU on the radio. 73 Rick N4JAG