ARRL-SC Section News
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This month's South Carolina Section News, as recorded on the ARRL website above:
Greetings to all Amateur Radio Operators. This is Dr. Jim, N2ZZ with the June 2009 South Carolina Section Manager’s Report! Please remember that the SC Section website can be found at: www.arrl-sc.org/ where my full SM report will be listed as well as up-to-the-date information on Amateur Radio in South Carolina!
Field Day 2009 will be held THIS weekend on June 27th and 28th! Field day information and the complete Field Day package are available here: http://www.arrl.org/contests/rules/2009/fd.html . If your group has not registered on the ARRL Field Day Locator, please add your site to http://www.arrl.org/contests/announcements/fd/locator.php . This will allow the public and Amateur Radio Operators looking for Field Day activity to find your Field Day site. Charlie AE4UX, SEC and I will be traveling around the state again this year to visit Field Day Sites within South Carolina! If your group would like a visit, please send detailed driving directions, planned hours of operation, and contact information (Cellphone if possible) to ae4ux@arrl.net and n2zz@arrl.org . Please send us your information as soon as possible so that we can finalize our route! For you APRS fans, I am planning on using an APRS tracker (N2ZZ-10) to show our route in real time! We are looking forward to the trip! I am pleased to report that Governor Mark Sanford has proclaimed June 22-28, 2009 as AMATEUR RADIO WEEK and June 27-28, 2009 as AMATEUR RADIO FIELD DAY!
Mac K4AVR reports: The Ninth Annual PALS Net Two Meter Picnic will be held at Cheraw State Park this year on Sunday, September 27. We have the Boat Dock Picnic Shelter that we have used in the past reserved again for this year. We will try to get everything on the table and ready for folks to eat as close to Noon as possible. After we have a chance to eat, there will be a short PALS Net meeting with report from the officers about the past year, the upcoming projects for the coming year and election of officers for next year. Afterwards there will be plenty of time for eyeball QSO, pickin' and singing, and anything else the folks would like to do. The picnic will be a Family Style Picnic, where everyone brings something they would like to share, we put it all on the table and everyone has a chance to sample everything.
I received several reports regarding the Mount Mitchell repeaters in North Carolina potentially losing their tower site. Alice Knighten, General Manager of WMIT informed Ken Woodard WA4BVW to ..."Please plan to remove all of your equipment from the site and return the access keys to our office by July 31, 2009." A call went out to all amateur radio operators to send letters to the station and parent company indicating how important that repeater site was to amateur radio communications and emergency operations, including SKYWARN. Fortunately, discussions ensued, and word from Dean Blair K2JB, WCARS president, is to “stand down”, and not send any further communications to the station. My latest information (received from K4AVR) was that WA4BVW had received a letter from the Blue Ridge Broadcasting Company extending the date of removal for one year. Hopefully this should allow time to address whatever issues that caused the removal notice in the first place.
I received a request from Steve Ewald WV1X from ARRL Headquarters. September QST will have a theme on Emergency Communications, and they are looking for photographs. Write to qst@arrl.org with your high resolution photograph (and send me a copy at n2zz@arrl.org ) for possible publication in QST! A few pointers on QST cover photography are available here: http://www.arrl.org/qst/cover_photo.html .
I also received information from Bob Inderbitzen, NQ1R from ARRL Headquarters. He reports that the ARRL regularly receives inquiries from conventions and exhibition groups, seeking representatives on behalf of the Amateur Radio Service. He received a request from the South Carolina Patriot Expo, www.patriotexpo.com . The event will be held June 27th, 2009 at the Embassy Suites in Columbia, SC. Any club interested in participating should call the event coordinator directly. The contact information provided is Teresa at 803-312-3406 or please visit their website for exhibitor information.
If you have a amateur radio news item that you feel would be of interest to hams state-wide, please send it to me at n2zz@arrl.org . I request that it be in a format where I can cut-and-paste the item without having to do significant editing. In this format, I can easily add the information to the www.arrl-sc.org webpage as well!
That’s it for June! See you next Month!
May 2009 National Traffic System Report for South Carolina by N4MEH, STM:
Net Reports
Net/Check Ins/Traffic/Sessions/Reported By
Blue Ridge Amateur Radio Net /2572/51/31/K4SUG
Carolina's Net/252/78/62/K4IWW
Carolina State Line Net/44/0/4/W8SC
Grand Strand ARC 2M Net/148/18/13/KI4HEE
Greater Pee Dee 2 Meter Net/767/43/31/K4DTT
Greenwood ARC 2 Meter Net/87/5/4/W4DEW
Lancaster County 2 Meter Net/86/10/12/N4WMB
PALS Net /829/78/31/KG4KOE
SC SSB Net/1993/90/31/W4DDK
SC State ARES Net/211/7/5/KE4RVF
Trident/30/10/4/W4KSD
York Co. ARS 2 Meter FM Net/693/2/50/KG4CDF
Station Activity Reports
Station/Sent/Received/Delivered/Originated/Total
N4MEH/36/59/3/6/104
W4DDK/4/29/2/4/39
W4KLB/72/86/14/0/172
Public Service Honor Roll
Station/Cat1/Cat2/Cat3/Cat4/Cat5/Cat6/Total
N4MEH/40/40/10/0/0/0/90
W4KLB/40/40/20/0/0/0/100
Have a Great Month!!
’73 de Dr. Jim N2ZZ
ARRL Section Manager|
South Carolina Section
www.arrl-sc.org