This is a one time announcement, that I felt might be of general interest to the hams who subscribe to this list. I won't be repeating it, and any responses should be sent direct to me, either at "inf

The ARRL Letter, Vol 28, No 15 (Friday, April 17, 2009) When Vandals Strike Infrastructure, Hams Provide Communications http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2009/04/15/10771/?nc=1 The friend who sent me t

There is new legislation being proposed and considered that exempts certain radio antennae, flagpoles and solar panels from CC&Rs. I believe that passage of this bill would be beneficial to hams that

Please check out the clubs web site at http://W5SC.org for complete information on Field Day 2009! I think the scope and size of this event shows the deep commitment that the Area's Amateur Radio oper

Fellow hamsters, I have an EPSON RX580 Photo All-In-one computer printer if anyone needs one. It was bought new 06/06/07 from Best Buy. Looks and works well. Unit comes with six recently replaced afte

If you are planning to help out from 8am to 1pm on Saturday, June 27th as part of the setup crew, or on Sunday, June 28th from 10:30am until whenever we finish as part of the teardown crew, please sen

News from the ARRL. http://www.arrl.org/?artid=9011 Of course this club had been around for almost 15 years before the FCC showed up. 73 Paul Guido, N5IUT

Some folks were asking tonight what the physical address of the Field Day Site was, so they could program it into their GPS units... Here is the official address of the Fire Fighter's Training Academy

Google disagrees with the address of "300 S. Callaghan Rd." Google Maps says that it ought to be around 200 block of S. Callaghan Rd instead. Here is a street level traffic shot of the Academy using t

http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2009/06/23/10902/ W1AW Announces 2009 Field Day Bulletin Schedule Stations active during <http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2009/06/23/10902//fieldday>ARRL Field Day --

Drove by the actual facility in person on Monday evening. The big sign in front verified as saying 300 S. Callaghan Rd, although street sign at next intersection says "SW Callaghan Rd", I also observe

I'm sure at some time, we've all seen a person (cop or volunteer) directing traffic and wondered where the heck they learned to do it in such a manner we were totally confused about what they were wan

For those of you involved in any pre-setup activities for Field Day on * Friday*, please monitor the 147.180 repeater for coordination and updates. Talk-in for Field Day on Saturday afternoon will be

FYI, it is going to be a SCORCHER on Saturday. We will have multiple air conditioned locations in which to cool off at Field Day. Please avail yourselves of them often. It *may* become necessary to te

I released the June issue of San Antonio Hams's monthly newsletter last night. By accident, I re-sent out the May 2009 issue, and for that I apologize to those who got that issue twice. The electronic

For each of you that came out this weekend and made Field Day happen for our combined organizations, I want to give you all a big kiss on the lips (but I won't). For now, know that you are all GIANTS

I carried 12 metal folding chairs (standard church issue type) to the Fire Training Academy site on Friday afternoon. During teardown today, I ended up with 13 of them. I don't know which one is the e

For those who wanted the direct link to the blog's posting, it got a bit messed up in my copy/paste during the prior message. Here's the link, but you already read the article.. http://sanantoniohams.

<http://sanantoniohams.org/blog/http://sanantoniohams.org/blog/?p=1983>SARC Meeting Report – 07/09 <http://sanantoniohams.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/100_1940.JPG> 100_1940 Tonight was the big

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