Activities

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This page under the direction of Activities Chairman
Bill Cawthorne, KF7SZT

April Club Picnic

• Club picnic pictures shot by Larry, WB7C --by Larry, WB7C 13:23, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Bill, KF7SZT cooking up the meat

The picnic was a tad warm for most but we all enjoyed the food provided by Gene and Jo who pre-cooked the Brats and that made the grill time short. Wonderful conversation ensued. The bean bag game began to get competitive despite the weather. Arizona is hot enough to burst a soda can in a pickup truck bed. I saw it happen at the picnic. I will anticipate next years fun.

Equipment for sale

As I QSTd on the Wed. night net, the following email was sent to me by a ham I met at the Falcon Field event.

"Bill I talked to you at the Falcon Field show. Attached is what I have:

• 1 Icon 730 with a few scratches on the case,
• MFJ 996 Ant tuner new,
• Alinco DM 340MV dc power supply,
• Radio Shack 10meter,
• A 2meter ant,
• And some misc stuff.

I'd like to sell as a package for $700.00 If you interested let me know or if you don't want it please get it in your news letter.

Thanks Ralph" retiredralph@yahoo.com

Feathered Friends Festival

I had asked for interesting events from all and the first response was an event from Tom:

"Here is some information about the Feathered Friends Festival that I was telling you about last night. This page has general information.

This page has more information about exhibitors (2012) and contact info.

Their exhibitors are largely related to wildlife and nature. But I would see us with a message of 'have communication without depending on a cell phone' or something similar. I have not checked on cost, but seeing some of the exhibitors it must be nominal.

If you need any help on this let me know,

-- Tom

AD7PM"

I will follow through with the URL and bring the event info to our next meeting.

Astronomy

Should interest in astronomy show, I'm sure it would take very little convincing for me to set up a scope while we do some DXing into the night. Another ham has invited me to set up and talk telescopes. Maybe he could set up at this event.

Relay for Life at Red Mountain High

My poor planning caused a lack of participation at the Relay for Life at Red Mountain. Next year should prove to be better. As this is a national event, would the ARRL help in some manner with national coordination? Just a thought.

Now using Linux

This page is now being edited in a Linux environment on my laptop. I downloaded and installed Ubuntu 11.10. Very easy and it helped me repair the Internet problem I had. At the last regular meeting a group volunteered to do a Linux presentation at the April meeting. Please let me know if I can be of service for this presentation.

Refurbishing a boat anchor

I have an interest in choosing and refurbishing a boat anchor. Let's make this a topic for a regular meeting. Bring examples of hardware, resources, and skills involved. This should be a large time requirement to cover the topic and could be a running presentation for a part of our meetings. Email me and we'll set it up. Along with a show and tell from our membership, we could introduce a whole host of topics.

Field Day

Field Day, June 23 and 24, 2012 is a ppage adapted from last year, which has the maps at the bottom of the page.

During the April meeting I would like an update of planning for Field day. The location is being settled by consensus at the ridge above Pine/Strawberry. It's only 60 days out.

Ideas on linking repeaters

A method of linking repeaters was brought to my attention by Steve KB7KWK. More fun stuff and operating hints are welcome.

73 all

Bill