Panama City Amateur Radio Club February 2nd Meeting

The Second Panama City ARC Business Meeting of 2011 is Wednesday February 2nd at 7PM at the club house, 130 N. Church Ave Panama City.

The club is off to a great start this year. Thanks to all who have joined. We must keep the momentum going. The club is facing serious challenges and needs your support. All members are encouraged to attend. This meeting we will get more specific about Fundraising, Publicity, License Classes, Tail Gate, Field Day, and Jamboree-On-The-Air.

73s,

Greg Lane N4KGL
Club President

To Join Panama City ARC:

Please fill out a Membership Form and give it to the Treasurer at the business meeting. The fees are as follows:

Full Membership - $20
Family Membership - $30 per year with one vote per family unless each person pays regular membership.
Associate Membership - $10 without voting privileges and will be limited to those persons who do not hold a valid FCC license.
Paid Lifetime Full Membership: $600 with voting privileges providing member's amateur radio license remains in force

Shrimp Boat Net Helps Code Class

Our PCARC code class had some excellent on-the-air practice Wednesday from the Shrimp Boat Net. The net was operating on 3.560 and Pepto W5JBV was net control. We used a rig at the club house to check in. The net will be continuing to have 2nd and 4th Wednesday 7PM  sessions for our code class. The Shimp Boaters also frequent 3.815 sideband and include W3JW,  KJ4QVR, N5EJK, KE7YG, KE4TSU among others. Gary AJ4KY and John KJ4MAK are students in the code class.

Taylor Jones KE5ZNT Departing

Taylor Jones KE5ZNT is a 2nd Lt. in the Air Force and stationed at Tyndall. He has completed his Air Battle Management training and will be departing to his next assignment in Oklahoma City. Taylor upgraded to General during his stay in Panama City and has gotten on HF doing PSK-31. He was also in our Code Class and will be getting on CW before long. We wish Taylor well on his future assignments and expect to hear him on the air.


Greg
N4KGL

Charles Huffman passes his General Test

Charles Huffman passed his Technician and General Test at the clubhouse on January 19th. Congratulations Charles! Charles will be joining the club in February.

Here is some additional info about Charles and his company SVS Lifts on Jenks Ave in Panama City.

In 1988, Charles Huffman, an audio video technician with more than 25 years of video and electronic experience, invented a ceiling-to-floor scissor lift in his home garage. The lift invention arose from his experience with the difficulty, expense and safety issues surrounding the access and servicing of ceiling mounted video projectors. Mr. Huffman's extensive experience as a video technician and his thorough understanding of the precise and sensitive nature of video projector applications ensured that functionality, safety and quality were always in the forefront of any lift design.

In 1989, Mr. Huffman, along with members of his immediate family, incorporated SVS and filed for a patent on his first lift design. SVS was moved to a full manufacturing facility in 1991. Mr. Huffman received his first patent for the video projector lift in 1993, a second patent in 1994 and a third patent in 2003. SVS Lifts continues to maintain exclusive rights for use of the patents in the manufacturing of our lifts.

Panama City ARC 2 Meter Net Check-ins for January 17 2011

KI4ARJ Sgt Mac
N4BOY Ken
K4CTO Cliff
NH7FK Tim
KJ4GXH Joe
K3IJD Dick
N4KGL Greg
KJ4MAK John
N4RLF Randy
KE5ZNT Taylor

Everyone is welcome Mondays 7PM 145.210

Panama City ARC 2 Meter Repeater Challenge

The purpose of the challenge is to increase utilization of the local repeaters and to have fun.

Note: Always yield to emergency traffic or repeater support of an event like Iron Man.

The net referred to here is the PCARC 2 meter net that meets 7PM on Mondays. You do not have to be a member of Panama City ARC to participate.

A QSO is exchanging pleasantries or other info on any local 2 meter repeater serving Bay County not including net check-ins.

You can be called or they can call you. Only one QSO will count for a particular call per week.

You must have checked in to the Monday net to play the next week. 

Scoring:

• 1 points for QSO with ham who lives in repeater range and did not check into this weeks net
• 2 points for QSO with ham who does not live in repeater range and did not check into this weeks net
• 5 pt bonus for QSO with ham during the week that checks into the next net and that did not check into this weeks net. A late checkin will not count.

Report who you talked to and you total score for the week when we go around for comments.

Checkins and scores will be posted on the website.

There will be a weekly winner.

The weekly winners will go into hat for a drawing at the next PCARC club business meeting. The winner of the draw will get a prize. It may be a gag prize or it maybe something of value. It depends what we have. You have to be present to win. If you are not present we will draw another name.

If any repeater control operator objects we will cease using that repeater. The PCARC club may decide by a vote to end the contest. 

Any issues about the rules contact Greg N4KGL.. 

This is for fun!

Greg

N4KGL

PCARC President

January 5th Meeting Update

The January 5th PCARC meeting had a great turn out and lots of participation. The pizza was enjoyed and T shirts were sold. Donations were much appreciated. The club approved activities for this year including License Classes, a Tail-Gate, Field Day and a TBD Youth Event. Thanks to every participant! Many volunteered their help in specific areas. We will start the next level of detail to plan the club activities this month and discuss at the February 2nd Meeting. However, there were at least 470 hams in Bay County who did not make the meeting. Invite them to the next one. I encourage all of you who have not joined to do so. And if you can't come to us we will come to you just use contact form on the right column. See membership info below. Look for more updates on www.w4ryz.org and please join the W4RYZ Yahoo Group. I am very encouraged with the support so far!

Thanks

Greg Lane

N4KGL

Panama ARC President

To Join Panama City ARC:
Please fill out a Membership Form and give it to the Treasurer at the next business meeting. The fees are as follows:

Full Membership - $20
Family Membership - $30 per year with one vote per family unless each person pays regular membership.
Associate Membership - $10 without voting privileges and will be limited to those persons who do not hold a valid FCC license.
Paid Lifetime Full Membership: $600 with voting privileges providing member's amateur radio license remains in force.