San Antonio Hams

Dave Stone, Neighborhood Watch Coordinator
Great Northwest Community Improvement Association

silvercreek78250@gmail.com

Please mark your calendars and please pass the word amongst your neighbors and friends:

We have been offered a Cellular on Patrol class to be held at the Lodge of the Great Northwest on Saturday, 21 March 2009 starting at 8am. Instead of taking the full 8 hours, we are going to knock it out in about 5 hours. This course will be informative, even if you have no intention of actually “going on patrol”.

To make it even better, we are going to have free donuts and coffee and such in the morning as well as pizza and other vittles for lunch.

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History is in the making for San Antonio Hams in 2009.    All of the major  Ham Clubs in San Antonio appear to be reaching agreement in coordinating a single Field Day location rather than holding a half dozen separate locations as had been done in the past.

AARO led the way, after losing their normal comfy spot over by the VA Hospital. They started the search for a new location, and thanks to our Ham Radio ties with the City of San Antonio, specifically our ties with the Fire Department, they found a new location to hold Field Day.   The City Fire Department offered them the use of their Firefighters Training Academy, located west of the downtown area near Hwy 151 and Callaghan Road, as the site of their 2009 Field Day event.

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SAN ANTONIO’S 2009 bikeMS RIDE

CHANGES COME TO AN OLD FRIEND

By H. Milton Johnson, N5HMJ

On Feb. 18, the rumors about changes to the “Bike to the Beach” were confirmed.  In a press conference held at the Alamodome, Tony Ralf of the Lone Star Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society announced the changes.  Here is a summary of those changes:

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No Couch Potato Left Behind!  

Everyone is probably familiar with the “no child left behind” program used by the last US Adminstration, but have you heard about the new program called “No Couch Potato Left Behind”?

Last month (January 2009) during a San Antonio ham club meeting, one of our local TV Broadcast Engineers (who happens to be a ham operator) said Congress had proposed to extend the date (for the mandatory conversion to digital TV only), from Feb 17th to June 12th, on a market by market basis.

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 Texas Ham Assists In The Aftermath Of Australian Wildfires 

The Blue Mountains Amateur Radio Club, in Australia, has recently requested and  received permission from W2IK to publish his Emergency Telescoping VHF antenna system plans so club members can each build this antenna to help with emergency communications in the aftermath of the devastating wildfires which have killed hundreds of people and destroyed thousands of homes.

The Blue Mountains Amateur Radio Club will be converting W2IK’s design in to metric measurements before being published in their newsletter. The 50 year old club, is located in the area west of Sydney and maintains several repeaters in that area.

LOUISIANA QSO PARTY -  1500Z FEB.14 – 0300Z FEB.15, 2009

Sponsored by the Thibodaux Amateur Radio Club to promote ham radio activity from Louisiana and give amateurs world-wide contacts from Louisiana. Just like last week’s New Mexico QSO Party, mobile stations will be out to give contacts from the various parishes (counties). Go to: http://www.qsl.net/kd5wdy/LAQSO_/laqso_.html 

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