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Another interesting e-magazine is called TALKING ELECTRONICS by Colin Mitchell.

http://www.talkingelectronics.com/

Colin created TALKING ELECTRONICS magazine back in the 1980’s Australia to help educate those interested in electronics. The website provides lots of information and circuits for those that wish to learn electronics and gain some insights into practical construction techniques. Just scroll down the left side column on the interactive index page to sample and explore some of the available documentation:

http://www.talkingelectronics.com/te_interactive_index.html

Might be a great way to get the youngsters interested.

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If you like the DIT file please let me know. You may want to return to the K7QO CD and listen to files: 028.mp3, 011.mp3 and 054.mp3

Any new ideas or suggestions that can help folks learn to recognize some of their trouble characters: F, L, B, V etc. are welcome. What works for you may work for others as well.

Practice, Practice, Practice… the best Practice comes from ON the Air contacts!

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Orders for the November Tech-Night Kits is now CLOSED.

Brian will be handling the order shortly.

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Not a newbie question at all; my mistake for neglecting to include it.

Yes, it will be at the normal monthly club meeting venue (Nauss Hall) at 7pm.

Thanks for checking.

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Sorry for the newbee questions but is the time 7:00 and is the place at the monthly meeting venue?

Ernie Swersky KC1GIR

 

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Monday 10/10 and nobody checked in on the air or on the webex phone line. Fred had contacted me to let me know he was not going to be able to join this evening. I decided after calling CQ for 20 minutes to pull the plug for today.

Hopefully, some of our group will have a chance to join us again on Thursday evening.

Mike

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Thanks Fred and Mike for the input. Since I have the long weekend, I’ll try playing around with it to see how well it works. So much to learn!! And I mean that in a good way.

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Mike,

Fred – AB1OC has setup a conference call that you can call into… this was posted on this forum about two weeks back and you can find it under the topic:

CW Slow Net Webex Information-

We have dropped the Webex ONLINE feature and just use the voice call-in line.

We meet on Monday and Thursday at 8PM Local time… Presently using 14.052 Mhz for the on the air practice QSOs.

Please call in on the phone line using the dial in credentials provided in the Webex message. We’re flexible and hope to help folks learn and improve their skills.

I also have some CDs with the K7QO code material we used as a study guide. Please contact me and I can get a copy of one to you. Just send me an email at [email protected] and let me know how to reach you.

Welcome aboard the slow CW net.

Mike

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This is my first posting so hopefully I did it OK…

Would it be possible to let other club members know on the website that a particular ham radio operator is listening to a particular frequency?  Lets say that you have the option of contacting that individual online prior to a CW QSO you could then talk about WPM spacing etc. and then try to have a QSO without the adrenaline freak out moment?  I don’t always know when I can get on the air so it would be nice as a newbie to talk to other newbies or experienced operators that have the patience to work with my lack of skill.

Thanks,

Mike AB1YK

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Hi Mike,

I had a little time here at work this morning to look into this a bit before my day starts.  I called ARRL to find out how to handle the paperwork, so please let me know if this process sounds like what you experienced.

1)  New or Renewal ARRL Member fills out the first page or “Membership Application” of the attached form… [attachment file=5776] , member remits form and payment to our Club.  The person at HQ I talked to mentioned something about renewal notices that a person gets might be used to submit to Club too (?).  I can’t remember what a renewal notice looks like in the mail, I’ve been a Life member for quite some time.
2)  The Club gathers up New or Renewals, fill out the Reconciliation Form, and retain the benefit amount, when mailing in the “package” of applications.

If all the above sounds good, then I can see the process internal to the Club working like this:

– Member to remit form and full amount, as shown on form to the Club (cash or check made to “Nashua ARC”); Club cuts a check to ARRL, minus what it gets to retain, when sending in the package.  Apps/package to be processed monthly.

I do see a place on the Membership App, where a member can submit credit card info to pay the ARRL dues (minus retention fee), and member giving the Club the retention amount separately.  I can understand the hesitancy to put credit card info out on forms, so I am not expecting this to be the way to pay.

Remitting payment to the Club via PayPal hasn’t been worked out yet.  So, cash and check are the only options right now.

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