Newsletter - July 2005

Hi to everyone.  Sorry the newsletter is sort of late, it's been a hectic month.

 

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August Meeting

The August meeting of the Hoosier Hills Ham Club will be on August 2nd, at 7 PM at the ham club.  There will a vote on the application for membership for Jerry Kutche, N9LYA, and his XYL Retha, KC9DDP, at this meeting.  The rest of the agenda has not been determinded.

 

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Special Events Station

There will be a special events station at the Mitchell Persimmon Festival.  This will be the last full week of September and Hal, W8AIR, and Tim, K9US, are running the show.  If you would llike to help out by participating please contact one of them.  The callsign for the special events station is K9P.

 

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Bedford Historical Days

We received a call from a local ham that said he was talking to Norm Taylor who is setting up a historical dayshow at Murray Forest Park on August 12th.  He said he might be interested in having  a display of old time ham radio, CW with a straight key, display at this event.  If anyone is interested please contact Keith, N9KH, at 275-3415 as soon as possible.

 

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July Foxhut Results

Two foxhunt temas, Brandon and Diana, KB9SNP and KB9WRX, and Larry, WA9FFZ, showed up to niff out the fox. Mike, KF9NP.  Mike was hidden at the end of a gravel road named Mystic Lake Road in the Lawreceport area.  The road ended at the river and Mike's 2 meter beam was pointed up the river, making for interesting multipath.  Larry was the first one to arrive 1 hour into the hunt and logged 12.5 miles.  Brandon and Diana arrived 15 or so minutes later with 18.2 miles.  Diana commented that they took the scenic route, a phrase all fox hunters have probably used at one time or antother.  Erratic signal bearings, reflected signals, wrong turns, backtracking and such spells disaster if one of the hunters drives almost straght to the fox den, which seems to be the case for nearly every hunt.  Back Yard Burgers was the gatering place for those involved.  Keith, N9KH, and Ann, K9NOT, joined int he fellowship. 

 

Larry, WA9FFZ, will be the fox on August 20th.  Starting time will be 5:30.  A reminder will be sent nearer the time for the hunt.

 

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73 de K9NOT