The Indianapolis Radio Club Founded In 1914 The oldest continuously meeting Amateur Radio Club in the United States The AMACHEWER for January 9, 2004 Met at the Indianapolis Training Center 2820 N. Meridian St Indianapolis, In 2004 IRC Officers President : Chuck Crist - W9IH - 787-6674 Vice President : Don Hemenover - N9DOO - 870-1235 Secretary : Maria Chambers - KB9RLG - 357-6308 Treasurer : Tom Chance - K9XV - 787-1093 Chief Operator : Mike Carmer - KB9RBF - 357-6308 News Editor : Bob Marschel - KB9TEA - 727-6636 Asst. News Editor: Bob Osterhous - W9PSE Director : Bill Goodall - K9DBY - 255-4749 Meeting Minutes from our January 9, 2004 Meeting: Meeting was held at the Indianapolis Training Center -Chuck Crist -W9IH; called meeting to order at 7:30 pm then Introduction of officers followed by self-introductions of visitors & members . 42 in Attendance Treasurer Report : Wade Kingery handed the Officers the treasures report for the previous month. Since the new Treasurer Tom Chance was stranded in Boston. Wade handed out membership cards. Old Business : -This is our 90th year that the club has been in existence and our theme for this year is _"Ham Radio is Fun and Teamwork". The web page is like our new banner. -Bill Goodall- K9DBY and Chuck Crist- W9IH handed Mike Sercer- WA9FDO his Amateur of the Year Award 2003 since he could not make it to the Christmas Dinner. New Business : -We will be having a picnic at Joe Lobraico- K9OOA annual hamfest on August 7th of this year. -Chuck is activating the committees. Operations / Contest committee: -They had a contest this past Saturday at the ITC. Tom Chance will head it up, also there is a contest in Feb.9-13, 2004 called School Club Roundup this is especially for school stations any one station can only operate 24 hours total. -Chuck - W9ih introduced the New IRC monthly Longest DX contact award. It will be awarded each month and returned for the following month. Dave- N9KZJ chaired the contest. Winner to be announced at end of the program each meeting. Education / Youth committee: -Steve Wendt-KB9RDS is (temp) chairperson of this group, the kids have a net that they run and it is just for kids to check; it is every Sunday night at 5:30 pm on the INDY 146.70 repeater. -We are also trying to get a class started for training kids and adults in Ham Radio and to help them study for their NO-CODE TECH license tests. Health & welfare: -Max Kennedy is still in the hospital and also Paul Bohrer was in the hospital, Paul is out now and Max is going to have surgery, we would like to wish them both well. Max is at St. Vincent on 96th st. Send get well cards to wish him well and bring up his spirit. Chief-op update: -Mike Carmer-KB9RBF is going to take an inventory of the radio and things in the Radio room. -We are trying to link our web page to the other various groups around town. Other announcements: -Bill-K9DBY talked about the IRA _ the largest coverage repeater and that the IRA need support to keep the 146.70 and the rest of the repeaters up to date, the IRA has 4 repeaters that cover this controller area and the 146.625 machine is getting a new repeater and very soon. With Ham user donations they will be able to update the rest of the repeaters. -Bob Blake -N9FIM had two announcements; 1st…there will be a Severe Weather Spotters Training ,Feb.28th at 9am at the Mystic Circle at 7502 E. 56th st., Dave will teach the 2 hour course, Bring your friend, family, firemen or police for the training. 2nd …Terry Smyser passed away Jan. 9, 2004 the showing was Sun Jan 11th 3-6pm at Harry Moore on Pendleton Pike between Franklin Rd. and Post Rd.. He was the prize booth guy at the Hamfest and he will be missed. -If anyone one is interest in being a part of the hamfest committee you can email or snail mail Maria - KB9RLG. -Mike Sercer- WA9FDO had an announcement; if you have power line / radio interference call him at 261-8993. Program: -VP Don- N9DOO introduced our guest speaker :John Mishler ;Division Commander for the Indiana State Police communications. John ran the Teletype communications at the post. He talked about the low band 42mhz in 1973 and they are still using this system today. They just turned off the Analog system in that been running since 1990 it was tuned off on 1-8-04. They had high band repeater systems and 800mhz systems. They are trying to link all the state of Indiana and the connecting state together, the trunk digital system cost $100 million . He gave a very good presentation and we thank him for being our guest. -The monthly DX contact award was given to Steve Wendt-KB9RDS. This was the 1st time for this award ; congrats to Steve. Next month speaker: will be Gary K9SG and the topic will be _ Dxpedition to the Curacao Island: Venezuela_ Next IRC meeting will be Feb 13th at 7:30p at the Training Center. -Also remember our club website www.indyradioclub.org There is a lot of useful Ham club related information on this webpage See you all at the meeting in February . _