The Indianapolis Radio Club Founded In 1914 The oldest continuously meeting Amateur Radio Club in the United States The club was founded in 1914 and has met continuously since. The club is now a general Interest group that meets on the second Friday of each month, except July and August. The meetings start at 7:30PM followed by a program of interest to all. Programs cover a wide variety of interests; operation, technical subjects, talks by prominent Amateurs in our community as well as from other groups. Each December; the club hosts a dinner at which we present an award to the hard working amateur for Outstanding service to the Indianapolis Amateur community. We are currently meeting at the Indianapolis Training Center at 2820 N. Meridian. There's an amateur radio station in the center, which our club helps supply and maintain. Please attend our meetings and bring a guest. The AMACHEWER NEWSLETTER for JULY 2004 2004 JUNE meeting was held on Friday evening the 11th of JUNE ; This was "AUCTION" month!. Meeting was held at the Indianapolis Training Center, 2820 N. Meridian St. Our radio clubs 2004 theme : "Ham Radio is FUN!". continues true form.... All who attended had some very good chances to make those "RARE Ham Purchases" or steals.! -The Club is growing with leaps and bounds...35 attended this meeting ; our treasurer reports the membership to be 80+ -- Introduction, comments and notes: by President Chuck - W9IH -Welcome New young hams & youth attendees. -Welcome new club members & 1st time attendees to our meeting all were ask to return and bring friends or guests. * "HOW to JOIN IRC" (see treas. at the meetings) dues are $12.00/yr -Announcements? A. KIDS DAY June 19th (sat) 10a-4pm at the ITC facility; Ham room; west end of the main floor. Bring a young person and introduce them to Ham radio. B. IMS F1 race Special Event station …June 19 and 20 from 1500Z to 0300Z look for W9IMS on or around 1840, 3840, 7240, 14070 PSK31, 14240, 21340, 28340, 50140, 144.240 SSB and 146.52 simplex FM. -Additionally .-F1 race Freq. interference possible; around JUNE 19-20th we could hear some International users on the Indy Ham Repeaters due to the F1 race at IMS; unfortunately this has been ok'd by the FCC C. Field DAY June 26-27 IRC members have been invited to participate with the RCA & MARC ham clubs; (see the Field Day Links on main page for more info. D.-Coffee provided by ITC…special thanks E..-Congratulations to the 2 new No-Code Tech Hams that attended the K9XV Express Ham class for 3 days during June….Success !!!! F.- 90th year Hat fundraiser.. $20 with name & call (see sign up sheet allow 3 weeks) or goto IRC 2004 Hat Info on main page G. INDY HAMFEST IS July 10th 2004 (sat) At the same place as last year. CAMP SERTOMA US Highway 52 East at German Church Road Indianapolis For more info goto http://www.indyhamfest.com/ H. K9OOA Broadripple Swap meet August 7th (SAT) from 7:00AM to 1:00PM. Located on the north side of Indianapolis at 7373 Westfield Blvd. There are no fees. -Health & welfare? -A brief moment was given to the passing and memory of USA President Ronald Regan. -Both John Lee- W9GRE & Paul Bohrer-W9DUU attended this meeting and they looked very well; for a couple of "OM's" -No other H&W for this month. -Program: -VP… comments and Program introduction: Don - N9DOO introduced our Club resident AUCTIONEER- Wes Murphy- N9AJM; he briefed all on the procedures and the bidding was on.! "congratulations" to The IRC JUNE AWARD winners: QRP award: RON Cooper-WB9DKL ,20m mobile St. Croix Isl. & DX award: Steve Heininger-N0OI , 20 m- Kazakhstan; Notable 2nd place for this award goes to John Lee- W9GRE for 20m contact to Israel There was no raffle drawing this month ; however, rumor is; look for some great raffle items at the Sept.,October & November meetings. -There was no IRC JUNE 2004 Club General membership Business Meeting -The Executive Board did conduct a short meeting after the auction.. --MR. Bob Marschel- KB9TEA resigned his News Editor position. --A committee has been assigned the task of review and bringing our 1984 constitution & by-laws up to date. 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 Director: Bill Goodall - K9DBY - 255-4749 Director: Don Fulk - KB9EQC - 846-8845 News Editor: Vacant Asst. News Editor: Bob Osterhous - W9PSE 73;