The Roane County Amateur Radio Club will meet on Thursday January 12th at 7:00 pm in The Roane County Rescue Squad Building 2735 Roane State Highway, Harriman, TN. It is in the Midtown area just across from the drive in theater. I hope everyone can make it and if
you have never been to one of our meetings before, let’s get
the new year started off right and come on down!! We
would love to meet you and always welcome new visitors and
members.
Talk In Frequency 147.015+ (PL 110.9)
C-ya
Jim
K4APY

What: RCARC Christmas Dinner / Meeting / Election of
officers for 2012
When: Thursday December 8th 2011
Pot Luck Dinner at 6:00 pm. RCARC will provide ham
and condiments. Everyone else bring a dish based on the last
letter of your callsign. For A through I, bring a salad; J
through R, a side dish; and S through Z, dessert. (Please rsvp
if your coming and bring a dish so we will have a head count!)
Meeting and election at 7:00 pm
Where: The Roane County Rescue Squad 2735 Roane State
Highway, Harriman, TN. It is in the Midtown area just across
from the drive in theater. We meet in the conference room
directly behind the United Way office.

ALL RCARC MEMBERS It Is Important that You Attend This Meeting!
This election determines our officers and the direction
our club takes for the next year. If you want to run for an
office feel free to send me or any club officer your request to
be placed on ballot. See the RCARC by laws on
www.ke4rx.org for qualifications to run for office.

Finally at Decembers meeting we begin taking renewals for
membership for the RCARC, so if your a Roane County
Amateur Radio Club member, don’t forget to renew in
December/January for the 2012 year. New members are
welcome to join anytime. Annual dues are still only $15 .
I hope to see y’all there!
Jim K4APY
k4apy@arrl.net

Hello Everyone

This coming Thursday November 10, 2011 at 7 PM. is the monthly meeting of The Roane County Amateur Radio Club at The Roane County Rescue Squad building in Midtown, TN. Try to come on down and meet with us. We don’t bite, we promise!! On the agenda is seeing who wants to run for club office for our next year and planning for the Christmas meeting and Dinner to be held on December 8th at The Rescue Squad Building probably about 6:00 pm, but we will see after this Thursday. If you want to run for a club office see the club bylaws on www.ke4rx.org for officer criteria.

See Y’all this Thursday
Jim
K4APY

Here is the September issue of The RCARC Beacon. The next RCARC club meeting is October 13th, 2011 @ 7:00 pm. Its early so make plans to come. C-ya

Jim
K4APY

I just want to remind folks that The Roane County Amateur Radio Club will meet on Thursday August 11th at 7:00 pm in the Roane County Rescue Squad building in Midtown. Come on down and meet folks who share a common interest in Amateur Radio.

Also the KE4RX repeater is back on the air alive and well on 147.015+ (pl 110.9). Thanks to Cliff Segar KD4GT, David Rogers KC4WGH, Jim Dalton K4FPG for all their hard work on the repeater and antennas and to Danny Britton KB4TEP for climbing the tower and installing the antennas for us! Great Job Y’all!

Click Here to View The RCARC Newsletter for July 2011

Sorry I’m running behind a bit with the newsletter.

I just want to remind folks that The Roane County Amateur Radio Club will meet on Thursday June 9th at 7:00 pm in the Roane County Rescue Squad building in Midtown. Come on down and meet folks who share a common interest in Amateur Radio.

RCARC will participate in Field Day on June 25 and 26 at The Fort Southwest Point park pavilliion in Kingston, TN. behind the baseball field. Everyone is welcome to attend. Come on by and support RCARC and check out our operation. Send me an e-mail if you need directions.

Finally Jim Dalton K4FPG told me that the Roane County VE exam that normally would be held on June 11th was going to be the following Saturday 6/18/11. If you want to schedule a Ham Exam, just send Keith Dalton an e-mail. Follow the link to the right for VE Testing.

I hope to see everyone Thursday night at the meeting.

Jim
K4APY

I just want to remind folks that The Roane County Amateur Radio Club will meet on Thursday May 12th at 7:00 pm in the Roane County Rescue Squad building in Midtown. Come on down and meet folks who share a common interest in Amateur Radio.

Don’t forget The Roane County Amateur Radio Club Monday Night Net will be on 147.120 (pl 82.5) tonight @ 8:00 pm. This is the backup frequency while KE4RX/r is down for repair. KE4RX/r should be back on the air soon.

Jim
K4APY

I just want to remind folks that The Roane County Amateur Radio Club will meet on Thursday April 14th at 7:00 pm in the Roane County Rescue Squad building in Midtown. Come on down and meet folks who share a common interest in Amateur Radio.

Don’t forget The Roane County Amateur Radio Club Monday Night Net will be on 147.120 (pl 82.5) Monday @ 8:00 pm. This is the backup frequency while KE4RX/r is down for repair. KE4RX/r should be back on the air soon on 147.015+ (pl 110.9).

Finally the Roane County VE team will offer amateur radio exams this Saturday April 9th at 9:00 am. Pre-registration is required. Contact Jim Dalton K4FPG or Keith Dalton WV4G to schedule your exam or information on taking an exam. See their contact information in the RCARC Newsletter or follow the link for VE testing to the right.

This coming Thursday March 10th @ 7:00 pm is the Roane County Amateur Radio Club monthly meeting. SKYWARN training by the National Weather Service in Morristown is on the agenda. Training begins promptly at 7:00 and the RCARC business meeting will follow. Training lasts about 2 hours. I hope everyone can attend!!

Jim
K4APY

RCARC meeting will be January 13th at 7:00 PM in The Roane County Rescue Squad building in Midtown. Y’all come on down!!

RCARC Newsletter 120110Here is December 2010 Roane County Amateur Radio Club Beacon newsletter. Don’t forget this Thursday December 9th is the RCARC meeting and Christmas Dinner at The Roane County Rescue Squad building in Midtown. Be there at 6:00 PM. for dinner and the meeting and election of officers will follow. C-ya there!!

Jim
K4APY

I’d like to let you know that the Monday Night net control schedule is online. Just click on “schedule” to the right to access it. If there are any problems, please send me an email and we will try to work something out.

If you have to miss your scheduled day unexpectedly, please contact myself or another person to run the net for you.

After membership applications are turned in and we built a club roster for 2011, we will make a new net schedule will all the members on it.

Thanks!

Cody, KI4FUV

canderson@ke4rx.org

Jim
K4APY

Dont’ forget The Roane County Amatuer Radio Club will meet at The Rescue Squad Building in Midtown on Thursday October 14th at 7:00 pm. Come on down and be part of the club!.

Jim
K4APY

It is published by Jim White, K4APY.

RCARC Newsletter 090110

If you did not receive the information, please email me and I will send you all the details. We are not giving out the URL to the system to help prevent spam.

Thanks for all you do! You can email me with questions.

Cody, KI4FUV

Remember that a meteorologist from the National Weather Service office in Morristown will be at our club meeting, this Thursday to teach a SKYWARN Spotter class.

The meeting and class will be held at the Roane Co. Rescue Squad building in Midtown at 7:00pm (Eastern).

This meeting is open to anyone who would like to attend.

Talk-in will be on the 147.120 Repeater.

From ARRL website: Link

http://www.arrl.org/?artid=9398

http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2010/01/13/11288/

On Tuesday, January 12 at 4:53 PM Haiti time (2153 UTC), a magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit 10 miles (15 kilometers) west of Port-au-Prince, the island nation’s capital. Communications in and out of Haiti have been disrupted. No word has been received as of yet from any of Haitian Amateur Radio operators. The ARRL encourages US amateurs to be aware of the emergency operations on the following frequencies: 7.045 and 3.720 MHz (IARU Region 2 nets), 14.265, 7.265 and 3.977 MHz (SATERN nets), and 14.300 MHz (Intercontinental Assistance and Traffic Net); the International Radio Emergency Support Coalition (IRESC) is also active on EchoLink node 278173.

IARU Region 2 Area C Emergency Coordinator, Arnie Coro, CO2KK, is coordinating a multi-national response by hams. There are organized nets on 7.045 and 3.720 MHz; amateurs are asked to monitor the frequencies, but to also keep them clear of non-essential traffic. Amateur Radio operators should also be aware that emergency traffic pertaining to the Haitian earthquake is expected on the SATERN frequencies of 14.265 MHz, 7.265 MHz and 3977 MHz, according to SATERN’s leader, Major Pat McPherson. The Salvation Army is accepting health and welfare traffic requests on its Web site.

“As late as 9:45 PM local time (0245 UTC), we have not been able to contact any amateur or emergency services stations in Haiti,” Coro said in an e-mail. “Amateurs from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Venezuela are monitoring the 40 meter band frequency. We are still keeping watch on 7.045 MHz, hoping that someone in Haiti may have access to a transceiver and at least a car battery to run it,” but so far, no HH stations have checked in. Tuesday’s quake was felt in the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, and in Eastern Cuba, but no major damage was reported in either place.

The January 13 edition of The Daily DX reported that the Rev John Henault, HH6JH, made contact late Wednesday morning with the Intercontinental Assistance and Traffic Net (IATN) on 14.300 MHz; this is the IARU Global Center of Activity frequency for emergency communications. He said that he was safe, but had no power and no phone service. He was operating on battery power and hoping to get a generator running later in the day. The edition also noted that Pierre Petry, HH2/HB9AMO — who was in Cap Haitien (about 140 km north of Port-au-Prince) is “okay”; Petry is in Haiti working for the United Nations World Food Program. Later today, he will be traveling to the capital.

The UN’s 9000 peacekeepers in Haiti — many of whom are from Brazil — were distracted from aid efforts by their own tragedy: Many spent the night hunting for survivors in the ruins of their headquarters. “It would appear that everyone who was in the building, including my friend Hedi Annabi, the United Nations’ Secretary General’s special envoy, and everyone with him and around him, are dead,” French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Wednesday, speaking on French radio. UN peacekeeping chief Alain Le Roy would not confirm that Annabi was dead, but said he was among more than 100 people missing in the rubble of its headquarters. He said only about 10 people had been pulled out, many of them badly injured. Fewer than five bodies had been pulled from the rubble, he said. The United Nations said the capital’s main airport was “fully operational” and that relief flights would begin on Wednesday, January 13.

The situation in Haiti is still chaotic. More information will be posted as soon as possible. Information is being validated and shared between many amateur groups and news sources as it unfolds.

If you have any questions or comments, please email us. We look forward to serving you during 2010!

• President: Phil Newman, KE4LSH – president@ke4rx.org
• Vice President: Cody Anderson, KI4FUV – vicepresident@ke4rx.org
• Secretary: Jim White, K4APY – secretary@ke4rx.org
• Treasurer: Kati Segar – treasurer@ke4rx.org