Secretary, Carl, W9BJ, read the Minutes of the December meeting. They were approved.

Treasurer, Al, KC9QQO, read the report of our Financial Statement. It was approved. Dues for 2012 were accepted.

Old Business: Chuck, WD9BB, discussed new , two sided Membership Cards , New cards for Ham Fests. We will look at designs at the February meeting and then get them printed. Carl, W9BJ, moved and Al, KC9QQO, Seconded. It was discussed and passed. Discussed Award for Life memberships, Jerry Wallen , K9EP, will receive a certificate in the mail this week. Dave, N9GQ, renewed web site license, rockhamradio.com, $60+, for another year. The Treasurer reimbursed him.

New Business: Chuck, WD9BB, discussed the recent Wakesha Ham Fest. Conrad ,W9DL , attended. Kids Day 2012 was discussed. It is sponsored by the ARRL. We do something similar at our June Field Day. Baseball Caps with call, etc., was recommended for publicity and good public relations. President Chuck read the statement of the Purpose of our club. We should promote amateur radio. The RTTY Sprint ARRL Contest was held recently. PSK31 was used by Al, KC9QQO . Dale, AA9EP, discussed 60 Meter regulation changes Social ham breakfasts are held on the Second Saturday morning at the Flying J ; Rockton & S. Beloit hams are well represented. We could meet in Beloit at Sophia’s for Beloit. Janesville hams have been meeting for years on Saturday at the Milwaukee Grill at 8:15 am weekly.

Program: Dave, N9GQ, chairs the Program Committee, the Education and Training Committee. He presented a Contest which required identifying the audio of 15 Digital communication modes. The contest was won by Donn, K9DA; he had 9 correct answers. He was awarded a new digital multimeter .

Greg, K9GJN, gave a second program demonstration using Remote Station Operation. He connected his computer laptop by the internet to his home computer in Janesville. That computer was connected to his radio interface, a MFJ 1292. The interface controlled his Yaesu FT-897D ham transceiver. By using the digital PSK-31 mode, he had a contact on 40 meters with a California station. Both stations used about 50 watts of RF power. He had full control of his home station by remote control. He used the Team Viewer Six program (Free) on the laptop. His home computer used the free control program, Ham Radio Deluxe. His home antenna is a G5RV antenna 100 feet long and 50 feet high at its apex. Reverse beaconing was described.

Future programs will be planned by the Education and Training Committee . Club members should make suggestions to the chairman, Dave, N9GQ, or members, Conrad, W9DL, Greg, K9GJN, and Al, KC9QQO. A discussion was held and Show and Tell evenings have been popular and a D Star Digital VHF/UHF Guest Speaker is available. Talk it up on the air and/or use email to communicate new program ideas to our committee. What do you want to know about?

The Sign-In Sheet question was: Have you operated in previous Sun Spot Cycle Highs? Twelve hams said yes and eight said no. Some have enjoyed great DX contacts for multiple sun spot cycles.

The Meeting adjourned at 8:35 pm. Next meeting will be Monday, February 6 th , 2012 at 7 pm.

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President Carl, W9BJ: called the meeting to order at 7 pm. When you introduce yourself give your name, call, and town you live in. Holiday candy treats were furnished by Carl, W9BJ.

Recording Secretary Report by Conrad, W9DL: Minutes for the November 7th meeting were read and approved.

Committees: Dave, N9GQ, wanted to activate the Education and Training Committee to arrange programs for our meetings. After a discussion was held and Conrad, W9DL, Dave, N9GQ, Greg, K9GJN, and Al, KC9QQO volunteered.

Update By Laws: Doug, W9PN, was not at the meeting but we look forward to the update.

New Business: Election of officers for the Greater Beloit Amateur Radio Club for the year of 2012. The positions are President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer. Carl, W9BJ, and Conrad, W9DL, wanted to step down from their positions. A discussion followed and from the floor, nominations were offered: President, Chuck Bell, WD9BB, Vice President, Doug, W9PN, Treasurer, Al, KC9QQO, and Secretary, Carl, W9BJ. A motion from the floor was made to accept this slate of officers and they were elected by a unanimous voice vote.

Program: Carl, W9BJ: Showed us his book on Surplus Radio Conversion, Vol 1. Three volumes of the Surplus Radio Conversion Manual are available free on the internet. He told us how good some of the publications are and when you see something like this stop and take a look. He also showed two video clips from YouTube. Two hams telling us what they think is wrong with ham radio. His comments were if you give someone a microphone and a camera, anything goes. Carl, W9BJ, said they have a lot of neat things on ham radio on YouTube. Check it out.

Chuck, WD9BB , demonstrated his latest project. It was an electronic kit from K1EM.com that will transmit and receive Morse code by keyboard. He built it, used it on the air, and thought it was designed quite well. He hopes the club will have a building project soon.

Repeater Association: Greg, K9GJN, talked about the repeater systems we have in our area. He commented about the talent that is needed to install and maintain the systems. We were asked for a membership donation of $20.00 per year. The repeaters are out there and we want everyone to use them. You can make your check to Greg. His address is K9GJN, Greg, 2025 Crestview St., Janesville WI. 53546. He will email you a receipt.

Club Recognition Awards: Bob, K9BDR, purposed to award Honorary Life Membership certificates to hams for their outstanding contributions to the club over the years. Motion passed.

Dues for 2012: Al, KC9QQO, accepted dues from a number of hams for the 2012 year. Dues are $20.

Announcement: The ARRL 10 Meter Contest is this weekend, December 10-11, 2011. Conditions are excellent and it is fun!

The question on the Sign-In Sheet was: What Repeaters do you monitor? With 20 people in attendance, the breakdown was: Beloit 147.120 had 8, Clinton 146.715 had 5, Janesville 145.45 had 8, Clinton 443.175, had two, Janesville 444.750, had two, Rockford 146.610, had one, and Monroe 145.110 had one. We had two hams and three guests that had none.

Meeting adjourned at 8:40 pm. Next Meeting will be Monday, January 2, 2012 at 7:00 pm.

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting November 7, 2011 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church St., Beloit, WI

President Carl, W9BJ, called the meeting to order at 7 pm. Self-Introduction Comments: Antennas and towers you worked on this year. Doug, W9PN, talked about his homebrew, low band, vertical antenna project. With the help of Conrad, Chuck, and Al, two adding additional straight sections of tower were added, bringing the tower height to 50 feet. A 33 foot vertical aluminum stinger sits on top of the tower, bringing the total height to 83 feet or 5/8 wavelength on 40 meters. This is an insulated tower that Doug uses for good performance on 160 - 30 meters. Norm, KC9RGG, from Orfordville , told about his antenna; an MA- 5B. and the project he is working on with amounted rotator and mast on his deck. His photographs showed his engineering job. Dale, AA9EP, installed his KLM tri-band beam up 40 foot and said it is performing well. Al, KC9QQO, tri-band beam is up and receiving well. Ken, N9KMO, is happy with his antenna work. Ed, KC9GTB, is happy with his four antennas. Chuck, WD9BB, had a show and tell program of his installation with the crank up, tilt over, tower and the TH7DX, 7 element tri-band beam. Other hams had one or two antenna installations. The amateur who took the cake had over 100 installations of antennas; that person is Bob, K9BNR. Remember, Bob commercially installs antennas on law enforcement patrol cars.

We had two guests: Ashley, KC9HGY, of Clinton, daughter of Dale, AA9EP; and Alan, KA9VRV, of Beloit.

Secretary Report by Conrad, W9DL: Minutes for the October 3 rd meeting were read, corrected, and approved.

Treasurer Report by Al, KC9QQO: The October 3 Treasury Report was read and approved. A printed report was passed around.

Old business: Doug, N9PN, said he is reviewing club bylaws. He told us about the CW sweepstakes was last weekend and the phone contest is this weekend. Carl, W9BJ, said he will be checking on the club In House antenna and the antenna feed line stored in the fire station.

New Business: Election of Club Officers for 2012 will be held at the December meeting. Please think about it if you want some fun and responsibility. Positions are President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer. Nominations and the election will be both be at the December 5 th meeting.

Dues for 2012 will be accepted for the December meeting. Checks for $20 are requested.

Membership cards were discussed. The old cards are inaccurate with a bogus P.O. Box number. No new fancy membership cards will be issued, maybe just the old yellow ones to show that you paid. Maybe, a supply of club promotion cards can be printed for prospective members.

QST Magazine: Some members said they didn’t receive the November QST. You can call the ARRL Circulation Department number at 1-860-594-0200. They will mail you one out. Many subscribers just received it later than usual.

Carl, W9BJ, presented a program about his recent trip to Spain and Germany. He also showed photos of the Northern lights on October 24th with all the colors. Carl got into switching power supplies and some of the interference (birdies) that they cause. QEX had a great article describing how to eliminate the R.F. hash of this type. You can checkout more about this in the ARRL RFI Book. His handout was on feed lines, Untangling the Mystery of the Twisted Pair. Be sure to look up the World Radio Online magazine. It has been free, but you will soon have to subscribe.

Dave, N9JDQ, talked about his trip to Nashville, Tennessee and the Grand Ole Opera. Since Sevierville, the home of TEN-TEC, was close by, Dave stopped in. He came home with a new, Omni V11 Transceiver. Cool! Dave.

The Sign In Sheet question was: How many Antennas/Towers have you put up this year? Fourteen hams had something going, one had just moved here, and one ham had her dad put up a Yagi beam. So, 100% got it done.

Club Give Away: A number of ARRL Handbooks from previous years were available.

The Meeting adjourned at 9:00 pm. The next Meeting will be Monday, December 5th at 7 pm.

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club October 3, 2011 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church St., Beloit WI 53511

Vice President, Doug, W9PN, called the meeting to order at 7:00 pm. When introducing yourself, comment on how often you participate in Sweepstake events on amateur radio; and are you active in the Wisconsin QSO party and other state QSO parties? Bob, K9BNR (K9RIJ) had 100 contacts in the California QSO party. Several members make a competitive effort. They are Doug W9PN, Dave N9GQ, and Bob K9BNR.

Minutes by Conrad, W9DL: Minutes of the September 12th were read and approved.

New/Old Business: Doug, W9PN, talked about club bylaws that he is currently working on. Greg K9GJN said the Beloit repeater is working well but continued updates are planned; such as obtaining and installing new hard-line coax (transmitting line). He is looking at a voice and cw IDer. The new frequency pair seems to be working fine. It is 147.120 MHz output, Pl of 123 Hz; input (+600 kHz).

Other Club and ARES activities: Ivan, W9AFW, is Net Control for the Senile Net weekdays 8 to 9 am on 14.287 MHz on the 20-meter band. ARES net is every Tuesday on the Janesville repeater 145.45 MHz with a Pl of 123, (-600 Hz). The time is 7:00 pm with rotating net control stations. The ARES call sign of KB9UNX is used. The Beloit Amateur Radio club net is on the Beloit Repeater of 147.120 MHz with a Pl of 123, (+600 Hz). Dave, N9JDQ, is net control every Wednesday at 7:30 pm.

Log Book of the World: In 2006 Doug W9PN started his DXing and using the ARRL Log Book of the World (LoTW). He now has over 13000 contacts. He passed around some of his QSL cards from his college days and how he uses Log Book of the World. Conrad, W9DL, passed around several of his old novice WN9OGS QSL cards. Greg, K9GJN, worked China on PSK.

Club attendance: 22 Club web page is www.rockhamradio.com Next meeting is Monday, November 7 th

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting September 12, 2011 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church St., Beloit WI 53511

President Carl, W9BJ, called the meeting to order at 7:00 pm. He had everyone introduce themselves. We have four new guests. KC9UNK, Kelsey Kenney, Beloit; KC9UOR, Jacob Edwards, Beloit; KC9COL, John Miller, Janesville; and N9DAZ, Rick McGlynn, Rockton.

Treasurer Report by Al KC9QQO was read and approved. Field Day expense for gas and food was $119.

Old Business: Field Day: Our total score was 5114 with CW and phone. Our class was 5 Alfa. Our Field Day was at the Janesville Fire Department training center on N. Parker Drive. We did have many digital contacts; and many hams got their "feet wet".

Radio Expo Fest, or as we call it, the Belvidere Hamfest was discussed. Everyone liked it and had a good time.

WD9BB, Chuck: told about his new crank up, tilt over tower and TH-7DX seven-element tri-band beam. He explained about using ½ “ hard line and how he used it; plus he showed how he installed a PL259 coax connector.

N9GQ, Dave: talked about the Simulated Emergency Test (SET) at theRed Cross, Saturday am, October 1. Please check in on the 145.45 MHz repeater.

Question asked: What size of a power supply would be good for a VHF/UHF radio? It was suggested 30 Amps.

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting June 6, 2011 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church Street, Beloit WI

President Carl, W9BJ, called the meeting to order at 7 pm. Members amd guests were introduced.

Recording Secretary Conrad, W9DL, read the minutes of the May meeting. The minutes were approved.

Treasurer, Doug, KC9QQO, Al, gave the financial accounting. It was approved.

Field Day 2011: Co-Chairmen Al, KC9QQO, and Greg, K9GJN, discussed preparations. We are financially able to support the field day activity. Our common call for Field Day will be W9PN. Since Doug, W9PN, is an extra class amateur operator, all Field Day operators will be able to use extra class privileges such as maximum frequencies on each band. Early set-up will be about 7 pm on Friday, June 24. Possible antennas were discussed. There is interest in having at least one digital station this year. A guest operator will be with us, a Texas ham, a friend of Doug's, W9PN. Lyndon, WA9JLD, will have the gasoline-powered, electrical generator in good condition for all to use. The Saturday night meal is available to all hams and visitors.

The Tub Run report was given by Dave, N9GQ. We provide communications for the charity event featuring thousands of motorcyclists. All seems to be ready for the Saturday, June 18th event. This activity is one of our most valuable ARES/RACES training opportunities.

Program: The Dayton, Ohio HamConvention report was given by a number of our members, including our newest member, Dan Servais (Ser-vay'), K9IBM. Dan lives in Janesville and was a long-time employee of International Business Machines. A number of new equipment purchases were made in Dayton and wild stories were exchanged. Additional topics were given by Carl, W9BJ. The newest Ham literature (Magazines) was examined.

Meeting adjourned at 8:30 pm. Next meeting is Monday, September 12, 2011 at 7 pm. After Field Day, June 25-26, enjoy the Summer Break!

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting May 2, 2011 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church Street, Beloit WI

President Carl, W9BJ, called the meeting to order at 7 pm. Members and guests were asked to introduce themselves and comment about antennas.

Recording Secretary Report by Conrad, W9DL: Minutes for the April 4th meeting were read and approved.

Field Day 2011: A discussion on what band’s will be used. In general, see the FD section of this site for Band Captains. Doug, W9PN, would like the computer laptops being used on field day to have the N3FJP’s Amateur radio program installed and running. He will have a Show and Tell at the

June meeting on this program. Several want a digital station setup. It seems most club members will be at F/D but not sure about the all-nighters.

Most members seem to know the rules, aware of setting up, and getting the stations going on time.

ARES/RACES Coordinator Dave, N9GQ: Talked about the upcoming Tub Run that will be Saturday, June 18, a charity event. He will need a Net Control for the event plus many volunteers at the check points around Rock County.

Program by Dave, N9GQ: He was in Minnesota on Easter weekend and had the opportunity to attend the On-Air Museum of Broadcasters in St. Louis Park,(Suburban Minneapolis). Dave’s slide show showed old broadcast radio equipment, recording equipment from the WWI and WWII, ham Radio stations and equipment like Collins, Johnson, Heath, and many others.

The question on the sign in sheet was: Is all your equipment ready for an Emergency? We had three said yes, eight said no. The concerns and comments about what emergency meant was expressed.

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting April 4, 2011 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church Street, Beloit, WI

President Carl, W9BJ, called the meeting to order at 7 pm. Members and guests were asked to introduce themselves and comment about how their antennas made it through the winter. Dave, N9GQ, said one antenna went down but he hustled out and got it fixed before the second snow. Dale, AA9EP, lost his vertical on the top of tower, Conrad, W9DL, lost his G5RV and Carl, W9BJ, had his multi-band dipole come down.

Recording Secretary Report: Conrad , W9DL Minutes for March 2011 were read and approved.

ARRL Field Day 2011: Carl, W9BJ, asked last year’s Field day committee if they would coordinate the event in 2011. They are Al, KC9QQO, Doug, W9PN, and Greg, K9GJN. They agreed to run it. Kevin, KC9PZI was on last year’s committee and will have to be contacted.

ARES/RACES Coordinator Dave, N9GQ : A special net on the Janesville repeater, 145.45 MHz, will be held at 7:30 pm, April 17 to see if we heard our weather sirens during the week. Dave discussed the coming Weather Spotter training class to be held April 25, at the Red Cross building in Janesville, at 7 pm.

Broadcast Interference (BCI ) Greg , K9GJN, lives near the WCLO am broadcast antenna . A discussion was held about the RF interference from the broadcast station that Greg is experiencing. A kit of powdered iron, toroid cores were loaned to Greg to use to stop the BCI. The toroids are to be placed on input/output wires to act as RF chokes. Also, he was to look for wires that not grounded and unshielded cables.

Special Membership Award : The club will consider a special membership award to acknowledge long-time club members. This would be in consideration for service given our club.

Program: Carl, W9BJ: He updated the pertinent formation on the ham radio repeaters in Rock County. This included the cities of Beloit, Clinton, Janesville, on the 144, 220 & 440 MHz bands. N9BUL, Tom, explained what the CBS RG means on his 220 MHz machine. It stands for Clinton, Beloit, Shopiere Repeater Group. Another part of Carl’s program was on AERIALS. His hand out was entitled, The Power Play: Non-Resonant vs. Resonant Antennas. The article showed that both classes of antennas radiate equally well when they are properly matched. This article was from WorldRadio Online, April, 2011 issue; it is the only on-line amateur radio magazine. Also, some humorous photos were shown.

Program on Callbooks Conrad , W9DL : He had several old Amateur Radio Callbooks to show. These callbooks look like a telephone book of today; they have listings of ham call letters, names, address, and license classes. When you worked a ham, you would look him up in the callbook and send him a QSL card. Today, we just go to the computer and check QRZ or ARRL. A computer was used to demonstrate. The 1961 Spring Callbook had 556 pages and cost $5.00 The 1988 book was $25. The 1994 Callbook was $29.95 and over 1800 pages. You could buy a 6 month supplement for $10 that had a little extra in it with new calls plus DX calls. His oldest Radio Amateur Callbook was for foreign hams; it was the Fall-Winter 1959 book of 246 pages and sold for $3.00

Dale, AA9EP, asked if the club had a jacket with their club emblem that they wear for club events? His jacket, from another club , was industrial, fluorescent light-green, and had a radio club logo. It looked nice. Dave, KA9SFT, has his BARC jacket that members purchased some years back.

The question on the sign-in sheet was : Have you ever used the Amateur Radio Callbook to look up calls? (Not on the computer). Ten said they had and seven hadn’t.

Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting March 7, 2011 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church Street, Beloit, WI

President Carl, W9BJ, called the meeting to order at 7:00 pm. He asked everyone to introduce themselves. They started with their name, call and what they had for breakfast. That seemed to be a challenge because some couldn’t remember. Some had a lot of food and others had coffee only. We also had a guest, Don Shaw, W9UG, Extra Class from South Beloit, Il.

Recording Secretary Conrad W9DL: Minutes for February, 2011, were read and approved.

Field Day 2011: Carl, W9BJ, Said we should put the ARRL Field Day event on things to talk about at the coming meetings. Who is going to be in charge and so on?

ARES/RACES: Coordinator Dave, N9GQ: He talked about ID badges for ARES/RACES members. Be sure to get to the next meeting on March 28th, Red Cross Building in Janesville so the photographer can take your picture. If you are not a member, you are invited to join,

Program by Carl W9BJ: The Comet (ARES/RACES) vertical antenna, model CHA250B, was the subject. Not knowing much about the antenna, he went on the internet to check it out. He selected one review that was very positive and one very negative. Also, a QST review was presented. Several thought it was a good antenna, saying they would give it a 3.6. Others said that it didn’t do well on the transmit. The Comet Company recommends mounting it on a long pipe at 35 feet; (Antenna is 24.5 ft of aluminum), no radials or ground. This led to a round table discussion. By going around the room, everyone had a story about a vertical antenna. Some of the verticals that we talked about were Hy-Gain 10-80 meters, Gap Challenger Antenna, Mosley 10-40 meters, MFJ 2990, 160-6 meters, several home brews and even a vertical mounted on the side of the tower. The discussion also included a good grounding system. The Comet Model CHA250B, vertical antenna is stored at the fire station.

Chuck, WD9BB: Talked about his Crystal Calibrator project he built. His “Show and Tell”, was directed to the ham’s who have not seen one in use. He also showed his Clock of the World for all time zones.

Conrad, W9DL: Showed his Dow-Key Coaxial antenna relay; and how it was used when you have separate transmitters and receivers like 50 years ago.

The question on the sign-in sheet was: Have you ever used a Crystal Calibrator in a ham radio? 6 said yes and 7 said no.

Meeting adjourned at 9:00 p.m. Next meeting is April 4, 2011 at 7 pm

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting February 7th, 2011 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church Street, Beloit, WI

President Carl, W9BJ, called the meeting to order at 7:00 PM. He asked our guests to introduce themselves. KC9PME, Daniel, attends Blackhawk Tech and lives in Janesville WI; and Dale, AA9EP; He is married and lives in Clinton WI. His daughter Ashley is KC9HGY.

Recording Secretary Conrad, W9DL: Minutes for January 2011 meeting were approved as read.

Treasurer Report by Al, KC9QQO: was read and approved. Dave, N9GQ, was reimbursed $50. He paid the 1 year internet fee for the club web site. We have 17 paid members.

ARES/RACES: Coordinator Dave, N9GQ, received a call from Shirley Connors, Emergency Management Coordinator for Rock County. She asked how things are going. Dave will give her a list of the members. He hopes to have membership tags at one of the coming meetings. ARES/RACES membership is open to all licensed amateurs.

Program Carl, W9BJ: An ARRL video tour of W1AW was shown. The memorial station uses a combination of Amateur and Commercial equipment. Quizzed the group with a list of radio call signs. Amelia Earhart, KHAQQ, WAR, Army Headquarters, and he had many more. To look up call letters other than ham’s, just type in call signs in a Google Search.

Conrad, W9DL: Gave a comment on the ARES/RACES antenna that is stored at the Fire Station. It is a Comet Model CHA250B, vertical antenna 23.5 feet high and covers most all the ham bands. Check it out on eHam or on the internet.

A Funny by Dave, N9GQ: How do you stop a ham operator from talking about ham radio? ….. You Can’t!!!

Dave, N9GQ: He is still working on a list of kits that might be of interest to the club.

Chuck, WD9BB: will talk about a Crystal Calibrator project he is working on.

A raffle, was sponsored by K9EP, Jerry Wallen: Items from his shack. Proceeds went to the Rock County Repeater Association.

The question on the sign-in sheet was: Are you a member of the Rock County ARES/RACES group? We had 5 no and 8 yes.

Meeting adjourned at 9:00 PM.

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting Monday, January 3, 2011 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church Street, Beloit, WI 53511

President Carl, W9BJ, called the meeting to order at 7:00 PM. He asked our guest to introduce himself. Bob Knox, a Beloit resident, worked at Warner 's his entire life. He has always been interested in radios. When in the military service, he was in charge of a radio station on his post that also included the tower work.

Recording Secretary Conrad, W9DL: Read the minute’s with the additions. We will have a new starting time of 7:00 PM for a 6 month trial.

Election of Officers: After some discussion from the floor, with no secret ballot, the following members will run for office: President: Carl Cramer, W9BJ, Vice President: Doug Spears, W9PN, Recording Secretary: Conrad Herold, W9DL, and Treasurer: Al Homan, KC9QQO. They were approved unanimously.

Club By-Laws: A discussion on our constitution and bylaws was held. It was agreed that they should be looked at and possibly be updated. Doug, W9PN, will present them at the next meeting. They then will be discussed and revised. This was a motion from the floor and then approved.

For Fun: Conrad, W9DL, handed out a list of local ham calls; also a list of names was provided. The object was for members to match the call with the correct name. This was an interesting challenge.

Chuck, WD9BB, talked about a Crystal Calibrator project he is working on. He will have a "show and tell" at the February meeting.

Dave, N9GQ, asked if the club members were interested in a new building project? It will be a kit and cost about $20. He is looking at a kit called LCR Meter, which will measure Inductance, Capacitance, and Resistance.

Carl, W9BJ, showed a YouTube program from VE7ALD; he also read a paper about Precipitation Static and how to solve its problems, and finally he presented a video about "How to Know When you are a Ham Old Timer".

The question on the sign-in sheet was, Will you be attending any Hamfest this year. We had 10 say yes. Two said no, and several questionable.

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting Monday, December 6, 2010 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church St., Beloit WI 53511

President Carl W9BJ called the meeting to order at 7:30 PM. He had everyone introduce themselves. We had 13 people attend. The "sign-in question" was “Did you get all your antenna work done for the year”? We had five hams say yes, five said no and several comments: "it is never done", "after the wind", "still in the basement", and "just made it in November."

Minutes for October and November were read by Conrad, W9DL, Recording Secretary and approved.

No Treasurer report this month. Some work needs to be done on improving the club Constitution and By-Laws.

Internet Site for the club . Club will pay $50/year for hosting of the web site on the internet for the coming year. Motion was made, seconded and approved. Carl, W9BJ, is our web master.

The Beloit repeater is expected to be back on the air soon. The frequency is 147.120 + MHz , with a Pl of 123. Lyndon, WB9JLD, is renovating the repeater equipment. Greg, K9GJN, is riding "shot-gun" on the project.

Motion made and passed to increase Beloit Amateur Radio Club dues for 2011 to $20. The dues will be collected at the January 3rd meeting.

ARES/RACES : Rock County Repeaters Association sponsors four repeaters in our area. The two in Janesville are 145.45- and 444.750+ MHz. In Clinton, they are 146.715 – and 443.175+ MHz. All with a PL access tone of 123. They ask for a donation of $20 per year. Dave, N9GQ, president also talked about NIMS testing at the last meeting.

Program by Carl, W9BJ, talked about publications. Several magazines were passed around. QST, QEX, CQ, Electric Radio, QCWA Quarter Century Wireless Association magazine. for hams of 25 years and Radio. a magazine of 1942 and several others. A video of a ham's Christmas was shown. Carl's wife, Luci , N9FYT, provided homemade Chocolate Coconut Bon- Bons for a seasonal treat.

Chuck, WD9BB, talked about homebrew SWR bridges and the best way to calibrate them; and what to use, like a Bird 43 wattmeter. It is nice to have a 50-ohm dummy load.

Other area repeaters in our area are: Beloit: 224.300 MHz, sponsored by N9BUL. Janesville 147.075 MHz, sponsored by K9FRY.

Next club meeting will be Monday, January 3, 2011. New club starting time is 7:00 PM.

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting Monday, November 1, 2010 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church St., Beloit WI 53511

Vice President, K9DA, Donn Ambrose, called the meeting to order at 7:30 p.m.

Doug, W9PN, gave a Treasurer Report. There is still money in the "kitty". Dues for 2011 will be payable at our December 6 meeting.

Election of club officiers for 2011 will take place at the December meeting. "This may be your year to be more involved."

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting Monday, October 6, 2010 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church St., Beloit WI 53511

Vice President K9DA, Donn Ambrose, called the meeting to order at 7:30 p.m. Everyone introduced themselves. N9FCN, Bob, and KA9SFT, Dave, are looking for help on their antenna project.

Program by W9DL, Conrad: About installation of towers, cement, house brackets and guide wires. The handouts were information from the Rohn catalog on specifications requirements on the subject. A discussion followed how others do their tower projects.

KC9LGR, Dan, and KC9LGS, Rob, talked about their projects at work, and their homebrew 30 meter transceiver. This was "show and tell."

Question on the sign-in sheet: “In your life time as a ham, how many towers have you put up at your QTH?” The answers were 2 had zero, 8 had one, 1 had two towers, 1 had three, and two had many.

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting Monday, September 13, 2010 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church St., Beloit, WI 53511

President Carl Cramer, W9BJ, called the meeting to order at 7:30 PM. He had everyone introduce themselves and tell what they did in the form of ham radio this past summer plus their comments on Field Day, June 26-27. W9BJ, Carl, and a Ham team put up the highest 40-80 meter dipole ever, at 50+ feet on F/D. On tower One, we had a tri band beam; and on tower Two, we had a 20 meter beam. The F/D antenna farm also had 3 vertical antennas. A good time was had by all on Field Day.

Other activities this summer were KC9QQO, Al, replaced a tower with a Rohn 25 tower and antennas. KC9PZI, Kevin, put two more sections of tower plus a beam antenna. W9PN, Doug, has a tower and antenna project in progress. KA9SFT, Dave, in Beloit, is looking for help on his tower and antennas. W9BJ, Carl, talked about his Central Electronics 100 V (1957 vintage) that he is bringing back to life with a new multimeter faceplate and other parts.

Minutes were read by W9DL, Conrad, and corrected with KC9PZI, Kevin, having the Clubs' ICOM 701 HF Transceiver.

Program by W9BJ, Carl, who talked about the contents of several Ham magazines, K9GJN Greg talked about the New Beloit FM repeater with a new frequency 147.120+ and the same PL. WA9JLD, Lyndon, will also be involved with the repeater. There is a need for a UHF receiver.

ARES/RACES meetings are the 4 th Monday of the month at the Red Cross building, 211 N Parker Drive, Janesville, Wi. at 7:30 PM. All Hams are invited. N9GQ, Dave, talked about the national Simulated Emergency Test (SET) on Saturday, October 2, 2010, approximately 9 -11AM. The Amateur station at the Rock County Emergency Operations Center (EOC), in Janesville, will be activated. You are encouraged to check in with as many forms of power you have. The frequency will be 145.45 MHz, the Janesville repeater.

Hamfest at Belvedere, Illinois will be Saturday, September 25 th. The "flea Market" will open at 6 AM. Tickets are $10 at the gate.

Recording Secretary W9DL Conrad

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting Monday, June 7, 2010 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church Street, Beloit, WI 53511

President Carl W9BJ called the meeting to order at 7:30 pm. He had everyone introduce themselves and tell what special DX they everworked. Cuba and PSK 31 were mentioned. W9PN Doug had a lot of P5’s.

Treasurer Report by Doug W9PN was read and approved. We are in good shape to pay the expenses of Field Day.

Dave N9GQ talked about June 19, MDA Tub Run. He wants hams to be in communication with our own net control providing the coming and goings of the parade. When notified, we will inform the Road Guards when the main body of motorcycles is coming. Then the Road Guards will close the intersections to traffic. Not all intersections have police and communications at them. We will be using the Janesville repeater 145.450 MHz. Instruction sheets along with maps were passed out at the meeting. Intersection assignment will be e-mailed by Dave N9GQ.

Program: Carl W9BJ showed pictures of Greg's K9GJN, tilt over base for his tower on the overhead. Greg and Doug, W9PN have the same tower and setups. N9GQ, Dave talked about the Dayton Hamvention. Five club members went. Kits and handout were passed around. Several books CQ, Electric Radio, HF digital and others were passed around.

Larry Reimer of Janesville gave the club an IC-701 HF Transceiver Ham Radio to be used by a club member who might not have a HF radio. The transceiver was cleaned, lubricated, and electrically adjusted by W9BJ. The transceiver and matching power supply was taken home by Al, KC9QQO.

Field Day is always the last full weekend in June. The event is June 26 and 27, 2010. People in charge are Greg K9GJN, Al KC9QQO, and Kevin KC9PZI. Rich, K9RJF, and Jim KA9VHG are in charge of the dinner on Saturday night. The details are "a work in progress." The site is the Janesville Fire Department Training Center on the north edge of Janesville.

Our next club meeting is Monday, September 13, 2010. We have a summer recess until then. Happy Communicating!

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting Monday, May 3, 2010 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church Street, Beloit, WI 53511

President Carl Cramer, W9BJ called the meeting to order at 7:30 PM. Self introductions were given; and the question of the evening was, "Have you been doing any antenna work this Spring?" Eleven members were in attendance.

Minutes of the April club meeting were read, corrected, and approved. The treasury hasn't changed since the April meeting, so no specific report was given.

Field Day 2010 Greg Niles, K9GJN, Al Homan, KC9QQO, and Keven Christ, KC9PZI, lead the discussion of Field Day preparations. A number of early tasks have been completed. The site will be the Janesville Fire DepartmentTraining Center. An emphasis this year will be to increase our point count. Of course, we will be making many radio contacts on the air but a strong effort to earn points by utilizing area media for publicity, etc., will be attempted. The electrical generator for all stations will be ready.

Greg, K9GJN, discussed his project on constructing a steel tilt-over mechanism for his tower arrangement. Photos were shown. (See project photos on this web site.)

Bob, K9RIJ, shared some challenges that have been experienced in working with the two-meter repeaters. Also, the 440 MHz repeated will be linked to a larger network of repeaters.

Dave, N9GQ, discussed the receiving of a donation to the club of an Icom 701 HF Transceiver (1970's) and its matching power supply and speaker.

The unit was from Larry Reimer of Janesville. It was decided to recondition the unit and use it to loan to new hams in the club that need HF capabilities.

Dave, N9GQ, discussed the Saturday, June 19 "Tub Run" motocycle activity. We would like 15 to 20 ham volunteers to help with communications during the afternoon ride around Rock county. Net control activity and mobile units are planned for 2-meter FM. More detail at the June 7th meeting.

Our next club meeting will be Monday, June 7th. Acting Recording Secretary, Carl F. Cramer, W9BJ

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting Monday, April 5, 2010 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church Street, Beloit, Wi 53511

President Carl Cramer, W9BJ, called the meeting to order at 7:30 PM. The question of the evening was, "Have you ever had the opportunity to be a coordinator for Field Day?". Five members had that experience of the sixteen attendees.

Minutes of the March club meeting, provided by Secretary Conrad Herald, W9DL, were read by Carl, W9BJ, and approved.

Treasurer, Doug Speer, W9PN, gave the financial report with a excellent balance in the checking account. This gives us a good working fund for use

at the June Field Day activity. The total funds are more than usual due to the club incorporation last year. This lowered our yearly expenses.

Doug Speer, W9PN, led a discussion on organizing for the June Field Day. Using the survery of members "likes and dislikes" on Field Day, it was decided to request the same location as the last two years; this is the Janesville Fire training Center. Co-Chairmen for this years Field Day activity are Greg Niles, K9GJN, and Al Homan, KC9QQO. A notebook of last years organizing activities was passed on to the new chairmen. Field Day is a time

that everyone can contribute in one way or another. Let's get behind Greg and Al by volunteering to help out as we can.

Dave Wendt, N9GQ, led a discussion of the PSK-31 club kit project. Three completed units were shown and passed around. Greg, K9GJN was prepared to demonstrate on-the-air operation using his commercial PSK-31 station. But due to the rain, plans to install an outside antenna for the demonstration were cancelled.

Our next club meeting will be Monday, May 5 th. Acting Recording Secretary, Carl F. Cramer, W9BJ

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting Monday, March 1, 2010 Main Fire Station 1111 Church St. Beloit WI. 53511

President Carl Cramer, W9BJ, called the meeting to order at 7:30 PM. A motion was made to table the minutes and the treasures report and proceed to the program. The motion carried.
Two things were mentioned: Field Day is coming soon and Doug, W9PN, discussed our survey for 2010 Field Day; and a package deal of a tower, rotor and antenna will be posted on the club WEB page soon.

Greg, K9GJN, introduced Don Norwood, K9DN, to present his program on Enhanced SSB (eSSB). Don’s ham station is one of those eSSB stations. This is Don’s K9DN program on eSSB:

*“Extended” vs “Enhanced” (Enhanced is Hi-Fi, but not necessarily audio frequency extended.)

*Standard SSB Characteristics *Narrow Tx bandwidth: approx. 2K-2.9 kHz *Narrow audio response: approx. 200-2900 Hertz, or less

*Enhanded SSB Characteristics *Wide Tx bandwidth: 3K-6 kHz *Wide audio frequency response: 50-4000+ Hertz *Smooth audio response curve

*Signal” Processing” and Shaping *Basic EQ (audio frequency equalization) *Downward expansion (noise gating) *Compression and limiting

*Hardware Requirements *Rig with Rx and Tx bandwidth *Wide frequency range microphone-condenser/dynamic *Mixer to feed ACC Input jack

*RFI issues *Good cabling-balanced audio with XLR connections *Good grounding, toroids, isolation transformer (avoiding ground loops)
*Simple Processing *W2IHY boxes: 8-Band EQ and EQ plus

*Complex Processing-DSP *The Behringer DEQ 2496 Ultra-Curve Pro audio processor (31 bands of equalization, etc.)

*A spectrum analyzer is a great tool to improve you signal. Don uses the Spectra-Plus program. (Computer software, expensive $400+)
*A separate SSB receiver is best used to monitor your own signal. The built-in monitor circuits of some transceiver are not accurate in their response.

*Some good Web sites *www.nu9n.com/essb.html *www.essb.us *www.k6jrf.com (for Yaesu FT-2000, which Don uses.)

Don, K9DN, was flattered when he received a phone call from Dave, N9JDQ, about his quality eSSB signal. K9GJN, Greg ,invited him to speak at the club meeting. He wanted to thank them.

To hear eSSB signals, listen on 14.178 MHz at 5 PM. You could hear Don ,K9DN, and KA7GKN, Marty, along with others. Then there was a question and answer session.

We had 18 sign the attendance sheet. The question was: Do you read club minutes on the WEB before the meeting? The answer was 9 Yes and 8 No.

On Saturday, March 6 th , Dave, N9GQ, will have the PSK31 Warbler kit-group meet at the Red Cross Building in Janesville to build their kits.

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Monday, February 1, 2010 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church Street, Beloit, WI 53511

President Carl Cramer W9BJ called the meeting to order at 7:30 pm. When introducing yourself please talk about what you are up to in ham radio. Comments were: two meter antenna problem solving, using PSK31, using Olivea, building a interface using old computer parts, receiving special QSL card, when using the Yaesu TS-950 how the new menu driver radio works and performs compared his other radio, two meter mobile radio is picking

up a noise, and new antennas to be put up in the spring. Everyone had something to say including trying to solve the problems.

Treasurer Reports for December and January by Doug W9PN were read and approved. It was decided that Carl Cramer would get his signature on the club checking account at Blackhawk Bank. This is in addition to the club Treasurer, Doug Speer. Two signatures on the account is a recommended procedure for all groups.

ARES/Races, Dave N9GQ: We will have a meeting the 4 th Monday of February at 7:30 p.m at the Red Cross building in Janesville. If you would like to support our ARES repeaters on 2 meters and 440 in Janesville and Clinton, (Rock County Repeater Association) a donation of $20 a year is requested. The antenna on the big tower west of Janesville was lost in the recent snowstorm.

Kit Project, Dave N9GQ and Doug W9PN: Participating members will be doing the Warbler PSK 31 Transceiver for 80 meters. This could be a Saturday project. The club will place the order for the kits to receive the best price. This will be a new mode of operating for many.

Program, Carl W9BJ: Carl led a discussion on voice modulation for amateurs. He stressed the audio bandpass that is transmitted and received. Most amateur equipment severely limits the frequency response of the audio information. This is helpful for DX operations but unnatural and annoying for other contacts. Carl talked about YouTube and ham radio. He showed programs on audio filtering and PSK 31. Using your computer with YouTube you will be able to see several hundred subjects and programs about ham radio. You just need to pick the subject.

Several items and books were passed around including a 1969 Allied Radio catalog and a Shure 1965 microphone manual. The "freebees" were several transistor books, an electrical code book, and tube sockets.

There were 15 in attendance and the question was: "What would be an interesting programs in the coming months." Several had no preference, Noise problem solving in mobiles, direction finding, antennas (small loop) and correct way of putting up a tower and what is needed.

Next meeting will be March 1 st . The program will be on good audio quality for Extended SSB. Our guest speaker will be Don Norwood, K9DN. Bring a guest.

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting Monday, January 4, 2010 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church St., Beloit, WI 53511

President Carl Cramer W9BJ called the meeting to order at 7:30 pm. He asked everyone to introduce themselves and what they were up to in regard

to ham radio. Comments were working on a PSK 31 kit, assembling parts to build an amplifier; several have antenna problems with his G5RV and quad, working QRP on CW with an old Heath kit, looking for an antenna tuner and an audio tuner.

Minutes Report: Conrad W9DL read the minutes of December 7, 2009. They were approved as read.

ARES/RACES: Dave N9GQ no meeting is planned for January 2010. Rock County Repeater Association membership dues for 2010 are due to Dave.

Kit Building Club Project by Dave N9GQ: He proposed four kits that have been posted on our WEB page and talked about at several meetings. The names are Sudden Storm Receiver, VXR-1 Receiver, PSK Warbler transceiver and Scout Regen Receiver. Several were interested in doing more than one project. A sign-up sheet was passed around on a kit preference. This could be a Saturday building project. Ed KC9GTB has built a PSK31 kit. He showed and talked about his project.

Beloit Repeater was discussed. The club wants to reactivate and maintain the Two Meter repeater on the hospital as part of the Beloit Amateur Radio Club. Greg K9GJN will pursue this with the owner.

Club is looking at a club call sign. Maybe a 1x1 call sign for special events. Many years ago the club’s call sign was WB9AMF.

January 4, 2010 attendance sheet was 17 . The question on the sign-in sheet was: Do you have any stuff you would like to pass on or pawn off to club members at a club meeting? Several said yes. Conrad W9DL will schedule the distribution of the stuff with the member.

The next meeting is February 1, 2010. Voice modulation techniques will be featured. Members can present for 5 or 10 minutes on the topic.
Greg K9GJN will inviting a guest to attend and speak on "Enhanced Audio SSB"

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club meeting December 7, 2009 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church St., Beloit WI 53511

President Carl Cramer, W9BJ, called the meeting to order at 7:30 pm. He asked everyone to introduce themselves and comment on what type of contest they work for amateur radio. Many were Wisconsin QSO party with one working 23 states in 3 hours. ARRL Sweepstake November SSB and others.

Secretary Report by Conrad W9DL for October and November was read and approved
No Treasurer report was given due to the absence of our treasurer. Dues for club membership for the 2010 calendar year were collected. We will also collect dues at the January 2010 club meeting.

We had 13 presidents at the meeting. The sign-in sheet asked if you have ever worked any of the new bands?

UHF/VHF, N9JDQ Dave said the BARC 2 meter net on 146.715 on Wednesday night checkins are picking up.

Dave N9GQ talked about an individual building project we could do. He passed out a sheet showing 4 kits that can be built. This could be a Saturday project, possibly at the Red Cross Building. These kits are posted on our WEB page.

Program: Carl, W9BJ, showed a 30-minute video he made of ham activities. It included the BARC participants of the ARRL 2007 Field Day. The comments were the operators were using 300 and 450-ohm open wire feed line and a lot of PSK31. Most of us just assume we used normal phone and CW.

We were asked to bring a gift to exchange, not wrapped, and not to exceed $5. Not sure what it was called, but someone said it was a "goodie-box" night. Then if you saw something you liked you could take it. One guy brought five hammers and a crow bar. Other goodies were a SWR bridge, printer and other stuff.

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting Monday, November 2, 2009. Main Fire Station 1111 Church St., Beloit WI 53511

President Carl Cramer, W9BJ, called the meeting to order at 7:30 pm. He asked everyone to introduce themselves and comment on how many ham clubs you have belonged too. W9PN Doug 6, K9IMN Ted 8 or 10, W9BJ Carl 4, W9MEH Paul 3, many others said two. W9AFW Ivan said only one because he and Dan, WA9EZT, started this club. Carl read part of a letter from Beloit Fire Chief, Bradley Liggett, giving permission to meet at the Central Fire Station. Carl asked if anyone objected to postponing the minutes to get to the program for the evening.

Program: Ted Gisske, K9IMM, presented a slide show about the trip he and about 6 others made to Swan Island. It was called an Islands on the Air (IOTA) DXpedition to Swan Island, Honduras. (Swan Island is in the Caribbean Sea.) Ted described the trip with getting the program going from assembling the gear, loading four pickup trucks full (like going out to field day with no going back home to get what you forgot). His slide show showed loading and unloading of the contents, and what they endured to do this DXpedition. Before they could get their transportation going to the Island, they had to repair the electrical system that steers the ship. The boat was a confiscated drug runner named FREEDOM. It was about 85 feet long. The 30-hour trip only seemed bad because they had no seating and had to lie on deck. When they arrived at the Island they had two small puddle jumpers to transport the gear to shore. No nice long shore man dock to pull up to. It was like, stop where the big rock is on land, pull the gear up at least 6 foot (including the four generators) and go from there. They made some 8000 QSO on cw and phone. The event cost about $4000; which they paid out of pocket. Ted, K9IMM, said this was his 6th DX trip. They had no electrical power on the Island. Swan Island is about one mile long and 3/10 mile wide. The web page has been taken down for this event.

W9BJ Carl, Janesville. K9DVB Dave, Beloit. N9JDQ Dave, Janesville. N9HMB Rollie, Janesville. W9MEH Paul, Janesville. John Schicles, Beloit. W9AFW Ivan, Beloit. K9IMM Ted, Daleyville. KA9SFT Dave, Beloit. K9GJN Greg, Janesville.

KC9OAH Rich, Janesville. W9DL Conrad, Clinton. KC9GTB Ed, Milton. W9PN Doug, Janesville. N9BUL Tom, Beloit. KC9QQO Al, Janesville. KC9PZI Kevin, Janesville. N9GQ Dave, Janesville. KC9LGS Bob, Whitewater. KC9LCR Dan, Whitewater

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting Monday, October 5, 2009 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church St., Beloit, Wi 53511

A short business session was held. We then engaged in a general discussion of possible club activities. A list follows.

License classes, group home brew projects, multi-Operator contests, plan a county roamer for the 2010 Wisconsin QSO party, field day entry into a VHF/UHF contest, field day improvements, future club programs, social activities, recruit more members, monthly news letter, December ham gift exchange.

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting Monday, September 14, 2009 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church St., Beloit, Wi 53511

President Carl Cramer, W9BJ, called the meeting to order at 7:40 pm, after some delay with the large screen projector for the computer.

Treasurer Report was not available. Expenses for Field Day were within our guidelines.

Self-Introductions were given along with comments about summer ham activities. The latest amateur radio publications were circulated.

A discussion was held about the Chicago FM Club's Hamfest at Belvidere, Illinois last Saturday and Sunday. Some photos of the "happenings" were shown. Carl, W9BJ, presented "Flea-Speak"; this was a translation of what sellers at the flea market say about their used equipment and what we are to actually understand. It tended to be humorous.

Paul Monroe, W9MEH, discussed a variable attenuator using the principle of a wave guide beyond cutoff. This was a quality flea market special. Also, his newly acquired book, 200 meters and Down was discussed. It was a historical presentation of early amateur radio and the ARRL.

Bob Barker, K9RIJ, handed out a multitude of "goodies" of used equipment consisting of a multitude of cables and connectors, etc. This was appreciated.

Some video presentations were given on a short clip of Hiram Percy Maxim, the founder of the ARRL and President until 1936. He was attending an open house of George Eastman on the occasion of the first Kodak movie camera and motion picture color film. Also, a presentation from the ARRL on Amateur Radio featuring Walter Cronkite (SK), was shown.

17 Hams were present. Beloit: Ivan-W9AFW, Frank-KB9MG, Dave-KA9SFT, Tom-N9BUL, Dave-K9DVB, Timm-KC9NMW

Janesville: Dave-N9JDQ, Donn-K9DA, Paul-W9MEH, Dave-N9GQ, Rich-KC9OAH, Greg-K9GJN, Carl-W9BJ

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting June 1, 2009 Main Fire Station 1111 Church St Beloit WI 53511

Minutes by Conrad, W9DL, for the May 4, 2009 meeting were approved with correction of Tub Run date.

Articles of Incorporation: The Club (Greater Beloit ARC INC.) is a nonstock corporation, filed May 8, 2009. Doug, W9PN, is the registered agent.

ARES/RACES and the Club. Dave, N9GQ, is coordinating communication for the Tub Run (Muscular Dystrophy) event again this year and needs 24 hams for checkpoints and net controls for the event. He also is helping coordinate the program where hospitals communicate with the Rock County EOC. Bob, K9RIJ, will be at the 911 communication center, Dave, N9GQ, is at the Edgerton Hospital, Ed, KC9GTB, at Mercy Hospital, John, KC9CDY, at Beloit Hospital and Conrad, W9DL, will be at Rock County EOC with Shirley Connors the coordinator for the county. The exercise will be Thursday, June 25th.

Field Day event for 2009 is the weekend of June 27 & 28. The Club will use Carl’s call, W9BJ. The Janesville Fire Station Training Center (same place as last year) will be the location. The club will have a dinner on Saturday night; Rich, KC9OAH, will be the cook. A discussion was held on who will work what bands, who will bring what equipment as needed (radios, tents, antennas, etc.). WA9JLD, Lyndon, will make the club AC generator available for the event.

Were you at theDayton, Ohio HamVention? Several hams from the club were. Dave, N9GQ, passed out to everyone at the meeting a free CD. It is a Morse Code Course guaranteeing to double your code speed or your money back. They thought the attendance at Dayton was 20,000.

The following were in attendance: W9BJ, Carl, Mike from Seattle, WA son-in-law of Carl, N9JDQ, Dave, KC9GTB, Ed, W9AFW, Ivan, KA9SFT, Dave, N9BUL, Tom, KC9OAH, Rich, K9GLN, Greg, K9RIJ, Bob, K9DA, Donn, KC9NMW, Timm, KC9NMV, Vince, N9GQ, Dave, W9PN, Doug, W9DL, Conrad

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting May 4, 2009 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church St., Beloit, WI 53511

President Carl Cramer, W9BJ, called the meeting to order at 7:30 pm. He asked when introducing yourself comment on what you use a computer for at your ham station. Many use a computer for logging stations, several have more than one logging program they use and some don’t use a computer at all.

Field Day Update Carl, W9BJ. The club will hold the event at the Janesville Fire Station Training Center on Hwy 14 and 51 in Janesville WI on June 27th & 28th. It will be the same location as last year. See web site for further details.

ARES/RACES and the club will again provide communications for the South Central Wisconsin Janesville Chapter Harley Owners, Tub Run, on Saturday, June 13, 2009. See details on the club web site under ARES/RACES; or attend the June 8th meeting at the Red Cross Building in Janesville at 7:30 pm.

Repeater 145.45 Bob, K9RIJ, talked about a fellow ham helping on the repeater tower. He was here on two separate occasions working to solve our repeater problems. Bob said he should be thanked immensely.

Program: Carl, W9BJ, showed how the WEB page of the Club is working. Pictures of officers and members are posted, the Minutes of the club over the last couple years and old field day pictures. Most all have seen the WEB page and Carl asked for suggestions, comments and input from the members. Carl, W9BJ, talked about attending the Madison Hamfest and made four purchases for $1 each. One was a Kenwood antenna tuner for two meters, a very nice SWR bridge, and bench power supplies.

The next meeting will be Monday, June 1st, at the main Fire Station, 1111 Church St., Beloit, WI at 7:30pm.

The Question on the sign in sheet was: Do you plan to attend Field Day this year?

Attending were N9JDQ, K9DA, W9PN, KC9GTB, K9DVB, W9AFW, KC9NNW, KC9OAH, KC9NMV, N9BUL, K9GJN, K9GLD, N9GQ, K9RIJ, W9BJ, W9DL

Recording Secretary: Conrad, W9DL
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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting April 6, 2009 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church St., Beloit, WI 53511

President Carl, W9BJ, called the meeting to order at 7:30 pm . He asked when introducing yourselves, to comment on performing maintenance on your station, how do you handle it. The comments were when setting up their station, they do fine. When it comes to repairing a radio, most could use help. As far as antenna work, we seem to build, fix and install it ourselves.

Beloit Amateur Radio Club Web Site is: www.rockhamradio.com

ARES/RACES Dave, N9GQ: Next meeting is the 4 th Monday, April 27, 2009 at the Red Cross Building, 211 N. Parker Drive, Janesville, WI at 7:30 pm. We can sign up for the Tub Run for Muscular Dystrophy.

Field Day Up Date: Carl, W9BJ, will be chairman of Field Day this year and said we hope to have the event at the same place as last year. It will be at the Janesville Fire Department Training Center. See web site for a map.

Program By Paul, W9MEH, on types of antenna tuners . His slide show and program had several old tuners dating to WW11. Plus he explained the Collins Radio Company invention of the pi network in 1933. He showed the T match and the L network matching of tuners. In the 1950’s several companies like E.F. Johnson and Millen had external commercial antenna tuners. W9PN displayed his Ten-Tex 238 B tuner. Paul also displayed his homebrew tuner, an LDG AT-1000 600 watt auto tuner, a Heath HA-2040 "Ultimate Transmatch", and a high power Harvey Wells tuner, and an Yaesu automatic tuner. He said the automatic antenna tuners are fine and the new radios with automatic antenna tuners that are built in are great. We had a chance to touch, pick them up and handle them.

There will be an area Hamfest at Stoughton , Wisconsin Saturday, April 18th. It is sponsored by the Madison Area Repeater Association (MARA). All are welcome.

Seventeen in attendance at the meeting: W9PN, K9RIJ, N9GQ, N9JDQ, KC9GTB, KA9SFT, N9BUL, K9GJN, W9AFW, K9EP, K9GLD, K9DA, KC9NMV, K9DVB, KC9MJQ, W9BJ, W9DL.

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting March 2, 2009 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church St. , Beloit , WI

President: Carl, W9BJ, called the meeting to order at 7:30 P.M. He asked everyone to introduce themselves and what they did or plan to do in the form of ham radio, soon. The comments were that they installed an antenna on the top of their truck, get the sound card going in the computer, get the new repeater 145.450 MHz installed in the new building site, order new QSL Cards, install radio for bicycle mobile, take down tilt over tower and install two HF antennas, and investigate two way communications for nursing home.

Minutes by Conrad, W9DL, for the February 2009 club meeting were read and approved.

Old Business: Doug, W9PN, commented on Club By Laws Review/Changes and Club incorporation papers.

Field Day: Carl, W9BJ, will head-up Field Day planning for June 27-28 this year.

RACES/ARES and the Club: Dave, N9GQ, reported the 15th annual Tub Run for Muscular Dystrophy (South Central Wisconsin Janesville Chapter Harley Owners) would be coming up in June. Please keep this in mind. We had 15 participating with new communication jackets last year.

Elecraft K3/100 Transceiver owners, KC9GTB, Ed, and N9GQ, Dave, have been working on the up-grades for their radios. They say they are experts on sucking solder. Cool!

Program: W9BJ, Carl, showed what our club web site looked like on his laptop computer. With the Fire Station overhead projector, you could read and see it all. He asked for our comments on how it looked. Carl said this is a work in progress. He has all the officers and paid members of the club pictures posted. Minutes for the last couple years are also posted. Carl ,W9BJ , is the club web master. Take a look at it and then send him your pictures, articles about your ham station, suggestions for improvements, and the big DX QSL card you received, to W9BJ@ arrl.net.

Wisconsin QSO Party on March 15, 1800Z - March 16, 0100Z, 3.5-28 MHz. For more data: www.warac.org Armed Forces Day is May 9 and 10. Ed, KC9GTB, said we would have to use the A/B VFO setting (split-frequency) for this operation because the MARS stations are not on our ham bands. Any questions, contact Ed, KC9GTB, as he monitors the 145.450 MHz Janesville repeater.

Hamfest coming up in Sterling , IL on Sunday, March 8, 2009 and Tri-County Hamfest in Jefferson , WI is Sunday, March 15, 2009 .

Also, Amateur Radio Supply, (AES), Milwaukee is sponsoring "AES Superfest 2009 on April 3-4; Friday 2-6 P.M. and Saturday, 8:30 A.M .- 3:00 P.M. Details in March 2009 QST, P. 100.

Meeting adjourned at 9:15 P.M. Next meeting is Monday, April 6 th 2009 at 7:30 P.M. .

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club meeting February 2, 2009 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church St., Beloit, WI 53511

President Carl, W9BJ, called the meeting to order at 7:30 PM and asked: When introducing yourself, to comment on what you do in the winter time in the form of Ham Radio. Some of the comments were: repair my ham radio equipment that I have been putting off, when in need, work on my antenna, even go outside to do it, read more of my ham publications, reread my operator manuals, work more 160 meters, and keep my Mars net going even with small turnouts.

Minutes By Conrad, W9DL, for the January 2008 meeting were read and approved.

Old Business: Doug, W9PN, is working on the constitution for the club and getting the club incorporated.

Silent Key: Dan Hammell, WA9EZT, died January 24, 2009. He was 87. Dan and Ivan, W9AFW, were among the starters of the club in the mid 1960's.

New Business: Doug, W9PN, talked about the 160 meter band and working DX. Check out DXER.org There are other links to help you.

Bob, K9RIJ, talked about someone that tried to scam him at self-service gas station on his credit card. Inserting your credit card outside was the problem. The same scam happened to a Clinton police officer. He says go inside and pay your gas bill.

At the Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) meeting last Monday, about ten 2-Meter J-Pole antennas were built. They are 18½-inches long, 300-ohm twin lead with 7 foot of RG-58 coax and a BNC connector for your handy talky radio. It could be used in the woods in place of your rubber duck antenna on your handy talky to greatly extend its range. Also in February 2009, QST, page 79, it showed how to build a hook using a coat hanger to support the antenna in a high spot for better reception. There were four antenna analyzers at the workshop that night. Hams come prepared.

Program: Carl, W9BJ, talked about ham publications you can get to enhance our hobby. They are QST, CQ, QEX, and Electric Radio. He passed copies around. Carl talked about working J79WWW, Gaynell, in the island of Dominca. Finding the station on the map was a challenge at first. You have to look southwest past Cuba, to locate it. The Island is only 40 miles long and 16 miles wide. The other amazing part was that he found that station on YOU TUBE. Carl showed us a video of the station working other US stations and other stations around the world. He asked us to ID some of the equipment and the antenna on the videos. We got an A. He told and showed there are a lot more videos available to see on YOU TUBE.

Ed, KC9GTB, brought a 2-meter radio with a remote head and speaker (all Midland) mounted on an 11 ½ X 22 inch board to the meeting to give away. The new home is at W9DL's shack.

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting January 5, 2009 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church Street, Beloit, Wisconsin 53511

New President Carl, W9BJ, called the meeting to order and asked when introducing ourselves, to comment on our most memorable contact on ham radio. Several talked about a first six-meter contact. Two mentioned their first contact as a novice on CW. Greg, KC9MIZ, worked his neighbor Carl, W9BJ on phone. Donn, K9DA, talked about working a ham on CW who was both blind and deaf. He told how the contact was made (receiving morse code with fingertips on a vibrating speaker cone.).

Minutes by Conrad, W9DL, for December 5, 2008 were read, corrected, and then approved.

Old Business: Doug, W9PN said that the club insurance policy was officially cancelled and we are looking for a single coverage policy for Field Day only. Doug is also working on incorporating the club.

New Business: A new slate of officers for the year 2009 are: President: Carl Cramer, W9BJ, Vice-President: Donn Ambrose, K9DA, Treasurer: Doug Speer, W9PN, and Recording Secretary: Conrad Herold, W9DL.

A motion by Ed Green, KC9GTB, was made to approve the slate of officers. It was seconded by Carl, W9BJ. The motion passed.

Program: Carl, W9BJ talked about the old WWII Command Sets (Articles in January 2009, QST). He displayed his three sets, one receiver and two transmitters. These types of radios were used in WWII airplanes to communicate between planes. With a quick disconnect, they were easily changed when shot up and failed in service. The transmitter had two 75-watt tubes that ran only 20 watts when operating. Carl use them for Novice CW when he first got started.

Program: Dave, N9GQ, showed what a CW signal on 40 meters looked like when using a computer with software. The spectrum he showed, you could see the actual dits and das. He also pointed out if the signal wasn't a clean CW signal, the picture would show the clicking and chirping on the monitor. He also talked about the CW Skimmer program of frequency. You can review programs like this on the Internet called YOU Tube.

Bob, K9RIJ, brought some of his extra shack and garage stuff which included: an MFJ antenna tuner, an extra class ham studies book, a mobile mounting bracket, and a two meter FM commercial 40 watt transceiver.

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting December 1, 2008 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church St., Beloit, WI 53511

President Dave, N9GQ, called the meeting to order at 7:30 PM. He had everyone introduce themselves and what they would like for Christmas in the form of ham radio. Some of the wants are: a headset with a boom mic, an antenna mount for the car as the last one flew off, and an Icom 7700. One commented his XYL said he had too much ham gear and should downsize but that won’t ever happen. The rest of us just kept quiet.

Old Business: Club Insurance: Dave, N9GQ, asks do we need this costly insurance policy because we only have the tower on the hospital (which is going to be taken down) and field day. Tom, N9BUL, said reason for the policy was because the club had many activities, scouting, parade, field day and the repeater. Today we don’t have these activities. A motion by Paul, W9MEH, was made not to pay for this policy. 2 nd by Doug, W9PN. Then Doug, W9PN, made a motion to get the club incorporated again as a non-profit, it was seconded by Carl, W9BJ. The Club is to look at a single coverage policy for field day.

Contesting: The ARRL November Sweepstake. The object of the stations in the United States, Canada (including territories and possession) to have to work as many hams on 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, 10 meters. A "Clean Sweep" is working all 80 ARRL/RAC sections. Congratulations to Donn, K9DA, for having a "Clean Sweep" by working all 80. Donn, we want to see your "whisk broom" award. Congratulations to Doug, W9PN, for working 79 of 80 sections. Other contests coming up are December 7, ARRL 160-meter contest, December 13, ARRL 10 meter contest, and Straight Key night 0000- 2359, UTC on January 1, 2009. See December QST page 68, for more contests.

Bob, K9RIJ, passed out an information sheet about the Rock County Repeater Association. We are looking for more new members to help support our area repeaters. The VHF repeater frequencies are 145.450 and 146.715 MHz on the 2 meter band and the UHF frequencies are 443.175 and 444.750 MHz on the 70 cm band. This will be talked about on our local nets. The consensus was that if we use the repeaters, we should pay. The asking amount is $20 a year. The repeaters ham call is WB9SHS. This was Hap Littles call, a long time supporter of the Beloit club and repeater, who now is a SK.

Dave, N9GQ, passed out a Calrad 60-188 Battery Meters and asked us to build them into something. Ivan, W9AFW, built an RF detector consisting of a wire loop and other components. Carl, W9BJ, built an RF “Sniffer” for wire and cable. It is useful for RFI testing. Carl says it is valuable to test the quality of your RF ground for your station. It clamps on a cable and the meter indicates the RF present.

Next Meeting is January 5 th. This will be a business meeting, with the election of Officers and dues for 2009 will be collected.

Recording Secretary, Conrad, W9DL

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting November 3, 2008 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church St., Beloit, WI 53511

Vice President Carl, W9BJ, called the meeting to order at 7:30 pm. He had everyone introduce themselves and tell what band they liked using and how they used it. Most used 20 meters, with some 17 meters. The bands mentioned were 160, 80, 60, 40, 20, 17, 15, 10, 6, and 2. Two talked about PSK, with one uses 40 meters CW. No one said 30 meters.

Carl, W9PN, talked about Amateur Radio magazines that people can subscribe to. They are CQ and QST. The results that our club had at field day is posted in QST.

Doug, W9PN: The program for the meeting was on Logbook of the World. He describes it as a very good logging program. He gave his insight how and why he likes it. To view this program on your computer, type in ARRL LOGBOOK OF THE WORLD. This program was developed by the ARRL. It has system boxes you can bring up to understand the workings.

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club October 6, 2008 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church Street, Beloit, Wisconsin 53511

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club September 8, 2008 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church Street, Beloit, Wisconsin 53511

President Dave Wendt, N9GQ, called the meeting to order at 7:30 PM. Everyone was to introduce themselves and tell what their activities this summer were in regard to ham radio. N9JDQ, Dave, replaced his rotor on the tower; W9BJ, Carl, got his beam and rotor down for repairs; KA9SFT, Dave, wanted to do tower work but no progress yet; and K9EP, Jerry spent time on 3.9825 MHz. His group moved from 3.985 MHz to accommodate the AM hams. KA9GTB, Ed, spent time on his digital receiver; K9DA, Donn, worked on special events; K9RIJ, Bob, relocated his shack and nothing is working, Hi Hi; and W9AFW, Ivan, was also busy in his shack.

Guests from Whitewater, WI were KC9LGS, Rob, and KC9LGR, Dan. We hope to see them at our future meetings. We thank them for their show and tell (surface-mount electronics).

Recording Secretary Report by W9DL, Conrad. After corrections, minutes were approved.

Beloit Amateur Radio Club Web site has an address of: www.rockhamradio.com Sign in, join up, and be informed.

Field Day: W9PN, Doug, filed the Field Day results via email and we received extra points. K9RIJ, Bob, has photos on disk of Field Day. To obtain a copy, see him.

Beloit Amateur Radio Club Wednesday Net. N9JDQ, Dave, is concerned because no one is checking in. Members are not overly concerned because of other summer activities.

ARES/RACES testing with on-the-air activities on Saturday, October 4, 2008. You could be part of this national Emergency Simulating Testing/Training, (Simulated Emergency Test, SET).

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club June 2, 2008 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church St., Beloit, WI 53511

President Dave Wendt, N9GQ, called the meeting to order at 7:30 PM. He asked the attendees to introduce themselves and tell how many calls they had over the years. They range from only one to six and that was Doug Speers, W9PN.

The next meeting will be September 8, 2008. The club does not meet in July & August.

Beloit Amateur Radio Club WEB Page: www.rockhamradio.com. Sign in, join up and be informed.

Treasurer Report by Doug, W9PN: Start out the month of May with $459.54. Income was from the April raffle $31.00. No expenditures for the month leaving a balance of $490.54

Challenge for club members: Dave N9GQ passed out small battery meter. They are to use in a project of your choice or build something the meter would fit into. Your project is for show and tell at the September meeting. Dave will have a prize for the winner.

Field Day 2008 Chairman: Doug Speers, W9PN

The club will hold the annual event at the Janesville Fire Station Training Center on Hwys 14 & 51 in Janesville WI. This event starts at 1 PM Saturday and ends Sunday at 1 PM. It runs for 24 hours. Stations will consist of tower with a 20-meter beam; 40-meter station will have an inverted V antenna, and an 80-meter setup with the same. There will also be a digital ham radio station and a GOTA station. Club members will provide their own ham radio equipment. The club’s generator will provide the stations power for the 24 hour event. WA9JLD, Lyndon, is in charge of the generator.

Newspapers will be provided information of the event by Conrad, W9DL, to the Beloit Daily News and Dave N9GQ for the Janesville Gazette.

KA9VHG, Jim, is in charge of the club meal on Saturday evening and maybe the Sunday breakfast.

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting May 5, 2008 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church Street, Beloit, WI

President Dave Wendt, N9GQ, called the meeting to order. With the members introducing themselves and answering the question, "Have you ever been QRM and explain". The following answers were: XYL on the treadmill, streetlights in the area, turn on the lights in the upstairs bedroom, a motor running in the area and Charter cable.

Treasurer Report by Doug, W9PN: No expenses for the month of April 2008 with a balance of $459.54. We have 18 paid members for 2008.

Field Day: Doug, W9DL, has been in contact with club members to address the band assignments. Stations planned are:

The club is paying for the Saturday evening meal and volunteers are needed for serving.

The ARES/RACES and this club will provide communication for the South Central Wisconsin, Janesville Chapter of the Harley Owners, June 14th, TUB Run. The intersection assignments will be assigned at the ARES/RACES meeting in May. If interested, call Dave, N9GQ.

Get connected to the Internet. Dave, N9GQ, is working on putting the club on the internet. (Yahoo Group) This way, club information such as: bulletins, minutes, and current activities can be monitored by you at home. Other clubs do this. We need your correct e-mail address.

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting April 7, 2008 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church St., Beloit, Wi 53511

President Dave, N9GQ, called the meeting to order at 7:30 PM. He had everyone introduce themselves and answer the question "Have you ever had a temporary shack?" We had several who had a ham station when they were in college, two retired school teacher had portable stations at school, several more took a radio on vacation and put up an antenna in the woods, plus one had a station at a boy scout camp. We had 17 people at the meeting including two from Beloit College.

Treasurers Report: Doug, W9PN was on work assignment but Carl, W9BJ, gave his report.

Recording Secretary Report: Minutes were read by Conrad, W9DL. They were approved as read.

Field Day was discussed. On possible location was behind the Fire Station on Cranston Road in Beloit; and the other location was at the Blackhawk Technical College campus on Prairie Avenue. It is alittle out in the country but everyone knows the location.

Beloit Repeater: Lyndon, WA9JLD, the owner and man-in-charge of the Beloit repeater, 146.600 MHz, for the last 37 years is looking at a different direction in keeping the machine going. The repeater is located at the Beloit Memorial Hospital on Prairie Avenue. Lyndon stated that there have been so many changes in the laws, new rules and regulations by Homeland Security, and building changes that require that the repeater site be addressed. Larry Fry, K9FRY, a repeater owner himself, wanted to make sure it wasn't going silent. Lyndon said that it wasn't going to happen. Other solutions are being explored.

Pictures of Your Shack: Several members had memory sticks with lots of pictures. A couple of CD's were also shown on a screen and several pictures were passed around.

Dave, N9GQ, asked if we knew about Yahoo Groups. He is looking into setting up a web site information page. Ron, N9SZV has resigned as our club web master.

Present at the meeting: Ivan, W9AFW; Scott, N9FRY; Larry, K9FRY; Dave, K9DVB, Jim, KC9MJQ; Carl, W9BJ; Dave, KA9SFT; Jerry, K9EP; Ed, KC9GTB; Dave, N9JDQ; Donn, K9DA; Dave, K9DA; Davem B9GQ; Paul, W9MEH; Lyndon, WA9JLD, Robin, KC9KHC; Dan Murphy; Conrad, W9DL

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting March 3, 2008

President Dave, N9GQ, called the meeting to order at 7:30 PM . He had everyone introduce themselves and answer the question, what did you solder last? The answers were: solder a PL259 on my coax, solder a high-voltage capacitor, solder my water pipe for a water softner, building a PSK31 for the transmitter, assembled and built a Elecraft transceiver and several other items.

N9GQ, Dave, nominated W9PN, Doug, to be the new club treasurer. The motion was made and was passed. W9PN accepted. No treasurer report was given at this meeting.

W9PN, Doug, and W9DL, Conrad, sent out 201 informational letters to area hams inviting them to the club meetings and to participate in club activities.

N9GQ, Dave, talked about the Wisconsin QSO party, March 9-10, 2008. You are the DX and the rest of the world wants to work you, Dave said. The frequencies are 3.5–28 and 50 and up. The modes are phone, cw and digital. Wisconsin has 72 counties.

Ron, N9SZV, is the club WEB master. Send your articles, pictures, wanted to buy, sell or trade items to him at rcalla706@charter.net. We have one of the most informative WEB pages around. The club WEB page is www.rockhamradio.com

Members to decide on Field Day site. No decision was made as to the location. Members seemed to like it being accessible to the public, but it lacks supports for antennas. W9PN, Doug, is in charge of Field Day. He would like to have a concerted effort keeping several stations on the air with multiple operators to keep everything going. What type of a station would you like? What frequency and mode. Do you want to be in charge of a station and whom do you want on your team. Now is the time to get it organized.

N9GQ, Dave, showed about 10 programs that came off the Internet. www.YouTube.com. How-to-make-a-vacuum-tube. This program showed you how to bend the wire making your filament, making the glass tube round and shaping the glass, inserting all the components in the glass tube and how to vacuum seal it. Another segment was how to fine-tune a PSK31 and how to hook it up and see the signal on the screen. We have several club members using PSK31.

President N9GQ, Dave: Ask about GOTA. What is GOTA? It means Get On The Air. Do you need help to get going on the air? That’s what the club is for. Members who can help you with your questions, antennas, how to set up a station and how to operate it. We want to help.

N9GQ, Dave, asked us to bring a CD with pictures of our ham shack to the next club meeting. You have a chance to show and tell.

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club February 4, 2008 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church Street, Beloit, Wisconsin 53511

President Dave Wendt, N9GQ, called the meeting to order at 7:30 P.M. He asked everyone to introduce themselves and to tell how many working radios they had. The amount ran from 2 to over 9; that included HF, VHF, UHF, mobile, and handy talkies.

Treasurer Report by N9GQ. $409 plus the income from dues paid at the last meeting. No final amount was given.

Announcements: KB9DVB, Dave came with treats to celebrate his upgrade at the last FCC license testing session. Also upgraded were k9GLD, Glen and KC9AGR, Jennifer.

Membership Project: N9GQ, Dave composed an informational mailing to be sent out to all the hams in the S. Beloit, Beloit, Clinton, and Janesville area. This flyer invites the hams to our next club meeting. The flyer told what activities the club was involved with, how to check our club web site, and dates and times of our meetings and directions to the meetings. A special rate of $12 to those that sign up through April 2008. The normal yearly dues are $15. W9PN, Doug, will make the labels and get the flyers printed. W9DL, Conrad, will put the labels on and mail them out.

N9GQ, Dave, talked about the new Rock County Repeater Association. It's purpose is to maintain and support the area repeaters. A discussion ensued. All these years, we have never been asked to support something like this and remember that there is "no free lunch". Someone has to contribute. The cost per year will be $20. There will be more information later.

KA9SFT, Dave, passed out a HF Half-Sloper antenna paper that he thought was interesting to the members.

In attendance: N9GQ, Dave; K9DBV, Dave, N9JDQ, Dave; K9DA, Donn; KA9SFT, Dave; W9MEH, Paul; W9BJ, Carl; W9AFW, Ivan; WB9ITB, Ed; W9DL, Conrad

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting January 7, 2008 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church St., Beloit, WI 53511

Treasurer Report: Dave N9GQ announces that WD9BB Chuck resigned as treasurer. At election time the post will be filled. The liability insurance has been paid for the coming year.

N9GQ Dave said we will be looking at the bylaws in the coming months. We are not following them and maybe cleaning them up will help.

General discussion for the evening

N9GQ Dave asked what we were up to the last month and did we get anything for Christmas in the way of ham radio. N9JDQ Dave got money for ham radio and after the holidays he was going to AES. K9DVB Dave is working to get his EXTRA class license and will test after the first of the year. The FCC will have a new set of questions after June 31^st. N9SZV Ron is working on his WEB page , http://n9szv.webhop.org and said to stop by and look at it. W9DL Conrad brought a small piece of lead water pipe from WB9YWL, Charle's place for show and tell. WA9JLD, Lyndon works for the Power and Light here in Beloit . He talked about lead pipes in parts of the city; they are very common to find. Regarding water towers here in the city he has a lot of knowledge about them, their size and the amount of water they contain. The members in attendance found his talk very interesting.

In attendance: Dave N9GQ, Dave KA9SFT, Bob WB9CKE, Ivan W9AFW, Dave K9DVB, Ron N9SZV, Lyndon WA9JLD & Conrad W9DL

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting December 3, 2007 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church St., , Beloit , WI 53511

President, N9GQ, Dave, called the meeting to order at 7:30 PM . Eight members were present.

¨Membership lists from March 1997 - 2007 are available. We also have the 1993 membership list.

¨A motion was presented by Doug Speer, W9PN. He proposed a Club Membership drive for 2008. This would involve preparing a flier that promoted joining our club. It should emphasize fraternalism and fellowship. It could be printed at Staples, A mailing list of area Hams would be needed and a club commitment on postage. The mailing would be done at least two weeks before the March 2008 meeting. We could offer a special dues rate of $12 for the remainder of 2008. We would plan and discuss the implementation of the plan during the January and February 2008 meetings.

Program for the Evening "Websites for Amateur Radio" was presented by President David, N9GQ.

Using the high speed internet access available at the club room, a large variety of web sites were visited. The program used David’s laptop computer and video projector.

AA6Z (World Directions), AF4K (finding Ham radio information), AC6V, W4RNL (for Cebik Antennas), FINDU.com, BSSS.org (Badger Smoke Signals-Online), BAMA (Boat Anchor Archives), beaconsee.htm, eHam, danssmallpartsandkits.net (in Montana), dxing.com, telia.com (Sweden), gqrp.com(British Low Power), heathkit-museum.com, freepatentsonline.com, users.tpg.com.au/use (VK5BR, a good writer), dx.qsl.net/propagation/greyline,html, announceddx, ng3k.com, yugop.com/ver3/stuff/03/fla.html, dxer.org, cccluster(Who is working who?), rigpixs

Announcements: Wisconsin QSO party is March 9, 2008. 10 Meter Contest is the weekend of December 7-8-9. Straight Key night is January 1, 2008 (UTC). Doug, W9PN, worked a KH6 (Hawaii) during the recent 160 Meter contest. N9GQ signed up for the ARRL Log Book of the World following procedures outlined at our last meeting.

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting November 5, 2007 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church Street, Beloit, Wisconsin 53511

President N9GQ, Dave called the meeting to order at 7:30 PM. He asked the group, "How many QSL cards have you sent out for the year?" W9PN, Doug, had sent out 2000 plus.

Treasurer Report by WD9BB, Chuck. We started the month with $633.99. We paid out $25 to the Double D Bees for three honey bears for their efforts of putting on a program for the club on October 1, 2007. The balance is $608.99.

* Field Day: N9GQ, Dave, said that he read the Field Day report on the ARRL web site and we did very well.

* Insurance: The Liability Insurance for the club for Field Day needs to be paid and kept as it is for another year.

* Web Site: The web site is no longer available. We are looking for a new volunteer to maintain the site for the club.

* Club Bylaws: Update. N9GQ, Dave, has a 1984 version and will send them to W9BJ, Carl and W9DL, Conrad to

Display old QSL Cards: Members who showed their cards were N9GQ, Dave; K9RIJ, Bob; W9BJ, Carl; W9DL, Conrad; and N9JDQ, Dave.

Logbook of the World: W9PN, Doug, explained what the Logbook of the World is and how it can be found. You go to the ARRL web site. Click on Logbook of the World. The program will tell you about it, how to down load it and answers the most frequently asked questions. Other club members are using the program.

Winners of the drawing for the Honey Bears were N9JDQ, Dave; K9EP, Jerry, and WD9BB, Chuck. Conrad, W9DL, was a winner but turned his honey bear back in because he had plenty of honey at home.

Our next meeting will be Monday, December 3, 2007. Our program: "What are some of the web sites that you find information about ham radio on?" Please email Dave at N9GQ@ARRL.net

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club meeting October 1, 2007 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church St., Beloit, WI

President N9GQ, Dave Wendt, called the meeting to order at 7:30 PM. He asked everyone what they did in regard to ham radio this month. W9AFW, Ivan, runs the Senile Net every morning 8 to 9 AM local time on 14.287 MHz. K9RIJ, Bob, runs the Navy Mars net. N9GQ, Dave, runs the ARES program for Rock County. This meets at the Red Cross Building in Janesville on the 4th Monday of each month at 7:30 PM.

N9JDQ, Dave, runs the Beloit Amateur Radio Club 2 meter net on Wednesdays at 7:30 PM.

President N9GQ, Dave, will be looking at the by-laws and report back to the club.

Club members are to look at the mission statement on the Beloit Amateur Radio Club Web site and report back.

Program for the evening was on Honey Bees. N9GQ, Dave, had WD9BB, Chuck, (a bee keeper himself) introduced Dan and Terry Dodge of Double “D” Bees from Beloit. They had nine different types of honey. Everyone had a chance to sample them all and discuss the one’s they liked. Dan & Terry talked about Honeybees, Queen Bees, Killer Bees and more. They also had popcorn with honey for the club members to sample. Program for next month is everyone brings old QSL Cards. W9PN, Doug, will do a computer program on the Book of the World. Meeting adjourned at 9:20 PM.

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Minutes September 10, 2007

Main Fire Station, 1111 Church St., Beloit, WI

President Dave Wendt, N9GQ, called the meeting to order at 7:30 PM.

The rest of the year all club meetings will fall on the first Monday of the month. October 1, November 5, and December 3^rd. Please mark your calendar.

Dave asked what have you have been doing this summer relating to ham radio. N9GQ, Dave, installed a tracking system (APERS) in his car and traveled to Alberta, Canada on his 2-week trip (around two countries). Dave also passed around his summer building project of a 40-meter kit transceiver, MMR-40, SSB and CW, 7 watts output. Can be held in the palm of your hand. Also, a home-brew Noise Generator was shown. W9BJ, Carl, spent much time fixing up and cleaning up old equipment. Climbing belts for tower work were reconditioned for use this fall. N9BUL, Tom, got a lot of his ham radio paperwork cleaned up with his DX and contest logs. W9AFW, Ivan, got his 40 meter antenna up plus runs the Senile net every morning on 14.287 MHz at 8 to 9 local time, N9SZV, Ron, added information to the WEB page for the club plus getting all his equipment grounded. W9DL, Conrad, worked on Charlie’s, WB9YWL, QTH. He sold the antenna and got his shack and machine shop taken care of. When cleaning out we had something for everyone from Charlie’s shack. W9PN, Doug, started his DXCC award again and he is doing quite well. W9HME, Paul, completed his 3700-mile vacation to Canada and Alaska. N9JDQ, Dave, is working DX with his new general class and the beam. He also runs the Beloit Amateur Radio Club, 2-meter net every Wednesday at 7:30 PM. Dave also displayed his QSL card that commemorated the Navaho Indians “Code Talkers “ of WWII. W9AFW Ivan served with those American Indian Marines on the island of Saipan, in the South Pacific.

Treasurer Report By Chuck, WD9BB

Recording Secretary Report by Conrad, W9DL was approved

New/Old Business

Field Day Report: N9BUL, Tom, had a notice in the shopper, but the Beloit Daily News lost their article and apologized. They will run something for the club later on. W9PN, Doug, had the Janesville Gazette come with a photographer and they did nice article with pictures in the paper. Also Deputy Fire Chief Bryan Northrop came out and looked at our Field Day site. He said he could get a place behind the Fire Station up on Cranston Rd. for next year’s field day. We would have a lot more exposure to the public.

President Dave Wendt, N9GQ, asked what we could have for programs this fall. Some suggestions were: Show and Tell your old QSL cards, Programs on Logbook, Ham Radio DX Cluster computer, logging by the computer, Stamps on old QSL cards, Win link and getting ready for Field day 2008.

Questions on the WEB page. Club approved putting membership on the WEB page. The treasurer report will be given with no money posted. The recording secretary can post minutes with one other officer approval. Then the minutes read at the regular meeting. Club dues are to be collected on the first of the calendar year. The Mission Statement for the Beloit Amateur Club as posted on the WEB page to be read and reviewed by the members for discussion at the next meeting. The president will have a review of by-laws at the next meeting.

The RADIO EXPO Hamfest is September 29^th Saturday and Sunday the 30^th at the Boone County Fairgrounds in Belvidere, IL

People in attendance: Dave N9GQ, Tom N9BUL, Dave KA9SFT, Chuck WD9BB, Doug W9PN, Carl W9BJ, Dick Burns W9NVC, Ivan W9AFW, Conrad W9DL, Ron N9SZV, and Dave N9JDQ

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting June 4, 2007 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church St., Beloit, WI

President N9GQ, Dave Wendt, called the meeting to order at 7:30pm. Everyone introduced themselves and what they have been up to.

Treasurer’s report by WD9BB, Chuck.

Recording Secretary Report by W9DL, Conrad: The Club May Minutes were read and approved.

New/Old business: N9GQ, Dave, was given a copy of the club bylaws. He will put them in order, with an update for the next meeting.

W9DL, Conrad, is still looking for old club minutes. If you have any old club minutes please turn them in to him. They belong with the recording secretary’s minute book.

Dayton Hamvention: The discussion was: who went and the good time they had.

Motion made and approved to spend $100 for the food for Field Day supper. N9JDQ, Dave, and his XYL, Jackie, will be in charge of getting and fixing the supper. Also approval was given to purchase the fuel for the generator.

Field Day

N9GQ, Dave, will not make the event. N9BUL, will put a notice in the Shopper. W9PN, will talk to the Janesville Gazette and see if they will do a story. W9DL, Conrad, will talk with the Deputy Fire Chief Bryan Northrop to see if he will come out and see what we do as an organization on Field Day. Several hams said what bands they wanted to work on Field Day. N9SZV, Ron, & N9KRK, Kirk, will be on 75 phone, 2meters, 440, maybe more. K9DVB, Dave, and W9DL, Conrad, will be on 20 meters with a beam. W9PN, Doug, and W9BJ, Carl, will be on 40 meters CW. W9AFW, Ivan, and N9JDQ, Dave, will have a 6-meter beam. KA9VHG, Jim, with PSK. Others will show up and choose a frequency. The Field Day site will be behind the Stateline Printing in So. Beloit. At the same location it has been in the last several years.

Attendance list attached. (?)

The next club meeting is September 10, 2007.

The meeting adjourned at 9 p.m.

Recording Secretary, W9DL, Conrad Herold

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting May 7, 2007 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church St., Beloit, WI

President Dave Wendt, N9GQ, called the meeting to order at 7:30 pm. Dave had everyone introduce themselves and say what they do in their spare time. There were a variety of comments, including several on gardening. K9EP, Jerry, said that he played in the Janesville senior citizens band. Come and join in the dancing on Friday morning at 9 AM. WD9BB, Chuck, has his bees, about 50 fruit trees, and his humongous garden. Everyone seems to have something going including ham radio.

Treasurer Report by WD9BB, Chuck: Started out the month of May with $409.99. With an income of $89 from stuff sold at the hamfest that was given to the Club by Norm, WB9BJU, and dues paid by Bob, K9RIJ.

Recording Secretary Report by W9DL, Conrad, was read and approved. He is still looking for the old minute book and the current club bylaws.

Old Business/ New Business

K9RIJ, Bob, has Ham Radio stuff in his garage left over from WB9BJU, Norm, who moved from the area. You may call Bob and come and take it.

Beloit Amateur Club WEB Site. N9SZV, Ron, is in charge. The secretary will send out a special email on this with the proper information and web address for you to use.

Field Day June 23 & 24 of 2007 will be discussing at the next meeting. Be prepared to discuss what you want to do. So far the club is looking to have the event at a location with a better exposure to the general public, like a city park.

Program for the Night: KA9VHG, Jim, presented a program on Digital Mode. Getting on the air is easy with your amateur radio license and the following. A computer with the proper software (probably free in the Internet). Also a transceiver radio with SSB and /or FM. The windows program must be 2000 or better. The signal from this setup is very narrow and quiet. You talk with others bye the keyboard. Jim brought his antenna mounted on a tripod (Buddy Pole) in the corner of the room. A lot of the typing jargon is still from the CW days. There are traffic nets. If you want to speak with Jim on this, his email address is KA9VHG@arrl.net. We did monitor the sound from this setup and it sounds like CW with a musical tone. This was shown to us from an overhead. He used digital on field day, scoring 722 points last year.

The next club meeting June 4th.

The meeting ended at 9:15 PM.

Recording secretary, W9DL, Conrad Herold
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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting April 2, 2007

Main Fire Station, 1111 Church St., Beloit , WI .

President Dave Wendt, N9GQ, called the meeting to order at 7:30 PM . Dave, N9GQ, had everyone introduce themselves with the date they got their licenses. N9GQ, Dave, 1997, KB9QJE, Herb 1997, K9EP, Jerry 1965, W9AFW, Ivan, 1960, K9DA, Donn 1978, WD9BB, Chuck 1974, W9PN, Doug 1971, W9MEH, Paul 1954, N9JDQ, Dave 2006, W9DL Conrad 1965. Five members of the club participated in the Wisconsin QSO party. Thirteen people attended the National Incident Management System (NIMS), An Introduction (IS700) Posttest. Eleven took the test and passed.

Treasurer Report by WD9BB, Chuck. Paid members are N9BUL, Tom, WD9BB, Chuck, K9EP, Jerry, W9BJ, Carl, W9PN Doug, WA9JLD Lyndon, WA9JTX, Jim, N9JDQ, Dave, W9DL, Conrad, K9DA, Donn, K9GLD, Glen, N9GQ, Dave, W9AFW, Ivan, KB9QJE, Herb, W9MEH, Paul. The treasurer reported a balance of $409.99 in the Club account.

N9GQ, Dave, presented a short demonstration of an antenna modeling program called EZNEC. It is used for the ARRL Antenna Course. It allows for building all kinds of antennas on the computer and testing out the performance without stringing a single wire.

Other Discussion was Club By-Laws review. Who has them? Looking for the minutes. Talk about it at the next meeting.

Do we have someone to do the club Website?

Future programs. WD9BB, Chuck, will line up some one to talk about Bees after the rush of the season is over. What do you have for a program for the club?

Other discussion was on Log of the World, Digital Mode, Win Link, and the 911 Center.

Meeting ended at 9:00 PM .

The next meeting will be Monday, May 7 at 7:30 PM in the main Fire Station, Beloit.

Recording Secretary, W9DL, Conrad Herold

In attendance: Dave N9GQ, Herb KB9QJE, Jerry K9EP, Ivan W9AFW, Donn K9DA, Chuck WD9BB, Doug W9PN, Dave N9JDQ, Conrad W9DL, Dave KA9SFT, Paul W9MEH, Lyndon WA9JLD

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting March 5, 2007 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church St., Beloit, WI

President Dave Wendt, N9GQ called the meeting to order at 7:30 p.m.

Dave, N9GQ, gave his report on ARES/RACES noting the next meeting will be an instructional course on the IS700. Shirley Connors at the Emergency Operations Center County Health Building in Janesville will give this class on Monday, March 26 at 7PM. This program will be 2 ½ hours in length. You must register with me to attend this class. Dave passed out forms to join the ARES/RACES group. Also the schedule for 2007 Storm Spotter Training was distributed. He also passed out 2006 All-Hazard Emergency Response Checklist booklets. Be sure to participate in the Wisconsin QSO party from 1-to 8 p.m. on Sunday March 11. Dave also talked about the book he has from the library by Steve Woziak from Apple Computers. Remember the Jefferson Hamfest on March 18th.

Treasurer’s report by Chuck, WD9BB. Account balance is $130.99. He will collect dues from any members at this meeting who wish to pay for 2007.

Recording Secretary report by Conrad Herold, W9DL. It was read and approved.

New Business: Home Brew Show & Tell

Doug, N9PN, brought homemade key he put together as a Novice - 2 straight keys back-to-back using them as a keyer.

Frank, WA9CWX, brought his transceiver he built. An Elecraft that he used on the air with QRP 7 watts.

Donn, K9DA, brought his home brew tuna-tin QRP transmitter with a RF output of 200/300 mw.

Tom, N9BUL, brought his old catalogs from 1929 to 1936.

Chuck, WD9BB, displayed his adjustable regulated power supply and resistive bridge.

Jerry, K9EP, talked about Heath Kit equipment that he built.

Ivan, W9AFW, talked about his 6-meter transmitters & converters.

Ed, WB9ITV, talked about his old 2-meter stuff including a 2-meter lunch box.

Conrad, W9DL, displayed his Heath Kit keyer he built and used taking his code test in Chicago at the Federal Building.

Lyndon, WA9JLD, displayed his 6-meter amplifiers of 35 watts working a Japan station. The tubes in the final are 6146B’s.

Conrad, W9DL, displayed Carl, W9BJ’s, Elecraft XG1 receiver test oscillator he built. It supplies S1 and S9 strength CW signals on 80, 40, and 20 meters; crystal controlled.

Dave, KC9JDQ, displayed his RCA jack splitter with a SO239. He uses it all the time.

Dave, N9GQ, talked about his a transceiver operating on 2.4 gigs about the size of a quarter fitting in the hub of a bicycle. This is from his work place.

The next Beloit Amateur Radio Club meeting will be April 2, 2007 at the main fire station in Beloit on Park Ave.

Meeting ended at 9:10 PM.

Recording Secretary: Conrad Herold, W9DL

Members present are Dave, N9GQ; Lyndon, WA9JDL; Dave, KC9JDQ; Jerry, K9EP; Ed, WB9ITV; Tom, N9BUL; Frank, WA9CWX; Doug, W9PN; Ivan, W9AFW; Donn, K9DA; Glenn, K9GLD; Dave, KA9SFT; Chuck, WD9BB; and Conrad, W9DL.

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Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting December 4, 2006 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church St., Beloit, WI.

President Dave Wendt, N9GQ, called the meeting to order at 7:30 PM.

Chuck Bell, WD9BB, gave the Treasurer Report. The balance as of December 1st $ 405.99. Chuck, WD9BB, then made a motion to pay our liability insurance for the club that is $275 for the year of 2007.

Conrad, W9DL, submitted Field Day Report for 2006 that was in the December 2006 issue of QST.

New Business: Install officers for the year of 2007.

After a lengthy and friendly discussion, these candidates were chosen:

President - Dave Wendt, N9GQ, for his third term.

Vice President - Carl Cramer, W9BJ, old call was W9KRP

Recording Secretary - Conrad Herold, W9DL

Treasurer - Chuck Bell, WD9BB, for his third term.

Beloit Amateur Radio Club sponsors a 2-meter net on Wednesday night at 7:30 PM, on 146.67 MHz; the net control stations are Dave, N9GQ and Dave, KC9JDQ.

Larry Fry, K9FRY, and Scott Fry, N9FRY, will conduct Volunteer Examiner’s (VEC Testing) for an amateur radio license this coming year. The dates are: January 20, April 21, July 20, and October 21, at 1pm. Location will be St. Johns Lutheran Church, 302 N Parker Dr., (upper entrance on Pease Ct.), Janesville, WI. Their repeater frequency is 147.075MHz + with a PL of 123. Phone Number 608-449-8513. Email is Radarkilowatt@aol.com. You can look this information up on the computer under QRZ at Scott’s call N9FRY.

Giveaways for the night were provided by K9RIJ, Bob, and W9DL, Conrad, that included a handy talky, Swr Bridge, other unidentified objects and one good size junk box.

The Program for the night was (WEB sites of Interest) was given by Dave, N9GQ. It was laptop presentation. A flyer was given to attendees.

The next meeting will be January 8, 2007

Meeting adjourned at 9:22 PM.

Conrad Herold, W9DL, Recording Secretary

Members Present: Dave Wendt, N9GQ; Chuck Bell, WD9BB; Bob Barker, K9RIJ; Ed Green, KC9GTB; Ivan Makovec, W9AFW; Lyndon Opdyke, WA9JLD; Dave Ferguson, KA9SFT; Dave Fisher, KC9JDQ; Carl Cramer, W9BJ; and Conrad Herold, W9DL

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Meeting adjourned at 9:00 p.m. Next meeting is April 4, 2011 at 7 pm

Meeting adjourned at 9:00 PM.

Recording Secretary W9DL Conrad

Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting Monday, January 4, 2010 Main Fire Station, 1111 Church St., Beloit, WI 53511

Beloit Amateur Radio Club Web Site is: www.rockhamradio.com

Recording Secretary, Conrad, W9DL

Beloit Amateur Radio Club Meeting March 3, 2008

General discussion for the evening

Beloit Amateur Radio Club Minutes September 10, 2007

Main Fire Station, 1111 Church St., Beloit, WI