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RADIOACTIVITIES

Newsletter of the Argonne Amateur Radio Club

Volume XLVI, Number3 March 2005

ARGONNE AMATEUR RADIO CLUB
Chuck Doose 401–C3241
9700 S. Cass Av., Argonne IL 60439
¾¾¾¾¾ Officers ¾¾¾¾¾
PRESIDENT Jim Jorgensen K9RJ
VICE PRESIDENT Charles Doose KB9UMF
SECRETARY Joe Kilar WB9THV
TREASURER Dale Travis AG9H
DIRECTOR Dick Konecny K9IB
DIRECTOR Torben Lauritsen KF9MI
DIRECTOR Jack Albert WA9FVP
DIRECTOR Bruce Epperson KA9H
DIRECTOR George Mosho KB9YYW
DIRECTOR Tim Smith N9UEB
e-mail:
www.bigfoot.com/~w9anl / MEMBERSHIP is open to all who are interested in amateur radio. This club is sponsored by Argonne National Laboratory. Employees of ANL or DOE-Chicago are eligible for full membership. Auxiliary membership is available to non-employees.
W9ANL/R is an open repeater, coordinated on 145.19 MHz (600 input). The AARC repeater has been in operation on this frequency pair continuously since February 5, 1982.
CLUB NETS: 2 meter fm 1) Regular, every Monday evening at 9:00 and 2) the Night Patrol every night at 10:30, both on W9ANL/R. The Peanut Whistle Net (PWN) every Sunday at 1:30 p.m., and many evenings at 8:30 p.m. on 1932 kHz (cw/am/ssb), QRP. / RADIOACTIVITIES is published monthly by the Argonne Amateur Radio Club as a nonprofit newsletter intended only for the use of its membership. Material appearing here does not represent the official position of Argonne National Laboratory or the U. S. Department of Energy. Please give credit to the author and to Radioactivities or the Argonne Amateur Radio Club, when using original material published here. Deadline for submissions normally is the 20th of the preceding month.
EDITOR Dale Travis AG9H
EVENTS
SKYWARN ACTIVITIES Deni Lamoreaux W9DS
Please send club and editorial correspondence to the club address, or to Please include “AARC” in the subject.

Club Meeting

The March 2005 AARC Meeting will be held Tuesday, March 8, from 11:30 to 1:00 pm in Building 401 Auditorium (APS office building). Lester Erwin (with his wife) has agreed to perform his “Magic of Electricity” show. This is a very interesting show (tesla coils, wimshurst generators, vandegraph generators, ect.). Club business at 11:30, then the show at noon.

Directions to the APS Conference Center Auditorium: Park in the 401 lot and walk up the stairs to the main entrance, the auditorium building will be on your right (it looks like a big ice cream cone). Here’s a link to an image of the location: www.aps.anl.gov/Facility/Conference_Center. Enter the 401 main entrance via the revolving door and proceed to your right. You can page Chuck Doose at 4-1037 from any lab phone if you need assistance. You can buy your lunch at the cafeteria and get it to go, or there is a “401 Grill” on the first floor of the APS below the Gallery area. Here is the link to the menu: http://www.aps.anl.gov/travel/menu/agh_grill_menu.htm.

If you want to attend and do not have an Argonne badge, contact Chuck Doose 630-252-6037 who will arrange for a gate pass.

The Treasurer’s Computer

by Dale Travis, AG9H

Members: ANL/DOE 21; Associate 51; Newsletter 6; Retired 20

Balances: Checking $5893.86; Cash $25.00; ANL fund = $34.00

Distributed as: Club $1305.47; Equipment $306.33; Repeater $2026.72; Packet $1184.66

For the period Jan 28 thru Feb 27, 2005:

Income: Dues $43.00; Club $23.47 Eqp $4.45 Rptr $0.69; Pkt $0.40; ANL $0.00

Expenses: Club $111.00; Eqp $1031.69; Rptr $0.00; Pkt $0.00

73% of the full members and 75% of the associate members have signed up for 2005. Included with this issue of the newsletter are membership lists that consist of: 1) full list sorted by call suffix with addresses and phone numbers of the current members, 2) full list sorted by last name, and 3) e-mail list sorted by call suffix. It contains all of the members names that I show paid for 2005 as of February 25, 2005. If someone wants a roster sorted by some other field, just ask me for it and I’ll do my best to get it for you. Here is a rerun of the access codes for the repeater:

*#813nn Set code speed to nn words per minute.

*2580 Send 3 min of random 5 letter char groups.

*2587 Send 3 minutes of random words.

Please remember that you must ID before accessing the repeater for code practice. You don’t have to say what you are going to do, just your call will do. eg. 1) Key your transmitter, 2) wait for 3 to 4 seconds for the repeater to come up, 3) give your call, 4) issue the code to do what you want to do, & 5) unkey and listen for the acknowledgment (K).

REMINDERS

CLUB BREAKFAST: Always the 2nd Sat. of each month, 8:30 AM. This month it is the 12th at:

OlduCountry Buffetu

59th Street and LaGrange Road in LaGrange

CLUB NETS: Thru our Club Repeater 145.19.

SKYWARN NET: Mondays in season

at 7 PM with Deni, W9DS.

THE CLUB’S 9PM NET: every Monday with

Jack WA9FVP.

THE NIGHT PATROL: every night at 10:30 PM

with Paul, W9FNM.

THE BREAKFAST CLUB: every morning at 8 AM.

THE NOONTIME NET: every weekday at noon.

Mil’s Corner for March

03 / WD9GOL / Robert / Niles, MI
05 / WA9KPI / Robert / Lockport, IL
15 / W9SKD / Dick / Plainfield, IL
17 / W9TIE / Bob / Glen Ellyn, IL
23 / K9RJ / Jim / Downers Grove, IL
27 / W9ARG / Jeffrey / Summit, IL
28 / KA9H / Bruce / Downers Grove, IL
29 / KC9DVU / Ken / Wheaton, IL
30 / KB9UMF / Chuck / Clarendon Hills, IL
30 / WA9ZBW / John / Dwight, IL
31 / N9NWA / Randy / Downers Grove, IL

Newsletter Distribution

Starting with the April newsletter, members who have an e-mail address will receive the newsletter via e-mail only. The newsletter will be an attachment in Microsoft Word 2000 format. If you don’t have Microsoft Word, you can download the viewer from Microsoft at http://download.microsoft.com/download/word2000/viewer/1/win98/EN-US/Wd97vw32.exe. We will send both a .doc & a .pdf version of the newsletter if we have access to a .pdf writer. If I don’t hear from you, I will assume that you can read the .doc attachment.

If you want an e-mail address in the data base so it is included on the membership list, but cannot receive the e-mail newsletter, let me know so I can mark your entry as such and will continue to receive the snail-mail newsletter. You can e-mail me with your wishes. If you do not get an e-mail copy of this newsletter, either I don’t have your e-mail address [(N9SXG)], or I don’t have it correct, or you have requested not to receive the e-mail copy. If you want the e-mail copy & didn’t receive it, send me an e-mail with your e-mail address & tell me what you want.

Severe Weather Training

Jim Allsopp of the Romeoville NWS has agreed to present a severe weather training program for the AARC on April 20th in bldg. 951, Argonne Club House east of Cass Av., from 7 to 9 PM. As in the past, everyone is welcome.

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Argonne Amateur Radio Club

Chuck Doose 401-C3241

9700 S. Cass Av.

Argonne, IL 60439