1/12/2007 --- Missouri Traffic Net Gets New Net Manager ---
Please join me in congratulating Larry Wilson, K0RWL as our new net manager for MOTRAN. Larry has been a ham for many years and has been an active on CW and Phone traffic nets, contesting, building and repair. He is active in his local amateur community, working on repeater repair and up-date, among many other things. He has been active in ARRL as well, having served as SM for a period of five years. Larry‘s station is outstanding, and he frequently has been asked to relay messages from stations that net control stations cannot hear: He is alert to help new stations that are having difficulty in being heard, and welcomes them to the phone net community.
12/1/2006 --- New District E Emergency Coordinator Appointed ---
Larry Ford has been appointed as the new District Emergency Coordinator for Missouri District "E". Larry has been the EC for Dunklin County and will retain that position for now as well. Congratulations Larry!
8/24/2006 --- New District C Emergency Coordinator ---
Jeff Young, KB3HF has been appointed as the new DEC for District C. Jeff has been the EC for St Charles County for some time and will be replaced by Bill Grimsbo, N0PNP in St Charles County. Congratulations to Jeff and Bill both!
ARRL to Blog from Dayton Hamvention As in previous years, the ARRL will be blogging live from Hara Arena, site of the Dayton Hamvention®. In addition to keeping everyone up with the latest and greatest at Dayton, this year's blog will feature video clips. QST Editor -- and Hamvention blogger extraordinaire -- Steve Ford, WB8IMY, said, "The video clips were such a big hit with last year's blog that we decided to do even more of them for this year!" Ford says he plans on featuring new products that are debuting at the Hamvention, as well as all the "fun stuff" that pops up: "Both I and the staff have a lot of fun with this, and we hope those who read the blog do, too." Look for the blog to go "live" Thursday, May 15 and continue throughout the Hamvention.
Hams Called to Action in Aftermath of China Quake On Monday, May 12 at 0628 UTC, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit Sichuan, China. The Chinese Radio Sports Association, the Chinese IARU Member-Society, has designated the following frequencies for emergency services involved in the rescue: 14.270, 7.050 and 7.060 MHz. The ARRL encourages US amateurs to be aware of the emergency operations on those three frequencies.
W1HQ Snake Gets Name, Call Sign With more than 400 votes tallied, the W1HQ snake finally has a name. Sean Kutzko, KX9X, president of The Laird Campbell Memorial HQ Operators Club, announced that the snake not only has a name, but a call sign, as well.
ARRL EXPO at Dayton Hamvention®, May 16-18 Find the latest details about the ARRL EXPO at the Dayton Hamvention, including an activities guide, news, blogs and other event information. If you are coming to Dayton, look for new features in the ARRL EXPO, including the Movie Room! All purchases of $10 or more in the ARRL bookstore will receive a complementary reusable eco-friendly bag; all new and renewing ARRL members will also receive this new bag. If you can't make it to Dayton this year, keep up with all the fun on our live Web blog. Get the latest Hamvention news right here on the ARRL Web site.
Ronald A Parise, WA4SIR (SK) Ronald A. Parise, PhD, WA4SIR, passed away Friday May 9, 2008 after a very long and courageous battle with cancer. He was 57. Parise flew as a payload specialist on two space shuttle missions: STS-35 on Columbia in December 1990 and STS-67 on the Endeavour in March 1995. These two missions, ASTRO-1 and ASTRO-2 respectively, carried out ultraviolet and x-ray astronomical observations, logging more than 614 hours and 10.6 million miles in space. Parise was one of the first astronomers to operate a telescope from space, making hundreds of observations during the mission. Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Chairman Frank H. Bauer, KA3HDO, said Parise's personal contributions to these two missions provided scientists with "an unprecedented view of our universe, expanding our understanding of the birth, life and death of stars and galaxies."
Leaving on a Jet Plane to Dayton Hamvention® "As the song says, 'All our bags are packed and we're ready to go' -- well, almost," said ARRL Hamvention Coordinator Katie Breen, W1KRB. "The ARRL EXPO area is packed up into seven shipping skids and they are in a truck on their way to Dayton. We here at headquarters are not only breathing a huge sigh of relief, but many of us are still wrapping up our individual final details." The Dayton Hamvention® will run from May 16-18 at Hara Arena, just outside Dayton, Ohio.
The K7RA Solar Update Again this week, we saw a new, but brief sunspot, sunspot 993. Judging from the polarity of the spot, it looks to be from new Solar Cycle 24; this spot was south of the solar equator, so it has the same polarity as any Cycle 23 spot that was north of the equator. After two days it was gone, not from drifting over the edge of the visible solar disk -- it just disappeared.
Surfin': Destination: Dayton This week, discover how you can attend the Dayton Hamvention without trekking to the Gem City.
FCC Looks to Raise Vanity Call Sign Fees The FCC released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Order (NPRM) on May 8 seeking to raise fees for Amateur Radio vanity call signs. Currently, a vanity call sign costs $11.70 and is good for 10 years; the new fee, if the FCC plan goes through, will go up to $12.30 for 10 years, an increase of $.60. The FCC is authorized by the Communications Act of 1934 (as amended) to collect vanity call sign fees to recover the costs associated with that program. The vanity call sign regulatory fee is payable not only when applying for a new vanity call sign, but also upon renewing a vanity call sign for a new term. Instructions on how to comment on this NPRM are available on the FCC Web site.
ARRL Audio News: May 9, 2008; Vol 27 Number 18 ARRL Audio News--OPEN--In this edition . . .; Leaving on a Jet Plane to Dayton Hamvention; Look for the June Issue of QST in Your Mailbox; ARRL Audio News ID--Satellite Update--BREAK; FCC Denies Two Amateur Radio Petitions for Rulemaking; Veteran Wireless Operators Association Honors Two Hams; New NASA Tool Allows Exploration of Ionosphere from Inside; ARRL Audio News--News Briefs--CLOSE
The Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES®)
in Missouri provides emergency communications to "Served Agencies" such
as the Office of Emergency Management, the American Red Cross, the Salvation
Army, the
National Weather Service, hospitals, and others as agreed in each
county. The
114 Missouri counties and the City of Saint Louis are grouped into
nine ARES® districts. Many ARES® teams
also provide communications for public service events such as marathons,
parades, bike riding events, and boat races. The FCC prohibits
any Amateur Radio Operator from accepting payment for these services.
In the Missouri Section ARES®, the Section Emergency Coordinator
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and Official Emergency Stations (OES).
The DEC supervises the efforts of the local EC's in the defined district.
And the EC for each county reports their activity monthly to the DEC for
their district
who in
turn
consolidates
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received
from
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and forwards that report to the SEC. The OES's may report to the EC or
DEC depending on their specific function.
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or if the DEC position is vacant, the SEC. You will find the EC/DEC
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