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MCKIM MURDER SUSPECT ARRESTED Alan White KAØQNB, who is the primary suspect in the summer killings of WØCY's XYL, daughter and great-grandson, was nabbed 30 minutes after the story of the murders was aired on Fox tv's America's Most Wanted. The response time seems amazing, but the FBI was zeroing in on WHite even without the tv show. Turns out he'd been sending emails from a public building near the homeless shelter where he was living, and it was on a list of locations the FBI would have checked out after the program aired.

WBØUSQ'S MOTHER DIES Longtime Trojan and Kansas Sideband Net checkin Gerald WBØUSQ lost his mother Susie in early November, after a couple months' illness. Kathy NØXNJ sent flowers on behalf of the club, and Susie's kids sent a thank you. Gerald's sister and her husband used to work at KØBJ's parents' farm.

WØLOW QSYs NORTH A BIT Doc has moved out to the home of harmonic Becky Kersenbrock WØVGE, northwest of Colby. We wish Doc the best in the new digs.

1997 OFFICERS In a sweeping bout of railroaditis, all club officers were returned for new terms. The one minor addition is that KØBJ has agreed to be co-treasurer to cover NØNXJ during her scheduled harmonic-production time around March. Gerry KBØLGX remains as president, Gary NØXNK is V.P., Kathy is Sec-treas and Bruce is Program Dir.

SPRING HAMFEST PLANS After alot of discussion at Ham Lunch and elsewhere, it was decided at the last meeting to formally invite the Suflower Club of Goodland to take the spring hamfest in 1997. Trojans would assist with planning etc. as possible. The Sunflowers' decision should be in shortly. If they decide NOT to take it, we'll have to make a determination soon whether we want to hold a 1997 swapfest. This is not a big-market event, but does seem to fill a niche out here in the boondocks. Final details SHOULD be available for the next HARMONIC.

NEW QUESTIONS MAY APPEAR ON ALL HAM EXAMS Because of the new RF exposure guidelines being worked on by the FCC, it appears as though tests for ALL license classes will soon have additional questions and question pools. It looks as though this may happen about mid-year of 1997. The FCC set an impossible timeline on this, and negotiations to implement the procedures are ongoing. Persons thinking about testing will be well-adivsed to do it soon, as the new questions will increase the scope of issues needed to study for the exams.

NEWSLETTER EXCUSES The editor has been on two weeklong vacations in 15 days! Sometimes it's a bear having fun.... the newsletter is a bit disorganized. I know that some of you receiving this electronically are having trouble with the cancelled zero characters. We're hoping that by next month we'll have a way to strip those and replace with ASCII zeroes, for the electronic version.

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BANDSCAN BT Bill NØJBS has moved into an apartment in Goodland while taking the Comm Tech cirriculum at Vo Tech. He's on the 2nd floor and is using a 6el yagi and 5W HT to make QSOs on the Goodland and Colby repeaters. BT KFØMJ and KØBJ both earned 100 QSO participation pins in the SSB Sweepstakes contest, but neither got much beyond that level. The heavy ice storm provided plenty motivation to hibernate in the shack, but also froze rotators in place and raised SWR at both QTHs. The pair are thinking about working up a multiop entry next year. BT Dave NØTES has a new computer. He's also back to leaning toward high school graduation at the end of this semester. BT Justin Meitl, a junior at Colby HS, has shown some interest in getting a ticket. He lives just south of the old repeater site on K-25 at Barton's. BT Bruce KØBJ just returned from a weeklong diving trip in Cozumel Mexico. Nineteen dives in 6 days gave him the chance to see some new marine life. One highlight was seeing Fantome, sister ship to the Yankee Trader that he and Janice traveled on in 1979, in the harbor. BJ 'borrowed' the VHF marine radio from the dive shop and contacted Fantome, wangling an invitation for himself and some friends to come aboard for a visit. The bridge was impressive, with a fancy hi-resolution radar slaved to the magnetic compass, and a GPS with fancy mapping readout.