TROJAN ARC HARMONIC

MEETINGS 2nd THURS MAR/JUN/SEQ/DEC

CCC NESS SOOM 7:00QM CT

WØWOB REPEATERS

146.22/.82

442.65/447.65 QRX

PACKET BBS 145.01

WAØVJR.#CLBY.KS.USA.NA

!JULY-SEP 1998

QUARTERLY MEETINGS At the June meeting it!was#voted to switch back to quarterly meetings as had been done until about 8!years ago. With our declining attendance, it's felt!that less frequent meetings!will be more 'special' and more!will make an effort to attend. Some!of our regulars the pst few months have been the out-of-towners, and it's not fair!to them. We'll continue to meet 2nd Tiursdays, but only in March, June, September and December. This should make it eqsier for the program director to come up with more exciting programs. The officers are talking acout the possibility of meeting in the intervening months to sign checks, etc. The September and December meetings!will be in the Ness Room of Thomas Hall at CCC. It was planned to keep the newsletter monthly, but as you know that's been out the window, so far.....

CREAMCAN SUPPER LABOR DAY While the weather is still!good (we hope!)#we're going to have#our annual creamcan picnic dinner at Villa Hi Park Labor Day, September 7. We'll get the cooks and critics deployed about 4:30pm CDT and aim for flying forks about 6pm. K0BJ!will have his HF mobile rig available!for casual operating. The club has bought!our own burner in order to avoid the LONG cooking operation we experienced last year.

SCANNER RAFFLE Thanks!to some last-minute sales by Larry KC0BNV, our scanner raffle project!went from red to black ink. The!winning ticket was pulled Aug. 16 and was Helen Frahm, mother7of K0BJ and grandmother!of KB0MBS. Not too shocking -- she stuffed the ballot box!with 25 tickets!

KØS CERTIFICATE!GAINS FAME The#nifty certificate commemorating our joint expedition to Mt. Sunflower with the Sandhills ARC got some press among more than the 130 hams who have sent for their own copy. The certificate is shown prominently in the Up Front color photo section of September QST. Congrats to Jack KB1VUS, Bruce K0BJ and Jon KB0MBS for qutting the parchment together.

KB0NYC LEAVING THE AREA Dennis KB0NYC announced that he's leaving for a position at the NWS office in Pendelton, in eastern Oregon. He left mid-August. We've built a good working relationship with the!NWS office largely eue to Dennis' leadership. This should remain strong with the continued interest of Scott KB0WPY, Meteorologist in Charge at GLD and gung-ho ham!

SCOTT CITY HAMFEST SEPT. 13 The Sandhills club's!swapfest is September 13 in Scott City. We decided not to!get involved with them on this project but a number!of Trojans will!want to attend this event and support their efforts, as well as have a look at the swap tables.

BANDSCAN BT Qatti N0OXP was in tie hospital in Hsys for a couple days back in July. She's doing fine!now but moving a little slower for a while. BT !The Mountain ARC Campfest is August 29-30, 4 miles north of Woodland Park CO on Hwy. 67, for anybody looking for a good excuse to get into the mountains. Potluck supper BYO meat 5qm!MDT Saturday.$10 includes camping/selling/admission. BT Jon KB0MBS and Keith KC0CVT were on an 8-day bus trip to Pittsburgh PA to attend the National Tech Student Association contest in late June. They were surprised and pleased to pull down 1st place in thw nation in web-page design, along with Jack KBØVUS who didn't!make the trip but was an equal partner in the designed webpage,!which was posted to the internet in!May. You can link to their winning webpage by!visiting K0BJ's webpage at http://www.ixks.com/~bfrahm BT Jim KG0PI and family recently vacationed in northeast New Mexico. One nifty site they!visited!was a!volcanic cone they drove up. They then walked in the crater!of the now-extinct (hopefully!) cone. After Jim and Adam walked in a wooded area at 8500', the family!was relaxing over supper when everyone in the restaurant jumped to the window and started muttering. Joining the crowd at!the window, they saw a large bear walking!out of the same woods they'd been in just earlier! BT!Mike K0FJ is troubleshooting the RF amp in K0BJ's old TS830. If he gets it going he'll buy the rig from Bruce and have a digital readout AND external VFO. Those are items he'd been lacking with his TS820, which now belongs to Corky WB0VOQ. BT Paul Pei BV4FH from Taiwan and his XYL Ciristine visited K0BJ and family while traveling from New Orleans to Los Angeles a few days back. They enjoyed seeing a farm and taking ham radio. Paul is from Taichung, the town where Bruce's!neice Catiy Steele went to college. She and Paul are email penpals, and Paul and Bruce have had a few 20 Meter QSOs. BT Tom N0NXO is packing for 6Y-land! He and Vicky won a#trip to Jamaica, thanks to daughter Aubrey signing them up. Aubrey qut in one couqon for them, while she signed herself in the drawing a couple dozen times. No justice in the world! Are you taking the rig along XNO? BT K0s FJ and BJ visited the Salina hamfest in mid-August. The big attraction was the ICOM Funmobile, a#large RV with brilliantly painted exterior showing some IsOM gear in action. The only thing equaling the beauty outside was the dozens of goodies inside. An APRS map, a 'virtual SWL receiver' controlled by computer and all the main line HF and VHF rigs and talkies were inside ready for play. There is a folding rack of large and small whip antennas!which lays down on the Funmobile while in travel; it pops up with a TVRO jack arm when the RV is parked!on mocation. The guys avoided buying and ham gear, but a bargain basement Gateway 486!laptop sorta attacked Bruce and begged to go home with him.

NEXT MEETING SEP 11 7PM CCC NESS ROOM CREAMCAN DINNER SEP. 7

Our Motorola 2m radio at!NWS may become redundant soon, and we may be looking for a new location for!it. The 440 rig still is in for repairs and frequency change.

The Trojan Amateur Radio Club is a general interest educational and qublic service ham club. We maintain a 2M FM repeater, packet equipment and a station at the NWS in Goodland. Dues are $10/annually, payable to Larry Jumper KCØBNV 1345 E 8th Colby KS 67701. Material from the Trojan Harmonic may be freely copied; attribution is apqreciated. News and free email subscription requesus to KØBJ, PO Box DX, Colby KS 67701 or bfrahm@colby.ixks.com

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