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MARCH 1996

SWAPFEST MARCH 9 Doors open at 8AM, vendor setup at 6:30. Our First Prize is a Radio Shack HTX-202 2Meter HT, provided

at a great price by Rod KOEQH at Rev-Com in Scott City, and a smoked Farmland ham for the non-ham crowd. Setup Friday will begin

with breakfast at McDonalds at Sam; anyone interested is welcome to help with setup operations at the armory and various gofering

activities. We have an addition to the forum activities -- Midwest Energy Inc. will put on a "live" high voltage demo at 11:45 at the west

end of the armory. The other forums are Kansas Packet Users Group (ACOE) 9AM; NWS (KBONYC) 10AM; ARRL (KOBJ) 11 AM;

and the VE test session is 12:30PM. Don't forget the early-bird supper at the Sirloin Stockade Friday evening; come out and welcome

out out of town guests.

SPOTTER TRAINING?ARC MEETING MARCH 93 Dennis KBONYC and the NWS staff will be presenting the annual

spotter's training Wednesday March 13 at the CCC Student Union Room 107. The training starts at 7pm, so for March ONLY we will

move our meeting up a day and 90 minutes, so we can meet at 6pm -- prior to the training session.

SUNFLOWER CLUB AND GOODLAND REPEATER UP AND RUNNING The Goodland guys met Tuesday March 5 at

the Vo-Tech school at 7:OOpm MST. We're not sure at press time if this is their regular monthly meeting time and place, or what dues

are -- QRX for more info on this. They have good news to report on the 147.63/03 machine. The pesky input freq. trash turned out to be

a 147.6333 spur coming from a noisy scanner a couple blocks away! The machine comes up from Wallace to Wheeler, and from east of

Colby to west of Burlington, thanks to the 175 foot host elevator. Among the Sunflower Club's goals are adding autopatch and tone

control to the repeater, and possibly haivng licensing classes. Congratulations on getting the machine going, Goodland guys!

APRS GOOD SOLUTION FOR GETTING INFO TO NWS Amateur Packet Reporting System is a packet system

accommodating unPROTOed net type comunications, and easy location tracking of mobiles. The Kansas City area hams are using

APRS in a big way in NWS activities. An expert from the area has expressed interest in coming out for gas and room money and talking

about the system with us. They'd also like us to gateway our APRS info, IF we decide to go that way, on 30 meters. Some new resources

would be involved -- we should do it on a frequency other than 145.01, entailing a new node station. However, this might be rather

simple, as the old antenna and feedline are still in place at WBOYCZ's tower south of Colby. This will be a discussion item at this month's

meeting.

SCANNER BOOKS SUCCESSFUL Mike KFOMJ is staying quite busy keeping the "3rd Edition" scanner book in print. Thanks to

Gary at Gavons and many Trojans, especially Darel WAOGBN in Goodland, the books are selling fast even at the increased $8 price.

This has turned out to be a great project for the club as well as a public service. There has been some discussion of offering the

information in ASCII format on floppy disk.

$WAP TABLE FOR SALE FT-530 Dual Band HT/VC-22 headset/E-DE-5B power cable/MH-29 hand mic/MMB-54 mobile mounting

bracket Asking $4.75 PK232MBX multimode tnc Asking $180 Larry WB9YDL 816-429-1816 Warrensburg Area ARCI Repeater FOR

SALE Butemut HF6V vertical $75 - WAOEHK 316-682-8964 FOR SALE Icom IC820-H $1600; Kenwood TH215 HT/2 batts/charger $200;

Mirage B-50166 2M amp 50in/160 out $200; Colorado Jumbo 120 Tape Backup $35, George NOISS 316-652-7201 Wichita ARC

Grounded Grid FOR SALE 2KW tuner Model 229 $150 Bob KA9QCG 417-779-3465; WANTED late model 2M xcvr w/ TT mic & CTCSS

Al WOERE 417-839-4865; FOR SALE Tandy 380OHD laptop (486-23)/ 62MBHDD/1.44 floppy/2MB RAM/mono screen/JP250 jet printer/

packet software installed $650 Marge NQMCT 417-272-8945 Kimbenling ARC Squelch Tale

BANDSCAN Fleck KORXT is now full-time director of the AudioVisual room at CCC. It's bound to take him away from the golf links at

times, but he should have plenty of time to cruise the 'net. BT David NOTES is thinking about signing up with the Marines after he

graduates in 14 months. After all, they want a few good hams! BT Fred WDOEBJ, who's been known to have spent many an evening

playing dance music in the area, tried doing the lambada with a herd of deer recently. Fortunately Fred and his 'dear, XYL "Hank"

weren't injured, but the car received some damage and one deer is quite alot the worse for the experience. BT Ex Thomas Countian

Merlin Hanchett KB6KID of S. Cal. is a Silent Key. He graduated from Colby HS in 1937, went to college and taught music at Gem. He

was a radio instructor in the US Army Signal Corps in WWII. He had occasional contacts with Trojans, and one experience he related

was being on his tower doing repair work when the LA earthquake hit a few years ago! Margaret and Arlo Edwards of Colby are Merlin's

sister and brother-in-law. BT Apologies to those looking for answers to the January crossword puzzle -- the key in the Feb. newsletter

was a bit microscopic! NOXNJ claims she can read it, so ask her if you have questions! BT Allen KOMXU suffered from the BIG WIND

day back in late January, when his tribander's tower folded partway down. Luckily, the tribander didn't impact the ground, and he should

be able to get it up again with some tower repairs. BT KGOPI and KOBJ attended the Kearney hamfest, where they had about 250-300

attendance and a nice selection of gear as well as Burghardt's and WBOW with commercial displays. Jim hit the jackpot, getting a

"brand new" (unopened) CDR HAM III rotator (made 19 years ago-the good ole days) for a good price. Of course, you need something

to rotate, so Jim ordered a Cushcraft A3 triband HF beam. BT Speaking of KGOPI, Jim is now running true FSK on the digital modes

with his IC751. The KAM is working great, and Gerry KBOLGX is on 2M packet with Jim's old MFJ 12708. BT David NOTES has been

selected by the Rotary club to attend a state leadership seminar in Manhattan (WOQQQ territory) next summer. Congratulations Dave!

BT Jon KBOMBS has been swapping monitors around at home, once he discovered that the Farmdayta satellite terminal they have uses

a better SVGA monitor than the one they had in the shack. After all, Mortal Kombat is more demaning on resolution than the latest bids

on KC July wheat! BT KFOMJ and KBOLGX (with NOOXP, white knuckles and all, in tow) flew to Woodward OK to look at an AWS

(Automated Weather Reporting Station). The pair will be installing Colby's system at the airport ASAP. BT Jim KGOPI made some QSOs

in the WPX (prefix) RTTY contest in February. One of his "hot" contacts was with Chile - the country that is. Maybe he won't even NEED

that new tribander he's putting up (just kidding Carol!). Jim has worked a fair number of states in casual operation too. BT WOCY Jim

McKim became a Silent Key at 80 years after fighting cancer for a number of years. Owner of Electronics Ins. in Salina, Jim was "Mr.

Ham Radio of Kansas". In the pre-mail order days, his store and one in Wichita were "it" for hams who didn't homebrew. Jim was a

satellite enthusiast, and was active on the AMSAT birds and HF info nets. KOBJ attended the funeral, and KORXT wrote a nice tribute to

Jim in the Salina Journal. BT Incumbent District Judge Glenn WBOVKZ is collecting nomination signatures for the upcoming election.

We'll circulate a petition at Ham Lunch this Thursday for those interested in maintaining our ham interests on the bench! BT It'll soon be

time to decide whether we're sending a group to the Dayton Hamvention, which this year is later -- May 17-19. Contact KOBJ if you are

interested.

NEXT MEETING * * *WEDNESDAY MARCH 13 CCC UNION # 10 7 6PMCST * * * The meeting is one hour prior

to the weather spotters meeting. Room 107 is in the southeast corner of the student union. APRS, repeater ant. grounding,

command post and swapfest wrapup are among the business items. Stay around for "brushing up" on wx spotting skills.

Trojan ARC is an ARRL affiliated regional amateur radio club that maintains repeater and packet facilities, encourages public service through Amateur Radio, and, provides social and educational opportunities for members. Dues are $10/year, $5 for additional family members

at the same household. Dues include autopatch prvileges on the 2 meter repeater. Send dues to NOXNJ, 1872 County Road 15, Colby KS 67701. Material from the Trojan Harmonic may be reprinted without permission; credit is appreciated. Send comments/material to TARC, PO

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