Monday, July 28, 2008
Sunday, July 20, 2008
More Stuff from Randy
OK I've been playing with the Blog today...added pics from the last meeting, resized some stuff, added a video slide show (on the bottom) from Field Day, added links for Foxhunting stuff, and most importantly I have changed the settings for adding comments. Anyone can now add comments to any posts, even without a Google ID. PLEASE do leave us your name when you comment. We may have problems with this, so if anyone sees a comment that needs to be edited or deleted please let myself, Jim, or Joe know about it and we can take care of it. Thanks and don't forget the Foxhunt on the 26th!!!
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
UTARC @ RACK Meeting
Info from Don Riley on Thursday's meeting....
The RACK meeting on Thursday 17Jul08, 7 pm at the Wallace Memorial Baptist Church on Merchants Road will feature the story of the UT Amateur Radio Club's
(UTARC) balloon flights, how the flights were tracked with modern radio techniques and the work by the UT college students that went into the preparation of the design, procurement, construction, and planning for the appropriate atmospheric conditions for their successful balloon flights. One flight almost reached the British Isles.
No college course could exceed the mental knowledge gained and the understanding obtained by these students as they went through pursuing these balloon flights. Dan Bowen will tell us the inside story of all phases of their record setting and student involvement activities.
Dan's presentation will provide RACK members with an understanding of the technical depth incorporated in these flights and the resulting student development obtained through participation.
The RACK meeting on Thursday 17Jul08, 7 pm at the Wallace Memorial Baptist Church on Merchants Road will feature the story of the UT Amateur Radio Club's
(UTARC) balloon flights, how the flights were tracked with modern radio techniques and the work by the UT college students that went into the preparation of the design, procurement, construction, and planning for the appropriate atmospheric conditions for their successful balloon flights. One flight almost reached the British Isles.
No college course could exceed the mental knowledge gained and the understanding obtained by these students as they went through pursuing these balloon flights. Dan Bowen will tell us the inside story of all phases of their record setting and student involvement activities.
Dan's presentation will provide RACK members with an understanding of the technical depth incorporated in these flights and the resulting student development obtained through participation.
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Calendar
At the urgent request of The Club President, I have created a calendar for this blog. For right now it resides at the bottom of the page, as soon as I learn how to format it correctly I'll make it a little easier to view. If you need anything added to the calendar just leave a comment with the info and I'll get it on there (or you can just email me at kg4szw@arrl.net)
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Foxhunt!
Ron Russell is putting together another Foxhunt for us. If you've never tried this before, this will be a great one to get started on. More info from Ron....
"The area will be the oval area formed by I-40 & I-640. Fox will transmit for 30 seconds then off for 1 minute. All interested should meet @ 9:30ish Shoney's parking lot Western Ave to instruct newbies on how it all works.
Voice will be on 147.300. THE FOX WILL BE ON 146.565 MHz. Fox will start @ 10am. Fox will stop @ 12 noon. Then back to Shoney's on Western for Eatin' Meetin'.. Pass it on to all you know and all nets you check in to"
This is a great opportunity to get kids or other non hams interested, it's a blast!
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
How to Add Comments, etc.
Hello All! We were hoping to see a little more activity here, but maybe the "sign-in" process is a little hazy, so I'll try to explain it a little. To add comments to any post, the easiest way to sign in is with a Google mail account. It's very quick and easy to sign up for, go to http://mail.google.com/ and go for it. After you have a Gmail username and password, you can sign in to the blog and leave comments. If anyone is interested in authoring a post every now and then, let me know and we'll add you as an author. If anyone has any questions please drop me a email at kg4szw@arrl.net
I have also added a site analyzer to this site so we can get an idea of how much traffic it's receiving, I'll keep us posted on the stats. Thanks!
I have also added a site analyzer to this site so we can get an idea of how much traffic it's receiving, I'll keep us posted on the stats. Thanks!
Saturday, July 5, 2008
July '08 Presidents Corner
Hello Fellow Amateurs,
Welcome to the Blog for RACK. Randy, KG4SZW, has been working on this and I believe it is a great idea. It works so simply that even I understand the basics of running it. So let's give this a try and see what becomes of it. Use the comments section and tell us what you think. Great work Randy!
To start a summary of June, we had a fantastic Hamfest. Lou, WB3JKQ, did such a great job that I can't compliment him enough. From the prizes, forums, vendors, tailgate area and the food, it was all great. It will be hard to beat. Lou and his crew deserve a "Thanks Lou" from all us members to show our appreciation.
The last event of the month was ARRL Field Day. As in years past, it was held at Ft. Dickerson Park. The attendance was very good. Attendees included curious hams, visitors to the park, city council member, vacationers, and members of the club. We had (6) stations on the air simultaniously at one point. The vacationers were from Indiana and Chicago. They picked our club out of all their options to come and enjoy field day. I understand we WAS which I believe is outstanding. Good work and thanks to all that participated.
At our last meeting, we held elections. The members voted to extend the current term till September of this year to give our nominating committee time to find new board members.
The new blog will be fun and I hope it to be successful. Give us your comments.
Keep our Military Troops in your prayers,
See you at the meeting, (7/17/08)
Jim, N4CFB
Welcome to the Blog for RACK. Randy, KG4SZW, has been working on this and I believe it is a great idea. It works so simply that even I understand the basics of running it. So let's give this a try and see what becomes of it. Use the comments section and tell us what you think. Great work Randy!
To start a summary of June, we had a fantastic Hamfest. Lou, WB3JKQ, did such a great job that I can't compliment him enough. From the prizes, forums, vendors, tailgate area and the food, it was all great. It will be hard to beat. Lou and his crew deserve a "Thanks Lou" from all us members to show our appreciation.
The last event of the month was ARRL Field Day. As in years past, it was held at Ft. Dickerson Park. The attendance was very good. Attendees included curious hams, visitors to the park, city council member, vacationers, and members of the club. We had (6) stations on the air simultaniously at one point. The vacationers were from Indiana and Chicago. They picked our club out of all their options to come and enjoy field day. I understand we WAS which I believe is outstanding. Good work and thanks to all that participated.
At our last meeting, we held elections. The members voted to extend the current term till September of this year to give our nominating committee time to find new board members.
The new blog will be fun and I hope it to be successful. Give us your comments.
Keep our Military Troops in your prayers,
See you at the meeting, (7/17/08)
Jim, N4CFB
Thursday, July 3, 2008
2008 Field Day
We had a GREAT Field Day at Fort Dickerson! I can't thank everyone enough for all the help, I sure couldn't have done it without you. We ran as an 4 Alpha this year, plus we had Jack's VHF Station and a Satellite Station. We had someone running something for the entire 24 hours! I am still entering the contacts into the log, but we are close to 412 total contacts.
We had 3 operators that were vacationing in Sevierville who came by and operated and we also had City Councilman Joe Holquist on hand. Bad weather came along Saturday afternoon but we weathered the storm quite well. Jim once again did an OUTSTANDING job on the grill, we ate very well!
We also had quite a few younger hams on hand and all of them contributed to the contact count. I've posted some of the pictures I took online, they should be running as a slideshow on this blog. Just click on one of the pictures to go to the full gallery.
There has been some interest in doing some sort of camping/contest/field day type of activity again this year, so we're looking into that. Also I think we are getting another Foxhunt together, looks like July 26th will be the date. Details forthcoming...
Again, many thanks for all the great help at Field Day, I can't wait for next year!
We had 3 operators that were vacationing in Sevierville who came by and operated and we also had City Councilman Joe Holquist on hand. Bad weather came along Saturday afternoon but we weathered the storm quite well. Jim once again did an OUTSTANDING job on the grill, we ate very well!
We also had quite a few younger hams on hand and all of them contributed to the contact count. I've posted some of the pictures I took online, they should be running as a slideshow on this blog. Just click on one of the pictures to go to the full gallery.
There has been some interest in doing some sort of camping/contest/field day type of activity again this year, so we're looking into that. Also I think we are getting another Foxhunt together, looks like July 26th will be the date. Details forthcoming...
Again, many thanks for all the great help at Field Day, I can't wait for next year!
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