Kentucky Mountains Amateur Radio Club

KMARC Members,

For those of you who weren’t at the last club meeting, we have decided to hold the next meeting at Carr Creek Lake at the shelter area near the Dam/Spillway in Sassafras. It will be held on Monday, May13th at 6pm. We will be cooking out and need to take a count of how many people will be coming so those of us bringing food will know how much to bring. Below is a list of people who have signed up to bring items to the cookout. If you would like to bring something, please send me an email at darianwilliams(at)gmail.com and I’ll keep the list updated so everyone can see who is bringing what. If you’re not able to bring something but plan to attend, drop me an email as well so we’ll know how many to cook for. If my memory serves me correctly, I think we agreed that everyone would be responsible for their own drinks. We’d like for everyone to reply by Wednesday, May 8th, that way we have plenty of time to get the food.

Rick King – Meat

Jim Osborne – Potato salad

John Farler – Chocolate cake

Jimmy Hatton – Baked beans and buns

Johnnie Brashear – Charcoal, foil, paper plates, and plastic utensils.

Darian Williams – Pasta salad

Gary Oliver- Chips

Wayne Hensley – Marinated Vegetables

Meeting Monday April 8th, 6 pm Perry County Public Library located on Black Gold Blvd in Hazard behind the Social Security office and J C Penney’s.  Tickets will be for sale on a Yaesu FT-2900R to be given away by the Kentucky Mountains Amateur Radio Club and a Kenwood TM-281A to be given away by the Letcher County Amateur Radio Club at  $5 each or 5 tickets for $20.  Both radios are to be given away at Field Day.  You do not have to be present at Field Day to win one or both of these 2 meter high power radios.  Field Day plans will be discussed along with a spring COOKOUT/TAILGATE PARTY for the next meeting date.

Johnnie Brashear, KY4JLB
KMARC President

The Kentucky Mountains ARC recently provided a new Yaesu FT-2900 two meter transceiver for the National Weather Service at Jackson to use in place of its many years’ old Kenwood. The rig has more than twice as much power as the old one, and is already programed with Region 4 and other nearby repeaters that the Station can access from their mountain top location near Jackson.

Meteorologist Buddy Whorrall, KF4PQY (L), Meteorologist Tony Edwards, KJ4FYM (C), Station Manager Shawn Harley, KF4NIH.

It is also pretty easy to program, and club members have the data cable and software to easily put new frequencies in. One help in hectic times at the rig is the actual name or location in the transceiver readout, instead of having to remember the frequencies of each one, or look them up.

Tony Edwards, the Warning Meteorologist at Jackson sent the picture showing the station setup for WX4JKL, (l-r) Meterologist Buddy Whorrall (KF4PQY); Tony Edwards, KJ4FYM; and the Station manager Shawn Harley, KF4NIH.

The Station Tech, Tim Stanley, KF4ERJ, was home with a broken arm and couldn’t be in the photo.  Tony passed along the following, “I got our new 2m hooked up the other day and she works great! We really appreciate the radio and everything you all do during times of severe weather. Please pass along our gratitude to the club!”

Don’t forget the Skywarn training available from JKL NWS in your area. The schedule and much, much more can be found at the NWS JKL site http://www.weather.gov/jacksonky.

On March 5th after weather alert radios sounded in Eastern Kentucky a Skywarn net drill was activated with Johnnie Brashear, KY4JLB DEC District 10, as Net Control and Johnny Hager, N4KJU DEC District 9, as Alternate Net Control.  The net lasted from 1010 AM through 1040 AM.  Wayne Hensley, AF4YJ EC Harlan County, called up a net on the Harlan Repeater with Homer Fox, KI4GEW, as Alternate Net Control.  Alternate Net Control Operators were on standby in case of equipment failure, expecially in a linked repeater system or, in case, the Net Control Location was wiped out by adverse weather then the other Alternate Operator could take over.  Below are list of check-ins on the two nets:

From our friends at the LCARC:

The 2012 Christmas Dinner was held on Saturday, December 15th at Your Place restaurant in Happy.  Below are a few photos from the event.

To see a gallery of all photos, click HERE.

The Kentucky Mountains Amateur Radio Club’s Annual Christmas Dinner will be at 6 PM Saturday Dec 15th at Your Place Resturant on Ky 15 near Vicco. Turkey, ham and all the fixings with desert will cost each person arround $7.00.  Please bring a couple of non-perishable donation items (cannned food) to be given out locally to feed the homeless or hungry for Christmas.  All Amateurs and their family are invited to attend!  Please let Jim Osborne, KA4AOU, know how many in your party will attend so the folks at the restaurant will know how much food to prepare.

Johnnie, KY4JLB
President
KMARC

The next KMARC meeting will be held on Monday, November 5th at 6pm.  We need all members to attend as we will be discussing a simulated emergency test session to be conducted on November 11th.  Just a reminder, 2013 dues are coming up!

Region 4 ARES Meeting Saturday October 27th 12 Noon at Ponderosa Steak House, 308 Morton Blvd., Hazard, KY 41702 immediately following the Hazard Hamfest, Senior Citizen Log Building, Perry Park Road, Hazard, KY.  We will close Hamfest at 11:30 so Persons can make their way to the Ponderosa Steak House which is about 1 mile away and have dinner and an ARES Meeting.

Johnnie Brashear KY4JLB, President Kentucky Mountain Radio Club

Click HERE to see the recently updated Hamfest flyer.