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Congratulations to Harold McMullen KE5WCQ for upgrading to general, to Bryan Loper KG5VDK and 16-year-old Jake Stegall KG5VDL for passing their technician! Special thanks to all the VEs who volunteered with the test sessions.
Danny Richard KG5ESG was appointed the new ARES Emergency Coordinator for Cass and Morris County on June 21. Danny got to work on implementing a county emergency communications plan for the counties. Jim Collom N5YU donated a dedicated ARES repeater that provides wide coverage for both counties.
November marks the final formal club meeting each year for the RACC. The 2017 officers were elected, and the 2016 RACC Christmas Party plans were finalized to be held at the Champions Bible Church on Saturday, December 17, 2016 at 6:30pm.
An unusual band opening on 2 meters allowed for FM contacts to be made on simplex and repeaters further than two hundred miles away late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning (16-17 November 2016).
The ARRL sent a mass email soliciting member support and action to encourage elected representatives to vote in favor of the Amateur Radio Parity Act. The league has made it easy by pre-loading a form on a website where members can type in their information, and an email is sent to the appropriate representatives.
You can help, too! Go to: https://arrl.rallycongress.net/ctas/urge-us-senate-to-pass-amateur-radio-parity-act
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Members of the RACC gathered after the July 2016 club meeting to see who could launch a bullet the farthest and closest to a target from their antenna launchers.
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Members of the Radio Amateurs of Cass County started gathering at the Hall-Miller Airport in Atlanta, Texas for the annual ARRL Field Day at 9:30am on Saturday, June 25, 2016. They selected the open grassy area on the right just after entering the gate leading into the airport where an open hangar recently stood.
The club operated using the club call sign with the designation 4A in the North Texas (NTX) section. The club operated from Saturday at 1300 CDT until lightning came in to the area at approximately 1000 CDT on Sunday. 137 contacts were logged. Bobby WB5OSD logged 78 CW contacts, and the other stations accumulated 59 phone contacts.
Our next club meeting is on May 21, 2016. The meeting starts at 9:00am, but get there at 8:30am and have a sausage and pancake breakfast with us.
The exciting news is the Fly-In that will be held at the airport on the same day! We will deviate from our normal meeting format in that we won't have a special program. We will get together for breakfast, discuss our normal club business, then adjourn to help the airport folks with the Fly-In.
You'll want to show up for the meeting even if you can't stay for the Fly-In. We'll be electing our new club vice-president and we'll still have our MONTHLY DRAWING!
Students in the ham radio course as part of the BLAST after-school program aren't just learning about ham radio, they're experiencing it! For the past seven weeks, Jerry Goodson W5BFF has been working with four students who are working towards passing the technician exam. Launching the weather balloon was the "hands on" exercise during the course.
This is the new website that will replace the hand-coded HTML website at http://www.raccradio.org