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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
I went to the link and followed the instructions with a small twist...
New RACC Website Coming Soon.
Several months ago, Steven Smith and I were talking about the club website. He had given me the login credentials to make updates to the site. He did the site the old fashioned way... he hand-coded all of the HTML in a simple text editor, then uploaded the files.
Being an old HTML coder, myself, I *COULD* do it that way, but it's a LOT of work. I had talked about moving the site to a php-based CMS (content management system). Smitty was very open to the idea, and wanted to be a part of it. I put it off until now. Here's a preview of the new site that will have a lot more functionality... to include automated newsletter subscription/unsubscription, as well as auto-generated content (like uploading photo albums to the photo gallery).
There's a LOT of content I want to port over from the old site, but I hope to have it online by next month. I welcome any comments and suggestions.