Hi Rick, Tom, W5TOM became a silent key this Sunday morning. I was informed by his son Rob. You might want to mention it in your News Blast, if so please also mention that his web site, W5TOM.COMis very entertaining. Pump
-----Original Message----- From: Rick Hiller via BVARC <[email protected]> To: BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB <[email protected]>; TDXS List <[email protected]> Cc: Rick Hiller <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, Jan 30, 2022 1:13 pm Subject: [BVARC] News Blast # 105 220130 BVARC NEWS BLAST # 105- January 30, 2022 -- K5WH in QST -- Local Ham Mentors the World-- Stir Crazy Net is an information Watering Hole-- Local School Gets Slot with the ISS-- SK's -- In Remembrance NEWS -- Read February QST page 13 about Walter Holmes, K5WH, and his world wide, multi-mode mentoring activities. Other mentoring articles are in this QST issue also. -- BVARC's weekday noontime Stir Crazy Net is another mentoring spot. Subjects range from antennas to on air operation discussions. -- Houston's St. Stephen's Episcopal School received one of the 8 slots to talk to the ISS. Autumn time frame. Keep a lookout for Jeff's, W5JEF, notices on the BVARC reflector about the event. His children attend school there. -- Sad to report two recent club SK's -- Dan Gannon -- WA5ANF and Tom Morton -- W5TOM NETSMonday Night BVARC Net -- 8 PM. Visit with Terry, K5PGF All are welcome to check in and stay awhile (or not) 146.94 KE5OOG Repeater Stir Crazy -- Week days daily at Noon -- various NCS stations. 146.94 repeater Check in, tell your story or just listen, but do check in. 80 Meter Rag Chew Net -- Wednesday 7 PM(local) with John, K5LKJ, as NCS. Early check-ins at 6:30 Just a chance to chew the rag for an hour or so. 3910 KHz LSB============================================================== Local Happenings VE Testing -- BVARC Saturday February 5th at 10:30amBayland Park Community Center, 6400 Bissonnet St., Houston TX 77074 Details for candidates are found at Ham Testing | Brazos Valley Amateur Radio ClubContact: Mark Janzer - K5MGJ --- [email protected] BVARC Beacon Newsletter -- January -- First Issue of 2022 In your mailbox now or in color at bvarc.org. An excellent source for BVARC club info. K5IZO - Editor Top notch editorial and technical content. Featured Columns: The Prez Says, The Radio Hotel and JP's Cutting Thru the Static and The Feed Point. Along with meeting info, eating info, BOD Minutes, FCC License Testing and local Hamfest info, plus the new 2022 Board member listing BVARC Board Meeting -- Saturday Feb 5 9 AM Zoom joining details on the reflector this week BVARC February Meeting -- Feb 10 Time: Feb 10, 7:00 PM Central Time ZOOM based meeting, will be about the George Observatory at Brazos Bend State Park. Make sure you tune in to find out more about their centerpiece -- a 36-inch Gueymard Research Telescope. It is one of the largest in the US which the public has direct access to on a regular basis. There are also two other telescopes an 18-inch reflector and 14-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain. Join Zoom Meeting at...... https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81604776785?pwd=R255OVBqRnljZFppaE1nb0RXdXlyZz09 Meeting ID: 816 0477 6785 Passcode: 325536 ============================================================== Trivia for the Grey Matter The popular movie "A Christmas Story" was written and narrated by what radio personality? A) Walter Cronkite -- KB2GSD B) Arthur Godfrey -- K4LIB C) Jean Shepard -- W9QWN D) Roy Neal -- K6DUE Answer to last week's Trivia -- B) Coaxial cable was first used in the US Civil War ================================== Be curious and enjoy your hobby -- Ed. ________________________________________________ Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club BVARC mailing list [email protected] http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org Publicly available archives are available here: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
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