1 The Prez Sez Prez Sez As Dave, KD8EVN, has said, June was an active and notable month for our club. Starting with the month-long Amateur Radio display at the Maumee Branch of the Lucas County Library, the operation of Special Event Station K8E from the S.S. Col. James M. Schoonmaker in the Museum Ships on the Air weekend; the presentation of a Forum at the Dayton Hamvention by one of our younger members, Lucas, W6LDS; the decision to make a major purchase to replace our repeater antennas with commercial-grade equipment; and finally to a new-format Field Day at the Wolcott House Museum that turned out to be somewhat unusual (and not just the great weather) as we were asked to suspend transmissions for 2½ hours Saturday evening as we were interfering with a paranormal group’s investigations in the old buildings. That should get us a mention in QST’s Field Day review! Thanks to all who took part. As I was elected President again - definitely my last year – we have a vacancy on the Board of Trustees: the Executive Committee serves as a Nominations Committee when such vacancies occur, and we are nominating Rich KQ6EF to be elected for a 5-year term to fill that vacancy. Rich is a very active member of the Technical Committee and runs the satellite station at Field Day. A reminder that dues for 2107-2018 membership year are now due; for the 70 year-olds and over, dues are now $5.00 per year and a renewal form needs to be completed and given/sent to Ernie, K8EEE. TMRA has enrolled as a Non-Profit Organization in the Kroger Community Rewards Program, which returns to us a percentage (I think about 1%) of money spent on qualifying purchases at Kroger stores by registered Kroger Plus Card holders who have designated TMRA as their organization. I’ll have details again at our meeting Wednesday July 12, or email me and I’ll send you details on how to sign-up with Kroger. If you ordered a digital clock from Chrissy, KC8UFV, and haven’t yet assembled it, we’ll be having a kit - building session at the July meeting. We’ll have soldering facilities there, or you can bring your own. It is important to have protection for the plastic tables – if you can bring a small sheet of wood, metal, plastic to work on, it would be appreciated. Rob, KV8P, plans on opening the building around 6:30 pm for those, and not just the clock-builders, who can get there earlier than our meeting start at 7:30 pm. 73, Brian, WD8MXR TMRA Amateur Radio Beacon July 2017
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The Prez Sez
Prez Sez
As Dave, KD8EVN, has said, June was an active and notable month for our club. Starting with the month-long
Amateur Radio display at the Maumee Branch of the Lucas County Library, the operation of Special Event
Station K8E from the S.S. Col. James M. Schoonmaker in the Museum Ships on the Air weekend; the
presentation of a Forum at the Dayton Hamvention by one of our younger members, Lucas, W6LDS; the
decision to make a major purchase to replace our repeater antennas with commercial-grade equipment; and
finally to a new-format Field Day at the Wolcott House Museum that turned out to be somewhat unusual (and
not just the great weather) as we were asked to suspend transmissions for 2½ hours Saturday evening as we
were interfering with a paranormal group’s investigations in the old buildings. That should get us a mention in
QST’s Field Day review! Thanks to all who took part.
As I was elected President again - definitely my last year – we have a vacancy on the Board of Trustees: the
Executive Committee serves as a Nominations Committee when such vacancies occur, and we are nominating
Rich KQ6EF to be elected for a 5-year term to fill that vacancy. Rich is a very active member of the Technical
Committee and runs the satellite station at Field Day.
A reminder that dues for 2107-2018 membership year are now due; for the 70 year-olds and over, dues are now
$5.00 per year and a renewal form needs to be completed and given/sent to Ernie, K8EEE.
TMRA has enrolled as a Non-Profit Organization in the Kroger Community Rewards Program, which returns to
us a percentage (I think about 1%) of money spent on qualifying purchases at Kroger stores by registered
Kroger Plus Card holders who have designated TMRA as their organization. I’ll have details again at our
meeting Wednesday July 12, or email me and I’ll send you details on how to sign-up with Kroger.
If you ordered a digital clock from Chrissy, KC8UFV, and haven’t yet assembled it, we’ll be having a kit-
building session at the July meeting. We’ll have soldering facilities there, or you can bring your own. It is
important to have protection for the plastic tables – if you can bring a small sheet of wood, metal, plastic to
work on, it would be appreciated. Rob, KV8P, plans on opening the building around 6:30 pm for those, and
not just the clock-builders, who can get there earlier than our meeting start at 7:30 pm.
73, Brian, WD8MXR
TMRA Amateur Radio Beacon July 2017
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ARES News From Lucas County EC, Skeet, KD8KXD
A reminder that the LCARES Monthly Meeting will be held Saturday, July
22th, time 9:00 am at St Luke’s Hospital in the basement Private Dining
Room near the cafeteria. Some folks come early to have breakfast.
Thanks to all the operators that helped to provide communications for the
Muddy Mini Half Marathon!
I am still in the process of compiling a list of LCARES members who would
be interested in receiving text messages to their cell phone. This method will be used to alert operators of
important information such as Disaster call-up, where to tune your radio, and other items as needed. What I
need from you is your cell phone number and your carrier. Send me an email to [email protected]
Congratulations to New Hams and Upgrades! From Chrissy, KC8UFV
We had two upgrades in June: Brian, KE8EBJ, upgraded to Extra and David, KB8NXA, upgraded to Tech. And
two new techs: Tabatha, KE8HEY, and Jonathan, KE8HEZ.
Great Lakes HamCon
TMRA’s own Dave, KD8EVN, will be a presenter at
Great Lakes HamCon in October. Dave will talk about
the special event station, K8E, which TMRA set up
under his leadership. A team of 28 hams set up three
operating stations on the Col. James M. Schoonmaker for
Museum Ships Weekend in early June. Dave will talk
about how it all came together. For more information
about Museum Ships Weekend please see the June 2017
issue of the Beacon.
Great Lakes HamCon will be October 7-8, 2017 at
Michigan International Speedway. Let’s support Dave by being there!