Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (B)
To : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Nov 17 2017 01:20 pm
FUNDRAISING A TOUGH NUT TO CRACK
NEIL/ANCHOR: Want a creative way to raise money for your club's needs?
Squirrel away this idea, as we hear from Mike Askins, KE5CXP.
MIKE: What gets busy every fall collecting nuts, with an eye toward
saving for the future? If you answered "squirrels," you'd be right, of
course. But if you answered the "Cleveland Amateur Radio Club" you'd
be right too. The club recently completed its big annual fundraiser -
the incredibly popular nut sale considered its primary way to raise
money outside of membership dues. The sale was launched several years
ago by Edith Derrick, KG4BDQ, now a Silent Key, and her husband, Bill,
KF4OZO, the club's treasurer, and it has become a family tradition in
their honor, according to Buddy Kimsey, WA4NIV, who has been Nut
Chairman for the past two years.
Indeed, the 42 offerings seem as hard to resist as a flea market at a
hamfest: cashews, walnuts, chocolate-coated nuts, spicy and salty nuts,
and the top-seller, pecans. Enthusiasm builds right up into the weeks
before Thanksgiving. Buddy said 630 bags were pre-sold and 108 extra
bags were ordered, and the club is expecting a sellout!
The nut money goes toward a good cause: The hams are looking to expand
their existing club house, an expense expected to run about $100,000.
Meanwhile, business has been brisk, said Buddy, as both hams and
non-hams have been placing their orders. Now if only they can capture
that squirrel market....
For Amateur Radio Newsline I'm Mike Askins, KE5CXP.
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NETS OF NOTE: THE TYPOCHONDRIACS
NEIL/ANCHOR: In this next report, we present the latest in our
occasional series "Nets of Note." Paul Braun, WD9GCO, introduces us to
a net, especially for fans of CW and, of all things, old typewriters.
PAUL: Hams, by and large, have a fascination with old gear. We spend
hours and untold amounts of money restoring and using 70-year-old rigs.
We wax rhapsodic about the warm glow of tubes. We converse in Morse
Code using World War II-era telegraph keys.
So, we should easily identify with a group of people that love to write
things on the word-processing equivalent of a Heathkit DX-100b - the
manual typewriter. And there is an HF net dedicated to just that - The
Typochondriacs Net. I recently spoke with Fred Beihold, NV1N, about the
net:
BEIHOLD: Well, I was reading Richard Polt's website, and he wrote the
book "The Typewriter Revolution" - he's just really into manual
typewriters. And I still had my manual typewriter from college, and I
read about these gatherings all over the world, where people get
together at cafes, and type on manual typewriters. I talked to a ham
on 40 meters on CW, and he said the only two items left from his
original station were his manual typewriter, and his telegraph key.
So I thought "why not combine the two?" I'm a traffic handler, and I
always thought a RadioGram looks best when it's typed up on a manual
typewriter on an official RadioGram form - looks really smart.
So I started this about two years ago, and I haven't done much with it,
but recently, I picked up the ball again, and I'm looking for some ways
to stir up some interest for this. I think it has two goals that it
could achieve - it could be fun, and it could really serve a useful
purpose.
PAUL: The net meets on the third Thursday of the month at 8pm Eastern
time on 7054 Kilohertz. I asked Beihold about how the net would run:
BEIHOLD: To start with, just a little bit of ragchewing - not too
much - and we'll go from there. Anybody can join - I mean, we might
even provide services to people who don't care at all about manual
typewriters - but the net will be tailored to serve the manual
typewriter crowd.
PAUL: So, if you feel like getting together with some fellow vintage
gear junkies, the Typochondriacs Net might just be for you. For
Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Paul Braun, WD9GCO.
**
NEW EDITORS AT NATIONAL CONTEST JOURNAL
NEIL/ANCHOR: There are new voices, and a new guiding hand at the
ARRL's National Contest Journal, as we hear from Kevin Trotman, N5PRE.
KEVIN'S REPORT: A new editorial team will be guiding the editorial
content of the ARRL's National Contest Journal, beginning with the
January/February 2018 issue. Dr. Scott Wright, K0MD, an active
contester, and DXer, from Rochester, Minnesota, will be taking over
as editor.
Scott will be joined by Fred Regennitter, K4IU, as Deputy Editor. All
of the contributing editors will remain, and there will be several
new ones: Amateur Radio Newsline's own Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, host of
Ham Talk Live, will serve as "Next Gen Contesters" contributing editor.
Dr. John Thompson, K3MD, will serve as Contributing editor for Contest
Surveys and Book Reviews, and the past Editor Pat Barkey, N9RV, will
remain doing periodic interviews and feature stories.
Congratulations everyone!
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Kevin Trotman, N5PRE.
**
BREAK HERE:
Time for you to identify your station. We are the Amateur Radio
Newsline, heard on bulletin stations around the world, including the
Greensboro Amateur Radio Association's W4GSO repeater, in Greensboro,
North Carolina, on Sunday evenings, following the 8:30 p.m. net.
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