Floyd Amateur Radio Society

We would like to invite you to the monthly meeting at 9am on the 12th of May in suite 9 of the Village Green. Come for breakfast at 0800 (Blue Ridge Restaurant) if you can.

We have some exciting things to discuss.

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Attendees at today’s FARS meeting.  This what we really look like.  The header needs work.  We had a great meeting today (details in the minutes).  We are showing off our new banner; part of our 2012 Field Day planning.

The meeting was followed by a guided tour of Chantilly Festival Farm, courtesy Dave KK4WW.  We will be using the new ham shack at Chantilly for the special events station, May 26th and of course Field Day.

I would like to invite you to the monthly meeting of the Floyd amateur Radio Society at 9am on April 14th, 2012. The meeting will be in suite 9 of the Village Green, of course if you’re interested, we will be having breakfast at 8am in the Blue Ridge Restaurant beforehand.
I look forward to seeing you there, and as always you don’t have to be a ham to come to a meeting.
73
Russ Abbey
KG4MAV

You are cordially invited to the Floyd Amateur
Radio Society’s meeting at 9am on Saturday the 8th of October, 2011.  The
meeting will be held in suite 9 of the Village Green in Downtown Floyd, right
across from the Bank of Floyd.  Of course some of us will meet at the Blue Ridge
Restaurant at 8am for breakfast and if you would like, meet us there.

Now for the rest of the story: We will be having a VE test session right
after the meeting, it will be held at station 1 Rescue Squad building, just
North of Floyd on 221.  The address is:
452
Floyd Hwy North
Floyd, Virginia24091
The test session will start at 10am,
so try to be there a little early.
Don’t forget to
bring a copy of your license or CSCE for your last test if upgrading.  If you
are just taking the Technician test, bring two forms of ID, one has to have your
picture on it!!  The cost for this session is $15.00, please use a check or the
correct change.
If possible, please bring your original
CSCE or license and a copy of them for the VE’s.

I look forward to
seeing you there, if you have any questions, the points of contact are:
Russ
Abbey, KG4MAV; kg4mav@gmail.com or 540-651-4072

Wally Denison, W5WMD
w5wmd@arrl.net

Operation Wildfire went well this morning.  We made many new friends and learned a lot.

Jamie Rupprecht W7JAR, Tom King W4VZH (ERO), Bobby Clark, Floyd County Emergemcy Services Coordinator and Don Johnson KF4HDW, also a reporter for the Floyd Press, attempting to get Jamie’s name spelled correctly.

Photo by KK4WW

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Please join us Saturday at 8:00 AM for breakfast at the Blue Ridge Restaurant, followed by our monthly meeting of FARS.

Following the meeting, at 10:00 AM, VE testing will begin at Rescue Station One, Floyd.  Please call Russ KG4MAV 540 651 4072 if you have any questions.

press Release    EmComm trailer  This will be the main attraction in the Courthouse parking lot.

The September meeting will be pretty much replaced by a show and tell in the courthouse parking lot.  We hope to have a short business meeting at 8:40 AM before everybody disappears to the courthouse. 

You are encouraged to wear your RACES badge and hat if you have one to the EmComm trailer demonstration.  We need to get our pictures taken with it and first responders.

VE testing will be conducted on 8 October.  There will be more details later.

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Please register now for the Oct 1 SET Operation Wildfire if you have not already done so.  Early registrations puts you on the mailing list for planning.  It last three hours and can be done from home.

http://www.w4ghs.org/Wildfire-Registration.html  is the link.  This fulfills our annual SET requirement.

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Good afternoon everyone,
Well the sun is shinning and it’s time
to get your books either on order or broken off of the shelf it’s been sitting
on for the last 5 years or so.
There will
be a testing session at the Floyd Rescue Squad Station one on the 8th of
October, 2011 at 10am. The price of the testing is $15.00
This will
be after our short meeting at 9 at suite 9 of the Village Green, or the
Community Ham Station.  I hope that I will see all of you that want get your
upgraded tickets at this session.
If you know of
“ANYONE” who would like to get into ham radio, and they need a Technician’s
book, I have 3 left to sell here, these are $23.00 each. Also if you would like
I will contact them for you, just send me their email or phone number and when
it would be a good time to contact them.  OH and before I forget again, the
price for taking the test’s is $15.00.  Now the nice thing about this is that
the price is for the session, so if you want to take all three exams in one
sitting (yes it has been done a lot), the price stays at $15.00. I know I am
studying and hope to pass my Extra for this session.
73
Russ
Abbey
Secretary; FARS

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NOTICE

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From: jmechternach@carilionclinic.org
To: TomKing007@aol.com,
tferraro@vaems.org
Sent: 9/9/2011 5:21:16 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj:
Comm Trailer

Good
Afternoon,

In light
of Heightened terror levels in the
DC/Metro area, coupled with increasing Bed demand and ER Diversion
at Carilion Roanoke Memorial
Hospital, I have to respectfully decline from brining the trailer out to
tomorrows event in Floyd.

I hope to have the opportunity to
bring the trailer out to a future event.

Thanks,
Jeff

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Today’s minutes have been posted

The skyline will never be the same at 1090 Hale Road.  Christmas tree farms are now giving way to an antenna farm.  Long live ham radio..

Russ reports that all the hardware is up, but not all the coax is connected.  One more trip up the tower.

For more pictures of the KG4MAV antenna party, please visit the PHOTOS page.

Interesting to listen to “Incident Command” operation that most hams are just
learning about . . .
Indianapolis state fair ground collapse and radio
ops.