Marion Amateur Radio Emergency Services and Skywarn is sponsoring the weather training put on by Cleveland Weather Service.  Registration Starts @ 6:00PM and program at 6:30pm April 25th at Tri-Rivers Career Center. Train to be a certified storm spotter or just learn about storms and tornados. All interested person are welcome to attend.  No fee or tickets required.  SKYWARN TRAINING POSTER  2013-skywarntraining[1]

TECHNICIAN LEVEL 1 CLASSES
HELD TUESDAY NIGHTS BEGINNING
TUESDAY MARCH 12, 2013
7:00 PM—9:00PM
FOR 8 WEEKS—IN MARION, OHIO

See attachment for full details  Radio Class Flyer

January at MARC meeting is show and tell.  It is a chance to show what you got for Christmas primarily or Birthday, just got it anyway, good ham item to talk about.  Many brought their crystal radio sets.  Larry Freeman  KD8SIP was the winner for January with 8 stations heard on his set.  Show and tell had other items such as rubber band with a wood double ended golf tee top to keep from pulling through. Like the ball and bungy cords for tents.  Theses are used to arrange your cords.  Others got new ht radios with various capabilities.  Picture shows Lynn Lovell  W8MLL showing his polarity tester that is put together with a green diode, red diode, and a 1,000 ohm resister.  When wired correctly it shows the polarity for a strange unknown polarity power supply.

The members was instructed to bring a dish with food in dish and covered appropriately.  I for one could not follow instructions. I had a pan with food and covered appropriately.  They ate the food.  A short business meeting was held and then we consumed as much food as possible.  A mini program by N8YRF on the stripper he brought to show.  Started with paint stripper, could be used to refinish an old radio cabinet.  Other versions of wire strippers was presented and reviewed.  The finale was an economical coax stripper that cost about 30.00.  K8BU present the contest of building a crystal radio.  Crystal radio is something that many of us electronic types built as a boy or girl or just wished we could i.e.

Mike says: “This is how you approach the food.”

KD8BKT food persuit, getting what he came after

me n8yrf.  Build a crystal radio, no power, hook ground to ground, Ant to Ant, connect ear phone or headphone, listen for Stations, write down stations heared, call sign, time, what was playing, signal report etc.  Bring your radio and log to the meeting.  Contest runs Jan, Feb, March and April.  Want more info contact Larry S. K8BU in person or  K8BU@yahoo.com.  The gift exchange was selected by number drawn and then ones could  pick new or swipe previous gift etc. Fun was had by all.  If you were not there you missed good food and a good time.  Hope to see you next year.

November is the month that MARC elects new officers.  The Nominating committee presented the slate of officers with President Mike Mastro  KD8QDL moving up from Vice President, Bill Finnegan NR8I, moving of the reserve officers bench.  Bill has served as an officer in the past.  Welcome back Bill.  Secretary/Treasure Gene Moore  N8YRF,  He still has 2+2 equals 4 and writes decent minutes.  Assistant Sec Kathy Landes  KC8HTU, someone to backup taking minutes when sec/treas in not in attendance,   New Trustee or not so new is Don Freeman KD8BKT.  His term expired and committed to do another 3 year term.  No new nominations was submitted.  A motion to close nominations was made and a second to approval.  Vote was voice vote with yeas over the nays,.  No contested positions, there would not be a vote on officers at the Dec meeting.  Thank You all for your service.

Marion Amateur Radio Emergency Services and Skywarn is sponsoring the weather training put on by Cleveland Weather Service.  Time 6:30pm Reg Starts @ 6:00PM March 29th at Tri-Rivers Career Center. Train to be a certified storm spotter or just learn about storms and tornados.

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February meeting of the Marion Amateur Radio Club featured the program on QRP and QRPp by Lynn L.  W8MLL and Bill F.  NR8I.  Showing the power in db gain of one S-unit is 4 times the power.  So 4 watts to gain one S-Unit is 16 watts. These low power on qrp with cw can reach thousands of miles. Many times other operators has the massive tower and beam running over 600 watts. Take advantage of the opportunity. Showing equipment of qrp rigs, tunners, swr meters, and solar panel to charge batteries. Bill explained QRP and QRPp. QRP is power less than 5 watts. QRPp is power less than 1 watt. Also Bill showed his 10 contacts on 1/10 of a watt or 100 milliwatt.

Lynn show QRP Tunner