To all members:
An observation from KD8CUU.
We have a big event coming up in June called our annual Field Day. This event is a great time for all of us to show off to the entire city county and the surrounding area just what we as professional radio commentators can do if something would ever happen in our immediate area.
It has been proven time and time again that when all else fails, power is out; all means of communications are down. We as ham radio operators step up to the plate and get the word out and back as needed.
It just happen within the past couple of weeks, Haiti. A lone ham operator working on a battery system got the first word to the outside world what had just happen.
This is our job! We can do this, and we have the expertise to do it and do it correctly.
So during our regular club meetings, if proper message taking or proper radio procedure is being discussed come on by and bring a friend. That friend or associate does not have to a ham radio person. But could become one. It only takes one night a month and only for a couple of hours at the most.
You will be a better professional radio operator for it.
73 Jack KD8CUU Editor
SKYWARN SPOTTER TRAINING MEETING NOTICE
For each of us every spring and summer months there is that
possibility of threating weather. These could be in the form of heavy thunderstorms, high destructive winds or worse tornados. Each of us has seen the devastations these types of weather re-lated events can cause.
As professional commentators we need to be trained on how to spot these up coming weather related events. So place on your calendars, do not forget! March 18, 2010 at 6:30 pm at Tri-Rivers JVS Multi purpose room. Our friends from the “Cleveland Weather Bureau”, will instruct the “Skywarn” training session.
Please past this information to all your relatives, friends and neighbors, it is FREE. Just show up and sign in.
Lynn Lovell W8MLL County EC
Amateur radio, often called ham radio, is both a hobby and a service in which participants, called "hams," use various types of radio communications equipment to communicate with other radio amateurs for public service, recreation and self-training.
Amateur radio operators enjoy personal (and often worldwide) wireless communications with each other and are able to support their communities with emergency and disaster communications if necessary, while increasing their personal knowledge of electronics and radio theory. An estimated six million people throughout the world are regularly involved with amateur radio.
The term "amateur" reflects the principle that Amateur Radio and its skilled operators are committed to helping communities without financial compensation; whereas Commercial Radio operates for profit.
