Bible
Verse
Matthew 10:32-33 President’s
Comments Another year is almost gone. Sure
good to fellowship with you fellow hams. Was so good to
see everyone at our business meeting Saturday, Sept 7th.
Sure was good to see our out of town guests from Laurel
and Waynesboro.
Had a good meeting and talked about
fox hunting. Maybe we can have one soon. Maybe the
weather will cool off soon and then we can complain about
cold weather. Thomas from Laurel said they had a Repeater
on 53.450 if any one has 6 meter cap.
Remember ARRL day at Starksville
Oct 4-5 and our next business meeting will be Oct 12th. I
will be on the road but our vice president W5MAV will do
a good job conducting our business. Our disasters have
been low this year. We can thank our Lord for all this.
Let us hope the rest of the year goes well. Let us give a
hand of fellowship to all our hams that are not with us
anymore and look out for new prospects. Hope all a good
fall and happy hamming. And to some happy fishing too.
73's to all W5OQY CP
Vice
President’s Comments Thank all of you that showed up for
the business meeting on September 7th. Attendance was
much better at this meeting than the previous 2 meetings.
Our October business meeting has been moved to the second
Saturday due to the ARRL Day in the Park being held on
the first Saturday. Several of us will be attending this
yearly event. Please see the attached announcement for
all the details.
Please make a note on your
calendar: Our next business meeting will be held on
October 12th. CP will be out of town that weekend. While
the cat is away the mouse will play. Look forward to
seeing you at Queen City Truck Stop.
Have a good month! May God’s
many blessings be with each of you. 73, W5MAV
Upcoming
Events TAILGATING EVENT IN
LIBERTY, MS Join us in Southwest
Mississippi (SET) will be conducted September
28 beginning at 8:00 AM on 3862 KHz. Local 2 emergency
nets will activate at the same time to deal with local
emergency scenarios prepared by their ECs. The major
thrust of Field Day was to learn to operate away from our
shacks under unfamiliar conditions. The SET is the second
part of our annual emergency preparedness training and
emphasizes coordination with served agencies and working
together through nets.
A reminder to everyone that the
SKYWARN LINKING TEST takes place on the last Sunday of
each month (local net) at 8:30 pm on the 146.700/R and
the link check in on 146.970/R at 8:45 pm.
Click
Here for full details
Start your contest season with a
bang and compete for our new club award!
I'd like to personally invite you
and your club (MERIDIAN ARC) to participate in the
California QSO Party (CQP). This year we have a new
plaque for the highest scoring entry in "Top Club,
non-California".
Obviously we would appreciate it if
you would advertise the CQP in your club newsletter and
your club email reflector (even if you decide to not
enter the CQP contest as a club).
All California QSO Party rules,
results, county abbreviations, and free logging software
are available at: http://www.cqp.org/
PRESS
RELEASE Thursday, August 29, 2002
Boston, MA - J. Cunningham &
Assoc. announces the launch of a new web site,
www.hamtestonline.com,
which helps both new and experienced ham radio
enthusiasts prepare for U.S. amateur radio written exams.
This is the first Web site to bring computer-based
training (CBT) technology online for the amateur radio
tests.
Unlike other test preparation web
sites, HamTestOnline takes on the role of your personal
trainer. It keeps track in its database of which
questions you have seen, which ones you have learned, and
which ones you get right and wrong. It asks you questions
based on your own personal needs, concentrating on the
areas where you are weak. Even if it has been weeks since
your last session, HamTestOnline's database remembers
your history and continues where you left off.
Other ham test Web sites give you
questions at random, so you spend too much time answering
questions you have already learned, and too little time
on your weak areas. With 1,572 questions in the question
pools, you can take 100 randomly generated, simulated
tests and still not see all the questions!
HamTestOnline does not try to
simulate a test. In a simulated test you spend 15 minutes
guessing at the answers and learning nothing, and then 2
minutes reviewing your answers and actually learning.
Only a small fraction of your time is spent learning!
With HamTestOnline, your entire study session is devoted
to learning.
HamTestOnline operates entirely
online - there is no software to download or install. It
is easy to use - one click records your answer, provides
feedback, and presents the next question.
The Web site includes all questions
from the latest Technician, General, and Amateur Extra
question pools. The site offers a free trial, which
includes 20% of the questions from each question pool. A
paid subscription of $19.95 provides access to all
questions in all three question pools for a period of 2
years. The site offers a money-back guarantee if you are
dissatisfied for any reason.
J. Cunningham & Assoc. is a
small software development and consulting firm located on
the outskirts of Boston, Massachusetts. They can be
contacted via e-mail at webmaster@hamtestonline.com.
Communications
Terror Plan Adopted Editor’s Comment: All
of the below sounds really great. However, I believe that
amateur radio is going to play an even more important
roll in filling in the communications gaps. I encourage
all operators to be prepared to help out when the need
arises.
September 13, 7:47 PM (ET) WASHINGTON (AP) - Communication
industry officials adopted emergency procedures Friday
intended to help maintain the nation's telephone, cable
and Internet networks in case of a natural disaster or
terrorist attack.
The plans would help companies in a
crisis contact and work with partner firms or competitors
to keep services running for customers.
The procedures were developed by a
council of more than 50 industry officials formed by the
Federal Communications Commission in January to recommend
ways to strengthen communications networks to resist
attack. The group is called the Network Reliability and
Interoperability Council.
"When a disaster happens or the
nation is under attack and the telecommunications
infrastructure is threatened, chances are pretty high
it's going to be more than one service provider that will
be affected," said Jeff Goldthorp, chief of the FCC's
network technology division. "There's a need for these
companies to get in touch with each other quickly, and in
an emergency like that every second counts."
The new procedures will allow
company officials to call a central directory of
emergency contact numbers so they can reach their peers
without getting bogged down in voice mail or other
delays, Goldthorp said. For example, a telephone company
whose services are knocked out could get help from a
rival carrier to reroute signals and let customer calls
go through.
The council also created a "mutual
aid agreement" that companies can sign in advance or
during emergencies. The agreement lays out the business
and legal details of helping another company, to allow
for a faster response.
"The last thing you want to do is
get attorneys on the phone in the middle of a crisis,"
Goldthorp said.
Four companies - AT&T Corp.,
BellSouth, SBC and Qwest Communications - already have
signed the agreement, and others are expected to follow,
said Pamela Stegora-Axberg, a Qwest vice president and a
member of the council.
The council plans to address the
engineering aspects of strengthening communications
networks later this year.
Cellular phone use overwhelmed
wireless networks in the hours after the Sept. 11 attacks
in New York and Washington and prevented police and
officials from making critical calls.
In New York, many cell phones
stopped working, in part because the transmission towers
were destroyed along with the twin towers. One Verizon
switching office was destroyed, and another, which
handled about 300,000 telephone lines, was badly
damaged.
The destruction of the World Trade
Center also demolished television transmitters serving
all seven local New York television stations. Only WCBS
stayed on the air because it had a backup transmitter on
the Empire State Building.
A separate industry council is
examining how to strengthen radio and broadcast
television systems.
Have a
great month
September 2002
Whosoever therefore shall confess Me before men, him
will I confess also before My Father which is in
heaven. But whosoever shall deny Me before men, him
will I also deny before My Father which is in heaven.
(KJV)
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21
ETHYL VANCE PARK
8 A.M. TO 2 P.M.
Southwest Mississippi Amateur Radio Club
http://www.swmarc.cjb.net/
Contact: Homer Richardson
Phone: 601-833-4126
Fax: 601-833-2659
Email: hrichardson@tislink.com
October 4 & 5, 2002
Announcing
California QSO Party (CQP) 2002
1600Z October 5, 2002 until 2200Z
October 6, 2002
News of Interest to Radio Amateurs
Ham Test Online
By DAVID HO
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