Bible
Verse
Psalm 22:9-10 --- Yet you brought me out of the womb; you made me trust in you, even at my mother’s breast. From birth I was cast on you; from my mother’s womb you have been my God. (NIV)
President's Report
Hello all, March is here and we are looking at tornado season again. If you know anyone that is interested in becoming a weather spotter for their area bring them to the meeting Saturday. Classes are easy to take at your convenience after signing up.
The test group also has new VE's that will be helping give test during the next session. Congratulations to those that passed the VE exam, now you can help others get their license and mentor them in their journey in this new chapter of life for them.
Come join us for lunch and fellowship this Saturday at the Western Sizzler.
73's Charles
Next MARC Business Meeting
The next business meeting will be held at the Western Sizzlin Restaurant located on North Frontage Road on Saturday, March 4th beginning at 11 A.M. Come join us for some awesome sweet tea, lunch, and fellowship.
** PLEASE NOTE: We will meet in the small room up front behind where you place your order.
Club Events
TESTING—at the recent test session two technicians were licensed and two hams upgraded to extra. Welcome aboard to the new hams and a hearty congratulations to the new amateur extra class hams.
NEXT TEST SESSION—the next testing session will be conducted 18 March 2023. This session will be administered at the Lauderdale Emergency Management Agency (LEMA) building, 2525
14th Street, Meridian, MS 39301, beginning at 10:00 am. Participants are to contact Eldon Richardson by email to be scheduled for testing. eldon.richardson@att.net
TUESDAY NIGHT NET— the MARC net is conducted each Tuesday evening for our membership and ALL other hams in the area. Please join us... participation is emphatically encouraged. The net is conducted each Tuesday at 7:00 pm and is available through our MARC repeater at 146.700 MHz with a minus offset and a 100.0 Hz tone. Net control is Ted Valentine.
Treasurer Report
Please bring your 2023 dues to the next meeting or mail them to the address below. Thank you for your support. Dues are:
- $23.00 per Year per Member
- $25.00 per Year for Family
- $15.00 per year if 65 or older
Meridian Amateur Radio Club
c/o Charles Grisham
4887 Valley Rd
Meridian, MS 39302
HAMS RESPOND TO TURKISH EARTHQUAKE
AMATEURS ARE ASKED TO KEEP
28.540, 7092 AND 3777 MHZ CLEAR FOR EMERGENCY TRAFFIC
COMMUNICATORS HAVE IT MADE TODAY
When I was in the Navy, we copied a fleet broadcast. If you were in the Norfolk area you copied that broadcast. If you were in the middle of the Atlantic going or coming from the Med or European area you probably copied a CW broadcast.
The RTTY broadcast at 60 wpm copied on a Chicago teletype model 28 machine. (This was after the old model 15 and 19 TTY machines). The CW broadcast was at 20 wpm.
We would advise the COMM station that we were in their area and they would place us on their "guard" list. Any message generated for us from anywhere in the world would be placed on that broadcast. By broadcast, I mean all messages for all stations using the Norfolk broadcast would be transmitted one after the other.
The messages were assigned a message number beginning with 001 at the beginning of the month. All stations were required to copy and account for each and every message. Sometimes that could be quite a few messages. During the Cuban crisis the Norfolk station ran 24/7 at 60 wpm and never repeated the same message.
If you missed a message or messages for whatever reason, you could ask the COMMSTA to rerun just those messages for you or the preferred method was to obtain a copy from another ship.
The TTY paper was usually single ply. If the message was for your ship, you retyped the message on a multi copy message form, using carbon paper. This allowed you to give the Captain his copy, the XO his copy, etc. On a small vessel, the Captain would receive a copy of each message addressed to the ship. Our "messenger", usually a low rank radioman, would take the messages to the appropriate officers and obtain "initials" indicating their receipt of the messages.
Compare this with what the average amateur can do today with computers and printers.
Communicators never had it so good!
WB5BNV
BirmingHAMfest
Visit: https://www.birminghamfest.org/ for more information.
Columbus Hamfest
https://hamseatingchicken.com/2023/02/22/american-legion-hamfest/
Corinth Hamfest
Quote of the Month
Flowers and colours everywhere, I am so glad that March is here. ~ Anamika Mishra
Have a BLESSED month!
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