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Hello all, July was a busy month and possibly August will be as well. Our meeting will be August 10th at the Queen City Truck Stop. We will be discussing our small part in the upcoming SET on the 10th. We are starting small and will be hopefully expanding next year if all works out. We have a small part this year and I hope we can maybe do some mobile comms next year to add to our list of things. With that said... DMR is pretty hot right now, so if you want to learn more about it then join us Saturday and after the meeting we will discuss it some. See you then.
73 Charles, KB5SZJ
Next MARC Business Meeting
IMPORTANT NOTE: MEETING TIME AND LOCATION
MEETING MOVED TO SECOND SATURDAY DUE TO NESHOBA COUNTY FAIR
The next business meeting will be held in the side room at the Queen City Truck Stop from 9am until... on Saturday August 10th.
Come join us for breakfast, coffee, and fellowship.
VE TEST RESULTS
July 20, 2024 test results --- Corrie Maxfield took his TECH and GENERAL test and passed! Now he is just waiting on his call sign. Congratulations to him for passing two classes of Amateur Radio Classes!
Another issue: according to VE manual from ARRL “NO ONE EXCEPT THE VE’s AND THE CANDIDATES TAKING THE EXAM SHALL BE IN THE TEST AREA WHILE THE TEST IS BE GIVEN!” from this time forward I will enforce this rule. I am sorry if it offends anyone but I will follow the rules of ARRL.
73’s
“It’s impossible to know what you don’t know!”
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* Eldon Richardson, W4IOS
* Cell: (601) 227-6690
* E-Mail: eldon.richardson79@gmail.com
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Mississippi Amateur Radio Emergency Services Simulated Emergency Test.
August 10th from 8AM to 8PM
The main purpose of the SET is to evaluate strengths and weaknesses in Amateur Radio emergency preparedness as well as to demonstrate amateur radio to our served agencies and general public.
We plan to use the following bands and modes from the field, in the mobile, at EOC's and other served agency locations:
- HF, VHF, UHF
- Analog Voice, SSB
- Digital Voice and data,
- Packet and APRS for good measure.
What is being simulated?
- This SET will simulate a scripted scenario that revolves around the disruption of power and to public safety/public service/general communications (hard line, cellular, and data network disruptions).
- Not only will we be looking to exceed our scores from last year's SET, but will be make ourselves very visible to our public in the best manner possible.
- There will be coordination meetings and phone calls going on all month.
- Each County EC will come up with his own county’s scenario specifics based on the above SET Scenario Script.
- Each County ARES Team, in planning their specific scenario, should leverage the script and then tailor their simulated ARES response to the effects which would be most likely to occur in their county if a real communications disruption occurred.
Charles Grisham
Operations
Lauderdale County Emergency Management
Amateur Call KB5SZJ
W4DXCC 2024 Convention Announcement
*** NEW LOCATION !!!
What:
19th Annual W4DXCC DX and Contesting Convention
When: August 15, 2024
Where: SIGNALS Museum 1808 University Drive NW, Huntsville AL 35801
Why: Fellowship, learning, fun, food and most importantly, renewed friendships!
Please visit W4DXCC. com now for more information and to order your conference and banquet tickets!
After several years in Pigeon Forge, TN we decided earlier this year to move it to Huntsville AL and around the Huntsville Hamfest.
2024 is a one-day event but we are already planning 2025 W4DXCC to be Thursday (Boot Camp) and Friday (W4DXCC Convention/Banquet). Once this year is completed we will immediately be working on
2025 W4DXCC in conjunction with Huntsville Hamfest.
See you soon, Steve Molo, KI4KWR Convention Leader
KI4KWR@gmail.com
ARRL Southeastern Division Convention
at the Huntsville Hamfest
Von Braun Center, 700 Monroe St., Huntsville, Alabama
Saturday, August 17, 2024 9 AM to 4:30 PM
Sunday, August 18, 2024 9 AM to 3 PM
$12 for both days online --- $15 at the door --- 12 and under free
For all details, visit: https://hamfest.org/
EMECT (East Mississippi Emergency Communication Training
The EMECT (East Mississippi Emergency Communication Training) is
now listed on the MS ARRL web site as a Mississippi Digital Net.
EMECT NET
EAST MS EMERGENCY COMMS TRAINING
EVERY MORNING AT 07:00 ON 3581 USB-D
USING FLDIGI / THOR22 / MFSK32
FOR MORE INFO CONTACT JOHN BUCKLEY K5DDT)
jb7012@YAHOO.COM OR 662-549-5099
August 2024
