TARS

May 5th TARS Picnic

This year we are combining our annual picnic and the Indiana QSO party on May 5th, 2012. The Cherry Hill shelter at Harmonie State Park [MAP] was great for the parks on the air event and it was suggested for the picnic this year. It is a beautiful location with lots of room, shelter, shade and plenty of trees for antennas. I think you will love it.

Park admission is $5 per vehicle for Indiana residents. Quite a bargain considering all the park has to offer.

TARS will provide the meat, drinks and picnic supplies. Please bring a covered dish or desert etc. You might also want to bring lawn chairs bug repellent and anything for your comfort.
The picnic site has NO electricity but has water and pit toilets.

We will be setting up for the Indiana QSO Party at 9:00 am and plan on eating at 12:00.

Google map to Harmony State Park

March 2012 TARS Meeting

The March TARS regular club meeting is the annual auction. If you have something you would like to donate to TARS for the auction or radio related itmes to sell, come on out and join in the fun. Any donation will go straight to TARS while the club will only ask for a small fee for your items sold. "Little ED" K9HVI will be the emcee/auctioneer for the evening and everyone should have a good time.

Hope to see you 7:00 pm at the Evansville Red Cross Thursday March 8, 2012.

EATING BEFORE THE MEETING will be at Fazoli's on N Green River Rd at 5:30. That will give us time to get to the meeting and check out the auction items before the meeting,

SKYWARN Weather Spotter Training

Saturday Feb 18th TARS will sponsor a Weather Spotter webinar with Paducah National Weather Service at Central library Browning room from 9am to Noon.

More information coming soon.

Wednesday night Net EmComm Topic

During the Wednesday night W9OG Prepardness Net we are having a short EmComm Topic to get our minds thinking of Emergency Communications Preparedness. These short topics are also listed on W9OG Forum, under Emergency Comms / ARES. If you missed any, feel free to read them to yourself or anyone else who will listen.

David Vogel WA9C

Technician Licensing class beginning

Warrick ARES/RACES

We will be offering a FCC Technician Licensing class beginning February 2nd, 2012 running through March 30th at First Christian Church in Newburgh, at Hwy 261 and Outer Lincoln The weekly Thursday night classes will go from 6:30-8:30 PM.

The class will cover all required material to pass the 35 question FCC exam, plus considerably more to help a new Ham get started. The FCC exam will be given the Saturday following the last class at the Red Cross in Evansville. The exam fee is $15.

We will be using the ARRL Ham Radio License Manual Revised 2nd Edition. W/CD published Nov 2010. You will need this manual at the first class. You may purchase it yourself or contact me. Price is around $24.

All the primary instructors for the class hold Amateur Extra Licenses and our previous class of 18 students had a 100% pass rate on the FCC exam.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Rick Williams, KT9B
Warrick ARES EC, Deputy RACES Officer
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