Upcoming Events

Thursday Night Net - 8:00pm, 146.640 Repeater

Check in to the net on the 146.640 repeater (PL 88.5) every Thursday night at 8:00pm. All Are Welcome!

Regular Saturday Morning Breakfast - 8:00am

A very informal gathering for breakfast every Saturday at Western Sizzlin, 5200 Towson Avenue, Fort Smith. All very welcome. Gather in the rear of the main dinning area.

QRP Pizza Bash - Tuesday, July 7th 2009, 6:30pm

Come join the fun at Cavanaugh Pizza, Cavanaugh Road, Fort Smith. It's a very informal meeting, with lots of interesting projects to see and hear about.

Contact Jay, W5JAY, for more information.

Everyone is welcome - bring the whole family for Pizza and fun!

Fort Smith Trolley Car Museum 30th Anniversary July 12th, 2009

The FSAARC will be operating a Special Event station on Sunday July 12th. The location is between 3rd and 4th Street off Garrison Ave. We will need volunteer operators as well as folks to HELP set up and take down. Rick Deaton ( K5RRD ) is designing a new QSL card for this event. If anyone has any questions please feel free to email Mike Cole or call him at 918-427-1431.

VEC Test Session - Saturday August 8th @ 10.00am

Address is 1401 South J St in Ft. Smith. Main conference room in HealthSouth Rehab Center. Parking is on the south side of the building.

Please contact Ed Rowan, AC5DC, for more information or to let him know if you'll be attending so he can verify the numbers.

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Next Club Meeting

Monday, July 20th 2009, 7:00pm

Health South Meeting Room, 1401 South J Street, Fort Smith (next to Sparkes Hospital). Parking is available in the parking lot south of the center. All are welcome!

June 2009 Treasurer Report- Members Only

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June 2009 Minutes- Members Only

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Field Day Photos

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Please take a look at Ron (K5XK) and Debbie’s Photo Album showing pictures of the 2009 FSAARC Field Day:

 Ron & Debbies Photos

2009 Field Day Results

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Call Used: W5ANR    ARRL/RAC Section: AR     Class: 5AParticipants: 50     Club/Group Name: Fort Smith Area  ARC (FSAARC)

Power Source(s): Generator

Power Multiplier: 2X

Bonus Points:

100% Emergency power 500
Media Publicity 100
Set-up in Public Place 100
Information Booth 100
NTS message to ARRL SM/SEC 100
W1AW Field Day Message 100
Site Visit by invited elected official 100
Site Visit by invited served agency official 100
Submitted via the Web 50
Total Bonus Points 1,250

Score Summary:

CW Digital Phone Total
QSOs 1155 132 1036 2323
Points 2310 264 1036 3610

Total Score Claimed: 7220

Submitted by:
Charles H Floyd, W5JE
2309 Dove Lane
Mountainburg, AR 72946
E-mail: w5je@yahoo.com

Comments:
 Due to extreme heat (we had 4 heat related illness, not severe but frightening) we did setup early Friday morning, to try and avoid heat. We then took the rest of the day off. Total setup time would not have been greater if we had waited until 1:00 PM CDST to start setup.

Band/Mode QSO Breakdown:

CW QSOs CW PWR Dig QSOs Dig PWR Phone QSOs Phone PWR
160m
80m 68 100
40m 580 75 153 100
20m 499 100 132 75 582 75
15m 68 75 39 75
10m 75 114 75
6m 80 75
2m
1.25m
Other
Satellite
GOTA
Total 1155 132 1036

April 2009 Treasurer Report- Members Only

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May 2009 Minutes- Members Only

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New Picture Galleries

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Repeater PicHamfest09

We have uploaded two new picture galleries:

Repeater Upgrade, February 2009

Hanging Judge Hamfest, April 2009

Thanks & 73,
Deborah Kee, K5KEE

Program for Next Club Meeting

Posted April 15, 2009 by: Jim Scott Add a comment ,

Suriname

At the next club meeting, Jay Bromley, W5JAY, will be presenting a program based on his visit to Suriname in February last year for the ARRL CWDX Contest. The meeting will commence at 7:00pm on Monday, April 20th at the Health South Rehab Center, South J Street in Fort Smith. It’s sure to be very interesting - hope to see you all there.

Albert Pike Kids Make it to QST!

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Albert Pike Kids

The Albert Pike Kids & teacher (sorry to say I forgot her name), and John Martini, made it not as an article per-say, but a full page ad!  See page 152 in the May 2009 QST.  This was the time the FSAARC went over to do a ham radio demo at UAFS for the AP kids.  Hey you can even see Jim Roughley’s bug in this shot, hi.  Sorry Jim your key is prettier than you are, hi.

73 de w5jay/jay..

(P.S. If anyone can get a list of names, I’d be happy to post them all - Webmaster.)

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