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“ Our 26th YEAR!” April, 1999 Election Meeting! Bill Drake KJ5ZV - President Jim Holman KC5JGT - Vice President Bruce Dingman N5BYL - Treasurer Dan Kautz W8EHS - Newsletter Editor

These are the nominees. There are futher open positions for: Activities director Public relations All positions may have write in options. Be sure to bring your en- closed ballot to the meeting on April 20th!

The program this month is on emergency. ARES and storm chasing.

FCC License Renewals and FCC License Expiration Notices Amateurs may renew their FCC- year license grace period after expiration, include a cover letter with instructions for issued licenses "on line" via the FCC web using FCC Form 610 by mail to: FCC, renewing electronically or by mail, an using FCC Form 900. FCC permits on- 1270 Fairfield Rd, Gettysburg PA 17325- FCC Form 610 with instructions, and an line renewals at 120 days or less before a 7245. envelope addressed to FCC. ARRL license will expire. If a license is already The FCC no longer issues notifica- Members may also choose to forward expired, but is within the FCC's two-year tions to amateurs just prior to their license their hardcopy, signed Forms 610 to HQ grace period for renewal, the FCC will expiration. The FCC had done so for a (to the ARRL/VEC, 225 Main St, not accept an on-line Form 900 time, but they ceased doing so in October Newington CT 06111) and we will application--but they will continue to 1996. process them electronically (this FREE accept Form 610 requests for renewal FCC-license renewals are FREE (no service is for ARRL Members only!). when submitted by mail to: FCC, 1270 renewal charge or fee is required by Expiration notices are also sent to all Fairfield Rd, Gettysburg PA 17325-7245. FCC). amateurs from the W5YI Group in Dallas Amateurs may continue to renew Presently, expiration notices are sent TX (handling fee is charged for their their licenses within 90 days before the from ARRL HQ to ARRL Members only! service). license expiration date, or within the two- These ARRL-Member-only notices

Page 1 PARKING TICKET Walk that will be held on Sunday, April P.A.R.K. 18 and has been split up between 2 SPUTNIK 99 TO Meeting Minutes locations; Highland Park and West Plano LAUNCH IN APRIL at Parker and Midway. He is looking for volunteers for communications and other March 16, 1999 activities. Anyone wanting to volunteer, Sputnik 40 Years—the same folks please contact John Sanders. John also who brought you the Sputnik 40 and The regularly scheduled meeting of requested the services of the 147.180 for Sputnik 41 mini-Sputnik satellites—will the Plano Amateur Radio Klub was called the MS Walk. A motions was made to launch a third mini-satellite in April. to order by Martin Reynolds Park allow the repeater to be used, it was Sputnik 40 Years spokesman Guy President. The meeting was held at the seconded and carried unanimously. Pignolet says the third flight model now is Harrington Library. -Bill Fell KK5PB noted the Audie aboard a rocket in Baikonur, The chair welcomed everyone to the Murphy Bike Classic will be held on , awaiting transport to the Russian meeting and invited all present to join in April 10th in Farmersville. Anyone space station April 2. The Pledge of Allegiance. interested in assisting please contact Bill Sputnik 99, which likely also will be Thirty seven members logged in and Fell. known as RS-19 and possibly as Sputnik five visitors signed the visitors sheet. -Bill Fell noted the Rockwall 42, will be launched by hand from Mir A round of introductions by name Amateur Radio Klub has a 2 Meter sometime in April during a space walk by and call sign was given after which a Repeater for sale. He feels the repeater ESA Jean-Pierre Haignere, program on Field Day Activities was is a good system and should be looked at FX0STB, of France. The newest “baby given. by the Klub for purchase. There was a Sputnik” was a cooperative effort of Secretary announced the minutes as general discussion. The PARK Board Gerard Auvray, F6FAO, of AMSAT- published in the Newsletter. A motion will discuss the repeater at future Board France; Viktor Kourilov, of the Astronau- was made to accept the minutes as meetings and present options to the Klub tical Federation of Russia; and Sergei published, it carried unanimously. membership. Sambourov, RV3DR, of and The Treasurer’s report was an- -Martin Reynolds noted elections will AMSAT-Russia. Technical details of the nounced as published in the Newsletter. be held at the next meeting. The nomina- latest Sputnik are not yet available. A motion was made to accept the report, tions and ballots will be published in the Haignere is aboard Mir for a six- it carried unanimously. April newsletter. month tour of duty and will return to The Communications report was give Old Business - Earth in August. He has occasionally by Bill Fell KK5PB. He noted there has -No old business was presented at been on the air from the R0MIR setup not been much headway on the voter this time. aboard Mir (145.985 MHz). The Air system. He updated the Klub on the The meeting was adjourned at 2035 Force General is also president of the progress of the system and search for hours. Aero-Club de France’s astronautics permanent location. No further action was commission. taken. Jack Ward, KC5KOV The last mini-Sputnik, Sputnik 41, The Newsletter Editor Dan Kautz Secretary was a joint project of Aéro-Club de W8EHS France, the Russian Aeronautical Federa- New Business - tion and AMSAT-France. Powered by -The Secretary noted three new nonrechargeable batteries, it stopped applications for membership, Bill Hansen Treasurer’s Report transmitting on 2 meters December 11 KC5PJW, Barry Goldblatt WA5KXX, March 26, 1999 after approximately a month. It transmit- Irwin Sivin KD5DXZ. A motion was ted a set of pre-recorded voice greetings made to accept the new members, it was Expenses 656.28 in three languages as well as a beacon. seconded and it carried unanimously. Income 692.00 The first mini-Sputnik was launched in -The Secretary noted the Ham Expo Balance 2196.70 November 1997 from Mir to commemo- in Belton, TX will be on Saturday, April rate the 40th anniversary of the launching 17. It is sponsored by the Temple Ama- of the original Sputnik satellite. It teur Radio Club. They can be reached at PARK Repeater transmitted only a beacon for approxi- phone: 254-773-3590 ask for Mike mately six weeks. LeFan, email: [email protected], and Sputnik 40 Years is a collaboration Expenses -0- visit their website at www.tarc.org. among high school students from College Income 203.00 -The Secretary noted information has Jules Reydellet in St Denis on Reunion Balance 2579.49 been received on the 1999 Ham Com to Island and students at the Center for be held in Arlington, TX. Anyone Polytechnic Education in Naltchik, Bonnie Swartzendruber WB5KTC needing this information is to contact the Russia. Treasurer Secretary. Read update Page 4 “Swatch...” -John Sanders AB5ZR noted the MS

Page 2 Plano Amateur Radio Klub Alaska heard the HAARP transmissions which publishes Passport to World Band HAARP LISTENING by virtue of one of the antenna pattern’s Radio, says Voice of Russia World TESTS GO OFF sidelobes. Just which pattern or patterns Service, Radio Tirana, Radio Yugoslavia, were employed is not yet clear, and not all and the BBC World Service offer a WITH A HITCH listeners noticed the tapering effects, variety of points of view on the current although some reported dramatic differ- happenings in the Balkans. International HAARP was heard round the world ences in signal strength. Total power Broadcasting Services keeps an ear on the last weekend in March, but a few output was in the vicinity of 400 kW, world shortwave broadcasts from its glitches injected a little intrigue to the about half-power for the present HAARP primary monitoring site in Paraguay. research facility’s 1999 listening test. The facility. “Voice of Russia is interesting test on 6.99 and 3.39 MHz from the High Kennedy says HAARP is still because they’ve sort of taken up the Serb Frequency Active Auroral Research analyzing the results and reports that he cause,” Magne explained. “In a way, their Facility in Gakona, Alaska, was con- plans to post some “quite detailed reaction is more important because they ducted March 26 and 27. Those who measurements” on the HAARP 1999 have some clout.” Radio Tirana, from the tuned in the first day to copy the test Listening Test Results Web site. Albanian capital, supports the other side signals and CW message encountered HAARP’s huge signals literally were of the conflict in which ethnic Albanians what sounded like either severe heard on the other side of the world. in Yugoslavia seek some degree of multipathing or deliberate interference. “Your signal on 3390 was very weak, and independence, while Radio Yugoslavia Some listeners were convinced that I had to use a narrow filter to be able to will offer the perspective of the Milosevic another station was sending CW right on read your carrier and signals,” reported regime. Magne said it’s hard to beat the top of the HAARP signal. Tony Magon, VK2IC, in Sydney, Austra- BBC World Service for a more neutral It proved to be a false alarm, how- lia. Stateside reports—many from hams— position. ever. The first-day “interference” turned flowed in from Arizona, Michigan, Magne said he considered it a bit odd out to be largely related to apparent Connecticut, Florida, Missouri, Maryland, that Radio Yugoslavia, with powerful technical problems with a little and elsewhere. transmitters installed under the Tito multipathing thrown in, according to Reception reports for the 1999 test regime, still was on the air as of March HAARP Technical Manager Ed Kennedy, are welcome. HAARP will provide an 25, but IBS monitoring indicated the K3NS. HAARP is still looking into the attractive QSL card only in response to station was active on 7115 kHz 0100- matter, but Kennedy said it now appears listener reports mailed to High Frequency 0130 UTC. The shortwave station is that while some transmitters were being Active Auroral Research Facility, PO Box “typically, the first thing they go after” keyed properly, others were not being 271, Gakona, AK 99586. when bombing, he said. keyed at all. “The net effect was not only HAARP is managed by the US Air Voice of Russia and Radio Tirana a change in transmitted power between on Force and the US Navy. For more both can be found evenings within the and off, but also a pattern change,” information, see “The High Frequency amateur 40-meter band (the 41-meter Kennedy explained. Active Auroral Research Program” (QST, international broadcasting allocation). Kennedy said the keying problem Sep 1996, p 33) or visit the HAARP Web IBS monitored Radio Tirana on 7160 kHz combined with auroral multipath to site, http://w3.nrl.navy.mil/haarp.html between 0245 and 0400 UTC. Russia is produce CW that was intelligible to some available on 7125, 7180, and 7250, as listeners and with quite a bit of multipath well as other frequencies. IBS has to others. The problem seemed to be most SHORTWAVE CAN monitored Voice of Russia on 12,000, severe for stations in the Northeast. Some 12,020, 12,040, and 15,595 kHz during stations in the western US were able to PROVIDE WINDOW the last 24 hours. Magne said the eco- copy the complete CW message. On the nomic crisis in Russia has made that March 27 test, the same situation existed TO YUGOSLAV country’s international broadcasting during the 6.99 MHz call-up only, schedule a bit more unpredictable than in Kennedy said, but it was corrected ACTION the days when it was known as Radio immediately. Moscow. The announced plan also had called You don’t have to tune very far from Magne says 5975 kHz is the best spot for some antenna-pattern “tapering” the amateur HF bands to find different for the BBC World Service. Croatian during the carrier signal-measurement perspectives of the current crisis in Radio also has been heard evenings on periods on 6.99 MHz. It appears that Kosovo. NATO air strikes against 9925 kHz. might not have happened on the first day Yugoslav targets resumed March 26, and “Radio France Internationale, Radio either. This also was fixed on Day 2, many overseas correspondents have been Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and others are Kennedy says. expelled from Yugoslavia by the adding transmissions to the Balkans, so it HAARP’s plan had called for Milosevic regime. is not inconceivable that some of the directing the array’s main lobe vertically, Larry Magne, editor-in-chief of international broadcasters with access to which meant that anyone outside of International Broadcasting Services Ltd large transmitting facilities may add frequencies because of the Balkan Page 3 PARKING TICKET situation,” Magne said. Radio B92 (92.5 MHz) in Belgrade VANITY CALL SWATCH INSISTS has been shut down by the Yugoslav SIGN “BEATNIK” government but has attempted to contin- ued to broadcast via the Internet to avoid APPLICATION FEE MESSAGES “NOT possible censorship. IBS says it has an unconfirmed report that the independent TO RISE SLIGHTLY ADVERTISING” Radio B92 will be rebroadcast on shortwave to Yugoslavia and much of The cost of applying for an amateur The CEO of the Swatch Group Ltd Europe. “The shortwave broadcast vanity call sign is expected to rise slightly says messages to be transmitted on 2 supposedly will operate this weekend this fall. In a just-released Notice of meters by the soon-to-be-launched from 0700 UTC (Saturday March 27) on Proposed Rulemaking involving assess- Sputnik-99 satellite are “not advertising” 11415 USB,” Magne said. “This reported ment and collection of regulatory fees for but part of the watchmaker’s campaign to transmission would appear to be via the Fiscal Year 1999 (MD Docket 98-200), institute the “Swatch beat” as an interna- facilities of an existing Western European the FCC has proposed increasing the tional unit of time measurement. Replying hobby pirate station, probably using a vanity fee to $1.42 per year or $14.20 for to the League’s suggestion to scrap the modified ham rig and thus at very low the 10-year term. launch, Swatch Group CEO Nicolas E. power.” The current vanity fee is $13. That Hayek said if anyone profits from the so- B92’s Web site, http://www.b92.net/, figure, originally proposed at $1.29 per called “Beatnik mission” satellite, it will does not mention a shortwave broadcast. year (or $12.90 for the 10-year term) was be the Amateur Radio community “who The site offers English-language broad- “rounded up” to $1.30 per year by the will gain much more recognition world- casts, but these generally have been FCC when it was implemented last fall, so wide for their important work.” unavailable since the bombing began. The it’s possible the FCC might adjust the On April 7, League Executive Vice Web site suggests listeners try the Real final number up or down to an even dollar President David Sumner, K1ZZ, sug- Broadcast Network if they experience figure this time as well. gested that Swatch cancel the launch of problems. Magne confirmed that Radio The FCC projects 6800 vanity the so-called “Beatnik” satellite and use a B92 Web service has been intermittent applications in FY 1999 for a total commercial satellite for its project but said the station was managing to get revenue figure of more than $96,000. instead. “The Amateur Radio community through using telephone lines to feed its The vanity call sign business has must stand against the ‘Beatnik’ satellite audio. The Web site also provides news in continued to be brisk over the past year because it represents such an undesirable English and Serbian. and picked up slightly after the vanity call precedent,” Sumner said. He cited B92 also has been distributing audio sign fee dropped from its high of $50 to international regulations defining the files of its news bulletins in Serbian at $13 last September. The FCC reports it Amateur Service as one engaged in by http://www.webactive.com/webactive/ received a total of 12,152 vanity applica- “duly authorized persons interested in events/b92/b92live.ram or http:// tions during 1998—slightly more than radio technique solely with a personal aim www.xs4all.nl/~opennet/audio/ 1000 a month; however, not all applica- and without pecuniary interest.” live_feed.ram. These have been intermit- tions have resulted in call sign grants. In his faxed reply April 8, Hayek tently available the past week, but service That trend continued in January and indicated the company planned to go is spotty and disconnects frequent. February. The FCC got more than 1400 ahead with the mission, despite the Passport to World Band Radio and applications in each of those two months. League’s entreaty and numerous com- Passport to Web Radio are available from The vast majority of applications last plaints from within the amateur commu- the ARRL. Passport to World Band Radio year were filed electronically. The FCC nity. He said the more than 400 messages is $20 (order item 7202); Passport to Web reports that fewer than 20% of last year’s programmed into the mini-Sputnik are not Radio is $19.95 (order item 7059). Visit applications arrived on paper. The to advertise the company’s products but http://www.arrl.org/catalog/ for more Commission’s Gettysburg office currently to promote the company’s concept to information. takes approximately three weeks to “improve time coordination in a separate process a vanity call sign application. and new way between all parts on Comments are due on the FCC’s FY Earth”—something, he said, that should 1999 fee proposals by April 19. Reply interest hams. comments are due April 29. A full copy An increasing number of voices of the FCC NPRM is available at http:// within the amateur community have been www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Miscellaneous/ raised in protest against plans for the Notices/1999/fcc99044.txt. “Beatnik mission.” Rob Carlson, KC2AEI, has opened a “Swatch Protest and Boycott” site on the Internet at http:// wmbc.umbc.edu/rob/swatch-protest/ to collect opinions and as a clearing house

Page 4 Plano Amateur Radio Klub for information on the topic. could preclude ham gear modification for Acknowledging “negative reactions FCC ISSUES CAP and MARS or for experimental from a few radio amateurs regarding the purposes. Swatch beatnik satellite project,” Hayek STRENGTHENED The FCC adopted a more generalized said Swatch has received many more requirement that receivers be designed so positive ones from “other interested SCANNER that tuning, control circuits, and filtering users.” Some of the e-mail messages are RECEIVER RULES be inaccessible, and that any attempted posted on the company’s Web site, http:// modifications render the receiver inopera- www.swatch.com/beatnik/frameset.html. tive. Swatch also has opened an e-mail The FCC has amended its rules to The new FCC rules also prohibit comment box on its Web site to gather strengthen existing prohibitions on modification of scanning receivers as a opinions on “Should we send your scanning receivers that can receive business or on an ongoing basis “regard- messages into space?” cellular telephone transmissions. While less of the date of manufacture or number Swatch solicited more than 5000 the new rules contain specific exemptions of units modified.” The Commission also messages via its Web site, including voice for the Amateur Service, they will have said modification of any scanning and text files, for possible transmission on important ramifications for the manufac- receiver is prohibited and invalidates the the new satellite. Messages selected for ture of new Amateur Radio equipment equipment authorization. New, permanent use were supposed to include a reference that scans frequencies outside the ham labels on scanning receivers also will be to the “beat” theme. bands. required. Hayek said he planned to again The new rules—released March 31 in Kits for scanning receivers would be review with Swatch management “what a Report and Order—broaden the treated the same as assembled equipment. can be possibly done without jeopardiz- definition of a scanning receiver to The League plans to look closely at this ing the aims of the mission” while also include receivers that automatically provision to make sure it will not prevent not offending amateurs, and invited switch among two or more frequencies amateur manufacturers from producing continuing dialogue with the League. between 30 and 960 MHz that can stop at legitimate transverting equipment. Sumner expressed disappointment that and receive a detected signal. Still The new rules become effective due Swatch has not yet decided to change exempted are receivers designed solely 30 days after their publication in The course, but he welcomed the opportunity for operation as a part of a licensed Federal Register, but the FCC said it will for further dialogue. station. In response to an ARRL request, include “transitional provisions” in its AMSAT-France, which contracted the FCC clarified that the rules do not rules. A copy of the Report and Order is with AMSAT-Russia to build the elec- apply to Amateur Service receivers unless available on the ARRL Web site at http:// tronics for the soon-to-be-launched mini- they cover frequencies outside the ham www2.arrl.org/announce/et98- Sputnik, has since distanced itself from bands. RandO.html the project and apologized for its involve- The FCC also widened its definition ment. AMSAT-Russia President Eugene of “test equipment” exempted from the Labutin, RA3APR, also has apologized, cellular reception restriction. The adopted saying the arrangements with Swatch definition defines test equipment by were made without AMSAT-Russia’s function, rather than by end user as knowledge. proposed, thus permitting sale to the The new Sputnik-99 satellite arrived general public. on Mir aboard a Progress rocket April 4 Receivers that allow reception of Texas PRB-1 bill gets and is tentatively set for launch April 16 cellular frequencies because of their poor during a space walk by the Russian Mir image response would be illegal under the Senate sponsor: new rules. As it proposed, the Commis- crew. It will carry a 100-mW transmitter The Texas Amateur Radio tower bill and transmit on or about 145.815 MHz. sion adopted a 38 dB rejection standard for signals in the cellular bands “for any has a Senate sponsor, Sen Mike Jackson. The satellite will have an approximately Karl Silverman, N0WWK, who’s been a 30-day life span. frequency to which the receiver can be tuned.” prime mover behind the legislation, The FCC abandoned a proposal to reports that Jackson not only will sponsor require manufacturers to limit reception the bill but will attempt to put it on the of cellular service frequencies by “direct fast track. Silverman said the bill could pickup” through the cabinet. The FCC turn up in a Senate Committee on also backed away from a proposal that Intergovernmental Relations, chaired by could have required epoxy potting and Sen Frank Madla and will probably be nonremovable components to prevent heard on April 7th or 14th..—Karl scanner modification. The League had Silverman, N0WWK argued that this could raise the cost of buying and repairing equipment and

Page 5 PARKING TICKET and chats on the club Mir PMS Operating repeaters. Again What this is leading me to, is a MIREX President Dave Larsen, purpose for the N6CO, reports that recent problems with PARK other than a the TNC aboard Mir have been repaired social gathering. with the help of Scott Avery, WA6LIE. Don’t get me wrong. Larsen asks Mir packet users to refrain Social is fine. But from attempting to access the PMS if it’s the club could and in use by another ground station and to should represent not digipeat through the TNC when a other things to the ground station is connected.—SpaceNews members and the community. We have taken some great steps in right Easily Heard Signals direction. The de W8EHS representation in the [email protected] tower issues. The TVI committee. Election year! Well, in the case of the Skywarn and ARES PARK it is election month. We have some activities. The Good (shhh…) volunteers(!) for P, VP, T and News Net. Commu- NLE. Now all we have to do is get them nication services for special events. The elected. Not so tough. However we still list goes on. have a few holes in the officers list we How about some operations and need to fill. All we need is one write in contesting? Think about a club construc- and you may be elected! tion project. Maybe a license upgrade Great news! At least for me. I finally campaign with on air CW practice and installed the vertical antenna on my advanced theory lessons. I know one club house. There is a picture on this page to that buys coax in large orders for price confirm the installation. Works great too! and divvies it up to the members. We The feed line is a bit of overkill. I had a could start a list of interested buyers. spool of Belden 9913 so I used that. If How about a weather balloon launch and you do not know, 9913 is very low loss recovery? Fox Hunts. What we need is air-core coax. Generally used for VHF involvement. Get active. DO STUFF. and even UHF feedline. Typical loss at Let’s face it. I have to admit the 100 feet on 2 meters is 1.7 dB. I think it computer and Internet has filled almost must suck RF from the transmitter at HF. all my communication needs for real ham This is not flexible stuff so is not good as message activities. It is Internet email that a feed line direct to a rotatable antenna. keeps me informed of the club minutes My antenna is a High Gain R-7, 40 and members input. The Parking Ticket through 10 meters. itself is available on the Internet. Is this In the first hour of operation I bad or evil? Of course not. It is the way worked all four coasts of the USA — of today’s world. Actually, a good way of California, Boston, Florida, Ottawa, W the world. It is our mission to find how Va. And heard the Cayman Islands. That today’s amateur radio fits into this wide was 20 and 10 meters. world of digital communication. I hope The new officers will soon be we are planning to stay relevant. I am planning “stuff” for the club. In my trying to push us all in the proper “think- opinion, we need to look at the function ing” direction. of amateur radio in today’s communica- tion world. A lot has changed in the 30 73 years I have been a ham. It is not the same old same old. What is the function of the radio club? Social has been the main focus for the PARK. This is achieved through the breakfast meetings

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Page 7 The PARKING TICKET is the monthly publication of PARKINGBOARD OF DIRECTORS TICKET Office Name Home Work the Plano Amateur Radio Klub (PARK) and is intended to President Martin Reynolds, N6LIF 972-727-6746 present news, issues and opinions of interest to the PARK and Vice President Secretary Jack Ward, KC5KOV 972-527-8344 972-497-6098 the Amateur Radio Community. We encourage contribution of Treasurer Bonnie Swartzendruber, WB5KTC 972-423-6768 Activities Director articles, letters to the editor, etc. and welcome newsletter Communications Bill Fell, KK5PB 972-424-0496 972-705-3611 exchanges with other clubs around the country. Permission is Editor Daniel Kautz, W8EHS 972-712-7741 972-323-4814 Public Relations granted to reprint material as long as proper credit is given. 2M Trustee Fred Varian, WD5ERD 972-398-0407 214-464-6084 220 Trustee Steve Jones, WB5SGN 972-241-6311 214-265-3243 Ideas for and contributions to the PARKING TICKET 440 Trustee Tom Gentry, K5VOU 972-442-3502 972-423-3421 should be sent to: Former President Charles Cashion, W5ISZ 972-881-0952 972-519-2583 Tech. Comm. Chr. Charlie Stone, KG5XX 972-517-1575 972-684-5364

TV/RFI Committee Don R. Hice, WB5TVI 972-599-2038 Editor - Dan Kautz, W8EHS PARKING TICKET LONG-RANGE PLANNING COMMITTEE Chairman Jim Holman, KC5JGT 972-424-4282 P.O. Box 860435 John Creel, N5OON 972-517-7551 972-484-3620 Plano, TX. 75086-0435 Bruce Dingman, N5BYL 972-442-4542 972-995-5774 Tom Gentry, K5VOU 972-442-3502 972-423-3421 Patsy Jones, WA5MYD 972-423-0202 Jim Popelarski, W5WN 972-618-5096 972-308-1419 Submissions must be received no later than the first day Bill Swan, K5MWC 972-596-9307 972-705-3441 of the month to be included in that month’s issue. Material Deb Varian, KA5HQY 972-867-4048 Craig Young, KA5BOU 972-396-9184 972-952-4616 received after the deadline will be included in the following month’s issue if it is still current. The Plano Amateur Radio Klub meets the 3rd Tuesday of each month at 7:30 PM in the Harrington Library, 18th and Avenue P. Dues are $15 per year, $21 for family membership, and $7 for the Repeater Association, prorated biannually. The PARK operates three repeaters: WD5ERD on 147.18+, WB5SGN on 224.22- and K5VOU on 444.25+. Look for PARK on the Internet at: http://www.holman.net/park/.

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