I am looking for people, organizations, businesses (ham radio/communications related) government agencies to present at the Montgomery Amateur Radio Club, Inc. meetings.  We are in dire need of creative presentations to fill our two meetings per month schedule.  

Montgomery Amateur Radio Club, Inc.
First and third Wednesday of every month at 7:30pm in Rockville, Maryland.

PLEASE ONLY RESPOND IF YOU, YOUR COMPANY, OR YOUR ORGANIZATION IS WILLING TO PRESENT. I DON'T NEED PRESENTATION SUGGESTIONS, JUST PRESENTERS.

Presentations should be items related to ham radio, emergency communications, communications technology, ham radio equipment, ham radio organizations, communications organizations, government agencies responsible for radio communications, or similar or related fields.  DXpedition teams/individuals, fox hunters/DFers, etc. Historical information, or upcoming technology.  Are you manufacture of an item that ham use and benefit from, come sell your product.  

It can be of low technical information or highly technical.  

A projector will be provided.  A laptop with Power Point Viewer (not the full program) can also be provided if necessary, as well as internet access (there is free government owned, publicly accessible wifi at the meeting location).

Feel free to contact me directly or provide your contact information here in this thread.

Jason Foster, N3PRZ
President
Montgomery Amateur Radio Club
president@marcclub.org

From a local ham I've heard that all disagreements have been resolved and there is talk about the three sites merging to some level to help reduce hosting costs and such.  Because of some amateur not liking the merge initially, the sites will for the most part be kept separate.  But the necessity to exist due to rough economic times pretty much mandated this move.

I am not sure when the official announcement will be as my source did not know either.  However, you may start to notice some similarities among the three sites.  You've likely already seen the QRZ database being used on eham, and the old HamSexy rival site to QRZ link directly to QRZ.

I will post more information as I receive it.

If the members have a problem with it, I'm sure they would say so...I'm an open leader that way, always open to criticism.

But W3LK has been trolling me on this forum....I think I must have offended him at some point....not sure where.  Never met the guy, so I don't know what the deal is.  No bother.

Bottomline:

Money Rules....and ebay likely knows the FCC could give a rats a$$ about ham radio operators and illegal amplifiers being sold.  

OK...you don't have to use it....but did it really require you to post....what a dumb ass!

Figured after reading a few threads about those who are using Twitter, are confused about Twitter, there needed to be a thread that folks can list their Twitter accounts for those who want to follow other hams....ham radio related or not.

I'll start off, mine is:

weatherwarrior1
http://twitter.com/weatherwarrior1

OK...thanks for the help....any others options for Vista and APRS....or is that it.  Not sure if I want to take a chance with unsupported software if I don't have to.

Where would I find that software?  Any cost?  How easy is it to use, a simple USB GPS plugged in and the software shows stations?  

n3qe wrote:....If you are implying that the log checkers are releasing logs to the competition before the deadline and before full checking, then you believe that the checkers are corrupt anyway.


BINGO!

OK...so I'm looking to get back into Satellite tracking and comms.  However, I can't seem to find much of anything (well anything at all really) that will work with Microsoft Windows Vista (Home Premium specifically).

I tried a few of the ones on AmSat's site, but no go with those, so I'm wondering what others are using.  And of course, the next question is...with Windows 7 just around the corner, anyone know of any projects in the works for that.

So is there anything out there that is for APRS that works for Vista.  WinAPRS doesn't seem to be any good on Vista, and was barely a program on older PC OSs.  I about to give up and just go buy the "out of the box" system that doesn't even use ham radio.

I think it is ridiculous that using a remote control system to operate a station is OK with some.  

My opinion is that it is just lazy.  If you want to contest in an area, than get off your lazy butt and go to the station.  To me, if you want to use a remote control in contesting, than start your own contest for remote controlled stations.

I certainly think it is wrong to do it from another country.  Especially a radio in the United States.  I think we should be able to control our own radios from our own shores.

The FCC should not be asking us to do something they failed to do.  But then again, if someone hasn't figured out about DTV by now....they are just an idiot.  

I have too much to worry about for Field Day, and the time, energy, and cost would better be used to attract people to ham radio, and make our operations top notch.  

I say it is unreasonable for the FCC to ask us to do their job.  We pay a lot of taxes, so they need to do their job that we paid them for.  If they want me to do PR for them, they'd better pay me.

DTV should never had been delayed anyway.  All it did is cost time, money and safety to those jurisdictions that were ready to switch over their communications systems to one of the old TV frequencies.  

I say any and all little contesters that are sick of the unfair balance should delete their QSO from their logs so that it will cast doubt at the reviewers end if those big guns were really making the contacts they said they did.

Bottom line, yes, many contesters cheat...a lot of them.  But the ones that are honest know it.  I for one don't even submit a score....I'm not in it to prove myself to anyone.  I do it for the fun, excitement, and the video I produce afterwards.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llk9IIBgAmM

This is a redone video short of the Montgomery Amateur Radio Club annual ARRL Field Day event held in June. Since 1997 the event has been held at Montgomery College Germantown Campus (Germantown, Maryland). The event was coordinated by Dave KB3FRY. The station/club call was KV3B. I believe we were 4A MDC that year, but I don't remember for sure.