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to confirm this. We missed 1st place (W4DOC)<br />
by about 1,000 points and 2nd place (N200) by<br />
about 200 points. Congratulations to our FD<br />
crew for a job "well done". Wait 'til next year!<br />
###---EXECUTIVE MEETINGS---###<br />
For the past 4-5 years it has been club policy to<br />
conduct the majority of its routine business at the<br />
Executive Committee meetings with the larger<br />
decisions being decided at club meetings. All<br />
decisions and actions are announced at club<br />
meetings and/or through the club newsletter, the<br />
SCOPE. Anyone wanting to attend the executive<br />
meetings can check the latest copy of the SCOPE<br />
for the location of the next meeting. Executive<br />
meetings are the 2nd Thursday following the<br />
Wednesday club meeting which would make it<br />
eight days later.<br />
If you cannot attend club meetings or the<br />
executive meetings, please drop me a letter with<br />
your comments or suggestions as to what you<br />
think the club should be doing and how you think<br />
that you would be able to help us.<br />
###--- HOBBY DAY ---###<br />
On November 24-26th there will be many<br />
hobbies displayed at the new San Diego Convention<br />
Center which will serve as the inauguration<br />
of this brand new facility. The San Diego<br />
<strong>Amateur</strong> <strong>Radio</strong> Council (SANDARC) will have a<br />
booth at this event and will need two P ARC<br />
members to man the booth on Friday, November<br />
24th, from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. The operation<br />
will be something similar to the Del Mar Fair<br />
operation. Please contact me (W9FQN) if you<br />
are interested in filling this time slot for the club.<br />
If three or four of you can get together, you could<br />
man the booth and have one or two of you walking<br />
around looking at the other booths. It should<br />
prove to be an interesting display to visit.<br />
##-S.W. DIVISION CONVENTION-##<br />
SANDARC has requested that PARC have<br />
charge of the 1990 Southwest Division Convention<br />
exhibitors booths during the convention in<br />
San Diego August 23-26th. This will mean that<br />
we will need to have club members help the day<br />
before the convention in telling exhibitors where<br />
their booths are located on the main exhibition<br />
floor and the remaining three days we will need<br />
to staff the exhibitors booth where SANDARC<br />
will provide them with soft drinks and a place to<br />
relax from the rigors of manning their booths.<br />
We need amateurs Thursday and Friday<br />
(August 23-24th) who can work during the day<br />
and others who can work day and evening shifts<br />
Friday evening, Saturday the 25th and all day<br />
Sunday the 26th. Those who work during the day<br />
Scope - November '89<br />
on Thursday will have to do some walking<br />
around and will need HTs for communication<br />
while on the exhibition floor. This will be a good<br />
chance for club members to meet representatj- ,<br />
of all of the major manufacturers and to h-v<br />
with the SW Division Convention. Please contact<br />
me, W9FQN, if you would like to be a part of this<br />
group.<br />
###--- REPEATER USE ---###<br />
The purpose of our repeaters is to provide<br />
communications in case of emergencies and to<br />
allow club members to communicate with each<br />
other. To this end we try to have emergency<br />
antennas at the repeater site and emergency<br />
power in the form of reserve batteries and generator(s).<br />
We also use the repeaters for traffic nets,<br />
special interest groups (microwave, packet radio,<br />
computers, ham help nets, code practice, etc.),<br />
public service activities (athletic type events), and<br />
emergency organizations (ARES and RACES).<br />
The traffic nets allow us to keep in practice for<br />
'The Big One" that is coming sometime soon and it<br />
will be Iarser and more destructive than this last<br />
San FranCISCO quake (7.0). It will probably be<br />
about 15 times the amplitude with about 400 times<br />
the destructive ener~. Our public service activities<br />
allow us to proVIde communications similar to<br />
what we might possibly be doing during emerge<br />
type operations.<br />
###--- HELP NEEDED / WANTED ---##<br />
1) Another NCTN traffic manager to be a comanager<br />
with Todd-KI6ZM.<br />
2) A copy of the BEARCA T 101 manual to be<br />
copied.<br />
3) Fire extinguisher( s) for trailers.<br />
4) Tower climbers.<br />
5) Members who can send computer generated<br />
CW for tapes and code practice.<br />
6) 450 repeater technician to help WB6IQS.<br />
7) 4-5 pipes 18-24"L, 1.5-2" Dia. These are for<br />
FD support stands.<br />
8) 40 + AI. tower or crankup for FD.<br />
9) Painters for inside and outiside of trailer.<br />
10) Our ARES/RACES house trailer now has new<br />
tires and is ready to roll as soon as we can find a<br />
universal way of connecting up the turn lights to all<br />
types of vehicles. Have any ideas?<br />
###--- POTPOURRI ---###<br />
The Carlsbad Emergency Communications<br />
Center has one whole room dedicated to radio<br />
use by emergency groups of which ARES r i<br />
RACES are participating. RACES has inst~<br />
a packet station and on the roof a 2m antenna.<br />
ARES has an 80-40M trap dipole and a 2M<br />
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