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February QFQ submission deadline

Anyone with articles or other material for February’s QFQ should get them to me by Friday, January 25th. We’re going to try to get QFQ out on the 30th this month.
Many thanks!

CVARC officers can now post

I have added “Author” accounts for all CVARC officers. Let me know if you haven’t received an e-mail from me with your new username and password.
Look for the “Login” link at the bottom of the right-hand column on this page.

Williamstown Repeater Status

Things are looking good for this Saturday, 19 January, 2008. Not definite, but likely….

WordPress software upgrade

I upgraded CVARC’s w1bd.org site from WordPress version 2.3.1 to version 2.3.2, so the site might have looked a little strange for a few minutes this evening. The new version is apparently much more secure, so we amateur radioists in central Vermont will be able to rest easy….

Williamstown repeater status

On Tuesday afternoon, 8 January, 2008, CVARC’s W1BD Williamstown repeater on 146.625 MHz went off-line. Thanks to the gracious good will of Allen Wilde N1IOE, the CVARC nets usually heard on W1BD in Williamstown are being held on Allen’s repeater in Barre. Many, many thanks to Allen:

Frequency: 147.390 MHz
Offset +600 Hz
P/L tone: 100 Hz

Also, though […]

Ham radio breakfast on Saturday!

The annual Vermont Ham breakfast will be this Saturday, January 19th, at 9:00 AM until noon at the Lincoln Inn at the 5 Corners in Essex Junction.
The purpose of the gathering is for Vermont hams to great, meet, and eat. We had such a gathering last year and over 40 hams came out from all […]

Monthly club meeting: February 6, 2008

The February 6th meeting of CVARC will be held at the Steak House restaurant on the Barre-Montpelier Road (U.S. route 302).
A group of members and friends will gather for dinner at 5:30 p.m., then our president, Ken Blair KB1GPQ, will rap the gavel at 6:30 p.m. calling the session to order.
The Steak House is on […]

Happy news

Simon Anderson KB1PLI and Doreen Bessette KB1PLK have announced that they and young Owen are expecting another little “ham” to join their family. Hooray!

Sad news

We all at CVARC wish to extend our sympathy and support to Joe McKeon N1PTR, whose daughter Barbara passed away on Thursday at the Worcester Medical Center in Worcester, Mass.
Family and friends may call at the Pruneau-Polli Funeral Home, 58 Summer St., Barre, on Sunday, Jan. 6, 2008, from 7 to 9 p.m.
Contributions, in Barbara’s […]

Monthly club meeting: January 2, 2008

“Everything you always wanted to know about fox hunting, but were afraid to ask”
The January 2nd meeting of CVARC will be held at the Steak House restaurant on the Barre-Montpelier Road (U.S. route 302) — a new location for us!
A group of members and friends will gather for dinner at 5:30 p.m., then our president, […]