We have two club events that will be coming up in March.  The first is our annual participation in the Milford Winterguard which is on Saturday, March 8th.  Contact Bill, WS6K for more information.

Next, on the following Saturday, March 15th the Milford Amateur Radio Club will be having our annual club Birthday Party.  Our club was started in 1974, so this is our 34th year!

73, Steve K8JI

Here it is January 2008, already so I thought I would get back to work on this website!  I am currently going through some of the web pages to see what needs to be updated and will be working on doing that.

Any ideas or suggestions for content will be appreciated.

Steve, K8JI

By Barry Evans, AB8WI

Technician Classes!

MARC and Clermont Amateur Radio Emergency Services (CARES) will offer a license prep course for the Technician license.

If you have anyone in mind who you think would make a good Ham, please start working with them now to see if you can get them to take the class. Ninety-nine percent of our previous students have come from member recruitment, so let’s get busy folks. More Info

Pass the word on to people that you know that would be interested in getting their Technician license.

When: Classes: September 22 & 29, from 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Testing: October 4 at 7:00 PM

Where: Clermont County Emergency Operations Center

Contact: Barry Evans, AB8WI at Barry.Evans@RaymondJames.com

MARC will again be having Field Day this year at Barb and Bill Stewards house.  We will be operating as a class 3A station.  For directions to Barb and Bill’s house click here.

I look forward to seeing everyone there.

Provided by Barry Evans, AB8WI.

Here is a list of all the students with their respective call signs and license class.

Congratulations to these new hams.  When you hear them on the radio make sure you welcome them into the amateur radio community.

Daniel Brewer                 KD8FYR        Technician
Lisa Haynes-Henry          KD8FYU        Technician
Jerry Hurd                     KD8FYV        Technician
Glenn Simons                 KD8FYZ         General
William Strite                 KD8FYW        Technician
Sheila Warman               KD8FYX        Technician
Thanks to Lyle AB8SH, Rick AB8ON, Bill WD6ADM, Jack WB8RKY, and Bob Halley K8YMI for taking the time to instruct at this years class. Barry AB8WI, did an excellent job planning our annual Technician Class this year.

Tuskegee Airmen

The Milford Amateur Radio Club (MARC), is honored to have several (Lt. John Leahr, MSgt. Charles Westmoreland, Lt. Leslie Edwards’ Lt. Cmdr. David McTheeters, Captain Herb Heilbrun and Col. Maurice Adams) of the “Tuskegee Airmen” speak at our April 12th meeting.

President Bush just presented the Tuskegee Airmen the Congressional Gold Medal in a Ceremony on March 29, 2007.

More info: http://www.tuskegeeairmen.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Airmen

Thanks go to Chuck Beal, N8CJB who put this program together!

By Lyle Hamilton, AB8SH

MARC will again offer a license prep course for the Technician license. Barry AB8WI is doing a heck of a job with this and we have set dates and places as follows:

Last day to register: Friday, March 9

Class Orientation: Saturday, March 10th at the Milford City Building, City Council Chambers from 10:00AM to 12:00PM

Class Days: Saturday, March 24th & Sunday March 25th at the Milford City Building, City Council Chambers from 9:00AM to 4:00PM both days

Club Sponsored VE Session: Tuesday, April 10th at Sporty’s Pilot Shop, located at the Clermont County Airport in Batavia. Exams begin promptly at 7:00PM

If you have anyone in mind who you think would make a good Ham, please start working with them now to see if you can get them to take the class. Ninety-nine percent of our previous students have come from member recruitment, so let’s get busy folks. More Info

MARC is sponsoring a class for those that are interested in upgrading to General class. The class starts Wednesday February 14th, 2007.
The location will be announced as soon as the site is confirmed. For further details, please contact Chuck at cjbeal@fuse.net

By Lyle Hamilton, AB8SH

The Birthday Day Party will be held Saturday, March 10th, at the Fireman’s’ Hall in Milford just as in previous years, BUT, reservations must be made in advance. We will have a small number of extra portions available, but not many, so we’d love to have you, but we should be expecting you! If you have not made your reservation for the party, please contact Vice President Chuck, N8CJB as soon as possible. Prices are the same as last year, $9 for adults, $5 for children.

Jim Weaver, K8JE, our ARRL Great Lakes Divsion Director, will be our featured presenter at our February 8th meeting.

Jim will talk about:

“The changes I will discuss relate to shuffling the Field and Educational Services Department, and the Membership Services Department to form essentially one department while splitting the regulatory services area into another department. These changes should greatly facilitate getting things in Field Services, Education, DXCC, LoTW, contesting and the like into a much more supportive and facilitative role for our members. The same is true of shifting the Regulators Affairs group so it reports directly to Dave Sumner. For example, if people are wondering who will take on the role previously filled by Wane Mills as our DXCC guru, folks will find out and, I believe, be pleased.”