May 2013, Issue 5, Volume 61
Message from the editor
Benjamin Straw, KC9UNS Good morning, afternoon, or evening all UPCOMING EVENTS my fellow hams and skippers, its once Meeting again that time of month for me to write Lake Co ARC something! And hey! it looks like I have. LC Dept Homeland Sec Bld This months Short Skip is a little short from the norm, while still giving you May 1 08th @ 7:30pm everything you want and love. The reason for this is I have had a busy Hamfest month looking for a new QTH and I have Dayton Hamvention® 201 3 to say it isn't all that fun. A friend of mine "DX Hamvention" sent me one of those numbered joke lists and one of them struck home, “When May 1 7-1 9 201 3 shopping for a new vehicle the first thing is look for a space to mount the radios. You end up sitting in the front seat staring blankly at the dashboard area, feeling underneath seats, and poking around the back seat for ways to route the coax. If Contests caught looking under the hood for holes in the firewall for your power cables, you Indiana QSO Party tell your wife, "Nothing honey, just checking things under here." This also goes for May 4th 11 -5pm looking at new homes! I don't know how many houses I’ve looked at but most tend to have problems, other and including where to put an antenna. Net Anyway I hope you found the April fools joke within the last Issue! If you hadn't already guessed it the 1 F class used for Field day... was a joke! HEY speaking of LCARC Weekly Information Net club events on May 4th, LCARC will be participating in the Indiana QSO Party. Clubs VHF & UHF Repeaters This event will be held at the EMA field, located out and about the same location Every Thursday @ 8pm where we conduct our meetings... only yes outside but within LCEMA’s communications trailer “Big Blue”. We plan to set up around 1 0:30am and at 11 try to work as many indiana stations, states, and DX as possible till about 5pm, bands fall short, or when we call it quits. If you're unable to stop by, hit us up on the clubs repeater and we will let you know what frequency we are on. The INQP might still be head up and other stations will be looking for a QSO till 7pm, so spin that dial around the bands or hit up www.hdxcc.org/inqp/ on the web.
You might also notice that we have no birthdays to announce this month! We want to say happy birthday to each and every member, so please email us (kc9uns@gmail.com) your birth month, yep thats it just a month. On June 1 3th we will be hosting a fundraiser at Five Guys Burgers in Schererville, tell your friends and bring the whole family along, all you need to do is buy tasty burgers, and our club gets a portion of the takings of the night. Also I will be doing the clubs net from the parking lot of five guys, so if you want to see how I operate a net, stick around till 8pm. Speaking of nets why not check in and join the conversation with the LCARC Information net. We let you know about upcoming events like VE sections, special event stations, weekend contests, a ice breaker question that helps mic fright operators, and more. Join the fun every Thursday night at 8PM. Well my fingers are almost to the bone so I’ll end it here, I hope to see you at the next meeting May 1 2 or hear you on the net. 73, Benjamin Straw KC9UNS - Editor, Short Skip and Secretary, LCARC Inc.
In this Issue of Short Skip 2. LCARC Meeting Minutes 3. Meeting pics and Daton guild 4 - 6. Boston Marathon 201 3 – Bombs, Carnage and Amateur Radio Operators by Tim Carter, W3ATB 7. Breadboard Power supply and Choosing a vanaty callsign
ARTICLES N EEDED!!! If you have anything pertaining to amateur radio that you would like to contribute to, and share with others in Short Skip, we would be happy to include your offering in any future edition. Anything you would like. Hints and kinks, antennas, technical talk, operating tips, public service, classic radio, club activities, etc., would be heartily welcomed!!! All articles must be in by the 20th of every month. Copyright rules and permission apply to all submissions. Please send your submission to: KC9UNS / Short Skip Editor kc9uns@gmail.com I hope you enjoy this month’s Short Skip as much as I did putting it together!
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