North Fire Station
By the Hospital and Next to Colton’s
5pm ish if you want to eat
6pm for the regular meeting
Patrick Bolan with GE CHRON is on the program so
don’t miss.
General Exam Review Questions just for fun

Winter Field Day

Due to lack of interest, and only one RSVP, we are NOT REPEAT NOT going to set up for Winter Field Day at the North Fire Station.

February Club Meeting

We WILL HAVE our Club Meeting, that was canceled due to snow this month, on Thursday, February 13, at the Morrilton North Fire Station. The menu is still chili for our feed, starting at 5:00 with the meeting starting at 6:00.

The program will be the same as that planned for January.

The Club Meeting on 9^th of January was canceled due to weather. The first quarter meeting will be February 13, We will discuss all of the items that remain on our agenda. If John Evans can support February 13 we will still have his presentation. After the February meeting we will resume the usual schedule.

Next Meeting January 9th
North Fire Station
By the Hospital and Next to Colton’s
5pm ish if you want to eat
6pm for the regular meeting
John Evans will give the program so don’t miss.

Tomorrow night is the Petit Jean Mountain 2 Meter Net, please join me tomorrow night. Thursday night I WILL conduct the Simplex Net, it has been a week or two since I conducted one.

I hope you are all planning a great Christmas.

We shall see what Santa cooks up!

73s,

David

W5WUP

Next Meeting October 10th
North Fire Staton
By the Hospital and Next to Colton’s
5pm ish if you want to eat (Pizza)
6pm for the regular meetng

New Location! North Fire Station
By the Hospital and Next to Colton’s
5pm ish if you want to eat (Pizza)
6pm for the regular meeting
David Norris the ARRL Division Manager is tentatively scheduled
For our program

Once again, we are grateful to the city of Morrilton for the use of the North Fire Station. We began setting up around 10 am on Saturday. By 1:30 pm we had 4 stations and 4 antennas operational. 2 of the stations belonged to Chris Gimbert. We appreciate his set up and expertise. The other 2 stations were from the Conway County go box. We were able to add a long cat 4 cable to the head of the IC7100 radio so that station was well separated from the 7300 station.. We had a total of 18 people participate in our endeavor. It was good to see J. M. Rowe, the state ARRL emergency coordinator. We had a total of 136 QSOs. Our contacts were from a total of 32 states, 3 countries, 75 grids, 106 counties, and 43 ARRL sections.

by Steve Beavers
I have held off on making this post until I spoke with his family this morning. Yesterday, a little after noon, Conway County lost an icon. James (Mr. Jim) Taylor passed away at Conway Regional Hospital. He proudly served his country during the Vietnam War. He brought the skills he learned back to his home in Conway County and used them to benefit everyone he met. He served proudly with the Conway County Fire Department for many years and would do anything to help them until the day he passed. He was an integral part of Conway County Office of Emergency Management for more years than I can count. He served as our communications officer up until a few months ago when he finally admitted that he needed to slow down a little bit (He didn’t really slow down much). He was always ready to help any time anyone needed it. He made sure to monitor storms, and make sure everyone was ok. He was the driving force behind the Arkansas Diamonds Radio Group, where he served as a board member. He always tried to keep the group moving in the right direction and grow. He was the catalyst behind many of the big projects that the Arkansas Diamonds is rolling out. Mr. Jim, serve his country and his community well. He also served his friends. Mr. Jim never met a stranger. After a few minutes, he was your friend. And there was a good chance that he would hand you a study guide and try to recruit you into amateur radio. I was fortunate enough to not only work with Jim, but also be friends. He helped me through a few tough places lately. He was always there to give good advice. It may not have been advice I wanted, but it was the advice I needed. He would come to my office and say “Boss, I’m headed to lunch and bingo”, “Boss, it’s commissary day, do you need anything” or “Boss, I’m headed to Tucker Mountain, call if you need anything”. I know he always meant it. As he was headed to the hospital, he made sure that I knew he would not be at work the next day. I know, he didn’t want us to worry about him if he wasn’t at the office. I know I am one of many who has been touched by Jim’s love. The last text that I got from Jim, simply read “Love too all”. He truly meant it. Mr. Jim was a one-of-a-kind person; a person we should all strive to be. He will be missed by many. AF5EI, we’ll take it from here.