News
Next meeting is on Saturday August 21 2010
Meeting is at Heisey's Diner, North of Lebanon, Rt 72
Amateur license testing begins at 7:30 am.
Breakfast meeting begins at 8:00 am.
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"Fox Hunt" Transmitter Location Detection Training
South Hills Park, Lebanon, PA
Saturday, July 31, 2010 - 2 pm
This will be a practice session to prepare for the upcoming EmComm drill in September. Radio direction finding equipment is not required to participate. Please bring along a pencil, a ruler and a magnetic compass for map plotting. For more information, email Bob KB3QAQ at kb3qaq@arrl.net.
National "Night Out' - August 3, 2010
Our club will again set-up a display radio station at the Cornwall, PA, Night Out event. Any person interested in ham radio is urged to stop by and say hello. Club members are requested to help man the display. The event runs from 5pm to 9pm. Set-up begins at 4:30pm. Tear down begins at dusk. Free food will be available as in past years.
South-central Pennsylvania Anti-Terrorism Task Force
Emergency Communications Drill
Saturday, September 25, 2010
This drill will be conducted in Lebanon County. It will involve the use of radio direction finding set-ups to locate hidden transmitters throughout the county. An information update will be given at our next monthly meeting. Amateur radio operators wishing to participate should contact Mr. Ron Small via
email at wb2oob@arrl.net.
"FIRST LICENSE TRAINING"
Amateur
Radio TECHNICIAN License Class
Saturday July 10 thru Sunday July 11,
2010
This training was
held at the Lebanon chapter of The American Red Cross office in Lebanon. Nine persons attended the weekend classes. Seven passed the Technician test on Sunday. One of these students upgraded to the General class license by taking a test at our monthly breakfast meeting six days later. Our thanks to Ron Small and his associates for bringing more people into the ham radio community.
Any person seeking information about future classes must contact Mr. Ron Small via
email at wb2oob@arrl.net.
Lebanon Community Days
On Friday June 11th and Saturday June 12th, an information display was set up in the Lebanon Valley Mall during their annual Lebanon Community Days. The mall management uses this occasion to allow Lebanon county non-profit organizations to promote themselves and present their activities to the community. Our club display was staffed by Bob - AB3GF and Dave - WA3GPM. We greatly appreciate their continuing efforts to promote our club and the amateur radio hobby.
Memorial Day Parade in Lebanon
On Monday, May 31st, the LVSRA provided communications for the City of Lebanon's Memorial Day Parade. We would like to thank the following members who gave their time to support the community and our local military veterans at this event.
Bill - K3BFD Ed - N3JOX Roy - KN3H Bob - AB3GF
Bob - KB3QAQ Greg - KB3UAF Nate - KB3TCG Doug - W3DL
Thank you all for the fine job you did representing our club in the community.
INTERNATIONAL "FIELD DAY" WEEKEND
AMATEUR RADIO DEMONSTRATION
Saturday June 26th - Sunday June 27th
South Hills Park - Lebanon, PA
PUBLIC INVITED
Thanks to everyone who helped out, operated and just stopped by to have some fun. We appreciate your support of the AARG and LVSRA clubs.
A special thank you goes to Jo Ellen Litz, Lebanon County Commissioner, who visited us on Saturday. She talked to the people at Field Day and video taped her visit. The video can be found on YouTube.
ATTENTION USERS OF THE ARRL'S
2010 - 2011 REPEATER DIRECTORY
The PL tone listed for our UHF repeater
447.675 (-) is incorrect. The correct tone is 141.3.