President's Message

Hello Everyone,

Hope this finds everyone well and happy. It seems that I was bitten by the enthusiasm bug at our last meeting and wanted to get a lot of things started and moving. However I may have been a little to hasty for some of the things I would like to do. For that I apologize and will try to keep myself reined in at future times. One of the things that I jumped at to soon was the class. It will be next to impossible to pull that one off in such a short period of time so I would like to table that for a little while so we can become better prepared when a time is chosen. I am sorry for any inconvenience this will cause. I do appreciate those who were willing to try anyway.

On a brighter note things are really booming with this hobby of ours. The new rules are sure causing a lot of excitement and it is really fun to see things happening at the pace they are.

HF is enormous fun and with all the new people that are going to be hitting the air in just a few days it is going to be great. Just a note of encouragement to anyone who might be thinking about it, the reward for suffering through the 5wpm code is really worth it!!! Good Luck !

73 to all Von KA7ERC

March Minutes

March meeting was held at the home of Cliffton and Jackie Southam. We appreciate the use of their home.

Sixteen members and one visitor attended. All Club officers were in attendance.

Field day was discussed. It was decided that we would hold Field Day at the same location as last year, Wandin campground. Wandin is located approximately 3 miles up Uintah Canyon.

There will be a weenie roast on Friday night, for those who go up early. Saturday night will be the traditional potluck dinner. Lowell and Louise have agreed to cook one of their infamous turkeys again. The possibility of a testing session was discussed. If there is enough interest and enough volunteers we can do that.

In preparation for field day, our next club meeting will be held at 6:00pm on April 15th at the home of Von and Nancy Johnson. We will have a potluck dinner and work on the trailer and generator. A testing session will also be held in conjunction with club meeting. The testing session will start at 4:00pm at the ambulance shed in Roosevelt. Anyone wishing to do the paper portion of their upgrade needs to bring photocopies of their license and csc form.

If you need directions to Von's house you can call him on the radio and he will talk you in.

The Vernal Triathalon is scheduled for sometime in August. We still have not received any other information.

A float for the UBIC was also discussed. If you are interested in helping with the float please contact a member of the presidency.

Classifieds

This is a new section to the newsletter. It is intended to be used to buy or sell any radio equipment that you have or are in need of. You can submit your ad to the editor.

• Gary Freestone has a top of the line HF Rig, it's a Yaesu FT1000. It is one year old and has had very little use. It has a heil 2 element mic and all the radio filters. The asking price is $2400.

• He also has two, 2meter beam antennas. The asking price is $30.00 each.

If you are interested in any of the above you can contact Gary at 435-789-7017 or his call sign is KF7G.

TEN WAYS TO KILL AN

ORGANIZATION

1. Don't go to the meetings.

2. If you do, go late.

3. If the weather doesn't suit you, don't think of going.

4. If you do attend a meeting, find fault with the work of the officers.

5. Never accept an office; it is easier to criticize than to do things.

6. Get mad if you are not appointed on a committee, but if you are, do not attend committee meetings.

7. If asked by the president to give your opinion on some matter, tell him you have nothing to say.

8. After the meeting tell everyone how things should have been done.

9. Do nothing more than absolutely necessary, but when other members use their ability to help matters along, howl out that the organization is run by a clique.

10. Hold back your dues or don't pay at all.

Borderline News

Printed and mailed monthly to Borderline Amateur Radio Club Members. Articles from members are solicited and encouraged.

Submit them to the editor at the following:

Debbie Johnson KC7MGB

450 West Lagoon 46-14

Roosevelt, UT 84066

Ph. 435-722-2748

e-mail kc7mgd@ubtanet.com

April 15th test sessions

from W5YI Report dated March 1, 2000

Judging from the number of Tech Plus and Advanced Class applications that are showing up at VE sessions these days to take Element 3(B) and 4(B) (but not the code), it appears that VE teams everywhere are going to be super busy on and after April 15th.

April 15th is a Saturday and that's the day most VE teams are scheduling an examination session. But few exams will be given. Instead, VE teams will be collecting CSCE's so that applicants can upgrade to more HF privileges. They will simply check the correct license box and attach an CSCE.

VE teams report that the number of applicants showing up at VE sessions has increased ten fold since the first of the year! They want to pass the current examinations before the new pools go into effect. Most examinees seem to be totally unaware that, for the most part, the new exams are actually constructed from the exact word-for-word questions that are in the various current question pools.

A tech plus operator taking the current (General written) Element 3B will qualify for the new General class without further examination when they present their CSCE for Element 3B to a VE team at an exam session on or after April 15th.

Likewise, an Advanced Class operator taking the current (Extra Class Written) Element 4B will qualify for the new Extra Class without further examination when they present their CSCE for Element 4B to a VE team at an exam session on or after April 15th.

Since a General Class operator would have to pass both the current Element 4A (Advanced) and 4B (Extra) to qualify for the new Extra Class (a total of 90 questions selected from 1,022 questions), most are electing to wait until April 15th to take the new Element 4 since only one 50 question examination (from a pool of 676 questions) will be required.

A No Code Technician may take the current Element 3B (General written) examination without first taking the 5wpm code exam. The CSCE for 3B may be used as Element 3 credit for one year during which time the applicant would have to pass Element 1 (5 wpm).

Many Technician operators are passing the 5 wpm code in hopes of upgrading to HF privileges. The number of Techs moving up to Tech Plus has doubled in January and February.

"Frequency"

from W5YI Report

Be on the lookout for a science fiction movie called "Frequency" which features Amateur Radio and a ham transceiver that has the ability to receive and make transmissions back in time.

It is about Frank Sullivan - a New York City firefighter - and his son (John) who shares his fathers passion for baseball and ham radio. A warehouse fire takes Frank's life when John is just six years old.

Thirty years later, John - now a New York City homicide detective, hears a voice over his ham radio talking about the Amazin' 1969 Mets but loses the signal. The next night he hears a young boy calling to the man and the man calls him "Little Chief" - the same nickname John was called by his father.

John realized that he is speaking to Frank Sullivan, his long dead father. Just before the final blast of static, John is able to save his father's life by telling him how to survive the warehouse fire, the fire that will kill him tomorrow Oct. 12th, 1969.

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Club Officers

Von Johnson, KA7ERC, President

Lee Turner, KK7SI, Vice President

Jay Hansen, KA7BPB, Treasurer

Debbie Johnson, KC7MGB, Secretary

Board of Directors

Jay Hansen KA7BPB

Jerry Goodrich N7JCP

Chandler Fisher W7BYU

Net Manager

Lee Turner KK7SI

Repeater Frequencies

Blue Mountain 147.10+

Tone 136.5

RX 449.700

TX 444.700

Tabby Mountain 147.24+

Tone 136.5

Duchesne 147.26+

Bruin Peak 147.32+

Tone 88.5

Grizzly Ridge 147.04+

Tone 136.5

Roosevelt 145.49-

Tone 136.5