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SOUTHERN MICHIGAN AMATEUR RADIO SOCIETY
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SMARS will be
meeting at the
Masonic Temple
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OOPS
A Couple of Good Reasons to Cultivate a Good Relationship With Local Police
A couple of news items have been brought to my attention that deal with the relationship between amateur radio and the police. Gets me to thinking about what, if anything, I could do to improve the relationship between the ham community and our local police forces.
Police Detonate Ham Radio Equipment
Mistaken for Bomb, - KPTM-TV, Omaha,NE,USA
--- a midtown neighborhood briefly Thursday morning for what was originally thought to be a bomb, but in the end, it turned out to be ham radio equipment --- Maybe this should have been titled, "How to Make a Bang With Ham Radio".
Indianapolis Police Busted for Bootlegging
on 2m - TheIndyChannel.Com
Not only were the police using the amateur radio transceivers illegally, the radios were installed by police technicians AND they were using profane language on the air. Amazing.
Dan KB6NU
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DECISIONS
Sometimes a decision made in response to a problem can lead to another even greater problem. Such is the case with this years Crossroad Swapfest.
For years, the SMARS has held their swapfest on the third weekend in March. The most important reason for this is that Maumee also held their Swapfest on the third March weekend. SMARS has believed that by having our swap on the same weekend as Maumee has theirs, it would result in a greater chance of getting people to participate in both. To present a presence at a swap, a sales group needs to pack up material for sale, commit more workers than usual for that time (someone has to run the store while a staff is on the road) as well as taking care of housing and eating for the traveling group, It seems obvious that splitting the costs over a single weekend would be less expensive than two different weekends.
Overlooked was the effect of a basketball tourney, as it had never been a factor in prior years. This year the third weekend for Maumee is the second weekend for SMARS and the result is a conflict with basketball tourneys.
This means that we will need workers at Marshall during the afternoon to offload the tables and chairs and then late in the evening after the ball game we will need to be back at the gym to set up the tables. It appears that about 2:30 in the afternoon for the first period and then back in the evening at 9:30 or 10:00 for the setting up.
We need workers to help in all facets of the Swap. The Swapfest supports the activities of the club and need everyone to pitch in: sell tickets at the door, carry tables, whatever. A ten dollar membership doesn't go very far. We need the proceeds of the swap to function.
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ECHOLINKS
W8DF-R handled 111 connections during February. Nothing exotic shows in the logbook for the month.
I find a number of the stations showing up are new hams. I also find a large percentage have a connection to the Battle Creek area from the past. It appears that because Battle Creek is associated with the Echolink node, it is a drawing card. Kind of neat.
You should find the logbook at www.w8df.com if you have any interest as to who has been here.
Just a note-today, I picked up a call on our 224.24 repeater from CN8BH. He was mobile in the Kingdom of Morocco. Looking at the Echolink screen, I found only 1 station, a link, listed in Morocco. There are usually around 4500 stations worldwide on at any time.
Don W8RVT
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