When:	Meets every second Thursday of each month, Board Meeting every 2 Tuesday of the month.
Time:	7:00 P.M
Location:	First Lutheran Church of El Cajon 867 South Lincoln Ave. El Cajon, CA 92020
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Who is a Volunteer? Do you find yourself calm during Emergency situations? Do you think HAM stands for, Helping All of Mankind? Do you like to be in the Know? Do you like to help others in the time of need? Do you like to talk on the radio? If you answered YES to one or more, you’re a Volunteer. Amateur Radio wants your help. Volunteers Needed. Paul Rios KC6QLS Public Relations ARCEC, SANDARC & Past SDG PIC 2007
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Field Day 2009 Information

ARC of EC Executive Board Meeting
1st Tuesday @ 7:00 PM
Location: 222 West Madison Ave (Map & Directions)

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Digital Software

DigiPan | PSK31 Deluxe | WixW | Win PSK

NETS

Donut Net
Every Monday Night 19:00-20:00
Roll Call and Trivia Question
Net Control Operator: Axel KI6RRN
Freq. 147.420 Club Repeaters System

San Diego Digital VHF Net
Every Thursdays, at 8:00 p.m.
“Except the 2nd Thursday of each month”
PDT on 50.291 Mhz.
PSK31 mode.

Frito’s Wide Open Net
WA6BGS Repeater Tuesday Night 7:00
Freq. 147.420 Club Repeaters System
Bring your Chips and Dip, sit back and have fun!
OPEN TO ALL

Frito’s 10 Meter Net
Thursday Night at 7:00
Freq. 28.435 USB
OPEN TO ALL

WAMO Net
Wednesday and Saturday Nights
8:00 p.m. Local time
With Early Check-ins at 7:45
Freq. 147.420 Club Repeaters System

WAMO Freq.

Club Picnic

Saturday, September 12, 2009
09:00-14:00
Club Picnic at Lindo Lake County Park in Lakeside
The Picnic will officially kick off at 9:00am, but you can get there earlier if you'd like...we'll be there around 6:00am to grab the picnic tables and pavilion before someone else does.

The Club will provide left over Field Day Steaks, Hamburgers and Hot Dogs with all the fixin's, onions, water and soda.

What should you bring?
1. This picnic will be "Pot Luck", so bring your favorite side dish, salad or desert to share with Club members in attendance.
2. Lawn Chairs to sit in! There are lot's of picnic tables with benches, but they're not very comfortable to sit on for very long. At our Picnic on July 25th, we found that no one used the picnic tables to sit at...Please bring your own chair(s)!

The picnic will be under the "covered stage" in the North East corner of Lindo Lakes Park in Lakeside (look for our 100' communications tower and trailer). Live musical entertainment will be provided during lunch by Polo Navarro and the volume will be turned down this time.

To get to the Park, from El Cajon, take Hwy 67 north to Lakeside. When you reach the end of the Freeway (by the Lakeside "Rodeo" grounds), there will be a traffic light. That's Mapleview. Turn right and make an immediate right on "Maine Ave". Go straight on Maine to the third street on the left. That will be "Lindo Ln" (Woodside Ave turns into Lindo Ln on the east side of Maine Ave). Turn left at the first street you come to..that will be Park St and it will take you into Lindo Lakes Park. Our Club Picnic will be in the covered picnic area at the first turnoff on the right. If you go across the lake, you've gone too far. There's lot's of parking available along Park St near our Picnic area. If you are like me and depend on GPS to get you where you're going, the coordinates are:
Lat - N32 degrees 51.465'
Lon - W116 degrees 55.030'

We'll have "talk-In" on our WA6BGS Club repeater system and will be issuing WAMO #000 during the Picnic. We have repeaters on 2 meters, 1.25 meters (220MHz) and 70cm (440MHz) which will be linked together during the Picnic. For a list of our repeater frequencies, visit www.wa6bgs.org and click on the "Repeater" button on the left side of the "home" page. We'll also have our Tower Trailer set up at the park with both a VHF/UHF antenna as well a our Club 2 element Tri-Band Yagi (20 meters, 15 meters and 10 meters). If you want to "Get on the Air" at the Picnic, feel free to do so.

Looking for Members that would like to be in the Counterpoise Ham Spotlight

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General Class Theory Course
Instructor: Gordon, AE6QW
Location: First Lutheran Church of El Cajon
867 South Lincoln Ave.
El Cajon, CA 92020

House in the Back of the lot. MAP

Time: 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Text: ARRL’s

Sessions: March 10th
1 – 6 on Tuesday:

To enroll Contact: Mike Maston, N6OPH
Education Chairman
(619) 296-9067

ShakeOut Net is conducted by the El Cajon Amateur Radio Club. The
club information is:
A.R.C.E.C
P.O Box 50
El Cajon, CA 92022
www.wa6bgs.org Email: QuakeNet@Live.com (email expires 1
week after the net)

Silent Auction is for: August

Discone Antenna!

Opening Bid $25.00
Donated by: Gordon, AE6QW

Silent Auction Rules

• Auctioneer announces that He/She is holding a silent auction. He/She also posts what the item being bid on is and an optional minimum bid i.e. $20.00.

• Everyone that is participating in the auction privately writes down their WAMO number, Call sign , Name, and their Bid on the item. Then Hands it to the Auctioneer. The Auctioneer will then time code the bid and place it in the Silent Auction Box.

• Everyone is entitled to no more than (2) two bids per item. Only the first two bids from any participant will be valid. All bids must be deposited in the Silent Auction Box no latter than 10 minutes into the first meeting break. The bids are compared by the auctioneer and the highest bid is the winner. If there is more than one winning bid amount, than the lowest time code is the winner.

• The winner will be announced when we resume after break. Cash or check (payable to A.R.C.E.C.) must be paid in full prior to the end of the meeting the day of the Silent Auction. Auctioneer will then hand item(s) to the winner.

The auctioneer posts ONLY the person who won, the price, and time stamp if needed - so everyone knows that no scamming is involved.

We also are starting up some new things, Radio Clause, Fund Raisers, Rummage Sale, Crest Fire Safety Council, getting more involved in CERT.

Our News letter is called Counterpoise, and is free on-line and to all of our members. As you read it you will see that we have a lot of fun at our meetings. Every meeting we have a guest speaker talking about the fine art of Ham Radio.

We, also have three Repeaters up and running, 2 Meters, 200 MHz and 440 MHz. On the Repeaters we have WAMO nights every Wednesday and Saturday nights at 8 PM. We also have a Tuesday Rag Chew “Frito Corn Chip Net” at 7:30 PM. All nets are open to all Hams.

President ARCEC KC6QLS

Note from Membership Chair

Greetings from the El Cajon Amateur Radio Club!

Upon reviewing the Roster, I note that your membership has expired. We are having a membership drive through December 1, 2008. If you renew your ARCEC Membership and your dues are post marked on or before December 1, 2008, you will receive one ticket for the Early Bird Membership Drawing, which will be held at the Christmas Party on December 16, 2008 at the Home Town Buffet located on Main Street in El Cajon at 6:00 p.m. The rules for the Membership Drive and early bird drawing are on the website.

Would you please take a moment to complete the membership application, which can also be found on the website, and mail it and your dues to: ARCEC, Membership Chair, P.O. Box 50, El Cajon, CA 92022. Dues are $18.00 per year for an individual membership and $30.00 per year for a family membership.

As you know, the Counterpoise has gone on line and now everyone can receive it by email at the same time it is published. If you would like to receive the Counterpoise by email, please email me at kc6tbg@cox.net so I can add you to this list. This has saved the club a lot of money. If you still want to receive the Counterpoise by mail, please email me and let me know so I can add you to the mailing list or you can sign up on the mailing list at the meeting.

Lastly, due to the Counterpoise going on line, beginning January 1, 2009, everyone’s yearly membership dues will be due on December 31st of the proceeding year. This means that everyone’s dues for 2009 are due on December 31, 2008. If the dues you paid in 2008 extend in to 2009, you will pay prorated dues for 2009 based on the month your dues expire.

The El Cajon Amateur Radio Club sincerely hopes that you will renew your membership at this time and that you will continue to be an active member of our club.

73,

Ann Rios, KC6TBG
Membership Chair

ARCEC 2010 Membership Drive
September 1, 2009 to December 1, 2009
Dues can be paid at the Sept., Oct. & Nov. Meetings.
$18.00 for an Individual Membership
$30.00 for a Family Membership
And if you opt to receive the Counterpoise
by Mail Please add $18.00

Counterpoise is FREE by way of website!

Membership Form Please Click here PDF Format

Please fill out all! and print it and send it in!

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ARCEC 2009 Membership Drive Rules

1. The prize will be determined by the Board based upon the amount of dues collected, and the prize will be drawn at the Christmas Party;

2. The Membership Drive will begin September 1st and end December 1st;

3. All member renewal dues to be entered into the drawing must be received by the Membership Chair by December 1st and/or postmarked no later than December 1st;

4. Members who may have dues due prior to December 31, 2008 shall pay both the 2008 dues presently due in addition to the ARCEC dues for the following year by December 1st in order to be eligible to enter the Membership Drive Drawing;

5. Each member will only receive one ticket for the Membership Drive even if they pay the current years dues and the following years dues at the same time;

6. All Membership Drive tickets will be issued by the Membership Chair with a master list kept of each member paid and their ticket number;

7. As all future dues will be due on December 31st of each year, the Membership Drive will be held September 1st to December 1st of each year;

8. The Treasurer shall hold the dues collected for the following year in a separate fund clearly labled Membership Dues for the Year 2009

9. The Treasurer will include in his/her monthly General Membership Report the amount of dues collected each month of the drive (September, October and November);

10. The budget for the following year will be based on the amount collected in the Membership Drive;

11. The prize shall be up to a maximum of 10% of the total dues collected and shall be determined by the Board at the December Board Meeting based on the dues collected as of December 1st when the Membership Drive ends;

12. Once the prize is determined by the Board, it is non-negotiable and will be determined by drawing;

13. Only non-mutilated drawing tickets that are legibly marked with name and call sign will be eligible to win the drawing;

14. One ticket will be entered per membership renewal and/or one ticket will be entered for each new membership (individual and/or family) that joins during the dates of the Membership Drive;

15. While members do not have to be present at the Christmas Party Drawing, the winning member must retain and submit the other half of the winning ticket in order to claim the prize;

16. If the prize is not claimed by the winning member by the close of the January meeting, the prize will be redrawn from the tickets remaining in the Prize Can and the winning member would have to be present at the January meeting and present the other half of the winning ticket to claim the prize;

17. These Rules will be followed in subsequent years with any necessary modifications(s) to the Rules to be made by motion only at the February Board Meeting; and

18. The foregoing Rules for the Membership Drive will be posted on the Website