Field Day coming in June

W4BBB RACK Field Day video from Knoxville, TN

Field Day is an annual event held throughout the US where Ham Radio Operators demonstrate emergency radio communications. This year, RACK Field Day will be June 23rd & 24th 2012 at Fort Dickerson Park. Whether or not you have a Ham license or even a RACK membership doesn't matter. This event is open to anyone interested in amateur radio. For more information contact Steve Brummette w4zj@arrl.org or 865-216-0226. For a Field Day site close to you visit: http://www.arrl.org/field-day-locator. We hope to see you there this year!

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Joe Meighan, KB4REC
RACK President

May Meeting

The May meeting will be on May 17, 7:00pm at Wallace Memorial Baptist Church. Our guest speaker will Mr. Ken Weathers , meteorologist for WATE-TV6. He will be speaking on severe weather and Skywarn weather spotters. Also on our agenda will be discussing our Comm Van. It has had a substantial amount of work done on it, but we will be having many things to do if we have it presentable by the Hamfest.

The other item of business for the May meeting will be a report by our Nomination Committee which is composed of myself as immediate past President, Bill Reneud, WR4MS and Jim Snyder, AJ4NO. We have put together a group of potential board member that we believe will work well for the club in the next year. The slate for board members is as follows: Proposal From Nomination Committee The nomination committee has the following recommendation for the Board of Directors to be voted on at the June 2012 meeting. Nominations are as follows: President, Joe Meighan, KB4REC 1st Vice President, Jim Norman, N4CFB 2nd Vice President, Steve Brummett, W4ZJ 3rd, Vice President, Jack Creed, K4EPC Education Officer, Willard Sitton, W4HZD Public Information Officer, Dave Garner, K4YRK Treasurer, Bill Renaud, WR4MS Secretary, Jim Snyder, AJ4NO Hamfest Chairman, Lou Dreinhoefer,W3JKQ

Nomination Committee: Jim Norman, N4CFB, Immediate Past President Bill Renaud, WR4MS, General Membership Jim Snyder, AJ4NO, General Membership

I look forward to seeing all of you at our May meeting, Keep our military troops in your prayers.

Jim Norman, N4CFB 1st Vice President

April Membership Meeting

Hello Fellow Amateurs,

Our April meeting will be held in the parking lot at Wallace Memorial Baptist Church, weather permitting. We will be working on our communications van and assisting anybody that needs help with some antenna project, soldering connectors on coax. Bring your thoughts on getting this project ready to be functional, and also ready to help install some equipment. I will try to have the van at the church by 6:00pm.

See you then,

Jim, N4CFB

Club Picnic

Picnic – This Sunday April 15th from 1 to 4 pm at Douglas Dam Overlook. Bring a salad, side dish, or desert to share. Club furnishes drinks and grilled meat. This also a great time to bring items to demo or swap. Hope to see you there

March 15th Club Meeting

Hello Fellow Amateurs,

Our March meeting is this Thursday, March 15, 7:00pm @Wallace Memorial Baptist Church, Merchants Drive, Knoxville. Our guest speaker is Mr. Ken Weathers, meteorologist at WATE-TV6. He will be discussing weather related subjects in typical storm season time of the year. On another note, we plan on having our "new to us" van on display for all to view. We hope this will get the ideas started and then members will participate in getting this project to a usable comm vehicle in a short time. There is alot of work to be completed and hopefully you will donate time, money, and components to the project. It a opportunity for RACK to have fun while supplying a very useful communications tool for our community.
I look forward to seeing you at the meeting,

Jim, N4CFB