Wide Area Amateur Radio Network An Open Network, An Open Club

The next WAARN club meeting is Sunday, September 19, 2010, 1700 hours (5:00PM) at the Sanford Town Hall Annex, 3rd floor Council Chambers.

The Sanford Town Hall is on Main Street (State Route 109) near the Washington Street intersection, use the parking lot behind the annex accessed from Roberts Street. Roberts Street is right beside Dunkin' Donuts in the center of town.

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Get your items for the agenda to Secretary Jen, W0RMI as soon as possible! She can be reached by clicking the Contact Us link to the left and selecting Meeting Agenda Items from the pull-down list.

Hope to see you there!

Thanks to all who participated in Field Day 2010.

** UPDATED **

We operated as W1R and preliminary review of the data shows we logged a total of 522 reportable contacts in the event period.

Please see the report below for a list.

The years come and go so fast it is amazing. It seemed like just yesterday it was wintertime and I was thinking about preparations for Field Day, and here we are, it has come and gone. What a great field day it was. The weather cooperated, there was a good turnout from the club, and we beat our count from last year. Our chief cook Bill KB1CAT did an outstanding job with the meals and I have some continuing benefits from his work in my refrigerator. :-) I brought my TS-2000 and power supply and the rig was connected to a longwire and it worked great. I will have pictures up on my website within a few days. The website is www.w1mwb.com. If you see last years pictures and videos I haven't updated the field day page yet. I should have it done by the end of the week. Events like this remind me of what a great hobby we have and how awesome it is to be part of WAARN.

The following link provides a helpful tutorial on how to attach connectors to coaxial cable:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1nabA6yMoI&feature