News

One of our own Brent Yeates KA7FAP was intrumental in contacting Emergency Services durring a crash Wednesday December 2nd in Logan Canyon.
Here is a link to the story on the Herald Journal.
hjnews.townnews.com/articles/2009/12/06/news/news04-12-06-09.txt
Here is a link to the story on the Salt Lake Tribune.
www.sltrib.com/news/ci_13943897
And on the ARRL web site.
www.arrl.org/news/stories/2009/12/07/11235/
 

Our November club meeting is the BARC Elections for officers and board members for 2010.  All positions are open:  President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer and Board member. Please consider running for a club office or serving on a committee.
All members of BARC are eligible to vote and run for office. Please keep an eye out for the November Ohm Town News for the ballots, club bylaws and instructions.
Kay Hargis, N7KH, will talk about his DXing experiences, QRP and minimal station requirements, QSL cards, Logbook of the World and other DX topics. He holds awards for #1 DXCC Honor Roll, DXCC Mixed, DXCC Phone, DXCC CW, WAS, WAC, 5BDXCC, and others. He operates on HF, VHF, and UHF, using CS, Phone and digital modes.
Be sure to attend our club meeting this Saturday to learn what DXing is all about.
As always, refreshments and visiting with friends.

A new weather station had been added to our valley that is on APRS. Callsign is KF6RAL-3
It is located at the Sheriff's Office.
You can see the data by going to one of these links:
http://aprs.fi/weather/KF6RAL-3
http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/wxpage.cgi?call=KF6RAL-3
This is a NWS weather station installed by Ted AC7II and Tyler N7UWX
 
Check it out!

On November 6, The ARRL VEC announced that as of January 1, 2009, the fee to take an ARRL Volunteer Examiner (VE)-administered Amateur Radio license exam will increase by $1, from $14 to $15.  This is the first time in four years that the examination fee has been adjusted.
 
Read the full story at arrl.org.

Tonight (Thursday) we had an exam session for some of the folks in the Ham Class. We had 10 show up to take the exam, all 10 passed. Congratulations goes out to… Allen LeBaron Alan Parker Lucille Hadfield Linda Rasmussen Boyd Rowley Connie Rowley Randy Grover Tracy Cox Julie Thurston Kyle Mohlman We also need to add John Elsworth who drove to Kaysville several weeks ago and took the exam. I expect another 10 – 15 will take it on December 8th at our regular test session and a few may try for their general that have already passed. Thanks to Eric Larsen and Ted McArthur who helped me with the test session. Kevin Reeve N7RXE

I am trying another layout change based on the feedback from a couple new people to the site/club/area from the last club meeting. They said that it was hard to find out where the club meets or how to contact people. In the past I have gotten some flack over the layout not being as flashy as other club sites (PARC comes to my mind when they say that, and when I ask, that is usually the site they mean. I think there are two kinds of ham web sites. Those with background images, gif animations and blinking text, and those without.) In the past I had attempted to address the "You can't find anything without reading it all." observation by adding bold to key parts. Today I have expanded the main content of the "front page", officers and test session areas so that you do not need to click the "read more" link to see the full article. I have also re-arranged the information and added sub-section "headings" to those key articles and bullet lists of the links after the paragraphs. Hopefully this helps people zero in on what they are looking for when they don't want to read everything. I believe that this change unfortunately makes it so that the new news is pushed further down on each page, so that if you were going to the site to see the latest news, you now have to scroll down further to see it. This shifts the site away from keeping new news article lists front and center (like eHam.net, QRZ.com and ARRL.org do) to keeping the static sticky posts in the lime light. A work-around for this would be to use an RSS reader to track which stories you had read and which are new. If you use FireFox, there are many RSS plug-ins like Sage in addition to the live bookmarks feature.