Website Updates: Special Handbook Giveaway and a lot, lot more..

What’s inside..

- Handbook Giveaway

- Santa News

- DMR

- 2017 Ohio Section Newsletter Contest

- Getting this Newsletter

- Upcoming Hamfests

- Got Questions

- Final - Final

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SPECIAL - HANDBOOK GIVEAWAY

Now, if you haven’t already signed up for this very special Giveaway, time is running out quickly..!!

It's Christmas, and I'm in the Christmas Spirit for sure! This month we will be doing a very special giveaway just for Christmas. I'm not going to spill the beans on just what is going to be given out, but I will tell ya' that it's going to be more than just a 2017 ARRL Handbook!!

Just go to: http://arrlohio.org and look for the big red arrow on the left side of the page. Click on the arrow and complete the form, that's it! If you enter before 11:59pm December 24th, you'll automatically be entered for a second chance at a Handbook at the end of the month too! Yup, I'm going to give another Handbook out on New Year’s Day!!

What's the catch? There isn't any.. If you live in Ohio, all you have to do to be entered is to fill out the form. You'll even be emailed a copy of the completed form back to you as your confirmation that you're entered. It won't cost you anything!! And no, you don't have to be an ARRL member to participate! A new drawing is held each month, and in order to be eligible, you do have to enter each month. You can't win if you don't enter. So what have you got to loose!!

Please, only one submission per person. The first drawing will end on December 24, 2016 at 11:59pm EST and the second drawing will end on December 31st at 11:59pm EST.

The Christmas winners will be announced on Christmas morning - December 25th and you'll find out then what all the other prizes were. The next drawing for the 2nd Handbook will be announced on New Year’s Day. Each winner will be notified by email, so PLEASE use a valid email when completing the form, this is the only way I have of contacting you if you win.

73, and good luck to all.. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

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Santa Turns to Remote Operating to Boost Radio Coverage of North America

(From ARRL)

The word from Santa Claus World near the North Pole in Finland is that the elves at OF9X will try remote operating to generate more contacts in North America. So far, OF9X has logged more than 20,000 contacts, but only 1,200 of them have been with US radio amateurs.

“Efforts are continuing toward doubling that number, and more firepower is being added to the OF9X US script,” a statement said this week. “Santa will arrive on American soil, activating W1/OF9X from New Hampshire. When finally boarding his sleigh, he will say goodbye to America as W7/OF9X from Tacoma, Washington.

Working Santa from these two sites adds 25 points each to the Santa Award program, to compensate for Mother Nature’s poor propagation.” More information is on the OF9X QRZ.com profile.

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DMR.. Have we gotten you to look into this new (old) mode yet? I’ve been busy propagating the website with lots and lots of information about DMR. Please, go take a look at the website and see if it isn’t something that really is gonna’ be FUN for you to do. Here’s the link:

http://arrl-ohio.org/digital/digital.html

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2017 Ohio Section Newsletter Contest Rules Announced.. Hey editors.. If you haven’t seen the rules yet, go to: http://arrl-ohio.org/pic_page/pic.html and take a look. Don’t forget, you can’t be a part of this if you don’t share your newsletter. After all, what good is a newsletter if you don’t share it. Make sure that John Ross, KD8IDJ and I are on your mailing list.

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Upcoming Hamfests in Ohio..