Website Updates: Handbook Give Away

Have you seen the NEWEST “Handbook Giveaway” drawing on the website yet? It’s there, and it’s fast drawing to an end for this month. You have until midnight Monday, October 31st to get registered.. All you need to do is fill in a couple of boxes on the form.. (your name and email). Where do you find this at? Go to: http://arrl-ohio.org/ and look for the big RED arrow on the left side.. There’s nothing else required (Oh.. You do need to be a resident of Ohio to win..) The winner will be mailed the Handbook at my cost. This is being offered just to see how many folks are really checking in on the website.

Got the idea?

Best of luck to you!!

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Ohio Amateurs in Action..

Hey Gang.. It was suggested that we have a photo gallery of our Ohio Amateurs in action. So, we now have a photo gallery just for this.. You can find it at:

http://arrl-ohio.org/action_pics/action.html as well as there is a link to this page right from the main page of the Ohio Section website..

These pictures can include any special event, activity and so forth that your ARES or Club has done.. I’m sure you get the idea. Send your pictures to me at: n8sy@n8sy.com and include a brief explanation of the event and I’ll get the pictures added to the gallery.. I’ve already got the pictures from “Convention Week” and the Mahoning Disaster Drill.. I’m looking for great new pictures that I might be able to use in the next Ohio Section Banner, so make sure that you get your pictures to me.. I want a great representation of ALL of the Ohio Section.

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OHIO SPEAKERS BUREAU

Tom Sly, WB8LCD is continuing to collect information on club presentations and is always on the look-out for speakers that are willing to help out and do their presentations for clubs around the Ohio Section.

You don't necessarily have to travel. With the technology of today, you could easily do a webinar, Google Hangouts, or Skype presentation right from the comforts of your own shack. Bob Heil, K9EID does this all the time! You might be surprised just how easy this really is now days.

If you've had or conducted an interesting presentation at a club meeting in the last 12 months, please send an email to Tom. He would like to know:

1) The topic or the name of the presentation,

2) The name and call sign of the presenter,

3) The name and location of the club,

4) Do clubs usually have interesting presentations (Y/N),

5) Has your club ever had a presentation done over Skype or some other internet service?

Tom stresses that he would like this information from all club members - not just club officers! You can email Tom at: tomsly29@gmail.com

Your participation in this program will benefit all the clubs in the Ohio Section.

Our goal is to see this list grow. The more presenters we have on the list, the more interesting your club meetings will be.

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>> Traffic Nets Serving Ohio <<

It seems that there were a few errors in my first attempt at posting these nets. So, after getting some additional updates from all of you, here we go with what I hope is an accurate listed of some of the nets around the state..

** Ohio Local Nets **

Burning River Traffic Net (BRTN), 9:30 PM daily, 147.150 MHz, W8DJG manager http://www.qsl.net/brtn/

Central Ohio Traffic Net (COTN), 7:15 PM (19:15), daily, 146.970 MHz (Columbus RPTR), KD8TTE manager http://www.cotn.us/

Miami Valley Traffic Net (MVTN), 7:00 PM Mon, Thurs, Sat, 146.640 MHz, KC8HTP manager

Northwest Ohio ARES Net (NWOHARES), 6:30 PM, daily, 146.610 MHz, PL 103.5, N8TNV manager

Tri-County Traffic Training Net (TCTTN), 9:00 PM Sun, Tues, Fri, 147.015 MHz, KI8U manager http://tricountytraffic.net/

Tri-State Amateur Traffic Net (TATN), 8:00 PM daily, 146.670 MHz, PL 123.0, WG8Z manager http://www.tatn.org/

** Ohio Section Nets **

SSB

Ohio Single Sideband Net (OSSBN), 10:30 AM, 4:15 PM and 6:45 PM daily, 3.972.50 MHz, KC8WH manager http://ossbn.org/

Buckeye Net (Early), BN-E, 6:45 PM daily, 3.580 MHz, WB8YLO manager

Buckeye Net (Late), BN-L, 10:00 PM daily, 3.590 MHz, WB9LBI manager

Ohio Slow Net (OSN), 6:00 PM daily, 3.53535 MHz, W8OLO manager

For the latest Section Traffic Monthly Report go to: http://arrl-ohio.org/stm/stm.html

** DMR NET **

Ohio Statewide Net meets on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday night at 8:30pm local on the Ohio Talk Group

Kentucky Statewide Net meets every Thursday night at 8pm local on the Kentucky Talk Group

** Ohio HF Digital **

OHDEN will meet 3585 USB

OLIVIA 8/500/PSK31 alternate, with MT63 1K for bulletins. Frequency: 3585Khz, 7072KHz alternate.

MT63 2K on VHF/UHF with PSK as an alternate (Assigned locally)

HF Digital Net Manager:

Eldon E. Peterson, W5UHQ

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Are you getting those emails from me? If not, all you have to do is to “Opt-In” to receive them.

Heck, just send me an email at: n8sy@n8sy.com

I’ll get you added to the mailing list. There’s a link to do this on the Ohio Section website, it’s on the bottom left corner.. For your convenience, here’s a direct link to it: http://arrl-ohio.org/forwarder/forwarding.html I urge all of you to make sure that everyone, regardless of whether they are a League member or not, get signed up for one of these options. You can always “Opt-Out” at any time if you feel this is not what you were expecting.

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>> Amazon Smile <<

If you weren’t aware, you can donate to the ARRL every time you make a purchase on Amazon. That’s right, all you have to do is sign up for Amazon Smiles and you will donate “without any additional charges to you” to the ARRL. For every dollar you spend on Amazon, every person signed up for this option will automatically donate a percentage of their purchases to ARRL. It won’t add any costs to you. Please, take advantage of this great program and donate to the ARRL by simply signing up for it..

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Upcoming Hamfests in Ohio..

11/05/2016 | GARC Hamfest
Location: Georgetown, OH
Sponsor: Grant Amateur Radio Club

12/03/2016 | Fulton County Winter Fest

Location: Delta, OH

Sponsor: Fulton County Amateur Radio Club Website: http://k8bxq.org/hamfest

01/15/2017 | Sunday Creek Amateur Radio Federation Hamfest

Location: Nelsonville, OH

Sponsor: Sunday Creek Amateur Radio Federation

Website: http://www.scarfarc.com

01/29/2017 | TUSCO Amateur Radio Club Hamfest

Location: Strasburg, OH

Sponsor: Tusco Amateur Radio Club

Website: http://tuscoarc.org

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** RNC / NAACP Conventions **

Want to read about what we did during the July “Conventions” week? Grab the October issue of CQ MAGAZINE! We have a big report coming out in the October edition of the Ohio ARES activities during RNC / NAACP Conventions! The editors of CQ were very impressed with your work and grabbed the story and photos we contributed! Nice work, again, everybody!!

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