SWAOG Astronomy Net (03/18/10)

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Let's call for short time check-in, N9Y8.

KC-9CXT in Burbank, short time.

I got the KC-9, what is your suffix, over?

Uh, Charlie X-Ray Tango.

Okay, KC-9, Charlie X-Ray Tango, thank you for checking in.

Uh, let's call for short time check-in.

Okay, I'll take regular check-in.

And?

Any regular check-ins?

If you have traffic, let me know if you have traffic.

If you do not have traffic, and you hear somebody talk about something, and you want to put your two cents worth in,

go ahead, and just say V-Check, your call sign, and you have traffic, and you'll be recognized, and the order is to be received.

Uh, are there any regular check-ins?

Net Control.

N9 Romeo, I'm protecting you.

Okay, so I want to check in here, and just listening, and, uh, thank you on the Net Control.

7-3-0, I'll be listening.

Okay, Bob, I got your call sign down as soon as you keyed up there.

I know where I'm located right now.

It's just not good enough for me to get into that repeater.

If it was a different, if I could get to that repeater a little bit better, that would be a different story.

I'm just being on the Net Control, too.

Uh, are there any other check-ins?

No.

Hey, Keith, good evening to you and everyone else on the Net.

Please check in WD-9GVU.

Jeff in Lombard with a tiny bit of traffic.

Uh, this is KC-9DSN.

Uh, Mark here in Burbank tonight.

Uh, a little bit of traffic here.

Okay.

Hey, Whiskey Delta 9, Golf 50 Uniform, Jeff.

Yeah, I got some traffic for you, Jeff, there, too.

So, uh, that concerns, uh, Pizza Party.

Um, so, it's all good news, Jeff.

It's all good news.

And KC-9DSN.

Uh, there are no other regular check-ins.

Yeah, another call for regular check-ins.

If there aren't any regular check-ins, I'll go with Mark.

Hi, Silver Report.

N9YA.

Uh, Net Control.

N9XUX.

Mike and Dalton checking in.

No traffic.

November 9.

X-ray.

Uniform.

X-ray.

Okay.

N9X-ray.

Uniform.

X-ray.

Once again, the survey question.

If you could go back in time and correct one thing you did at the Amateur Astronomer,

either not do it or do it with a nudge,

which you have now, what would that one thing be?

Let's see if I get any takers on this one.

Um, okay.

Uh, I'll just stand by one more time for check-ins.

If not, I'll give my solar report.

Okay, hearing none, this is the solar report.

This is from the National Institute of Standard Time Technology.

WWV out of Fort Collins, Colorado.

Hello.

And you can get this on 2.5, 5, 10, 15, 20 megahertz AM on HF bands,

8 to 10 minutes past the hour, spaceweather.com.

We probably have a more or better description,

and there are, there's a phone number you can call.

The solar flux in A index, that's an alpha,

by yesterday's number, solar flux 86.

The K index.

That's the A index, which measures geomagnetic disturbance,

is 5, that goes up to 400.

And let me see, okay.

And so the K index is actually 8 periods of the K index,

which is of still 100 hours today, um, actually tomorrow.

And that is 2, that goes up to 9.

Spaceweather, no spaceweather for the current or next 24-hour period.

And you can also use the solar flux numbers to determine

if solar observing, that's why I put it out there,

is possible so you can see what any, any interesting stuff there.

First quarter moon is April, no excuse me, March 23rd.

March 23rd is the first quarter moon.

Are there any other check-ins?

Okay, that'll be a D9JBU, so 30 seconds.

I called up Connie's Pizza, and I got directions there, so I know where I'm going.

So I'm going to actually catch the 420 train and spend some time walking around beautiful downtown Westmont before I head up there.

So I'll be with Keith, Delta 9JBU, WD9JBU, and then Y8S12, go ahead.

Okay, very good, Keith, WD9JBU.

Jeff and Lombard here.

Good evening to you and everyone on the net.

Very good, glad to hear it.

And, yeah, it's my only traffic, actually, is we are all set for the SWAOG pizza party.

And looking forward to seeing everyone there.

This event was set for preregistration only, and so the registration deadline has passed.

So, but we are a go.

I've made the final call to the establishment.

And we are all set up.

We are all set up.

We are all set up, ready to go.

So start time is 7 p.m.

They're going to, I think they're going to serve salad around 7.15 or so for about 20 to 30 minutes, and then they'll serve the pizzas.

So looking forward to it.

So that's my only traffic.

Looking forward to seeing everyone at the SWAOG pizza party.

So, back to net control from WD-9GBU.

Okay, N-9-Y-A, net control.

By the way, can somebody check on the web page there, see if there's any e-mail check-ins?

I would appreciate it.

Are there any of the check-ins for the SWAOG that's starting in the net?

KiloCharlie-9, November Whiskey Echo.

I got KiloCharlie-9, now it's a little bit too fast for me.

What is the suffix?

That's KiloCharlie-9, November Whiskey Echo, located in Woodridge.

Okay, KC-9NWE.

Are there any other check-ins?

Keith, I do have a couple e-mails for you.

When you're done, I'll be right back.

When you're ready, WD-9GBU.

Go ahead, N-9-Y-A.

Very good, WD-9GBU here.

And before I go with the e-mail check-ins, let me say it's a gorgeous, beautifully clear night out tonight.

So, I'm going to zip through these e-mails, and I'm actually going to step outside and do a little quick observing.

I just stepped outside.

I stepped out, put my head out the back door, and wow, gorgeous night.

So, take advantage of it, and do a little observing in tonight.

First one, first e-mail check-in is from our friend, Scanner Dave.

He says, hello, SWAG.

You can check me in for tonight.

No traffic.

Did come across an interesting trivia question, though.

What are...

Lagrangian points?

Maybe I'm mispronouncing it.

And then he gives the answer at Wikipedia.

He gives it a link, which I can pull up and get the answer.

If you want to use that as a trivia question.

What are Lagrangian points?

L-A-G-R-A-N-G-I-A-N.

Lagrangian points.

And then that was from Scanner Dave.

Next e-mail check-in is from Scanner Chuck.

He says, hi, gang.

Please check in.

Scanner Chuck from Bridgeview.

No traffic.

Just listening.

Hope to see everyone at the pizza party.

So, there's your two e-mail check-ins so far for tonight.

Back to NetControl from WD9GBU.

Hello.

Can you...

So, if you're going out observing, maybe I can't too much lie here.

The survey question, if you could go back in time and change just one thing,

either not do it or change it using the notch you have now,

what would that one thing be?

Yeah, I thought about that, Keith.

And I think my answer would be I should have never sold my meat 390.

I had a meat 390.

I had a meat 390 telescope some years ago.

And I sold it.

And I was sort of sorry I did.

So, there's my answer.

I'll give my answer now.

Yeah.

My thing is buying those two big telescopes from Aldi, not because of the problems I had with the mounts.

I could have lived with that.

But with my vision and me not driving, I should have thought at a time about how to transport them and store them.

If I had it my way, I'd go back and buy telescopes, but I'd buy small ones I could store easily

and just, you know, transport somebody else's vehicle when they're loaded down with other stuff there.

So, if those are nice telescopes, I could have lived with the mounts.

But thinking about it, they're kind of big to store and kind of big to transport.

And that was one main mistake I made, buying those big ones.

It's hard to store and hard to transport.

This is a 9YA, Danny Jackins.

Okay, KC9DSN.

Mark.

I'm sorry, Mark.

Close the traffic at 9YA.

Thank you, Keith.

Yeah, it is a beautiful night out there to do some observing, that's for sure.

11.

I'm going to have to suffer from some severe allergy crap the last couple of days.

My eyes are so watery, I don't think I can look through a telescope right now and be able to focus.

But anyway, I'm on my traffic.

Actually, earlier in the week, you know, we've had this cloudy weather, this garbage weather for so long,

it seems like it's got to be the cloudiest winter ever that I can remember.

I always like to do a lot of winter observing because the skies are so clear,

but we never seem to get too many clear days this year.

And this past Monday, I believe it was, I'm pretty sure it was Monday when the clouds finally cleared,

I was out in the shanty here and I went outside and I noticed that, you know, 20 minutes ago I was outside

and it was cloudy and there wasn't a cloud in the sky.

And it was somewhat a clear.

Clear as crisp as black skies here in Burbank that I have saw and I can't remember when.

I was just intrigued to go out and I grabbed myself a couple of beers

and just went out on the balcony or the patio and kicked back in one of the reclining chairs

and just kind of re-familiarizing myself with the stars in the sky.

It was one of the best.

It was one of the best views of Orion I've saw in a long time where, you know,

here in Burbank the light pollution is getting so bad that it's hard to see the Orion Nebula sometimes.

And it was just standing out way better than I've saw in years

and just kind of buzzing around the sky from there and it was unbelievable.

I mean, it just shows you you can do some observing without even taking any hard,

we're with you, you know, binoculars or telescopes just kind of kicking back

and checking all the constellations out, seeing what you can see.

But by far the clearest skies, I mean, tonight's clear out there.

It's not really, I haven't looked in a while, but it didn't seem as crisp as it was earlier in the week.

But...

Sorry about that.

Computer.

I wasn't sure what was going on.

I didn't know if it was the radio or the, or what.

But anyway, it's been a while out there doing that.

That was pretty cool.

But anyone that hasn't got a chance to see the moon the last couple nights,

you can look out to the west right now.

There's a beautiful crescent moon.

And it's too late now.

About an hour ago you could see Venus right along the horizon directly below it.

Last night it was directly below it, but a lot closer.

The moon's getting higher each night, but the moon's in just the perfect position right now.

If you, it'll probably be the same way tomorrow night.

You want to go out and look, you see the moon just track straight down to the horizon.

And the big bright thing you see close to the horizon will be Venus as you're moving down.

And for those that had a chance to see it before,

the ISS went over about a few minutes before 8 o'clock and it was a negative 3.2 magnitude.

Which is really bright, not quite as bright as Venus.

I'm not sure what Venus is now, but it's probably in the mid 3 point, negative 3.5 or so, 3.6 I'm guessing.

But it's definitely compared to it.

So if you saw the ISS tonight, you know what you're looking for.

Something that bright would be Venus below the moon.

And it looks like we're going to have some ISS passes all week long.

And that 8 to 8.30 time frame, just go to heavensabove.com

or any other satellite tracking websites that you're familiar with and you can plan accordingly.

But it looks like we're going to have some.

Some bright high passes this next coming week.

And I missed the last couple of nets.

I'm not sure if you guys talked about it or not.

But the month of February was the first month in three years where we had a sunspot every single day of the month.

So hopefully that's an indication of...

Some activity to come here to look at.

I know there's supposed to be some major, major planets right now coming over to one.

It's been there for like the last two days.

It goes with solar scopes or solar capabilities.

There's a nice picture on spaceweb.com of it.

It's...

I believe they said...

Might have been 20 Earthwisps.

Wide, I want to say 200.

I know 200 is not...

200 might be right, but pretty big wide.

It's not just one little skinny prominence that we're used to seeing.

It's a real thick wide, just kind of a blob of plasma coming up.

Pretty cool looking, but nice picture.

If anyone has a chance, if we get some clear skies the next day or so,

should go into some solar telescopes, take a peek at it.

And that's about it for my traffic.

As far as your question is,

I'll go back and write myself a big note to make sure I save enough money to be able to buy some property

to get away from all this light pollution somewhere in the middle of nowhere.

But we'll send it back to...

Tech Connect Control there, Keith Browse.

This is Ben Casey, 980SR.

Okay, thank you, Mark.

10-9-Y-A, Net Control.

Yeah, thinking about it, I should have gone with smaller telescopes.

I want those big monsters with very good telescopes,

but they're too big for me to store and have transported, so...

I ended up going to Goodhomes.

And, um, thank you.

There are the other check-ins for the SWOG Astronomy Net.

Okay, another call for a check-in for the SWOG Astronomy Net,

the 9-Y-A, Net Control.

Well, um, I was watching Gilligan's Island,

and I knew I didn't know what this would have to do with...

the SWOG.

It was...

Of course, you know, that was back in the 60s.

They had this one episode in which NASA shot a probe to Mars,

and it landed on their island.

I guess...

for a radio signal to get to Earth, to Mars, and back again.

But they thought they found some kind of new life and everything.

And the probe, you know...

I'm not sure how heavy the probes are.

They go to the outer planet.

Well, I don't think two guys could pick them up once they have landed.

Um...

And, uh, I sort of got a little kick out of how they really botched that up there.

Um...

And 9-Y-A, you need check-ins.

It sounded like there was a station trying to break in.

Yeah, Keith, during your, uh, transmission there,

there was either some, uh, interference,

or someone trying to double-over you.

So there might have been another station out there.

Uh, last key-up was me, KB-9-7-K-8.

Just trying to check in.

I, uh, was getting out of the car and hit the button by accident.

Okay, KB-9-7-K-8.

Did he give an answer to your question?

This is the 9-Y-A.

No, I just got out of a cello concert that my daughter did,

and I just turned the radio on.

Okay, if there...

If you could go back in time and correct one mistake you made as an amateur astronomer,

it could be anything.

I'll either not do it or do it in a different way.

With the knowledge that you have now, what would that be?

Well, that's a hard one.

Uh, let me think about that.

Any other check-ins for the SWOG Astronomy Net?

Uh, does...

Oh, by the way, I also saw a very interesting thing on the news.

Uh, apparently NASA is still playing around with the concept of lunar buggies.

And they have, I think in Alabama, a race.

You know, somebody has to come up with a lunar buggy that could fit in a four-foot cube.

And then has to extend out and, you know, even have a race over the moon.

A lunar-type, um, terrain.

It was quite interesting.

In fact, they have a school from this area, East Chicago, Indiana.

They're sending a team down there.

Hopefully they can get the money together and send a team down there to race their lunar buggies.

Oh, any other check-ins?

Uh, does anybody else have anything else for the net?

That might be of interest to the group.

And, um, does anybody want to try to, um, answer Dave's trivia question there?

Um, let's gather Dave's trivia question.

I'll give an answer, Kay, with the help.

Go ahead, NYA.

I'll give an answer, Kay.

Uh, no, it's just hard.

But it's probably a great application.

So I'll put the, uh, iPod.

That should be the, uh, Apple phone.

The iPhone.

Um, you can go and, um, you can definitely go into, uh, right in one direction.

You're pointing at the stars.

Come up on the middle.

Point that one star.

You're up there.

It's very cool.

Oh, okay.

Well, KC9DSN, this is the 9YA.

I know what you're going through.

I had the same problem with my allergies.

Except my nose got stuffed up.

And I don't sound like myself because of it.

But, hey, it's getting better.

It happens at this time of year when the weather starts changing.

And I'm sure this weather for Saturday and Sunday ain't going to help it.

But, hey, you have to live through it.

N9YA, any other check-ins?

Uh, not a check-in, Keith.

But, KC9DSN, I had some more traffic when you have some time.

Ah, go ahead, N9YA.

Uh, yeah, Keith, come back to me in about five minutes or whenever your next free break is, Keith.

I'd appreciate it.

Thanks.

Oh, okay.

Okay.

Um, yeah.

So, I nailed the check-ins for the SWOG astronomy net.

ZK was coming.

Oh, that's KB9ZKA on the 220 machine.

Go ahead, N9YA, Keith.

Hey, I was just here for you guys here.

I was on the handy talking.

Um, I had bought my wife an Apple iPhone for Christmas.

And she downloaded an application that's so cool for astronomy.

It basically figures out right where you're standing, what direction you're aiming.

And it puts the stars up right in front of you.

It's like the thing, almost like the maps that you download.

And, uh, it basically just points out every star that's up there.

It's absolutely incredible.

And it's cheap, too.

So, I just wanted to tell everybody that.

So, next phone they get, get the Apple phone.

And, uh, the, uh, I'll get the actual name of the, uh, of the application she downloaded.

But the applications are so cheap.

Let's give it a hand.

Okay.

Okay, Bill.

Yeah, I don't mess around with it.

I, I hardly use, uh, my phone right now.

If I wanted to, I could get the web browser, email, um, take an email, a text message,

and, um, all the time.

All the stuff, the web browser, voicemail.

But I just use it as a phone.

That's one of the features that I don't use.

I might play around and see how much they want for new ringtones.

But, um, yeah, I see those iPhones.

Yeah, but this is a little bit too fancy for me.

A little bit too much.

I can understand if you're in business and, or something like that.

That'd be great.

But for me, I just want a nice, steady, um, cell phone.

I can use it for emergency, my own private calls.

But, yeah, that's it.

That would be nice.

If you just turn your phone on and boom.

It can tell you where you're at, what direction, what star it's at.

That, that is wonderful.

Yeah, this weekend is the, uh, the start of your race.

Ah, yes, it is.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm going to take the train down there a little bit early and take a walk around

Restmont and see the wonderful city of Restmont.

And then Bobby's got headed up there around 6 o'clock.

Something like that.

Yeah, what's your cross street address?

Well, the address is actually 19 West Ogden.

19 West Ogden, um, is the, uh, actual address.

And the way she described it at the restaurant, um, there's a Phillips gas station.

And it's very, very close in the vicinity of the Phillips gas station.

Okay.

Yeah.

So, I think you guys might be a little clancy about yourselves.

You've got a lot of friends that you're going to marry and your kids will have a cause to

have.

So, one question for you just a little bit.

go ahead and type that in there.

How old were you when you bought your legg Giulia?

How old were you when you started?

I'm 42.

down in the blizzard, so the weather doesn't stop me.

Is Mars out tonight?

I don't have a very good question.

Does anybody in the net have that answer?

What was the question, Keith?

Is the planet Mars out tonight?

Yes, it is.

It should be just about almost straight overhead right now,

right next to Castor and Pollux in Gemini.

Hey, Jeff, you'll be proud of Andy.

He came down here just now saying,

Hey, I found Mars, I found Mars, and I didn't know it was out tonight.

Andy, you found it, that's right.

Okay, cool.

Keep it in the game.

Yeah, just about.

I just stepped out on my deck,

and it's just about straight overhead.

If you're facing, like, south,

and right next to the two bright stars, Castor and Pollux,

you can tell it's a distinctly orangish color next to Castor and Pollux there.

So, very good.

And good for him.

He found it all on its own.

Awesome.

Back to net control for WD-9GVU.

And the moon looks awesome, by the way, guys.

You can still catch it out in the west.

Thank you, Jeff, there, for that.

Yeah, thank you, there.

This is the 9YA.

Yeah, I went outside to check on something, and all I saw was the moon slowly going behind some trees and houses.

So, if I look west, I've seen a lot of trees and houses in my way.

So, fun, fun time of living in the city there.

So.

There, Neil, the check-ins for the SWAG astronomy net.

AT-19, are you ready for your traffic in 9YA?

Yeah, Keith, I'm ready.

I'm glad I checked in this week.

I was thinking the pizza party was next week, so that's a good thing.

But, yeah, speaking of Mars, I know there was a recent flyby real close.

But one of Mars's moons, Phoebus, and I believe last time I did the net, it was going to be the next day or something.

And then they finally, from the Mars Express Explorer, orbiting Mars, they were flying within several, I think it was 50 kilometers, 50 kilometers of the surface of the moon, which was really close.

And they just released the photos, I don't know, about three, four days ago.

And an astronomy picture of the day for March 16th was, so I guess that would be two days ago.

They have an up-close photo of this moon.

It's the largest of the two moons that goes around Mars.

And it's only 25 kilometers in width.

It's only 25 kilometers in width.

So it's very small.

But this thing, it looks exactly like a picture of these asteroids that we're seeing.

It doesn't look like a moon at all.

And these pictures have actually raised more questions than answers because of, they find it hard to believe that Mars could have incorporated, you know, gravitationally pulled in a couple asteroids and had them orbit on a equatorial plane of the moon.

So they're really intrigued.

And there's a lot of these strange lines on this particular moon, all almost from the angle of these pictures, pretty much across the surface, all parallel lines across the surface.

And, you know, normally if a meteor or something hits on these moons that we're seeing, all these new photos, you know, kind of random directions.

And these are all running.

They're all going in the same direction.

And that's kind of got all the NASA people baffled of what would have caused this.

Really strange pictures.

But if you get a chance, go to Astronomy Picture of the Day.

And look, if you haven't already saw it for March 16th, these moon pictures of Phobos, you can probably Google it or something like that.

And it's got to be one of the oddest looking moons.

It's got to be one of the oddest looking moons.

I would have never expected it.

You think of Mars, it has two moons.

I'm thinking nice little round objects just like we have, you know, our moon.

And I'm sure there will be more to come about what these strange lines are.

And some will monitor and give you guys an update as the news unfolds.

But pretty wild.

Just thought of it while everyone was talking about looking at Mars.

Back to Net Control.

And 9Y8.

Thank you, Mark.

KC9DSN.

Yeah, it would be interesting to find out when the club meeting, was it two months ago?

Or was it last month?

No, two months ago.

When the guy in charge of the programs actually played noise, RF, coming from Jupiter or Saturn.

I think it was Jupiter.

And it's one of the moons going through the magnetic field.

Actually creating.

RF.

And if you have the right equipment, the right antenna, you almost need like a long wire antenna to best do this.

And you can take your HF radio and actually go and listen.

If you're good enough and you get all the right information, listen to the RF coming off of either Jupiter or Saturn.

So it was quite interesting.

They're nailed the check-ins for the Swag Astronomy Net.

Net Control, here's KB.

KB9SWI, Mobile Lombard.

And it was probably Jupiter for the RF.

Good evening to all.

KB9SWI, Don.

No, Lombard, no traffic.

Okay, KB9SWI.

Yeah, Saturn, yeah, Jupiter, yeah.

I got a survey question there for you if you want to try to answer it there, Don.

Sure, go ahead.

Yeah.

Now, you could go either eliminate one thing you did as amateur astronomer or change it.

Yes, you know you made a mistake.

What one thing would you go and change?

Wow.

I don't know.

I guess I would change nothing.

You know, it's been a journey.

And there's, of course, things I would have liked to have done, things I would like to

do, but I have no regrets. I have to say nothing. I think it's a journey, and you have to walk

the path. It's such a philosophical question. I don't know. My answer is nothing. I wouldn't

change a thing.

Okay, interesting answer. Yeah, it's a very interesting answer. Yeah, you learn by your

mistakes. That was what one show said. You know, you make mistakes, you learn by making

mistakes. No, no, it was a ham. November1VDE out of Oregon, who loves to run his rumbic

tennis. He says, if you aren't, basically what he says, if you aren't making mistakes,

you aren't learning. So, yeah, that's a very good answer also. Any other check-ins?

Neck control?

Go ahead, NYA.

Hey, Keith. This is Casey Knight. Yes, and ask Don about Dave's trivia question. I bet

he's got the answer for us.

Okay, WhiskeyDelta9, golf uniform, KUV. Can you give that trivia question, Dave's trivia

question again?

I'm sorry, Keith. This is Casey Knight. Yes, and that was about the, what are the Lagrange

points?

Okay, I think I know that one. Should I, should I go?

I think this was based on a news story. Um, Lagrangian points, I think it was a news story,

but, hey, either that or it was, um...

Okay, well, the short answer is they're gravitational balance points, and they're named after a

famous mathematician by the name of Lagrange. And you can park a SAM. In fact, we have,

I believe the SOHO, the Solar Heliospheric Observatory, is parked at one of these gravitational

balance points. So it's always between us and the sun. So, um, I don't know. I don't

know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

So, um, they're, they're balance points, and you can actually orbit a spacecraft around

these balance points, uh, around the sun. So it's like a point of equilibrium. Gravitational

equilibrium. And, uh, the guy who discovered it was Lagrange. So that's my answer, and

I'm sticking to it. KP9SW on mobile. Still Lombard, but approaching Villa Park.

Uh, okay. Well I don't have the answer. I guess Dave has, um, an email. Okay, so, um,

uh, the, um...

Uh-huh.

Okay, well I can see that, yeah, because I know if you go high enough with a, um, high enough with, uh, with a satellite, I think like 22,000 miles, somewhere around there, you know, you can just stick it in a point over the U.S. and just have it just orbit the U.S. at the same rate as the planet's orbiting.

So, are there any other check-ins for the SWAT Astronomy Net?

Okay, that's Nick, KG9E. Good evening, Nick. Hope you're having a grand day enjoying the weather. Any other check-ins?

KC9, TOL, Chicago, no traffic.

Uh, is that KC9, Tango, Oscar, Lima?

KC9, TOL, Peter, Oscar, Love, Chicago.

Okay, KC9, Papa, Oscar, Lima. Okay, thank you. Any check-ins?

Okay, here we go.

Check-ins. Um, anybody with comments or questions for the net before I start shutting down?

Okay, uh, we'll be shutting down the SWAT Astronomy Net. Thank you to Page Amateur Radio Club for the use of this two-meter and two-trendy repeater.

And they have a 440-442.550-114.8 PL tone.

First Monday, the first, the meeting.

Monday is the fourth Monday of the month.

I know it's some church, and I think it's across from Tracy Tavern.

And the VT session is the first Friday of the month, and that's also in the church.

And for further information, go to page amateur www.swisskey9deltauniformpapa.org.

Thank you.

to get all the information on a very wonderful ham club in this area, N9YA.

The net is over at 2124.

Good evening.

From W9PUP for club information, go to W9PUP.org.

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