Re-posting with corrected dates and other edits.

--73, Paul

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The monthly meeting of the Arlington Amateur Radio Club (AARC) will
be held on Tuesday January 21, 2020.

Location: Knights of Columbus, 5115 Little Falls Rd., Arlington, VA 22207

The program this month will be on "Hamshack Hotline", a free
dedicated Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) private telephone
service for the amateur radio community that links ham radio
operators, clubs, Emergency Operations Centers (EOC), ARES,
hospitals, Red Cross shelters, and other radio operations centers
together using inexpensive Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) VoIP
telephones.

We will meet in the second floor conference room.

Some club members usually gather around 5:30 PM in the bar area
for food and beverages before the meeting begins at 7:00 PM.

Please join us for the January meeting of the Arlington Amateur Radio Club.

Date/time: January 21, 2020, 7:00-9:00 pm
Location: Knights of Columbus Council Home, 5115 Little Falls Rd.,
Arlington, VA 22207
Program: to be announced

Talk-in: W4WVP/R: 145.470 MHz, -600 kHz offset, PL 107.2 Hz.

We will meet in the board room on the second floor. Food and beverages may be purchased prior to the meeting, in the downstairs bar.

73, KI4PW / Paul

Happy New Year all,

While I am job searching, as a side hobby I have started an occasional newsletter called Experimental Radio News.

It contains reports of interesting licenses the FCC has granted in the Experimental Radio Service (FCC Part 5).

It's an expansion of the Twitter feed @experimradio which I have been running for some time. The newsletter format permits more content than a Twitter tweet.

The newsletter is free for the time being. Perhaps if enough subscribers come on board, it may have a subscription fee in the future.

The first issue is online; I am working on the second and it will arrive when it's ready.

https://experimradio.substack.com

73
Benn Kobb AK4AV

The ISS was in the neighborhood this morning. I woke up to find four SSTV images that were fair or good.

I left my transceiver on all night, tuned to 145.8 MHz FM. I could turn the sound down, so as not to wake up the house, because the audio was piped to my PC by my SignaLink USB interface. The MMSSTV software was also running, and it keeps decoded images in its History section.

You can see the images here ...

https://twitter.com/SWRadiogram/status/1211635409089966080

To see the image as received  ....

https://twitter.com/SWRadiogram/status/1210929852687237123

I have left my transceiver (Yaesu FT897D) on 145.8 MHz FM, and captured this today at 7:22 am EST, using MMSSTV decoder.

Antenna is 3-element vertical yagi on my chimney, permanently pointed south -- not the best for satellite reception.

Please visit
https://www.ariss.org/

to see ARISS News Release No. 19-18, which announces ARISS SSTV transmissions beginning December 28, 2019, at 11:00 UTC and ending January 1, 2020, at 18:20 UTC. Transmissions will be sent at 145.800 MHz FM in the SSTV mode PD-120. For further details, please see the ARISS News Release.
--Mike nw3v

I have updated the club web page to note that there will be no Amateur Radio Newsline transmission on Tuesday, December 24, on the W4WVP 2-meter repeater, but there will be an Arlington County Net session, with Paul KI4PW calling for check-ins at 7:30 pm local time, as advertised for the "Arlington Co Net" in the ARRL Net Directory.

Although Amateur Radio Newsline will not be transmitted over our repeater on December 24, you may download the .mp3 audio file or the script text file at the Newsline link on the club web page at w4wvp.org .
73,--Mike nw3v, Arlington County Net Co-Manager (ith KC5QCN)

https://library.arlingtonva.us/2019/12/19/what-happened-to-the-arlington-radio-towers/

A memorial plaque about the station now stands at this location on Old Courthouse Road.

Cancelled: Arlington County Net

This event has been cancelled.

When:
Tuesday, 21 January 2020
7:00pm to 8:00pm
(UTC-05:00) America/New York

Where:
W4WVP 145.470 repeater

Description:

Cancelled: Arlington County Net

This event has been cancelled.

When:
Tuesday, 17 December 2019
7:00pm to 8:00pm
(UTC-05:00) America/New York
Repeats: Daily

Where:
W4WVP 145.470 repeater

Description:

Melissa Pore, KM4CZN, of Vienna, Virginia, is the 2020 recipient of the Carole Perry Educator of the Year Award, Orlando HamCation has announced.

http://www.arrl.org/news/view/melissa-pore-km4czn-is-2020-carole-perry-educator-of-the-year-award-recipient

As was announced on this week's Arlington County Net, the annual Christmas Party will be held on *MONDAY, Dec. 16th* , not Tuesday Dec. 17th as previously announced.

Venue is the same: Glory Days Grill, 3141 Duke St., Alexandria VA

Time: 6 p.m.

I can't commit to 12/17, but I can do the infamous "fifth Tuesday," which
this year is New Year's Eve. A double whammy.

Paul / KI4PW

On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 11:22 PM Michael Callaham via Groups.Io <vze32sw5=
verizon.net@groups.io> wrote:

With the December Party now scheduled for Monday, December 16, and the
December business meeting already history, we will have an unusual
third-Tuesday Arlington County Net on December 17. Would you like to be Net
Control Station?

First-timers are invited; there's a <a href="http://www.w4wvp.org/net.php">recommended
Net Preamble (script)</a> to use, and a veteran Net Comtrol Station
operator will be on frequency to act as back-up. NCS veterans are also
invited to volunteer.
We'll also need a volunteer to air Amateur Radio Newsline at 7pm, before
the net. Any volunteers for that?
If you wish to volunteer as Net Control Station or newscaster, please
email nw3v [at] arrl [dot] org .

With the December Party now scheduled for Monday, December 16, and the December business meeting already history, we will have an unusual third-Tuesday Arlington County Net on December 17. Would you like to be Net Control Station?

First-timers are invited; there's a <a href="http://www.w4wvp.org/net.php">recommended Net Preamble (script)</a> to use, and a veteran Net Comtrol Station operator will be on frequency to act as back-up. NCS veterans are also invited to volunteer.
We'll also need a volunteer to air Amateur Radio Newsline at 7pm, before the net. Any volunteers for that?
If you wish to volunteer as Net Control Station or newscaster, please email nw3v [at] arrl [dot] org  .

The weekly Thursday brunch at Silver Diner in Clarendon, 10 am - 12 pm, is canceled on Thanksgiving Day and will resume on Thursday, December 5.

Business meeting:

Date: Tuesday, Dec. 3, 7pm
Location: Knights of Columbus, 5115 Little Falls Rd., Arlington

Holiday Party:

Tuesday, Dec. 17
Location: Glory Days Grill, 3141 Duke St., Alexandria, VA

https://www.glorydaysgrill.com/locations/virginia/alexandria-commons/?locid=30

Watch this space for additional details about the Holiday Party. All
members, spouses, significant others, and visitors/guests are welcome to
attend.

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73, KI4PW / Paul, Club Secretary

The following officers were elected last evening to serve the club for the next year, for terms expiring 30 NOV 2020.

President -- Gary Sessums, KC5QCN
Vice-President -- Doug Marshall, KK4QFR
Secretary -- Paul Wilson, KI4PW
Treasurer -- Jack Person, W4JWP
Activities Chair -- vacant

73, KI4PW / Paul

AMSAT OSCAR-7 turns 45. It was launched 11/15/74, and is still in
operation. It has had quite the career, including its clandestine use by
Poland's Solidarity movement in the 1980s.

https://www.amsat.org/two-way-satellites/ao-7/

AMSAT=Amateur Radio Satellite Corp.
OSCAR=Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio