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Technician License Class

Derick AB9PR will be facilitating a new Technician license class starting January 29 at Vernon Hills high school. If you or anyone you know are interested in learning about Amateur Radio and becoming licensed, you can find more information at:

http://www.arrl.org/courses/vernon-hills-il-60061

Online registration: http://comed128.org (look under Current classes/Adult special interest)

Amateur radio: Getting your first license and on the air!

Work Party
November 24, 2014

Installing new antennas at the Lake County Health Department EOC.

Thanks to David K9DRH, Len K9BZZ, Jim KB9LQH, Greg KB9TIC
and Mike KC9SZO. Kudos for a job well done.

Discovering Amateur Radio

This is a great introduction into Amateur Radio. Written and Narrated by K1AN Well worth watching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivUMIADFSDw&feature=youtu.be

Buy a Weather Radio

According to our EC Don K9DRW, if you don't have a weather radio, you REALLY should buy one.

Read the article

Reprinted from November 2008 Public Safety Communications with permission of APCO International. For membership and subscription information, visit http://www.apcointl.org.

LAKE COUNTY RACES/ARES® WAYBACK Machine

Here's a "Time Machine" for you to try. It is an archive of old web pages that is fully searchable (by URL). This link takes you to the original RACES.ORG web pages allowing you to view monthly activities and our original newsletters. It is a nostalgic walk through memory lane.

Go to: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://races.org

How about this: http://web.archive.org/web/19980508003742/races.org/newsaug.htm and read the August 1998 newsletter?

Consider another use. Use it to search out old user manuals, documentation, or spec sheets. Just go to: http://web.archive.org/web/ and add the URL of the site you are looking for. How cool is that!!

Go Kits

Anyone serious about Emergency Support should have a go-kit, or maybe more than one. It may be something you keep in the car or something mostly packed and ready to go at home. Even if you don't have one, you should think about what you might need to have in case of an emergency.

This is a presentation that Dan O’Connor, KE7HLR made at EMCOMMWEST in 2008. It's a rather large PDF file (about 3Meg). If you don't have a high speed connection, I suggest downloading it, and reading it off line. It's great 'food for thought' and well worth the read. I found myself mentally comparing Dan's ideas to what I have assembled and thinking about what I might want to add.

PERSONAL GO-KIT FOR EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS

General Meeting

Monday - Feb 2nd
7:00 PM

Activity Day

Saturday - Feb 14th
9:00 AM

VE Testing

Monday - Feb 9th
7:00 PM

Board Meeting

Monday - Feb 16th
7:00 PM

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