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News last updated: Fri, September 26, 2008 at 2:45 PM ET
I would like to take a moment to thank Jerry Wellman, W7SAR, for serving as our Utah Section Emergency Coordinator (SEC), he recently asked to step down due to other commitments. Through his efforts we now have a State/Section Emergency Plan that has been distributed to our EC's. Bob Craven, N7GTE, volunteered to be our new SEC.
The annual State RACES/ARES Workshop will be held on Saturday, 08 November at the Red Lion Hotel in Salt Lake City. You do need to pre-register for the conference. In order to do this you will need to utilize the new U-Train system which is found at https://www.utah.train.org. Once at the website, the first thing you need to do is set up an account in U-Train as a new user (if you have not already done so previously). Once your U-Train account registration is completed you will then proceed tologin and then either do a course search for the keyword(s)ARES or RACES or on the right side of the home page key in the actual course number, which is 1011069 for the ARES/RACES Conference. Once you have the course listed on the screen, click on that to bring you to the registration/information page and click on the registration tab to register. The system will indicate that your request has been submitted and has to be approved. U-Train notifies the State Training Staff and they will acknowledge by email that you are signed up for the ARES/RACES Conference.
The Bridgerland ARC is going to have a swap meet at the Cache County Fairgrounds Pavillion in Logan on Saturday, 18 October from 0800 to 1500 go to www.barconline.org for more details. Please check this event out it will be a great opportunity to sell or find some neat stuff.
I would like to thank the Utah Hamfest Committee for all their efforts that made our Rocky Mountain Division Convention/Utah Hamfest at Ruby's Inn last summer a great success. If you missed this event, Utah will host the Rocky Mountain Division Convention again in 2012. Also the Utah Hamfest Committee have started to make plans for the next Hamfest that probably will be in 2010, specific details are still being determined.
I am in the process of putting together a five year calendar of amateur radio events for our section/state. The main purpose is to help us all to be aware of the main events going on in Utah and to avoid conflicts where possible. I know that in many cases there will be events happening on the same date but at least we will all be able to use the calendar when planning for future events. I hope to have a draft of this available at the RACES/ ARES Workshop and I will email it to each club.
If you have information about a club member or a special event that is of interest beyond just your club please forward the info to me at my email address: NM7P@msn.com or NM7P@arrl.org (If you send any mail to my old AOL address I only check that every other month now).
Thanks for all the work you do as volunteers supporting your local communities and amateur radio clubs.
Please feel free to contact me with any comments or questions you may have.
73
Mel Parkes, NM7P
Utah SM
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