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ARRL Louisiana Section (LA)Section Manager
Gary L. Stratton, K5GLS 8424 Kaw Ct Shreveport, LA 71107-9114 318-309-0023 k5gls@arrl.org |
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Louisiana Section Summary October 2009 Gary Stratton K5GLS SM UPCOMING HAMFESTS (See http://www.arrl.org/hamfests.html for more detail): December 19 – Minden Amateur Radio Association – Minden, LA January 16 – Southeast LA Amateur Radio Club – Hammond, LA March 12-13 - Louisiana State Convention – Acadiana Amateur Radio Association – Rayne, LA April 24 – Louisiana Section Convention – Twin City Ham Club – Monroe, LA SECTION APPOINTMENTS: Grady Ebert KB5SDU – Official Relay Station SECTION TRAFFIC REPORTS: Mike King W5PY Section Traffic Manager PSHR Report CALL SIGN TOTALS TRAFFIC K5MC 100 92 N5NVP 110 43 WC5M 125 13 W5PY 108 69 K5KV N/R N/R WA4ERU 18 8 KE5PWL 63 23 KB5SDU 60 0 LCW/LTN/LSN Statistics NET SESSIONS QNI QTC QTR LTN 31 652 39 349 LCW 62 241 88 303 LSN 7 24 5 54 SECTION ARES STATISTICS: ARES MEMBERS 481, DRILLS/TRAINING 27 MH 68, PUBLIC SERVICE EVENTS 1 MH 296, EMERGENCY OPERATIONS 2 MH 5, TOTAL OPERATIONS 30 MH 369, ARES NET SESSIONS 76 CHECKINS 595. EC REPORTS RECEIVED: Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Bienville, Calcasieu, Cameron, Claiborne, Concordia, East Baton Rouge, Franklin, Grant, Jefferson, Livingston, Orleans, Rapides, Sabine, St. Charles, St. Helena, St. Martin, Tangipahoa, Terrebonne, Union, Vermillion, and Washington. OTHER REPORTS RECEIVED: Jim Bookter N5NVP Section Affiliated Club Coordinator. From Jim N5NVP: At the end of October the Louisiana Section had 35 Active Affiliated Clubs and 8 of those were Active Affiliated Special Service Clubs (SSCs). There are 23 Inactive Affiliated Clubs. On September 25th a new Affiliated Club was chartered. The New Orleans Amateur Radio Club was presented its charter by Jim N5NVP at the New Orleans Hamfest on October 3. LOUISIANA SECTION FLOWER FUND: Virginia Bryant KD5DJA has volunteered to receive, account for and disburse funds to send flowers to the funerals of Louisiana Section member SKs on behalf of the Section. If you would like to participate (and I hope that you would) please send a check payable to Louisiana Section Flower Fund to Virginia at 110 HERRING ST LEESVILLE, LA 71446. Virginia’s data is good on QRZ. She has already received several donations of $25 - $50. The accounting of this fund will appear here on a quarterly basis. Also, please remember to report SKs to me at K5GLS@arrl.org. LOUISIANA MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP: The window for application for the scholarship is now open. Please encourage any licensed entering or attending student to apply for this scholarship. Details are available on the ARRL Website. OTHER NEWS: If you wish to have noteworthy information about club activities, individual achievements, etc. included in the Section Summary please send them to k5gls@arrl.org. LIONEL OUBRE EMERGENCY DISPATCH CENTER – Located in New Iberia, LA, was dedicated to one of our own. The Iberia Parish communications center was dedicated to Lionel (Al) Oubre K5DPG (SK). Al was the Louisiana Section Manager prior to Mickey Cox K5MC. He was an inspiration to all who knew him and was a great friend and mentor to both Mickey and me. Al certainly deserved this great recognition for his work with Iberia Parish and the Louisiana Section. LOUISIANA SECTION WEBSITE – Many thanks to Ken Standard AD5XJ for his great work redesigning our Section website http://www.laarrl.org. Please go to the site and checkout all the information and links. Send any suggestions or comments to AD5XJ@arrl.net. BAYOULAND EMERGENCY AMATEUR RADIO SERVICE – BEARS celebrates its 25th year of operation this year. They just received their new call W5BMC. They wanted Kelo Five Morgan City, but couldn’t talk Mickey into giving it up! Congratulations to BEARS on this milestone. HAMFESTS – Both the Pineville and New Orleans hamfests were great successes. Keith W5KB reports that the New Orleans fest will continue next year after the great turnout. U.S. COAST GUARD AUXILIARY RADIO DAY will be commemorating the 70th anniversary of the USCG Auxiliary on Amateur HF frequencies Saturday October 17, 2009. Special Event Stations will be using a special 1X1 call. For info go to http://a0530407.uscgaux.info/SED 2009.html. SILENT KEYS: I sadly report the following Section Silent Keys - Wes Buras N5VUY, Fred Corliss WA5ACV, Tom Brown K5UIC.