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Anoka County
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Board Meeting
Tuesday, November 17th from
7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
at the Blaine Baseball Complex
If you are interested in club business, then
you are welcome to attend the Monthly Board Meetings.
All members are encourage and welcome to participate in the Board Meetings.
Meetings are held on the third Tuesday of each month.
Like the General Meeting, the Board Meetings are normally held at
the Blaine Base Ball Complex and start at 7:00 p.m. The Board
Meeting Minutes can be viewed on the Club
Documents link on our webpage.
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ACRC Net
The Anoka County Radio Club hosts a
net every Wednesday night at 7:00 p.m. on the 146.670 Repeater. Our
regular Net Control is Parry Brown KCØTWB. If you have any
ideas for content on the net, contact Parry at
kc0twb@msn.com or on the net!
Click on the
ACRC Nets link to see the net counts and
details.
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ACRC Annual
Christmas
Party
Saturday,
December 5th, starting at 5:30 p.m.
at the Blaine Baseball Complex
The Anoka County Radio Club will host our annual Christmas
Party on Saturday, December 5th. It will be held at the Blaine
Baseball Complex. The doors will open 5:30 p.m. for social hour and dinner
will start at 6:30 p.m. All members and family are invited to join us for a
night of fun and food as we review the past year and look forward to 2010.
There will be tiered-pricing again this year. The price will
be: $25.00 for individuals, $45 for couples and $60 per family.
Payments will be accepted by any board member or at the
door. We will be collecting food donations for Hams Against Hunger at
this event, as well as the White Elephant gift exchange! There will be
door prizes and desserts too!
Please RSVP to Shawn Rung K0SMR by
November 15th
at
k0smr@arrl.net
so we have time to get everything ready!
If you have any questions or would like to help out with the
event, please contact Shawn Rung K0SMR at
k0smr@arrl.net. We look forward to seeing everyone there!
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Raffle at the General Meetings
We will start having a donated-prize
raffle at the General Meetings. For one dollar per ticket, you may purchase
the a ticket for the chance to win a donated item. Most of the items will
be a grab-bag style item - the identity of the items will not be known until
the winner opens them (The value of the item will be worth more than a
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Hams for Hunger
We are accepting food donations to benefit the
local food shelves. You can bring any non-perishable food items to our
meetings and events, or give them to any board member. Thank you for
helping out the less fortunate in our community - your donations are
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Nominations for
the Upcoming Club Election
Please think about which club
members you would like to nominate for the following positions:
President, Vice President, Secretary and Board Member at Large. These
positions are up for vote in the upcoming election at our February General
Meeting on February 5, 2010. Nominations will be accepted from the
January Board Meeting (January 8, 2010) until the time of the election.
The more nominees we have, the more interesting the election!
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General Meeting
Friday, January 8th from 7:00
p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at
the Blaine Baseball Complex
You do not
need to be a member to attend and family members of all ages are welcome.
Each meeting will have a different topic for the month.
There are ten General Meetings from January through June and again
from September through December.
We take the summer months off while everyone tend to be really busy having
fun in the warm weather. General Meetings are normally held on the first
Friday of the month at the Blaine Base Ball Complex and start at 7:00 p.m.
To view the minutes from these meetings, click on the
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General Meetings
You do not
need to be a member to attend and family members of all ages are welcome.
Each meeting will have a different topic for the month.
There are ten General Meetings from January through June and again
from September through December.
We take the summer months off while everyone tend to be really busy having
fun in the warm weather. General Meetings are normally held on the first
Friday of the month at the Blaine Base Ball Complex and start at 7:00 p.m.
To view the minutes from these meetings, click on the
Club Documents link.
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Club Events
Several time a year the ACRC helps out at
events like parades, festivals, fun runs, fire works and more.
These events tend to be fun and several are great family events.
There is nothing like having a guaranteed front row seat at a
fireworks event or parade. Check out the
club calendar for
more information.
ACRC
Emergency Services and Anoka-ARES
As listed
in our long name, the ACRC also provides supplemental communications
support in times of need. The ACRC
has a reciprocal agreement with Anoka-ARES to support and coordinate
drills and events throughout the year. If you are interested in
putting your name on the list to help out, please contact Dave Runkle -
KC0KEP (the Anoka County E.C.) or one of the other
board members. If you are looking for more information an Anoka-ARES,
please follow this link to the Anoka-AREA web site at
http://www.anoka-ares.org.
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Repeaters
We
sponsor and operate two repeaters - a two-meter repeater at 146.670 MHz
and
a 1.25-meter repeater at 224.940 MHz. For more
details on the club's repeaters, please check out
the Repeater Status page.
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Do You Have Pictures of Club Events?
If you have pictures of club events and would like to see
them up on our website or in our newsletter please make the digital photos
or files available to either Shawn Rung KØSMR at k0smr@arrl.net or
Tim Neu KCØLQL at tim@tneu.visi.com.
Email is the best delivery method, but you can also send a CD, disk or flash
drive to us with the pictures on, or even post them to a web or ftp site and
email us the web address to download them. If you have a large
quantity of pictures or if they are very high resolution, a CD or flash
drive is best. Contact Shawn or Tim with any questions.
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