Monthly V.E. Testing
Saturday, June 9th from 9:00 to 11:30 a.m. at the Blaine City Hall, Mark Stack Room
Are you ready to take your first amateur radio (ham) license test or upgrade to another level?  Then let us help! The Anoka County Radio Club holds V.E. amateur radio testing sessions on most every 2nd Saturday of the month. We are ready to test new and upgrading hams in all the FCC elements. Test sessions start at 9:00 a.m. and we continue to take walk-ins until 10:00 a.m.  We test at the Blaine City Hall in the Mark Stack Room.  Check the club's website for any updates or changes to the schedule. 

Board Meeting
Tuesday, June 19th Starting at 6:45 p.m. at the Centerville City Hall
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. The Board Meeting Minutes can be viewed on the Club Documents link on our webpage.

Field Day Planning Meeting
Tuesday, May 29th at the Perkins Resturant in Blaine at 7:00 p.m.
There will be one additional planning meeting on Tuesday, May 29 at 7:00 p.m. to go over any final details at the Perkins Restaurant in Blaine.  Be prepared to cover the inventory of items you are planning to bring to Field Day and to discuss placement of the items at the field day site.  The revised plan and detail will be presented before the whole group on our June 1 meeting.  If you are planning to have equipment on site and cannot make the meeting please email (if you have not already) kc0lql@anokaradio.org with the items you plan to bring. Generally, the items we're interested in are:

• Shelter (if any) and type (RV, Tent, etc)
• Power source or power needs
• Radio band (s) and likely modes
• Feedline
• Antenna / Antenna structure(s)
• Logging computer status - can you bring a Windows-based PC-compatible with 802.11 wireless to run the logging software, or will you need one? Paper logging is also possible if the participant volunteers to key in their manual entries.
• Please also list items that the club could use if needed for other stations. Thanks much and I hope to see some of you at the meeting.

General Meeting - Field Day Planning
Friday, June 1st from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Blaine Baseball Complex
Everyone is welcome to join us for our March General Meeting on Friday, March 2nd, starting at 7:00 p.m. at the Blaine Baseball Complex. The topic will be Field Day.  

Field Day June 23-24
The annual ARRL Feild Day event will be held on June 23-24th this year. There are details of our plans for this event on our Field Day page. If you want to donate your time or help with planning and/or equipment setup and tear-down, please let us know. Please contact Tim Neu KC0LQL, the Field Day Chairperson, at: FieldDay@anokaradio.org. Thanks and we hope to see you there again this year!

Anoka Halloween Festival Special Events Station - Volunteers needed!
October 29, 2012 from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Anoka High School Parking Lot
The ACRC will be hosting a Special Events Station with the Anoka Halloween Festival this year on Saturday, October 27th at the Anoka High School parking lot.  Setup will start at 8:00 a.m.  We need ham volunteers to man the station throughout the day, making contacts and with public relations.  Please contact the event chairperson, Dana Johnson KD0NJD, at KD0NJD@AnokaRadio.org with questions or to sign up.

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@anokaradio.org or on the net!   Click on the ACRC Nets link to see the net counts and details.

We now accept Donations online!
The Anoka County Radio Club can now accept donations online!  Simply click on the link to be brought to PayPal to make a donation.

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.

Jauary / February Newsletter Posted! 
The newsletter was posted on our website and emailed out to all of the current members with email addresses. If you have ideas or comments please contact Annette Larson KB1UOG at Newsletter@AnokaRadio.org. You can view the newsletter with this link.

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.

Repeater
We sponsor a two-meter repeater at 146.670 MHz (114.8 PL tone). For more details on the club's repeater, please check out the Repeater Status page.

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 Secretary@anokaradio.org or Tim Neu KCØLQL at kc0lql@anokaradio.org. 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.