News and announcements

Because of the Labor Day holiday, our September Business meeting will be on Monday, September 13. Eating begins at 5:30 p.m. and the meeting will start at 6:30 p.m. We will meet at The Pantry in west Little Rock at 11401 North Rodney Parham Rd.
See you there!

John Goswick - W5JLG
President, CAUHF, Inc.

The CAUHF Group's web site was recently recognized by Steve Vermillion, W7SAV with a "Gold Amateur Radio Web Site" award.  In Vermillion's email informing of the web site's award he said he "found it a complete pleasure."

Vermillion started the awards program after he received his first website award.  He said, "It's a great way to reward Individuals for their hard work on their websites when they get so little recognition."


The W7SAV web site, with a listing of other awardees, can be found at http://w7sav.net/awards.htm.

It's fellowship time again! Our Social Meeting for second quarter is July 12th. This time we will meet at Pasta Jack's in Benton. The address is 1314 Green St., Benton, AR 72015. Behind Sonic on Military Road. We will eat at 6:00p.m. and have a program after. I hope all of you can eat and fellowship with us on the 12th! Remember...DOOR PRIZES!!!

Let me be the first to publicly thank and congratulate all those who helped with this year's Field Day. It would not have been possible without you! A special thanks goes to Ben Johnson stepped up and made a great Event Coordinator and to Joshua Carroll for all the work he did before and during the event as PIO. Both of you deserve big "Atta Boy's" for your great work. All the rest of you(and you know who you are) are to be congratulated for giving your time, talents and even money to make sure we had a successful Field Day 2010. Thanks also to those who dropped by and to the visitors who took a look at ham radio for the first time.
I would also like to thank J.M. Rowe, ARRL AR Section Manager for coming by and staying awhile with us. Great to have you J.M.! And thanks also to the two North Little Rock Alderman for their time during the opening ceremonies and for staying to make the first contacts of Field Day for us.

To all of you, it couldn't have been done without you!
John Goswick, W5JLG
President, CAUHF, Inc.

Our rescheduled Quarterly Social Meeting will be next Monday, May 17, at the Buffalo Grill on Bowman Curve in Little Rock.
The only business is to vote on the new club constitution. The program is High Speed Multi-Media (HSMM) that will be a great help to our repeater system. You won't want to miss this!

We begin eating at 6:00 p.m. and the meeting will start at 7:00 p.m.

SEE YOU THERE!!!

Yes, it's time again for the monthly meeting! This month we will meet at The Pantry in west Little Rock at 11401 North Rodney Parham Rd. We eat from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. and begin the meeting at 6:30 p.m. We will do our best to get you out by 8. Join us on Monday, May 3, 2010. See you there!

John - W5JLG

The CAUHF net, also known to many as the AR Link System Net, will merge with ASTEN on April 27th.  The net time will be 8:00 pm Central time.  This comes after much discussion in several club business meetings, polling and receiving feedback from club members, and final coordination with ASTEN net coordinator, John Godfrey, KE5NZY.

This merge will bring together these two state-wide nets to save time and resources for interested operators.  As part of this move, there will also be some small format changes to come in the new net.  One such example is that the "ASTEN/CAUHF Net" will still provide Amateur Radio related training, but comments will be solicited a little bit differently than in the past.  The net will still be available on the AR Link System Repeater Network and on linked IRLP stations.

Any repeater owner who wishes to become part of the AR Link System either on a part-time or full-time basis needs only to contact the CAUHF Tech Team via email at techteam [at] cauhf.org.  The CAUHF Tech Team will help to ensure that repeater control codes don't conflict with anyone else's on the system and help get it connected.

The CAUHF Group, in conjunction with local animal rights groups, have started a new movement that they have titled "Get Your Pet On The Air".  It's stated mission is to support the creation of a Pet Radio Operator's license for animal family members of other licensed Amateur Radio operators.

Randy Wright, AE5RW, said "The looks that I get from Sasha every single Tuesday night during the AR Links System Net are just unbearable.  She's always wanted her own license since she was a puppy.  Now she has hope that someday she too can check-in... short of time... with no traffic."

Pet owners all around central Arkansas have expressed interest in helping to create such a movement for several hours, but it wasn't until recently that this dream seemed possible.

But not everyone is in favor of the idea.  Tem Moore, N5KWL said, "That is just crazy.  Seriously, how could my dog remember his own call sign?  He has a hard enough time remembering mine."

Arkansas Section Manager J.M. Rowe, N5XFW, said that he wasn't sure how this would be accepted by the ARRL or the FCC but he was definitely in favor of being favorable.

For the CAUHF Group, I'm N5JLC.  73!

NOTE: For those who may be a little dense, this was an April Fool's joke.

I had a neat experience this morning that I wanted to share with the Group.  During this morning's "drive time" traffic, I heard a faint station calling me.  I replied and it took a couple of tries to get the information correct, but the station was contacting us over UHF from Beaumont, Texas!  A distance of about 340 miles!

The weather should be about the same tomorrow morning.  This might be a great time to try out some UHF DXing.

73!