The
Federal Way Amateur Radio Club
would like the thank the individuals listed below, and the
organizations that they represent for supporting
our club by serving as our guest speakers.
| Date | Guest Speaker | Topic | Link |
| 2012 | |||
| February | |||
| January | Movie Night | Our January 12th club meeting was movie night. The main feature was a video of the VP8THU South Sandwich Islands DXpedition of January 2002. Members of the DXpedition had to endure seasickness, a difficult offload of equipment, freezing temperatures, and thousands of penguins during the team's short stay on the islands. Using four stations with only 100 watts, the team made over 27,000 contacts during the DXpedition. | VP8THU DXpedition |
| 2011 | |||
| December |
Dave Asahara Oriental Garden Center in Federal Way |
Dave talked about the "Care and Feeding of Small Generators" and presented a power point presentation highlighting the Honda generator series. The Oriental Garden Center is located on Pacific Highway at South 308th Street (across the street from Federal Way High School. The Oriental Garden Center is a Honda sales & service center and carries the very popular Honda EU2000i generator. | Oriental Garden Center |
| November |
Mike McCoy-N7VWD Club Treasurer |
Club treasurer Mike McCoy-N7VWD presented the club's budget for 2012. After the presentation of the proposed budget, a quick question & answer session followed. The 2012 budget was approved by all members in attendance at the club meeting. |
Approved 2012 Budget can be found
the Members' Only area of the club's website. http://fwarc.org/membersonly/ |
| October | Dan Camp-AF7O | Club president, Dan Camp-AF7O, talked about Ham Radio & The Internet. Topics included how hams are using social networking such as Twitter, Facebook, and blogs to stay in touch with other hams. How to use YouTube to learn about the various facets of amateur radio. Dan also touched on online DX reporting. | |
| September | No Guest Speaker | At our September 8th club meeting, we had "Show N Tell" night. Dick-KD5HXE showed off his 40 meter PSK QRP rig he build from a kit. Dan-AF7O showed off his sling shot with fish reel attached which allows him to shoot a line up into a tree then pull up the radiating elements of a dipole antenna. Dan also showed off the club's portable D-STAR station which include transceivers for 2 meters, 70 centimeters, and 1.2 ghz. Bill-KL7BB provided theory on converting a yagi antenna for CW use. | |
| August | No Guest Speaker | At our August 11th club meeting, we had no guest speaker. Instead, we ventured up & out at the Federal Way City Hall to reinstall the various VHF antennas up on the roof. The antennas were taken down to facilitate maintenance to the building's air conditioning units. | Federal Way Emergency Management |
| July | Dan Camp-AF7O | At our July 14th club meeting, we ventured a little bit away from ham radio, but continued to talk about high tech fun. Dan Camp-AF7O talked about Geocaching and how one uses GPS receivers or possibly a smart phone to find hidden treasurers located around the area & around the world. These GPS receivers can be the same ones used for ham radio's Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS). | http://www.geocaching.com/ |
| June |
Dan Camp-AF7O and Bob Rutherford-KE7UUU |
At our June 9th club meeting, we talked about our upcoming Field Day activities taking place at Lakota Park on Saturday June 25th. Bob Rutherford also covered the final draft of the new ECRT patch which will be displayed on the new safety vests. | |
| May | Joe Decuir | Joe is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc. and talked about Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Power. | http://ewh.ieee.org/nw-area |
| April |
Bill Balzarini-KL7BB Dave Swartz-KC7RRH Bob Rutherford-KE7UUU |
We had several folks presenting at our April 14th club meeting. Bill Balzarini-KL7BB made a presentation showing before & after Google Earth photos of the recent earthquake in Japan. Dave Swartz-KC7RRH showed off one of the three new VHF/UHF "Go Kits" bringing our second EMPAG funded project to a close. Bob Rutherford-KE7UUU presented a number of logos for consideration for placement on ECRT safety vests. | |
| March | Curt Black-WR5J | Curt is a member of the Puget Sound Digital Hams group, and president of the West Seattle ARC. Curt gave on overview of FLDIGI, a multimode software suite for operating the various digital modes through a sound card interface. Modes include PSK31, RTTY, MFSK16, and a bunch of other modes. Curt highlighted when using digital communications would provide higher throughput of information verses a voice net. | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wa-digital/ |
| February | Club Leadership | At our February 10th club meeting club officers and committee chairs gave an overview of the accomplishments achieved over the past year and some of the goals for the upcoming year. | FWARC |
| January | Jim Pace-K7CEX | Jim Pace-K7CEX was our guest speaker at our January 13th club meeting. Jim is the ARRL's Western Washington section manager. Jim talked about about some of the programs being promoted by the ARRL, and some of the e-mail reflectors available in the members' only area of the ARRL web site. | ARRL Western Washington Section |
| 2010 | |||
| December | Dan Camp-AF7O | Club president Dan Camp-AF7O presented a video of the 2007 BS7H DXpedition to the Scarborough Reef located in the South China Sea. With only a handful of rocks sticking out of the water at high tide, 16 ham radio operators made over 45 thousand QSOs during the four days that the DXpedition was on the air. | http://www.scarboroughreef.com/ |
| November | Dan Camp-AF7O & Mike McCoy-N7VWD | No scheduled guest speaker at our November 11th club meeting. Club president Dan Camp-AF7O & club treasurer Mike McCoy-N7VWD presented the proposed 2011 budget to the club's membership. The proposed 2011 budget was accept unanimously. | FWARC 2011 Budget is available in the Member's Only area of the web site. |
| October | Dave Funk-WA7RSO | Dave talked about tuning antennas, specifically, gamma matches, and demonstrated his two antenna analyzers. | http://www.eskimo.com/~ddf/ |
| September | Dan Camp-AF7O | Dan talked about QSL Bureaus. Dan covered the difference between incoming QSL bureaus and the outgoing QSL bureau, when to use them, and when not to use them. |
Seventh Area Incoming QSL Bureau ARRL Outgoing QSL Bureau |
| August | Dan Camp-AF7O | Club president Dan Camp-AF7O held a round table session inquiring what club members would like for guest speakers, and programs for the club in the coming months. | |
| July | Rick Young-KF4ZEN | Rick Young-KF4ZEN is out in the pacific northwest this week to do some research on a HF QRP project he is working on for emergency management. Rick was able to do a quick show-n-tell with some of the software driven radios he is working with. | |
| June |
Keith Hughes West Seattle Natural Energy |
Keith Hughs of West Seattle Natural Energy talked about the different type of wind generators including Horizontal Wind Turbines and Vertical Axis Wind Turbines. Keith also covered solar panels and some of the incentives being offered to install solar panels. West Seattle Natural Energy will be joining us for Field Day in Federal Way on June 26th and will be providing us power for our natural powered radio station. | West Seattle Natural Energy |
| May |
Steve McKeen-W7QLO Kris Nelsen-KE7LCX |
Steve McKeen-W7QLO introduced himself to our group. Steve is the newly appointed ARRL Section Emergency Coordinator for Western Washington. We had "Show & Tell" in regards to Go-Kits. Kris Nelsen-KE7LCX caught everyone's attention with his Go-Kit & all of the cool goodies he had within. Craig Davis-KE7MPM gave an update on Field Day in Federal Way taking place on June 26th at Lakota Park, The results of our annual club elections were announced at the end of the club meeting. | |
| April | Ralph Javins-N7KGA | Ralph is a former member of the FWARC, and talked about the Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network (SATERN) and their efforts to support disaster recovery efforts around the world. SATERN is currently supporting the Haiti & Chilean earthquakes. Ralph also touched on some of the equipment he has in his "Go Kit". | Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network |
| March |
Dave Swartz-KC7RRH Craig Davis-KE7MPM Bill Balzarini-KL7BB |
We really didn't have a formal guest speaker at our March 11th club meeting. Dave Swartz-KC7RRH talked about the progress of the D-STAR repeater project going in at the Federal Way community center. Craig Davis-KE7MPM, our 2010 Field Day coordinator talked about the FD2010 committee. And Bill Balzarini-KL7BB, gave some insight on how "Vertical Columns of Water", aka trees effect our antenna systems. | |
| February | Pete Kruml-N7KFJ | Our guest speaker for our February 11th club meeting was Pete talked about the K7MMI repeater system located up on Cougar Mountain and other locations, and the acquisition of the 2 meter portion of the K7PP repeater system located throughout western Washington, as well as the working taking place to merge these two systems together. | http://www.k7mmi.net/ |
| January | Dave Swartz-KC7RRH | Dave Swartz-KC7RRH, our club repeater chairperson, talked about the upcoming work parties for the D-STAR repeater project at the Federal Way Community Center. Upcoming work parties include pulling coaxial cable and mounting the antennas at the community center, as well as putting all of the components together in the two equipment cabinets. | FWARC D-STAR Repeater |
| 2009 | |||
| December | Mike McCoy-N7VWD & Dave Swartz-KC7RRH | Mike, our club treasurer presented the proposed budget for 2010 to the Board of Trustees, and then to the membership in attendance at the December 10th club meetings. The 2010 budget was unanimously approved by all members present. Club president Dave Swartz-KC7RRH gave an overview of the ongoing project to move the club's D-STAR repeater to the Federal Way Community Center. | 2010 FWARC Budget |
| November | Matt Hickey-W7TFD | Matt is a member of the Tukwila Fire Department, and is a logistics section chief for the International Medical Surgical Response Team-West, and is a communications unit team leader for Health and Human Services, and has assisted with recovery efforts of Hurricanes Wilma, Rita, and Ike. Matt talked about working with ARES teams in Galveston & Beaumont, TX to scout out repeater sites in those areas, and his experiences with disaster communications. Matt has also been one of the principle drivers of the Tukwila D-Star system. | International Medical Surgical Response Team-West |
| October | David Friedman-KE7GOY | David Friedman-KE7GOY was our guest speaker. David is a retired Radiologist and an Emergency Medicine Healthcare provider, with a degree in Emergency Management. He is a Red Cross volunteer and worked the recovery efforts of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. David has also assisted with the wildfires in California, and flooding in Washington, & Oregon. David talked about working and operating around flood waters and provided some insight as to what might be encountered should the Green River Valley become flooded this winter. |
King County
Chapter of the American Red Cross |
| September | Various Club Members | At our September 10th club meeting there was a presentation and general discussion session about the Howard Hansen Dam situation and the potential for flooding of the Green River Valley. The presentation was based on a briefing to the King County Council, as well as. comments by club members who had attended a similar briefing at Green River Community College. Additionally, a number of club members talked about their attended week long Integrated Emergency Management course in Emmitsburg, MD. This exercise-based training activity places Emergency Operations Center (EOC) personnel under realistic crisis situations within a structured learning environment. | Howard Hansen Dam |
| August | Steve Hatch-WA7DAD | Steve gave a demonstration and overview of the D-RATS software. D-RATS is an application designed to provide data communication capabilities for users of D-STAR radios. It supports text chatting, file transfers, position reporting and mapping, and much more. | D-RATS for DSTAR |
| July | Frank McJunkins-K7RSD | Frank is the District 13 Communications Staff Officer for the auxiliary, and talked about what the Coast Guard Auxiliary is all about, and also talked about some of the communications projects that the auxiliary is working on the area. | USCG District 13 Auxiliary Communications |
| June | Ron Zuber | Our guest speaker at our June 11th club meeting was Ron Zuber of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Ron is a disaster operations specialist and is in charge of HF radio operations for Region 10, which serves Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, and headquartered out of Bothell, WA. Ron gave an overview of FEMA's responsibilities and highlighted their HF radio equipment resources, and some of the upcoming upgrades that will be made in the near future. Prior to his employment at FEMA, Ron worked at the King County Emergency Coordination Center in Renton. | FEMA Region 10 |
| May | Dan Camp-AF7O | Dan Camp-AF7O presented a video of the FO0AAA DX'pedition to Clipperton Island. In addition to highlighting the ham radio operations from the island in 2000, the video also featured some of the history of the small atoll, as well as the critters that live on the island, and of the dark secrets of human residence. The 2000 Clipperton Island DX'pedition netted over seventy-five thousand contacts. We also completed our annual elections. | Clipperton Island DX'pedition |
| April | Dan Camp-AF7O | Dan talked about the benefits of using logging software to log both contest contacts & every day radio contacts. He also detailed how to get started with ARRL's Logbook of the World, and the eQSL Web site. |
N3FLP
Logging Software Logbook of the World eQSL |
| March | Dave Swartz-KC7RRH | The program for our March 12th club meeting was discussions about a City of Federal Way grant opportunity, and how to increase the club's emergency preparedness by submitting applications to the City of Federal Way for this money. | |
| February | Dave Swartz-KC7RRH | The guest speaker at our February 12th club meeting was club's president, Dave Swartz-KC7RRH. Dave talked about Bob Bruninga-WB4APR's Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS) and highlighted on a presentation originally presented by George Hofmann-KU7U a number of years go. APRS can carry tactical message traffic as well as station position indications. | http://www.aprs.org |
| January | Mark Hgler-KK7U | Mark is a professional network engineer specializing in both voice & data communications, and talked about his experiences with using the AllStar Link and his interfacing of analog repeaters to this system. Mark is the president of the Puget Sound Repeater Group, and was recently elected to the position of secretary on the WWARA's board of directors. |
AllStar Link Puget Sound Repeater Group Western Washing Amateur Relay Association (WWARA) |
| 2008 | |||
| December | Bill Balzarini-KL7BB & Dave Swartz-KC7RRH | Bill covered routine battery maintenance and "desulferizing" lead-acid batteries. Additionally, Dave Swartz-KC7RRH highlighted some of the key talking points of the 2007 Global Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Conference. | GAREC 2007 |
| November | Various | We really didn't have a guest speaker at our November 13th club meeting. We had a number of club members demonstrating various topics regarding amateur radio. Bill Balzarini-KL7BB demonstrated the use of a grid-dip meter antenna traps. Kris Nelson-KE7LCX demo'ed his three element Super Antenna covering 6-20 meters. Dan Camp-AF7O showed off his PSK-31 station, including his homebrew sound card interface box, and his portable 20 meter dipole antenna. Steve Hatch-WA7DAD highlighted his D-Star radio along with his DV-Dongle. Prior to these activities the club treasurer Mike McCoy-N7VWD presented the proposed 2009 budget to the membership in attendance. | |
| October | Mark Weitzenhoffer-KC7FAA | Mark Weitzenhoffer-KC7FAA checking in via Echolink and the club's 147.040 repeater. Mark was the club's first president, and the driving force to get the Federal Way Amateur Radio Club designated as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization with the IRS. Mark and his wife, Beverly, live in Blue Mound, TX just north of Fort Worth. | Mark & Bev's myspace.com page |
| September |
Scott Honaker-N7SS Steve Hatch-WA7DAD Bill Balzarini-KL7BB |
Scott Honaker-N7SS, Steve Hatch-WA7DAD, and Bill Balzarini-KL7BB. Scott & Bill showed off the pictures that they took of the W1AW/KL7 special event operations from the arctic circle, the ARRL Alaska Amateur Radio Convention, and of the tour of the High frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) facility located at Galcona, AK. The HAARP system consists of 180 HF antennas & transmitters over 35 acres, The total radiated power capability is 3.6 Megawatts! Steve highlighted his HAARP photos and thos of the ham radio conference. |
2008 Alaska Hamfest Arctic Circle Special Event Station HAARP |
| August | Mario Badua-KD6ILO | Mario provided an overview of the Amateur Television (ATV) repeater system that he has been building in Pierce County. The overview highlighted the different components including the various transmitters, receivers, scan convertors, and internet linking between his sites, and California, as well as the Western Washington Amateur Television Society's Cougar Mountain repeater site. |
KD6ILO Web Site ATV Network WWATVS |
| July | Bonnie Crystal-KQ6XA | Bonnie talked about HF Automatic Link Establishment (ALE) presenting the same power point information she provided at the 2007 IARU Global Amateur Radio Emergency Communications conference. Bonnie will be visiting with the club via SKYPE as she is currently in Hong Kong. | HF Link ALE |
| June | Dan Camp-AF7O | Our guest speaker for our June 12th club meeting was the club's own Dan Camp-AF7O. Dan gave an overview of our upcoming Field Day 2008 activities that will be taking place at the Steel Lake Annex (near the soccer fields on the south side of 312th) during the weekend of June 28th-29th. Dan also provided a demo of the logging software that we will be using to log all of our FD contacts. |
FWARC Field Day 2008 N3FJP Web Site |
| May | Bob Preston-W7TSQ | Bob talked about QSL cards - How to send them & how to receive them, as well as, what makes a good QSL card. Bob has worked various countries such as Tonga, Costa Rica, the Cook Islands, and others. | 7th Area QSL Bureau |
| April | Alan Hughs-KB7SVU | Alan is coordinating the radio communications for the upcoming Tall Ships Tacoma event that takes place on the Tacoma waterfront from July 3rd through July 8th, and provided an overview of role that ham radio will play during this event. | Tacoma Tall Ships |
| March | Dave Swartz-KC7RRH | Dave provided overviews on a number of software programs with primary focus on using Airmail with the SV2AGW packet engine software. | |
| February | John Holmquist-W7WAY | John talked talked about and presented a power point presentation on electrical motors. He has been inducted into the Oregon State University's Engineering Hall of Fame, and appointed by the IEEE as a Distinguished Lecturer. John recently retired from Weyerhaeuser after 56 year of service, and managed over 100,000 motors. John has received his ARRL Life Membership after over 50 years of membership. | OSU College of Engineering |
| January | Dr. Bonnie Dunbar-KD5DCB | Dr. Dunbar is a technician class licensee and a former space shuttle astronaut. As a NASA Mission Specialist, Dr. Dunbar is a veteran of five space shuttle flights and has logged over fifty days in space including serving as Payload Commander on two flights, and docking with the space station MIR. Dr. Dunbar presented a power point presentation about NASA's space shuttle program and talked about her experiences of operating amateur radio from space. |
Dr. Dunbar's
Biography Boeing's Museum of Flight |
| 2007 | |||
| December | Mike Ford-KE7AYE | Mike is a licensed electrician with Fuller Electric, and talked about emergency generators & transfer switches. Mike will provided some insight on getting the right size generator and the right type of transfer switch, as well as touched on "Generator Do's & Don'ts." | Fuller Electric |
| November | None Scheduled | We didn't have any guest speakers scheduled for our November 8th club meeting. However, Mike-N7VWD, the club's Treasurer, presented the club's proposed budget for 2008. The members in attendance approved the budget unanimously. Additionally, Nick-N7QOR and Steve-WA7DAD talked about progress being made with the club's new D-Star repeater system. | |
| October | Nick Sutton-N7QOR | Nick provided a quick overview of how digital voice is accomplished on a RF carrier, and also talked about the club's new Icom D-Star repeater system. | Icom D-Star Web Page |
| September |
Brian Daly-WB7OML Western Washington Medical Services Team |
Brian provided an overview of the Western Washington Medical Services Team. | www.ww7mst.org |
| August | Art Jury - KF7GD | Art is a returning guest speaker talking about Radio Direction Finding. He also provided a short video of the six annual US National ARDF championships in Raleigh, NC in 2006. Art also brought along his RDF equipment and hid a number of transmitters in the parking lot for club members to try to find. The kids, big & small, had fun looking. |
Art Jury's T-hunt web page K0OV Homin' In |
| July |
John Rader - AA7ZV |
John talked briefly about the Winlink 2000 HF e-mail system, then talked in depth about various client software packages that interface with Winlink. These included Hyperterminal, Paclink, and Airmail. |
Winlink 2000 Airmail 2000 John's PP Presentation |
| June | Steve Hatch - WA7DAD | Steve is the club's new president, and talked about some of his goals & objectives that he has for the upcoming year. He also showed off one of ARRL's Go kits currently on loan to the FWARC for field day. | Federal Way ARC |
| May | Ed Bruette-N7NVP | Ed is ARRL's Western Washington section manager, and the Washington State RACES officer. Ed talked about the recent SHB-2335 activities, and presented a video produced by Mark Tharp-KB7HDX. The video, on emergency management, was presented to the Washington State Emergency Managers Association (WSEMA) earlier in the year. | ARRL WWA Section |
| April | Jim Fenstermaker K9JF | Jim is the ARRL's Northwest Division director and provided a PowerPoint presentation, giving a general overview of ARRL, and the four areas of which ARRL is concentrating to promote the league and amateur radio. | ARRL NW Division |
| March |
Steve Gentry South King Fire/Rescue |
Captain Steve Gentry of the South King Fire & Rescue Department talked about some of the departments cool hazardous materials (Hazmat) detection toys and how area fire departments will respond to a hazmat incident in the Federal Way area. | South King Fire & Rescue |
| February |
Mike Mertel-K7IR SteppIR Antennas |
Mike Mertel-K7IR, accompanied by his wife, Marla, provided a demonstration of his unique design of yagi antennas. Mike's design uses stepper motors & copper tape to change the length of the antenna elements. | SteppIR Antennas |
| January | No Guest Speaker | Due to inclement weather, the January 11th club meeting was cancelled for safety concerns. By the way, this is the first time in club history that we have cancelled a club meeting. | |
| 2006 | |||
| December | No Guest Speaker | Despite stormy weather conditions & the lack of electrical power, a small number of club members ventured out and celebrated the holiday season with punch & cookies, and a small gift exchange during the December's club meeting. Mike-N7VWD provided electrical power for lighting from the 120V AC outlet in the back of his pickup truck. | Federal Way Amateur Radio Club |
| November |
Bob Belcher Puget Sound Energy |
Our guest speaker for our November 9th club meeting was Bob Belcher of Puget Sound Energy. Provided a high voltage electrical safety demonstration. Talking about "Shock & Awe", this was a very good demonstration on what the dangers of high voltage can be. | Puget Sound Energy |
| October |
Ted Buehner Seattle NOAA Office |
Ted talked about how information is disseminated across the weather radio network, and touched on changes with the Emergency Alert System (EAS). |
www.weather.gov/seattle http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/sew/nwr1.php |
| September | Mike Dinkleman, N7WA | Mike talked about DX and how to work a "Pile Up". Mike is an avid DX'er, and a member of the Mike & Key and Western Washing DX Clubs. |
Mike & Key Radio Club Western Washington DX Club |
| August | Scott Honaker, N7SS | Scott talked what the Pacific Northwest VHF Society is all about, and of the upcoming annual conference being held in Bellingham in September. Scott talked about the other operating modes on UHF & VHF frequencies besides FM. He also mentioned the advantages of operating from hilltops vs marine mobile while contesting. | Pacific Northwest VHF Society |
| July | Pete Petersen, WY7Z | Pete Petersen wowed the crowd as he displayed some of the antique radios that he has restored over the years. Pete talked about the Puget Sound Antique Radio Society, and their upcoming swap meet on August 20th. Pete also mentioned the American Museum of Radio & Electricity located in Bellingham. |
Puget Antique Radio
Society American Museum of Radio & Electricity |
| June | Ray Gross | Ray Gross, the new Emergency Management Coordinator for the City of Federal Way provided some insight to some of his goals for his new job. | http://www.cityoffederalway.com/Page.aspx?view=72 |
| May | South King Fire & Rescue | A couple of firemen from South King Fire & Rescue were supposed to be our guest speaker, but were called out for a brush fire, & then an overturned boat on a local lake. The topic was supposed to be Hazardous Materials. Guest speaker & topic to be rescheduled. | http://www.southkingfire.org/ |
| April | Bill Balzarini, KL7BB | As our scheduled guest speaker couldn't make it to the April club meeting, Bill Balzarini-KL7BB provided an impromptu talk about various types of field day antennas. | |
| March | Commander Andy Hwang | Commander Hwang talked about personal safety, as well as the Federal Way Police Department's emergency response management. | http://www.cityoffederalway.com/Page.aspx?view=68 |
| February | Medi Sadri | Medi is the IT Systems Manager for the City of Federal Way, and Federal Way Wireless. Medi talked about Federal Way Wireless, and what WiFi in the Federal Way area is all about. | http://www.federalwaywireless.com/ |
| January | Dan Camp, KK7UZ | Dan Camp-KK7UZ, was our guest speaker at our January 12th club meeting. Dan provided a wonderful presentation into the different types of logging software as a lead into talking about the ARRL's Logbook of the World. | http://www.arrl.org/lotw/ |
| 2005 | |||
| December | Lee Leddy | Lee Leddy. Lee recently spent two years with the Army's Criminal Investigation Division (CID) Personal Protective Service, with some of that time spent in Iraq. Lee provided high level protection to civilian members of the US Department of Defense such as Secretary Rumsfeld during his visits to Iraq. Lee Leddy is currently a Lieutenant with the Federal Way Police Department. |
http://www.cid.army.mil/ http://www.cityoffederalway.com/Page.aspx?view=68 |
| November | Ward Silver, N0AX | Ward provided a power point presentation of the recent K7C DXpedition to Kure Island. Ward highlighted his new book, "Two-Way Radios & Scanners for Dummies", as well as his other book, "Ham Radio for Dummies". Ward also provided information on the 2005 Frequency Measuring Test that will take place on November 16th. |
http://rcordell.securesites.net/htdocs/KURE/ http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2005/11/09/3/?nc=1 Two-Way Radios & Scanners for Dummies |
| October | Mike Mraz, N6MZ | Mike talked about is participation in the FT5XO DXpedition to the Kerguelen Islands located between South Africa and Australia in the Indian Ocean in April 2005. Mike also hit on the K7C DXpedition to Kure Island in the Hawaiian Island chain. |
http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org/msg01638.html http://rcordell.securesites.net/htdocs/KURE/ |
| September |
Al Church Connie Henke Harry Hart |
The Federal Way ARC had three guest speakers at the Sept 8th monthly club meeting. Al Church, the Federal Way Fire Department Fire Chief, presented the club with a plaque. Connie Henke, the chairperson for the Auburn Good Ol' Days, presented a donation to the club's president, Gary Bryan, and Harry Hart of Awarea Corp talked about RFID tags and of the projects that he is involved with in Pioneer Square and downtown Seattle. |
http://www.federalwayfire.org/home.html
http://www.auburngoodoldays.com http://www.awarea.com |
| August | Greg Beeck, KD7IIQ | FWARC's own Greg Beeck-KD7IIQ talked about the upcoming Federal Way Festival Days events that will take place during the weekend of August 26th through 28th. | http://www.festivaldays.org |
| July |
Pam Bryan, N7PRS & Art Kritzer |
Pam Bryan-N7PRS, and Art Kritzer representing the Seafair Parade Marshals, were our guest speakers. Pam & Art talked about the upcoming Seattle Seafair Tourchlight parade and other Seafair related parades. | http://www.seafairparademarshals.org |
| June | Alan Hughs, KB7SVU | Alan Hughs, and the Pierce County ARES/RACES group presented the new Pierce County communications van, and provided training for the upcoming Tacoma Tallships event that will take place on the Tacoma waterfront from June 30th to July 5th, 2005. |
http://www.pcsar-tac.org/ http://piercecounty.danawheels.net/ |
| May | Alan Hughs, KB7SVU | Alan provided information, and solicited for volunteers for the upcoming Tacoma Tallships event that will take place on the Tacoma waterfront from June 30th to July 5th, 2005. | http://www.tallshipstacoma.org |
| April |
Ross Morris WSDOT |
Ross Morris is a technical manager for the Washington State Department of Transportation's (WSDOT) Commercial Vehicle Information Systems and Network (CVISN) Program, which includes their "Weigh In Motion" system. Ross talked about how radio transceivers makes the Weigh In Motion system work. | http://www.cvisn.wsdot.wa.gov/ |
| March |
Rick Williamson Budget Batteries |
Rick Williamson talked about some of the different types of batteries, including how to maintain them and keeping them charged up. | http://budgetbatteriesinc.com/ |
| February |
Chris Hesseltine Backroom Computer Service |
Chris Hesseltine owns his own business in Auburn, WA called "Backroom Computer Services". Chris works on computers that have been hit with a virus, spyware, or adware. Chris talked about how to prevent viruses, spyware, and adware, and how to recover after catching one of these. | Backroom Computer Service |
| January | Ward Silver, N0AX | Ward Silver, N0AX, talked about his new book, "Ham Radio For Dummies". |
Ham Radio For Dummies http://www.arrl.org/news/puzzles/ |
| 2004 | |||
| December |
Ted Buehner NOAA |
Ted Buehner talked about the Skywarn program in Western Washington. |
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/sew/spotter.php http://www.skywarn.org/default.htm |
| November |
Greg Vause Federal Way Police Dept |
Greg Vause talked about the City of Federal Way's Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), and Neighborhood Emergency Team (NET) programs. |
CERT
Program NET Program Federal Way Police Dept |
| October | Dave Funk, WA7RSO | Dave provided at talk about Amplitude Modulation (AM), and Frequency Modulation (FM) theory. | http://www.solutionsforeducation.com/ |
| September |
Dan Humphery ARRL OO Program |
Dan talked about what the American Radio Relay League's (ARRL) Official Observer Program is all about. | http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/org/oo.html |
| August | Greg Beeck, KD7IIQ | FWARC's own Greg Beeck, KD7IIQ, talked about the upcoming Federal Way Festival Days events. | http://www.festivaldays.org/ |
| July | Meteor Communications | http://www.meteorcomm.com/ | |
| June | |||
| May |
Nick Sutton Icom America |
Nick talked about Icom's new D-Star digital radio system. | http://www.icomamerica.com/amateur/dstar/ |
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| January | DaveFunk, WA7RSO | FWARC's own Dave Funk, WA7RSO, talked about how to build and tune a J-Pole type antenna. | http://www.solutionsforeducation.com/ |