Monday Night Net has been Moved to Tuesday Night at 7 PM starting August 12th. Please remember to advise our Club Secretary or our President of the neighborhood you live in and what equipment and capabilities you have with regard to emergency communications. Also, if you have portable equipment and can be deployed to another location should an emergency arise. Terry AH2H has agreed to serve as a Co-Webmaster for our site . He will be co-administering the site and adding to it the excellent Newsletters that he has been producing for our club. Please feel free to contact Terry as well as myself with any additons or subtractions necessary on our site.
Ron Greene
Our Wed Coffee meetings will now be held at The Oaks from 7:30 AM till 9AM.
Breakfast will be available at the "Caddy Shack Cafe" next to The Oaks (Legacy Hill Golf
Course). Come this Wed June 11th and we will show you the new EOC under the
Oaks.
D.E.A.R.S.
A new acronym, that we all will become more familiar with as time goes on. Standing for “ Disaster & Emergency Amateur Radio Service, It is a group name that S.C.A.R.S. has developed for our very own Sun City Emergency Team. Sun City needs to be able to stand alone for a specified period of time should a disaster happen in our community. As Radio Amateurs we are all familiar with response to these things as during many weather and other types of emergencies we have all seen how our community of HAMS have responded. We have the unique ability of communicating when commercial entities and the authorities cannot and we must be ready to respond should the need ever arise.
Sun City is presently in committee with regard to an Emergency Plan and our very own Club
President has now become a member of that committee. Hopefully we will be able to lead them with
regard to response (at least from a communication point of view) in the event of a
happening. As a D.E.A.R.S. member, you will all be issued a photo ID card which will
eventually become known to our civil authorities as well as our Sun City personnel that will allow
them to recognize that we are “Trained Radio Amateurs” who are part of the S.C.A.R.S. team and are
responding to whatever the local emergency happens to be. We are in the process of
coordinating with the C.A, to set up a EOC right here in Sun City and have a proposal on the table
for the necessary equipment. Be sure to attend our next club meeting for a complete update. Cards
have already been created and are being distributed to our members who have submitted their
pictures for our Web Site. Those who have no pictures on our site will not have cards issued. Those
who do not have a picture on the site can email their picture to Ron Greene at
ron@rgtexnet.com and a card will be issued and your
picture will be put up on the site.
_______________________________________________________________________________ TEXAS HAMS NOW HAVE SIMPLIFIED LICENSE PLATE RENEWAL PROCESS
The Special Registration Branch of the Texas Department of
Transportation has confirmed that Texas amateur radio license plates
("Radio Operator") will now have a combined registration and
special plate renewal notice beginning with March 2008 renewals.
http://rts.texasonline.state.tx.us/NASApp/txdotrts/SpecialPlateOrderServlet?grpid=80&pltid=132
Licensed amateur radio operators will no longer have to send in the $1.00 special plate renewal annually and then process a separate registration renewal. This should also resolve the confusion of multiple vehicles bearing the same call sign which resulted in only registration for one vehicle being sent. Now, everything will be handled as a single renewal/registration for each vehicle. The Special Registration Branch began sending the combined notices for March renewals with only two weeks prior to expiration. April and May renewals should have at least 3 weeks notice prior to expiration and by June the system should be on track with at least a month's notice prior to expiration. Texas amateur radio operators who would like to obtain Radio Operator plates (the application fee is only $2.00 plus the vehicle registration) can find more information plus an application form at _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Our Weather Radio Setup Program for the residents of Sun City has been a most successful program. We have set up in excess of 40 residents radios and are hearing from more each day. The program has been received very well by those who have taken advantage of it. Now they can leave their radios on knowing that it will only alert on Williamson County Weather and Amber Alert Emergencies. We will reserve a room if necessary for future set up sessions at the CA, but we have been most successful talking many of our residents through the procedure. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________
ATTENTION ALL MEMBERS WHO FILE AND RECEIVE APPROVAL FOR
OUTSIDE ANTENNAS: PLEASE ADVISE OUR CLUB SECRETARY OF YOUR ACCEPTANCE.
CHECK OUT " WXSPOTS" - WEATHER REPORTING SOFTWARE BY CLICKING ON THIS LINK ____________________________________________________________________________________________________
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