VVARA Meeting Notice for February, 2008
 
We hope to see you at our next monthly club meeting at the Cottonwood Public Safety Building conference room (6th Street & Aspen) at 7 p.m. on Wednesday February 20th.  Doors open about 6:30 p.m.
 
Some of us will be stopping by the new Pizza Hut in Cottonwood (just down Main Street from Walgreens) for pizza and/or wings about 5:30 p.m. before heading to the meeting.  Come by and join us for some dinner and a pre-meeting chat with your fellow hams. 
 
Ernie Cummings, K6XF, will be our speaker and will be presenting a Power Point slide show on the use of Ham Radio in Sailplanes and Gliding and will be discussing "flying for fun", soaring contests for award badges, and just what goes into record setting high altitude glider flights.  Ernie is an experienced glider pilot has had lots of adventures flying along the eastern Sierras.   He will be taking questions following his presentation.    This promises to be a very interesting and fun presentation so be sure to come early to hear his talk.
 
Club Dues:  Please send your 2008 dues to our new Treasurer at the following address:
 
                                                     William G. Martens, K7YKN, Treasurer
                                                     Verde Valley Amateur Radio Assn.
                                                     P.O. Box 4461
                                                     Cottonwood, AZ  86326
 
Your dues are needed to maintain, update and repair your club repeater on Mingus Mountain and to support a variety of club activities throughout the year.  Funds go to pay our Liability and Equipment insurance and for 
dues to ARCA and AZ Corp. Commission fees and for printing and distributing club newsletters & membership directories and for fees for our club website (www.vvara.org).  The club also provides food and refreshments for our members at the annual Field Day picnic and at Ham Fests during the year.  We pay for free clip-on name tags for all of our members when they join.  Our Sunshine commitee also sends out Get Well and condolence cards and flowers as needed throughout the year.
 
Dues are still $20 for Full members and $10 for Family members (with an FCC Call) and Associate members, who wish to support the club but do not have a ham license.  We ask that you make out dues checks or money orders to "V V A R A".  If you have any changes in your Directory information (new e-mail, phone, etc) just go to the club website www.vvara.org and fill out the form for membership renewal.
 
We have not received dues from many of our members this year, so please try to send them in before the end of the month.  If you wish, you can pay your dues in person at the meeting.
 
Thank you and we will look forward to seeing you on Feb. 20th in Cottonwood.
 
Mel
 
 
Mel Boreham, N6BDC
President,
Verde Valley Amateur Radio Assn. 
 
 
I have added a note from Mike Wingate, WA6SLE, regarding a new repeater that is now available to our members. 

I just wanted make sure all know that it is OK for VVARA members to use the KF6FM 147.100 repeater located on Squaw Peak. It has great coverage and when the 147.220 is in use; folks could go over to the Squaw Pk. machine!  It transmits on 147.100, receives on 147.700 and has a PL tone of 131.8Hz.  This would also give us a work around if power goes down on Mingus for any length of time, as the site is solar powered.  My only request is that no nets be held on it as that would eat a lot of power, during the summer no problem as I have more solar than I need, during winter normal ham traffic would not hurt it either, just long winded nets.   Anyhow; from Tim KF6FM and myself welcome aboard to all in the VVARA.    73 Mike