The Bike Ride, had it come off on schedule, would have been a beautiful day for it...with temperatures in the mid-seventies, a  slight breeze blowing, and with perfectly clear Carolina Blue  skies.  But their decision to postpone the Ride was a correct one...what with flooding conditons possible due to Hurricane Ivan skirting all around us!  Better to have been  safe than sorry.
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In the "Rambling, Tidbits, and Parting Shots" section on pg. 4,  I used a bit of newsprint space to cover  another subject close to my heart...Jeeps!  If you don't want to
see items of this type in the future, then by all means, let me know!! GPS (global positioning system) units are fast becoming a way of life.  Many auto manufacturers are now offering "OnStar" (see last month's editorial!) and the price of small handheld units are now competively priced in the $100-$150 range.  In addition, the Motorola cellphone, Model V-60X, has a built-in GPS (call 911 and you can be pinpointed to within 300 yards)...much better than the older "nearest tower" concept which could be up to 10 miles distant!
     New Car-Jacking                         Scheme! It was fully intended (as mentioned in the column to the right) that this issue of the newsletter was going to be in an entirely different format - Microsoft's Front Page instead of Print Shop Deluxe (one which seems to have its' own idea as to how it formats a page when the newsletter is uploaded to our temporary website by inserting large blocks of "white space" ).  Due to the editor's recent surgery and subsequent convalesence, severely limiting the time spent in front of the computer, learning Front Page with a new newsletter format had to be postponed, at least temporarily, until a later date.  A new "temporary" website is also being developed and Print Shop will be used for that effort also...at least at the start, until Front Page can shoulder that responsibilty as well.  Your patience is requested while we learn and grow! Thanks! Our Mailing address is:  Lenoir Amateur Radio Club,  P.O. Box 3276, Lenoir, NC, 28645. ARRL Affiliation It is now official...the Lenoir ARC is again recognized as an  ARRL Affiliated Club , confirmed by eMail last month.  (51% of the members must be full ARRL members).
No new members were inducted at the September meeting...but 2 visitors were present at the meeting (Clayton Crump, KE4VJH , & Tim Honeycutt, KD4YJN ). Please note! Speaking of Addresses... The LARC now has a brand-new web domain identity - thanks to Gary, KD4YTU!  He has secured for us the domain address of Lenoir-ARC.org (and .net) .  Gary will set up a number of email addresses using this domain and later will host our very own website on his server free of charge!  Add ti onally, this newsletter will be available on the website for viewing and/or printing simply by clicking on one of the several "tabs".  Work will begin shortly on the design and implementation of the new website!! Recently, while surfing the internet, I ran across 2 websites that will be of particular interest to our members.  The first deals with frequency charts (airplane, navigation, federal, and ham band allocation charts from Icom).
Check it out at this link:  Frequencies
For those hard-to-find manuals for older VHF and HF equipment, try Manuals (many are free). Full website addresses for these two are:
http://www.ac6v.com/frequencies.htm
http://www.ac6v.com/manuals.htm#free.
Enjoy!              -73, Tom, KA4HKK
The editor reserves the right to edit and/or paraphrase articles or "news" submitted for inclusion into the LARC newsletter due to time and/or space constraints. Submit articles, etc. to Jim, N4EUX, at bozo38@charter.net.    tnx! GPS Remember when Dick Tracy's "wrist" 2-way radio (later a wrist TV) was so far-fetched that is was considered science-ficton?  Well, now that these things are ho-hum, and a wrist pager is also now readly available, it was only a matter of time before the wrist GPS hit the market!  Enter the Garmin wrist GPS ForeTrex 201 unit bowing      Our "New" Newsletter
GPS
Our Mailing address is:  Lenoir Amateur Radio Club,  P.O. Box 3276, Lenoir, NC, 28645. Speaking of Addresses... The LARC now has a brand-new web domain identity - thanks to Gary, KD4YTU!  He has secured for us the domain address of Lenoir-ARC.org (and .net) .  Gary will set up a number of email addresses using this domain and later will host our very own website on his server free of charge!  Additionally, this newsletter will be available on the website for viewing and/or printing simply by clicking on one of the several "options".  Work will begin shortly on the design and implementation of the new website!! ARRL Affiliation
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