Text Box: 339-4308 kb2ccd@arrl.net REPEATER TRUSTEE Bill Effland K2GVI 853-5700 k2gvi@localnet.com WEB MASTER * Russell Brown WB2JIL 865-4390 wb2jil@arrl.net * Appointed Position Text Box: The Rome Radio Club elected a slate of new officers for the year 2008. The following officers were elected during the Sep 2007 meeting. The Term runs from 1 October 2007 to 30 September 2008. PRESIDENT Dave Muscarella K2YE 337-0790 k2ye@twcny.rr.com VICE PRESIDENT Tony Lo Vaglio WA2GBE 337-2293 lovaglio@localnet.com Text Box: SECRETARY Joan Effland KA2TSC 853-5700 k2gvi@localnet.com TREASURER Terry Grimes KC2NZW 894-0017 TerryG103@aol.com PROGRAM DIRECTOR Russell Brown WB2JIL 865-4390 wb2jil@arrl.net NEWS LETTER EDITOR Michael Little KB2CCD Text Box: 2008 Officers Elected Text Box: Club Repeater Getting New Antenna (146.880/280) Text Box: The Club’s 2 meter repeater, the 146.880 MHz repeater located off Belcher Road in Lee, NY, has been on a back up antenna for a while. As it turns out, the widow of one of our life members, Norm Bernstein, K2KLV (SK), has donated an antenna that was mounted out in her backyard. Club members have gone to get it and will be installing it Text Box: at the repeater site when the antenna can be tested and refurbished as necessary. Bill Effland reported at the October meeting that even with the backup antenna, the repeater is getting pretty good coverage. OCTEN, the Oneida County Traffic and Emergency Net, one of the local National Traffic System (NTS) nets Text Box: has been using the repeater for the last 6 to 8 months as one of their satellite repeaters and as one of two primary repeaters for their late nets. The repeater is also a backup ARES repeater and has been used as an Echo Link gateway repeater in a joint project with the Madison-Oneida Amateur Radio Club (MOARC). Text Box: ROME RADIO CLUB, Inc. Text Box: Newsletter Date November 2007 Text Box: Volume 3, Issue 1 Text Box: News Letter Text Box: Quick Notes: Next Meeting - December 5th, 2007 at Stiefvaters Consultants located 584 Phoenix Drive on the Griffiss Technology Park in Rome, NY Next Testing Session - December 7th, 2007 Next RRC Hamfest - August 16th, 2007 The Rome Radio Club, Inc is 73 years old

ARES/RACES

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Audio Meeting Minutes

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Club’s Hamfest Date set for 2008

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Contest Calendar

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Editor’s Notes

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Membership Renewal

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Roaming Roman’s Net

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Back to the Future

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