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Scott Yonally, N8SY

The holidays have been a blur, with Christmas coming so fast there hardly seemed like time enough to get all the things that I need to get done - done. It started out great attending the Ashland Area Amateur Radio Club’s Christmas dinner and meeting. Then off to more meetings with several of the EMA Directors around Ohio. If you weren’t aware, I make it a point to keep in contact with as many of the Directors as I can. Sometimes we meet for breakfast, and sometimes we just sit down with coffee and discuss what Amateur Radio can bring to the table. Janie and I got to attend the Silvercreek ARA and LCARC Christmas parties as well. Yes, Christmas is a time for parties for sure including the Cambridge ARA Christmas party celebrating not only the Christmas season, but this is also their time to shine as one of the oldest Amateur Radio Clubs in the country! They will be 105 years young. Now that’s a testament of time for sure. How many other clubs are that old and still active with their members as well as their community! Update on the Yonally lighting campaign. I got a call this past week from our local airport (Mansfield Lahm). They told me that several aircraft pilots have complained that my lights were so bright that they thought they were in the wrong location for a landing. They asked me if I could tone it down a bit so that they could at least get the larger aircraft situated properly on the landing strip. Ok.. nuff on that subject, let’s turn the VFO upwards and see who’s on the upper portion of the band, and NO, I won’t go near the band edge! Have you seen the newest article that is in the newsletter? It’s about finding those persons that have QSL cards waiting to be delivered to them, but their card sorter doesn’t have the proper postage, or address for them to get delivered to them. Please, take a look at all of the call signs listed, I bet you’ll see a call sign there that you recognize. Heck, I even recognize some of them! No, mine’s not among the listed, but I do know of a few that are there. If you see a call sign that is familiar to you, or is yours, contact the card sorter listed in the article to get those cards! Look, you took the dive into the world of DX and made a contact with someone, so why not go that little bit more and get the QSL card that makes the contact all worthwhile. Moving down the band a bit.. We had an updated performed on our website server the other day that made the One Question Questionnaire inoperative, but the website is actually functioning better and faster than what it was doing before, so it makes it hard to complain much about what we lost. I am still working on bringing the poll back, but for now I just haven’t found a good fit for it, yet. I will continue to work on getting this back. Let’s switch bands and go to a new topic… Club Newsletter Editors… I want to make sure that you know that the annual Ohio Section Newsletter Contest will be starting back up in January, just a few short weeks away! If your January newsletter gets mailed out in December, like many do, make sure that John Ross, KD8IDJ and I are on your mailing list to get it. Want more information about the Newsletter Contest? Click on this link.. http://arrl-ohio.org/pic_page/pic.html Even if your newsletter is web based, send us the link!! I didn’t get much of a chance this week to do any design work on the new ham shack since it has been so busy around here, but I will get to it soon for sure.
DELARANews

Section news

Scott Yonally, N8SY

The holidays have been a blur, with Christmas coming so fast there hardly seemed like time enough to get all the things that I need to get done - done. It started out great attending the Ashland Area Amateur Radio Club’s Christmas dinner and meeting. Then off to more meetings with several of the EMA Directors around Ohio. If you weren’t aware, I make it a point to keep in contact with as many of the Directors as I can. Sometimes we meet for breakfast, and sometimes we just sit down with coffee and discuss what Amateur Radio can bring to the table. Janie and I got to attend the Silvercreek ARA and LCARC Christmas parties as well. Yes, Christmas is a time for parties for sure including the Cambridge ARA Christmas party celebrating not only the Christmas season, but this is also their time to shine as one of the oldest Amateur Radio Clubs in the country! They will be 105 years young. Now that’s a testament of time for sure. How many other clubs are that old and still active with their members as well as their community! Update on the Yonally lighting campaign. I got a call this past week from our local airport (Mansfield Lahm). They told me that several aircraft pilots have complained that my lights were so bright that they thought they were in the wrong location for a landing. They asked me if I could tone it down a bit so that they could at least get the larger aircraft situated properly on the landing strip. Ok.. nuff on that subject, let’s turn the VFO upwards and see who’s on the upper portion of the band, and NO, I won’t go near the band edge! Have you seen the newest article that is in the newsletter? It’s about finding those persons that have QSL cards waiting to be delivered to them, but their card sorter doesn’t have the proper postage, or address for them to get delivered to them. Please, take a look at all of the call signs listed, I bet you’ll see a call sign there that you recognize. Heck, I even recognize some of them! No, mine’s not among the listed, but I do know of a few that are there. If you see a call sign that is familiar to you, or is yours, contact the card sorter listed in the article to get those cards! Look, you took the dive into the world of DX and made a contact with someone, so why not go that little bit more and get the QSL card that makes the contact all worthwhile. Moving down the band a bit.. We had an updated performed on our website server the other day that made the One Question Questionnaire inoperative, but the website is actually functioning better and faster than what it was doing before, so it makes it hard to complain much about what we lost. I am still working on bringing the poll back, but for now I just haven’t found a good fit for it, yet. I will continue to work on getting this back. Let’s switch bands and go to a new topic… Club Newsletter Editors… I want to make sure that you know that the annual Ohio Section Newsletter Contest will be starting back up in January, just a few short weeks away! If your January newsletter gets mailed out in December, like many do, make sure that John Ross, KD8IDJ and I are on your mailing list to get it. Want more information about the Newsletter Contest? Click on this link.. http://arrl-ohio.org/pic_page/pic.html Even if your newsletter is web based, send us the link!! I didn’t get much of a chance this week to do any design work on the new ham shack since it has been so busy around here, but I will get to it soon for sure.