DELARANEWS
DELARA NEWS is the monthly publication of the Delaware Amateur Radio Association, Delaware OH.
November 2022 VOL 41 Number 11
Welcome
This is the official newsletter of a great ham radio club! Our DELARA family appreciates what you’re doing with the hobby! Why not take a few minutes and write out what interests you in our hobby! We have room for your article always!The Prez’s Shack
Passing of the gavel...
As I write this, we are just a couple of days away from our last meeting of 2022 - Election Night for DELARA. My second year as President is drawing to an end, and we will soon have a new President and VP. As I look back at the past two years, it is hard to believe everything we did together. We got past the days of restrictions and resumed in-person meetings in May of 2021. We got back to offering VE Test Sessions, held some great training events, participated in several ARES events, and saw our Informal Nightly Net extend into its third year. The club had outstanding results in Field Day of 2021 and 2022. DELARA earned a 1st place award in the Ohio QSO Party, and we held the first annual MUD (Madison, Union, Delaware) QSO Party. The club purchased a Flex radio for easy remote operation from home. We put up a new 160m antenna (a couple of times), and our work parties did maintenance on the tower and performed other general improvements. Lastly, the 145.17 repeater was relocated to a new receive-site. Along the way, our membership grew each year and we made many new friends. It has been a busy couple of years! There have been heartbreaking losses as well. Several of our members became Silent Keys over the past couple of years, including: Ken W8SMK, Walt KC8CNT, Dave WB2CWJ and just recently Roger KE8RTF. We face some big challenges going into 2023. With the renovation of the Red Cross building, our radio room has been put into storage and we lost our familiar meeting room and VE Testing space. Next year we will have to build out the new radio room and adjust to a different meeting location. We also need someone to take over the club website and newsletter. The new club officers will need a lot of help and support. I'm sure they will get it. So as I prepare to bang the gavel for the last time, I want to thank everyone who helped me these past two years. And I especially want to thank everyone who stepped forward to volunteer, participate, Elmer or in some way pitch in. Whether you climbed a tower, buried coax, wrote an article, ran a net, made name badges, sent out membership material, sat at a booth, operated in a contest, served as a VE, supported the community in an ARES event or just stayed late to put the chairs back after the meeting - you contributed. You made a difference, and I thank you! 73 - Mike W8MDC DELARA President President@K8es.org
DELARA
<--- What he said. :-) This will be the last newsletter I get to assemble as my term and office as “Web-dude” is expiring. Life changes that we all go through (smaller house, one floor, with more attention required within the family) have resulted in watching 30 years of stored “stuff” fill a dump truck. But you know we can still look back with satisfaction,and more important we get to look forward eagerly to what’s yet to come! DELARA is a wonderful organization and more so the friendships we form within and outside of the hobby. Those will continue. As for me, I will readily deflect any compliments to our band of crazies- the writers who have made the newsletter what it is: Joe Papworth and his singing poetry, Bob Dixon and his endless stream of experiments and devices, Craig Miller’s super-creative writing which included sending Section and Division leadership into a panic when an April Fool’s article claimed his callsign was recalled. We’ve had an interesting history series from Will N8HDM and a series of flight foibles from Wally W8WLK. Many more have contributed, and we all owe them our thanks! I certainly offer my thanks to all for making this an easy labor! -Stan, N8BHL
DELARANews
DELARA NEWS is the monthly publication of the Delaware
Amateur Radio Association, Delaware OH.
November 2022 VOL 41 Number 11
Welcome
This is the official newsletter of a great ham radio club! Our DELARA family appreciates what you’re doing with the hobby! Why not take a few minutes and write out what interests you in our hobby! We have room for your article always!The Prez’s Shack
Passing of the gavel...
As I write this, we are just a couple of days away from our last meeting of 2022 - Election Night for DELARA. My second year as President is drawing to an end, and we will soon have a new President and VP. As I look back at the past two years, it is hard to believe everything we did together. We got past the days of restrictions and resumed in- person meetings in May of 2021. We got back to offering VE Test Sessions, held some great training events, participated in several ARES events, and saw our Informal Nightly Net extend into its third year. The club had outstanding results in Field Day of 2021 and 2022. DELARA earned a 1st place award in the Ohio QSO Party, and we held the first annual MUD (Madison, Union, Delaware) QSO Party. The club purchased a Flex radio for easy remote operation from home. We put up a new 160m antenna (a couple of times), and our work parties did maintenance on the tower and performed other general improvements. Lastly, the 145.17 repeater was relocated to a new receive-site. Along the way, our membership grew each year and we made many new friends. It has been a busy couple of years! There have been heartbreaking losses as well. Several of our members became Silent Keys over the past couple of years, including: Ken W8SMK, Walt KC8CNT, Dave WB2CWJ and just recently Roger KE8RTF. We face some big challenges going into 2023. With the renovation of the Red Cross building, our radio room has been put into storage and we lost our familiar meeting room and VE Testing space. Next year we will have to build out the new radio room and adjust to a different meeting location. We also need someone to take over the club website and newsletter. The new club officers will need a lot of help and support. I'm sure they will get it. So as I prepare to bang the gavel for the last time, I want to thank everyone who helped me these past two years. And I especially want to thank everyone who stepped forward to volunteer, participate, Elmer or in some way pitch in. Whether you climbed a tower, buried coax, wrote an article, ran a net, made name badges, sent out membership material, sat at a booth, operated in a contest, served as a VE, supported the community in an ARES event or just stayed late to put the chairs back after the meeting - you contributed. You made a difference, and I thank you! 73 - Mike W8MDC DELARA President President@K8es.org
DELARAActive
Lots of things to do!
DELARA members are bacck in the swing! Over the past couple of months, there have been a number of activities in which many of our members have participated! Over the summer in addition to Field Day (always a big draw) the Boot Camp brought a large number out for a fun day. Ironman fielded 29 ham operators from three counties to help keep that event running. The latest adventures have included a large turnout for the Ohio QSO Party, putting the ARC stations back on the air. And in mid- September came the All Horse Parade, complete with Clydesdales. And of course the nightly radio nets, the digital group, and ARES training are there to keep us interacting. We send big thanks out to all who take their time and effort to have fun and serve our community! DELARA is an active club- and if you’re a newer member to the hobby, these activities are a great way to make some serious friendships! That has always been the best part of DELARA - friendships built around a common interest!
