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THE WORLD ABOVE 50 MHZ CLUBS REDUX THIS MONTH THE LEAD ARTICLE WILL BE
RATHER BRIEF BECAUSE AFTER A RELATIVELY QUIET SPRING, THE VHF BANDS HAVE
BEEN VERY EXCITING THIS MAY.  MY CORRESPONDENTS HAVE BEEN VERY GENEROUS
THIS MONTH AND I WANT TO LEAVE ENOUGH SPACE TO DO JUSTICE TO SOME REAL
EXCITEMENT ON BOTH THE VHF AND MICROWAVE BANDS.  HERE I WANT TO REVISIT THE
SUBJECT OF CLUBS THAT SPECIALIZE IN WEAK SIGNAL VHF.  LAST MONTH I TOLD YOU
ABOUT A TOOL ON THE ARRL WEB THAT COULD BE USED TO FIND CLUBS RELATIVELY
NEAR YOUR QTH THAT HAVE AN INTEREST IN VHF.  THE PROBLEM WITH THIS TOOL IS
THAT VHF IS EQUATED TO FM REPEATER OPERATION FOR MANY OF THESE CLUBS.
THERE ARE CLUBS, HOWEVER, THAT ARE DEDICATED TO VHF SSB AND CW.  MY SECOND
COLUMN, IN JANUARY 2003, WAS DEVOTED TO SUCH CLUBS.  IT CONTAINED A VERY
USEFUL TABLE OF 25 SUCH CLUBS OR ORGANIZATIONS.  TIME PASSES IN THIS CASE
ABOUT 3 1/2 YEARS AND THE INFORMATION STARTS TO GET STALE.  WEB SITES
CHANGE, THE APPROPRIATE CONTACT PERSON CHANGES AND THE ORIGINAL CONTACT
PEOPLE GET NEW E MAIL ADDRESSES.  THIS MONTH I HAVE UPDATED THE ORIGINAL
TABLE.  I CHECKED ALL WEB URLS AND MANY OF THE CONTACT E MAIL ADDRESSES
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N7NG/364 N7RO/360 N7RT/359 N7TT/374 N7US/352 N7UT/348 N8AA/364 N8GZ/385
N8JV/341 N8JX/346 N8RF/345 N8TR/343 N9AB/360 N9AF/364 N9GK/348 N9MW/347
N9NS/351 N9RD/342 N9US/350 NA0Y/378 NA1I/341 NA4M/356 NA5C/345 NB8B/343
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