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ARRL Nebraska Section (NE)

Section Manager
Arthur I. Zygielbaum, K0AIZ
6601 Pinecrest Dr
Lincoln, NE 68516-3573
402-421-0839
k0aiz@arrl.org
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  • Midwest Division
  • Assistant Section Manager
    Jack L Barnard, WY0F
    2120 Sherwood Rd
    Grand Island, NE 68803-2202
    (308) 381-8062
    jbarnard@kdsi.net

    ASSISTANT SECTION MANAGER - Public Information Coordinator
    Jeff Beiermann, WB0M
    (402) 679-7037
    wb0m@arrl.net

    ASSISTANT SECTION MANAGER - Education Coordinator
    Reynolds B Davis, K0GND
    3901 S 42nd St
    Lincoln, NE 68506-4212
    (402) 488-3706
    k0gnd@arrl.net

    Todd N Le Mense, KK0DX
    9336 Y St
    Omaha, NE 68127-4062
    (402) 216-8633
    kk0dx@cox.net

    Larry L Lehmann, KC0DA
    528 West Ave
    Minden, NE 68959
    (308) 832-0518
    lll021539@gtmc.net

    ASSISTANT SECTION MANAGER - Official Observer Coordinator
    Bill W McCollum, KE0XQ
    1314 Deer Park Blvd
    Omaha, NE 68108-2015
    (402) 290-2844, (402) 734-3316
    ke0xq@arrl.net

    Thomas M Michaelson, N0MT
    901 Starview Ln
    Lincoln, NE 68512
    (402) 423-1984, (402) 476-5895
    n0mt@arrl.net

    Asst. Section Manager Emeritus
    Elden C Miller, W0KVM
    1346 Concord Cir
    Wahoo, NE 68066-4144
    (402) 277-5381
    ELDMIL@aol.com

    ASSISTANT SECTION MANAGER - State Government Liaison
    Robert D Mitchell, WB0RJJ
    3206 S 48th St
    Lincoln, NE 68506-6413
    (402) 430-6290
    ve4rjj@aol.com

    ASSISTANT SECTION MANAGER - Section Emergency Coordinator
    Jon C Morris, KA0JGG
    8354 W Rock Creek Rd
    Raymond, NE 68428-4340
    (402) 784-6000
    jclarkmorris@gmail.com

    ASSISTANT SECTION MANAGER - Section Traffic Manager
    Michael E Nickolaus, NF0N
    316 E 32nd St
    South Sioux City, NE 68776-3512
    (712) 223-3164, (402) 494-6070
    nf0n@arrl.net

    James E Novacek, WB0ULH
    PO Box 161
    Scottsbluff, NE 69363
    (308) 635-3974, (308) 631-5806
    wb0ulh@arrl.net

    Gregory L Rix, WB7GR
    1805 17th St
    Gering, NE 69341-2767
    (307) 775-2609, (307) 635-6354
    wb7gr@arrl.net

    ASSISTANT SECTION MANAGER - Technical Coordinator
    Michael P Ruhrdanz, N0FER
    6116 Rosebud Dr
    Lincoln, NE 68516-2348
    (402) 472-5236, (402) 420-6670
    n0fer@arrl.net

    Affiliated Club Coordinator
    Larry L Lehmann, KC0DA
    528 West Ave
    Minden, NE 68959
    (308) 832-0518
    lll021539@gtmc.net

    Official Observer Coordinator
    Bill W McCollum, KE0XQ
    1314 Deer Park Blvd
    Omaha, NE 68108-2015
    (402) 290-2844, (402) 734-3316
    ke0xq@arrl.net

    Public Information Coordinator
    Jeff Beiermann, WB0M
    (402) 679-7037
    wb0m@arrl.net

    Section Emergency Coordinator
    Jon C Morris, KA0JGG
    8354 W Rock Creek Rd
    Raymond, NE 68428-4340
    (402) 784-6000
    jclarkmorris@gmail.com

    State Government Liaison
    Robert D Mitchell, WB0RJJ
    3206 S 48th St
    Lincoln, NE 68506-6413
    (402) 430-6290
    ve4rjj@aol.com

    Section Traffic Manager
    Michael E Nickolaus, NF0N
    316 E 32nd St
    South Sioux City, NE 68776-3512
    (712) 223-3164, (402) 494-6070
    nf0n@arrl.net

    Technical Coordinator
    Michael P Ruhrdanz, N0FER
    6116 Rosebud Dr
    Lincoln, NE 68516-2348
    (402) 472-5236, (402) 420-6670
    n0fer@arrl.net

    Section News

    ALERT: Mon, January 18, 2010; 6:34 PM ET

    Section Events

     

    ARRL Nebraska State Convention

    Sponsored by the Lincoln Amateur Radio Club

    March 20, 2010

    Lancaster Event Center
    84th and Havelock
    Lincoln, NE

    For More Info: http://lincolnhamfest.org

    (Your announcement here!)

    (Send them to KØAIZ@arrl.org)

     

    Monthly Summaries

    News last updated: Tue, January 26, 2010 at 10:36 PM ET

    Happy New Year! The end of 2009 was snowy and cold. Here in Lincoln, we had 14" to 15" on the ground at one time and that didn't include the drifts. I know it was worse in other areas. Driving became a real adventure. Hams in this area helped to get meals-on-wheels distributed and medical personnel moved to places they needed to be. Despite the fact that some have said that amateur radio is becoming irrelevant, we prove them wrong when the weather gets bad and dangerous.

    The Haitian disaster gives us something to think about. There were not many Haitian stations on the air. Although the analysis has yet to be done, I suspect it was due to collapsed buildings, antennas, and the lack of electricity. The message for us is to be sure we have the ability to get on the air despite the loss of a tower or the lack of city power. Having a QRP HF radio stashed away with charged batteries and an easily deployed temporary antenna is probably not a bad idea. Along with your hand-held and mobile VHF/UHF radios, that would put you in good stead to serve your community in case of wide spread destruction.

    Our Section Traffic Manager, Mike, NFØN, sent me an interesting email which quoted from the January 1942 issue of QST. In late October, early November a heavy snow and freeze took out "all communications lines in the eastern part of the State." Here are some extracts from the article:

    "Fremont was completely isolated from the outside world for several hours. First communication lines were established by W9OED, Fremont. This was accomplished on 1.75-Mc. Phone. W9OED called "CQ Omaha, Urgent Traffic," was answered by W9OYB, Omaha, who in turn called up W9KVT, Omaha, on the land line and informed him OED was calling him. W9KVT contacted the Associated Press office, and the night news for the Fremont Morning Guide was transmitted by VKT to OED. Immediately following completion of this effort, BNC, Omaha, called OED, Fremont, for traffic west to Grand Island for the A. T. & T. When contact was finally established in round-about way, BNT in the meantime had gotten into Grand Island via Kansas City, Julesburg, Colorado and North Platte.

    "The following morning, lines still being out of order, OED scheduled BNC for United Press news for the Fremont Daily Tribune. The October 31st news was handled at OEDâ€(TM)s with the assistance of RCH and his XYL who copied the press in shorthand. Saturday morning on the BNC schedule, the local newspapers furnished a stenographer and the press transmissions were handled without a hitch. The U.P. had a direct landline to the home of BNC, who had an amplifier on the telephone and rebroadcasted the U.P. office reading of the news direct to OED, who merely sat and watched the stenographer take it down in shorthand. The telephone, telegraph and teletype lines all went out and came back at about the same time. All Western Union telegraph traffic in and out of Fremont was handled by VKG, who, with the assistance of BQP, passed 18 messages in a short time.

    "The Pioneer Radio Club of Nebraska are now all building 56- and 112-Mc. Equipment, so that if and when another call comes for amateur radio assistance, they will be more than ready to fill the bill."

    It's been nearly 70 years since that event. We're still needed when times are bad.

    The ARRL Nebraska State Convention will be held on March 20, 2010, at the Lancaster Event Center in Lincoln. The program includes Bob Allison, WB1GCM from ARRL HQ giving a view of the ARRL laboratory, Joe Dawson, KBØLQR, showing us how to construct a tower safely, and Jon Morris, KAØJGG, Nebraska Section Emergency Communications Coordinator speaking on emergency communications. There's much more. Tables are available -- and there are many more tables then last year at the flea market. Please take a look at the Convention website: http://lincolnhamfest.org for updates and more info.

    73 & see you on the air,
    Art Zygielbaum, KØAIZ
    ARRL Nebraska Section Manager

    Section Traffic Manager and Section Emergency Coordinator

    Net Reports - November 2009

    * Net Report Legend: Sessions=Number of times net called, QNI=Number of Station Check-ins, QTC=Formal Traffic Count

    Nebraska 40 Meter Net
    Sessions 31, QNI 305, QTC 2
    Reported by KW0R, KL7MH, KD0CES

    Nebraska Cornhusker Net
    Sessions 30, QNI 516, QTC 13
    Reported by K0CWW

    Nebraska Morning Phone Net
    Sessions 29, QNI 1699, QTC 26
    Reported by KA0DOC

    Nebraska Storm Net
    Sessions 31, QNI 898, QTC 1
    Reported by AG0L

    West Nebraska Net
    Sessions 27, QNI 1390, QTC 87
    Reported by K0RRL

    Buffalo County ARES
    Sessions 4, QNI 26, QTC 0
    Reported by KA0DBK

    Dodge County ARES
    Sessions 3, QNI 20, QTC 0
    Reported by KC0KKE

    Eastern Nebraska 2-Meter Net
    Sessions 29, QNI 525, QTC 0
    Reported by KB0DNP

    Midland ARES - October
    Sessions 2, QNI 78, QTC 0
    Reported by W9HZC

    Midland ARES - November
    Sessions 4, QNI 187, QTC 0
    Reported by W9HZC

    Midland ARES - December
    Sessions 3, QNI 123, QTC 0
    Reported by W9HZC

    Mid Nebraska ARES 2-Meter Net
    Sessions 13, QNI 141, QTC 2
    Reported by KC0MWM

    NPPARC
    Sessions 3, QNI 21, QTC 0
    Reported by W0DED

    Platte Valley 2-Meter Net
    Sessions 5, QNI 53, QTC 1
    Reported by KW0R, KL7MH

    W0IRZ Memorial ARES Net -- 2009
    Sessions 52, QNI 812, QTC 32
    Reported by W0WHY

    Traffic Totals
    KØPTK 120 originations

    Public Service Honor Roll
    (Please visit http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/pshr/ for more information about the honor roll.)

    KAØDBK 112 points
    KBØYTM 25 points

    Nebraska Section Nets

    Net name

    Frequency

    Meets

    Time CDT

    Time UTC

    40 Meter Net

    7.282

    Daily

    1300

    1800

    Cornhusker Net

    3.982

    Daily

    1230

    1730

    CW Traffic Net

    3.540

    M-F

    1900

    0000

    Morning Phone Net

    3.982

    Daily

    0730

    1230

    Storm Net

    3.982

    Daily

    1830

    2330

    West Nebraska Net

    3.950

    M-S

    0700

    1200

    Notes from the Section Traffic Manager:

    Please report your individual traffic monthly totals to me at my email address

    I welcome your comments and suggestions.

    Mike, NF0N

    OFFICIAL OBSERVER REPORTS
    KAØJTI 50 hours
    WØHXL   85 hours
    KBØZZT 25 hours
    KE6DZD 140 hours
    W3PRR 32 hours 
    WØDED 25 hours
    WBØMWB 25 hours
    WBØCMC 20 hours
    NØXY no report
    WØWFM no report
    WBØWXS 10 hours
    KEØXQ 100 hours

    **********SPECIAL EVENTS STATION**********

    (none listed - please send KØAIZ your announcements!)

    WEB PAGES

    AKSARBEN ARC http://www.aksarbenarc.org/main/

    Amateur Radio Association of Nebraska (used to be: Hastings ARC) http://www.w0wwv.org

    Ashland ARC http://ashlandarc.org/

    Bellevue ARC http://www.bellevuearc.org

    Boyer Valley Amateur Radio Club (IA) http://www.bvarc.net

    Buffalo County ARES http://www.bcares.info

    Douglas County ARES http://www.mdares.org/home/

    Elkhorn Valley ARC http://www.qsl.net/evarc

    Heartland Amateur Radio Association http://www.hara-w0sok.org

    Heartland DX Association http://www.hdxa.net

    Lincoln ARC http://www.lincolnarc.org

    Midway ARC http://wØky.kearney.net/

    Midwest Home Brewer's & QRP Group http://www.qsl.net/hbqrp

    Nebraska EMA http://www.nema.ne.gov/

    Pine Ridge ARC http://www.pineridgearc.org/

    Pioneer Amateur Radio Club http://www.k0jfn.com

    Strategic Air Command Memorial ARC http://www.sacmarc.org/

    Quarter Century Wireless Association http://www.qcwa.org/

    Society of Wireless Pioneers http://www.sowp.org/

    South East Nebraska Radio Club http://www.senrc.farmpond.net

    1Ø-1Ø International http://www.ten-ten.org/

    Other Links of Interest

    ARRL DX Bulletins http://www.arrl.org/w1aw/dx/

    ARRL Propagation Bulletins http://www.arrl.org/w1aw/prop/

    ARRL Keplarian Elements http://www.arrl.org/w1aw/kep/

    ARRL Transmission Schedule http://www.arrl.org/w1aw.html#w1awsked

    ARRL General and Special Bulletins http://www.arrl.org/w1aw/

    ARRL Emergency Communications http://www.emergency-radio.org

    SICK CALL

    These are Amateur Radio Operators who are ill and need our support. Please send get well cards or QSL cards with your best wishes on them as they recover from their illnesses or surgeries. I will post along with their names what they are recovering from only with the permission of the families or the member themselves.

    SILENT KEYS

    While we celebrate the friends that they were, it is with sadness that we recognize the loss of these hams from our fold.

    2010

    KAØCPO - Jack Higgins

    2009

    WØBTE - Frank Fernald

    KAØBOI - Mary Ellen Miller

    WØCQQ - William "Bill" Welch

    KAØEOE - Marvin Anderson

    WDØEYF - David Wesley Britton

    WAØFRT - Bob Johnson

    WØIXF - Milton "Milky" S. Berg

    WBØWFS - Betty Hernes

    WØURC - John Herron

    KCØYRS - Tim Beaver

    2008

    WBØQPP - Scott E. Perrson

    WØRMB - Cecil D. DeWitt

    WDØCJH - Norma Rickel

    KØFRU - Harold Detour

    KBØZHC - Ralph Orahood

    WAØRPW - Mac Reed

    WBØEGK - Jerry Kohn

    NØLAL and NØUS - Carolyn and Steven Baily

    WEB RESOURCES

    ARRL External Noise Handbook

    HAMFESTS AND CONVENTIONS

    ARRL Listing

    Nebraska Section Convention: http://www.lincolnhamfest.org

    VE TESTS

    When attending a VE session, make sure you bring the following: your original license, a photocopy of your original license, 2 forms of identification (one with a photograph of you), any CSCE's and $14.ØØ cash or check.

    NEBRASKA

    http://www.arrl.org/arrlvec/examsearch.phtml?State=NE

    IOWA

    http://www.arrl.org/arrlvec/examsearch.phtml?State=IA

    NOTICE

    You may reprint items from this webpage/newsletter without prior permission if attribution to this source is provided.

    Art Zygielbaum KØAIZ
    ARRL Nebraska Section Manager
    k0aiz@arrl.org

    Joe Fairfield WØPHA - Silent Key

    Sam Seikaly WA6BRE from Norfolk, Nebraska gets some press. Nice article!! See the article above

    Robert Nelson W7LZN - Silent Key

    Photo (L-R): Megan KCØZZX-Jason KCØHMN-Ed KCØWJB It's great to see the young people get involved Congrats to all three of you for getting your license and upgrading!

    Samuel E. Sam Andersen WBØVXU Silent Key April 23, 20007

    Gwen Anderson KØGAA, XYL of SM Matt Anderson KAØBOJ....she became a silent key on June 28th, 2007...a fighter to the last...she was stretched to the limit, but never broken...I will miss you forever...88's dear....Matt

    WØJJO Silent Key...November 8th, 2007

    Bob Conley WØLYU - Silent Key

    Sid Reade WØWWH Silent Key

    Eugene Budde KØJGY - Silent Key

    Jim Wilson - WBØJPN Silent Key

    Greg Johnson KAØDNV - Silent Key

    Peggy Higgins NØJFC - Silent Key

    Fred Hoofer WØBMT - Silent Key

    Harold Curtis WØERW - Silent Key

    Robert (Bob) R. Mc Queen, JR. WØMOU - Silent Key

    Edward Francis O'Donnell WBØGWR - Silent Key

    WBØKIT Bob Uhri....Silent Key.....

    Dr. Jerry Kohn..WDØEGK became a silent key. He will be missed, and here he is doing what he did best. We will miss you dearly. 73's Friend..and you will be missed.

    NØLAL and NØUS - Carolyn and Steven Baily, Silent Keys, 2008

    Robert W. Johnson, WA0FRT, Silent Key

    Milton "Milky" S. Berg, WØIXF, Silent Key

    Mary Ellen Miller, KA0BOI, Silent Key

    Jack Higgins, KAØCPO, Silent Key


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