Monthly Section News Summaries
Monthly Summary for October 2009
Louisiana Section Summary
October 2009
Gary Stratton K5GLS SM
UPCOMING HAMFESTS (See http://www.arrl.org/hamfests.html for more detail):
December 19 – Minden Amateur Radio Association – Minden, LA
January 16 – Southeast LA Amateur Radio Club – Hammond, LA
March 12-13 - Louisiana State Convention – Acadiana Amateur Radio Association
– Rayne, LA
April 24 – Louisiana Section Convention – Twin City Ham Club – Monroe, LA
SECTION APPOINTMENTS: Grady Ebert KB5SDU – Official Relay Station
SECTION TRAFFIC REPORTS: Mike King W5PY Section Traffic Manager
PSHR Report
CALL SIGN TOTALS TRAFFIC
K5MC 100 92
N5NVP 110 43
WC5M 125 13
W5PY 108 69
K5KV N/R N/R
WA4ERU 18 8
KE5PWL 63 23
KB5SDU 60 0
LCW/LTN/LSN Statistics
NET SESSIONS QNI QTC QTR
LTN 31 652 39 349
LCW 62 241 88 303
LSN 7 24 5 54
SECTION ARES STATISTICS: ARES MEMBERS 481, DRILLS/TRAINING 27 MH 68, PUBLIC
SERVICE EVENTS 1 MH 296, EMERGENCY OPERATIONS 2 MH 5, TOTAL OPERATIONS 30 MH
369, ARES NET SESSIONS 76 CHECKINS 595.
EC REPORTS RECEIVED: Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Bienville, Calcasieu, Cameron,
Claiborne, Concordia, East Baton Rouge, Franklin, Grant, Jefferson,
Livingston, Orleans, Rapides, Sabine, St. Charles, St. Helena, St. Martin,
Tangipahoa, Terrebonne, Union, Vermillion, and Washington.
OTHER REPORTS RECEIVED: Jim Bookter N5NVP Section Affiliated Club
Coordinator.
From Jim N5NVP: At the end of October the Louisiana Section had 35 Active
Affiliated Clubs and 8 of those were Active Affiliated Special Service Clubs
(SSCs). There are 23 Inactive Affiliated Clubs. On September 25th a new
Affiliated Club was chartered. The New Orleans Amateur Radio Club was
presented its charter by Jim N5NVP at the New Orleans Hamfest on October 3.
LOUISIANA SECTION FLOWER FUND: Virginia Bryant KD5DJA has volunteered to
receive, account for and disburse funds to send flowers to the funerals of
Louisiana Section member SKs on behalf of the Section. If you would like to
participate (and I hope that you would) please send a check payable to
Louisiana Section Flower Fund to Virginia at 110 HERRING ST
LEESVILLE, LA 71446. Virginia’s data is good on QRZ. She has already
received several donations of $25 - $50. The accounting of this fund will
appear here on a quarterly basis. Also, please remember to report SKs to me
at K5GLS@arrl.org.
LOUISIANA MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP: The window for application for the
scholarship is now open. Please encourage any licensed entering or attending
student to apply for this scholarship. Details are available on the ARRL
Website.
OTHER NEWS: If you wish to have noteworthy information about club activities,
individual achievements, etc. included in the Section Summary please send
them to k5gls@arrl.org.
LIONEL OUBRE EMERGENCY DISPATCH CENTER – Located in New Iberia, LA, was
dedicated to one of our own. The Iberia Parish communications center was
dedicated to Lionel (Al) Oubre K5DPG (SK). Al was the Louisiana Section
Manager prior to Mickey Cox K5MC. He was an inspiration to all who knew him
and was a great friend and mentor to both Mickey and me. Al certainly
deserved this great recognition for his work with Iberia Parish and the
Louisiana Section.
LOUISIANA SECTION WEBSITE – Many thanks to Ken Standard AD5XJ for his great
work redesigning our Section website http://www.laarrl.org. Please go to the
site and checkout all the information and links. Send any suggestions or
comments to AD5XJ@arrl.net.
BAYOULAND EMERGENCY AMATEUR RADIO SERVICE – BEARS celebrates its 25th year of
operation this year. They just received their new call W5BMC. They wanted
Kelo Five Morgan City, but couldn’t talk Mickey into giving it up!
Congratulations to BEARS on this milestone.
HAMFESTS – Both the Pineville and New Orleans hamfests were great successes.
Keith W5KB reports that the New Orleans fest will continue next year after
the great turnout.
U.S. COAST GUARD AUXILIARY RADIO DAY will be commemorating the 70th
anniversary of the USCG Auxiliary on Amateur HF frequencies Saturday October
17, 2009. Special Event Stations will be using a special 1X1 call. For info
go to http://a0530407.uscgaux.info/SED 2009.html.
SILENT KEYS: I sadly report the following Section Silent Keys - Wes Buras
N5VUY, Fred Corliss WA5ACV, Tom Brown K5UIC.
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