NOVEMBER 2013 MISSOURI SECTION NEWS

                                       DALE BAGLEY, K0KY MO SM

          The ARRL Midwest Division Convention held November 8^th and 9^th in Lebanon, MO was outstanding.  ARRL Midwest Director Cliff Ahrens, K0CA, and Vice-Director Rob Blocksome K0DAS, were essential to the success of the Convention.  A huge thanks goes out for the effort of the principle sponsor, the Lebanon Amateur Radio Club and co-chair of the Convention Bill Wheeler, K0DEW and Ron Lawrence, K4SX. There were a very large number of high quality commercial vendors at the Convention. Some of the major commercial Dealers in attendance such as Kenwood, Yaesu, Icom, Elecraft, Flex Radio, just to name a few.  The support of many other Radio Clubs and individuals was essential to the success of this wonderful event.  The Clubs that I know were part of the support system for the Convention were the Missouri DX and Contest Club, The Nixa ARC, the Raytown ARC, The Rolla Regional Amateur Radio Society, the Buffalo ARC, and the Kansas City DX Club.  I was very impressed by all the volunteers that worked so hard to make the convention so successful. A hats off to the Rolla Regional Amateur Radio Society for organizing so skillfully the W1AW/0 amateur radio station operation.  Dale Pruitt, K1USA, told me that there were 200 tables set-up for the convention.  In addition to the tables, there were several of the commercial vendors that utilized their own display systems.  The Midwest Division Conventions was extremely fortunate to have the participation of the ARRL National Leadership that included Dave Sumner, K1ZZ, CEO of the ARRL, Rick Roderick, K5UR, First V-P, Bruce Frahm, K0BJ, 2^nd V-P, Mike Corey, KI1U, Public Service and Emergency Communications, Carol Perry, WB2MGP, youth coordinator for the ARRL and Col. Steven Nagel, USAF Retired NASA Astronaut.  Hams from far and wide traveled to Lebanon, MO and filled the Hotels and Motels so they could fully enjoy the ARRL Midwest Division Convention.  If you didn’t attend, you missed a great Convention, you missed some outstanding forums and you missed lots of commercial vendors and flea market tables.  If we are lucky and the Division Convention again returns to Lebanon sometime in the future, you should make every effort not to miss it.

                                           OCTOBER HAMFESTS REPORTS

          Southside Hamfest held in Belton, MO on October 19^th was well attended and a great experience.   Forrest Creason, KD0RSX  and the SSARC committee that organized and ran the Hamfest did an excellent job. There were several interesting forums that included my presentation about the ARRL, Bill Brinker (WA0CBW) did a great job educating everyone on grounding, J.D. Dupuy (N0IRS) from Grid Bandits spoke on VHF/UHF Weak Signal Activities In North America, and Mike Bellinger, K0UAA, the District A Emergency Coordinator gave an update on The ARES program in the Kansas City area. The commercial vendors seemed to be quite busy as were the flea market tables. http://southsidearc.net.  I am looking forward to next year’s Southside Hamfest.
          The St. Louis Amateur Radio Club held their annual Halloween Hamfest at the Kirkwood Community Center in Kirkwood, MO.  As in the past all the tables were sold out and there was a large crowd checking everything out.  I appreciate the SLARC support of the ARRL. I was impressed with the quality of the organization of the event and all the hard work of the volunteers. In keeping with a long tradition the ARRL Table was decorated in the Halloween Theme and an amazing amount of “candy treats” that distributed. Mark your calendar for the last Saturday in October 2014 and save up a little “mad money” for buying some of those important Amateur Radio items.

                                      NOVEMBER HAMFESTS

         The Raytown Amateur Radio Club Hamfest will be held November 16, 2013 at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church at 8812 East Gregory Boulevard in Raytown, MO.  To learn more about the Raytown ARC Hamfest, contact Dan Cole, KC0VYT, 302 NE Oak Tree Place, Lee’s Summit, MO 64086 or by phone 816-674-8854.  Dan’s e-mail is KC0VYT@arrl.net . Talk-In: 145.170 (-) Website: http://www.K0GQ.com
              AFFILIATED CLUB NEWS   KEITH HAYE, WE0G, ACC

    Please send club news to we0g@arrl.net or k0ky@arrl.org .

                The Tour De Bass Fitness Festival is sponsored by the Bass Pro, with a mission to celebrate health and wellness, outdoor adventures and wildlife conservation in the beauty of the Ozarks. The proceeds from these events are shared by Big Brothers Big Sisters, the Ozark Greenways, and Wonders of Wildlife. The Nixa Amateur Radio Club Newsletter Open Mic reports that the NARC provided 25 volunteers for this year’s Tour De Bass. There were 519 riders in the Tour, and at Net Control the Nixa Amateur Radio Club volunteer communications operators logged almost as many entries of information as there were riders!  Hams were at the 7 rest stops. Terry Zembsch, KC0SQE, was the sweep for the 100 mile race, on his motorcycle and Rob Huelga, W3LGA, was the sweep for the 24 mile ride, and he chose to do so from his bicycle.  During the ride, there was an issue with ac power line noise on the 147.015 repeater.  James Adkins, KB0NHX, went to the repeater site with the ultrasonic pinpoint arc detector and located a bad pole-top insulator. Southwest Electric was notified and they responded and fixed the problem.  Many of those that volunteered this year have signed up to participate in the 2014 Tour De Bass.

                The Jackson County Digital Training Net will continue its training on the Hospital Incident Command System forms.  This training is valuable to the KcHeart Operators in both Missouri and Kansas.  The two forms being examined are the HICS 213 (Incident Message Form) and the HICS 214 (Operational Log Form).  These forms are available from James Bair, N0AJI, AEC Jackson County ARES by placing HICS Sheet Info on the subject sheet of a e-mail to n0aji@arrl.net.

                The Macon County ARC  Lester Dent-Doc Savage Special event in October was successful with about 200 contacts to W0D over the weekend.  The Arizona QSO party and the Pennsylvania QSO party were also quite successful, based on the difficulty of establishing a frequency for W0D.  The MCARC voted to hold another Lester Dent-Doc Savage Special Event in 2014.  50 Certificates for the Special event were mailed in two weeks after the operation.  If you want to find out more about Lester Dent, W0CBL, go to the MCARC website for a short biography. http://maconcountyarc.net/

                   SECTION ARES REPORT FOR JULY 2013  

                            JEFF YOUNG, KB3HF, SEC

Total  # ARES Members   1271    

Number of Drills, Testing, Etc. 246   

Number of Ham Hours   2217.2

Number of Public Service Events 18  

Number of Ham Hours 379

Number of Emergency Operations 2

Number of Ham hours Emer. Op. 13

Total ARES Operations this month   266  

Total Ham Hours 2609.2

9 out of 9 districts reporting

                   SECTION TRAFFIC REPORTS JULY 2013

                         LARRY WILSON, K0RWL STM

MO SECTION NET (MON) Sessions 41 QNI 121  QTC 18  Net Mgr.  K9ZTV

MO TRAFFIC NET  Sessions 31 QNI 1233 QTC 179 Net Mgr. K0RWL

MESN  Sessions  4  QNI 215 QTC 3  Net Mgr.  K0VET

Lebanon ARES  Sessions 4  QNI 29  QTC 0  Net Mgr. KD0PLS

Callaway Co CARL Sessions 5  QNI 75  QTC 5  Net Mgr. KC0LYA

Boone Co CMRA  Sessions  5 QNI 50 QTC 3  Net Mgr.  KC0WGB

Boone Co ARES  Sessions  5  QNI 33 QTC 4  Net Mgr KC0YNS

Benton County Sessions 4 QNI 81  QTC  1  Net Mgr.  KD0CNC

St. Clair Co ARES Sessions 5  QNI 29  QTC 1  Net Mgr. WA5ICX

Current River ARC  Sessions 4  QNI 19  QTC 0 Net Mgr.  KN0D

TLARC   Sessions 1   QNI 2 QTC 774 Net Mgr. KB0OFD

Franklin County ARES Sessions 4 QNI  44  QTC 2 Net Mgr. WA0ZUG

Jackson County Sessions  5 QNI 70 QTC 0  Net Mgr. K0UAA

Macon Cnty ARES  Sessions  5   QNI 75  QTC 0 Net Mgr. K0KY

Rolla RRARS   Sessions 31  QNI 374  QTC 4  Net Mgr. KB9ZBO

WAARCI  Sessions 4 QNI 119 QTC  1  Net Mgr. KO9R

Texas Co  Sessions 31  QNI 437 QTC 21 Net Mgr. N0TPE

St. Francois Co ARES Sessions 2  QNI 18  QTC 0  Net Mgr. AI0U

Mid-MO ARC Sessions  5 QNI 74   QTC  0 Net Mgr.  N0ZH

West Central MO Net Sessions 4 QNI 50  QTC 1 Net Mgr.  KD0CNC

KC ARES Digital Sessions 4  QNI 37  QTC 13 Net Mgr.  K0KEX

Northland ARES Sessions 5 QNI 89  QTC 1 Net Mgr. K0KEX

Tri-County  ARC Sessions 5  QNI 35  QTC  0  Net Mgr.  N0AUY

District A ARES Sessions  1  QNI 27  QTC 1  Net Mgr. N4RZB

District E ARES  Sessions 8  QNI 27   QTC 0 Net Mgr. N0RIC

WCMOFMSN Sessions 4  QNI 49  QTC 2  Net Mgr. WE0G

Hannibal ARES Sessions 5 QNI 77 QTC 3  Net Mgr. KD0HHN

Jackson Co ARES Dig. Sessions 5 QNI 56  QTC 22  Net Mgr. N0AJI

10^th Region CW Sessions 62  QNI 0   QTC 149 Net Mgr. W0SS

10th Region SSB  Sessions 20  QNI  0   QTC 121 Net Mgr. K0VTT

Totals      Sessions 319    QNI 3479    QTC 1329

10^th Region Participation CW  66% K9ZTV, KC0M, W0SJS, W0FCE

                                                                        Net Mgr W0SS

10th Region Participation SSB 100%  KC0M, KB0OFD,

                                                                         Net Mgr. K0VTT