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United States Postal Service decides Louisiana
Section Manager Election
Reprinted from the Jefferson ARC Website--The President's Corner
At 2007-12-14 1105HRS CST our president wrote...
The petition nominating Bob McBride, AE5RN, for Louisiana Section Manager was accepted by the US Post Office on December 1, 2007 and sent via 3 day Priority Mail to the ARRL with a request for Signature at delivery. When the Signature receipt had not been returned, I called the ARRL to see if the package had been delivered on Monday December 10. Steve Ewald of the League said it had not and since it was not in the League's possession by the close of business on December 7 that it would not be accepted per the League's rules.
The Post Office notified me that it had delivered the package December 13 at 10:30 AM to a courier who picked up the League's mail. We asked the League to consider the evidence of the good faith effort to get the petition to the League and the Elections and Ethics Committee said no. The rule is specific.
SOOO...The members of the Louisiana Section's desire to have an election for their Section Manager is being disregarded by the League and the League is in fact allowing a Governmental, Beaurocratic agency, namely the United States Postal Service dictate what the members can have.
The League is the membership. Without members to support the League it does not exist. If the Executive Committee does not see the error in this rule and the implications that it can have on the future of the Organization, and initiate change in obviously flawed policy, then it will, like many phases of our hobby, die!
Congratulations to Gary Stratton W5GLS who at this time appears to be the only candidate who has qualified for Section Manager in Louisiana. Please offer him your support as he tries to improve things in our State.
Keith W5KB--President Jefferson Amateur Radio Club
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December 2007 VE Test
Session Results
Here are the results of the December meeting test session.
James B. Roberts of Abbeville passed his technician and now has the call KE5RUM. James was in the Children's Museum of Acadiana class.
Fred R. Marshall W5MLE upgraded to Extra
John D. Tate upgraded to Extra.
The VE's were:
Danny Griffith K5ARH
Charles Morrison KI5XP
Albert Fabacher KF5WP
Greg Dolan K5LFT
Gerard Murphy KD5VPC
Danny K5ARH
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Upcoming Notable Events for 2008
January 3--AARA Club Meeting
January 6--Kids Day
February 5--Mardi Gras Parade
February 9 & 10--LA QSO Party
March 21-22--AARA Hamfest
June 28 & 29--Field Day 2008
More to follow in later issues for the LARC.
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48th Acadiana Hamfest 2008-LA State Convention
Little did we know two years ago, when the City of Rayne assigned an open date in March for the Civic Center, that the dates fell on an Easter weekend (March 21st & 22nd). Because of this unfortunate circumstance, our Hamfest chairperson and those involved with our hamfest have contacted the venders and they see no problems with the new schedules at this time. Hopefully all those attending will not see any problems. Check our hamfest web page for updates and 2008 hamfest flyer.
http://www.w5ddl.org/hamfest/
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Wanted
The Acadiana Amateur Radio Association, Inc. is now underway to set up EchoLink on the 147.040 repeater in Lafayette, LA.
The club is looking for a low power 2 meter transceiver and a sound card interface such as a RigBlaster. If you have or know of anyone that has these items they are willing to part with, please contact:
Dick Melcher WA6MDI
wa6mdi@cox.net
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