I am always amazed at the amount of press time the AARC group gets. For those that are relatively new to the club, AARC members have been featured on the cover of QST, where many articles have been published from members, the ARRl website, and been guest speakers at the Dayton Hamvention. Plus many other websites and publications. If you subscribe to World Radio Magazine, you may have seen a couple familiar faces. The Sept edition features a brief write up about the Laural VEC.

We met Saturday for the first introductory and organization meeting, we now have a game plan on how we think this study hall will work.
It’s open to everyone here is the schedule, Please join in.
Aug 23,,, Chapter 1,,, 9am - Noon
Aug 30,,, Chapter 2,,, 9am - Noon
Sept 6,,, Chapter 3,,, 9am – Noon
Sept 13,,, Chapter 4A,,, 3PM – 6 General Class 9 – 12, VE Testing Session Noon – 3PM
Sept 20,,, Chapter 4B,,, Noon – 3 General Class in morning
Sept 27,,, Chapter 5A,,, Noon – 3 General Class in morning

from: Brian Belanger an AARC Club Member who is very active with the Antique Radio Club.

Each year in October the Mid-Atlantic Antique Radio Club holds a major event at the DFRC called "Fallfest." This consists of a large parking lot flea market and a large auction. We invite hams to attend as well as antique radio collectors. There will be a lot of vintage ham gear for sale both in the flea market and auction. There is no charge for admission or flea market spaces, but there is a commission charged for those who wish to sell items in the auction. Last year's event was a great success, and we expect this year's event to be even bigger. Last year the Anne Arundel Amateur Radio Club provided a couple of people and set up a flea market booth to sell ARRL literature. We would like to invite the club to do so again this year. The date is Sunday, Oct. 19. Please pass on the word and let me know if there is interest in participating again this year.

Sorry -- I thought I had posted this a few days ago. I guess I forgot to save it.

One of our (AARC Jr.) top four radio events will take place this weekend - The Maryland QSO Party.

It's a pretty civilized event in that it takes a mandated 12-hour break. The contest starts at Noon on Saturday and stops at Midnight. The contest resumes on Sunday at Noon and stops at 8:00pm on Sunday.

In 2004 AARC Jr. took First Place in the Club Category. Since then the "professional" contesters decided jump in and they've won the category the last three years and we've placed 2nd twice and third once during that stretch.

Two large public service activities are just around the corner. The first is on Sunday morning, August 24, and is the Annapolis Ten Mile Run. We'll have simplex nets on 2 meters and 440 and will need lots of operators.

The second public service event is the second annual Annapolis Triathlon which, despite some rumors to the contrary, is slated to take place on Sunday morning, September 7. We'll probably have three nets running for this one, as we did last year.

1. This year’s Field Day was very interesting on several levels:

A. Having a theme was a great idea and generated a lot of interest and excitement and injected additional fun into our Field Day event. (Thanks Tom!)

Here is the outline of the Extra Class License Manual.

Just like with the Technician (HRLM) and General (GCLM) there are additional on-line resources organized by chapter at: www.arrl.org/eclm/

Chapter 1 – Introduction (Non-testable)

1.1 The Extra Class License and Amateur Radio
1.2 Extra Class Overview
1.3 The Volunteer Testing Process

Chapter 2 – Operating Practices (3 questions on the exam from this chapter)

2.1 General Operating
2.2 Digital Mode Operating
2.3 Amateur Satellites

Hi

Here is the syllabus for the new Amateur Extra Class license manual. I'll publish the chapter outline later.

1. FCC Rules – 6 question

a. Operating Standards
b. Station restrictions and special operations
c. Station Control
d. Amateur Satellite service
e. Volunteer examiner program
f. Miscellaneous rules:

2. Operating Practices and Procedures – 5 questions

a. Amateur radio in space
b. Television practices
c. Operating methods, Part 1
d. Operating methods, Part 2
e. Operating methods, Part 3

3. Radio Wave Propagation – 3 questions