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Special New Member Issue
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Y-oung A-mateurs C-ontest H-am T-eam
Vol. 4-08, April 2008 issue
*Website http://www.wd8dx.com/yacht.html
*Team nets: Wide Area Youth Net, Fridays @ 7:30pm CST on local linked repeater system 146.835/146.880/147.120
Echolink Youth Net, Sundays @ 6:00pm CST on node #44407, K9KJM repeater, 444.000
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Welcome to All our Newest Members -
Within several hours at the AES Superfest, ten new youth members joined the YACHT team. Welcome aboard. Read the article below, and see who they are.
YACHT Receives New Call -
As of Tuesday, March 18, our new FCC call is KD8HZD, issued to Young Amateurs Contest Ham Team. However, Jim KS8O has already applied for a new vanity call, which should better identify us as a youth group. Check our May issue for the call, or just wait for a special "breaking news" email. Jim will set down some guidelines in the use of the club call. But, as you can see, we are moving ahead with your club, and expanding our horizons.
HAM of THE MONTH -
This month YNR (Yacht News Report) recognizes Alex Nemetz, KC9MBY. Alex is 10 and 1/2 years old and was licensed in August of 2007 as the 6th DAR member to get a ham radio license. He spent the entire summer of 2006 and 2007 in the ham radio room and gained immeasurable experience and knowledge in ham radio operation. When he did take the Technician exam, he passed with only two wrong. Alex lives just outside the city limits of Marinette, WI. His mom is the owner of "Image Works", where our imprinted YACHT apparel comes from. He has one younger sister, Sydney, and of course mom and dad.
He currently attends 4th grade at Park School in Marinette, and of course, maintains his membership in the D.A.R.
He is on regular net control rotation for the Wide Area Youth Net. One of his main interests in ham radio is Echolink, where he has already made contact with Australia and New Zealand. Upgrading to General class is one of his goals for this summer.
Look for his picture and brief bio on the YACHT website.
Michigan QSO Party Coming Up -
Mark April 19 on your calendars .... the date of the much anticipated Michigan qso party. I plan on running the K8DAR station as an entry from Menominee County. Being from the state and with youngster doing much of the operating, we should be much in demand. I'm hoping a number of local area YACHT members can free up some time to help us out. Those of you who are out of state can make contact with us as well. Just listen for K8DAR, Menominee Co. and give us your callsign and state.
We will be on the air from noon to about 6pm that day.
Any YACHT coach who can spare some time to assist me in this operation is welcome. I will need at least one additional adult in the radio room.
Weather Spotters Training in Menominee -
All local YACHT members are encouraged to attend the weather spotters training on Monday, April 14, 6:30pm in the Menominee High School cafeteria. It will last until 8:30pm and conducted by the Marquette, MI NWS office. One of the neat things about this is they will mail each attendee a nice certificate of completion, plus you receive loads of valuable information and pictorial views of severe weather phenomena and ways to identify common elements of severe weather.
Those of you in other areas can check your local news media for similar training sessions. They are held throughout the country by the NWS offices.
Tornado Awareness Week -
The week of April 20 is tornado awareness week in Wisconsin. Thursday, April 24 is targeted as the date for for annual mock tornado drill in Wisconsin. If you are in the local area, and are free, tune your radios to the 146.880/835/147.120 linked repeaters. I will announce the start of the drill shortly after 1pm, following the alert from Green Bay. All I need is your callsign, location, and whether you are fixed, mobile or portable (HT).
Yacht Member Now A Published Author -
Pick up a copy of the April issue of "CQ Magazine". Brittany Decker, KB1OGL has written an article that you will want to read, entitled: Saving the Hobby for KG7HF. Read it and be impressed with her inspirational story.
She is also attempting to write ham radio related stories for other publications as well. Congratulations and well done, Brittany.
Field Day Approaching -
Plan now to set aside the weekend of June 28-29 for the annual observance of Field Day 2008. We will be set up locally at the same location as last year, right in the city of Menominee in that great location just north of the Twin County Airport, at the end of 32nd Ave.
We will have two tents available, and also tentitively plan on a VE test session on the 28th. We also are hoping to encourage all local and area YACHT members to show up for their very own entry in Field Day this year.
More information as it becomes available.
1st Anniversary For YACHT in July -
Yes, our first birthday is coming up this summer. We had our first YACHT meeting in July of last year at Perkins Restaurant.
How we are going to observe this remains to be determined. Any ideas? Let us know.
Michigan Youth Forum Around the Corner -
The first youth forum for ham radio will be held in Gaylord, MI on April 12. Many young hams and potential hams are expected from throughout the state. Attending from our team will be Joey W9JJC, Tyler KC9FKE, and Skyler W9USX. Jackson KC9KVU and his dad may also attend if that day is free. Coaches attending are: Jim KS8O, Ed KG8CX, and Jim K8IR.
If anyone else within driving distance is interested, let me know, as we may be able to carpool. We are leaving on Friday afternoon and staying at motels in Gaylord. I will take pictures and have them available soon thereafter.
AES Superfest A Huge Success for YACHT -
Sat. March 29 was an exceptional day for the future of YACHT. We had a table set up with our new banner proudly displayed. It attracted plenty of attention, not only from youth, but from the ARRL national headquarters whose booth was just across from ours. We had our pictures taken, for a future QST issue.
In addtion, the YACHT membership was increased by ten members, ages 9 to 15. We now have a total of 24 members in 5 states. Check out the official YACHT website for frequent updates of pictures, and the official membership roster.
Here are the new YACHT members with their YTM numbers. Welcome aboard.
KC9MEA Nicholas Pierce, West Bend, WI - YTM15
KC9HYN Theresa Schoemann, Cudahy, WI - YTM16
KC9MGB Chandler Squires, Middleton, WI - YTM17
KC9MLD Neil Touzinsky, Kimberly, WI - YTM18
KC9JVN Vincent Bensch, Madison, WI - YTM19
K8BEN Ben Brist, Madison, WI - YTM20
KC9KPW Kayla Waltemath, West Allis, WI - YTM21
KC9NBQ Alec Friedman, Middleton, WI - YTM22
KC9MHU Matthew Nielson, Port Barrington, IL - YTM23
(call coming) Cecilia Schoemann, Cudahy, WI - YTM24
License class breakdown for all YACHT members is as follows: 13 Technician; 7 General; 4 Extra
YACHT is sailing ahead with a good breeze at our backs, and a great future ahead of us.
Member Pictures Needed -
If you are agreeable, I would like to have each new member send me a recent photo of yourself, possibly with a piece of ham radio gear in your hand or nearby. I took some photos of of few new members at Superfest, but no way of connecting names with them. Your photo will be put into the official YACHT webpage.
If any of our members have had some interesting ham radio experiences, or would like to tell us about yourself, so we can consider you for "YACHT Ham of the Month" in a future issue, send me an email describing yourself, your interests, future plans, anything you think others would enjoy reading about. My plan is to give every YACHT member headline coverage at some time as "Ham of the Month" You need not do anything special or newsworthy...you are already special people just by being involved in ham radio and the YACHT team.
Birthdates Needed -
If each member would send me their birthdates - month, day, and year, I would like to recognize each of you in the YNR (Yacht New Report) issue of your special month. Thank you.
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That's all for this month. Enjoy ham radio, and join us on the EYN, Echolink Youth Net or the WAYnet, Wide Area Youth Net
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YNR editor: KG8CX
Monday, March 31, 2008
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