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QST, QST, PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO YOUR MEMBERSHIP....
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Hello,
My name is Sal De Franco, N6SPD
Im the Vendor Coordinator for RadioFest 2007.
I would like to invite your membership to participate in RadioFest 2007.
It all Happens in Monterey on Saturday February 24th.
RadioFest 2006 has been a great success.
And we are hard at work to make RadioFest 2007 even better,
RadioFest is a FREE Public Service and Family Event.
And is sponsored by the "NPSARC" Naval Postgraduate School Amateur Radio Club.
We will have many great events like:
FLEE MARKET
VENDOR BOOTHS
HAM RADIO DEMOS
FREE LICENSE EXAMS
FANTASTIC SPEAKERS
DOOR PRIZES
And many more great Ham Radio activities........
Please visit our www page http://www.radiofest.org/
And if you would like to be a vendor please click on the link below.
http://www.n6spd.com/radiofest/2007/vendorinfo.htm
This year we are back at the old Fort Ord General Stillwell Community Center.
And when RadioFest is completed, you have the Beautiful Monterey Peninsula to
take in.
And after RadioFest you are invited to N6IJ Super Station Open House.
http://www.n6ij.org/
What a great weekend, Ham Radio, RadioFest, N6IJ Super Station and the Monterey
Peninsula ....
We hope you will participate in this years great celebration of Ham Radio....
Link to RadioFest 2007.
http://www.radiofest.org/
Link to Vendor page.
http://www.n6spd.com/radiofest/2007/vendorinfo.htm
Link to Vendor Application.
http://www.n6spd.com/radiofest/2007/rentalapplication2007.pdf
Link to N6IJ Super Station Open House.
http://www.n6ij.org/
Link to N6SPD
http://www.n6spd.com/
Sal De Franco
N6SPD
Vendor Coordinator
sal(a)n6spd.com
voice 831-394-6678
fax 831-394-3461
RadioFest 2007, It all happens in Monterey....
The Last Official Morse Code
Exam Given in the U.S.A.
by Darryl Widman, KF6DI
VE Team Contact Person
The FCC, in its infinite wisdom, has decided that the Morse Code exam is not ever to be given again as a condition of passing any Amateur Radio class of license. The official limit of the date and time of the last Code exam to be given is Thursday, February 22, 2007 at midnight Eastern Standard Time. After that date and time, Code exams will be history in the United States.
This little bit of information presents an opportunity for someone to become famous! How so? Well, a few members of the Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club were struck by the idea that a special VE testing session might be given between 8:30 P.M. and 9:00 P.M. Pacific Standard Time in Santa Barbara on the above date, thus allowing that lucky and special person to become the absolute last person to take and pass a Morse Code exam in the U.S.A., ever!
This message should appeal to all Amateur Radio operators who hold the Technician class of license and have never yet passed their Morse Code exam (Element 1) part of the requirement to become General class holders. Also, those folks who hold a Certificate of Successful Completion of Examination (CSCE) for General or Amateur Extra class could take this Code exam so as to feel like they had "done it right!"
Above all, the very last one to pass his or her Code exam would, as stated above, become instantly famous by having his or her name appear in the publication of the Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club -- Key-Klix -- and, if verified by the ARRL as the "last to pass", somewhere visible in QST magazine to be seen all over the U.S.A. and the world.
If you would like to become world famous, get in touch with me, Darryl Widman, KF6DI, Contact Person for the Volunteer Examiner Team of the Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club and pre-register for this spectacularly special VE exam. You will be given the time, place and what to bring for this testing session. Call me at 805-969-2326 afternoons or evenings.
And yes, Code is NOT dead! Code will live on forever!
Study hard and practice. Not much time left.
73 and Good Luck!
