Hello all EARS members. Our next meeting will be on September 16, 2003
at the Talbot 911 Center, 7 PM.

Peter, K3PKC will be talking about the up coming ham classes, and Marty, W3YOZ will be giving a short talk on the history of their Altoona ham radio club and how it has evolved over the years.

Peter K3PKC has taken the responsibility of running our ham classes, and on September 2nd we had a meeting of the people who are interested in putting on the classes. These included W3PAW, N3OUE, K3RUQ, K3PKC, K3OLE and W9GE. Peter has contacted the ARRL and we have decided to start the classes on 1-8-04 on Thursday nights at 7 PM. We have permission to use the Talbot 911 Center meeting room for a three month period. Peter would like to talk up and advertise the classes and invite any prospective hams to come to our EARS monthly meeting on 11-18-03. There they could meet the club members and be introduced to ham radio with a film from the ARRL.

We would like to welcome our newest member, Bob Finger, W9GE who has just moved to Easton to retire and “ham it up!” Bob is building a beautiful ham shack and putting up two Rohn 45 towers on his several acres of property. His new HF beam has a 40’ boom. Next he is putting up a 40 meter beam and an 80 meter 4 square vertical array. Below is a picture of Bob’s operating position.

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