The OCARC has started a new non-formal "Wake-Up&Roll-Out" Breakfast get together that will occur each month at a different restaurant around Orange County on the last Saturday of the month. This is not a club meeting just a fun time to meet amateurs from around the area. You do not have to be a member to join us! The Next "Wake-Up&Roll-Out" will be at 9AM Saturday November 26th in Orleans at the Maple Street Restaurant. Bring your morning appetite and have a nice time!

The INARES Digital Net (IDN) has change it's day and time starting in NOVEMBER 16th, 2011. We are now holding all the nets on Wednesday's at 8PM EST (0100Z) on 3583USB (1000 Hz waterfall) using the mode OLIVIA 8/500. If the band is extremely noisy we will use OLIVIA 16/500. Any bulletins are sent using MT63 1000Khz long interleave. Please Join Us..All are Welcome!

The OCARC is giving Technician Class License Traing right now in the Hospital Education Room (which is across from the Hospital in Paoli on the lower level of the old Clinic. They start at 7 pm and go till 9PM. We are still taking students so contact myself Larry Jones for further details!

WB9FHP has recently started packet operations with a Full Service 2 meter BBS on 145.050 which runs 24/7. This BBS is networked into the Indiana Packet Network and provides amateurs with all the advantages of the packet mode. For more info and a copy of the Operators manual please contact WB9FHP.

The Orange County ARES?RACES will be holding weekly nets on Thursday nights at 8PM on the KB9OHY repeater in Paoli. WB9FHP DEC for INARES District 8 and EC for Orange County will be occasionally giving training bites every Thursday. The purpose of the net will be all aspects of ARES operations training. All amateurs are welcome to check in!

Recently WB9FHP added PACTOR to the arsenal on "RF HILL" He is the 9th region NTSD MBO and also provides links into the WL2K system on both Pactor 1 and 2 and soon will be adding Pactor 3 some of the LSB center frequencies his station scans 24/7 are 3591.9, 7101.4, 7102.4 and 14097.9. If you have pactor capabilties try a connect!

The ARRL Audio News is now playing on the OCARC's KB9OHY 2 meter repeater (147.045), every Friday evening at 7:35pm EST. Tune in and hear some of the latest things in Ham Radio!

WB9FHP has just set up an official RMS station on WL2K using Winmor, the new soundcard TNC mode which emulates ARQ modes such as Pactor 2. This RMS station allows you to connect to the world-wide Winlink 2000 radio email system. The user program to connect to thr RMS station on "RF Hill" is called RMS Express and is very much like stardard email programs such as Outlook Express. You can also leave personal messages to Ham calls on the system that use WL2K. The user program is fairly easy to setup and use and is a very powerful mode. The WB9FHP-5 (the -5 indicates an RMS station and is not put on a user's call) operates 24/7 on 2 different frequencies. From 0000Z to 1300Z the station is on 3575 USB Dial, and from 1300Z to 0000Z it is on 7075 USB Dial. To download the latest copy of the RMS EXPRESS program by clicking on this link to our Download Bin http://www.wb9fhp.com/Downloads/RMS_Express_0.6.2.0_Full_install_.zip   to download the latest Public Winmor stations list click on this link http://www.wb9fhp.com/Downloads/PublicWinmorChannels.zip   I keep these files updated daily. To find out more about Winlink 2000 please go to www.winlink.org. My RMS station is there for everyones use so please feel free to connect as much as you wish.

Recently the ARES EC (Emegency Coordinator) had to resign his post due to a move, so now we are looking for a replacement for Charles KB9MXR who did a fine job while he was in that position. The requirements are that you be a General Class Amateur living within the confines of Lawrence county and that you be a current member of the ARRL, no membership in any local club is required. If you are interested in finding out more or applying for the Lawrence County EC position please contact myself Larry Jones, WB9FHP District Emergency Coordinator at wb9fhp@frontier.com or give me a call at 812-865-0156.

Most radios built today have either Auto Tuners built in or a place you can plug in an external Auto Tuner, but what if you have a older rig and a manual antenna tuner? It really isn't good operating procedure to set the and hold a steady carrier while you crank on a manual tuner to get it to make the radio "think" it's looking at a fifty ohm antenna. To solve this problem you can purchase an "off-line" matchmaker or as they are sometimes call a "pulser". What happens is the "little black box" generates a constant rf noise pulse and by simply tuning the tuner till you hear the pulsing stop (or 'notch out" then you know you have a perfect 1:1 match between your radio and your antenna and you never had to put a single carrier out on the air. "Pulser's" are not expensive and make for a more courteous way to tune that antenna "right on the money"!

If your a ham who lives in Southern Indiana and you know of a good Amateur Radio related news tidbit please send it to me Larry Jones WB9FHP at our email address listed at the bottom of this page and we'll be glad to post it right here in the Local News Block.