Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1993 23:24:49 +0600 (CST)
Subject: ARCUA News

Next Meeting
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  The next regular meeting of ARCUA will be on Thursday, March 4th at 7pm
in Bell 291, immediately following code practice.
  The Mr. Phil Chaney, of the UA Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies,
will speak on the Global Positioning System (GPS).

Fundraising
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  On Tuesday evening, the Associated Student Government awarded ARCUA the
sum of $153 from the "B-Funds" account.  This money is comes from your
student activity fee and is awarded to Registered Student Organizations
each semester.
  At today's "Ham Lunch" (every thursday at about noon in the Servery),
KB5WAR, N5YGR, W5/LA1PCA, K5GOE, K5FXB and N5UWY stuffed about 3 million
envelopes (OK, OK, 150) as part of ARCUA's latest fundraising campaign.
The packages, which included a letter outlining our financial needs and a
historical time line for amateur radio at the U of A, went out to all
known current and former ARCUA members.
  The B-Funds, combined with some cash we have in the treasury, will allow
the Club to purchase Yaesu computer-controllable azimuth/elevation
rotators for satellite operation.  Hopefully, we will raise enough extra
cash from the letter campaign to allow the purchase of a Kansas City
Tracker board.  The KCT board will allow automatic pointing of the OSCAR
antenna array, a necessity for satellites in low earth orbit (LEO).

Code Class
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  The code class is going quite well.  There are currently six people
learning the code and all should be able to pass at least the 5 wpm test
(if not the 13 wpm test!) by the end of the semester.
  On a related note, N5YGR, KB5UPY and myself N5UWY, will be trekking to
Siloam Springs on March 6 to take part in the Exam session there.  The
main reason for going now is because *one* of those three has an
about-to-expire credit slip for the General written exam and if he doesn't
get 13 wpm on that date, he will have to retake that exam element.  I
won't say who that person is.  8-)

"DXpediton" to V31 (Belize)
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  Jeanette Bider KB5TFX / V31FX (N5UWY's XYL) is currently in Belize,
Central America doing graduate research work.  Over Spring Break, she will
be joined by N5UWY, K5GOE and his son, Nate.  In addition to touring the
country, they will assist Jeanette in setting up an HF station which will
allow her to communicate with N5UWY at W5YM.  In addition to saving on
phone bills 8-), Jeanette also hopes to talk on the air to school-age kids
and others about her research.

Silent Key
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  UA graduate and former ARCUA member Carlos Solis WB5SDJ / TG9AI died of
a heart attack this week.  He was visiting relatives in Guatemala at the
time.  He was active in local Amateur Radio activities and will be missed.

73,
Peter Laws
N5UWY

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