President’s Message

Hello Aarts members, On Wednesday October 15th we went to the Niagara County Public Safety Building for a tour of their dispatch center. 13 members were in attendance, the first part of our tour started in the garage area with our Has-Mat trucks, TRT team. Fire Police Response Vehicles, Niagara County Ambulances and a walk through of the County Emergency mobile command unit. After the first tour of the garage area Captain Travis Leaderstorf the senior dispatch supervisor and a member of my fire company gave us a tour of the 911 dispatch area. Thank you to everyone who came out Wednesday Night and I hope you had a good time. Our next general membership meeting is Wednesday November 19th at City Hall 200 Niagara Street. More to come on the program that night. I am still looking for a few members who have projects and would like to give a presentation at an upcoming meeting night. After fixing a few little problems at the DeGraff site, Joe N2ZDU and other members of the club have our repeater sounding pretty good, I am hoping to hear more members using 955. Remember we have a net on Thursday night at 8pm, Please try to check in. I have started a member only page on the web site where I will be posting pictures of members shacks or any projects you have completed or are working on, I am asking for pictures and information. Members can send pictures to me at [email protected]. In other news in a couple of weeks, November 2nd we will be turning our clocks back an hour ending daylight saving time, on the positive side you will be gaining an extra hour of sleep. Remember to clean and replace the batteries in your smoke alarms. A free weekly amateur radio general class licensing course on zoom will begin on Thursday October 30th and will run through Thursday January 8th (9 sessions with no class on Thanksgiving or Christmas) Information and an e-mail to sign up will be posted on the info page of our web site. 73’s and hope to see members on Wednesday Nov 19th Your President, Bob KC2SZQ.

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