The next meeting of the Story County Amateur Radio Club will be at 7:30 pm, Thursday, January 6, 2011, at the 4-H building on the southwest corner of 13th Street and Stange Road in Ames.
The program for the January SCARC meeting will be on the history of the W0YL/R repeater including planning, construction, installation, and maintenance. The program will be presented by W0DP and KI0Q.
The December 2010 SCARC meeting will be December 2, 7:30pm. The location will be the PowerFilm Solar factory located west of Ames. The address is: 1287 XE Place, Ames. The program will be by Pat Rundall, N0HR, VP of Operations at PowerFilm. It will include an overview of ham radio applications of solar power and a tour of the factory to show how their thin-film solar products are produced.
The next meeting of the Story County Amateur Radio Club will be at 7:30 pm, Thursday, November 4, 2010, at the 4-H building on the southwest corner of 13th Street and Stange Road in Ames.
The program for the November SCARC meeting will be on Emergency Power. This will be an expert panel discussion on powering your shack using batteries or generators, battery charging devices, electric code, transfer switches and other schemes to get power into the house and shack.