The next meeting of the Story County Amateur Radio Club will be Thursday, January 7, 2016, at 7:30 pm. The meeting will be in Conference Room North AB next to Bessie Myers Auditorium on the first floor of Mary Greeley Medical Center (MGMC). In the program KC0JUO will present "Volts: Move ‘Em Without Losing ‘Em."

The presentation will be a discussion on connectors and wiring for 12 volt DC powered equipment, including a focus on selection, installation and use of Anderson Powerpole connectors. The standard connector for ARES and RACES equipment, Powerpoles incorporate highly conductive, silver-plated, copper contacts allowing minimal contact resistances at high currents. The self-wiping contacts also feature indentations that keep connectors mated in high vibration applications and provide quick-break, snap-action on disconnecting. The meeting will conclude with a Powerpole Hands-On Workshop where participants can bring their equipment and cables to properly install Powerpole connectors using available crimping tools. SCARC will have Powerpole “sets” available for purchase at the Workshop.

The closest parking is in the lot north of the ER and ambulance garage. Enter through the North Door where MGMC meets McFarland Clinic.

The Story County Amateur Radio Club is hosting another Foxhunt, or hidden transmitter hunt, at 2:00 pm on Sunday, December 6th in Ames, Iowa. We request all interested hunters assemble in the parking lot west of Ames City Hall (behind the Ames Veteran’s Memorial, Grand Avenue and 5th Street) to register with the hunt leader and receive the rules briefing. Hunters may be individuals or teams and the fox will be hidden somewhere within the Ames city limits on publicly accessible property. Everyone is welcome, even if you do not have an amateur radio license (hunting is a receive-only activity). If you have never hunted before, come to the assembly area and ride along with one of the more experienced hunters. For an introduction to Foxhunting, see: http://www.qsl.net/nz0i/equipment/equipment.htm The automated fox will transmit a series of Morse code tones on 146.430 MHz FM simplex for two hours (2:10 to 4:10 pm), with assistance provided to any requesting hunter on the fox frequency in the final hour (after 3:10 pm). For more information contact Clint Miller at isuforester@hotmail.com

The next meeting of the Story County Amateur Radio Club will be Thursday, December 3, 2015, at 7:30 pm. The meeting will be in the Bessie Meyers Auditorium on the first floor of Mary Greeley Medical Center (MGMC). The program will be presented by WA0ROI and the subject will be nets and net operation. Chuck will discuss NCS (net control station) responsibilities, especially related to HF networks along with the development, care and feeding of a national HF network.

The closest parking is in the lot north of the ER and ambulance garage. Enter through the North Door where MGMC meets McFarland Clinic.