THE LOCAL OSCILLATOR - August 2009 


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TABLE OF CONTENTS
COMING EVENTS
PRESIDENT'S CORNER
CLUB NOTES
BALLOON
TREASURER'S REPORT 
OFFICERS
JOIN THE CLUB


COMING EVENTS
Sun Slow CW net 3.575 MHz 	3:30PM
Sun CW net	3.575 MHz	4:00PM
M-F 6 m FM net 52.540 		6:00AM
Mon WTRA Swap net 146.88 	8:00PM
Wed Net 146.64 			6:45PM
MWF Informal get together
	Wal-Mart W (Valley) 	10 AM
TTH Informal get together 
	Wal-Mart E (Walton) 	10 AM
Aug 1	  Breakfast 		8 AM
		Club House 
Aug 1	 Business meeting 	9 AM
		Club House
Aug 4	 Buiders Group		7 PM
		Club House
Aug 5	 Board Meeting	7 PM
		Club House
August 14-15    Duke City Hamfest 
		(Albuquerque, NM)
Aug 18	Builders Group  	7 PM
		Club House	7 PM
Sept 5	Breakfast 		8 AM
		Club House 
Sept 5    Alamogordo Hamfest 
		(Alamogordo, NM)
October 3    Pecos Valley ARC Swapfest 
		(Roswell, NM)


PRESIDENT'S CORNER
KC5HFJ

The usual breakfast and business meeting will be held in August..


CLUB NOTES
KD5SSJ

None received


BALLOON
K5XY

Thursday (July 29) a balloon was launched as part of the NM Spaceport effort. It had a tracking ARPS amateur transmitter attached and the track was available in real time for anybody with an Internet connection and tracking software. The picture on the front page shows the initial path. Later the balloon went back and forth in an east west direction south of the White Sands Tracking Range at an altitude of almost 70,000 feet. The call sign used was W5GB-11.

JULY TREASURER'S REPORT
KI5FJ

INCOME			BUDGET	ACTUAL YTD
Bean Feed Food		400.00	375.00
Breakfast & Drinks	600.00	438
Contributions		250.00	258.08
Dues			2000.00	1925
Education Classes	850.00	220.00
Equip Sales & Raffles	1845.00	2058
Bank Interest		30.00	
Other			0.00	
TOTAL			5975.00	5274.08

EXPENSES		BUDGET	ACTUAL YTD
Bean Feed		300.00	296.72
Breakfast & Drinks	400.00	119.75
Clubhouse		400.00	43.84
N5BL Domain Due 09 2014	20.00	
Education Classes	850.00	249.31
Field  Day		150.00	90.42
Insurance		1000.00	
Misc			100.00	124.15
NM Emergency Fee	30.00	30.00
NM Tax Exempt Fee	10.00	10.00
PO Box Rent		60.00	60.00
Postage			100.00	
President’s Fund	75.00	207.17
Property  Tax		800.00	
Repeater Maintenance	600.00	523.70
Electricity		450.00	285.30
Propane			500.00	274.07
Water			150.00	96.69
TOTAL			5995.00	2412.12

AS OF  30 July 2009	
INCOME		5274.08
EXPENSES	2412.12
NET		+2861.96



		
OFFICERS 
Pres Perry Welch KC5HFJ 373-9171 Perrywelch@hotmail.com
VPr Cash Olsen KD5SSJ 382-1917 kd5ssj@arrl.net
Sec Jack Lemons N5PK 644-7207 jack_N5PK@hotmail.com
Treasurer Joe Ostrowski     ki5jf@arrl.net  
BOARD 
Communications Henry Schotzko AD5FE 526-1922 schotzko@comcast.net
Education 
Special Events Kevin McNelis K5KMC 571-7326 kmcnelis@nmsu.edu
Newsletter Alex Burr K5XY 522-2528 k5xy@arrl.net
Clubhouse Bob Bennett AD5LJ 382-0148 rpbennett1@comcast.net
Repeaters Robert Truitt KE5OFK  649-4173  robtruitt@zianet.com


JOIN THE CLUB
To join the Mesilla Valley Radio Club, renew your membership, or to support the repeaters, please complete the form below and send it with dues ($35 single, $45 family per year) to: Treasurer, MVRC, Box 1443, Las Cruces, NM 88004.

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