Our glorious leader has made arrangements for us to be able to get ID badges.  Visit Ham Badgers to order your own badge.

Now, you'll notice that there are several color choices to choose from.  There has been some discussion on the club mailing list about everyone sticking with a common color scheme.  Given this, you might want to wait until a final decision on the "approved" colors has been reached.  Update:  we decided people should just get whatever color scheme they like, there is no recommended or approved color.

The badges are available in small, medium, or large and can be ordered with a pin fastener or a magnetic fastener.  See below for some example images:

Don't forget, our February monthly meeting on the 20th will not be at the usual location.  We will be visiting the Salt Lake Crossroads Amateur Radio club which is meeting at the Glendale branch of the Salt Lake City Public Library.  This meeting will start at 7:00 PM at the library and we will be treated to a presentation on WinLink, a mechanism for sending "e-mail" messages using amateur radio.

If you have a laptop, bring it to the meeting and you will be shown how to install and configure the WinLink software and will be able to practice sending and receiving some messages (via the TELNET protocol over the Internet).  If you have a radio with a TNC, bring that too and we'll try to get it set up.

Check out our Monthly Meeting event for more details including where and when, and even a map to the location.

There is a Slack group for Amateur Radio in Utah!

For those of you who have never used Slack before, it is an instant messaging platform that is widely used in corporate and private communications.  Slack provides a quick means of communication without the spam and noise of e-mail.  It supports multiple "channels" for communication, as well as direct messages between people and ad hoc groups.  Slack provides an online history, so you don't have to be online all the time to see what people have been saying.  There are also mobile apps for it that you can install directly on your smart phone device(s).

Invites to the Utah Amateur Radio Slack, and specifically to the MARC channel (#marc) have been sent to all club members listed in the current roster.  If you didn't get an invite and you think you should have, please contact Jan (KD7ZWV).

If you got an invitation but you don't want to use Slack, don't worry about it... you can simply ignore the invitation.

The general club meeting for December 19th has been cancelled.  We will resume regular club meetings in January.  Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

I have added links for CircuitLab (the circuit designer/simulator software that was demoed at the 14 November 2019 meeting) and also a link to the home built 2m radio project for any who might be interested.

Members of the Murray Amateur Radio Club participated this evening in an emergency services drill.  Assigned in groups of two radio operators, and equipped with either their own personal 1.25m band radios or radios provided by the Murray City Fire Department, members of the club dispersed to various locations around the city.  Arriving at their assigned locations, each team, using a tactical call sign, reported in to net control at the Murray EOC at station 83.  Each team was supplied with a simulated emergency condition which they reported to net control.

This exercise showed that the MARC members are capable of supporting Murray City in an emergency, passing messages from an on-scene incident commander in the event that normal communications channels are unavailable.  We demonstrated professionalism in our operations and followed our communications plan.

In other club actions, the membership ratified the new meeting schedule so it is an official club policy.  To reiterate, this is the three meetings a month schedule with the first meeting of the month devoted to Technician-related subjects, the second to General/HF-related subjects, and the third being the general monthly club meeting covering various subjects of interest to all.

If you haven't been to a club meeting lately, you should plan on joining us in October!