D.C.A.R.C.
Dekalb County Amateur Radio Club

Smithville Tennessee

The Dekalb Amateur Radio club holds their meetings on the last Thursday of every month at the Justin Potter library Just off the square in Smithville, TN.. You do not have to be a member or live in the Dekalb area to attend or join the club. We are also looking for anyone interested in joining us for our next club event station at the Smithville Fiddlers Jamboree. Email to the address below, and we will send you information.

Email KC4GUG


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Link to the Jamboree page

http://www.smithvillefiddlersjamboree.net/

ANNUAL D.C.A.R.C EVENT STATION
Smithville Fiddlers Jamboree
and Crafts Festival

JULY 5, 2008

1400z - 2200z

See Time chart below


The Dekalb Co. Amateur Radio Club will be having its annual event station at the Smithville Fiddlers Jamboree at the Justin Potter Library in Smithville, Tennessee. Everyone is welcome to attend whether just visiting or joining in with the activity.

If you happen to be at the Jamboree please stop by for a visit. Our setup will be about a block down on the East side of the square between the Library and Post Office. We will be operating under field day conditions and setup will begin early. If you would like to bring any equipment to use yourself you are urged to do so.

Also bring a table and chair to set up on. If you don't have any equipment you are very welcome to use what we have there. Everyone is welcome to attend. Listen for us on the times and frequencies listed below. Specially designed Event QSL's will be sent to contacted parties. Please send S.A.S.E..


For address and info contact: KC4GUG Wm. Freddy Curtis, Club Pres.

Information also in QST.

Email KC4GUG
Ph. 615-597-9563

Frequencies "28.425" "21.335" "14.280" "7.275"
Talk in on 145.490- Short Mountain repeater
Local in town 146.520 simplex

Listen for special event Callsign

K4F

"Kilo Four Fiddle"

Where We Are

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Our event times in your time zone.

UTC
(GMT) 		PACIFIC
STANDARD		 MOUNTAIN
STANDARD		 CENTRAL
STANDARD		 EASTERN
STANDARD
1200 4 am 5 am 6 am 7 am
1300 5 am 6 am 7 am 8 am
1400 6 am 7 am 8 am 9 am
1500 7 am 8 am 9 am 10 am
1600 8 am 9 am 10 am 11 am
1700 9 am 10 am 11 am 12 noon
1800 10 am 11 am 12 noon 1 pm
1900 11 am 12 noon 1 pm 2 pm
2000 12 noon 1 pm 2 pm 3 pm
2100 1 pm 2 pm 3 pm 4 pm
2200 2 pm 3 pm 4 pm 5 pm
2300 3 pm 4 pm 5 pm 6 pm

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Amateur Radio Special Event Station Successful

July 7, 2008

The DeKalb County Amateur Radio Club conducted a Special Event Station at the 37th Annual Smithville Fiddlers’ Jamboree and Craft Festival on Saturday, July 5th, 2008. The station was setup at the front entrance of the Justin Potter Library during the early morning hours on Saturday. Antennas were assembled, radios were properly checked, and transmissions were begun just before 8:00 AM local time. Operations took place in the 20 meter, 40 meter, and 10 meter Amateur Radio bands, and the station was publicized in Amateur Radio magazines QST and CQ-Amateur Radio and the club website at http://www.dcarc.drivehq.com/.

The station contacted 167 total Amateur Radio Stations in 33 States, and 4 Provinces in Canada. The most distant station contacted was in Hawaii, this year was the first time a Hawaiian station had been contacted. Other interesting contacts included the Ham Station on the Battleship USS New Jersey anchored in Camden, NJ and now a museum. Also contacted was the Ham Station at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC and two different Science Centers in Arizona and Toronto, Ontario Canada.

Amateur Radio Operator Guests included the following: N4HWL – Ken Tenpenny – Murfreesboro, TN; KH6AD – Bob Soare – Smithville, TN; KJ4BQK – Carl Wachsman – Smithville, TN; KI4UUP – Andrew Thomas – Crossville, TN; W4GKM - Nick Smith – Crossville, TN; and AG4VF – Bruce Newberry – Pegram, TN.

Participants of the station included local Amateur Radio Operators:
KG4BTO - Joe Ferrell; KF4QNT - Kevin Neely; and KC4GUG - Freddy Curtis.

Pictures of the Special Event Station can be viewed at the club’s website at: http://www.dcarc.drivehq.com/.

The local club looks forward to operating another special event station at next years Smithville Fiddlers’ Jamboree and Craft Festival. The club would like to offer its thanks to Jamboree Coordinator - Mr. Neil Dudney, Justin Potter Librarian - Mrs. Kathy Hendrixson, and Smithville Postmaster Mr. Michael Lynn for their support of this activity.

The DeKalb County Amateur Radio Club is an organization of Amateur Radio operators from DeKalb and Surrounding Counties and is an affiliated club of the American Radio Relay League. The next club meeting will be on Thursday, August 28th, 2008 - 6:30 PM at the Justin Potter Library. Any person interested in Amateur Radio is invited to attend.