The next meeting of the Nixa Amateur Radio club is Saturday March 11th at 6pm. VE Testing session will be held before the meeting at 4:30 p.m.
During the March Meeting, KSPR Chief Meteorologist Kevin Lighty will be presenting on Severe Weather as we begin severe weather season in the Ozarks.
Rob Huelga, W3LGA- Nixa ARC VE Team Leader reports that February's testing session saw two new hams (one passed Tech and the other passed both Tech and General) as well as a third ham successfully upgrading to General. Congratulations to all!
We have a new way to communicate! We have moved all the information that was our previous yahoo group to groups.io. If you were a member of the yahoo group you already got an email about the move, but if you'd like to sign up you can go to https://groups.io/g/nixahams and subscribe.
If you get the ARRL Contest Journal, you might want to check out Bob Rennard's post (N7WY) in the ARRL contest journal. Congrat's, Bob!
For latest and greatest flyer information you can check it out on W0OAR.com.
HB 136 - important update!
Rep. Bryan Spencer has just informed me that Rep. Jay Barnes, Chairman of the Rules-Administrative Oversight Committee, has stated that our Bill may be on his calendar next week for debate and vote. Rep. Spencer also stated that Speaker of the House, Rep. Todd Richardson, told him that he would get our Bill out of the Rules Committee. So, we need to politely ask both Reps. Barnes and Richardson to move our Bill along through the Rules Committee and onto the full House floor for debate and Perfection vote as soon as possible. I've included the contact information for each of these Representatives below. Please take the time to let them know of your support for this Bill and ask them to move it forward.
Thank you for taking action and showing our representatives that this is important to us.
In anticipation of some interest following the Weather Expo at Battlefield Mall and the KY3 SAFE & SOUND at the Empire Fairgrounds, Greene County ARES will be hosting a beginner's TECHNICIAN class on April 8th & 15th (2 Saturdays) 9am-3pm with a break for lunch. Classes will be held at the OACAC central office at 215 S Barnes (Chestnut Exp & Barnes) just across the street from the FedEx Shipping and Oreilly Training Centers. You can bring a sack lunch or run out to a restaurant along N Glenstone. Testing is scheduled for the 15th, 1pm-3pm as the end of the 2nd class. We will be using the Gordon West Technician book (make sure it is the 2014-2018 edition and not an older version that expired July 2014). Those can be purchased at Amazon, Ebay, or W5YI or a multitude of other locations...search for Gordon West Technician Study Guide.
Class is FREE, Study guide <$25, Testing fee is $14. Reservations are highly recommended as class size is a minimum of 5 and max of 25. Mike-417-569-5586. If the class must be cancelled or postponed, we cannot contact you to let you know unless you have registered your intentions and your contact info!