The ARRL recently introduced a new contest for relatively new hams: The ARRL Rookie Roundup

Visit www.arrl.org/contests/rules/2010/rr.html to see the rules.

This is a pretty interesting and unique contest format:

The contest is conducted three times each calendar year on the third Sunday of April, August and December.

During 2010 that means April 18th, Aug 22nd, and Dec 19th.

Here's another interesting aspect: Each month features a different mode:

April = SSB
Aug = RTTY
Dec = CW

There will be no Morse Code Training Class this weekend (Saturday, 13 Mar) due to the scheduled monthly exam session.

Students are encouraged to continue working their way through the first 5 character groups using "Method 1".

The "post graduate" students should be breezing through character refresher and doing "Speed Drills".

Greetings!

As you know, we are offering a licensing course for the General class license.

It's free - you just pay for the license manual (at a discounted price if you order it through the club)

It starts April 24th (0900-Noon) and ends June 12th (Just in time for Field Day) http://fieldday.w3vpr.org/

Sign-up using the "Class Sign-up Tool" on the left side of the web page or e-mail Rick aarcpres@comcast.net

License manuals will be available at least a week prior to the start of the course.

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Greetings!

Do you feel the need to expand your horizons?

Is being a "Repeater Rat" not all it was cracked up to be when you started and now has you depressed?

Do you suffer from ham radio "HF Deficiency (HFD)?

Do you want to meet people on the air from around the world? Do you want to have lots of fun and improve your love life?

I'm not sure about improving your love life, but upgrading your Technician license to General class will solve almost all of your problems listed above.

Here it is -- a little shorter than usual.

The AARC 2010 Technician licensing course got started after Mother Nature intervened and imposed a mandatory wait period.

We have eight students including three kids.

The first class session was on 20 Feb - A week after the original start date. Parking was extremely limited due to the massive snowfall and lack of snow plowing. A single lane was cleared to the top of the hill.

Thanks to Rick/KK4GV and Cody/KB3POM, a path was shovelled to the front door.

On Saturday, a few brave souls made their way to the snowbound AARC clubhouse to start the 2010 Field Day Morse Code Training Class.

Greetings.

To repeat: Field Day is not cancelled due to the excessive snow accumulation at the DFRC!

Just like last year was a challenge, this year will also present challenges. AND opportunities!

Each of our 10 operating stations will be installed in a custom-made igloo. Each igloo may be of any size but must conform to a the traditional igloo design with rounded dome and crawl-in entrance.