January Meeting!

What a great way to begin 2011! Our first meeting of the new year will be Monday, January 3, 2011 at Buffalo Grill, 400 N. Bowman in Little Rock. We will start eating at 5:30 p.m. with the meeting to begin at 6:30 p.m.
Come and be a part of the planning for the year. See you Monday evening!

John Goswick
President
CAUHF, Inc.

It's that time!!!!

WOW! Is it Thanksgiving already? The year has certainly passed quickly. I have three items today:
First, the Club elections were held on November 8, 2010 with the following results:
President - John Goswick
Vice President - Joshua Carroll
Secretary - Ben Johnson
Treasurer - Ray Kinney
Open Board Positions - Tem Moore and Bill Maples

Second, it's dues time. Please remember the club and pay your dues soon. Your dues and the rent from the Morrilton site allow us to keep the AR Link System up and running. We appreciate your support in this manner. Dues are $20.00 person or $30.00 per family.

Third, Barbara and I want to invite everyone to our house on December 4 for our annual Christmas party. The address is 19 Roberts Dr., Mayflower, AR 72106 for those of you who Google or GPS. You can call for directions at 501-837-0385 or I'll talk you in on the AR Link System that night. We will begin at 6:00 p.m. and you only need to bring yourselves; everything else will be provided.

I'm thankful to you for supporting me as your club president this year as well as your support of the club. I look forward to 2011 and continuing our work together.

See you December 4 and 73s
John Goswick - W5JLG
President
CAUHF, Inc.

REMINDER!!!

The November Social Meeting and Annual Election is NEXT MONDAY, November 8, 2010 at Larry's Pizza, 12911 Cantrell Road, Suite 21, Little Rock, AR. We will eat at 6:00 p.m. and the meeting will begin at 6:00 p.m. Join us for Pizza Buffet and a great meeting.

See you there!
Thanks and 73s
John Goswick - W5JLG

November Social Meeting/Election

All,
It's that time of year, again! Time for our Fall Social Meeting and Election of Officers. We will meet at:

Larry's Pizza, West
12911 Cantrell Road, Suite 21
Little Rock, AR

The meeting is Monday, November 8, 2010. We will begin eating at 6:00 p.m. and the meeting will start at 7:00 p.m. We will talk about what we have accomplished this year and our goals for next year and have the election of officers. We will announce the outcome of the election at the end of the meeting. I hope everyone can attend and make this a great meeting. We will have plenty of room so come out and join us!

I apologize if you receive this email more than once. I'm trying to insure that everyone gets the notification.

Thanks, and see you at Larry's!!
John Goswick - W5JLG
President, CAUHF, Inc.

October Business Meeting Postponed

We must postpone the October Business Meeting scheduled for Monday, October 4, 2010. Both the President and Vice-President will be unable to attend due to family responsibilities. The meeting will be held on Monday, October 11, 2010 at Buffalo Grill, 400 N. Bowman, Little Rock, AR. We have a short presentation by CAP and then the Nominating Committee will announce the slate of officers for 2011 for CAUHF. Eating starts at 5:30 p.m. and the meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. See you there!!

John Goswick
President, CAUHF, Inc.

CALL FOR HELP!

We need help with the Toadsuck Triathlon next week on Saturday and Sunday September 11 & 12. There are several spots open and all assistance will be greatly appreciated. Please sign up at: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/794504384

Thanks for you help with this event.
73s
John Goswick
President, CAUHF, Inc.

September Business Meeting

Because of the Labor Day holiday, our September Business meeting will be on Monday, September 13. Eating begins at 5:30 p.m. and the meeting will start at 6:30 p.m. We will meet at The Pantry in west Little Rock at 11401 North Rodney Parham Rd.
See you there!

John Goswick - W5JLG
President, CAUHF, Inc.

CAUHF Group web site receives W7SAV Gold Website Award

The CAUHF Group's web site was recently recognized by Steve Vermillion, W7SAV with a "Gold Amateur Radio Web Site" award.  In Vermillion's email informing of the web site's award he said he "found it a complete pleasure."

Vermillion started the awards program after he received his first website award.  He said, "It's a great way to reward Individuals for their hard work on their websites when they get so little recognition."

The W7SAV web site, with a listing of other awardees, can be found at http://w7sav.net/awards.htm.

August Business Meeting

The August Business Meeting will be held at Buffalo Grill on August 2, 2010. We start gathering for dinner around 6:00 p.m. and the meeting begins at 7:00 p.m.
We hope you will attend to make your opinions known on the business that will be discussed this month.
The meeting will by moderated by Joshua Carroll this month as I will be out of pocket

Have a great time!

John Goswick, President
CAUHF, Inc.

Quarterly Social Meeting

It's fellowship time again! Our Social Meeting for second quarter is July 12th. This time we will meet at Pasta Jack's in Benton. The address is 1314 Green St., Benton, AR 72015. Behind Sonic on Military Road. We will eat at 6:00p.m. and have a program after. I hope all of you can eat and fellowship with us on the 12th! Remember...DOOR PRIZES!!!

Thanks to All who helped with Field Day

Let me be the first to publicly thank and congratulate all those who helped with this year's Field Day. It would not have been possible without you! A special thanks goes to Ben Johnson stepped up and made a great Event Coordinator and to Joshua Carroll for all the work he did before and during the event as PIO. Both of you deserve big "Atta Boy's" for your great work. All the rest of you(and you know who you are) are to be congratulated for giving your time, talents and even money to make sure we had a successful Field Day 2010. Thanks also to those who dropped by and to the visitors who took a look at ham radio for the first time.
I would also like to thank J.M. Rowe, ARRL AR Section Manager for coming by and staying awhile with us. Great to have you J.M.! And thanks also to the two North Little Rock Alderman for their time during the opening ceremonies and for staying to make the first contacts of Field Day for us.

To all of you, it couldn't have been done without you!
John Goswick, W5JLG
President, CAUHF, Inc.

Social Meeting

Our rescheduled Quarterly Social Meeting will be next Monday, May 17, at the Buffalo Grill on Bowman Curve in Little Rock.
The only business is to vote on the new club constitution. The program is High Speed Multi-Media (HSMM) that will be a great help to our repeater system. You won't want to miss this!

We begin eating at 6:00 p.m. and the meeting will start at 7:00 p.m.

SEE YOU THERE!!!

May Board/Business Meeting

Yes, it's time again for the monthly meeting! This month we will meet at The Pantry in west Little Rock at 11401 North Rodney Parham Rd. We eat from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. and begin the meeting at 6:30 p.m. We will do our best to get you out by 8. Join us on Monday, May 3, 2010. See you there!

John - W5JLG

CAUHF net and ASTEN set to merge

The CAUHF net, also known to many as the AR Link System Net, will merge with ASTEN on April 27th.  The net time will be 8:00 pm Central time.  This comes after much discussion in several club business meetings, polling and receiving feedback from club members, and final coordination with ASTEN net coordinator, John Godfrey, KE5NZY.

This merge will bring together these two state-wide nets to save time and resources for interested operators.  As part of this move, there will also be some small format changes to come in the new net.  One such example is that the "ASTEN/CAUHF Net" will still provide Amateur Radio related training, but comments will be solicited a little bit differently than in the past.  The net will still be available on the AR Link System Repeater Network and on linked IRLP stations.

Any repeater owner who wishes to become part of the AR Link System either on a part-time or full-time basis needs only to contact the CAUHF Tech Team via email at techteam [at] cauhf.org.  The CAUHF Tech Team will help to ensure that repeater control codes don't conflict with anyone else's on the system and help get it connected.

CAUHF announces "Get Your Pet On The Air" movement

The CAUHF Group, in conjunction with local animal rights groups, have started a new movement that they have titled "Get Your Pet On The Air".  It's stated mission is to support the creation of a Pet Radio Operator's license for animal family members of other licensed Amateur Radio operators.

Randy Wright, AE5RW, said "The looks that I get from Sasha every single Tuesday night during the AR Links System Net are just unbearable.  She's always wanted her own license since she was a puppy.  Now she has hope that someday she too can check-in... short of time... with no traffic."

Pet owners all around central Arkansas have expressed interest in helping to create such a movement for several hours, but it wasn't until recently that this dream seemed possible.

But not everyone is in favor of the idea.  Tem Moore, N5KWL said, "That is just crazy.  Seriously, how could my dog remember his own call sign?  He has a hard enough time remembering mine."

Arkansas Section Manager J.M. Rowe, N5XFW, said that he wasn't sure how this would be accepted by the ARRL or the FCC but he was definitely in favor of being favorable.

For the CAUHF Group, I'm N5JLC.  73!

NOTE: For those who may be a little dense, this was an April Fool's joke.

The band is wide open!

I had a neat experience this morning that I wanted to share with the Group.  During this morning's "drive time" traffic, I heard a faint station calling me.  I replied and it took a couple of tries to get the information correct, but the station was contacting us over UHF from Beaumont, Texas!  A distance of about 340 miles!

The weather should be about the same tomorrow morning.  This might be a great time to try out some UHF DXing.

73!

How Google Apps works

This year the CAUHF Group started using Google Apps to make sharing information and collaboration a little easier. I came across this video that Google produced recently and I thought I would share it for those who aren't familiar with how Google Apps works and how can benefit from using it.

You can watch this video blog in the window below, or for a page on which the video will automatically play, browse to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doHnLiAzQ5M.

CAUHF Field Day 2010 location

In this video blog Joshua (N5JLC) shows and describes the location being considered by the CAUHF Group for this years Field Day exercise.

You can watch this video blog in the window below, or for a page on which the video will automatically play, browse to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwlCDGZBIsc.

CAUHF members accounts

This past week all members of the CAUHF Group, who have already renewed their memberships for the year 2010, were issued accounts to login to member services at http://members.cauhf.org.

With these new accounts members have several benefits, including an email address with over 7 megabytes of storage. If they prefer, members can optionally forward mail to an email address of their choosing, just like with the ARRL email forwarding service.

Through this portal members also have access to the Documents section which is being used to manage and consolidate many of our club related documents. It is in the Documents section that members will soon find the full list of linking codes for the AR Links System.

If you haven't renewed your membership for the 2010 year and you wish to do so online, you can visit http://www.cauhf.org/join/renew/.

If you have never been a member of the CAUHF Group and you are interested in joining, please visit http://www.cauhf.org/join/ for information.

Video blog: Work Completed at the AR Links System Hub Site

In this video blog Tem (N5KWL) goes over the latest changes to the hub site of the AR Link System repeater network.

You can watch this video blog in the window below, or for a page on which the video will automatically play, browse to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvmTXyV5KQA.

Arkansas Traveling Ham Award

In December of last year the CAUHF Group's board voted to create an award program that would promote the use of the AR Links System repeater network and Amateur Radio in general.

This dream has become reality and we are proud to announce the Arkansas Traveling Ham Award. You can read all about the program and the rules at http://www.cauhf.org/atha/.

I've already started on it and I'll be periodically posting updates on how I'm doing. So far I've already made contacts in 11 of Arkansas' 75 counties. If this sounds interesting to you too, keep in mind that starting this year members of the CAUHF will soon have access to the AR Links System linking codes, which will make working an award like this even more fun!

If you're not a member or you haven't renewed your membership this year, now is a great time to do so! There's a lot going on in the Central Arkansas UHF Group.

73!

CAUHF web site on the go...

Did you know that statistics show that by the year 2012 the Internet will have more mobile browsers in use at any given moment than traditional, desktop browsers?  Well, I don't know how true that is but I saw it on an ad on TV... so it must be true, right?

Well, whether it's right or wrong it still got me thinking.  Since the CAUHF's web site is purely designed using Cascading Style Sheets (or CSS), I should be able to make the whole site mobile-ready in a matter of minutes.  As it turns out, I was right.

The CAUHF web site is now easier than ever to browse using your favorite mobile device.  It has been tested using an iPhone and a Blackberry.  Enjoy!

If you are interested in learning more about CSS visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading_Style_Sheets.