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Club Membership Meeting....Thursday, March 30, 2006 |
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John WØJGY, Lyle KØLFV, and Vi with here husband John W3MQD enjoying coffee and cookies after the business meeting and before the evening presentation. |
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Jim Goegtig of Aitkin (no callsign yet) and Gene WØFSG looking over the BAARC HF station. |
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Darrell ABØVP and Fritz WØKO. Amateur Radio friendship. |
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Speakers
for the evening were from the Crow Wing Power. (l-r)
Rob Moser, Safety Administrator, and Wayne Bentler, Lineman Safety Officer.
Their topic
was Electrical Safety.
The pair showed a video and talked for over an hour on the dangers of
working around buried and aerial power lines. Annually, there are
500 electrocutions at home and about 350 at work in this country.
All or most of those deaths could be prevented by using common sense
safety precautions.
Electric customers experience, on average, between 4 and 5 hours of power outages each year. The pair cautioned against connecting portable power generators to home electrical systems unless it is done through approved power transfer switches. The risk of electrocuting a power company line worker is high. |
| The April 27th BAARC meeting will feature a talk entitled, "DC to LIGHT," given by John KØJO. John is well known for his work at microwave frequencies and is also planning on experimenting at 500 KHz, which is below the lowest Amateur Radio band. John will talk about the "state of the art" for the extreme edges of the frequencies available to hams. This should be a good fun-filled session. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend. Hope to see you there. |
This page was last updated 12/31/2006 Ø
