SEDALIA – PETTIS AMATEUR RADIO KLUB

Thanks to our members who provided radio communications and who were spotters for the 16th Annual Center for Human Services Turkey Trot. Happy Thanksgiving

November
3rd Steve (WA0WUY)
10th Joel (KE0WJX)
17th Paul (KD0ETL)
24th Lori (KF0IHX)
December
1st Richard (KE0QYA)
8th Joel (KE0WJX)

MEETING DATE CHANGE
Our December meeting will be on Saturday the 14th at the EMA Headquarters beginning at 8:30am.

Let’s support the church that has been home to Sparkfest over the past 4 years. Great food and community outreach from the ladies of Helping Hands.

I spoke with Jim(n5rtg) with the Airsteam trailer group at the fairgrounds. They are going to have approximately 100 hams in our area until the 11th(maybe the 12th as well). They will be running a simplex net on 147.575(our frequency) each morning at 7:30am. If you can jump in and say howdy. I inviteded them to check into our Nets( I gave them the frequencies) and of course Sparkfest. They also will be running a special event station on the fairgrounds as well. The call for it is W1A. The fairgrounds will be closed on Saturday October 5. The special event station will be broadcasting on Sunday the 6th from noon till 4pm. Location of the station will be behind the Varied Industries Building around the kids stage. fairgrounds will be open then. Let’s welcome our fellow hams to the State Fair City.

Sparkfest Update
Due to Hurricane Helene the Salvation Army Satern Trailer and Marty will not be at Sparkfest this year. Our thoughts and prayers go out to all that were effected by this catastrophic event.

Our next meeting will be Saturday October 5th at EMA HQ located at 1511 N. Ohio in Sedalia beginning at 8:30. This meeting other than our elections is the biggest meeting of the year. Yes it’s Sparkfest time. President Bret will be going over member assignments and the event schedule. Without our members Sparkfest would only be a dream. This year’s event has been sold out for some time and it’s been months in the making. Hope to see all of you there.

Sorry everyone!

The US Islands on the Air event originally scheduled for September 14 then postponed to September 21 is now postponed again to September 28.

The National Weather Service Decision Support System Packet for the weekend doesn’t have kind things to say about our weather chances for Saturday.  It has been decided to cancel Saturday and try again on September 28.

This will be our last opportunity because we will then be into SparkFest season and then into November.  Let’s try
Saturday September 28
for now and after that we can talk about it at the next SPARK meeting.

Strike 2.
Let’s see what kind of pitch we get in a week.

https://usislands.org
Island #MO019L
Liberty Park Island
Pettis County
Missouri

Harry, K0TV

The US Islands on the Air event originally scheduled for September 14 is postponed to another date.

The Pettis County United Way and the Sedalia Parks and Recreation organizations are going to be using the entire Liberty Park that day for their “Day at The Park” event.

https://www.spcuw.org/day-park

They plan to have food trucks, other vehicles on display, as well as games, kids activities, and prizes.  Access will be limited, some streets will be one way, parking will be difficult.  The event will span the entire park, so we have a conflict.

For now the date for this club event is changed to
Saturday September 21
as the alternate.  Next week, I’ll let Parks and Recreation know about our plan to be on the Island that Saturday.

Note.  This is not an IOTA activation.  That group is focused on islands world wide and it basically only covers costal islands of the US.  Our activation is part of the US Islands group at

https://usislands.org

Island #MO019L
Liberty Park Island
Pettis County
Missouri

Please make note of the date change on your calendars.

Harry, K0TV