President s Line. have. Happy Holidays! 73 s from John NO7B. Inside this issue: Program, contests. Ham announcements. Radio Crossword Puzzle

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1 Volume Issue 10 December 2, 2009 President s Line Well 2009 is coming to a close. This coming week we have the Christmas Party. The club is supplying the Turkey and Ham. I will bring these. I hope all will attend as last year we had a great time. This is a time to meet other hams new and old and get to know each other. Inside this issue: Program, contests 2 Ham announcements 3 Radio Crossword Puzzle 4 Club Information 5 CVAR Club Officers 6 I think next year we will again have more interesting and informative programs for our meetings. I have lined up a antenna program for Jan. and am working on a VHF program for Feb. Let me know what type of programs you would like to have. Happy Holidays! 73 s from John NO7B

2 Page 2 December Program Our annual Christmas Party. All are invited to join CVARS Party, member or not. Turkey and Ham will be supplied by CVARS and other fill in food will be supplied by the members. Come whether you bring anything or not. I think there will be food for all. Linda Morrison K7KFL was elected Secretary and Ken Wages KH6CQH new board member with the rest of the officers staying the same. Welcome aboard! I hope by now Gary Litteer K7PG Is out of the hospital and is back on his feet. A picture of a street in Lisbon, Portugal, taken by my son in May,2009. Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to all! John NO7B Contests -December 2009 SSB & CW Dec Z-Dec Z 28 ARRL 10 Meter Contest SSB & CW Dec Z-Dec Z Croatian CW Contest Dec Z-Dec Z UBA Winter Contest SSB & CW Dec Z-Dec Z-14-Great Colorado Snowshoe Contest CW Dec Z-Dec Z RAC Winter Contest SSB & CW Dec Z-Jan Z Lighthouse Christmas Lights QSO Party SSB & CW Dec Z-Dec Z DARC Christmas Contest SSB & CW Dec Z-Dec Md South Dakota QSO Party SSB & CW Jan Z-Jan Z ARRL Straight Key Night CW

3 Page 3 Ham Class I have started a General License Class. Material is furnished free of charge or you can buy your book if you want. I have openings for 2 more hams. Let me know if you are interested in taking the class. I do have material for 1 Extra Class Exam and I will help anyone who wants a Extra Class License. John NO7B ~H z Mt. St Helens Repeater Group A lot has happened since I took over the Mt. St. Helens Repeater. It was a joint project between Frank Hoffman, WB7DZG, and I. Frank is now a silent key so I find the repeater is not as fun as it used to be and to be fair, my interests have changed. I had lots of plans but they went away with Frank. I've had a lot of fun with the repeater but I've decided to sell it. I hope that someone in the area would like to take it on as their own project. There's still a lot that can be done to make it even better. The current lease with the Department of Transportation is good until April Please contact me if you would like more details. Bill Harwell, AC7SR

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5 Club Information Next Meeting: First Wednesday of month December 2, :00 pm Doors open at 5:30 pm We meet at District 6 Fire hall, located about ¾ mile south of the Baptist Church on Jackson Hi-way. (A small map is found below on this page.) Baw Faw Repeater PL Tone Mt. St. Helens Repeater PL Tone Twin Cities Repeater PL Tone Capital Peak Repeater PL Tone Dick s Repeater PL Tone CVARS Net meets every Sunday evening at 8:00 pm on the Mt. St. Helens Repeater. John S. Bertels-NO7B-President Doug Skaggs-KC7TPK-Vice President Bob Majoros-KD7RTL-Secretary John Ellingson-K7OSK-Treasurer Dick Morrison-K7KFM-Board Loyann Munyan-KC7KCJ-Board CVARS Board Meeting will be at 6:00 pm, before the meeting, at the Chehalis District 6 Fire Hall; same place as regular meetings are held. Visitors are welcomed. However, do to the Christmas Party then, there will be no board meeting.

6 CVARS officers 2009 President John S. Bertels NO7B CVARS Newsletter Editor: If you have anything to be considered for publication in the newsletter please contact me, NO7B. Deadline is 10 days before next meeting date. Treasurer John Ellingson K7OSK Vice-President Doug Skaggs KC7TPK Secretary Bob Majoros KD7RTL Board Member Dick Morrison K7KFM Board Member Loyann Munyan KC7KCJ