From: The American Legion <legion@...>
Sent: Friday, November 6, 2020, 12:34:27 PM CST Subject: Veterans Day special event
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Americans of all political views have reasons to celebrate the 2020 elections. ?A record number of Americans cast their votes, and even with the expected future challenges, lawsuits, and recounts in multiple states an eventual president will be named and our great system of government will continue. ?Seats in both the House and Senate have also changed hands in accordance with the will of the people. This being the year 2020, all these events seemed fraught with peril and danger—even grave constitutional crisis, as some have described them. ?But elections and even the expected recounts simply reflect the completely normal functions of our great system of government, which over time is self-correcting. There are great constitutional checks and balances and if we happen to agree or disagree with the current situation, just wait a few years. ?Life goes on. ?No matter your candidate, the fact that you voted and had a say in the outcome is itself affirming. ?The year 2020 may have thrown many stones at us, but we voted and we will survive to vote another day.
Especially since just one of those stones, called Asteroid 2018VP1 (the so-called “Election Day” asteroid), had the good sense to miss destroying the Earth before we could cast our votes. ?This deep space rock was headed our way at 25,000 miles per hour and had a 0.41% chance of entering our atmosphere late on November 2. ?Nabisco’s Oreo Cookies had anticipated a potential disaster and established, near the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway, the Global Oreo Vault. ?Several crates of Oreo cookies, along with some milk, were packaged in Mylar, which can protect them in temperatures from -80 degrees to 300 degrees Fahrenheit. ?The treats were then locked in a special vault located safely above the Arctic Circle. ?Good news.
As it turned out, the Election Day asteroid did not even touch our atmosphere at all. ?And even if it did, according to NASA, it was too small to do any harm and would have vaporized instantly in the upper atmosphere. NASA’s announcement was also good news—good news indeed. ?
And here’s some more good news:? |
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| TALARC member Everett WA3DVO has notified National Headquarters that American Legion Amateur Radio Club N3TAL out of Post 275 in Glenarden, Md., has established a new monthly net to help fill in on Saturdays. The net is on WIRES-X and is conducted on the fourth Saturday of each month at noon Eastern time. They can be found on WIRES-X Room: “Post 275.” Those of you with WIRES-X capability are encouraged to take part in this new national net. |
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On Wednesday, Nov. 11, the 2020 Veterans Day Special Event operations will be hosted by K9TAL with assistance from stations around the country. Stations will operate from 1 p.m. until 7 p.m. EST [1800Z to 2359Z], using the call signs N9V, N9V-2, N9V-3 and N9V-4. Stations will alternate Control Station responsibilities: 40m stations will operate from the Legion’s National Headquarters in Indianapolis [N9V/K9TAL] and from Trappe, Md. [N9V-4/K3EMD]. 20m stations will operate from Dell Rapids, S.D. [N9V-2/KI?CW] and from Glenarden, Md. [N9V-3/N3TAL].
To accommodate almost all our members, there are several communications modes to choose from including HF, VHF, IRLP and EchoLink. To contact Special Event stations, tune to 7.225 MHz (+/- 5 KHz); or to 14.275 MHz (+/- 5 KHz); or to the 2m K9IP Repeater, 147.315, at Indianapolis; or to IRLP Node 9735; or to the EchoLink *CROSSRDS* Conference node. Any ham radio operators who contact the stations are eligible to receive a QSL card and a commemorative certificate to document their participation.
Let the TALARC board of officers be the first to wish you a happy Thanksgiving. Stay safe and protect yourself as we enter cold and flu season and the increased exposure to the COVID-19 virus. And stay alert for stray asteroids — it is still 2020, after all.
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Bill Sloan, NZ9S, Vice President
Marty Justis, W9WMJ, President
Mike Anthony, W9MNA, Recording Secretary
Howard Trace, KB9WPU, Archivist
Josh Marshall, KD9DHX, Trustee |
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The American Legion
700 N. Pennsylvania St. P.O. Box 1055
Indianapolis, IN 46206
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Larry Macionski
