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Your NABRC membership renewal is due. Yearly dues are $20 for individuals and $25 for multi-member families. You may pay dues in cash at club meetings or mail me a check to the address below made out to NABRC. I have verified that our bank account does NOT qualify for electronic funds payment such as Zelle or Venmo. Also, NABRC does NOT have a Paypal account. However, you may send your dues payment by Friends & Family to MY family Paypal account and I will manually transfer your payment to NABRC. I will individually confirm your payment by direct email. Here are the steps to pay dues to my family account. PLEASE FOLLOW THEM CAREFULLY. 1. Log into your Paypal account 2. Select Send Money to elaine@... and enter the amount. This is my family Paypal account 3. IMPORTANT - Select Friends & Family Continue 4. IMPORTANT - What's this for? ENTER YOUR CALLSIGN!!! Continue 5. Now select send. You MAY be charged a small fee to send Friends and Family. This depends on how you pay Paypal i.e. credit card, or bank account etc. 191 Aberdeen Dr. Aiken SC 29803 -- Dave, WB5NHL Treasurer, NABRC

A 1.5-day HAM Technician class will be held on Saturday Jan 4 from 8am-5pm and finish up on Sunday Jan 5 from 12noon-3pm. Pizza will be provided on Saturday. The classes will be held in a residence in Graniteville, SC. About 4 miles west of Aiken SC. We have had a 100% pass rate in the past. A limited number of spaces are available. There is NO charge for the classes, or pizza. Please call or send an email that you are coming, and a contact number or email address. Phone 803-292-9559 or email kq4kkham@... or dave@... If we have a good turnout, it might be possible to have a VE team test on Sunday afternoon. During this Christmas break time, would be a great time to study to become a licensed HAM. Final prep for the test will be on Saturday and Sunday, January 4 and 5. Then on Thursday, JAN 9 ,2025 you will be well prepared to take the test at 7 PM, Aiken SDA Church, 1714 Columbia Hwy N. 29801. It’s on the corner of US-1 and Gun Range Rd on the north side of town. Another way to study is on the internet. There are a couple of sites you could use. HAMEXAM.ORG http://hamexam.org/ is a good one. You want to study Element 2: Technician You can use the Flash Cards to study, then practice taking Practice Exams. You can keep taking the exams. Each time you try, the exam recycles and uses mostly different questions. The Practice Exam questions are the SAME ones on the real exam. Each exam is 35 questions, multiple choice. You must get 26 correct to pass the test. Keep taking the practice exam till you can get 80-85% correct on EVERY exam. The better you do on the practice exam, the better you will do on the real one. Attending the class will give you the greatest chance to pass the FCC exam. A great printed study guide is Gordon West Technician Class 2022-2026 Element 2 Radio Technician Class Study Guide. They are about $29 on Amazon or HRO, but not required to attend the class. Any questions send an email to kq4kkham@... HAPPY LEARNING Kent KQ4KK .

A 1.5-day HAM Technician class will be held on Saturday Jan 4 from 8am-5pm and finish up on Sunday Jan 5 from 12noon-3pm. Pizza will be provided on Saturday. The classes will be held in a residence in Graniteville, SC. About 4 miles west of Aiken SC. We have had a 100% pass rate in the past. A limited number of spaces are available. There is NO charge for the classes, or pizza. Please call or send an email that you are coming, and a contact number or email address. Phone 803-292-9559 or email kq4kkham@... or dave@... If we have a good turnout, it might be possible to have a VE team test on Sunday afternoon. During this Christmas break time, would be a great time to study to become a licensed HAM. Final prep for the test will be on Saturday and Sunday, January 4 and 5. Then on Thursday, JAN 9 ,2025 you will be well prepared to take the test at 7 PM, Aiken SDA Church, 1714 Columbia Hwy N. 29801. It’s on the corner of US-1 and Gun Range Rd on the north side of town. Another way to study is on the internet. There are a couple of sites you could use. HAMEXAM.ORG http://hamexam.org/ is a good one. You want to study Element 2: Technician You can use the Flash Cards to study, then practice taking Practice Exams. You can keep taking the exams. Each time you try, the exam recycles and uses mostly different questions. The Practice Exam questions are the SAME ones on the real exam. Each exam is 35 questions, multiple choice. You must get 26 correct to pass the test. Keep taking the practice exam till you can get 80-85% correct on EVERY exam. The better you do on the practice exam, the better you will do on the real one. Attending the class will give you the greatest chance to pass the FCC exam. A great printed study guide is Gordon West Technician Class 2022-2026 Element 2 Radio Technician Class Study Guide. They are about $29 on Amazon or HRO, but not required to attend the class. Any questions send an email to kq4kkham@... HAPPY LEARNING Kent KQ4KK

https://www.postandcourier.com/aikenstandard/news/aiken-county-helene-paul-matthews/article_88830122-be3a-11ef-a4dd-cf6217a4ed40.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share -- Dave, WB5NHL Treasurer, NABRC

On behalf of the officers and directors of NABRC we want to wish club members a joyous holiday and happy new year for 2025. Below is a summary of 2024. Please take the time next month to renew your membership so that we may continue these efforts and add others. BUT more importantly please come to monthly club meetings and participate in events during the year. Key NABRC happenings (no particular order): ARRL renewed recognition as a Special Services Club Continued support of award winning Schofield Middle School radio & technology club Community outreach participation in Science Education Enrichment Day (SEED) Community service in Run United race support ARRL Field Day class 2A including a Get-On-The-Air station ARRL Winter Field Day at KN4OQD business location Meeting demonstrations of Hamdash software and Meshtastic radios NABRC ARES members manned the Aiken EOC radio during Hurricane Helene Two members were recipients of college scholarships Club member, N2ZZ was reelected ARRL Roanoke Director Club purchased QSL cards and a large banner Sad news that member Mike McMahon, W4UNK became an SK -- Jim Matson, KN4OQD; Arthur Ruditzky, W3WR; Gerald McMillen, KI4BUC; Dave Kjellquist, WB5NHL, Carl Juvrud, KP2L; Charlie Miller, AE4UX Officers and Directors

The date and location have changed, but the Greenwood Hamfest is back! Saturday January 11th, 2025 at the St. Mark United Methodist Church Rivers Street Campus, 1633 Rivers Street, Greenwood, SC. Doors open to the public at 9 AM and vendors at 8 AM. Sorry, no tailgating allowed. Plans are to be active on the GARS repeater at 147.165 MHz, PL tone of 107.2 Hz, for talk-in questions. Vendors include The Wireman and Quicksilver Radio ( https://thewireman.com/ and http://www.qsradio.com/index.html ). Smokey Gray's BBQ will be on site to supply breakfast and lunch vittles. Presentations include High Frequency Terrain Analysis (HFTA) by Kevan N4XL at 10 AM and Antenna Modeling by Dave AG4DR at 11:30 AM. A Try Before You Buy table will be set up to test your goodies. License testing is performed every two months in Greenwood, so unlike in previous years VE testing will not be available at GARSfest. More information on our testing schedule is available from knason00@.... Please see the attached PDF file for more details. See you there! Kevan N4XL President, Greenwood Amateur Radio Society knason00@...

A copy of files used for last night's dashboard demonstration is available as a compressed file in the club presentations section. Simply download the file and expand at a convenient location. Open the folder and use a web browser to open the html file. The only needed changes are to the config.js file. You need to provide the local path to the Aiken freq jpg file. Thanks goes to VA3HDL for creating hamdash. -- Dave, WB5NHL Treasurer, NABRC

Hello! I won't be able to attend tonight's meeting, but the October and November minutes are up. I do have October as "Draft", even though it was read at the November meeting. Please send me any corrections! Here is the link to all 2024 meeting minutes: https://k4nab.org/home-page-for-nabrc/resources/nabrc-minutes/2024-meeting-minutes/ Thanks! Gerald McMillen NABRC, Secretary KI4BUC

Reminder: NABRC Monthly Meeting - Aiken Location When: Monday, December 9, 2024 6:30pm to 9:00pm (UTC-05:00) America/New York Where: Aiken Regional Medical Center, 6th Floor Classroom Organizer: NABRC View Event Description: Fellowship starts at 6:30PM Meeting starts at 7:00PM

The next meeting of NABRC is Monday, December 9 in the 6th floor classroom of ARMC. Fellowship at 6:30pm and meeting at 7:00pm The agenda for the meeting includes the year end finances, latest reports of members using Meshtastic, improvements to Hamdash, PC dashboard software and winter field day (Jan 25-26 2025) plans. -- Dave, WB5NHL Treasurer, NABRC

Club Members, Aiken ARES, was pictured in the latest ARES Letter from the ARRL. 73 Carl Juvrud EC KP2L ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: ARRL <memberlist@...> Date: Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 2:06 PM Subject: The ARES? Letter for November 20, 2024 To: <cjuvrud@...> view this email in your browser Editor: Rick Palm, K1CE - November 20, 2024 ARRL Home Page ARES? Letter Archive ARES? Home In This Issue: ARES? Briefs/Links Hurricane Helene: South Carolina ARES Responds Hurricane Milton: Florida’s Sumter County ARES Responds Hurricane Milton: Alachua County (Gainesville), Florida, Overrun by Evacuees; ARES Responds Hurricane Milton: Lessons Learned by First Time ARES Responder ARES? Resources Support ARES?: Join ARRL ARES? Briefs, Links The ARRL National Traffic System is an integral part of the League’s public service program and has seen a resurgence in activity over the past couple of years. Much of the progress has been the result of the work of a panel of senior experts comprising a select committee that is overseeing and promoting an overhaul of the network. Subscribe to The NTS Letter, published monthly, free of charge to ARRL members. The editor is Eastern Massachusetts, Western Massachusetts, and Rhode Island Section Traffic Manager Marcia Forde, KW1U. Hurricane Helene: South Carolina ARES Responds South Carolina ARES was officially activated to support emergency communications in response to Hurricane Helene, which impacted the upstate regions. ARES volunteers worked closely with local emergency management agencies and SKYWARN networks to provide critical communication services. With Hurricane Helene threatening to bring heavy rainfall, high winds, and potential flooding, ARES members were placed on high alert, relaying important weather updates and damage reports to the National Weather Service (NWS) and other emergency response agencies. Their efforts ensured that real-time information was available to guide response and recovery efforts, enhancing public safety. As part of this activation, amateur radio operators were encouraged to monitor local nets for updates and to stand by for further instructions. All volunteers were urged to be prepared for extended activation periods and to ensure the readiness of their equipment. The activation highlighted the vital role that ARES volunteers play in disaster response and recovery during major weather events like Hurricane Helene. ARRL South Carolina Assistant Section Manager and SKYWARN Program Manager Billy L. Irwin, K9OH, said “Many of our dedicated volunteers worked tirelessly, providing critical support ranging from radio operations at county EOCs to offering health and welfare communications for families, friends, and neighbors,” adding, “this storm tested us in ways many of us have never experienced before.” Irwin thanked his team members. “I want to extend my heartfelt gratitude to each of you for continuing to serve your communities in any capacity you can.” The South Carolina Healthcare Emergency Amateur Radio Team (SCHEART) facilitated county-to-state communications and monitored reports from affected areas. The SCHEART system is comprised of networks of linked amateur radio repeaters strategically located throughout the state. These repeaters provide an auxiliary communication path for amateur radio operators to support hospitals, county emergency management officials and state agencies during emergencies. Trained operators assist agencies in moving essential messages when commercial communications systems fail, or state systems become degraded. ARES members were encouraged to track and report on the following: Gas station status: are stations open, do they have fuel, and can they process debit/credit card transactions? Power restoration: are critical infrastructure facilities (e.g., hospitals, emergency services) restored? Status of traffic control on major highways was tasked. Road closures: the task was to report major highways, bridges, and other key routes that are closed. Welfare checks: ARES members were tasked with contacting net control stations

ESTATE SALE OF PETE LaPIERRE (K1OYQ) Below is a .PDF link listing the items for bid from the estate of Pete LaPierre (K1OYQ). The pricing listed is the minimum bid price accepted. Bidding starts as of Friday November 15, 2024 @ 00:00 (midnight) and bidding will run until midnight Sunday December 15, 2024. All bidding will be handled by email only. If by chance there is a high bid tie, the bid will be awarded to the bid placed first. The email address for all bids is: ko4nsy@... Good luck and lets help Pete’s family. Bid Equipment List: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jqhk4q5sa2hi9zqyd7b3l/K1OYQ_Ham_Equipment-_Rev_3.pdf?rlkey=xmwcidrgve8ahm0p2op3qkvm2&dl=0

Reminder: NABRC Monthly Meeting - Public Safety #2 North Augusta Location When: Monday, November 11, 2024 6:30pm to 9:00pm (UTC-05:00) America/New York Where: 501 W. Five Notch Road North Augusta, SC 29841 Organizer: NABRC View Event Description: Fellowship starts at 6:30PM Meeting starts at 7:00PM

The next meeting of NABRC is Monday Nov 11 at Public Safety #2, 501 Five Notch Rd. North Augusta SC Meeting fellowship at 6:30pm and meeting at 7:00pm Meeting topic is Meshtastic; introduction, and vision for CSRA. We also will be looking for ideas for Winter Field Day in January in addition to the brief regular reports. -- Dave, WB5NHL Treasurer, NABRC

A quick trip thru the pages- Points 1a Greenwood 1926 1a Edgefield 1574 2a Spartanburg 4246 2a Sumter 3923 2a Charleston 3081 3a N. Fulton 16,234 3a NABRC 3539 3a Athens 3528 3a Ridge Springs 1278 3a K4WAR GA 1758 ( I think Ft Eisenhower) 3a Aiken RC 420 3a Augusta RC 1812 3a RC of Columbia 1788 Kent KQ4KK

Begin forwarded message: From: John Hutchens <JohnH@...> Date: October 26, 2024 at 16:30:41 EDT Subject: SEED STEM Festival - Thank You ? Exhibitors: Thank you so much for participating in the 39th Annual SEED STEM Festival. As I walked around today, it was a thrill to see so much excitement and enjoyment. Our initial numbers show that we had 2876 in attendance at this year's festival. We will follow-up with surveys and photos in the near future. Have a STEMtastic day, John Hutchens John M. Hutchens Director of Special Programs Ruth Patrick Science Education Center University of South Carolina Aiken T (803) 641-3474