News Items Everett (Ev) Cheney - WØKYG - has been experiencing some shortness-of-breath problems recently, which sent him to the hospital for a short stay. He was released from the hospital February 28th, but felt some discomfort at home, and has since checked into a nursing home. Ev's friends may want to send him a card. His temporary address is: Everett Cheney Room 221 Walker Methodist Health Center 3737 Bryant Ave So. Minneapolis, MN 55409 A L E R T ! Have you heard of "lockbumping"? We hadn't either. Better take a look at the video: LOCKBUMPING (You need Windows Media Player to view this.) Our long-time Trader Net Control Operator and Board Member, Bryce Denker - NØSPP, dropped a bombshell on the membership at our 12/16 meeting. He is moving to Phoenix immediately and will necessarily have to vacate his volunteer duties with our Club. His wife has been living there for several months, serving in a temporary work assignment, which has now been made permanent. Though we wish Bryce well in his new city and job, we will greatly miss his Sunday morning repartee and on-air skills. His shoes will be big ones to fill! Update (12/30/07): Bryce has a new call already. It is AD7RO. All of his new Phoenix info is posted on QRZ.com. Update (1/6/08): We have a volunteer to replace Bryce on the Board; more on this later. We have one volunteer Net Control for the Trader Net. He is Tom - WDØBFO, who did an admirable job in taking over the net this morning. He asked others to do a rotation with him. Update (1/13/08): Our second volunteer Net Control for the Trader Net stepped in this morning -- welcome Randy - WYØE! And the Board, during the business meeting, appointed Denny Hill - NØOIL, to fill the open slot created there by Bryce's move. You can meet him on the "About the Club" page. Update (2/10/08): A third volunteer Trader Net Control joined the rotation a couple weeks ago -- Paul - WGØG, all the way from Wisconsin. And now the guys are running contests to see how many check-ins they can get. This morning there was a total of 43. Way to go, Guys! Update (3/9/08): Talked to Bryce on the phone after the net today. He is in Phoenix, going through the job interview process. He will be in Spencer briefly this week to help conduct interviews for his successor in the Clay Co. Emergency Services position. Update (3/31/08): Bryce is now the new Emergency Response & Volunteer Training Coordinator for Pinal County, just South of Phoenix. He is house hunting and will have another new address soon. He's looking for a place without antenna restrictions! Effective December 15, 2006, new U.S. Amateur Bands allocations went into effect. The ARRL has issued a chart showing the changes. To access it in PDF format, CLICK HERE. In accordance with these changes, our Early CW Slow Speed Net now meets at 3598. On January 9, 2006, a group known as the Straight Key Century Club was formed and has so far attracted over 750 members. The purpose of the group is to encourage use of straight keys and bugs. The group is founded on the following principles: It is open to any interested amateur. Membership is free, there are no dues and it shall stay that way as long as practical. SKCC numbers are issued for life. Once you get it, it's yours. Take care of it. Above all, USE it. The first day of each month, at 0000Z, will be designated as a monthly operating event that allows SKCC members or non-SKCC members to work each other for credit. Contact with 100 SKCC members will qualify that person for a certificate of accomplishment. To be assigned an SKCC number, simply send an e-mail to tom@galesvillefiredepartment.org, and he will reply with the number he has assigned to you. (Editor's note: The frequency info was not supplied in the press release, so please inquire when you apply for your number.) "Just Learn Morse Code" is a new internet offering designed to make it easy to learn Morse Code, or to improve the skills of those who already know the code. The basic methods used to achieve this are The Koch method and Farnsworth timing. To learn more about it, or to download the program, see http://justlearnmorsecode.com Beginning in February, 2005, we have consolidated the Sunday morning meetings onto one frequency, as follows: 3896-7 (+ or - QRM) Trader Net & early check-ins at 8:00 -- followed by Club roll call & meeting at 8:45 By a voice vote taken during roll call on January 30th, the membership overwhelmingly agreed to this move. How to Recognize a Stroke This might be a lifesaver if you can remember the following advice, sent by a nurse, whose husband is a medical doctor. Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. A stroke victim may suffer permanent brain damage when people fail to recognize what's happening. Now, doctors say any bystander can recognize a stroke, simply by asking three questions: ask the individual to smile. ask him or her to raise both arms. ask the person to speak a simple sentence. If he or she has trouble with any of these tasks, call 911 immediately, and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher. Researchers are urging the general public to learn to ask these three questions quickly, to someone they suspect of having a stroke. Widespread use of this test could result in prompt diagnosis and treatment of a stroke, and prevent permanent brain damage. You may want to pass this along. !! ALERT !! Keep a watch out for people standing near you at retail stores, restaurants, grocery stores, etc., who have a cell phone in hand. With the new camera cell phones, they can take a picture of your credit card, which gives them your name, number, and expiration date. Identity theft is one of the fastest growing scams today, and this is just another example of the means that are being used. So, beware of your surroundings! A Solution for Blind Spots Try It: It Works! Some of the most serious preventable accidents occur because of blind spots while driving. Now there is a remarkably simple solution discovered by an engineer named George Platter. He presented his method at the prestigious Society of Automotive Engineers. The National Safety Council tested his theory and discovered, to their amazement, that it works! The method has been tested and fully endorsed by the National Safety Council as described in their September/October issue of Traffic Safety. Here's how it works. First, forget how we learned to adjust our outside mirrors by plopping behind the steering wheel and turning the mirrors so that we just saw the side of our car looking back at us in the mirrors. Instead, adjust the driver's side mirror by resting your head against the driver's side window and then turning the mirror so that you just see the side of your car. Once this is set, move to the center of the vehicle and turn the passenger side mirror so that you can just see the side of your car from the center of the vehicle. That's it. You won't see your own car in either mirror, yet what you will see is far better. Cars behind you show up as usual in the inside rearview mirror above the dash, but the instant the car leaves your field of vision from the rearview mirror, the outside mirror picks it up. No blind spot; no delays; no wondering where that car about to pass you has disappeared to; and no waiting a few seconds for the car that you just saw in your rearview mirror to show up in your outside mIrrors. All three mirrors work in harmony with one another, and the blind spot has been elminated! Health Bulletin Please read this ... It could save your life! Let's say it's 6:15 p.m. and you're driving home (alone of course), after an unusually hard day on the job. You're really tired, upset and frustrated. Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to radiate out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only about five miles from the hospital nearest your home. Unfortunately you don't know if you'll be able to make it that far. What can you do? You've been trained in CPR but the guy that taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself. HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, this article seemed to be in order. Without help, the person whose heart is not beating properly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness. However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest. A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again. Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital. Tell as many other people as possible about this, it could save their lives! From Health Cares, Rochester General Hospital via Chapter 240s newsletter AND THE BEAT GOES ON ... (reprint from The Mended Hearts, Inc. publication, Heart Response)

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