Pictures from May 5th meeting and a sneak peak at the winning 100th Anniversary DARC Logo!

During our April DARC General Meeting, we presented the Whit and Anne Griffith Community Service Award.  This award can be presented annually to an outstanding amateur radio operator who has truly gone above and beyond what reasonably is defined as typical or routine community service.  This recipient should have made extraordinary contributions to the general and/or amateur communities and we believe our recipient has done just that.

Submission for Whit and Anne Griffith Award.
Katherine Hall KE5ZCM was licensed as an amateur radio operator in June 2009, joined the DARC in September 2009 and has not stopped.  Katherine is always eager to take on new challenges and open to new ideas and does it with not only thoughts but also in actions.

She said she was not qualified but when approached about a new idea of having a Tech Net on the W5FC repeater.  She agreed to lead the efforts and put together a team to produce an exciting weekly Tech Net which will be celebrating three years soon.

Katherine is excited about the amateur radio hobby and what possibilities we can do as a club to teach and spread the enthusiasm of the hobby.  In the spring of 2012, Katherine wanted to explore what we could do for veterans since many were coming back home. Katherine joined together with Don W9VE and started a weekly VetNet in July. 

Working closely with Katherine on many subjects, she is eager to go that extra mile to see what we can do to get folks involved.  She dragged me out one afternoon for a meeting that turned out being a tour of a business, because she felt an opportunity for the DARC to expand our name recognition – an idea we are still pondering.  Katherine also learned and has been a Morse code instructor for our classes.

Katherine is constantly thinking about the next step and has recently accepted the role of Vice-President of the DARC.  It is with great honor, I submit Katherine KE5ZCM to be the recipient of the Whit and Anne Griffith Award.

Respectfully,

Randy Patterson KE5JIT
Dallas Amateur Radio Club
President

Note: Yes, I am 14 words over the limit, please forgive me and don't hold against Katherine for consideration. 

The board accepted this nomination as our 2012 recipient.
Katherine, it is a great pleasure to present to you on behalf of the Board and Officers of the DARC the 2012 Whit and Anne Griffith Community Service Award.

Please join us for our April TechLab Saturday, April 27^th, at the Brookhaven College, 3939 Valley View Lane, Building K, Room 251K.

Bob K5CRX will be the Instructor for this TechLab on D-Star Radio.

Part I will be an Introduction to D-Star starting at 10 AM.

Part II will be on Programming D-Star Radios.

Should you have a D-Star radio that needs programmed or would like to become familiar with D-Star, this is the TechLab for you.

You do not have to be a member of the Dallas Amateur Radio Club to participate.

Pictures from yesterday's "TechNet on the Hill".

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