January UARC meeting: Formal Trafffic Handling differerent room!

Have you heard people on the air saying odd things like, “Please copy number 23, routine, from W7LID...” and wondered what was going on?

Well, UARC's January meeting will be a chance to learn all about it. There is a nationwide network of amateurs that operates every day of the year to relay messages (“radiograms”) from one part of the country to another.

Dick Leining, W7DML, will be telling us all about this operating activity including what form messages take, how they make their way from one place to another, and how you can participate. Traffic handling is one of the oldest activities in amateur radio. It's where the “relay” part of the American Radio Relay League name comes from.

With the new year, we're back to our regular schedule with UARC meetings on the second Thursday of the month. That puts the next meeting on Thursday, January 10, 2013.

Room Change!

The room in which we will be meeting is a little more complicated, though. It will be changing from month to month. The January meeting will be in room 2230, right above 1230 where our most recent meetings have been.

The meeting will start at the usual time - 7:30PM but you are welcome to show up earlier and meet new people as the wander in!

Of course, the meeting will include the “standard” meeting features:

• Availability of ARRL books from Brett, the “book lady”
• An opportunity to join UARC or renew your membership
• An opportunity to join ARRL or renew your membership
• The chance to meet face-to-face the people you talk to on the air
• The “Meeting after the meeting”: A chance to enjoy pizza or other gastronomic delights with other hams. It happens at Litza's Pizza, 716 E. 400 South.
• The “Meeting before the meeting”: A similar get-together for those who can leave work early enough to get there by 5:15 P.M. The January get-together will be at “The Sizzler,” 371 E. 400 South in Salt Lake City. 

See you there!