Sept.2 4pm monthly meeting

Please mark your schedules for the upcoming monthly meeting of the Marshall Amateur Radio Club. This month the 1st Thr is on the 2nd… We need to continue (start?) discussion of the desired updates to the By-Laws, and press

MARC – signs of life !

By of the end of September, we had collected up and generated all the paperwork necessary to submit a budget request package to the MSFC Exchange Council. Shortly after that we held a short meet-n-greet session at the clubhouse on October 8th, 2009.

Signs of life at Bldg 4622

As a quick listing of those that were able to attend : N4MSN, KJ4NVF, KD4FMK, WB5RMG, KC4GNV, KD5AOM, KI4GAG, KJ4LAA, KB4NEI, KO4FV, N5AYD, WB5UTV, & WB5RZX. Thanks for coming out…

Don – N4MSN has agreed to be MARC President again, and informs us that the budget approval process is not quick – and that it may be the end of the year before we hear anything from the Exchange Council. In the mean time, several have agreed that we need to proceed with our re-activation of the club process –

Why MARC should come back

This post is to invite you to post a reply here – indicating your reasons for wanting the MSFC Amateur Radio Club to start up again… In order to proceed we need to have a show of hands, to gauge the level of support we might find in the MSFC/RSA community. If you have not yet read the “Read This First” and the “Welcome to MARS” articles as linked at the top of the page, please visit those and

A loss for words

NOTE: This and the next 5 posts are from 2008 or before…
We are currently (Sep.2009) making another attempt to re-start the MSFC Amateur Radio Club (MARC)

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From 2008 0825

I am at a complete loss of words, to describe how I feel about what I’m saying . . .

I really thought that this was going to become something, even a fraction of what it once was – would have been an accomplishment. I’m sure that there is more to this story than what I am aware of – but it seems we are fizzled out. Call it a lack of interest, whatever – but it was not a lack of interest on the part of the dozen or so volunteers that were actively involved in cleaning up and trying to get something going on here. We had made enough progress that I was able to establish a two-way voice contact with the JPL Amateur Radio Club station during their anniversary special event… I had setup a 2 meter station with an APRS beacon so that the WA4NZD callsign was echoed thru the digital repeater onboard the International Space Station, and showed up on maps around the world…