Hamfests and Events
Sunday, June 8: Manassas, VA
Manassas Hamfest, Prince William Co.
Fairgrounds, (146.97/R) ; Mary Lu,
KB4EFP, 703-369-2877. NOTE NEW
DATE: One week later than usual!
Sunday, June 15, Frederick, MD
Fathers Day Hamfest ; Frederick Co.
Fairgrounds, 797 E. Patrick St. at I-70.
(147.06/R); Bob, K9CMR; 301-831-5060
FIELD DAY 2008
Saturday/Sunday, June 28-29
BRATS with AERO ARC at Camp Genyara
Contact WA3SWA at WA3SWA@cavtel.net
Sunday, July 20 - West Friendship, MD
The Famous BRATS Maryland Hamfest and Computer Fest
Howard County Fairgrounds
ONE WEEK EARLIER THAN USUAL!
410-461-1212; www.bratsatv.org
147.03/R, 224.96/R, 448.325/R
Robert Beasley, K6BJH, SK
Amateur radio cartoonist Robert Beasley, K6BJH, whose deft drawings sparked many a grin, died February 16, 2008; he was 82. His wife, Helen, survives Bob. According to his autobiography, he was first licensed in southern California in 1953. Following retirement, Bob fulfilled his lifelong desire to become a cartoonist. His work was featured in QST, Worldradio, Electric Radio, Spec-Com Journal, Radioscan and Badger State Smoke Signals. Collections of his cartoons were published as: The Best of Beasley and The Best of Beasley: K6BJH on Amateur Television.
Source: K9YA Telegraph, 5/2008
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VE EXAMS
BARC VE EXAMS for 2008
12360 Owings Mills Blvd. Owings Mills
Register: 1:30 PM, Exams begin 2 PM.
No one admitted after exams begin
Saturdays:
Jun 7, Aug. 2, Sept. 6, Nov 2, Dec 1.
Sundays: July 6,
Oct. 5. n3wke@arrl.net (Thanks, N3YI)
2008 AERO VE EXAMS
Registration at 1 PM, Exams at 1:30.
Fee $14 ( ARRL VEC); All exams at
White Marsh Library, 8133 Sandpiper
Circle;
Sept. 27, Nov. 22. Pat Stone, AC3F,
ac3f@juno.com,
410-687-7209
Other Club Exams
2nd Saturday, 1 PM, Davidsonville, by AARC. Register 12 noon. Bob, AA3RR, 410-437-8193
3rd Saturday, 9 AM, Laurel, by LARC, 384 Main St. John Creel, WB3GXW, 301-572-5124.
4th Tuesday, 6 PM, Linthicum. At Historical Electronics Museum. Harold, WB4OGP, 410-757-0493(h);
410-712-6829(w)
Ronald A Parise, WA4SIR (SK)
Dr Ronald A. Parise, PhD, WA4SIR, passed away Friday May 9, 2008 after a very long and courageous battle with cancer. He was 57. Parise flew as a payload specialist on two space shuttle missions: STS-35 on Columbia in December 1990 and STS-67 on the Endeavour in March 1995. These two missions, ASTRO-1 and ASTRO-2 respectively, carried out ultraviolet and x-ray astronomical observations, logging more than 614 hours and 10.6 million miles in space. Parise was one of the first astronomers to operate a telescope from space, making hundreds of observations during the mission
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