The Durham FM Association is a group of friendly amateur radio operators interested in all aspects of amateur radio service. Members in Durham, Chapel Hill, Raleigh, and surrounding areas of North Carolina enjoy operating through VHF and UHF repeaters sponsored and maintained by the club. http://www.dfma.org Sat, 17 May 2008 03:59:28 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.dfma.org/index.php/content/view/33/43/ The DFMA Thursday night net meets at 9pm on the 147.225 repeater. All members and non-members are invited to check in. Our net control operators are:1st Thursday: Rhett George KI4HIH2nd Thursday: Rene' Couch AI4WJ3rd Thursday: David Pegram W4DAP and Kelly Pegram W4KSP4th Thursday: Dee Ramm KU4GC Club Business - Meeting Minutes Mon, 19 Feb 2007 09:37:43 +0100 http://www.dfma.org/index.php/content/view/77/2/ Revisions for the 2008 DFMA directory are complete. Members who have paid 2008 dues will receive directories at the DurHamFest or by mail soon after. Members who have not yet paid 2008 dues will receive directories when dues are paid. To pay dues, please follow the directions under the DFMA home page menu item Join the DFMA (or renew) . Dues will also be accepted at the club table or by Dee Ramm at the 34th annual DurHamFest. For your privacy, directories are only provided to DFMA members and personal information is never sold. News - Latest Wed, 07 May 2008 08:43:30 +0100 http://www.dfma.org/index.php/content/view/63/2/ The next club meeting will be on Tuesday May 6th at the Mayflower Restaurant. Dinner will start at 6 PM followed by a brief business meeting and the program starting at 7 PM. The DurHamfest is right around the corner in May andso Paul VanDoren will review the status of preparations and help those interested find their place in making this one of the best DurHamfests ever. A special treat this year will be a robotics demonstration.The other major part of the meeting will be Show and Tell. SHOW TELLBring in what you bought at the RARSFEST or what you have built recently – or even what you just found again and brought back to life. New rigs are always interesting to hear about – let’s see your latest gem. You can talk about it for 5 minutes or just set it up for us to see after the meeting. News - Meeting Announcements Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:08:54 +0100 http://www.dfma.org/index.php/content/view/67/2/ The Durham County ARES, which operates as a Special Interest Group in DFMA, provided communications support to the Durham VA Hospital Saturday April 12th. Under the leadership of Lisa Amour, KB9MGU, who is also the Secretary of DFMA, 12 licensed hams and the DFMA MCU were on site at the hospital during the several hour long planned telephone outage for system change-over. The MCU was operated as net control under the call NC4FD. For full details see the Durham ARES websitehttp://www.durhamares.org (http://www.durhamares.org/article.php?story=20080413091729718) News - Latest Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:12:44 +0100 http://www.dfma.org/index.php/content/view/66/2/ A club is as good as its members and its elected leadership. DFMA has a long history of being a good club. We have an opportunity now to continue that by nominating and electing Officers and Directors who can make a difference. If you have some good ideas, see how to improve the club, know to draw in more members, want to make DFMA more fun, then please run for an office. We will have a better club if more members are involved in its leadership – you can be one of those leaders! The DFMA Board of Directors consists of nine members: President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Repeater Manger/Trustee/ and four At-large-members. The At-large-members serve 2 year terms, 2 members being elected each year; all others serve 1 year terms. Elections will be in June with new Directors taking office July first. Position descriptions are posted on the DFMA web site. So there are four officer and two At-large board positions up for grabs. Elections will be in June and the new directors take office on July 1st. M K Ramm, W4MKR, w4mkr@amsat.org. (919)732-7616) and Paul VanDoren, KE4OXN, eviland@aol.com (919)309-2457 have volunteered to chair the Nominating Committee. They are recruiting candidates to run for election to the various offices. Contact either of them, or any current board member for information and to throw your hat in the ring. News - Latest Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:25:37 +0100