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Find on this site... Site Index Exams Clubs Hamfests Addresses Search site: Call sign search: ARRL Member Login... Username: Password: Register Quick Links... Join or Renew Catalog Store ARRL Courses Classifieds Getting Started Operating Activities Licensing News/Bulletins Services Educational Public Service Support Donate to ARRL ARRL Info Text-only/Printable Previous: The Minimalist QRPer QRP Community: Next: ISS Commander Talks via Ham Radio with Scottish School He Once Visited Iowa Ham Club Designated "Point of Light," Gets Paul Harvey On-Air Mention --The The Tri-State Amateur Radio Club as for Monday, March 29. An ARRLclub, TSARC is headquartered in Cresco, Iowa. The recognized the club for voluntarily providing during emergencies and for supporting Red Salvation Army relief efforts. President George former President George H. W. Points of Light Award, and each will send a to the club. Volunteer Center National Network TSARC America's true said Points of Light Foundation and CEO Bob Goodwin. "The spirit and energy of inspire us all," he said. "Your work is a did not escape the notice of ABC Radio Networks' commentator , who mentioned it during his noontime broadcast on March 12. Harvey said the nation still relies on Amateur Radio operators to get the message through in an emergency or disaster. Paul Harvey "For all of our sophisticated technology, in any disaster, our country still relies heavily on its hams--Amateur Radio hobbyists," Harvey said in the approximately oneminute spot. Among citizen volunteers in the US, he concluded, there are "none more unsung and certainly none more unpaid, than the hams--standing by around the clock." real TSARC's Ernie Martin, WA0AUU, said it marked the first Point of Light Award to an Amateur Radio club. TSARC serves as a Community Emergency Response Team --a Citizen Corps program. A small club with just over a dozen members, TSARC still has managed to equip itself with two mobile emergency communication units and even a couple of parasail units. "The parasail units are used in search-and-rescue work," Martin explains. "We have found they can cover the area 10 times faster than units on the ground." CERT While the club is in Iowa, its "tri-state" label derives from the fact that it serves parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin as well. The TSARC communications van--which the club resurrected from an aged auto junkyard candidate--contains equipment for both Amateur Radio and public safety frequencies. The unit can even beam a UHF Amateur TV signal from a disaster scene to a remote post--giving incident command personnel a firsthand look at what's happening. ARRL Products: Interference/DF (More) New insights into the causes, effects, locating and correction of power-line and electrical interference. 2nd Edition. AC Power Interference Handbook Practical Cures for Radio Frequency Interference. The ARRL RFI Book -- Tackle RF interference problems and understand the underlying causes. The RSGB Guide to EMC Radio Direction Finding Simplified Transmitter Hunting The TSARC communications van set up during Field Day 2003. [Lee Walter, WD0HEO, Photo] TSARC member Jeff Hosch, KB0YTQ, at the communication van's ATV station during a threestate Mississippi River drill. [Ernie Martin, WA0AUU, Photo] NEWINGTON, CT, Mar 17, 2004- has designated the Daily Point of Light affiliated Foundation communication Cross and The W. Bush and Bush, have endorsed the Daily congratulatory letter Points of Light Foundation "Through your service you join the ranks of unsung heroes--volunteers," President America's volunteers shining example of this spirit." TSARC's designation as a Daily Point of Light 3/17/04 3:51 PM ARRLWeb: Iowa Ham Club Designated "Point of Light," Gets Paul Harvey On-Air Mention Page 1 of 2 http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2004/03/17/1/?nc=1

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