SACMARC QUARTERLY MEETING, MARCH 16, 2007 @ 7:00pm
at Wendy's on Galvin Road South, Bellevue, NE
Everyone is invited. Mark your calendar. Help spread the word.
AGENDA & DISCUSSION ITEMS (revised)
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CALL TO ORDER @ 7:00 PM (please don't be late)
Determination of quorum.
Approval of minutes of last meeting: Dec 2006
Treasurer's Report & Approval.
Bills to be paid:
Post Office Box 1292
Corporation Fees
Officer's Reports:
President
Vice-Pres
Secy
Treas
Prop Mgr
CORRESPONDENCE (see items at end of agenda):
OLD BUSINESS:
1. Status of club call sign trustees:
K0AIR to Frank, K0GRL to John.
Both have been received. Frank needs to sign K0AIR.
Both licenses are kept in the safe deposit box.
2. Corporation Form Received from State, signed and returned with fee.
3. Update on SACMARC E-mail Aliases and Internet Domain by Paul W. Schleck
<pschleck@oasis.novia.net>
Need to verify the following e-mail addresses are correct on the web site:
SACMARC ALIAS: GOES TO:
president@sacmarc.org kb0zzt@usa.net
vp@sacmarc.org andrewddandridge@juno.com
secretary@sacmarc.org aa0zp@juno.com
treasurer@sacmarc.org n4owg@msn.com
property@sacmarc.org kb0zzt@usa.net
trustees@sacmarc.org kb0zzt@usa.net, aa0zp@juno.com, n4owg@msn.com
k0air@sacmarc.org aa0zp@juno.com
k0grl@sacmarc.org n4owg@msn.com
editor@sacmarc.org Newsletter Editorial Contact
webmaster@sacmarc.org Web Master Contact
4. Updated Membership List from John.
5. Other
NEW BUSINESS:
1. Student Memberships
2. Other
ADJOURN @ ______________
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CORRESPONDENCE ITEMS:
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:45:00 PM CST
From: ncolber@comcast.net
To: president@sacmarc.org
Subject: history of Fireside Radio Network 1970-1973
Good Evening, Mr Bellairs. My name is Norm Colbert and I served in the USAF
as an air to ground radio operator(AFSC29353) from 1969 to 1973. After
graduating with honors from radio school at Keesler AFB, Ms I was sent to Mt
Home AFB for the remainder of my enlistment and received an honorable
discharge. My fellow radio operator David Hirschfield now living in
Westminster, Ca was our MARS radio operator. We were in the 2036th Comm Sq at
Mt Home AFB, Idaho. I worked in a receiver site on base and operated Fireside
Four secretly. I was President Nixon's personal communicator for Comm Region
6 for almost 3 years. I had a hotline to the White House that I answered
occasionally and communicated the President's commands to begin or in some
cases to end operations in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. I began doing this in
May 1970 and gave directions and received reports from the aircraft
commanders
bombing Cambodia secretly. The ! OSI req uired me several times to debrief
and make blood oaths of loyalty to the President which I was proud to do.
Many times I spoke to doomed pilots as they died during the war. I would then
have to contact their Wing Commanders and inform them of their loss. This was
very emotional. I used KWT-6 Collins HF radios and had KWM-2a HF backup
radios with linear amplifiers. I used a log periodic antenna that was fully
rotatable and could tilt up or down. I had global reach. My work jamming
Hanoi Hannah earned my squadron a Presidential Unit Citation. I received 2
Personal Presidential Commendations also. One for directing the US Navy to
the site of a downed EC-121 aircraft in the waters off Vietnam rescuing a
General Grade Officer and nine others aboard via submarine. The second for
timely and accurately sending the launch order for Linebacker 2 the
resumption
of the bombing campaign over Hanoi and Haiphong by over 450 ! aircraf t
causing the North Vietnamese to return to the peace table in Paris.
Sincerely, Norm Colbert
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George H. Bellairs
Amateur Radio Operator KBØZZT
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910 LeMay Drive
Bellevue, NE 68005-3253
E-Mail: kb0zzt@arrl.net
or kb0zzt@usa.net
(402) 291-0960 (home)
(402) 559-5677 (office)
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