Thank You for All You Have Done!
The Nixa Amateur Radio Club would like to extend our gratitude to the following persons for their generosity:
- Thanks to Chris Cochran, for setting up the golf tournament and to Jeff Kerr, Mike Park, and Dean Gaines for selling sponsorships.
- Thanks to Dean Gaines for putting us in contact with Patty Dixon at Allstate Insurance and the potential grant.
- Thanks to James Adkins for the successful grant application from the ARRL for the 6-meter repeater.
- Thanks to Dean Gaines for getting the Field Day location and all the food for Field Day.
- Thanks to James Adkins for getting the Department of Public Safety (DPS) bus for Field Day and for Terry Zembsch for taking two days off work to drive the bus to and from Jefferson City.
- Thanks to Doug Schumpert for donating the Yaesu VX-170 for the 70cm repeater project as a fundraiser.
- Thanks to Rod Kittleman for all the positive media attention ham radio received for Field Day, the hamfest, and during the Hurricane Katrina disaster.
- Thanks to Rod Kittleman for developing an awesome club logo, getting banners made, car stickers, and T-shirts.
- Thanks to James Adkins for getting the donations of the heliax, antenna, duplexers, and bandpass cavities for the 6-meter project.
- Thanks to Joe Hargis for donating the 19" rack mount cabinet for the 6-meter repeater project.
- Thanks to Justin Harris, of Lowther Johnson Attorneys at Law, for helping us obtain 501(c)(3) tax exemption status.
- Thanks to James Adkins for the countless hours spent filling out documents for 501(c)(3) tax status.
- Thanks to Rod Kittleman for getting us in to assist with the Relay for Life events in Nixa and Republic and thanks to Dean Gaines, Chris Cochran, and Terry Zembsch for manning the station.
- Thanks to Michael Rains for programming the Motorola GR1225 440 repeater for us and to John Rayfield for loaning the IA-4500 to program the GE UHF repeater for testing.
- Thanks to John Rayfield and Michael Rains for tuning the MR-256 duplexers for the Nixa Fire Department's emergency backup repeater.
- Thanks to Jerry Johnson, Dick Higinbotham, Monte Chaney, Tom McKleroy, and James Adkins for holding the monthly VE testing sessions.
- Thanks to Jeremy Tannehill for helping us make the backup battery at the 145.270 site a reality and for hooking it up.
- Thanks to Bill McNamee for finding and donating the GE DRC-200 Desktop UHF repeater and the Motorola GR-1225 UHF repeaters to the club to make the 444.275 repeater a reality and allow us to purchase the DB-420B repeater antenna.
- Thanks to Don Kocian for all his help in getting the regulations changed to allow the one-time amateur radio repeater placement on the 600 ft City Utilities tower in Republic for the 6-meter repeater.
- Thanks to Lonnie Peryer for his assistance at the City Utilities Radio Shop with the 6-meter repeater.
- Thanks to Chris Cochran for his continuous updating of the web site and making the nixahams.net domain possible.
- Thanks to Doug Schumpert for starting the NixaHams Yahoo! Group.
- Thanks to Jeff Morrissey for his long hours making and formatting the DVD used to showcase the Nixa Amateur Radio Club at the SMARC hamfest 2005.
- Thanks to James Adkins for purchasing the DB-224, mount, CAT-200B controller, and DB-4060 duplexers and paying for the installation of the feedline and antenna to get the 145.270 repeater on the air.
- Thanks to Chris Cochran for purchasing the Motorola Micor Power supply, Motorola Micor Unified Chasis, Motorola Micor PA, and the 6' Motorola 19" rack mount cabinet to get the 145.270 off the ground.
- Thanks to Chris Cochran for purchasing the Ranger SRL-H repeater to be used as a backup for the Nixa Fire Department.
- Thanks to Jeremy Tannehill and Mike Sewell of Alltel for allowing us to use their equipment shelter to house the 145.270 repeater.
- Thanks to Terry Zembsch, James Adkins, and Chris Cochran for hosting the EchoLink node at their house and making a 2-meter antenna and PC available for continuous use before the node could be put at the site.
- Thanks to Stan Elmore and the Webb City School District for allowing us to use their T3 line for the Joplin EchoLink node to the 147.210 repeater to allow much needed communications with the National Weather Service during Sky Warn operations.
- Thanks to everyone in the Nixa Amateur Radio Club that regularly attends meetings to make our average attendance close to 40 people monthly!
- Thanks to all those who have put "money in the hat" at club meetings to help us meet needed expenses, such as fuel for the command bus for Field Day, ARRL Affiliation fees, and repair of the 444.275 repeater. Though these contributions were made anonymously, they do not go unrecognized or unappreciated.
- Thanks to all they YL's of the members of the Nixa Amateur Radio Club for their support of our club, their good cooking at Field Day and the Christmas Party, and watching the kids so we can come to the monthly meetings and participate in club events.
- Thanks to Allen Busiek for allowing the use of the FM transmitter and antenna at the Nixa and Republic Relay for Life events.
- Thanks to John Rayfield and Joe Hargis for their wonderful interviews promoting ham radio during Field day and Hurricane Katrina.
- Thanks to Jeff Morrissey, Jeff Kerr, Randy Jordan, Daniel Hirsch, and Chris Cochran for making it so that the NixaHams website could be used by the 129 local family members in Southwest Missouri that contacted us so we could gather appropriate information to pass along to emergency officials in Mississippi and Louisiana. This resulted in 4 lives being saved, many much needed family contacts, and a $1200 donation from the Queen City Fraternal Order of Eagle, Ladies Auxiliary for the 6-meter repeater project.
- Thanks to Fred Bell for setting up and operating with Dave Beckler the RV for CW operations at the 2004 and 2005 Field Day events.
- Thanks to Jeremy Tannehill and Alltel for allowing the Nixa Amateur Radio Club to use their 100' crank up emergency cell on wheels (COW) tower at Field Day 2005.
- Thanks to Jim Adkins and Dean Gaines for setting up and collecting the Price Cutter Community Bucks for the club as a fundraiser and thanks to all the club members collecting them and turning them over to the club for a fundraiser for the 6-meter repeater project.
- Thanks to Chris Cochran for finding the great deals on the Motorola CDM-750 radios and the Astron RM-60M's for the 6-meter repeater.
- Thanks to Chris Cochran for setting up and troubleshooting the Nixa and Webb City EchoLink computers.
- Thanks to Mark Broyles for donating the computer for the Nixa EchoLink node and to Jeff Kerr for donating the hard drive for the computer.
- Thanks to James Adkins and Dean Gaines for driving to Webb City and installing the Webb City EchoLink Node.
- Thanks to Mike and Tammie Roofener for making possible their organic eggs for sale to club members so that funds from those sales could be given to the club as a fund raiser for the 6-meter repeater.
- Thanks to Harold Lazear for starting and running the Tech Net held on Saturday Nights on the 145.270 repeater.
- Thanks to Chris Cochran, James Adkins, Dean Gaines, Jeff Morrissey, Jeff Kerr, Terry Zembsch, Dave Beckler, and J.R. Duncan for being net control for the N.A.R.C. net on Thursday Nights.
- Thanks to Fred Bell and Dave Beckler for holding the CW training nets for several weeks.
If we missed anyone and their efforts, please let us know!
