Ken Boston, W9GA, the Badger Contesters, and the conference staff invite you to the annual conference in Milwaukee this coming July 26^th and 27^th.  They are working hard on putting together an entertaining conference for you. 

The conference team continues to hold meetings hammering out the details for this summer.  The first mailing went out in early March.  The second mailing--which is the actual registration packet--goes out in early May.  There were some who wrote wondering where the registration materials were.  All will be revealed in May.  The registration packet is a good way to send in your $5 for continuing membership even if you are not going to attend the conference because it gives you an opportunity to also purchase a Proceedings.

Presenters are being lined up for a variety of presentations.  The family program is being finalized.  The full details of the family program will be in the registration mailing and will be added to our conference web page (http://w9fz.com/milw2002/csvhf02.html) .

If you did NOT receive the first mailing and have not previously contacted W9FZ in order to receive the second mailing, contact w9fz@csvhfs.org in order to make sure you receive the 2^nd mailing (registration packet). If you got the first one, you'll get the second.

Jefferson Amateur Radio Club (W5GAD EL49) nears completion of 1 year of negotiations and construction replacing the club's tower with a larger commercial tower.  This tower will include antennas to support Voice Stream Operations in the New Orleans area. The negotiations were conducted by Mark Unland (WB9VTN) and Ira Weber (N5OGW) (more time than they cared to do) with help from attorney Tommy Millner.  Now after a period of one year the tower is up VS is operational and most of the antennas are functional however the 6 meter beam is pointed the wrong way and has bent elements.  I (AC5TM) serve as Tech Advisor for JARC on the project.  The only other item on the punch are some noise issues.  The beam was facing the correct way but did not work. ATC brought the antenna back down where a crushed jumper was replaced.  I stopped by the clubhouse for a meeting only to find the beam was back up but now facing the wrong direction with different bent elements.  It is painfully clear that this crew has never dealt with beams.  A second problem did occur which was when we rotated the antennas one of the cables feeding the repeater antenna was ripped out of its connector.  The jumpers have been all replaced but
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