The meeting was called to order at 8:00 PM by Don "Butch" Blasdell/W4HJL acting as Chair.Following the Pledge of Allegiance, all present stated their names and call signs.Attendance: 20 Members.The past month's minutes and current financial status were approved by the membership.

440 is low on frequency but functioning. It needs some tuning but we are closer to getting all the machines working. The VHF unit needs to be repaired before we have all three units working with PL tone.

Scheduled for the 21st and 22nd of October. We will have three stations this year. We need 3 rigs. There is no age limit for the Scouts involved. It is being held at the Urbana Swim Club.

David Warrington/WW4MM and Susan Poulin/KG4JBD were voted in! Welcome. Gerald (Jerry) Engman/WB3IWY was read in and will be voted on at the next meeting.

New classes are scheduled to start October 10th at Stonewall Jackson School. A VE session will be scheduled to occur near the end of the classes, est. 12 December. Jack/N4YIC says that the insurance is ready to go.

The moneys from the bake-sale have been accounted for. The family that ran the bake-sale would like to donate the money to SERVE. Jack agrees and motioned that the club bring the total donation to $200. The motion was seconded and carried.

Erv has resigned as the EC of Prince William County effective 1 October 2000. Also, all ARES members should visit the VA ARES web site and renew/update their information. The link is at http://www.vaares.org/

Prince William County Bike Tour is the 30th of September and all support is requested. There are 3 routes - 10 mile ride, a 20 and 30 mile ride. Setup is scheduled to start at 8:00 am and the ride is scheduled to start at 9:00 am. The ride starts at Nokesville park.

The 220 Packet is down and the rig is off to Yaesu for repairs. Packet is being forwarded through 2M.

There was some desire to start/coordinate a "building" class.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:45 PM. Art Whittum/KW4AW will chair the next meeting.

The FCC started a new registration system on 19 July 2000. It is called the FCC Commission Registration System (CORES). It's purpose is to provide an unique FCC registration number (FRN) to every entity doing business with the FCC. And they intend to integrate the Universal Licensing System into CORES. Some parts of the ULS will be integrated with CORES during this summer season.

If my experience is any indicator, people who have registered with the ULS will receive, or should have received, a letter explaining how CORES will fit in. If you were already registered, they automatically assigned an FRN to you. Additionally, they converted my ULS password to CORES.

So, if you have already registered with the Universal Licensing System, you should have received the letter explaining CORES. If you haven't registered, you need to. And it would appear that you need to be very careful doing so.

And if you aren't confused enough, check the web page at and select the CORES link.

(Gee! Did I really mean that!?)

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The fall season has finally started to make inroads. Low pressure cells travelling between west and east and making their cross paths between York PA and Manassas, VA have been causing some interesting effects. On at least two occasions during the week of 02 October, mobile units in the Manassas area were bringing up BOTH the York PA and Manassas VA "97" machines - and the York machine transmissions were strong enough to cause an intermod product in the unsuspecting mobile receivers. KW4AW experienced the effect on 05 OCT and N4WJN and N4SN may have had it happen to them on 04 OCT.

The NOVEC Load Management transmitter was heard several times on 6 October (for the first time in a long time). And, of course, we continue to get "dumped on" by the combined 1532.240/158.100 MHz transmissions from the pager transmitters located on Centerville Road near the old Manassas Bakery. The pager folks have started the process of changing out the antenna and jumper cable for their installation. Stay tuned.

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