NARSIG Demo Station Schedule

</HEAD> <BODY> <CENTER><FONT SIZE=+2>Nude Amateur Radio SIG</FONT></CENTER> <CENTER> </CENTER> <CENTER><FONT SIZE=+1>This page will be updated frequently.</FONT></CENTER> <CENTER><FONT COLOR="#33CCFF"> </FONT></CENTER> <CENTER><FONT SIZE=-1>(last updated Dec  7, 1997)</FONT></CENTER> <CENTER> </CENTER> <CENTER><B><FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><FONT SIZE=+2>Special Announcement!</FONT></FONT></B></CENTER> <CENTER> </CENTER> <CENTER><IMG SRC="http://members.home.net/jimc2/images/colbar.gif" NOSAVE HEIGHT=1 WIDTH=600></CENTER> <P><A HREF="http://www.redoutey.com/">Bob Redoutey, N5KF</A>, and <A HREF="http://www.texnude.com">Ben Thornton, NI5B</A>, of Austin, Texas, have formed a new amateur radio club, callsign NU5DE, whose purpose is to promote the naturist philosophy among amateur radio operators worldwide. The FCC has officially assigned this callsign to The Naturist Amateur Radio Club. The club call can be used primarily for naturist events where amateur radio is being promoted and to promote naturism among the amateur radio community. <CENTER> </CENTER> <CENTER><B>FCC information:</B></CENTER> <CENTER><B>Callsign: NU5DE</B></CENTER> <CENTER><B>Club Name: NATURIST AMATEUR RADIO CLUB</B></CENTER> <CENTER><B>Addr1: PO BOX 200812</B></CENTER> <CENTER><B>Addr2: AUSTIN TX 787200812</B></CENTER> <CENTER><B>Country: USA</B></CENTER> <CENTER><B>Effective: 20 Oct 1997</B></CENTER> <CENTER><B>Expires: 20 Oct 2007</B></CENTER> <CENTER><B>Trustee: ROBERT G REDOUTEY N5KF</B></CENTER> <CENTER><B>Location: 30.506 N 97.842 W</B></CENTER> <CENTER> </CENTER> <CENTER>Bob and Ben, along with Jim Campbell, WB6ZPB, and many others, have been active participants in the Naturist Society Amateur Radio SIG, whose annual Nude Recreation Week special event stations have become a familiar sound on the airwaves each July for the past 5 years. For more information about the club, send email to <A HREF="mailto:nu5de@aol.com">nu5de@aol.com</A>.  <HR WIDTH="100%"></CENTER> <CENTER><FONT SIZE=+1>List of 1997 NARSIG Events:</FONT></CENTER> <CENTER> <HR WIDTH="50%"><IMG SRC="http://members.home.net/jimc2/images/new05.gif" NOSAVE BORDER=0 HEIGHT=15 WIDTH=30></CENTER> <CENTER>Steve and Crystal Bosbach, accompanied by Ben Thornton and another ham, have submitted a report on  their <A HREF="http://members.home.net/jimc2/narsig/fdreport.html">1997 Nude Field Day</A> station.</CENTER> <CENTER> <HR WIDTH="50%"></CENTER> <CENTER> </CENTER> <CENTER> </CENTER> <TABLE WIDTH="100%" > <TR> <TD VALIGN=TOP><IMG SRC="http://members.home.net/jimc2/images/ben_bob.jpg" ALT="Ben and Bob at their 1997 NRW station" NOSAVE BORDER=0 HEIGHT=138 WIDTH=194 ALIGN=LEFT> </TD> <TD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="100%">Preliminary results for the 1997 Nude Recreation Week Special Event Stations are in. This year Bob, N5KF worked stations all week long, and with help from Ben, NI5B, racked up 471 contacts. That's more than the combined total of all participating members last year! Curtis, AE4BT also worked stations from TN. </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD ROWSPAN="2"><FONT SIZE=-2>Ben (at left) and Bob at their 1997 NRW station,</FONT>  <BR><FONT SIZE=-2>at Star Ranch.</FONT> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <PRE>Name     Callsign  Mon  Tue  Wed  Thu  Fri  Sat  Sun Bob      KF5KF      54   93   56   39   21   72  136 Curtis   AE4BT       6   27                   8  The known total so far is 512 contacts.</PRE> N5KF - Bob Redoutey <BR>Monday, Tuesday and Sunday were from Bob's house in Round Rock, TX. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday were from Star Ranch, McDade, TX <P>AE4BT - Curtis Harbin <BR>All from his house in Jonesboro, TN <P>So far about 200 SASE's in to the PO Box in Austin. <P> <HR WIDTH="50%"> <P>The demo station at the 1997 Western Naturist Gathering went well! I contacted a total of 4 stations, one of which was at <A HREF="http://www.lupin.com">Lupin Naturist Club</A>. I won't claim that it was the first time this was a 2-way contact on ham radio between 2 nudist resorts, but it *is* the first time that I know of that two members of NARSIG did so. Of the other 3 stations, one was a regular on the 20m net and mIRC chat room, and the other 2 were non-naturist friends I went to school with in San Luis Obispo, CA. By the way, the Western Naturists Gathering itself was also a great success! Congratulations to <A HREF="http://www.swallowssunisland.com/">Swallows Sun Island</A> for a job well done! <P>We do need volunteers for demo stations at the other TNS Gatherings and AANR conventions. Please email <A HREF="mailto:inaro@inaro.com">jimc@sdctp.com </A>if you have any interest in volunteering, as I can help you make arrangements with the participating clubs. <CENTER> <HR WIDTH="100%"></CENTER> <CENTER><FONT SIZE=+1>List of 1996 NARSIG Events:</FONT></CENTER> <HR WIDTH="50%"> <P>July 8-14; NUDE Recreation Week United States & Canada <P>Special Event Stations 7.265MHZ, 14.265MHZ, 21.365MHZ, and 28.465MHZ. <P>Below is a list of known Special Event Stations and number of contacts. This list was updated July 30, 1996. <PRE>Name     Callsign  Mon  Tue  Wed  Thu  Fri  Sat  Sun Bob      KF5KF      16    6    2   23        56   22 Dave     WA2HOY           2   14   11   10    4      Jim      WB6ZPB           9   20   23   43   54   10 Bob      K8RDN                          37   45      The known total so far is 407 contacts.</PRE> Bob, KF5KF, Ben, NI5B, Steve, KG5BR, Crystal, N5LEQ, and Raye, WA4CJC, operated at Star Ranch, near Austin, TX, July 13 and 14 on all of the above frequencies, though most of their contacts were on 20m. <P>Dave, WA2HOY, operated from Rochester, NY, during the evenings July 8 through 13 on 14.265 and 28.465. <P>Jim, WB6ZPB operated from San Diego, CA, on all of the above frequencies July 9 through 14, but actually heard replies on only 20m.  <HR WIDTH="50%"> <BR>  <TABLE BORDER=0 COLS=2 WIDTH="100%" > <TR> <TD VALIGN=TOP>July 18-21; Western Naturist Gathering, <A HREF="http://www.lupin.com">Lupin Naturist Club</A>, Los Gatos, CA  <P>Jim Campbell, WB6ZPB operated a demo station at 2330Z (4:30PM PDT) on 7.265 MHZ on July 20<SUP>th</SUP>. Contact was made with Bill, WA6YPE, who lives near and is a member of <A HREF="http://www.kaiwan.com/~wem/svsc/svsctoc.html">Silver Valley Sun Club</A>, which is near Barstow, CA. There were 11 people present for the demo, and NARSIG now has 5 new members.  <BR> </TD> <TD><IMG SRC="http://members.home.net/jimc2/images/wng96s5.jpg" ALT="Picture of some of those who showed up for the demo." NOSAVE BORDER=0 HEIGHT=210 WIDTH=300></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD></TD> <TD><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica"><FONT SIZE=-2>Some of those that attended the 1996 WNG ham radio demo</FONT></FONT></TD> </TR> </TABLE> <HR WIDTH="50%"> <CENTER>Have you ever noticed that there seems to be a higher ham-radio operater per capita among the nudist/naturist population than there seems to be in the general population? <A HREF="http://www.sss.org/~bthorn/ben.html">Ben Thornton, NI5B</A>, wrote an <A HREF="http://www.sdctp.com/narsig/arnf.html">article</A> about this which first appeared in the May 1994 edition of <I>NUDENETTER</I>. The same article later appeared in "N" magazine 14.1 on page 10.  <HR WIDTH="50%">That's it for now.  <HR WIDTH="25%"></CENTER>   <BR> <EMBED src="Nu5de.wav" autostart="true" HIDDEN="TRUE"> </BODY>