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	Saturday Breakfast at the Country Buffet!


	New sPARCgap distribution Format / ADOBE PDF Recently the Club purchased a copy of Adobe Acrobat #3 so we could sent the sPARCgap Via E-mail. It will be sent in Adobe PDF Format which can be read with the FREE PDF or it can be down loaded from this site. PDF Format reduces the size considerable but we lose some of the niceties, such as Color Pictures. Pictures are converted to black and white. Any of you who want the sPARCgap dispersed via E-mail in PDF format please E-mail me at KC7PDI@ARRL.NET and I'll try to get it arranged in the mean time I'll have a Box on the front page just under the W7LT call that says "Download PDF" Click on this box and you get the PDF version. Clicking on the box that says " Download HTML" will get you the HTML version ( Web-page Version). If you need copy of Acrobat reader Click on Down load PDF Reader Why do we have so many formats? Paper Web-page and now PDF. Because we are trying to please our membership and save money. Dispersing the sPARCgap electronically save us a bundle. Printing costs average $.25 cents a copy plus Postage. Chuck Parker KC7PDI


	info <http://www.weather.com/maps/ activity/golf/slightningstrikes_lar ge.html> Map of US lightening strike info. <http://stonefly.arc.nasa.gov/> NASA Emergency Communications Center list of FEMA Bulletins, Wx updates, Earthquake reports, and a list of Emergency Organizations. <http://www.topozone.com/ default.asp> Down loadable USGS Topographic maps of the entire US & Puerto Rico. <http://www.ips.gov.au/asfc/ usa_hf/VANCOUVERhap.html> Hourly Area Prediction (HAP) HF propagation map centered on Vancouver Wa. <http://www.geophys.ashington. edu/welcome.html> NW Earthquake info from Univ. of Wa. for Oregon & Washington Also there is a list in April 2001 QST "The World Above 50 MHz pg 95-97 as one of many other places to find WWW sites of Amateur Radio interest. Let me again stress that NMCM exists to SERVE not supplant the communities traditional agencies communications. We will be at the Host-A-Sailor trailer under the Burnside Bridge during Rose Festival sending those moral messages to & from our countries military services. Stop by & have an eyeball QSO when you tour the ships. NNN0GBP Two Or. Ecom Asst .Mike 503-266-9630


	The Saturday breakfast has caught on well. Twelve people attended the May 35th meeting. Attendees were; Max Johnson KB7TMH David Stover KC7YOE Sam Morton KD7JRQ Ken Morton K7FLE John Pinkerton K7ZSK Neal Sacon N7RX Ed Burress KC7GFX Pete Rodabaugh W7PR The upcoming Field-Day 2001 was discussed and everyone is looking forward to it. Come to the next one It's FUN, the first Saturday of each Month at the Country Buffet 106th & Washington near Mall 205 ! CP