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Behind the Repeater Journal
| The SERA Repeater Journal, our quarterly magazine, is the official voice of SERA and its members. The Journal is published in February, May, August, and November, and distributed to all members. Single copy sales are also available from dealers in the southeast. |
Repeater Journal Regular Columns:
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"Get The Hammer" - Let's get technical with Randy McKenzie, KK4EJ. Randy not only provides some good simple technical articles, but on occasion, he shares his own personal situations concerning working on transmitters, towers, and the work done by a RF field technician. It's great stuff! | |
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"Nostalgic Wavelengths" by David Bower, K4PZT. If you love our history, you'll be delighted with David's articles. Whether it's a visit to Pearl Harbor and the radio rooms of the old ships, to the cockpits of World War II aircraft, or early amateur radio gear, David covers it for the Journal. | |
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"EmComm Reflections" by Glen Sage, W4GHS. We welcome Glen as one of our new feature writers as he focuses on ARES/Emergency Communications in the Amateur Radio Service. Since the events of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, served agencies have tightened standards for ham radio involvement as emergency communicators. read more in Glen's columns! | |
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"Tech Specs" by Mo Kittle, AD8T. Mo is transitioning from West Virginia State Correspondent to one of our feature writers. Check out Mo's articles coming to you from the mountains of Elkins, West Virginia. |
| We always want news and feature articles. If it might interest our readers, it interests us. Contact the editor at editor@sera.org. Under normal circumstances, and unless specified elsewhere, deadlines for submissions are: December 10th for our February issue, March 10th for our May issue, June 10th for August issue, and September 10th for our November issue. |
Submitting News Items:
| Send news to the state
correspondents as plain text e-mail. Send news and feature articles
to the editor as plain text or in rtf (rich text
format). Most word processors allow saving your formatted text in
rtf, which preserves bold, italics, underlines, etc.
Photos Wanted! We love printing pictures of hams doing things ... or just standing there, if that's all you can get them to do. Digital pictures must be high-resolution (one mega-pixel or larger). Send a copy of the image that came right out of your camera ... don't shrink it, expand it, crop it, or turn it blue (little web-size pictures look fine on your screen, but don't make it in a magazine). Explain who's in the picture, and what they're doing, and tell us who the photographer was. Prints should be scanned at 220 dpi minimum, and e-mailed as a high-quality jpeg (file size up to 4 MB OK). Prints can also be mailed to the editor. If you want the print back, make that clear in your note. |
Repeater
Journal State News Correspondents:
| Each SERA state has a
Correspondent who provides coverage of local clubs, repeaters, activities,
and other ham related subjects. These writers are the our eyes and ears
for getting news on a local basis. Look below to find your state
correspondent and put him or her on your newsletter mailing list, send
news of interest. They are all glad to include your club or activity in
future issues of the Repeater
Journal.
Under normal circumstances and unless specified elsewhere, deadlines for submissions to correspondents are: December 10th for our February issue, March 10th for our May issue, June 10th for August issue, and September 10th for our November issue. The SERA State Correspondents are: |
| Hamfest Dates -
SouthEastern Hamfest sponsors are urged to keep their hamfest dates
current with the Hamfest Calendar Editor. The dates are kept on a database
and are run FREE in each issue of the Repeater Journal
Hamfest and Convention
Calendar. The sooner confirmed dates are received, the more times
they will be published correctly, FREE. Send your information to hamfest@sera.org. |
How
To Get The Journal:| The Repeater Journal is mailed four times every year to members of The Southeastern Repeater Association. By joining SERA as a Full Member (repeater owner) or as an Associate Member (repeater user) you will be assured of getting this valuable magazine every quarter. The Repeater Journal is well worth the annual membership fee (just pennies a day), and you are also supporting a very worthwhile cause - the orderly and efficient coordination of our VHF/UHF repeater spectrum. If you have membership questions, feel free to inquire to <membership@sera.org>. |
Mail with your name and address
to:
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Repeater Journal Single Copy
Dealer List: 
| ASSISTING OUR
EDITOR: The following members of the Publications Committee assist our Editor with these various aspects of the Repeater Journal composition: Tom Forrest, N4GVK -
Graphics Editor & North Carolina Correspondent |
| REPEATER JOURNAL ADVERTISING
Display advertising is available in
The SERA Repeater Journal. Any dealers,
manufacturers, or hamfest sponsors wishing more information about Repeater
Journal advertising, should e-mail to editor@sera.org . We will be glad to supply you
with any information needed to become a Repeater Journal
advertiser. We can accept advertising in any form. Although press-quality PDF is preferred, we have worked with text documents, printed copies, and even MS-PowerPoint slides! The external dimensions of the
Repeater Journal are now 8.125” wide by 10.75” deep (the same as
CQ Magazine). The internal
dimensions are 7.25” wide by 9.875” deep. If you need more
information about advertising in the Repeater Journal, please send us an
e-mail.
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| REPEATER JOURNAL
MAILING
If you should change your mailing address, please notify us at membership@sera.org so that we may update our mailing files. The Repeater Journal is not normally forwarded by the U.S. Postal Service, because it is sent by third class mail. As a rule we do request "address correction" when we conduct our mailings, but we do not always receive those update. |
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since 08/06/07
