Forest Hills Baptist Church has grown over the last decade, and so has the demand for their meeting space. As a result there are no large rooms available for our Membership Meetings and we have been using a classroom for our meetings. After 11 months of searching for a solution, the RARS Board or Directors has decided to move future RARS membership meetings to the First Alliance Church at 4400 Buffaloe Rd. in east Raleigh. This is the same location previously announced for the RARS auction and Christmas Gathering. Here is a Google map to the location.

November 14 ARISS Operating Event at Enlow School RARS sponsored an ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) contact with Enloe Magnet High School on Friday November 14th. Four Enloe students asked questions of astronaut Mike Fincke aboard the ISS during the 10-minute pass. You can read the Press release and listen to an MP3 Audio recording of the event thanks to our PIO - KN4AQ.

RARS NOVEMBER 4, 2008 ELECTION RESULTS
Vice-President: Karl Bowman - W4CHX	Field Day Chair: Mike Murphy - WA4BPJ	Webmaster: Hank Montgomery - K4HM

All other 2008 officers will be the same for 2009.

RARS 2008 Field Day score = 9,732 Field Day is always the third full weekend of June, which for 2008 was June 21-22. The RARS Field Day participation was again at the Carol farm south west of Raleigh. RARS operated as class 7A using the club call W4DW. The breakdown of the RARS score as well as details of the RARS participation can be seen here and the complete information about Field Day can be found on the ARRL website - but note that the scores are in the "ARRL members only" section of the site.