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Editor's note
Silent Keys:
I regret to announce that Paul Joramo AE7MT has passed away at 76.
I regret to announce that Conrad Hilpert KL7JKE has passed away at 87.
In the last issue I announced that Bill Tarrent W7ROE passed away at 73 and we are still expecting a
memorial service here in Butte.
At the end of this issue I have included the obituaries for Bill, Conrad, and Paul.
I regret to announce that Conrad Hilpert KL7JKE has passed away at 87.
In the last issue I announced that Bill Tarrent W7ROE passed away at 73 and we are still expecting a
memorial service here in Butte.
At the end of this issue I have included the obituaries for Bill, Conrad, and Paul.
Secretary, Dennis Owens, Treasurer, John Hyndman, Board of directors, Cliff Gade,
Regularly scheduled activities of the B.A.R.C.
Every Mon.-Fri. morning “The Trivia Net” 0703 on the WA7KZF Repeater at 146.94 Mhz -DUP
Every Mon. evening “The Monday Night Net' 1900 on the WA7KZF Repeater at 146.94 Mhz -DUP
First Thursday B.A.R.C. business meeting 1900 in the club room.
Second, fourth, and fifth Thursdays “The ten meter net” 1900 28.400 Mhz
Third Thursday Informal get-together at Burger King 1900
Every Saturday morning No host breakfast at Burger King 0900
The Montana Traffic Net meets at 0030 UTC - or 1730/1830 MST/MDT - 3.910 Mhz
Montana Section Net Meets on 80 Meters 3.880 Mhz Sunday 0800 Local Time
Montana / Idaho Net: Meets on 80 Meters 3.647 Mhz Daily at 0300 UTC - or 1730/1830 MST/MDT
QCWA Net - Saturday 0830 Local Time 3.935 Mhz
ARES and RACES Nets
RACES HF - 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month. 3.947 Mhz at 0900
ARES VHF - Thursday Night 2000 MT Statewide ARES Net MRLA Linked on 147.38 100 Hz tone
Monday Night Net Control Schedule
The regular net controls are: 1st Mon. Kevin AD7AJ, 2nd Mon. Greg K7LIV, 3rd Mon. Cliff KE7UQT,
4th Mon. Net manager Dan KB7CEA, 5th Mon. Dave NB7V, Sub. Jason KF7ADK.
This quarters schedule is: 9/7 Kevin 9/14 Greg 9/21 Cliff 9/28 Dan
10/5 Kevin 10/12 Greg 10/19 Cliff 10/26 Dan
11/2 Kevin 11/9 Greg 11/16 Cliff 11/23 Dan 11/30 Dave
Activities this Quarter:
Emergency Services Exercise
Next Tuesday, September 15th, an Exercise called VIGILANT GUARD will take place. This exercise
will simulate a 6.5 earthquake centered near Helena. The exercise is scheduled to run for three days up
in Helena. We (Butte ARES/RACES) have been requested to activate and operate from at least three
stations in Butte; The BSB EOC at the Courthouse, St. James Hospital, and a relay station to transmit
via VHF and HF. There may also be a need for one or two Mobile stations to give site reports as well.
If you are able to participate, please let me know as soon as you can.
Thanks and 73,
Kevin Ball, AD7AJ
Silver Bow ARES Emergency Coordinator
Butte Silver Bow RACES EC
Email ad7aj@arrl.net
For a complete description of the VIGILANT GUARD exercise use this link:
http://www.montanaguard.com/ vigilant_ guard/index. cfm
Charity Bike Tour
American Diabetes Association Tour de Cure bike tour is Sept 19 in Three forks, MT. Jerry KD7WLX
from Bozeman has checked the routes for repeater coverage. Lois KB7EWC is also involved in this
event. Please contact either of these guys to get more info. Here is a link to the tour site:
http://tour. diabetes. org/site/ TR/TourdeCure/ TDC475018030? pg=entry& fr_id=5940
North American Indian Alliance Run
The run starts at 8am on September 19, 2009, the Butte Amateur Radio Club mans radio check points
for this run each year. Greg K7LIV is the coordinator for this run, contact him if you wish to
participate.
Activities last Quarter:
Field Day
Field Day 2009 was held on June 27 & 28 at Dave's house KB7V. This is the second year we have held
field day at Dave's house and just as last year it all went very well. Camaraderie, food, and a lot of
radio contacts using Dave's equipment.
Picnic
The Butte Amateur Radio Club Trivia Net annual picnic was held on August 1st at the Cardwell
Campground. Dale WB6MMC brought his grill and donated the meat, his wife Vickie did the cooking
and produced an abundance of hamburgers, franks, and brats with all the trimmings. Everyone brought
a dish and some drinks so food was plentiful. In addition to bringing a dish Dolores KA7BYS brought
the cake as she traditionally does. Ed W7ARO brought some ham equipment for sale. A good time was
had by all.
I want to encourage all hams, scanner listeners and interested parties to come on out for next years
picnic. There are no qualifications needed other than a desire for good food and to meet your radio
operating neighbors. Next year we plan to hold the picnic at Dale's house to save him from hauling his
grill.
I would like to spotlight Dolores KA7BYS for organizing the picnic for the last 4-5 years which
includes bringing the cake. She took the job over from Myrtle WB7OKP. In addition to the picnic
Dolores is the mainstay of the Trivia Net, hosting every morning by herself until Dale WB7MMC and
Rick W7RLK each started taking a week.
In the past Myrtle WB7OKP, Bill W7ROE, Dale WB6MMC, Rick W7RLK, Ivan KD7HZU, Paul
AE7MT, and Dolores KA7BYS each hosted one week at a time.
Dolores lives in Boulder with her husband Gene W7YBV and has been a ham for over 20 years.
Obituaries
Bill and Conrad are from the Montana Standard Newspaper:
William ‘Bill’ Tarrant, 72
05/05/1936 ~ 06/01/2009
William C. “Bill” Tarrant, 72, died after a brief illness on Monday, June 1, 2009, in Las Vegas.
Bill was born May 5, 1936, in Great Falls, to Roy and Ruth (Charles) Tarrant. His
family moved to Butte in 1951. Bill attended Butte High School. He then attended
Western Montana College, earning a degree in secondary education. Bill worked as a high school
English teacher in Hardin. He attained his master’s degree in psychology at the University of
Montana. Bill was also a handful of credits shy of earning his doctorate degree.
Then, he moved onto Columbia Falls where he was a high school counselor. His next position was
as staff psychologist at the Wyoming Girls’ School in Sheridan.
The majority of Bill’s career, however, was spent working as the psychologist for the Butte school
district. He began work there in 1967 and reluctantly opted for early retirement in 1987.
After retirement from the school district, Bill embarked on a new career as a pastor. Bill attended
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary at Northwestern University in Chicago and Claremont
School of Theology at Claremont College in California. He was the assistant pastor at Aldersgate
United Methodist Church in Butte, and the interim pastor for the Church of the Big Hole, which
served Melrose, Wise River and Wisdom.
In his capacity as a minister, Bill was able to officiate his daughter’s wedding, as well as baptize
his niece and all three of his grandsons.
Bill was a member of the Butte Amateur Radio Club. “Ham” radio was a true passion of his. He
had his own “radio shack” set up in his home, complete with a 40-foot radio tower in the
backyard. He was able to contact other hams all over the world. He served as president of the
Butte Radio Club for many terms. “W7ROE” had many longtime and wonderful friends that he
had met through ham radio. Bill was preceded in death by his parents; sister, Jane Tarrant Grimm;
brother-in-law: Al Grimm; aunts, Florence Charles and Marie Charles; and aunt and uncle, Clarence
and Carrie Charles. He is survived by his longtime companion, Judy Cosgrove of Las Vegas; daughter
and son-in-law, Carrie and Mike Shinkle and grandsons, Jake, Ryder, and Grey Shinkle, all of
Prineville, Ore.; and his niece, Jennifer Grimm of Las Vegas.
Cremation has taken place and a memorial service will be held in Butte at a later date.
Memorials: Butte Amateur Radio Club, Box 4036, Butte, 59701
Conrad Hilpert, 87
09/19/1921 ~ 08/12/2009
Conrad R. Hilpert died Aug. 12, 2009. Born Sept. 19, 1921, he was the youngest of Meier George and
Emma E. Hilpert’s three children.
Conrad is survived by his sister, Myra Hilpert; children, Fredrich Hilpert, Lynne Duncan, and
Quentin Hilpert; and six grandchildren.
He grew up in Bethlehem, Pa. Conrad had a lifelong fascination with large mechanical machinery
which led him to a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering in 1942 from
Pennsylvania State University.
From college, Conrad entered the Army and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1943. Conrad was an engineer assault reconnaissance officer
and he participated in combat from Omaha Beach to the Elbe River. It was during this time that
Conrad came to understand that a leader needs to set an example, “out front” of the members
of his/her platoon, section, or department. He believed a team is like a piece of string that can
be successfully pulled through even the tightest of places but cannot be pushed anywhere.
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At the war’s end Conrad returned to State College, Pa., where he taught undergraduate courses
while he completed his master of science of mechanical engineering degree in 1948.
During his years in graduate school Conrad performed as principle flutist of the Penn State Blue
Band where he met Lucille Cox sitting second chair. Lucy not only inspired Conrad to put in a lot
of extra practice on his flute but to ask her to marry him.
Lucille and Conrad married Oct. 16, 1948, and made beautiful music together until her death in
November 2006.
From 1948 to 1950 Conrad was project engineer for the Engineer Research and Development
Laboratories at Fort Belvoir, Va. Conrad spent the first year in Fort Churchill, Manitoba, Canada,
researching and developing improvements on all types of transportation equipment keyed to
military transportation in the arctic.
In 1950, Conrad transitioned from heavy transport equipment to heavy earth moving machinery
and became project engineer with the Industrial Power Division of International Harvester Co.,
Melrose Park, Ill. Conrad became chief engineer research and development for Twin Disk Inc. in
Rockford, Ill., in 1954, living in nearby Winnebago with Lucy and his three children. It was
during his work for Twin Disc that Conrad obtained more than 30 U.S. patents for improvements
in heavy equipment transmissions and drive trains.
Conrad received the technical professional degree — mechanical engineer — from Pennsylvania
State University, in 1953. In September 1969, with permission from his wife and children, now
in college or high school, Conrad took a sabbatical from Twin Disc to return to college, and in
1972 received his doctor of philosophy in engineering from Oklahoma State University,
Stillwater, Okla.
Conrad retired from his industrial career in 1974 and became a visiting professor of mechanical
engineering at Carnegie-Mellon. As a professor at Carnegie-Mellon, Conrad taught senior
mechanical engineering subjects and interacted with industry to provide industrial-sponsored
research projects through which graduate students could get a preview of how industry worked
and how they as graduates would fit in.
In 1976, Conrad was offered a job as a member of the Rutherford Consultants in Anchorage,
Alaska. On accepting, Conrad and Lucy moved to Anchorage. Still, once having been able to help
improve the minds of students bound to solve engineering problems of the future, Conrad
couldn’t resist the chance to do more and in 1981 he accepted a teaching position in the
Engineering Science Department at Montana Tech in Butte.
He and Lucy resided in Butte until their deaths, Lucy in 2006 and Conrad in 2009. Both Lucy
and Conrad thought Butte was a dynamic enjoyable community.
Conrad was a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Society of Experimental
Stress Analysis, Society of Automotive Engineers, Signal Engineers, Illinois Society of
Professional Engineers, professional honor societies Sigma Xi, Alpha Phi Mu, and Phi Mu Alpha
and has been a recipient of the Arch T. Colwell Merit Award from SAE. He was a registered
professional engineer of Illinois, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Alaska and Montana.
Conrad was a licensed Ham Radio operator, call sign KL7JKE, (just kidding everyone). He
enjoyed pistol shooting, railroading, and photography. Conrad played flute up to his death
performing flute solos (the last at age 81) and played in the flute section in many organizations
throughout his life.
In 1982, his youngest son, Quentin, introduced both his parents to motorcycle riding from which
there was no turning back. Connie and Lucy traveled all over the U.S. and Canada including
three trips up the Alaska/Canada highway. Connie and Lucy put over 200,000 miles on each of
their BMWs. They turned in their bikes when Conrad began to feel the effects of an old war
injury at the age of 82, Lucy was 78.
Conrad was a husband, father, leader, advisor, teacher, and friend.
Cremation has taken place in Butte. Memorial services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Wednesday
morning, Sept. 9, 2009, in Wayrynen-Richards Funeral Home. Interment of ashes will take place
at Fort Harrison Veterans Cemetery.
Conrad and Lucille Hilpert were always for education. Please make donations to the “Connie and
Lucy Hilpert Scholarship for Innovation,” Montana Tech Foundation, 1300 W. Park St., Butte, MT
59701-8997; phone 800-984-4683.
Please consider adding your thoughts to Conrad Hilpert or Lucy Hilpert at
http://www.legacy.com.
Paul Wilbur Joramo
Paul Wilbur Joramo, 76, of Great Falls, a marine mechanic,
died of natural causes Friday at a local care facility.
Cremation has taken place under the direction of Croxford Funeral Home and Crematory. His memorial
service is 2 to 4 p.m. Friday at Lippi's Kitchen, 705 Cental Ave. W.
Survivors include a daughter, Wendy (Shane) Joramo Carter of San Antonio, Texas; sons Seth (Crystal)
Joramo and Eric Joramo, all of Great Falls; grandchildren Emma Joramo and Shelby Carter; and a
brother-in-law, Russ Waring.
Paul was born July 5, 1933, in Great Falls, the son of Isal B. (Smith) and Edward P. Joramo. He
graduated high school here and married Judy Vallance in Hamilton. They divorced in 1983.
Paul was a mechanic and had his own shop for a number of years. He later worked for Wallace Marine
in Great Falls as a marine mechanic. He was a member of the Gold Wing Club and lived for his
motorcycle and riding. He also enjoyed listening to HAM radio and was a member of a local HAM
radio club.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a daughter, Jodi Joramo; and a sister, Lois Waring.
Condolences may be posted online at www.croxfordfuneralhome.com and/or
www.gftribune.com/obituaries.
Published in Great Falls Tribune on August 24, 2009
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