- 1960
- Club supported several charity fund raisers
- Heart Fund Drive
- Cripple Children Fund Drive
- Cancer Fund Drive
- Cerebral Palsy Fund Drive
- Ham Hum Editors Listed as Al McMillan - W0JJK and Dick Eilers - W0YZV
- Dues are $6 per year (that is equal to $51.80 in 2020)
- February - Club Hosted a Pancake Supper
- May - SAC Tour after Dinner at the Officers Club
- June - Pot Luck Dinner
- August - W1UDE - Perry Williams Assistant Secretary of ARRL visited and presented program "Our Frequencies and How to Keep Them"
- September - Club Picnic
- October - The Annual Auction at the club meeting
- November - Meeting program - Andrew Andros - President of HyGain - presented program
- Club supported several charity fund raisers
- 1961
- February - Pancake supper - Free Will Donation but bring your own silverware
- Ham Hum Editors Listed as Al McMillan - W0JJK and Dick Eilers - W0YZV
- April Meeting held at the Union Pacific HQ Buiding - program by CO Jett - Ass't Superintendent of Communications
- June Meeting - Pot Luck Dinner
- Club members assisted with the United Cerebral Palsy drive and in a Civil Defense drill
- Post Office has been sending misaddressed QSL cards to the Club's PO BOX 291 for the club to distribute
- September program was Colonel Freeman of the 549th Statregic Missle Squadron -
- October - Club hosts the ARRL Midwest Division Convention
- Many club meetings were held at the General Motors Training Center
- Club members responded to call for assistance from Salation Army for Assistance with Tree Of Lights Campaign
- 1962
- Dick Eilers only listed editor of Ham Hum
- Club moved back to Ak-Sar-Ben 4H Building for meetings
- Club members participated in Operation May_day
- Club provided communications support for
- Heart Fund Drive
- Lions Club Eye Bank Drive
- Easter Seals Drive
- 1962 Blizzard response
- March meeting was a Pancake Supper
- Club Programs include
- Computers - by a respresentative of the Burroughs Corporation
- Elevators - by a representative from Westinghouse Elevators
- Data Phones - by John Orr W0PHW - also of the Telephone Company
- Telestar - by representative of the Telephone Company
- July Ham Hum - another "club run by a clique" reference
- September meeting - the Annual Picnic
- 1963
- Community Service Events included
- March Of Dimes
- Heart Fund Drive
- Lions Club Eye Bank Drive
- Easter Seals Drive
- Boyscout Canoe Race
- February Program was a film on Friendship 7
- March included a a demonstration of a Heathkit Service Monitor
- April program was from Northwestern Bell - a film on Alutian Skywatch
- May - THE PANCAKE SUPPER
- September - that Annual Picnic
- October - the Auction
- Ham Hum included several "Hams Of The Month"
- Community Service Events included
- 1964
- Community Service Events
- Heart Fund Drive
- Miracle Mile Drive for Crippled Children
- Lyons Eye Bank Drive
- Boy Scout Canoe Race
- Febraury Meeting -
- New Galaxy Electronics SSB rig
- Soldering Techniques by Rose Turner of Galaxy Electronics
- March Meeting Telstar and Big Bounce(Echo Balloons)
- June Meeting - Tour of North Omaha Radar Station
- July Meeting - Pot Luck Supper
- September Meeting - Picnic
- October - Auction and a film from Collins Radio
- November - Bob Ruyle W0FCH - High Power Log Periodic Antennas
- Community Service Events
- 1965
- Community Service Events
- Miracle Mile Drive for Crippled Children
- Heart Fund Drive
- Canoe Race
- Phone Patches from VietNam (Operation Hello)
- Several Local Companies foot the long distance phone bills for these calls
- Several members fix up a Teletype Machine adding RTTY to the Red Cross Station
- January Program - Clarence Huntly from Galaxy Electronics
- February Program - Slide show from ARRL (with narration) The First 30 years of Ham Radio
- April Program - Leo Myerson W0GFQ and Hugh Tinley K0GHK presented slides on their "DXpedition" to Hondurus
- May Program - a tour of the General Electric plant
- June Program - RFI from Automobile Electrical Systes
- July Program - Lew McCoy W1ICP for ARRL HQ - "How to Succeed in Amateur Radio Without Really Trying" (I don't think this was meant to be a challenge)
- August Program - Films - Scatter Radar & Polar Blackout
- October Program - Navy Station NAA (Megawatt VLF)
- Community Service Events
- 1966
- Community Service Events
- Cerebral Palsy Drive
- Heart Fund Drive
- City of Hope Fund Drive
- Boy Scout Canoe Race
- New Antenna Trailer Created -
- Boys Town started an amateur radio club
- Field Day held at a Boy's Town location called "The Priest's Shack"
- January Program - A Bell System film "Beyond All Barriers"
- February Program - Amateur Radio Satellites
- March Program - Auction
- April Program - Films : "Plane Talk" and "Conquest of Light"
- July Program - Films: "The Breath of Life", "The Oscilliscope and How it Works", "The Square Wave"
- August Program - A road trip tour of HyGain in Lincoln
- November Program - Film: "The Language of Electronics"
- Community Service Events
- 1967
- Community Service events
- Nebraska Centennial Re-enactment of first Night Airmail Flight (Omaha to North Platte) support
- Heart Fund Drive
- Eye Bank Drive
- Boy Scout Canoe Race
- Armed Forces Day Communications Test
- WRL Sponsored a "Hamboree" sale/event
- Nebraska Centennial QSO Party
- January Program - 10.2 GHz
- February Program - 1/2 Wave dipoles
- April Program - Auction
- May Program - A tour of WOrld Radio Labs Facilities
- June Program - AREC (now known as ARES)
- August Program - Operation Hello
- September - Steak Fry
- October Program - Air Craft Radio Systems
- November Program - The production of the Ham Hum
- Community Service events
- 1968
- Community Service Events
- Heart Fund Drive
- Operation Hello - (MARS Phone Patches)
- Mother's Day Messges from Mom to servicemen sons
- Midwest Canoe Association Race
- Armed Forces Day Communications Test
- Club takes over Repeater project from W0YCP
- Club moves to Red Cross for Meetings
- Red Cross Station expanded and becomes the home for the two meter repeater
- January Program - Two Meter FM repeaters by W0YCP
- February Program - Tour of AT&T Plant at 19th and Douglas
- March Program - Manual process to make printed Circuit boards
- April Program - Auction - at the Ranch Bowl
- May Program - Fuses
- August Program - ARRL VHF Editor W1HDQ - VHF, Antennas and propogation
- September Program - upddate on Club's Two Meter Repeater Station
- November Program - Mutual of Omaha's Data Processing Machines
- Community Service Events
- 1969
- Community Service Events
- Operation Hello
- Mother's Day Messages to Servicemen sons
- Boy Scout Canoe Race
- Armed Forces Day Communications Test
- Ham Hum wins Amateur Radio News Service Award
- First Place - General Overal Category
- First Place - General Format
- First Place - Illustrations
- First Place - Legibilty of Content
- Third Place - Usege of Items from Other Publications
- January Program - A tour of Methodist Hospital
- Febuary Program - Trouble Shooting Aircraft electronics & Transistors and Integrated Circuits
- April Program - Auction
- May Program - Discusson of electronic and mechanical servers
- August Program - WA0PZV Bud Henly from Galaxy Electronics presents the FM210
- October Program - Life Saving technicques for the ham operator
- September Program - Steak Fry
- November Program - Past Presidents Night
- Community Service Events
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