Darrell Edwards, our president, will be heading a committee to establish some long range plans for the electronics club. If you have ideas and suggestions, talk to Darrell 654-8787.

WHAT WE DO

Provide facilities/equipment/software
   15 hours per day  7:00 am to 10:00 pm
   7 day per week
        during the winter season

Teach classes (typically 3,000 student-hours per season)
   Beginner-to-advanced
   PC computers with XP Windows operating system 
   Mac computers
   Amateur Radio (including training for licensing)

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Conduct “Interest Group” meetings
   MUG - Macintosh User’s Group
   HYHO (Help Yourself, Help Others) – PC focus 
   Genealogy Interest Group
   Investment Interest Group – stock market focus 
   Digital Camera, Internet Interests

Host Social Events (e.g. Amateur Radio members “Gabfest” each Saturday. 10:00 am)

<<Gabfest

Conduct Fund Raising – to support the VO Social Board which funds all social activites park wide. The club does the following fund raising: 
  
     Serve Enchilada dinners for the Park each season 
  
     Accept  donations for Venture Out mouse pads (see below) Buy one from a monitor on duty in the Electronics Building.

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       Accept  donations for Venture Out Calenders.  Buy one from a monitor on duty in the Electronics Building

CONVERT VCR TAPES TO DVD $15.00 PER DVD  Fill out the request forms on the bulletin board in the Electronic Building hallway. 

• Terms and Conditions for us to transfer VHS tape to DVD:
   
  Copy-protected video tapes cannot be converted to DVDs (dubbed)
  
  No special editing of the VHS tape by our personnel
  
  One (1) tape yields one (1) DVD (no combining onto one DVD) by us
  
  We recommendation: that  you combine your short VHS tapes onto a single VHS tape before we get them from you, but keep it down to less then 2hr.
  
  Each VHS tape must be labeled when submitted
  
  VHS tape must be rewound we will start dubbing at that point
  
  DVD will be “finalized” to allow the DVD to be playable on most DVD players (this means that the DVD will be “play-only”)
  
  You will get the DVD back with a professional looking label on it.
  For Additional information call Bill Morgan at 924-6991

Augment Venture Out Security 
  
    Amateur Radio members assist with emergency communications at VO and in directing traffic for major park events.  This season they handled Parking for the Fall Tennis Classics.