Welcome to ANTRAK 
(If you can read this notice, that proves you have successfully managed to 
connect to this site. If you can not read this notice, you have to try once 
more from the beginning. But how would you know that you'd have to try 
once more if you couldn't read this notice..? Don't ask me, its your problem. 
Better learn Turkish and promote yourself. Let others try to read this notice 
written in English. 

Are you an amateur? or just an honorable plain citizen? As you may or 
may not know, there are two different kinds of people in the universe; 
amateurs and non-amateurs. Let's check that out; 

"... dr OM/YL if it's 2 difficult 4 u to dig this QSO, u may call QRT anytime 
u wish. HPECUAGN when u get a license.. 73/88 " 
".... but if NOT es u copy 5/9, back to the first line; 
..... Welcome to ANTRAK, nice to c u on our scrn." 
(hpe it is nice to c us on ur scrn as well..!) 

Welcome to "ANTRAK News-Paper" (paper is the key-word..!) 
better, GAZETTE… 

ANTRAK stands for Ankara Radio Amateurs’ Club. TA2KA is the 
Club callsign. 
Ankara is the capital city of Turkiye/Turkey. Most people confuse 
Ankara with Anchorage. Try not to… 

On ANTRAK web page, you can surf thru Members’ Pages, 
Technical & Administrative Info and connect to the Gazette. 
You can find unique info about Turkey, repeaters, ampr nodes, 
frequencies, connections etc. 

It is not mandatory to know Turkish to be able to read the Antrak Gazette. 
(…but if you know Turkish, it helps!) 

Each month a fresh issue of ANTRAK GAZETTE is published. 
Whenever you push the button, you get the latest issue. If -for some 
reason- you want to take a look at the previous issues, click for 
"Eski Sayılar" and look for the appropriate month.
January is "Ocak", February is "Şubat", 
March is "Mart", April is "Nisan", May is "Mayıs", 
June is "Haziran", July is "Temmuz", August is "Agustos", 
September is "Eylül", October is "Ekim" (22 "Ekim" is my birthday..!) 
November is "Kasım", December is "Aralık" 
For example, you can try "Nisan" issue and slide down the main page 
until you hit my very smart photo:  president of ANTRAK TA2CIP had 
a snap-shot with AMTRAK in Washington DC. 

I bet a lot that you won't have difficulty in understanding the articles which 
contain illustrations and technical data. After all, RF properties and 
electronic data are the same, no matter in which language they are written. 

You may indeed have some difficulty with Turkish characters. e.g. (Ş, ş) 
S with a dot under, (Ğ, ğ) G with a cap over, etc. These characters may 
come distorted to your monitor…. Best is to use a "Pan-European" packet 
and click "Turkish". 

You can write to Antrak Gazette. You can send pictures of amateur events, 
contests, station rooms, amateur projects, club proceedings…. even a 
photo of yourself.  (WA1YKN Mitch will send us the photos of his dogs; 
W1LLY and J3SSE) 

Contact ANTRAK GAZETTE ?.. 
use (http://www.antrak.org.tr) or 
send mail to Burcak the editor, (ta2ee@antrak.org.tr) 

Contact ANTRAK ampr GW ?.. 
telnet 44.176.1.1, or send mail to Attila the SysOp, (ta2crg@antrak.org.tr) 

Contact ANTRAK, the Club ?.. 
send mail to Ahmet the executive board member, (ta2cip@antrak.org.tr)