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ANTICIPATING A
GREAT RALLY - NEWPORT RALLY
UPDATE!
by Danny & Marcie Quarisa and Derrel &
Kathe Letulle, Co-Rally Masters
We're Full!
As we write this, 75 coaches converge on Pacific Shores
RV Resort in Newport, Oregon. The group is a mix of members
traveling from all over the US, plus a few members who own space at
Pacific Shores.
In all, 20 states are represented, with
California tops - sending 21 member coaches. Our champion travelers
will arrive from Florida. Talk about FMCA Originals! Attending
will be a member with an FMCA number just over 1,000 and another in
the 3,000 group. We'll have 11 members with numbers under
100,000!
With a maintenance
and seminar schedule that has eight sessions from which to choose,
plus prizes and cash awards at the Rally raffle and drawings,
and the silent auction, music, dancing and a 'Got Talent Show' . . .
whew, it has to be a GREAT TIME!
If you're missing this great time you'd better
start planning for the Jacksonville, FL Rally in March, 2011!
ELECTIONS FOR AREA FMCA
PRESIDENTS
By Al Vormittag, National
Director
 On June
22, 2010 elections were held for Area Presidents. The following
candidates won: Eastern Area - Otto Tew, Great Lakes Area - Jon
Walker, International Area - Sonny Gillespie, Northwest Area -
Andrew Belogh, Western Area - Bobby McDonald.
I was elected
to the position of Senior Vice President in the INTO area under
Sonny Gillespie. The next INTO area Rally will be May 11-14, 2011 at
Elkhart County Fairgrounds in Goshen, IN. Hope to see some of you
there.
Looking forward to
seeing you all in Redmond Oregon at the FMCA National Convention
Redmond Rocks on August 11-14, 2010; with the CATRV Club General
Membership Meeting on Thursday August 12, 2010 at 5:30 in Seminar 6.
TECH TIDBITS - YOUR CAT FUEL
FILTERS
by Brett Wolfe, President Emeritus
and Yahoo Discussion Group
Moderator
In response to all the questions we've had at
Rally Technical Seminars and on the Yahoo Discussion Group about
fuel filters over the years I prepared a TechTidbits paper on the
subject. The typical, proper fuel system/layout sequence
is...
Members are reminded that all Tech Tidbit
topics can be found on the CAT RV Club website on the Tech Tidbits
page or in the Files Section of the Yahoo Discussion Group site. For
example, check these links for other online versions of this story:
SOME
INFORMATION ABOUT US
By Ken Carpenter, VP
Membership
 We all know that CAT RV
Club Members come from all over the USA and Canada but it is
interesting to see how many come from each Province or State.
Some states and Provinces have a few members each while a few states
have very many members. The Top Ten member States are, along
with the number of members, are: 1 - California,165; 2 - Florida,
109, 3 - Texas, 99; 4 - Arizona, 52; 5 - Illinois, 45; 6 - Ohio, 41;
7 - Washington, 40; 8 - South Dakota, 35; 9 - Colorado, 31; and,
Oregon, 30.
 The Club has several FMCA Life Members, a few
commercial members and a total of 9 members whose FMCA number is
under 10,000. The Chart on the left shows the percentage by FMCA
number range with about half of us having numbers below 300000 and
the rest above.
The Club was Charted in Albuquerque in
2004 with 390 members, 124 of whom are still hold active
memberships. The Chart on the right shows the number of active
members by the year they joined the Club.
NEW CAT RV CLUB
MEMBERS
Please join us in extending a warm Welcome to the following new
Club members!
Name
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City
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State
/
Province
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Jerry
& Bonnie Barber
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Santa Ynez
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CA
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Darrell
& Mary Lou Bell
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Placerville
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CA
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Damon
& Betty Briggs
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Humble
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TX
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Ron
& Pat Brown
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Middletown
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PA
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Arthur
& Wille Calvert
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San Diego
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CA
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Michael
& Mary Frederick
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Welch
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MN
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Lewis
& Colleen Hodges
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Florence
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OR
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Jim
Makely
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Stuart
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FL
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John
& Janice Marsh
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Sweeny
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TX
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Richard
& Kim Mathews
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Pasco
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WA
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Robert Wiedermann
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Corpus Christi
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TX
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TECH TIDBITS - COACH RIDE
HEIGHT
by Brett
Wolfe, President Emeritus and Yahoo Discussion Group
Moderator
 If ride height is to low or to high it can
cause damage to the shocks. To learn about: (1) The Importance of
Correct Ride Height, (2) Leaf Spring Suspension, (3) Torsilastic
Suspension, and (4) Air Suspensions click on Read More
below.
BUTLER CATERPILLAR, RAPID
CITY, SD
by Kathe Letulle,
Treasurer
Our
coach would not start on Thursday morning, July 8th, so we jumped
the starter and made our way to Butler CAT. They have done service
work on our coach one other time. Bruce said he could work us in
about 1.5 hours later. As we were on our way to Oregon we said
OK. But to our surprise, in 15 minutes he took the coach
in for repair. $234 later we had a new starter solenoid and
the latest update on our CAT engine. We now do not smoke from the
tail pipe and the fear of not starting the coach is spelled
RELIEF.
Thank you Bruce and Butler
CAT!
DO YOU NEED TO
CHANGE YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION??
If you have changed your mailing address,
email address, or cell phone, please do not forget to tell us about
it. Let us know by sending an email to membership@catrvclub.org.
Please include your FMCA number. Also, we can not share this
information with FMCA, so let them know as well: http://www.fmca.com. In
addition, any email address changes need to be submitted to iContact
using the Manage Your Subscription link at the bottom of this
page.
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