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THE AIRWAVES April 2018 SIERRA AMATEUR RADIO CLUB
An ARES ARRL Special Service Club
P O Box 1442 Ridgecrest California935561442
BOARD OF OFFICERSPresident Steve Hendricks KK6JTB (760) 608-4147 [email protected] VP Mark Rosenthal W6BST (760) 793-2778 [email protected] VPJeff Potter N6LIP (562) 756-8962 [email protected] Bill Burns WA6QYR (760) 375-8566 [email protected] Keith Middleton N6WZZ (760) 793-6901 [email protected]
SARC OWNED AND MAINTAINED REPEATERSRandsburg WA6YBN 145.34 MHz (-), PL 100.0 Hz, Wide Area, Emergency PowerRidgecrest WA6YBN 147.00 MHz (+), PL 107.2 Hz, Local, Emergency Power
SARC CommitteesTechnical Assistance: Mike, WA6ARA 375-5324 Public Relations: Mark, W6BST 793-2778Program: Jeff, N6LIP, (562) 756-8962 Airwaves Editor: Mike, WA6ARA 375-5324RF Interference: Bill, WA6QYR (760) 375-8566 Emergency: Dennis, W6DQ, (562) 858-2883
THE AIRWAVES CALENDAREvery IWV Emergency Net 730pm
WA6YBN Repeater-147.00MHz+600KHz offset, 107.2 tone
Monday Visitors Welcomed!
IWV 10 Meter Rag Chew Net – Night 28.400 MHz. Right after the IWV
Emergency net
8pm Every Night Chat on 147.00MHz (except Monday night)
09 Apr SARC Board Meeting – 6:30pm 09 Apr SARC General Meeting – 7pm TBD
20 - 22 Apr DX Convention – Visilia
21 - 22 Apr Fire Up! Horse Ride
28 Apr SARC and BARC at the Park
23 – 24 Jun FIELD DAY!
14 AprilAmateur Radio License Exam
Every Even Month, Second SaturdayLocation: Old Fire House, located behind the Historical USO Building, 231 W. Station St., Ridgecrest CAPr-reg by 09 April. Space is limited! All must register at 9 AMContact Mike Herr, WA6ARA 760-375-5324E-mail [email protected]
SARC 12 March Board MinutesThe SARC Board met at 6:30 pm and discussed the need to change from getting volunteers to bring in snacks to the Board buying the snacks using club funds. It was agreed to do that. The remainder of the board meeting was taken up discussing the advantages and disadvantages of the various digital equipment available to put up a repeater.Submitted by Bill WA6QYR SARC secretary
SARC 12 March General Meeting MinutesPresident Steve KK6JTB opened the meeting at 7:05 and thanked Lorilyn KG6LEW for bringing in the snacks. Tammy KG6VYA was giving out 20 Mule Team horse ride coffee cups to those who had participated in the ride communications. The ride organization had given SARC a $250 check for the support. The repeater committee didn’t have any thing to report. Dennis W6DQ, now the new ARES leader, spoke about needing more volunteers to make ARES work better and that ARES meeting are on the 4th Thursday at the hospital in the big conference room in the rear of the administration building at 6:30pm. Bob AD6HF indicated that there were a number of DXpeditions and foreign stations on the air and it takes a little work to make it through the pile-ups. Upcoming events included the Fire Up horse ride starting at 05:00 am on Saturday April 21st and running through Sunday morning. Contact Tammy KG6VYA for information and to sign up. 28 April will be the SARC and BARC in the Lone Pine park with food and swap meet. Steve N6MVX brought in some rig mobile mounts to show and tell about. There was a break for snacks, until Bob AD6HF began the program on “Using Logbooks.”Bob had a picture of an older paper logbook page where you could manually fill in date, time (UTC), contact information, your station power output and antenna data for future use and possible proof that you were on the air at a certain time when there might be an issue of local interference. Then Bob presented screen shots of N3FJP’s software logbook (v 5.8) where working through a computer you could easily enter similar data. This software is available on-line for about $24. It supports collecting contacts for awards issued by various organizations. You can also down load the data into the ARRL Logbook of the World and bypass the money expenditure for QSL card postage and the cards themselves. Both amateurs in the contact must sign-in and report the contact for it to count. The 50/50 prize of $10 went to Alex KM6DLI. The door prize went to Steve KK6JTB.
Submitted by Bill WA6QYR SARC secretary.
Treasure Report01-Mar-18 Checking $2,534.88
Deposits $372.00Debits $0.00
------------------31-Mar-18 Checking Balance $2,906.88
31-Mar-18 Checking Balance $2,906.8831-Mar-18 Saving Balance $9,387.67Reserve $(1,000.00)
------------------ Cash Available $11,294.55
Notes: Income primarily memberships and $250 from Reeves Ranch (20 Mule Team)K M eith iddleton N6WZZ
SARC Treasurer
Upcoming - Fire Up! Horse RideThe Fire Up! Horse ride is a new one for us, starting on 21 April and is a 24 hour event so it end when the last rider goes through or 530 am Sunday which ever happens first. It is a flat course that travels East from Valley Rider property along poleline road, along BLM mustang burro facility and crosses Randsburg wash and Trona roads. 100 and 75 mile courses start at 530, while the 50 and 25 mile courses start 630 and 730. Tentatively there will be 5 water stops plus the start / finish. Two of the water stops may be shut down by mid day Saturday. We hope to have the maps and GPS locations soon. To volunteer contact Tammy, KG6VYA, at [email protected]
SARC and BARC at the ParkSARC and BARC at the Park is where we, theSierra amateur Radio Club, meet up withBARC (Bishop Amateur Radio Club) at thepark at the north end of Lone Pine. The dateis April 28, starting at 11am. There will be aswap table set up and you are encouragedto bring something to sell, trade or giveaway. Bring a lunch and perhaps somethingto share. We have done this for the last fewyears and it has been very enjoyable. Weget a chance to talk and swap radios. Hopeto see you all there.
Also, some will be camping at Lake Diaz on Friday night, so join them if interested.
Field Day 23 – 24 JuneTime again for the ARRL Field Day. The dates are June 23 and 24. At press time there areno definite SARC plans for Field Day, so bring your ideas to the SARC meeting for discussion.
Also, the ARRL is now selling 2018 Field Day gear, including t-shirts, mugs, pins, etc. Get yours now!
HF Mode Trends ?
The above is from Clublog.org. It is an analysis of the modes beining used that are reported via clublog for contacts on HF for the last year. It shows a decline in most modes such as phone, CW, RTTY but a tremendous upswing in contacts using FT8. What does this mean? Are hams simply switching over to FT8 or is it due to the poor HF propagation as we head to solar minimum and FT8 gives that extra weak signal capability? Also, this is only those contacts reported via clublog, most likely those of contests and DX QSOs. Just general QSOs, rag chews, likely not reported. Also, bare in mind, FT8 is not a conversational mode, it is “hello, made contact, good bye” style.
No Excuses Radio5 watts and a wire
I've always been a QRPer and a proponent of any antenna is better than no antenna. Here is a recent QSL card from the Fuji Islands. The rig was a KX2 at 5 watts, and the antenna was a 50 foot length of wire about 20 feet in the air. Mode was CW and the band 17 meters. This is not to say you can do this every day but it can be done. There are no excuses for not getting on the air and making contacts.
QSL Card of the Month
Who remembers “6 turning and 4 burning”?QSL cards were the way hams would confirm a contact (QSO). Cards were exchanged and formed the confirmation of various awards. More recently the various on line log systems have reduced the habit of trading QSL cards. This is unfortunate, as often these cards had something to do with the personality of the ham at the other end. But a few of us still get them from time to time. Please take a photo of a QSL card you might have and share with us. It can be domestic or DX, recent or a while back, doesn't matter. Just send it to the Newsletter editor.
IWV 10 Meter Rag Chew NetThe 10 meter Rag chew net is starting up again in earnest. We meet on Monday night, after the IWV ARES net, on 28.400MHz, USB. Hope to see you on HF.
2 Meter Evening ChatA group of us get on the local repeater, 147.00, for a chat just about every evening about 8pm (except Mondays). Sometimes it is technical, sometimes social, always low key and fun. Come join us at 8 on 147.
For Sale/ FreeICOM IC HM7 mobile microphone, 8 pin connectors; ICOM IC-HM8 mobile microphone 8 pin connector FREE
4-foot aluminum dish- $30
RF Concepts 10-110 440 MHz amplifier 200mw-15w input 100w output 12v $20
Lambda modular regulated power supplies: 0-7vdc 0.8a; 15vdc 1.4a; 0-32vdc 0.4a; 36vdc 3a. FREE
Standard Power Supplies: 5vdc 35a; dual 12-15vdc 8a; 8vdc 12a; FREE
Eico 1030 Regulated Supply 0-150vdc 2ma, 0-400vdc 150ma, 6/12 vac 3a; FREE
PowerTec power supply 18-26vdc 1a; FREE
Trimag power supply 350vdc 0.26a Free
Type CRR 74025 Heterodyne Frequency meter 125kHz-20 MHz with manual Free
19-inch equipment rack 26 inches tall FREE
Heat sinks, many sizes free
Lots of RG-58 coax- some RG-141 small coax – free
Lots of shielded two wire cable- free
Reels of surface mount resistors and capacitors. A strip a foot long will give you enough parts for a year. These are 1206 and 606 size parts. Free
Bill WA6QYR 247 Rebel Road Ridgecrest 375-8566 [email protected]
Got a ham radio related story, news flash, orjust something that happen of interest, please
let the editor know for a future AirwavesNewsletter!
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Open Area Repeaters
Status Location Call Freq in MHz Tone NotesUP Randsburg WA6YBN 145.340 (-) 100.0 Wide Area, Emergency Power
Down Ridgecrest WA6YBN 146.640 (-)UP Ridgecrest WA6YBN 147.000 (+) 107.2
Standby Ridgecrest WA6YBN 147.060 (+) 100.0 Club Portable Repeater, used only for eventsUP El Paso Pk WI6RE-2 145.050 Packet Node (ELPASO)
Down El Paso Pk WI6RE 144.390 APRS W1 Digi, iwvaprs.netUP El Paso Pk WI6RE 147.975 (-) 100.0 Allstar Node (27167) usually on WINSYSTEM
UP Trona K5GFM 146.970 (-) 123.0 Trona – low level repeater
UP Bird Springs KF6FM 146.085 (+) 141.3 Wide coverage of Indian Wells Valley - swrrc.orgUP W6TD 146.760 (-) 103.5 RF Linked to Silver Peak in Bishop 146.94UP Hauser Pk K6OX 146.730 (-) 100.0 Near Palmdale, Wide coverage of Antelope ValleyUP Keller Pk KE6RYZ 146.385 (+) 146.2 kpra.net - Near Big Bear, Wide SoCal CoverageUP N6SR 145.450(-) 156.7 Lake Isabella areaUP Ridgecrest WI6RE 446.500 100.0 IRLP-3741, contact [email protected] for codesUP El Paso Pk WI6RE 448.800 (-) 100.0 IRLP-3877 - WinSystem.orgUP Ridgecrest NC9RS 927.0125 (-) 88.5 Input: 902.0125 – Linked to others - NC9RS
Email to [email protected] to report invalid data.Last Update: Feb 06, 2018
Translator, No Squelch Tail, Emergency PowerAllstar #27178, Echolink #518309, Info *510IWV Emergency Net Mondays @ 7:30 PM
Mazourka Pk
Lake Isabella
