Judy Walker gave us our non-program program for July. (Hey I thought there was to be no program.)
Chris Horne will be giving us a program for the August meeting. It will be on a 40-meter QRP kit he recently built himself. This month we will be at the North Carolina Furnishings Festival. We will need some help from club members. The YMCA may need us next month for a run that they are coordinating. I know it has been hot, but I can think of a few people we haven’t seen at the meeting lately. Hope we can count on seeing you at this one.

The HPARC will be participating again this year in the North Carolina Home Furnishings Festival. This event will be August 7 and 8. Our scheduled operating times are 13:00 to 21:00 UTC. We will be set up in front of the Radisson Hotel. This year South Main Street will be closed to traffic, and the front of the Radisson will be the center of activity. We probably set up at 8:00 am Saturday and be “open for business“ at 9:00 am each day.
The HPARC will be operating on 147.165, 7.275, 14.275, 21.378 and 28.375 MHz. Certificates will be mailed to stations that contact our special event station and mail a self-addressed stamped reply envelope (SASE).
We will be needing helpers both on- and off-site. We will be on 147.165 and one HF frequency at the festival. That means we need some volunteers to operate on the other frequencies from the comfort of their homes (with this heat that’s the best place to be). If you would like to help out in this event, get in contact with Rogers Albertson.

Vivian Went has donated a set of 78 rpm Morse Code records to the club. This is five records of a ten record set (one volume). They were owned by her father, Carl Clifford Beane, W4DWO. He was a Ham in the Asheboro area. Carl passed away in 1976. He may have been a Ham as early as 1934.
Vivian lives in High Point. She wanted to donate the records to someone who would might use the records and not get rid of them. Scott presently has the records and will be making copies available on tape for interested club members.
We wish to thank Vivian Went for her generous donation to the HPARC.

The meeting opened by President Scott at 7:35 PM. All were welcomed including Mary Ann Garners' Mother from California.
A thank you card for the Plaque presented to Myron Buser was read to the group and a call for a report on Myron Buser and his family. Club was also asked to remember the following in prayer: Mike Walker, Rose Carmichael, and Tommy Waldon.
Minutes were read by Ben in absence of Chris and were approved as read. Treasurer’s report was reported by Mark for June 1999 and approved.
Field Day report was given by President Scott, and this was a very optimistic report to the club. The High Point Enterprise was commended for the special article they ran on Field Day. Scott said he had several friends commend him on the article.
Rogers Albertson reported a call from a lady who had a set of 78 size records. She was offering them to the club after she saw the Field Day article in the newspaper. The club voted to accept these records for the club's library or archives. This was approved by a unanimous vote.
It was announced the controller for the repeater was in, and it was recommended to the club that we should buy a backup while they are available. A motion was made and seconded to purchase a backup of the controller unit while available, and this also passed by unanimous vote.
Again the club was reminded the High Point Library is conducting an audit of the use of books such as the set of Ham books the HPARC donated to the library. Everyone was urged to check out these books in order for them not to be deleted from the High Point Library during this audit. Sam Hall agreed to call the Library and express an interest in getting the books returned to the club's library if they are to be deleted from the public library's inventory. It was further noted that when you go to the library and look at Ham magazines you should always note on the tag in front that you have used the Magazine. Otherwise, the subscription to certain magazines will be dropped.
Field Day pins were offered to the club members present if they cared to order.
August 7-8 was noted as North Carolina Home Furnishing Festival, and discussion about the club participating in "Yesteryear in Motion" on September 25 followed.
It was reported from the board meeting that we would not be selling the coupon books as we did in 1998 since other clubs as well as many book stores and others were selling them as well.
Sam presented a Tech Minute on "Why A Transmatch"? He covered such subjects as "What does a transmatch do?" and the fact he had purchased a Tuner/Tuner for use by blind people.
Judy did a short program from the General Class license book on Ham Radio and gave away some coupons good for food at various locations.

CQ Editor Alan M. Dorhoffer, K2EEK, died July 19 from complications of cancer surgery. He was 61. Dorhoffer, who’d served as editor of CQ for nearly a quarter-century, had spent his entire professional life at the magazine. He started as an assistant editor in 1964 and become the magazine’s tenth editor in 1976. He’d been a co-owner of the magazine since 1979.
Dorhoffer’s illness was diagnosed only a week or so before he succumbed to it. He was not married at the time of his death and had no children; but he is survived by an “extended family“ of more than a million close friends -- the world’s Amateur Radio community.

The FCC’s Web site has a completely new look to go along with its move to The Portals. The new site, still at http://www.fcc.gov, features an image of the FCC’s new home and logo and contains more graphics. Current news “headlines“ are in a highlighted box that runs down the middle of the home page, while the left hand part of the screen is devoted mainly to comments (a video clip also is available) by FCC Chairman William Kennard. The right hand side of the screen focuses on “major initiatives,“ such as the V-chip, area codes, “parents, kids, and communications,“ and other hot topics. Clicking on the associated image or headline takes you to a page on the subject. Unchanged (so far at least) is the FCC’s Amateur Radio page at http://www.fcc. gov/wtb/amateur/.

Legislation to permit local authorities to crack down on illegally amplified CB transmitters is poised for reintroduction in the 106th Congress. According to an early draft of the bill being worked on by Rep Vernon Ehlers of Michigan, the new legislation would permit state or local governments to pass and enforce laws prohibiting unauthorized CB radio equipment. Direct enforcement of telecommunication matters is usually considered a federal responsibility, and state and local authorities ordinarily don’t step in except in particularly serious cases such as interference with aircraft or police and fire communication.
As outlined in Part 95 of Title 47 of the Federal Regulations, illegal equipment would include CB gear that has been internally modified, that exceeds transmitter power output limits, or that is equipped with an external power amplifier. Ehlers became interested when a group of Amateurs in his district complained to him about CB enthusiasts using transmitters equipped with high-power linear amplifiers. The illegally amplified CB radio signals were interfering with legitimate Ham Radio gear, as well as with televisions, telephones and other consumer electronics.
The new Ehlers bill contains provisions specifying that possession of an FCC license in any service --including the Amateur Service --would preclude action by the state or local government. ARRL originally requested that section be added to the Feingold bill so that Hams would not be inadvertently targeted by local authorities lacking the technical expertise to differentiate between Amateur and CB gear.

Why use a transmatch? If you are going to operate on a single frequency and your antenna is resonant and presents a 50 ohm load to the feed line which is also 50 ohms, you do not need a transmatch, or an antenna tuner as it is also called. But if you wish to operate up and down the band, you may need a way to bring the antenna system to resonance and present a 50 ohm load to the transmitter. This can be done at the antenna with difficulty, but it is far easier to do this at the transmitter with a transmatch. The adjustments are simply made at the operating position rather than at the antenna feedpoint which may be very difficult to get to.
You may have heard that the transmatch only fools the transmitter into thinking it is operating into a proper load. This is far from the truth. The transmatch simply tunes out the reactance in the system and transforms the system impedance to the output impedance of the transmitter.
If an 80 meter antenna is fed with 450 ohm open wire feed line or 300 ohm transmission line it can be matched properly to 40 thru 10 meters by most good antenna tuners. This may not be the case if the 80 meter antenna fed by 50 ohm feed line is used as a multi band antenna as SWR ratios of up to 100 to 1 may occur and few antenna tuners may be able to handle that kind of duty. Also the voltage breakdown of the 50 ohm coax may be exceeded and line loss becomes a factor in coax with very high SWR ratios while this is not true for open wire or 300 ohm balanced feed systems. If you can feed your 80 meter antenna with 300 ohm line or open wire line and get it into the shack without much difficulty, try it --you will certainly like it.

The FCC enforcement steamroller continues to move forward with yet another warning to the control station of the 75 meter Liberty Net. The FCC has again written to Liberty Net control operator Victor A. Misek, W1WCR. This, to reiterate its concerns regarding the operation of the net which meets on 3.950 MHZ every Saturday evening.
As previously reported, back on May 7th the FCC’s Riley Hollingsworth wrote his first letter to Victor Misek, W1WCR. At that time Hollingsworth warned the Hudson, New Hampshire ham that Commission monitoring on May 1st indicated that Misek’s station and members of the group for which he was acting as net control had began transmitting on top of existing Amateur communications. Communications that the FCC says was already in progress.
Hollingsworth also used that occasion to ask W1WCR to justify the net’s use of Amateur Radio frequencies. He also suggested that the Liberty Net should consider moving to the Internet or obtain a broadcasting license -- hinting that the Commission might clamp down on the net using the agency’s rules prohibiting broadcasting in the Amateur Radio bands.
Hollingsworth’s new July 9th letter is nowhere near as friendly. It tells Misek that the FCC will not tolerate deliberate jamming among licensees, including retaliatory jamming. He also tells W1WCR that the Liberty Net site on the World Wide Web appears to advertise to the nets existence shortwave listeners and other non hams.
Hollingsworth’s letter says that the Liberty Net’s website would also seem to appropriate 3.950 MHZ for private network activities. Hollingsworth then goes to great length to remind Misek that all amateur frequencies are shared equally among all operators holding an appropriate class of license. Also that Section 97.113, subpart B of the Amateur Service rules specifically prohibits broadcasting.
Hollingsworth also suggested that Misek contact him to discuss the matter. So far there is no word from Misek if he will comply.