Indiana County Amateur Radio Newsletter for the Month

August 2009 News Letter

Prepared – July 9, 2009

By: Darrell R. Norris - WA3AJQ

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ARRL Field Day
ARRL Field Day
ARRL Field Day

The ARRL Field Day was June 27th & 28th A number of our club members participated in the event and deemed it a big success. Setup was Friday evening at our repeater site and a great covered dish picnic was enjoyed Saturday evening at the same location. Breakdown was Sunday morning.

The weather was pretty nice for a change. Twenty five people attended; The breakdown of contacts were: Phone 366; Digital 7; CW 53 for a total of 486 points. A network of computers were utilized for logging.

Thanks to all who participated in mowing grass, cleaning up the facility, installing antennas, setting up the computers or just came to the picnic to socialize.

Our Field Day organizers were: Fred Maize KM3M and Dave Dzelsky N3DZ; Picnic Coordinator was: Bev Sorisio

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A little bit of interesting information:

My new version of “Ham Call” updated thru June 7, 2009 provides any number of sorts. The following is what I found for Indiana, Cambria and Westmoreland counties, just to pick three, regarding the number of licensed amateurs and their particular license class.

Indiana County:

Licensed Amateurs 205; Extra 31; Advanced 12; General 30; Technician Plus 6; Technician 118; Novice 8.

Cambria County :

Licensed Amateurs 232; Extra 39; Advanced 23; General 62; Technician Plus 3; Technician 105; Novice 0.

Westmoreland County :

Licensed Amateurs 775; Extra 151; Advanced 84; General 200; Technician Plus 16; Technician 292; Novice 32.

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Club Activities

We have our ARES net every Monday night at 8:00 PM local time on the two meter repeater, 146.190.

Terry Carnahan KB3JOD, is our net coordinator and is looking for people to serve as net control, so please consider helping out.

Robert Zugates, KB3JOF, is our Indiana County ARES Emergency Coordinator.

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Our club meets the first Tuesday of every month at Eat*N*Park in Indiana. Everyone is welcome. Please consider joining our club. Our membership to date is thirty six.

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Our clubs covered dish picnic is scheduled for September 20th at Jimmy St Clairs, around 1:00 PM, I’m hoping for a good turnout.

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It appears our club Christmas party will be Saturday December 12th around 6:00 PM at Hoss’s in Indiana.

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ICARC is having a Foxhunt at 11:00 AM on Saturday, July 18, 2009.  Everyone is welcome to play; you do not need to be a club member.  The fox frequency is 145.800 Mhz.  The transmission is FM so there is a continuous carrier to direction find and the audio you will hear is CW. The audio loop is "W3BMD   F F F F F"  ( F is ..-. ). 

KB3QJZ, Christine, found it the last time so she will be hiding it.  The fox is a .50 caliber ammunition box painted white. You will be able to drive to within a few steps  of it.  There will be a container with a sign-in sheet beside it so we know who actually found it and when.  Whoever finds it first gets to hide it next time.

As in the March foxhunt, the county will be divided into quarters using the same system the EMA does.  Route 119 is the east-west divider and Route 422 is the north-south divider.

 

Listen to the 146.910 repeater at 11:00 AM on Saturday, the 18th.  Christine will announce that the fox is on and transmitting.  She will also specify which quarter of the county it is in.

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Thanks and 73’s,

Darrell R. Norris - WA3AJQ

Meeting of JULY 7, 2009 MINUTES
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_____WB3DUD___________called the meeting to order at_7:32_PM_local time.
W3LAB ABSENT
WB3EUQ ABSENT
READING OF THE MINUTES
Approved by Fred KM3M and 2nd by Larry N3LT
FINANCIAL REPORT:
 
Approved and 2nd by Terry KB3JOD AND 2ND BY Larry N3LT
Sommerset county Hamfest TICKETS FOR July 19,2009
The two ticket were awarded to Darrell WA3AJQ, and Cliff KB3AGT
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OLD BUSSNINESS

REMINDER :
NET COORDINATOR: TERRY KB3JOD
Terry is looking for volunteers for the Monday night net. To conduct the net, you may take it for a month or week by week. Please contact Terry to sign up.
For the month of July Darrell WA3AJQ will operate the net.
Thank Darrell for his time.
Club Picnic :
 
N3TQR Jimmy announced that we can have the club picnic at his QTH.
Date September 20
Time 1PM
By announcing the date and time at this time, we hope to see you all there.
 
Bill W3LAB
 
The Marion Center musical fest which included a supper type meal of hot dogs and hamburg, and salads with deserts. This Friday night fest was held for the ICARC. Thank you Bill and the members of the band for representing the Indiana Amateur Radio Club.
 
The 50 /50 drawing:
WINNER __DAVE N3DZ
 
FIELD DAY OF JUNE 27,28
The club thanks every one that precipitated in field day . We had a nice turn out for the preparation for field day. There was many work days in cleaning up the field site and also the repeater site. Want to Thank the individuals that put out the effort in doing the clean up and preparation for the weekend. This also help in other activities at the site during the summer and fall.
 
Friday night before field day want to thank the club members in helping out in setting the field day sight up. Sunday clean up went well also. There was new experimental type antenna were used also. Hexbeam antenna was created by Larry N3LT, Dave N3DZ and Larry N3LT set up a cpu net work in logging all contacts, PSK DIGITGAL mode was used also. Robert KB3JOF many contacts on QRP,with his Loop antenna system.
Contacts made   Points
   
Phone 366
Digital7 contacts14
CW53 contacts106
   
Grand total 486 points
   
There was 5 operating stations.
Also want to send our Thanks to Beverly and all the ones in helping in making the supper picnic successful All was very good.
Linda K sent up some sandwich on Saterday to fill in between breakfast and supper. Which was appreciated, thank you again Linda.

New Bussiness:

 
Christmas Party 2009 :
 
Carl N3PIE Is going to check with Hoss’s for a date in December. The first Sunday of Dec is taken already. More info at the Aug meeting.
 
Next meeting will be Aug 4 at 7:30PM
Board meeting will be held at 7PM of Aug 4.
Place will be Eat & Park of Indiana Pa.
 

ICARC MEETING ATTENDANCE

 
July 7, 2009
Carnahan Terry KB3JOD
Dzelsky David N3DZ
Freeman Larry N3LT
Hvozda Carl N3PIE
Kiehl Jerry WB3DUD
Kiehl Linda *******
Maize Fred KM3M
Norris Darrell WA3AJQ
O'Donnell Rusty WB3EUQ
Zugates Robert KB3JOF
Guests :
 
Bartlebaugh Roger N3ULC
Bartlebaugh Christine KB3QJZ

Birthdays

August

Blanche Bender KA3VXR and Terry Carnahan KB3JOD

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BOTH !!

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