The Illuminator
The monthly newsletter of the Carbon Amateur Radio Club
November
Meeting
The next regular
meeting of the Carbon Amateur Radio Club will be held on Thursday, November 20,
at 7:30 p.m. at the EMA Center in Nesquehoning. See you there!
Treasurer’s
Report
By
John, W3MF
As of October 15, 2003:
Previous Balance |
652.98 |
Receipts (dues) |
0.00 |
Subtotal |
652.98 |
Disbursements (newsletter) |
5.92 |
Final Total |
647.06 |
Amateur Radio Support Continues in California Fire Disaster
(From the ARRL
Letter)
Ham radio volunteers
continue to play a role in the ongoing fire emergency in Southern California. A
dozen fires, some of them massive, now have burned some 750,000 acres and
claimed 20 lives, most of them in the hard-hit San Diego area. Thousands of
residents have been evacuated. ARRL San Diego Section Manager Kent Tiburski,
K6FQ, says a shift in winds has moved the fire danger away from San Diego
proper, but hams continue to supplement communication at two of nine shelters
in the area — one at Mountain Empire and a second in Borrego Springs, where
hams from Imperial County have been assisting.
"We've been
busy," Tiburski said October 29. "This is by far the worst disaster
we've ever experienced." He estimated that approximately 200 Amateur Radio
Emergency Service (ARES) and Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES)
volunteers have participated so far in the fire emergency with about 100 in the
field at any given time.
Tiburski says hams have
been assisting American Red Cross relief efforts, primarily in terms of
logistics and working with damage assessment teams. Others have provided
liaison between the California Department of Forestry and the Red Cross, which
is providing meals and shelter for firefighters. Nearly 13,000 firefighters and
support personnel have been deployed in California to battle the fires.
The fires have claimed
nearly 1200 homes in San Diego County alone, Tiburski reported, and burned some
450,000 acres. "Everybody I've talked with — to a person — knows someone
personally or knows of someone who has lost a house," he said. Mount
Palomar — home of the famous observatory—was evacuated, Tiburski said, and
firefighters were making a special effort to protect telecommunications sites
there as well.
Although the hot, dry
Santa Ana winds have abated, Tiburski notes that a stiff onshore breeze is now
driving the fires to the east.
San Diego Salvation Army
Team Emergency Radio Network (SATERN) Coordinator Paul Cook, N6RPF, reports he
and other SATERN members have been providing communication assistance for The
Salvation Army's relief efforts. They've had help from other amateurs as well,
he said.
At least a half-dozen
Salvation Army emergency disaster services canteens are providing meals to
evacuees and firefighters. SATERN National Director Pat McPherson, WW9E, said
SATERN is keeping relief teams in contact with each other as well as supporting
communication for firefighters, police and emergency responders.
Elsewhere in California,
ARRL Orange Section Manager Carl Gardenias, WU6D, says that Amateur Radio
operators continue working with relief agencies in that part of the state.
"We actually have more Amateur Radio operators available than the Red
Cross shelters can use," he said. With ARES teams and other ham radio
volunteers from Riverside, San Bernardino and Orange counties available, the
hams have been able to rotate shifts.
"The intensity of
these fires has never been at this level before," Gardenias said,
comparing the current situation with fire emergencies in the recent past.
At the Red Cross
shelters — where more and more displaced people are showing up — hams have been
"shadowing" shelter managers, communicating shelter supply requests,
and helping with health-and-welfare inquiries for shelter clients, Gardenias
said. Amateur Radio also is serving to keep shelters in touch with the Red
Cross regional headquarters.
At least 1000 evacuees
are taking refuge in a former TWA hangar at the San Bernardino airport.
Amateur Radio SSTV
equipment was being used to assist firefighters in San Bernardino. The radio
equipment and operators go out on the fire trucks and report what they see back
to the command center, Gardenias explained.
In the Los Angeles
Section SM Phineas Icenbice, W6BF, reports the Stevenson Ranch fires and
Arrowhead are the "very hot spots," and firefighting helicopters and
crews are using water from nearby Magic Mountain Amusement Park and from golf
courses to help douse the flames. Smoke was heavy October 29 in the San
Fernando Valley where Icenbice lives.
Amateur Radio operators
also are assisting at Red Cross shelters in the Los Angeles area as well as
helping the relief agency to locate and establish new shelters. Icenbice said
the problem areas appear to be the outer areas of Los Angeles County and in the
mountains. Hams have been helping to locate people left homeless because of the
fires.
California Gov Gray Davis has declared states of emergency in five
counties. As this letter is prepared on October 31, cool and foggy weather have
helped to stall the wildfires' progress. — Steve Ewald, WV1X, contributed
information for this report.
Radio Amateurs of Canada Asks Industry Canada to Drop Morse
Requirement
(From the ARRL
Letter)
At the 21st Industry Canada-Radio Amateurs of Canada Amateur Radio
Advisory Board meeting October 23 in Ottawa, RAC presented its Board-approved
recommendation to drop Morse code as an Amateur Radio qualification
requirement. Other topics raised at the session included options for
consideration related to four-character call sign suffixes; RACs submission to
the Committee on the National Antenna Tower Policy Review; and RAC's efforts to
bring more young people into Amateur Radio through the RAC Youth Education Program,
which was introduced and discussed. Industry Canada invited RAC to submit
detailed proposals on dropping Morse code and the use of four-character call
signs. Industry Canada expressed appreciation to RAC for its prompt and comprehensive
response to the department's request for input on significant changes to regulations
arising out of the WRC-2003 decisions. Representing RAC was President Bill
Gillis, VE1WG, Vice President-Regulatory Affairs Jim Dean, VE3IQ, and directors
David Nimmo, VE1NN, and BJ Madsen, VE5FX.
ARRL
Propagation Forecast Bulletin
Propagation Forecast Bulletin 44 ARLP044
From Tad Cook, K7RA
Seattle, WA October
31, 2003
To all radio amateurs
Solar
excitement continued this week. As this bulletin is being written Thursday
night, an extreme geomagnetic storm is in progress. The mid latitude K index
has been as high as 9, and severe space weather is predicted for the short
term. Average daily sunspot numbers more than doubled this week to 201.4.
Average daily solar flux was nearly double the previous week at 249. Average
daily sunspot numbers for the week as reported in this bulletin have not been
this high since the week of November 7-13, 2002, when it was 205.4. For solar
flux, we go back to the week of January 24-30, 2002 when the average daily
solar flux was 249.6.
On Friday,
October 24, a coronal mass ejection swept by earth around 1500z. The planetary
K index went as high as 7, and aurora borealis was seen as far as the southern
United States. On Sunday, October 26 an X-class solar flare at 0650z was
followed by another one twelve hours later at 1850z. On October 28 one of the
most powerful solar flares seen in many years hurled a cloud of particles
traveling 5,000,000 miles per hour toward earth. This triggered an S-3 class solar
radiation storm, and the next day the planetary A index shot up to 189, and
mid-latitude A index was 199. On that day, October 29, an intense geomagnetic
storm raged in response to a coronal mass ejection that hit earth around 0630z.
Another powerful coronal mass ejection hit earth on October 30. Check the web
site, http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solar_flare_031028.html
for a news article on the major flares and resulting storms.
This
weekend is the ARRL November CW Sweepstakes. Conditions could be good if the
geomagnetic disturbances cool down. Currently the predicted planetary A index
for Friday through Monday, October 31 through November 3 is 100, 30, 15 and 15.
The latest solar flux forecast for those same days is 265, 260, 255 and 255.
Peter
Greene, N2LVI wrote to inquire about when a solar cycle starts and ends. It
isn't easy to determine, and usually is some time after the peak or the minimum
that we can say when it was, because in order to smooth out the solar cycle so
that the peak can be seen, a running average must be run. In addition, a change
of sunspot cycles means the polarity of the sunspots change, and spots from
both the old and new cycles coexist. A good explanation for this is on this
page: http://www.sunspot.noao.edu/PR/answerbook/sunspots.html#q94.
Peter also sent us a link to http://www.qsl.net/w2vtm/hf_solar.html
where he put up a graphic look at HF propagation and solar indices.
One of our
readers has been taking photos of the sun. Jake, N0LX sent along a link to http://hometown.aol.com/n0lx/sun102403.htm
showing his photos.
In
closing, if the geomagnetic storms calm we could be in for some fantastic
conditions, assuming the sunspot numbers stay high. Finally, a couple of graphs
show the recent activity here, http://www.dxlc.com/solar/
and here: http://www.wm7d.net/hamradio/solar/index.shtml.
For more
information about propagation and an explanation of the numbers used in this
bulletin see the Propagation page on the ARRL Web site at http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/propagation.html.
Sunspot numbers for October 23 through 29 were 122, 160,
139, 191, 238, 230 and 330, with a mean of 201.4. 10.7 cm flux was 209.3, 190.6,
221.5, 298.3, 257.2, 274.4 and 291.7, with a mean of 249. Estimated planetary A
indices were 7, 34, 14, 10, 15, 20 and 189, with a mean of 41.3.
Virginia BPL Startup Sparks ARRL Response
(From the ARRL
Letter)
The ARRL this week put
officials in Manassas, Virginia, on notice that the League will act on behalf
of its members to ensure full compliance with FCC regulations when the city's
Broadband over Power Line (BPL) system starts up in a few months. The League
was responding to media reports that Manassas — a Washington, DC, suburb — has
approved plans for a citywide BPL rollout. Manassas City Council reportedly voted
unanimously October 16 to grant a 10-year franchise to Prospect Street
Broadband to expand a BPL field trial and offer high-speed Internet service to
the entire community over municipal power lines. ARRL CEO David Sumner, K1ZZ,
on October 22 faxed Manassas Mayor Marvin L. Gillum to point out BPL's dark
side — the potential for RF interference from and to any BPL system.
"Your advisors no
doubt have made the Council fully aware of the great potential for radio
interference from such a system," Sumner said. "In particular, you
are no doubt well aware that Title 47 CFR §15.5 requires that no harmful
interference is caused to any radiocommunication service, and that the operator
shall be required to cease operation upon notification by a Federal
Communications Commission representative that the device is causing harmful
interference." Sumner noted that the same FCC Part 15 rule also provides
no protection against interference from the operation of an authorized radio
station.
"Tests conducted by
ARRL technical personnel have shown that the system planned to be deployed in
Manassas causes harmful interference to the Amateur Radio service," Sumner
said. "We also have reason to believe that the system will be susceptible
to interference from normal amateur station operations."
An article in Potomac
News.com touted the impending Manassas BPL rollout as the first of its type in
the US. Sumner said he was writing to alert the City of Manassas "on
behalf of its members who live in and use the public thoroughfares of
Manassas" that the ARRL "will ensure that there is full compliance
with the FCC regulations" once the city's BPL system is in operation.
Prospect Street
Broadband reportedly will offer the BPL service for $29.95 a month. One
estimate predicts the city stands to gain up to $4.5 million over the 10-year
life of the contract, due to be signed this week.
The Manassas BPL field
trial is one of the smallest now under way and involves fewer than a dozen
homes and businesses. It was installed in an area that has underground utility
wiring and no Amateur Radio licensees nearby.
BPL articles in major
media have proliferated in recent weeks, many of them painting the service in
rosy hues and neglecting to point out the potential for radio interference to
and from BPL by other HF spectrum occupants. An October 13 article in The Wall
Street Journal, "A New Outlet," by Walin Wong, quotes one trial user
who calls the service "fantastic." But Wong also notes that one
"Achilles' heel" of BPL is that serving rural areas would require
installing costly repeaters every mile or so along the power line. The article also
deals with the reluctance on the part of some electric utilities to embrace the
technology.
Sumner also reacted to
the WSJ article. In a letter to the editor not yet published, he pointed out
that BPL "amounts to sending a wideband radio signal over unshielded wires
that were not designed for the purpose" and that do not work well for the
2 to 80 MHz signals common in BPL systems. Instead, "they function as
antennas," he said, and that can lead to interference to radio services,
including some involved with public safety.
Sumner said potential
broadband technology and delivery investors would be far better off considering
fiber in densely populated areas and adaptations of wireless LAN technology in
rural areas.
Additional information on
BPL and video clips from field trial sites are on the ARRL "Power Line
Communications (PLC) and Amateur Radio" page http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/HTML/plc/.
To support the League's efforts in the BPL fight, visit the ARRL's secure BPL
Web site https://www.arrl.org/forms/development/donations/bpl/.
New Two-Ham Crew Takes Over ISS Reins
(From the ARRL
Letter)
The new two-ham crew of
Expedition 8 Commander and NASA ISS Science Officer Mike Foale, KB5UAC, and
Russian Cosmonaut and ISS Flight Engineer Alexander "Sasha" Kaleri,
U8MIR, officially took over the reins of the International Space Station this
week. A formal change-of-command ceremony took place Friday, October 24.
The contingent of space
travelers aboard the ISS expanded to five this week with the arrival of the
Expedition 8 crew and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Pedro Duque,
KC5RGG, who accompanied them into space. Duque, who spent the week aboard the
ISS, conducted two Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) http://www.rac.ca/ariss/ contacts with
school groups in his native Spain using the special call sign ED4ISS. He'll
return to Earth October 27 with Expedition 7 Commander Yuri Malenchenko,
RK3DUP, and NASA ISS Science Officer Ed Lu, KC5WKJ, aboard the Soyuz
transporter that's been docked with the ISS. Malenchenko and Lu have been
aboard the ISS since April.
The Expedition 8 crew,
which left Earth from Russia October 18, will spend the next six months on the
ISS. The two teams have been conducting crew hand-over activities during their
eight days of joint operations. Duque, who flew under a commercial agreement between
the Russian space agency Rosaviakosmos and the ESA, also conducted a series of
scientific studies during his ISS stay. This mission mark Duque's second space
flight.
The Expedition 7 crew
chalked up several human spaceflight milestones. During its tour, the crew
marked the 1000th day of ISS habitation on July 29, Lu's 40th birthday on July
1, and Malenchenko's marriage by proxy on August 10 to Ekaterina Dmitriev, a
native of Ukraine who now lives in Texas. Upon his return, the couple reportedly
plans a church wedding in Russia.
Expedition 8 Commander
Foale, 46, is a veteran of five space flights and has spent a total of nearly
180 days in space — including more than four months on the Russian Mir space
station in 1997. During his Mir stay, Foale found ham radio a valuable supplement
to conventional Russian and NASA communication systems after the station was
damaged in a collision with an unmanned Progress cargo rocket. Kaleri, 47, flew
on three Mir missions and has logged 416 days in space. — information provided
by NASA was used in this report.
DX Bulletin 44 ARLD044
From ARRL
Headquarters
Newington CT October 30, 2003
To all radio
amateurs
This week's bulletin was
made possible with information provided by N1RL, ZS6MG, the OPDX Bulletin, The
Daily DX, 425DXnews, DXNL, WA7BNM and Contest Corral from QST. Thanks to all.
VIETNAM, 3W. Eddy, XV9DT is QRV as
3W22S until December 31 to celebrate the 22nd South East Asian Games hosted in
Vietnam. QSL via operator's
instructions.
NEPAL, 9N. 9N7XD has been QRV on 15
meters between 1045 to 1330z and then on 20 meters from 1630 to 1730z. QSL via JA7KXD.
OMAN, A4. Alex, A45WD has been QRV
on 80 meters around 2330z. QSL via
YO9HP.
BALEARIC ISLANDS, EA6. Laci, HA6NL, Zsolt,
HA6PS, Tibor, HA6ZV and Sanyi, HA7JJS will be QRV as EA6/homecalls/p from
November 2 to 9. During the HA-QRP Contest they will be signing
EA6/HA5RT/p. QSL contest call via HA6NL
and all others to home calls.
IRAN, EP. Shahryar, EP4PTT has been
QRV on 20 meters SSB around 1600z. QSL
direct.
LIECHTENSTEIN, HB0. Look for Laci, HB0/HA0HW/p, Tomi, HB0/HA4DX/p and
Geza, HB0/HA4XG/p to be QRV from Masescha from November 2 to 10. They will be
active on 160 to 10 meters with an emphasis on the low bands, using CW, SSB and
RTTY. QSL to home calls.
PANAMA, HP. Special event station HP100RCP
will be QRV on all bands and modes from November 1 to 3 to celebrate the 100th
anniversary of the Republic of Panama.
QSL via bureau.
NETHERLANDS, PA. A group of operators from
the Belgian branch of the International Police Association will be active as
PA/homecalls from EU-146, from October 31 to November 2. Activity will be on 80 to 10 meters using
CW, SSB and digital modes. They will
participate in the IPA Contest as PA/ON4IPA.
QSL contest call via ON6ZV and all others to home calls.
CANADA, VE. Rick, N1RL will be QRV from
the Society of Newfoundland Radio Amateurs' Marconi Commemorative Station VO1AA
on Signal Hill. QSL via operator's instructions.
COCOS KEELING, VK9C. VK9CYL has been QRV
lately on 15 meters around 0000z and 1000z and 20 meters around 1300z. QSL via VK3DYL.
VANUATU, YJ. Tusti, YJ0ONM has been
QRV using RTTY around 0500z on 20 meters working both US and European
stations. QSL via W4WET.
SOUTH COOK ISLANDS, ZK1. Dave, ZK1AQT has been QRV
on 160 meters around 0700z and then again around 0800z. Prior to this activity, he has been active
on 40 meters. QSL via W6ORD.
CALLSIGN CORRECTION. As reported in DX
bulletin ARLD043, Vlado, ZS6MG and Emil, ZS6EGB were actually QRV as V55V and
V55E, respectively, until October 27.
They were also QRV as V55V during the CQ WW SSB contest. QSL contest call via ZS6MG as well as home calls.
THIS WEEKEND ON THE
RADIO. The ARRL November CW Sweepstakes, North American
Collegiate ARC Championship, ARCI Running of the QRP Bulls, High-Speed Club CW
Contest, IPA CW/SSB Contests, Ukrainian DX Contest and the DARC 10-Meter
Digital "Corona" contest will certainly keep contesters busy this
weekend. Please see November QST, page
110 and the ARRL and WA7BNM contest websites for details.
The QRPer and the Net
By Paul Dunphy,
VE1DX
One of the
Local QRPers came by the other day and beat his way up the hill. He stomped
over to the tower and paced back and forth, waiting for us to give him our
attention. We had just finished touching up a few rust spots that had finally
worked their way through the galvanized legs on the tower. There was no damage
done, but we'd seen a few towers collapse under the weight of all the aluminum
they were holding over the years. We had heard reports of a new one being
activated in the Pacific next month. We remembered what Lord Baden Powell so
often said, "Be prepared!" And we were. Always.
After we
had put the paintbrush in a bottle of turpentine to soak, the QRPer began,
"I have a problem! This past week I got a complaint from someone that I
had QRMed their net. I was calling the guys in The Gambia on 40 meters. Apparently my audio splattered on
top of this net. Or so they say!" He paused, took his hands out of his
pocket and wiped his forehead. "This is serious", he continued,
"and I don't think I caused any problems, either. The person who
complained about me cited FCC regulations, and he might be an OO. The thing is,
all I was running was 50 watts and I was 2 KHz away from his frequency. I was
trying to work C56R. I think it was probably the other dozens of fellows in the
pileup running full power that caused the problem, not me! What do you
think?" Son of a Gun! If the QRPer thought we were going to dive into this
one, he was mistaken... so we went for the usual out. We hauled him up the hill
to see the Old Timer.
When we
got there, the Old Timer was sitting on the veranda. He had just finished
painting his own tower. We knew this because we had gotten the idea from him
when we were discussing the Pacific DXpedition last week. These were trying
times for DXers, with dire forecasts of huge pileups and rumors that the
DXpedition was only going to last for 3 days. All we needed was a drop in the
flux or a bump in the A and K indices and we would lose our perch on the top
rung of the DXCC ladder. We began to think this might not have been the time to
bother the Old Timer with questions about QRMing nets. He was rocking back and
forth and as soon as we sat down the QRPer started. "I got an email from a
W4 who said I QRMed his net on 40 meters!" he said, staring the Old Timer
straight in the eye. The Old Timer looked back at him and just nodded.
The QRPer,
working up his courage and feeling a sense of urgency, ploughed on, "I was
trying to work this C56 DXpedition, and I showed the email to a few of the
fellows at the DX club. Some of them say I could be in trouble. They say if
this fellow is an OO and if he reports me to the FCC, I might get a citation. A
couple of the other guys say he's an NN, an abbreviation they use for Net Nerd!
The Big Guns that have been around the track a bit figure that if this fellow
is an OO and if he reports me to the FCC and the ARRL, I'll get a citation and
I might even lose credit for the DXCC country. And I didn't even work him! And
that's the problem!"
The Old
Timer looked at the QRPer for a moment, and then he asked, "So, the worry
is that this person could somehow get the DXCC desk to delete a country from
your totals that you didn't even work?" The QRPer nodded with a worried
look, "Yes! That's the problem. I don't want to get an OO citation,
either, but I surely don't want to lose credit for a country. As it happens,
that would drop me from 175 to 174, and then I'd have to peel my endorsement
sticker off my certificate!" The QRPer was sweating profusely now, and he
glared at the Old Timer with his beady little eyes. "What am I going to do
about it?"
The Old
Timer took a deep breath and asked, "How can the DXCC desk delete credit
for the country if you didn't work it?" The QRPer looked at the Old Timer
and said with a little less desperation in his voice, "Well, you see, I
didn't work that C5, but I did have the country confirmed before from another
operation. So if this net guy reports me to the DXCC desk, they will likely
delete credit for that country. They won't check which call I worked for the
credit. They'll just read what the W4 said, and delete my C5!"
"Why,"
the Old Timer replied, "would they do that? You are a member in good
standing with the ARRL, right? And you participate in the DXCC program, right?
So why are they going to take a country away because someone sends them an
email saying you misbehaved trying to work someone else? What proof does this
W4 fellow have that your signal was the one that interfered with his net? What
about the 100's of other guys that were calling at the same time, and most of
them using full legal power, or maybe a bit more?" The QRPer nodded in
agreement. "He's got that covered! He said in his email that he and two
other members of the net closed down and moved to the DX's listening frequency,
7.180 MHz. He says he copied 10 other people calling the DX! I think he's going
to report us all!"
The QRPer
was pacing in a circle and looking at the ground. He stopped, looked at us,
then at the Old Timer and finally said, "Well?" looking the Old Timer
in the eye with a defiant glare. "Well what?" the Old Timer shot back
at him. "What if he reports all of us? We'll all lose credit for C5! And
I'll lose my sticker!"
The Old
Timer never answered. The QRPer looked at him and started tapping his fingers
on the arm of the chair. The Old Timer began humming to himself and looking out
over the bay. We wonder which one would give in first. Finally the QRPer jumped
up, bellowed, "What's the use!" and was off down the hill, arms
waving and shaking his head back and forth. We looked over at the Old Timer,
"What do you make of that?" we asked. He shook his head slowly,
"Who knows? I'd say that fellow has as much chance of losing C5 as he has
of the W4 letting him check into the 40 meter net he supposedly QRMed."
And that was all he would say. He turned and made his way into the shack to
tune 20 meters for the late afternoon polar path to Asia.
What could we say? Only
that the Deserving will work the DX. DX IS!
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Shallow Thoughts
Why is abbreviation such a long word?”
Carbon Amateur Radio Club – 2003-2004 Officers
President: Anthony
“Goody” Good, K3NG, [email protected]
Vice
President: Rob Roomberg, KB3BYT, [email protected]
Secretary:
Darryl Gibson, N2DIY, [email protected]
Treasurer:
John Schreibmaier, W3MF, [email protected]
W3HA Callsign
Trustee: John Bednar, K3CT, [email protected]
W3HA Repeater
Trustee: John Bednar, K3CT, [email protected]
Public Information
Officer: Lisa Kelley, [email protected]
Directors
John Bednar, K3CT, [email protected]
Bob Culp, KB3IDV
Bill, KA3UKL,
[email protected]
ARES/RACES Committee
Bruce Fritz, KB3DZN
(DC), [email protected]
Darryl Gibson, N2DIY,
[email protected]
Todd Deem, KB3IKX,
[email protected]
Services
W3HA Repeater:
147.255 MHz + PL 131.8
CARC Website: http:/www.learnmorsecode.com/carc/
Webmaster: Rob,
KB3BYT [email protected]
CARC Email Reflector:
see www.qth.net CarbonARC list for details
Emergency Power
Equipment Trustees: Lisa and Bill Kelley, KA3UKL, [email protected]
CARC Membership Information
Regular Membership is
$15.00, which includes autopatch privileges.
All amateur radio operators are invited to join the CARC
ARES / RACES net held 21:00 local time every Wednesday on the W3HA repeater at
147.255 MHz + offset, PL 131.8. Any
amateur radio operator or anyone with an interest in ham radio is welcome to
attend our monthly meetings which occur the third Thursday of each month at
7:30 PM at the Carbon County EMA Center on Route 93 in Nesquehoning.