Newsletter of the Argonne Amateur Radio Club
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Newsletter of the Argonne Amateur Radio Club |
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| Volume XLIV, Number 4 | April, 2003 |
“The man’s boat was in high seas and taking water approximately 350 miles south of San Diego near Cedros Island,” Letendre said. “High winds and waves mostly kept him from spending too much time giving us info.”
Letendre says he later learned from the Coast Guard that the boat was being exposed to 12-15 foot waves and 60 MPH winds.
Net Control Station John Milner, W6BUM, requested a hold on the net while Letendre and Joe Seibert, AL1F, in Alaska attempted to communicate with the vessel’s skipper – whom Letendre identified as Walter Jorgenson, W6ULT.
“I was on the phone with San Diego Coast Guard, while Joe copied info as the questions came from them,” Letendre said. “We were unable to get too much other info due to the boat getting slapped around pretty good. I’m sure the skipper had his hands full holding the wheel and a mic at the same time.”
Somewhere in the excitement, Letendre said, the skipper fired a flare and a Mexican Naval vessel appeared and launched a raft. The passengers were taken aboard the naval vessel and the boat towed to safety. Letendre is modest about his net’s role in the effort. “By the time we had good relays set up, he was rescued,” he said.
The incident did provide an opportunity for Letendre to acquaint the US Coast Guard in his area with the net’s existence. “The Coast Guard officer also thanked us and requested info on our group, so I gave him the home page,” he explained. kind of propagation.”
SUMMITS ON THE AIR (SOTA) ENCOURAGES PORTABLE HILLTOP OPERATION:9700 S. Cass Ave. Bldg. 222 - A253, Argonne IL 60439 —————
e-mail: w9anl@bigfoot.com http://www.bigfoot.com/~w9anl |
MEMBERSHIP is open to all who are interested in amateur radio. This club is sponsored by Argonne National Laboratory. Employees of ANL or DOE-Chicago are eligible for Full membership. Auxiliary membership is available to non-employees.
W9ANL/R is an open repeater, coordinated on 145.19 MHz (-600 input). The AARC repeater has been in operation on this frequency pair continuously since February 5, 1982. W9ANL Packet node runs MSYS on 145.09 MHz. CLUB NETS: 2 meter fm (1) Regular, every Monday evening at 9:00, and (2) the Night Patrol every night at 10:30, both on W9ANL/R. There is an open packet conference on W9ANL packet node every Monday evening at 8:00; type C at the BBS prompt. The Peanut Whistle Net (PWN) every Sunday at 1:30 p.m., and many evenings at 8:30 p.m. on 1932 kHz (cw/am/ssb), QRP. |
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Editorial
With spring and then summer coming on the E skip will be starting to show up on ten and six meters. Very fun to work a ways away and only use a little power and or antenna. I personally am looking forward to it as I have just raised the cash to purchase a new “wonder rig”, Yaesu FT817. I never thought that I would hold a rig that would do so many modes on so many bands and only be the size of a large handy talky. I have been very pleased with it so far as my first contacts with it were into the Caribbean and northern South America while only using 5 watts and a small portable antenna.
I believe that all of you will go along with me when I wish all of our armed forces the best. Come back to us and no stars in the window.
The treasurer’s computer:| March 18, 2003 | |
| Attendees: | |
| Bruce Epperson (KA9H), President, | |
| Chuck Doose (KB9UMF), Vice-President, | |
| Joe Kilar (WB9THV), Secretary, | |
| Dale Travis (AG9H), Treasurer, | |
| Jim Jorgensen (K9RJ), Director, | |
| Loren Thompson (KB9CTJ), Director. | |
Bruce reported that the S-COM repeater controller we talked about last month would meet our needs. It is expected to be available to us soon.
Bruce also reported that the donated Motorola power amplifier we received works fine.
We talked about the possible repeater site in Bldg. 203. Loren stated that we will not be permitted to run a cable in the elevator shaft. We will have to find an alternative route or use a wireless link. There is some concern about the temperature swings in this location. Bruce indicated that we could use fans to help cool the equipment during the summer. Since Loren is the care-taker for this area, we discussed the possibility that we might be able to use a portion of it as an HF ham shack.
Jim suggested that we inform the proper people in the Lab about our communications capabilities in the event of emergencies and in line with Homeland Security. 5+2 2+1
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02 N9ASC Bill South Elgin, IL 03 KC9AZJ Thomas La Grange, IL 05 K9ILX Bruce Chicago, IL 02 N9GZX Richard Willowbrook, IL 19 WB9WOC Jerry Kankakee, IL 19 KA9PMZ Robert Lansing, IL 22 N9SXG Georgiann Glen Ellyn, IL 30 W9BOD Wes Skokie, IL
PLEASE NOTE THE LOCATION:
59th Street and LaGrange Road in LaGrange CLUB NETS: Thru our Club Repeater 145.19.
Dear Tech Support:
Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a slow down in the overall performance, particularly in the flower and jewelry applications that had operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0. In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5, but installed undesirable programs such as NFL 5.0 and NBA 3.0. and now Conversation 8.0 no longer runs and Housecleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system. I’ve tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, but to no avail. What can I do?
Desperate.* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Dear Desperate:First keep in mind, Boyfriend 5.0 is an entertainment package, while Husband 1.0 is an operating system. Try to enter the command: C:/I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME and download Tears 6.2 to install Guilt 3.0. If all works as designed, Husband 1.0 should then automatically run the applications Jewelry 2.0 and Flowers 3.5. But remember, overuse can cause Husband 1.0 to default to Grumpy Silence 2.5, Happy Hour 7.0, or Beer 6.1. Beer 6.1 is a very bad program that will create Snoring Loudly. WAV files. Whatever you do, DO NOT install Mother-in-law 1.0 or reinstall another Boyfriend program.
These are not supported applications and will crash Husband 1.0.
In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have a limited memory and cannot learn new applications quickly. You might consider buying additional software to improve memory and performance. I personally recommend Hot Food 3.0 and Lingerie 7.7.
Good Luck,