Welcome to Jeanine KB9QNI, Dave KB9NPI, Tim KB9UPR and Nick KB9PUT
The Starved Rock Radio Club Needs YOU!!!!!!!!
What are you doing Sunday June 6th? Hamfest workers are needed
for these
spots. Contact Buck 815.663-8891 or Rich 815.223-5032 and reserve
your
spots and become eligible for the OUTSTANDING hamfest worker
prizes.
June 6th hamfest workers needed for:
Front Gate .6-8 (Need 1).8-10 (Need 2).10-12 (Need 6).12-2 (Need 1)
Pop.............6-8 (Need
2)......................................................12-2 (Need
1)
Parking.......................................................10-12
(Need 3)
Club Table..................................................10-12 (Need
2).12-2(Need 1)
Field Day \feeld day\noun:
1) Competitive event where hams set up in the field to compete for
score;
2) An event to test the readiness of Amateur Radio Emergency Communications;
3) A chance to meet new friends and test the limits of your favorite
hobby.
4) The annual SRRC 24 hour family picnic and overnight camping
adventure at Chief Shabbona County Park
Saturday June 26th--setup at
0800, Ops begin 1300 and eats from 1700 until
the food runs out. Break
Camp at around 1300ish Sunday. SRRC
will purchase the burgers, dogs,
buns and condiments. Let's talk this up on
the nets .
Chief Shabbona County Park Take I-80 to IL 23 North to N 42nd Road (about
12
miles North of I-80). Turn left (West) on N 42nd Rd and in about
2 miles
you'll turn left to the Park. The park has a small fishing pond
for the
little ones.
Things to bring:
--Your favorite cold (iced) beverages. Remember, this is a county park.
--Grill and charcoal (the park's grills have 'disappeared')
--A dish to pass around
--We plan on being a 4A classification--a 4 position club station.
You are
welcome to bring your favorite field day rig and
antenna.
More Field Day details at the next meeting the SECOND Monday of June.
ILLINOIS POWER ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR "BRIGHT IDEAS" GRANTS
Fifty $3,000 grants will be awarded For Community Enhancement Projects.
At
the next meeting, I will propose that SRRC applies for this $3,000
grant to
assist local schools use ham radio in the classroom, getting staff/faculty
licensed and setting up VHF voice-packet stations. I'll be contact
person.
73 de kb9ezz contributions are greatly appreciated
via disk or to
Tokarz@ivcc.edu
For Sale Contact Dick WA9UHS, DICK From the estate of W4SPA.
Heathkit SB-102 w. Speaker.................Kenwood TS830S (with sp-930
spkr)
Lakshore p-400GG linear amp.............Gonset G-50 6 meter Communicatot
National NCX-3 w matching speaker...MFJ-949E deluxe versa tuner
Instructograph code teaching device (punched paper tape)
Heathkit HM-15 power meter................Heatrhkit IG 1271 function
generator
Heathkit frequency counter (model ?)..Heathkit Regulated Power
supply IP-18
Turner 454C Mic...................................Radio Shack HTX-202
complete w acc.
Tektronix oscilloscope 531-A
May meeting Summary
JUNE MEETING POSTPONED TO SECOND MONDAY.
We voted to postpone next month's meeting to the second Monday of June
because the hamfest is the day before the first Monday.
WE STILL NEED VOLUNTEERS TO WORK THE HAMFEST!!!
There is still time to sign up to work our hamfest and get in the running
for some outstanding prizes. N9PLJ will purchase the hamfest
prizes at
Dayton. There is supposed to be lots of price competition there
this year.
The QSL Contest was won by Johnny, W9ZEN with a card from KC2AIO in
New
Jersey. Yes, the target station was in California, but
there was only get
one entry. Next month's target is KE3PP in Frederick Md.
John exhibited
his certificate for the Polish DX contest. John won FIRST PLACE
in the
U.S.! That was good for eighth place world-wide.
Congratulations John!
It was noted that we have had music again on the repeater. They
are using
PL, so it is either from a rig with our old PL settings or from someone
who
knows we went back to 103.5
The back room is progressing, and the new air-conditioner has arrived
on
site!!!
We voted to re-join the Illinois Repeater Association too.
REPEATER Your rig must transmit a 103.5 tone along with your voice
whenever
you transmit, or the repeater will not repeat!. This tone is also being
retransmitted back out to you. If your rig has "CTCSS DECODE"
function -
meaning it can detect if the tone is there - you can set it up so that
you
will hear only signals that have the tone and when the repeater identifies
itself it does not send tone! Therefore, you will not hear it.
Here are other features we can use:
Paging--We can transmit paging signals in the DTMF, single tone, two-tone
and five/six tone modes. Many 2M rigs such as my Kenwood handheld
will act
as pagers, usually in the DTMF mode. Many kinds of pagers are
available at
hamfests that can be converted to our frequency. This can be
very useful to
the ARES group as well as in other ways. Give me your thoughts
on this.
"LiTZ" system - long tone zero. This protocol works when someone
is in need
of help, and the normal voice call for help does not bring a response.
They
send a DTMF ZERO for more than three seconds. The repeater
then does
something to alert help. I have installed this option on the
repeater for
you to test and decide if we want it, and exactly what we want it to
do.
Right now this does two things. First it turns the PL access
OFF. If
someone doesn't have PL they can still get into the repeater if they
really
need to. Second it sends the voice message - "TO CALL POLICE
TRANSMIT NINE
ONE TWO PLUS S-T-A-R." We might want to also have this
feature activate
the paging feature, thereby alerting some of us that someone needs
help.
PLEASE let me know what you think, what you would like to see, and what
you
don't want. The repeater is NOT mine it's yours, and I want it
to do what
you want if I can.
DE KF9NZ
Emergency Equipment Checklist (www.aresva.org/library/ checklst.htm)
Please cut this out and use it when preparing your next 'overnighter'.
___ Radio (HT/Mobile/Base) ___ 2m ___ 440mhz ___HF
___ Power 120V AC Power Supply
2V DC Car adapter plug (if car has a
lighter) or alligators for direct connect. 12V Battery (Rig AMPS
X 72
hours of ops) HT Batteries for 6-10 hour shifts
Inverter for 12VDC to
120VAC Battery Charger (120VAC to 12VDC and charge
HT batteries) Solar
cells, charger, regulator and cables Gas, pedal or hand-crank
generator
MOLEX universal power connectors
___ Ant. Direct flexible antenna
Direct connect gain ( 1/2 or 5/8 wave,
j-pole) Magnetic mount
antenna Antenna structure (antenna, cable,
adapters, mounting hardware, eg camera tripod, free standing
tower or with
base support and guywires, lightning arresters Grounding and wire
Cable
adapters ( a mix between BNC, N-type, and PL-259) Intermod filter
___ Audio Headset/earphone (for
operator and logger) Speaker mic External
speaker packet TNC, connector
___ Misc Weather protection
Carrying facilities (back-pack,
sea-bags)
Manuals ID License Stationary maps
Flashlight/worklight Watch/Clock computer Printer
and paper Fax/Radio
Interface Food and water for 72 hours field ops
Subject: IP ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR "BRIGHT IDEAS" GRANTS
For release:
May 4, 1999
For more information:
Molly Hall, Illinois Power
217/424-6400
Lori Sansoucie, Shandwick
314/552-6707
ILLINOIS POWER ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS
FOR "BRIGHT IDEAS" GRANTS
$150,000 To Be Awarded For
Community Enhancement Projects In 1999
Illinois Power is kicking off its Bright Ideas
program for 1999,
offering $150,000 in grants for community enhancement projects throughout
its service territory.
Now in its second year, the program supports
new projects to make a
local community a better place to live, work and play. Fifty
grants, each
$3,000, will be awarded for such initiatives as education, economic
development, redevelopment, beautification and others.
Bright Ideas applications will be accepted
through June 15, 1999.
Applications may be submitted by local community and business
organizations, schools and school organizations, non-profit groups
and city
or county government agencies. Local community leadership teams
will
review the applications and select those to be funded.
"Our local communities responded very positively
to Bright Ideas last
year, and we are pleased to offer the program again in 1999," said
Robert
Reynolds, vice president of Customer Solutions for Illinois Power.
"This
program is just one more way that we can support our local communities."
Existing projects are not eligible for funding
under the program.
Projects that cost more than $3,000 can use a Bright Ideas grant for
seed
money.
To obtain a Bright Ideas brochure and application,
please call
1-800-551-5971. For additional information, call 1-800/755-5000
and ask to
be transferred to your Illinois Power regional manager or customer
relations manager.