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The Airwaves
| BOARD | President | Bill Burns | WA6QYR | 375-8566 |
| First VP | Paula Herr | N6VGW | 375-5324 | |
| OF | Second VP | Gene Brewer | KI6LO | 446-1315 |
| Secretary | Tom Ingram | WB6EPD | 375-7950 | |
| OFFICERS | Treasurer | Pam Evans | KC6UUS | 375-4240 |
SARC Owned and Maintained Repeaters
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Randsburg WA6YBN 145.34 MHz (-600 kHz), PL 100.0 Hz, Wide Area
Coverage, Emerg. Pwr. Ridgecrest WA6YBN 146.64 MHz (-600 kHz), Translator, No Squelch Tail, Emergency Power Ridgecrest WA6YBN 147.00 MHz (+600 kHz), PL 107.2 Hz, Autopatch, linked to 145.34 Ridgecrest YBNBBS:WA6YBN, 145.050 MHz, Bulletin Board, 1200 Baud Ridgecrest #YBNSW:WA6YBN-4, 223.580 MHz, Node, 1200 Baud Ridgecrest #YBNSW:WA6YBN-4, 439.025 MHz, Node, 9600 Baud |
SARC Committees
| Technical Assistance: Greg, WA7IRW 446-4383 | Public Relations: Paula, N6VGW 375-5324 |
| Program: Gene, KI6LO 446-1315 | Airways Editor: Mike, WA6ARA 275-5324 |
| RF Interference: Bill, WA6QYR 375-8566 | Emergency and Public Service: Jerry, KK6PA 446-2228 |
THE AIRWAVES CALENDAR
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From the President's Shack
Well it is coming to the end of another year. Thanksgiving flew
past so fast we didn't even have leftovers. It would seem like in
a few days Christmas will be over and we'll be working on remembering
to write 2006 on our letters and checks. I keep seeing articles on
BPL in the electronics trade magazines. Most seem to be middle of
the road, but concerned about interference or dollars to have another
competing service out there. We are all going to no lead in products
too. But I remember having to worry about those little whiskers of
metal growing between leads on the old IC's that had leads miles
apart compared to what we can't see now with a magnifying glass.
It is always something to go wrong. Those guys building the new
defensive weapons that have to rely on the lowest bidder making the
thing that is to save our war fighters life. We think of computers
that are obsolete when we take them out of the store. Those are the
same folks that are building some of the weapons that we used to
look for a shelf life of 10 to 20 years. Our radios are doing the
same thing. Got to buy the new one because the old one when it dies
is unfixable. No changing the tubes or even the transistors now
days. Well good luck and happy holidays. Be happy to have leftovers.
73's Bill
Board of Officers Meeting Minutes
By Secretary Tom Ingram (WB6EPD)
The November 9, 2005 board meeting was called to order at 1908 hrs. Those present: Pres. Bill Burns (WA6QYR), 1st Vice Pres. Paula Herr (N6VGW), 2nd Vice Pres. Gene Brewer (KI6LO), Treas. Pam Evans (KC6UUS), Secy. Tom Ingram (WB6EPD and AIRWAVES editor Mike Herr (WA6ARA). Nominations for the upcoming Board of Officer Elections will be accepted from the floor during the General meeting. SARC received $266 for the sale of equipment from the Jeff Eaton estate. Discussions were held on the Audit Committee and the Installation dinner. The Over the Hill Track Club is planning a race on 4 December and may request HAM support. No new status on the 146.640 translator upgrades. A Letter and a Certificate were received from the ARRL in recognition of SARC support of the Spectrum Defense Fund. The meeting was adjourned at 1922 hrs.
Minutes of the General Meeting
By Secretary Tom Ingram (WB6EPD)
The 9 November 2005 meeting was called to order by the President, Bill Burns (WA6QYR) at 1931 hrs at the Heritage Inn. The Sign-in sheet was started around.
Announcements:
1. 50/50 tickets were available. 2. There was 1 visitor, David Bizon (KE6WYM). 3. The Treasurers Report is in the newsletter. 4. SARC received $266 for the sale of equipment from the Jeff Eaton estate. 5. Paula and Mike Herr are collecting Toys for Katrina victims and asked if the club would pay shipping. Lloyd Brubaker (WA6KZV) moved that the club pay up to $30 for shipping. Motion seconded by Jerry Brooks (KK6PA) and passed by the members. 6. The Jamboree-On-The-Air was at Pearson Park on October 15th. An article is in the AIRWAVES. 7. There will be an Over The Hill Track Club event on 4 Dec. HAM support may be requested. 8. There is an open 440 repeater (447.025 ?) linked to the Trona repeater. 9. The China Lake Commanding Officer is interested in having a HAM repeater installed on Navy property at Parrot Point. Better emergency communications in the area and in Panamint valley are needed. 10. The SARC 147.000 repeater has had some electrical problems that should be corrected now. 11. Nominations for Board of Officers: President - Bill Burns (WA6QYR) 1st Vice President - John Andrus (KC6UWM) 2nd Vice President - Open Secretary - Lloyd Brubaker (WA6KZV) Treasurer - Pam Evans (KC6UUS) 12. John Denson (AI6A) will call all members to look for volunteers for office. 13. SARC received a Certificate in recognition of the donation to the Spectrum Defense Fund. A picture will be in the QST in the near future. 14. Greg Roush (WA7IRW) of the Technical Assistance Committee provided a short program on VTVMs and Digital Voltmeters, both of which have high input impedances. 15. Pam Evans (KC6UUS) provided cookies. 16. Gene Brewer (KI6LO) displayed a kit 6 meter transverter.Gene Brewer provided the program on DX expeditions. Mike and Paula Herr won the 50/50. 22 Hams were present for the meeting. The meeting was adjourned at 2048.
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TREASURER'S REPORT
Treasurer's Report As of December 01, 2005:
Draft Account $ 447.61 Share Account $ 5,058.73 BALANCE: $ 5,506.34Submitted by Pam Evans, KC6UUS Indian Wells Valley Emergency Net Report
Check ins
November 07 - 14
November 14 - 17
November 21 - 17
November 28 - 12
...Mike Herr WA6ARA
Thank You
The Kiwanis thanked us for supporting the Walkathon on the 24th of September with a letter of appreciation and a donation of $50.
2006 SARC Nominations
Bill Burns WA6QRY President
John Andrus KC6UWM First VP
Fred Moses KG6STR Second VP
Lloyd Brubaker WA6KZV Secretary
Pam Evans KC6UUS Treasurer
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From Edward Tipler, WI6RE
If you want to list the WIN System
www.winsystem.org
repeater on
El Paso Peak, it is "open" and on
447.825 (-) PL 100.0. It is
linked to over 28 repeaters in California and the USA. A note is
to "not quick key" but leave 4 or 5 second open gaps, and also push
the pickle and wait one or two seconds before speaking to allow the
IRLP linking to catch up and start streaming the audio. For IRLP
information, go to
www.irlp.net.
It has my callsign, WI6RE on it,
but the equipment is owned by the WIN System. We are using IRLP
as a link until an RF link can be established to the rest of the
coastal WIN System, so the IRLP is generally not moved around, but
left always connected to the WIN System via Reflector 9453.
And from the editor...
This months meeting program will be on the WIN system
and IRLP. Should be very interesting. I looked up the info
on the net. The enclosed map describes the coverage of
the Win System.
WINLINK 2000 in the IWV Part II
Hello again. Last month I discussed some of the benefits, capabilities, and requirements to get up and running on the HF side of the WINLINK 2000 system, a.k.a, WL2K, and the supporting AirMail email application. This month I'm going to talk about the VHF/UHF Packet side of WL2K and next month I'll close this article out by trying to tie both sides together.
Briefly, WL2K is an Amateur Radio communications system that allows you to send and receive emails via Amateur Radio frequencies. WL2K supports originating an email from an emergency location such as a hospital or evacuation shelter, forwarding the message to a WL2K Participating Mailbox (PMBO) located outside of the affected area, and then placing that same email onto the Internet for ultimate delivery. The preferred software application that allows Amateurs to create and send WL2K formatted emails is called AirMail.
One of the modules of AirMail is called the VHF Packet Client. The Packet Client allows you to use all of the capabilities of AirMail while using the standard AX.25 protocol Packet radio. If your station is set up to operate WL2K using PACTOR on the HF frequencies, you can also use the Packet Client at the same time you are connected to an HF WL2K station. And, to top it off, you can be connected to a HF WL2K station, downloading emails on your HF rig, and having a keyboard-to- keyboard QSO on VHF packet or connected to the WA6YBN Packet BBS! How's that for multitasking?
As a side note, if you haven't been using your Packet equipment
because your new PC won't run your ancient MS-DOS TNC software, try
AirMail. After all, once you connect to WA6YBN BBS or the 4 Node,
you're using the BBS or Node command's, not the TNC software's
preprogrammed
Below is a typical AirMail Email window. Anyone familiar with email
should be able to create, edit, and send AirMail emails immediately.
Enter one To: address, as many Cc: addresses as necessary, enter
the subject and text, and ensure the Post Via: window displays the
correct callsign.
Once the message is created (and proofread !!!), click on the toolbar
Mailbox icon to Post the current message for sending. This will
automatically save and move the message to the AirMail's Outbox.
At this point, you can either send the message immediately or work
on other messages and send them all later.
When you are ready to send your messages to the local HF WL2K
station, very little operator intervention is required. You start
the AirMail Packet Client if not already started, ensure the CONNECT
TO line reflects the packet address of the local HF WL2K station,
and click on the GREEN (connect) button. That's it. AirMail does
the rest. When all the queued messages have been sent and received,
AirMail will automatically disconnect you from the local HF WL2K
packet station. I'll discuss next month what the local HF WL2K
station does to get your message delivered to a WL2K PMBO.
If you are expecting a reply to one of your previous outgoing
messages, it is a simple matter to check for them. All you have
to do is connect to the local HF WL2K station via AirMail Packet
Client. If that station has any messages for you, the sending
and receiving will start automatically. If nothing is pending
at either station or when transmission is complete, AirMail will
disconnect.
In the above screen shot, KK6PA connected to my AirMail Packet
Client. My Client told him that I had two messages containing a
total of 1375 characters for his station (KK6PA de KM6JM QTC 2 msg
1359 char). KK6PA's Packet Client told my station that he had 1
message for me (KM6JM de KK6PA QTC: 1 264). AirMail did this all
with no operator action except clicking on the GREEN connect button.
After our stations had sent and received all messages, AirMail
automatically disconnected us.
Well, that's it for this month. Next month I'll finish this article
by discussing how we get our messages sent from an emergency
location to the local HF WL2K station, and on to a WL2K PMBO.
Don't you just love all these new acronyms?
73. ....de Hal/KM6JM - km6jm@winlink.org
Dec, 2nd 2005 at 01:30AM I was awakened to a thunderous wind and
house shaking like I have never had before. At that same instant a
bright flash and boom followed by a crash. It was over in a flash
so went back to sleep. At 05:00AM I woke and dressed and went out
side with a flash light and couldn't find one of my three towers.
Reason was it was laying in the trees to the north side of my house
and the A4S beam was a pretzel. See images enclosed.
Winds were only 77MPH at my wx station but the combination of the
lightning struck and the winds were enough. There are two 8x8x16"
cement blocks in my back yard that weren't there last night when I
went out for the news paper and they had to come in from the storm.
"This petition seeks for the Amateur Radio Service the flexibility
to experiment with new digital transmission methods and types to
be developed in the future," the League's petition said, "while
permitting present operating modes to continue to be used for as
long as there are radio amateurs who wish to use them." The ARRL
said the changes it suggests will also update the FCC's rules and
eliminate the need for "cumbersome procedures" to determine whether
a new digital mode is legal under Part 97.
The ARRL's regulation-by-bandwidth plan is far from a done deal.
In order for it to be adopted, the FCC first must put the League's
Petition for Rule Making on public notice and invite formal public
comments. A subsequent Notice of Proposed Rule Making would kick
off a further round of formal comments. Ultimately, the FCC would
have to issue a Report and Order putting the changes into place and setting an
effective date.
The League conceded that its regulation-by-bandwidth regime would
place increased responsibility on the amateur community to establish
workable, accepted band plans, but it expressed confidence that
such an effort would be successful.
The petition filed this week has been in the works for some time
now. The ARRL Board of Directors adopted the petition's guiding
principle in 2002 and invited comments from the Amateur Radio
community in the summer of 2004. The proposal reflects expert input
from the ARRL Ad Hoc HF Digital Committee as well as from ARRL
staff. Comments from League members and an ARRL Executive Committee
review led to further fine tuning.
The ARRL wants the FCC to replace the table at 97.305(c) with a new
one that segment bands by bandwidths ranging from 200 Hz to 100
kHz. Unaffected by the ARRL's recommendations, if they're adopted,
would be 160 and 60 meters. Subbands in other bands below 29 MHz
would accommodate maximum emission bandwidths of 200, 500 or 3.5
kHz, with an exception of 9 kHz for AM phone.
The League's petition "seeks to facilitate and encourage the
development, refinement and use of new digital technologies without
the regulatory remnants developed at a time when the principal
emissions used in the Amateur Radio Service were Morse telegraphy
and single- or double-sideband amplitude-modulated telephony." Part
97 rules need to permit higher data rates between 1.8 and 450 MHz
to encourage development of digital multimedia technology, "which
has great promise for improving and fostering more effective emergency
and disaster relief communications," the petition asserted.
"This petition does not favor one mode at the expense of another,"
the ARRL concluded in urging FCC adoption. "It merely allows expansion
of the repertoire of options that amateurs may pursue compatibly."
ARRL CEO David Sumner, K1ZZ, discussed the subject of regulating
by bandwidth in three "It Seems to Us . . ." QST editorials:
"Regulation by Bandwidth" in September 2004, "Narrowing the Bandwidth
Issues" in April 2005 and "Self Regulation" in October 2005.
The text of the ARRL's Petition for Rule Making is on the ARRL Web site
Download the Membership Application (PDF)
print, fill out and mail to SARC. Members who fail to renew by March will be dropped from
the roll.
In case of impending or current emergency, monitor the
SARC translator on 146.64/04 MHz or the backup
simplex frequency of 146.52 MHz. KK6PA, Jerry,
the local RACES EC, will coordinate mobilization. An
Emergency Net Control Station will direct radio
communications. Check in. State your capabilities. Be
prepared to go outside the IWV for at least three days.
An E-Pac should contain: your RACES card, radios and
accessories, batteries, charger, paper, pen, clipboard,
flashlight with spare batteries, timepiece, headgear,
sunglasses, spare glasses, your medications, your medical
history, first aid kit, severe weather clothing, non-perishable
food, 3 gal. water, sleeping bag.
Updated
Fri Dec 16 12:49:50 PST 2005
Tornado / Wind / Lightning Damage in Inyokern
...Jim Leonard WA6TFZ
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The ARRL Letter
Vol. 24, No. 45
November 18, 2005
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ARRL FILES REGULATION-BY-BANDWIDTH PETITION WITH FCC
The ARRL has formally asked the FCC to adopt the League's plan to
segment the Amateur Radio bands solely by emission bandwidth rather
than by mode. The Petition for Rule Making, filed November 14,
recommends what the ARRL called "a shift in regulatory philosophy"
that would encourage and facilitate the development and refinement
of digital techniques and advanced technologies. At the same time,
the League said, accommodating new technologies would not come at
the expense of current operating modes, including double-sideband
AM phone.
Bandwidth-Minute-64-Petition-FINAL.pdf.
RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP FOR 2006