December - Lancaster and Fairfield County Amateur Radio Club
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1. and fortunately took a truck Through mis planning we got there very early but we were permitted to look as the setup was being completed The temperature started in the teens but did make it to the forties any hoo after we had seen everything we still had more than an hour to wait so we talked the other hams who had arrived into going to a warm restaurant These were brothers Jeremy KD8QDQ and Curtis KD8QDP Duncan both deep shaft coal miners in the Buchanon mines in Perry County and very interesting persons who do quite a bit of equipment building and Jeff WD8JLI Later Dave W8EZE and Tony Mills KF8MW arrived Tony did not stay after learning there was no ham equipment The TV repair test equipment although old was in good shape but none of these items brought much money the scope maybe 20 and the VOM s 2 or 3 All the sorted and roughly boxed parts and tools went for 1 or 2 Jeff was able to pretty well fill his pickup and I brought home what could be described as a bushel basket of assorted tools parts and testers Ralph was more selective On the way home Jeff Dave Ralph and I stopped for a meal at the Top Hat restaurant in Junction City Strangely all the ham magazines QST and Ham Radio Horizons from the 70 s went to persons who were speculating on their value and the collection of hundreds of world wide QSL cards from the thirties to the fifties bundled in plastic bags of ten to twenty went for 2 to 5 apiece to a stamp colle2. m Prepare yourself Practice with the on line tests and upgrade Free Swap and Sell If you have anything ham radio related you can swap it or sell it here List your items for free Give a price and how to contact you Send the list to asellers 108 1 att net Hamfests Details at arrl org Lebanon OH 1 10 2009 Nelsonville OH 1 18 2009 Strasburg OH 1 25 2009 On the Web www k8qik org Send email to K8QIK columbus rr com 2007 2008 Officers President Charlie Snoke NSKZN Vice President Mark Urbine KC8TUW Treasurer Ed Campbell Sr WD8PGO Secretary Mary Travis KD8EEI Trustee John Hilliard W8OF Station Engineer John Hilliard W8OF Net Manager None at the moment Activities Manager None sat the moment Public Relations Mark Urbine KC8TUW Flower Fund Ed Bennett KD8EEJ Web Master Robert Northrup KC8PSW Editor Allen Sellers KB8JLG 740 654 8167 December 4 2008 Meeting Minutes At 7 30 p m the meeting was called to order by President Charlie Snoke NSKZN who lead the Pledge of Allegiance There were 24 members present and one guest John Dolske KOULO There was one application for membership K9ULO John Dolske for review Officer Reports Secretary Report Mary Travis KD8EEI Minutes for the November meeting were posted in the Ragchewer Motion to accept was made by John W8AGS and seconded by Allen KB8JLG Motion carried Treasur
3. Allen s idea of interesting stuff After the club meeting Ed WD8PGO and Charlie N8KZN solicited names to be assigned to each of the county s Emergency Response locations and now is the time to prepare a go box for any required action My idea is that a duty period of 12 to 18 hours needs to be planned for so that you can leave anytime with everything you will need already packaged Give me some ideas for a go box or ask questions and I will see that someone addresses your questions I recently made a Power Squid out of five old extension cord ends and an octagonal electrical box with a duplex outlet on the cover I attached this to an inexpensive plug in timer set to turn on one hour a day Right now I only have my hand held 2M radio and its power supply plugged in I leave it connected all the time confident that the battery is not going to be overcharged Because there are extra sockets available I plan on storing more battery operated equipment this way small hand drill electric screwdriver Etc When I wrote a Ragchewer article maybe a year ago about caring for Micro oft operating systems no one commented on whether it was helpful I recently cleaned the hard drive removed spyware and defragged my sister in law s 2006 Win XP 80 GB computer Her family was unaware that some maintenance is required There were 2 GB of fragmented files and more than 1500 spyware infections listed This reminded me that maybe I should me
4. The Ragchewer December 2008 The monthly newsletter of the Lancaster amp Fairfield County Amateur Radio Club Club Meetings 1 Thursday of every month at 7 30 pm at the club house VE Testing The third Sunday of every even numbered month Register at 9 30 am and testing at 10 00 am Club House Location On State Route 37 North Granville Pike next to Beavers Field Across from Ohio University Lancaster Nets Mondays at 9 00 p m 147 03 MHz 6 146 70 MHz 6 Alt Freq 443 875 MHz 5 Sunday at 8 00 p m 443 875 MHz 5 UHF linked system Packet BBS 145 53MHz K8QIK 1 BBS K8QIK 2 Ohio53 Weather Spotter Net 146 76 Repeater with 123Hz tone Tuesday at 7 30 pm Alt frequency 147 24 MHZ Thursday Night Radio Night Radio night is every Thursday at 6 00 p m except the first Thursday which is the club monthly meeting Work a little HF maybe build something How about a hot cup of coffee We ll have them all waiting for you ARRL Membership When you join the ARRL or renew your membership through the club we retain 15 for each new membership OR lapsed membership of two years or more and we retain 2 for each renewal Please support our club it doesn t cost any more Send or give all paperwork to Treasurer with your money VE Test The next VE test will be Sunday December 21st at the clubhouse on Route 37 Door opens at 9 30 a m and testing begins at 10 00 a
5. conded by Robert KC8PSW Motion carried Meeting adjourned at 8 35 p m Respectfully submitted Secretary Mary Travis KD8EEI Tubes For Sale at jbell imagearray net he has a huge supply for If you need tubes for your boat anchor or TV MOst needs contact Jeff Bell WD8JLI at 614 774 2973 or email Sale Announcement A new in box 300 MFJ 1798 10 band vertical antenna was donated to the club recently The club voted not use it as a door prize or raffle it off but to place it on sale at the April 2009 Swap Meet This is your chance to get an outstanding 80M through 2M antenna at a reasonable price Think about what you want to offer as there will probably be a reserve price set In the meantime check out the reviews at http www eham net links to follow are REVIEWS gt VERTICAL ANTENNAS gt MFJ1798 It is scored at 4 25 out of 5 and there are helpful comments about installation not covered in the instruction manual E mail Addresses No one is receiving the Ragchewer by mail at this If you have a new email address be sure to notify time the editor Send to asellers1081 att net Recent News Allen KB8JLG There was an estate auction 29NOV08 at New Lexington that was a subject of my November email LATE NEWS James McCarty a long time ham and TV repairman had moved to a nursing home at the age of 94 Ralph W8BVH and I were curious about some of the items listed on the auctioneer s internet site We planned to make a day of it
6. ctor and a post card collector Ralph tells me that one bundle baggy sold for 30 Mr McCarty at one time had confirmed QSL s from 280 DX countries and was 37 short of the complete list I believe that Jeff got the logbooks I learned a couple of lessons l When an auctioneer at an estate sale starts to sell several boxes as a lot and I want to bid on one thing and not the junk speak up and ask for the item of interest to be sold separately I missed out on all the RG 8 213 coaxial cable and a heavy extension cord for this reason 2 All the ham equipment had been taken to Universal Radio where their prices are determined by a book value very fair I think Mr McCarty s daughter told me that all the items that duplicated Universal s collection was in better shape so that is where some of the stuff landed Several years ago 1920 s old timer Cal Curtis ham gear was sold the same way and the non ham son in law was very happy with the prices At the time I helped sell the new in box broadcast radio power tubes to an advertiser in QST magazine and they brought several hundred dollars 3 The fifty foot tower Mosley Tri Bander rotor and control and all the cables sold for 5 If you are the buyer and are expected to lower and remove it document rules conditions for removal and document any property damage before you start Items of interest Allen KB8JLG Nothing was submitted this month so you have to read Uncle
7. er s Report Ed Campbell Sr WD8PGO Ed gave the treasurer s report Motion to accept by Ralph W8BVH and seconded by Mark KC8TUW Motion carried VP Report Mark Urbine KC8TUW Mark reported that Terry Swinehart from Fairfield Medical Center will be our guest speaker for the January 8 meeting change in date approved at last meeting at OUL Room 409 at 7 30 p m Mark also reported that he has contacted a representative from the ARRL regarding our status as 501C3 instead of 501C4 Sheriff Phalen will be our guest speaker at the February meeting which will be held at the clubhouse Trustee Report John Hilliard W8OF John reported that we had a MFJ HF vertical antenna donated anonymous and it was agreed we would sell it at our April 2009 swap meet John also reported that Steve Anderson from FMC has donated a computer pentium4 monitor and he has loaded EchoLink on it The other computer which is much older will be used at the clubhouse for other applications George KB8USP made a motion to purchase a touch tone decoder for John W8OF to use in remotely changing the 147 03 repeater seconded by Jack AE8P with an approximate cost of 75 All in favor John W8AGS made a motion to pay the Ohio Area Repeater Council 15 for annual repeater coordination dues seconded by Robert KC8PSW All in favor Committee Reports Webmaster Robert Northrup KC8PSW Robert is going to work on a web blog VE Testing Allen Selle
8. ntion again that good maintenance programs including Anti Virus and a Firewall are available free on the internet Because she has a sloooow dial up connection I put everything on a flashdrive which I took to her computer and used to install the necessary programs after installation it took about four hours to actually complete the cleaning If these basic maintenance procedures clean disk remove spyware and defrag are followed on a monthly or semi monthly basis the repair time is much shorter and your computer will run faster There are slow sometimes hard to use clean disk and defrag maintenance programs on most Micro oft operating systems Along this line is my dislike for Mico oft s bug laden slow and incomplete products I have M XP HOME edition which is OK but I will not buy another So I have been thinking of using a two or three year old computer and paying to have LINUX installed from a commercial distribution By doing this I expect to receive a bound user s manual Recently I visited Jack AE8P and spent about an hour observing his new Apple computer and I m really impressed with its features and speed not so much the price BUT at least you don t have Micro oft s annoying NEW IMPROVED Operating system release every few years which are really not so new but repairs that should be free to victims The Apple is easy to use and should not present the initial learning problems I hear that Linux has
9. rs KB8JLG Allen reported that the next test will be December 21 doors open at 9 30 a m and test at 10 a m Allen also reported that any club member wishing to upgrade can contact him and he will schedule an individual test for them The ARRL fee for testing will increase from 14 to 15 starting January 1 2009 Monday Night Net John Fick KD8EEK December 8 Mark KC8TUW December 15 John W8AGS December 22 Mark KC8TUW December 29 Charlie NSKZN January 5 John W8OF Ragchewer Allen Sellers KB8JLG No report but anyone who has information to publish please send to Allen Emergency Coordinator Ed Campbell WD8PGO No report Safety Scott Snoke WD8IXO No report Station Engineer John Hilliard W8OF No report Activities Manager John Fick KD8EEK No report Flower Fund Ed Bennett KD8EEJ 19 00 collected and Allen KB8JLG was winner of 9 50 Ed also reported no winner on 50 50 Old Business None New Business Ed KD8EEJ also reported that there will be 4 men and 4 women door prizes for the Christmas Party which will be held December 13 6 30 p m at Ponderosa E Main in Lancaster Ed also stated that since we had some extra items donated from Universal we will hold a silent auction Anyone wishing to bring items for the auction may do so and we will have a table set up for people to place their silent bids and the winners will be announced at the end of the party Gary W8GTS made motion to adjourn se
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