August 2012 - Cape Ann Amateur Radio Association
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1. 4 ANARKL AFFILIATED CLUB President s Corner by Sian W4HIX July is a nice month to relax afier the imensity of Field Day With some of the major publie service events cancelled k this year in Gloucester it has been pretty quiet One thing I ve noticed is though we had a good recovery from Field Day there were a few things left undone like getting the Butternut antenna back up and operational We also need to check the big tents and assess the damage Actually not a lot of things to do but if we work on them through the year we ll be etter prepared Gloucester has a new fire chief and after he gets settled in a bit I will be contacting him to tell him about CAARA and offer our services for the EOC and the normal public service activities Talking bout the EOC we still have an antenna to get up for the MEMA VHF communications system While We re on the roof at Fuller School we see if we can Find a home for our 440 MHz repeater We have a few maintenance items we should get Finished up while the weather is not too hot and not 100 cold We should get some paint on the back of the building to get ahead on that task so we re not overwhelmed next year We should get the chimney lined still working on the price and the emergency lights mounted Boxboro is coming up at the end of August This is always a good time major vendors a decent program and an opportunity to sell some gear somethin2. T would be interested in your experience andor opinion and I am planning to follow up with the Clear Creek Ranger District Maybe I was just dealing with an overly eager Ranger Stay tuned Mat KOMOS er not make sense to mie for Not going out with our Thacher Island crew in August but wondering what the view is like from the island Well have Camera is mounted inside one of the houses looking out in a North direction towards the National Wildlife Section of the Island For more info on the island check out the web site hup www thacherisland ore Enjoy the view Dick MacPherson whl w arrl et installed the web cam on the island for viewing Attached is some notes on how to Here s Ken KAIOH Hank W4RIG Jake KILDL and Paul WILPM at the NIMM training session back in June RADIO LAW ARRL SAYS NEW EXECUTIVE ORDER POSES NO THREAT TO HAM RADIO According to the ARRL an executive order dealing with telecommunications poses no threat to the amateur radio service On Friday July 6th the White House released an Executive Order signed by President Obama that addresses the National Security and Emergency Preparedness communications functions of the federal government Contrary to some concerns raised in a few amateur radio cireles the order does not appear to Contain any threat to the Amateur service or its ability to continue support communications during times of emergency or disaster It also poses no
3. Amateur Radio Club of Lismore NSW Monday 30 July 2012 1181 Supernova observed by Chinese amp Japanese 1375 Firs roller skating rink opens London 1774 Priestly discovers oxygen 1919 Firs air flight over a major body of water in Australia Harry Butler 1945 Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima Aug 6th in Japan 1956 First motoreyele rode over 200 mph Wilhelm Herz 210 mph 338 kph 1959 Explorer 6 transmits first TV photo of Earth from space 1977 Radio Shack issues a press release introducing the TRS 80 computer 25 existed within weeks thousands were ordered MORE FIELD DAY PICTURES icf Jake Honeybadger KILDL sh le the 6 meter rotor Pic 2 Bob Edwards ABILT working 40 me CAARA Portable Digital Station Inventory Radio Module Components Mounted in Tactical Radio Cartier ICOMIC 706MKIG HM 103 Microphone LDGIT 100 Autotuner Cable Radio to Tuner RF Jumper Cable Radio to Tuner Control Power Supply Module Components Mounted in Tactical Radio Cartier Jetstream JTPS30M 30A DC Power Supply West Mountain RIGrunner 4004 USB Anderson Powerpole DC Power Distribution AC Power Cord IEC IBM T43 Laptop Computer Laptop AC DC Power Supply USB Cable Signalink t0 Co puter link USB Digital Interface SLMOD6PM Jumper programming module SLCAB6PM Cable for 6 Pin mini DIN Data Accessory Port Connector Generic USB to CAT I F Cable for 1C 706 Prolific PL2303 b
4. go to the Members Only section of the club s website at www eaara net and you ll see the members information update link The club had another Field Day media hit in July with a picture of CAARA President Stan Stone WAHIX and Gloucester Deputy Fire Chief and Gloucester CERT liasion Miles Schlichtie standing next to the CAARA Emcomm trailer in the Beacon paper Here s another CAARA fact Did you know that according to the Visitors log at the clubhouse over 1300 club members and visitors Were in the clubhouse a different times in a year and continued on page 3 CAARA Newsletter Cape Ann Amateur Radio Association 6 Stanwood Street Gloucester MA 01930 CAARA Newsletteris a monthly publication ofthe Cape Ann Amateur Radio Association CARA is the policy of the editor to publish all material submitted by the membership provided such material is in good taste relevant to amateur radio and of interest w CAARA members and space is available Material is accepted on a first come first serve basis Articles and other materials may be submitted by intemet to Jon at klip arrl net If possible material should be in Word Format Material may also be submitted as hard copy to Jon KITP or any Club Office All material published in the CAARA Newsletter may be reproduced for noncommericial use provided such use credits both the CARA and the author of the article Copyrighted material will not be accepted without acc
5. is accomplished primarily through outa frequency planning by and cooperation among Amalen Radio operators Pointing out that the its Wireless Teleeommunieations Bureau had previously considered establishing a nationwide cominon calling o distress channel ina service where transmission of such communications is permite but nt fequited andthe channels are continued on page 19 Atlantic Hurricane Season 2012 On the IARU Region site GODUB reports on the Atlantic Hurricane Season There have been four named storms in the Atlantic already this year and though none have made the news it is time for the reminder that Amateur Radio continues to play a part in gathering and distributing information for the weather and emergency services each year Radio Amateurs in Region 1 are reminded that the following frequencies may be in use by nets in North and Central America to track and deal with the consequences of these severe weather events I is possible for Region I amateurs to cause unintentional QRM to these nets so please listen carefully if operating near these frequencies 14 300 MHz is used by the Maritime Mobi Net daily and as well as handling traffic from Maritime Mobile Stations also gathers weather reports from maritime stations to assist forecasters 14 325 MHz is used by the Hurricane Watch Net and the net is established whenever it appears that a storm may affect the US mainland The net gathers weathe
6. threat to hams for continued access to their spectrum Dan Henderson NIND is the League s Regulatory Information Manager He explained that the purpose of the new entity which would he created within the Executive Branch by this Order appears to be to plan for future National Security and Emergency Preparedness communications and to insure survivability hardness and interoperability I will also develop a long term strategie plan for National Security and Emergency Preparedness communications Henderson noted that based on the Amateur service s ongoing positive working relationship with officials at the Department of Homeland Security s Office of Emergency Communications it is hard to envision that any new management plan would not include Amateur Radio NIND says that nothing in this Order directly affects amateur radio s daily operations Ruth WWIN learns how to add an optional ew filter to her FT 817 with Larry s help at the clubhouse Remove the cover insert the CW filter in the correct slot and then go to the meun system to activate it IPSWICH EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT CONDUCTS HAM RADIO DRILL Visitors that came to the site learned about ham radios CERT teams and ter preparedness I wonder if there tents blew down like our did on Field Day Looks like they did a wonderful job operating as well as promoting amateur radio ABOVE Bill Poulin WZIL checking into the LO O K 20 meter SSB net on Sunday mornin
7. understand I perused the texts and found the relevant passage Oxidation changes the nature of highly organic soils releasing plant nutrients this transformation changes the nature of the organic material so significantly that its name is changed to muck Muck Really gooey clinging muck Iwas delighted vo find out that It was considered highly fertile well suited to vegetables and that while it would all oxidize away ina century or so the stuff would last much longer than I would There was a little problem however Muck clings To everything To feet t0 boots to clothes and it is amazingly potent at leaving litle black balls of gunk everywhere this would have been OK if I had not married a Swedish wife Swedes are neat Sweden is a very clean neat country where homeowners sweep the street in front of their house If it gets dirty Swedish women hate dirt are amazingly good at spotting it and always assume that any brown material on the carpet is fecal in origin WHAT IS THAT DID YOU BRING THAT IN ON YOUR FEET WHAT A SCANDAL I CAN T LIVE LIKE THIS ANYMORE would look around the dog would look around the other dog would look around We d check our paws we saw nothing My wife trembling inthe grip of strong emotion would point out the 1 4 inch ball of goo sitting on the rug and we would hang our heads in Shame It now became obvious why the women in the sod huts of the American
8. 1 needed lower prices I knew where I could get some soil free but it came with a catch I had to shovel it For those with a burning need to know 30 cubic yards of soil consists of 810 cubic feet or 1 620 trash cans full of dirt Each trash can consists of 18 19 shovels full making it roughly 30 000 shovels full of soil L know I counted I shoveled dirt before work L shoveled dirt at noon I shoveled dirt on weekends and after 2 full months of this T had a 50 by 10 foot garden bed 1 was also in excellent shape but had developed this nagging back problem and a curious postural tilt It leveled out nicely was thick black and rich and then it rained By this time I had found that an Internet site called Abe Books had comered the market on old library and text books and had ordered a number of books on gardening and agriculture I found to my chagrin that there was a significant gap in such literature There were lots of recent books of the Gardening is fun and My First Garden then you jumped to Soil a Comprehensive Textbook for Higher Level Agronomic Studies The first class of books were understandable Sol is the place where plants grow but thin on details The second class of books all started with Chapter 1 Taxonomy and Podophilie Derivation of Soil Classes and tended to be a bit opaque I finally found out that if you went back to the 1950s there were a few books that a mortal might
9. Midwest all looked so sour It was the dirt 1 tried everything The system that seemed to work best was keeping the boots in the garden switching to transitional slippers taking those off in the garage and changing clothes downstairs by the time we Worked the system out it seemed to me that I was in training for a job in a level 5 biohazard facility ora nuclear power plant But it was worth it I had a nice new garden plot filled with nice new productive soil And I had not the slightest idea what to do next HAM STUFF NEW FREQUENCY CHART AVAILABLE FROM US GOVERNMENT BOOKSTORE If you have ever had the yearning to own one of those nifty United States radio spectrum posters to hang on your wall now is your chance to get one Properly titled the United States Frequency Allocations The Radio Spectrum Chart the very latest edition is now available from U S Government Printing Office Book Store at a cost of 12 To order yours take your web browser to tinyurl com big frequency map and follow the directions you will find there HAM RADIO IN SPACE FITSAT 1 A VISUAL MORSE CODE BIRD Call this one visual Morse code from space This with word that the FITSAT 1 ham radio cubesat will carry an optical communications experiment that aims to waite in CW across the night sky using super high intensity LED s asa lighting source FITSAT will he carried to the International Space Station on July 24st from where it will be deployed som
10. Mt Evans activated Mi Evans for Summits on the Air SOTA on July 15th I took the route from Summit Lake to the top early in the moming since thunderstorms were in the forecast for the afiemoon I had the peak to myself for almost half an hour which was unexpected considering that there is a road all the way to the top I setup my vertical Buddipole for 20m and stated my activation so far nothing out ofthe ordinary besides the bad band conditions due to the recent CME Las talking to ACOA in Kansas when I spotted a National Forest Ranger running up the path from the parking lot I could not understand what he was saying since T was distracted by my ongoing QSO and the lack of oxygen combined with his running up the mountain made his signal about a 22 with highly distorted audio He arrived at the summit breathless and stood next to me courteous enough to let me finish my QSO or just 10 catch his breath He then introduced himself and informed me that I have to take down the antenna immediately My first thoughts were that the antenna was considered some sort of a safety hazard for other visitors but NO The reason is he informed me that you cannot build a structure on Nation Forest land without a permit Sounds like a sensible rule to me who wants to see cabins ete erected on public land everywhere Largued that my amenna can hardly be considered a structure and my short survey among the few visitors on the summit 10 p
11. as especially wary of and clearance projects extending the petunia patch So I never learned how to do it very well Now 45 years later I found myself with a 40 by 0 oot area covered in the worst thorny prickly rocky messy tangle imaginable It started at a rubble wall now a collapsed dirt bank and sloped away down to the road Atleast thought it did It was all thick twisted and very nasty And T had toclear it After trying a few different techniques I found that using a set of four foot limb loppers and clipping the brush level with the ground was as good as anything The usual method favored by my neighbors was to hire Barry who for 6000 would strip it clean in an afternoon but the essence of hobby is cheap and so T clipped and hauled brush out of there till L had clear soil Well sort of soil Not exactly soil more like sil fragments between the rocks Turns out that the reason the previous owners had left all that gosh awful stuff there was that there was about 1 2 inches of soil and muck over a field of boulders ledge and granite such that nothing but bracken could grow Then I had the great idea Normally I just lie down tll these ideas go away but this one had some legs I could border the garden with the big rocks L had removed from the back yard and I could use bagged topsoil for the garden bed after adding enough sand to make it a little less gooey I tested the e
12. ased USB Serial AC Extension Cord three outlet Miscellaneous RF Connectors Briefcase Style Carrying Case Documentation ICOM IC 7086MKIIG User Manual LDG IT 100 Operations Manual Tigenronics Signalink USB Installation amp Operations Sound Card Program Setup Instructions QST Review of Signalink USB Nice job by Stan W4HIX FCC Denies Petition trom page 3 shared by all users the FCC said that it had Concluded that it was not necessary to designate a Family Service Radio FRS channel fr establishing emergency communications because emergency communications have a priority on all FRS channel and the recond did not demonstrate that FRS users wene having any difficulty establishing communications The FCC di note however that unlike channels in the Citizens Band Radio Service and the Maritime Service channels in the FRS are not routinely tmontored by emergency first responders Like the FRS the Amateur Service differs from th services in which our rules designate a nationwide emergency calling channel in hat itie not routinely monitored by safety entities such as the police ar the Coast Guard Additionally those services do ot require an individual to have an operator license or otherwise demonstrate the ability to operate the station by performing such functions as selecting transrnitting channels 1o avoid interference Therefore we believe the administration of these services primarily th
13. ed by Bryan Boyle WBOYLE of Morrisville Pennsylvania and Jn Dixon WBNIL of Alhambra California called upon the FCC to designate 146 550 MHZ as a non exclusive nationwide Amateur Radio Servies emergency communications channel using FM wideband modularion Doyle and Dixon noted in their Petition tha other services such as the Citizens Band Radio Service the Aviation Service and the Maritime Service have specific channels ser aside for emergency communications They claimed that use of these channels to good effect by those in distress fand that this is testament othe aed for individual services 10 have a readily accessible and publicized emergency communications channel In denying the Petiton the FCC said n part that Royle and Dixon had not shown an existing problem that would be adireased by a rule change designating a nationwide Amateur Service emergency calling frequency The FCC told Boyle and Dixon that the rules of the Amateur Radio Service allow an amateur station to transmit one way messages necessary to providing emergency communiearions maintaining that these messages may be transmitea on any frequency authorized by the contol aperatar af the amateur siations transmitting the messages Additionally the les require that at all times and on all frequencies tach control operator must give priority to stations providing emergency comrmnications Administration of these rules
14. eople came to the same conclusion nobody considered my antenna a structure but he insisted Furthermore he instructed me to drive to the Clear Creek Rang say that I was not planning to make a 60 mile round trip to gel a permit for my activities I already had enough contacts for my Mt Evans SOTA activation and the fact that I had planned another activation for later in the day I did not want to waste my time arguing and started to pack up Luckily I had my tape measure YAGI with me for my next activation and I was hoping it would pass the NOT BEING A STRUCTURE test by the National Forest to make sure I did not ask T tried to follow up with the person in charge for the Clear Creek Ranger District she is on vacation Sure glad id not drive all the way to Idaho Spring GOOGLing Hound Forest Rules You er District HQ in Idaho Springs to get a permit Needless to published by the Secretary of Agriculture On page 1wo under the chapter OTHER PROHIBITED FACTS it indeed prohibits Constructi placing or any kind of communication equipment without a special use authorization Again that makes sense to me to avoid that every Tom Dick and Harry sets up his own repeater on public land it does howe a temporary mobile portable antenna as I was using H would certainly put a damper on SOTA activations and the upcoming ler event Tam almost certain that on Field Day a lot of antennas go up on NF land
15. etime in September For more information see www uk amsat org 2037 CAARA provides Communications for the July 4th Horribles Parade Several members of the Cape Ann Amateur Radio Association provided public service communications for the Gloucester Fishtown Homibles parade on tuesday July 3rd A radio net was established on the clubs 2 meter repeater frequeney of 145 130 MHZ with no PI tone at 5 30 PM The members of CAARA were spread out along the parade route and reported back to net control on traffic and safety issues as well as any large gaps between parts of the parade Dean Burgess KBIPGH was net control in the lead Gloucester Police cruiser and relayed any necessary information to the Gloucester Police Department CAARA member Bob Spanks WAIUCG was in the trail vehicle and relayed vital inforamtion on other traffice issues the ongoing pace of the parade and where the end of the parade was street by street There were 8 members of CAARA who were on Station for 3 hours each so that adds up to a total of 24 volunteer hours to the city The Horsibles Parade Committe would like to thank the following other members of CARA for their service Especially for answering the call to help out with the parade on such short notice Curtis Wright AA3IE Ron Beckly NIRIB Ruth Hodsdon WWIN Sue Downey NIXQW Hank MeCasl W4RIG Tony Marks NUIEL WE MADE THE LOCAL GLOUCESTER DAILY TIMES NEWSPAPER FOR FIELD DAY Antenna Restrictions on
16. g at the clubhouse The L 0 0 K is short for the International Order Of Crazies a brotherhood of amateur radio operators all across the world Bill checks into the net every Sunday morning that he is at the clubhouse For more inforamtion on this brotherhood you can go to their website at www iook org You can also see some more pictures that Bill took of CARAS past Field Day along with a nice write up fr the LO O K crew BELOW KITP checking out the Hammerlund HQ 129 X transciever and Hallicrafter s Super Defiant receiver atthe clubhouse If anyone is interested in purchasing either of these two radios as part of the club fundraiser please contact CAARA President Stan Stone W4HIX at ian lanecove us Remembering Silent Keys After a ten year period of being away from ham radio I came back to find many of the DX hams T have had the pleasure to meet were now silent keys This started me thinking of hans T huve met at CARA In coming months PI uy to bring back memories of hams who have moved on A few weeks after I received my license in 1977 Warren WALYLX the president of CAARA came into my shack and invited me wo join the club During the time I knew him I never could tell When he was just pulling my leg Larry WIEGJ was well into his 80s and as energetic asa man in his 40s p Larry was very active in the club During FD He would loud his truck with ham gearand wake otr Jag to the site When I went to Florida La
17. g we need to get done Clearing out the old gear is especially important because we have a second floor to renovate T want to thank everyone who has helped out and if you haven t had an opportunity recently please lend a hand AUGUST ISSUE 201 See you around the clubhouse 73 de Stan WAHIX Clerk s Corner The CARA Bourd of Directors would like 10 announce that per the club s constitution the Annual Meeting will be held on Wednesday September 12h at 7 30 PM at the clubhouse on 6 Stanwood Street in Gloucester With that comes a new set of monthly member s meetings and we are now looking For the membership to help with finding topics to cover As Well as giving presentations or finding people w g them They don t even have to be directly ham radio related If you have an idea or would like to hosta meeting please e mail me at dbure 101 aolcom Don t forget that the ARRL New England Convention in Boxboro is coming up the last weekend in August which is Saturday the 24th and Sunday the 25th For contests the ARRL is holding the UHF contest on Saturday August band Sunday August Sth The ARRL VHF QSO party will be held on the weekend of September 8 10 For a couple of quick facts amateur radio licesnes were first given out back in 1912 and the Amateur Radio Relay League was founded by Hiram Perey Mall CARA member should update their membership information and we have made it very easy to do so Just
18. its Annual meeting on Wednesday September 121h at 7 30 PM at the clubhouse on 6 Stanwood Street in Gloucester Mass The Annual meeting will consist of the yearly review ofthe clubs finances by elub Treasurer Hank MeCarl WARIG Then CARA President Stan Stone W4HIX will present the State of the club address along with a set of goals forthe upcoming year Then the Board will open the floor for any discussions or ideas from the membership The final order of business will be the election of oF reelection of Officers or Directors postions All Caara members are encouraged to altend this meeting as your input and voting is vital to the clubs management IF you are planning on attending this meeting I would highly recommend reading through the clubs Constitution which ean be found on the membership page on the clubs website at www caara net I you have any questions about the Annual meeting please e mail me at thurs 101 aol com O Why do ships and aircraft use mayday as their call for help A This comes from the French word m aidez meaning help me and is pronounced approximately mayday A Garden Plot by Curtis Wright AA3JE When I was young my parents would rent me out to the old ladies in the neighborhood who needed a boy to help them out What they really wanted was 245 year old professional gardener named Cedric who appreciated older ladies but what they got was me I never go the hang of it and w
19. n towers of the World Trade Centerin New York City will also become an antenna site The Durst Organization that controls New York City s One World Trade Center in a partnership with The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey plans to add an installation for FM radio and television transmis sion antennas in the building s 408 foot spire One that will ultimately bring the new building s height to 1 776 feet and make it the tallest building in North America The Empire State Building 1 250 feet tall with its 204 foot antenna tower is currently the home to 19 FM stations and most of the city s digital television trans milters Many radio and television broadcasters mi grated 1o the Empire site after terrorist attacks of 911 caused the collapse of the World Trade Center s twin towers in lower Manhattan Yet to he determined is whether any of the city s FM broadcasters will leave their current primary sites at Empire State Building for the new location at One World Trade Center or if they will reat the new building spire primarily as a backup ste FCC Denies Petition Seeking to Designate Nationwide Emergency Calling Frequency ARRL Saying that it believes that the Amateur Service allows flexibility 1o provide emergency communications in a way that aes into acount hannel availability and other local conditions the FCC denied a Petition for Rulemaking to create a nationwide emergency calling frequency The Petition fl
20. nsceivers Amateur radio exams are held on the second Sunday of each month at 10 00AM at the CAARA clubhouse Anyone who is considering a new license or an upgrade is welcome to test with us There is no pre registration necessary Contact the head of our VE team Bob Quinn if you have any questions about monthly testing Monthly member meetings are held on the first wednesday of each month at 7 30 PM except for July and August Each Sunday evening at 9 00pm the club operates a 2 meter net on 145 130 This is an open and informal net which disseminates club news and prepares operators for emergency communications work All ure invited to check into the net as club membership is not a requirement CLERK S CORNER continued from page 1 a half t For those who may not know the CARA Clubhouse was once a fire station back in the early 1900 s Then it was a community center back in the 50 s and 60 s Then it held a pigeon racing club in the 70 s CAARA was formed in 1977 and moved in upstairs in the 80 s Then CAARA took over the Whole building By the way if you enjoy the CAARA newsletter every month we are always looking for members to write articles or send in pictures of the ham shacks for newsletter publication That s it for August How many uses can you think Tor a 0 ohm resistor NEW BROADCAST CENTER PROPOSED FOR ONE WORLD TRADE CENTER And finally this week the new spire built to replace the fallen twi
21. ompanying written permission to publish The opinions expressed in the CAARA Newsletter are solely those of the editor or other contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opions of either the Board of Directors or membership of CARA Jon Cunningham KITP Editor Dean Burgess KBIPGH Cub Reporter Board of Directors 2011 12 President Stan Stone W4HIX Vice Pres Diek Mae Pherson WBIW Treasurer Hank MeCasl WARIG Clerk Dean Burgess KBIPGH Directors Paul Anderson KAIGIJ Jon Cunningham KITP Charles Downey NIOCT Joseph Perry KBIVQF Dick Ober KIVRA Don Swenson NIUVV Ruth Hodson WWIN Welcome to CAARA CAARA an ARRL affiliated club operates the 2 meter WIGLO repeater on 145 130 MHz with antennas located on the Cingular tower in the Blackburn Industrial Complex in Gloucester Massachusetts It has an average effective radius of 60 miles and serves Eastern Massachusetts Cape Cod Rhode Island Southem New Hampshire and maritime mobile stations CAARA also operates the WIGLO repeater on 224 900 The former WIRK 443 700 repeater with antennas located in Magnolia is now located at the CAARA clubhouse and has a very limited range The Association is one of the few amateur radio clubs that has its own clubhouse Located at 6 Stanwood Street in Gloucester it includes a permanent HF station with rotating beam and vertical antenna along with a 2 meter packet station and 2 meter voice and 220 MHz tra
22. r information and links to the American National Hurricane Centre 14 265 MHz is used by the Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network SATERN provides Health and Welfare traffic links for those in affected areas as well as supporting the Salvation Army Disaster relief response should a hurricane strike Frequencies used in Cuba 7 045 7 080 7 110 MHz 3740 MHz Frequency used in the Carribean 7 162MHz by the CEWN Frequencies used in Central America Red Centro Americana 7 090 and 3 750MHz Guatemala 7 075 MH Nicaragua 7 098 MHz Mexico FMRE 3 690 and 7 060 MHz Cuba and Mexico co operate with long distance relays on 40m when propagation makes this possible Local emergency communications groups may also activate if a hurricane approaches their area and those frequencies would be announced at the time CLUB NEWS Hello toal CAARA members The Essex Board of Health has requested our assistance to provide comunications for their Youth Triathalon coming up on Saturday August 11th The triathalon takes place near Centennial Grove in Essex It starts at 9 30 AM and always ends before 1 PM We have worked this event the past two years We park behind the Essex police station and take a shuttle in We ate looking for at least 6 hams to work this event If you want to help us out please e mail me back at dburg 101 aal com As per the clubs constitution the Cape Ann Amateur Radio Association will hold
23. rough operational rules that specify the use of a channel and transminer echnical standards is reasonable The FCC observed that under the current rules of the Amateur Radio Service operators can use multiple channels on the same or different amateur band if needed for an event or use mulple channels in the same band when multiple but different evens occur It also mentioned that the Boyle and Dixon s proposal ihat the channel bea non exclusive nationwide channel is substantively no diferent from eurent chanel priorities because all Amateur Service channels are hared and may be used for providing emergency Communications If sucha non esclusive Chanel is needed nothing in our rules prevents the amateur community foom voluntarily agreeing to designate a channe for this purpose We conclude therefore that you have not shown an existing problem that would be addressed by a tule change designating a nationwide Arnateur Service emergency calling frequency nationwide Heathkit Declares Bankruptcy Closes for Good Again from The ARRL Letter on July 26 2012 Heathkit Declares Bankruptcy Closes for Good Again The July 19 edition of The Herald Palladium a newspaper serving the communities of Benton Harbor and St Joseph Michigan is reporting that Heathkit Education Company has declared bankruptcy and has officially closed its doors afier defaulting on its lense According to the paper Heathkit emplo
24. rry gave me his HT When I went to return it he suid Keepit Until Next time Joe WBICHJ New Russian Satellite RS 40 MIR also known as Yubileiny 2 and RS 40 was built by students and research staff of the Siberian State Aerospace University and launched on July 28 1 is understood signals from RS 40 on 435 365 MHz were firs reported by Maik Hermenau on the AMSAT DL mailing list Jan PEOSAT reports on his website The first signals switch benween the two downlink frequencies when the signals stop on 435 265 MI they start again on 435 365 000 MHz FM After about six minutes the pattern changed and there where only signals on 435 365 MHz FM When you listen close there is a diference between the pattern from the first recording and the second Something that can t be seen after the recording is the fact that the signals ofthe first pattern have a higher bandwidth and therefore likely to have a higher baud rate Data received from RS 40 hupr www pe0sat venet n 2012 received date from rs 40 First signals from RS 40 pew peta venet n 2012 first signals from pem Yubileiny 2 RS 40 bupy wwsw pe0sat venet nl 201 2 yubileiny 2 The website of Andy Thomas GOSFJ has information on the earlier Yubileiny I RS 30 satellite at bups fsites google canv site andythomasarg 130 vobileiny History This Week A look back at events that made history this week compiled by the Summerland
25. xisting soil always wise in Rockport where early industry had been a little careless with the cyanide and all came back clean So I set about laying out my le garden plat This is a good time to mention that T was nota good student in elementary school I got better in college but T never learned to type do simple math figure the volume of a pyramid or any of the other things that most of todays kids pick up by 6th grade So T laid out my garden with blithe disregard as to the volume of soil needed to fill even the smallest garden 1 positioned my rocks built a wall went to the hardware store bought 5 bags of topsoil and retumed I dumped the bags and to my horror found that 5 bags produced a thin film of dirt perhaps 1 4 of an inch in thickness T called the hardware store Do you offer a volume discount on soil Are you a preferred customer I m in there six times a day does that count We ean offer you S 1 spent a few hours brushing up on the volume of solids in my son s old math book and figured that my garden would cost about 5 000 i 1 bought the soil in bags next called the Bi Nursery in the next town Do you have topsoil for sale Oh yes sir finest Joam how much do you need How much i it 30 per cubic yard you pick it up Do you deliver Not soil sir the profit margin is too slim This was better but still in the 1750 range
26. yed more than 1800 people in its heyday after World War II When it finally closed its workforce totaled fewer than six people This is the second time since 1992 that Heathkit Educational Services has shuttered its doors In August 2011 Heathkit announced it was returning to the kit building business and in September that it would once again be manufacturing Amateur Radio kits Read more here hup wwwarrl org news heathkit deelares bankrupey lases for good again We need your help The reorganization of the second Toor will start in August with Jake LDL and Jon TP and other volun teers of any skill set and amateur radio experience This is a great opportunity to help setup HF SSB CW and digital stations There is something to be learned by everyone no matter how long you have been ham ming 1 believe we will be clearing stuff from one side of the room and setting up stations on tables that will be against the exterior walls We want to have open space in the middle of the room and make the appearance of the stations to be neat clean and setup in good operat ing practice If you bave a few hours here and there give Jake or Jon or Dick Ober a call on the repeater or during the Sunday two meter net
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