Mentoring The Next Generation of Hams
March 24th is Light Up 2 Meters Night from 6PM to 8PM local time. Get on the air and make as many contacts with your fellow local hams as possible and have a blast doing it. I recommend that you start off on 146.520 and move to your frequency of choice once someone comes back to you.
Find out a bit more info by visiting W5KV's blog or watch the short video below.
President’s Report: Steven Taylor, W1HQL
Secretary Report: Secretary, Bill, KG2CS.
Vice-President: Frank, AF4FU
Treasurer: Timothy Sleepy.
Treasurer’s Report: $3266.20.00(approx) petty cash $35.00
Motion to accept and passed. (per Pete and Frank)
Introductions/New Business:
Stevc, W1HQL did introductions.
Free Flea: April 6, 2019. ( a successful event)
Presentation on tower. On the 16th a work was held party at the Ag Center. It was a success. It completed the antenna raising. HF, dual band and APRS. The club is on the air! Not too early to think about Field Day.
Frank: APRS up and running. Solar power, Some trial and error, but so far so good. 30 mile radius. You must register to receive messages.
Corporate status us up to date.
Pete gave update to order shirts, caps, mugs with the club logo. Pete solicited ideas about the shirt, we don’t deal with anything, it just goes through website. We get some of the proceeds though the site.
The standard logo was presented, but we could have a new logo if we choose to. May meeting deadline to review.
Frank leading the repeater group to get the repeater (Fusion). We need to know the bandwidth and it may be quite inexpensive.
Steve also mentioned the radio room, we need to talk about the future of the room to promote amateur radio.
Frank talked about narrow band repeater and Joe talked about the loss of 3 db of range (technical stuff).
50/50:
ARRL:
Current Nets: (subject to change)
Tuesday Night: 7 PM American Red Cross. 7:30 PM EARC. 146.865.
Cutler Bay 146.865. PL 94.5. This will be the net repeater for the moment.
Wednesday night: 7 PM. Cutler Bay 146.865. Simplex 146.520. 7:30 PM Main 146.700
Thursday Night: North Dade Radio Club. 444. 800 PL 94.5
ARES: 3.940 on 7:30 AM Saturdays.
General Nets of Interest: Southcars 7.251 8 am-1 pm (365 days a year). Sunday morning: Bill: N4LTT (former president EARC) 9:00 am. Bill, KG2CS: 10 AM.
Maritime Mobile Net/Intercontinental Net: 14.300 10 am-10 pm. (365 days a year)
Waterway Net 7.68 7:30 am.
Adjourned 8:16 PM.
Meeting ending motion, and seconded to adjourn at 7:38 PM.
3 for testing.
Respectfully submitted,
Bill KG2CS
Episode Link Notes can be found HERE
From KE4MCL:
Today (Feb 16th 2019) we had a work party at the EARC. quite a few people showed up, even some new faces some of us hadn't met in person yet. It was nice to see such a big turnout. Now on to what got done!
1) new coaxes got pulled into club room
2) new dual bander installed up at top of tower
3) antenna for aprs installed
4) aprs digipeater and solar panel installed on tower.
The digi is up and running but location is slightly off. We need to go back with a laptop and correct it. It is operational though.
Attached are a few pics, we have Steve up on the tower, Steve and I right after we finished installing the APRS, the actual APRS digi unit, and finally an extremely rare shot of MBU working.
enjoy!
(Some Other Pictures have been uploaded since the time of this message)
73 de ke4mcl
Here are some of the NASA On The Air (NOTA) SSTV signals received from Station W1HQL.
Most of these were received while my station was unattended using MMSSTV and audio coupling the computers sound card with the speaker out on the radio.
OMs and YLs, this is what our hobby is all about. The link below is a small snippet of traffic captured on the SARNet on October 11th starting at about 9:30 AM. This is immediately after Hurricane Michael has finished obliterating the pan handle. The traffic is between WX4EC acting as the Jackson County EOC and WJ4EOC acting as Tallahassee EOC.
http://w4svi.club/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/201810110924-446867-1215-WJ4EOC-WX4EC.mp3
President’s Report: Steven Taylor, W1HQL (absent).
Secretary Report: Secretary, Bill, KG2CS. Report tabled.
Vice-President: Frank, AF4FU Chaired the meeting. (Thank you Frank)
Treasurer: Timothy Sleepy.
Treasurer’s Report: $3266.20.00(approx) petty cash $35.00
Motioned and passed. (per Pete and Frank)
Introductions/New Business:
Frank, AF4FU did introductions.
ISS Demostration SSTV. ISS was sighted, but not received. Apparently , they were not transmitting. Steve gave demonstration.
Doug talked about the wilderness protocol 121.5 Mayday frequency (air band Alaska only)
16th a work party at the Ag Center. 10 am start time. For antenna raising. HF, dual band and APRS. It’s time to put the club on the air. Not too early to think about Field Day. It’s going to be great. Frank mentioned a free flea for around April 2019.
Review by Frank, Field Day.
One for testing. Hoorah for DJ! Frank gave to the club. $15.00.
ARRL:
Current Nets: (subject to change)
Tuesday Night: 7 PM American Red Cross. 7:30 PM EARC. 146.865.
Cutler Bay 146.865. PL 94.5. This will be the net repeater for the moment.
Wednesday night: 7 PM. Cutler Bay 146.865. Simplex 146.520. 7:30 PM Main 146.700
Thursday Night: North Dade Radio Club. 444. 800 PL 94.5
ARES: 3.940 on 7:30 AM Saturdays.
General Nets of Interest: Southcars 7.251 8 am-1 pm (365 days a year). Sunday morning: Bill: N4LTT (former president EARC) 9:00 am. Bill, KG2CS: 10 AM.
Maritime Mobile Net/Intercontinental Net: 14.300 10 am-10 pm. (365 days a year)
Waterway Net 7.68 7:30 am.
Adjourned 8:16 PM.
Meeting ending motion, and seconded to adjourn at 7:38 PM.
3 for testing.
We need emails for members. For group emails.
Respectfully submitted,
Bill KG2CS
On the Bands- Bill KG2CS October 2018
Well I’ve been a bit more radioactive over the past few months. So with that said, I am going to present the resurrected version of: On the Bands. Basically, it’s a stream of consciousness about my amateur radio activities over the past month. Some might find it interesting, some may use it to line their Kitty pan.
HF conditions. If I hear one more time somebody tell me how bad the bands are, well they have not been sitting in front of their radio. With the autumnal equinox, 20 meters has been open in the evenings for stateside and DX contacts. On a typical evening in about 90 minutes of operating I work about 13 to 15 states, have a couple ragchews, and work a couple countries.
Also, with the lower sunspot activities there are some upsides. With the winter coming, think of the lower bands as the atmospherics will be much quieter. 40 meters is a good DX band now, nearly every evenings to Europe. Early in the morning, 5or 6 AM, I’ve worked into Australasia and Oceana pretty regularly.
I know many of you like the new digital modes, and I’m doing some of that too. But I’m kinda old school and I enjoy a ragchew. So what can happen with the rag shoe? I worked a fella in California the other night that I spoke to in 2005. He was able to tell me that at that time my operating conditions were in ICOM 730. Seems like a lifetime ago. I worked another fellow the other night that I had worked 16 years ago on 6 meters. So, you can renew old friendships and make new friends throughout the country.
And I’d like to thank Steve, and others on the club, as we navigate through the various repeaters and FM nets. I’ve been experimenting with some of the beams I put up, and I’m having fun with them. Also, in the spirit of keeping your radio on, I was walking the other day for my two-mile walk in the late afternoon. I turned my phone off and I carry my handheld. So I talked to my home base on 146.520. And we were chatting, and then all of a sudden another person jumped in the conversation. He was monitoring 520 driving past us on US 1 and joined in the conversation. That was cool. Well, that’s about it for this month for On the Bands. If you’d like me to go old school and print some information you have for the club, just email me at william232@aol.com.
73’s and good DX,
Bill KG2CS
Anytime you operate, safety should be at the forefront. This is especially true if you are operating in remote areas. Jerry, KG6HQD, tells you all about the Wilderness Protocol for Emergencies on his video below.
Amateur Radio Winter Field Day 2019
Interested in the amateur radio hobby? Already a “ham” and just looking for an excuse to go play radio? Join us at the Everglades Amateur Radio Club on the weekend of January 26-27, 2019 for Winter Field Day!
What’s Field Day?
Field Day is a national event in which amateur radio operators across the country hone their emergency preparedness skills by setting up their radio gear in less than ideal conditions, often times outdoors and running off emergency power. Radio contacts are made all over the world by hams on their improvised stations.
Where and when?
We will be holding our 2019 Winter Field Day event at the John D Campbell Agricultural Center, 18710 SW 288st, Homestead Fl 33030. The event will run from 10AM 1/26, till 10AM 1/27.
What to bring? Who can join in?
The event is open to all, an amateur radio license is not required to attend. This is a great way to see ham radio in action and ask questions if you’re interested in the hobby. This event is outdoors so plan accordingly.
I’m a ham and I want to setup my radios! Who do I coordinate with?
The EARC monthly meeting is 1/11/2019 at 7PM, same location as Field Day. If you can’t make the meeting, you can reach out to us via the club’s website or the South Florida Hams Facebook page. Overnight camping for radio operators is allowed.