2013 Officers

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Congratulations to the 2013 TCARC Officers. While some will be returning, some were changed and some were added.

At the Decmeber 20th general meeting and pot luck, which began a bit late at 1845, the elections were held for the 2013 officers. While the record is 10 minutes in December a few years back, the meeting lasted a mere 16 minutes. The 2013 officers are:

President: Ray Quinn W6RAY
Vice-president: Victor Ruiz KJ6HBG
Secretary: Kevin Enquist KC6IED
Treasurer: Scott Taylor KJ6AZR
Director of Repeater Operations: Eric Ott N6VYT
Activities Directors: Richard Miller KF6QJL, Larry Taylor KF6JBG, and John Ruiz KJ6HBF

Also, the membership voted to reimburse Larry $170.00 for 200′ of coax at $0.85 per foot and to table a motion to reimburse Eric for the connectors until the amount could be determined. As it is likely less than $100, the Board will vote on the matter at the January Board meeting, scheduled for January 3rd at Carrows Restaurant, across from College of the Sequoias, just south of Highway 198 on Mooney Blvd. (SR 63). Unless the new board wishes to meet at a different day, time, or place, the meeting is scheduled to begin at 1830. Come early for dinner.

The meeting adjourned at 1901

Victor showed some videos from You Tube while the members and guests ate dinner.

Summarized from minutes taken by Ray Quinn W6RAY in the Secretary’s absence.

May 2012 News Letter

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This Month

  • Messages from the Club Officers
  • TCARC and ARRL 2012 Field Day
  • Board Meeting Minutes May 3 2012
  • ATV Airborne Test Flight
  • FCC Part 97 (a) Station Identification Review
  • On the air operating events for this month
  • Upcoming ARRL Conventions and Events

 

Messages from the Club Officers

Club President Ray Quinn W6RAY                             *none received this monthClub Vice President Victor Ruiz KJ6HBG                   *none received this month

Club Secretary Hal Clover KC5LUB                           *none received this month

Club Treasure Scott Taylor KJ6AZR                           *none received this month

Club Activity Director Larry Taylor KF6HGB             *none received this month

Club Repeater Director Eric Ott N6VYT

Repeater DirectorSunday April 22 a repair trip to Park Ridge Repeater Site was scheduled at the Thursday April 19 Club Meeting.  Eric Ott N6VYT and Victor Ruiz KJ6HBG were your repair technicians. We arrived at Grand Grove around 10 am and hiked to the repeater site. We arrived at 11 45 am. During inspection of the equipment in the building it was discovered that the Cisco switch carrying network traffic from the Valley to the repeater site had malfunctioned.  A backup network switch was placed into operation.  IRLP, ECHOLINK, and APRS is now online. During the stay we placed the entire club site on emergency power to test the back up batteries.  Several QSO’s were conducted during the planned outage and the repeater equipment operated normal.

73 Eric Ott N6VYT

 

TCARC and ARRL 2012 Field Day ← click this link for ARRL rules and information.

Larry KF6JBG is exploring the option for Field Day locations. Plaza Park and Sierra Baptist Church . Larry is waiting for confirmation on the location. There will be VEC testing at the Field Day location. License testing for Technician, General, and Extra will be given.

 

 

 

Board Meeting Minutes May 3 2012

 

Board Members present are Ray W6RAY, Victor KF6HBG, Larry KF6JBG, Eric N6VYT

Guests present are Richard KF6QJL, Dale KF6TOC, Kevin KC6IED, John KF6HBF

* no additional information was submitted.

 

ATV Airborne Test Flight

 

TCARC will be testing a airborne television transmitter and receiver system on 1.2 GHz band Sunday May 20, 2012 at 3 PM.  The aircraft will depart the Visalia Municipal Airport at or about 3 PM with a 50mw transmitter and a optional 2 watt amplifier.  Users on the ground will be testing directional antennas, pre-amplifiers and 1.2 ATV receivers.  If you are interested in participating in this event please email Eric Ott n6vyt (at) arrl (dot) net for access to the airport. Monitor 146.880 MHz. PL 103.5 Hz. For ATV Test Flight traffic.

 

FCC Part 97 (a) Station Identification Review

Part 97 : Sec. 97.119 Station identification

(a) Each amateur station, except a space station or telecommand station, must transmit its assigned call sign on its transmitting channel at the end of each communication, and at least every 10 minutes during a communication, for the purpose of clearly making the source of the transmissions from the station known to those receiving the transmissions. No station may transmit unidentified communications or signals, or transmit as the station call sign, any call sign not authorized to the station.* Remember to identify your station when you are checking into a net.  A reply such as “Hello Bob this is Frank I have no traffic QRU Good evening.” does not comply with the current Part 97 rules.

 

 

On the air operating events for May 2012

 

May 4 — NCCC Sprint Ladder

May 5 — Microwave Spring Sprint (local time)

May 5-6 — New England QSO Party; Indiana QSO Party; 7thCall Area QSO Party; 10-10 International        Spring Contest (CW); ARI International DX Contest; Araucaria VHF Contest

May 8 — ARS Spartan Sprint

May 9-10 –CW ops Mini-CWT Test

 

 

 

HF, VHF, UHF Contests this month:

  • + AWA John Rollins Memorial DX Contest2300Z, Mar 7 to 2300Z, Mar 8 and 2300Z, Mar 10 to 2300Z, Mar 11
  • + RSGB Commonwealth Contest1000Z, Mar 10 to 1000Z, Mar 11
  • + AGCW QRP Contest1400Z-2000Z, Mar 10
  • + EA PSK63 Contest1600Z, Mar 10 to 1600Z, Mar 11
  • + Idaho QSO Party1900Z, Mar 10 to 1900Z, Mar 11
  • + NSARA Contest, SSB1100Z-1500Z, Mar 11 and 1700Z-2100Z, Mar 11
  • + Wisconsin QSO Party1800Z, Mar 11 to 0100Z, Mar 12
  • + RSGB 80m Club Championship, CW2000Z-2130Z, Mar 14
  • + 10-10 Int. Mobile Contest0001Z-2359Z, Mar 17
  • + BARTG HF RTTY Contest0200Z, Mar 17 to 0200Z, Mar 19
  • + Russian DX Contest1200Z, Mar 17 to 1200Z, Mar 18
  • + Oklahoma QSO Party1300Z, Mar 17 to 0100Z, Mar 18 and 1300Z-1900Z, Mar 18
  • + Virginia QSO Party1400Z, Mar 17 to 0200Z, Mar 18 and 1200Z-2400Z, Mar 18
  • + AGCW VHF/UHF Contest1400Z-1659Z, Mar 17 (144) and 1700Z-1759Z, Mar 17 (432)
  • + North Dakota QSO Party1800Z, Mar 17 to 1800Z, Mar 18
  • + Run for the Bacon QRP Contest0100Z-0300Z, Mar 19
  • + Bucharest Contest1800Z-2059Z, Mar 19
  • + CLARA HF Contest1700Z, Mar 20 to 1700Z, Mar 21 and 1700Z, Mar 24 to 1700Z, Mar 25
  • + RSGB 80m Club Championship, SSB2000Z-2130Z, Mar 22
  • + CQ WW WPX Contest, SSB0000Z, Mar 24 to 2359Z, Mar 25
  • + UBA Spring Contest, 2m0600Z-1000Z, Mar 25
  • + Missouri QSO Party1800Z, Mar 31 to 0500Z, Apr 1 and 1800Z-2359Z, Apr 1April 2012
  • + UBA Spring Contest, SSB0600Z-1000Z, Apr 1
  • + RSGB 80m Club Championship, CW1900Z-2030Z, Apr 2
  • + ARS Spartan Sprint0100Z-0300Z, Apr 3
  • + SARL 80m QSO Party1700Z-2000Z, Apr 5

Upcoming ARRL Section, State and Division Conventions and Events

May 4-6 — EMCOMMWEST, Reno, Nevada

May 18-20 — Dayton Hamvention, Dayton, Ohio

June 1-3 — ARRL Northwestern Division Convention, Seaside, Oregon

June 2 — ARRL Georgia Section Convention, Marietta, Georgia

June 8-9 — ARRL West Gulf Division Convention, Plano, Texas

June 9 — ARRL Arkansas State Convention, Rogers, Arkansas; ARRL Tennessee State Convention,Knoxville, Tennessee

June 30 — ARRL Eastern Pennsylvania Section Convention, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

July20-22 — ARRL Montana State Convention, East Glacier, Montana

July 26-28– Central States VHF Society Conference, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

July 27-28 — ARRL Oklahoma Section Convention, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

July 27-29 — ARRL Rocky Mountain Division Convention, Bryce Canyon, Utah

August 3-4 — ARRL Texas State Convention, Austin, Texas

August 3-5 — Pacific Northwest DX Convention, Portland,Oregon

August 4 — ARRL Ohio State Convention,Columbus, Ohio

August 10-12 — RAC National Convention2012, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

August 18 — ARRL West Virginia State Convention, Weston, West Virginia

August 18-19 – ARRL Southeastern Division Convention, Huntsville, Alabama

August 19 — ARRL Kansas State Convention, Salina, Kansas

August 24-26 — ARRL New England Division Convention, Boxboro, Massachusetts

Club repeaters and nodes
146.880     -  .600 offset WA6BAI PL 103.5
223.880      – 1.200 offset WA6BAI PL 103.5
440.400      +5.000 offset WA6BAI PL 103.5
1286.300    -12.000 offset WA6BAI PL 103.5
145.450      -.600 offset K6VIS DSTAR Digital voice and data
440.050      +5.000 offset K6VIS DSTAR Digital voice and data
1286.325    -12.000 offset K6VIS DSTAR Digital voice and data
1255.000     RPS (no offset) K6VIS DSTAR Digital Data 128K
145.030        simplex SJV  (wa6bai) keyboard-keyboard
145.090        simplex SJVBBS (w6ray) BBS

ARES NET every Monday evening at 7 pm on 145.310 PL 100.0 Hz. 441.975 PL 100.0 Hz.

TCARC NET every Tuesday evening at 730 pm on 146.880 PL 103.5 Hz. 223.880 PL 103.5 Hz. 440.400 PL 103.5 Hz. 1286.300 PL 103.5 Hz.

SKYWARN NET every Wednesday evening at 7 pm on 146.880 PL 103.5 Hz. 223.880 PL 103.5 Hz. 440.400 PL 103.5 Hz. 1286.300 PL 103.5 Hz.

TCARC P.O. Box 723 Visalia, CA 93279

TCARC meets at the Salvation Army of Visalia 1501 West Main Street every 3rd Thursday of each month.  7PM

Want to submit something for next months news letter?

Send it to me.  n6vyt (at) arrl (dot) net

Deadline for submissions is on or before the first Friday of the month.