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:

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 3^rd 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.