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Re: Donation to the Waddel Family fund
Carl,
The appropriate place to make such a motion is at the General Meeting tonight. I’ll watch for you when I call for new business.
73 Orion Endres, AI6JB President Sierra Foothills Amateur Radio Club 1201 Wood Oak Court, Roseville, CA 95747-7383 (916) 788-8251 H \\ (916) 534-8251 C
What the heck does “73” mean? 73 is morse code short hand for “Best Regards” used by Ham radio operators. It’s origin goes all the way back to the landline telegraph days.
From: sfarc@w6ek.groups.io <sfarc@w6ek.groups.io> On Behalf Of Carl Schultz
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2018 23:39 To: SFARC Group <sfarc@w6ek.groups.io> Subject: [W6EK Groups.io] Donation to the Waddel Family fund
Sure you all read the story about Ken Waddell 's tower fall and death.
Ken has a family of 5 and there have been some funding set up for them.
I'd like to make a motion to send $50 to the fund from SFARC.
Here is the link: (there is a photo of Ken & Family. https://www.gofundme.com/waddellfamily
73, Carl, WF6J
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Re: W6EK 2018 CQP: The Results Are In!
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Obama visited all 57 states so I imagine it can be done.
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73, Bob Brodovsky (K6UDA) The K6UDA Radio Show on YouTube Elmer with Attitude (916) 871-0726
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Re: W6EK 2018 CQP: Photos and Videos
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Many props to Bob and Karen for hosting us at their beautiful home. And special thanks to Karen for cooking everyone breakfast! https://www.dropbox.com/s/zz99f8xq2536bs9/2018-10-06%2010.00.57.mp4?dl=0
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Re: Donation to the Waddel Family fund
KB6SQT - Sam
I second
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Sam Frazier Sam Frazier Attorney at Law Retired Auburn, California 530 888-6500 cell La Jolla, California 858-456-5822 cell
On Oct 11, 2018, at 11:38 PM, Carl Schultz <caschultzca@...> wrote:
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Donation to the Waddel Family fund
Carl Schultz <caschultzca@...>
Sure you all read the story about Ken Waddell 's tower fall and death. Ken has a family of 5 and there have been some funding set up for them. I'd like to make a motion to send $50 to the fund from SFARC. Here is the link: (there is a photo of Ken & Family. https://www.gofundme.com/waddellfamily73, Carl, WF6J
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Jamboree On The Air - Philippines - Echolink
Hello Everyone,
I will be helping out with the local club operating the Jamboree On The Air / Jamboree On The Internet event October 19th - the 21st (stations operating Saturday 00:00 UTC - Sunday 24:00 UTC). The club 2m/Echolink repeater will be linked and active during the event @ DX7HQ-R. Please stop by and make a call for the DX7HQ JOTA station. I know some Philippine scouts would be excited to work you! Please pass the word around to any operators that you think would be interested in supporting the event! Thank you! The DX7HQ station may not appear in the populated station list at all times as they often take Echolink off-line outside of their nets. -- Brian- DU7/AI6US
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SFARC Board Meeting - Fri, 10/12/18 6:00pm-7:00pm
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General Meeting - Fri, 10/12/18 7:30pm-9:30pm
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Re: Better reception of Hurricane Net
Greg D
I'm actually hearing it, or at least part of it, locally on 7268.
N8BHL in Ohio is net control.
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Greg KO6TH Carl Schultz wrote:
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Better reception of Hurricane Net
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Hurricane Net
If you are interested, the net is on 7.268 MHz
and no I can't hear it direct, I am using and SDR http://websdr.lumpkin.k12.ga.us:8888/. 73, Carl, WF6J
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Re: Equipment Planning Question
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Robert,
If your concern is an antenna sticking out of your roof, consider a "Ventenna". Attaches to an existing roof vent on your house. No one will know the difference. Dual band too!
On 10/9/2018 8:08 PM, Robert Vaughan
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Dear GARY, Thank you for your advice. I am going to consider it. I already have power to the place. In fact, it’s a power pole that I own that has wires going to the PG&E pole. Currently, I have a dsl modem at the pole. The poll is mine, so I believe that I can attach an antenna to the top of it. I may just talk to the local repeater or possibly more than that. Even, HF in the future, if I upgrade my license. However, the ICOM radio that is priced at $12,000 is out of my league. I am not sure whether the lesser costing ICOM VHF/UHF radios have the same capability. It’s beginning to look like there may be more difficulty in this project than it’s worth. I may be vain, but I don’t necessarily want a radio antenna sticking out of my roof. Although I have a weather station and solar panels. This would add another utility item. The power pole where I would like to place an Antenna is hidden in a forest of trees and not easily seen from most areas around my home, but the trees are not tall enough to interfere with the radio. Sincerely, Robert Vaughan,
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Re: Equipment Planning Question
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Robert Vaughan - KF6RCC
Dear Skip,
Thank you for your very informative answer. I will start more research using the information you provided. Thank you again. Sincerely, Robert Vaughan,
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Re: Equipment Planning Question
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Robert Vaughan - KF6RCC
Dear GARY,
Thank you for your advice. I am going to consider it. I already have power to the place. In fact, it’s a power pole that I own that has wires going to the PG&E pole. Currently, I have a dsl modem at the pole. The poll is mine, so I believe that I can attach an antenna to the top of it. I may just talk to the local repeater or possibly more than that. Even, HF in the future, if I upgrade my license. However, the ICOM radio that is priced at $12,000 is out of my league. I am not sure whether the lesser costing ICOM VHF/UHF radios have the same capability. It’s beginning to look like there may be more difficulty in this project than it’s worth. I may be vain, but I don’t necessarily want a radio antenna sticking out of my roof. Although I have a weather station and solar panels. This would add another utility item. The power pole where I would like to place an Antenna is hidden in a forest of trees and not easily seen from most areas around my home, but the trees are not tall enough to interfere with the radio. Sincerely, Robert Vaughan,
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SFARC Net - Thu, 10/11/18 7:30pm-8:30pm
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Re: Equipment Planning Question
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There's a way to do just about anything ... except drive faster than the speed of light or discard angular momentum if you're a spaceship. RemoteHams uses a software app called RCForb. It's designed mainly for HF usage, but could be adapted for a VHF transceiver. It requires some computing power at the remote radio site. Microbit [Sweden] offers RemoteRig which does not require a computer anywhere. It too is designed for a variety of transceivers, all HF. If you're good at electronic design, you could fashion an interface at each end to use it ... it would be a bit of a task however. Some VHF transceivers have a removable front panel that can be located remotely from the radio [mainly for mobile applications]. You would have to pull some cable through your conduit. This is the scheme that Rick, K6VVA ["The Locust"] uses to control a remote radio on a family-owned hilltop behind his home via a 5 GHz link. You might ask him ... beware, The Locust gets very involved in his projects and can be a bit overwhelming. Don't let him near your fridge. [:-) I'm sure one could also conjure up a one-off using an Arduino, Hamstack, R'Pi, or Dogbone. <K6DGW>
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Re: W6EK 2018 CQP: The Results Are In!
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How is K6AO able to claim 59 mults?
- Gary KC3PO
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Re: Equipment Planning Question
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What's your overall goal? Why are you looking into a remote setup? It sounds like you might be unnecessarily complicating things - you'll have to run power out there, the exterior unit will need to be protected from the elements (particularly temperature extremes, assuming you have a plan for rain/snow/etc). And of course you're adding complexity, which is usually not ideal. Who wants to be outside futzing with something in the middle of winter, summer or monsoon? If all you're planning on doing is communicating with repeaters, you have a choice of an ideal antenna location with less than ideal but not horrible run of coax or a less than ideal antenna location with short cable run. Flip a coin and get 'er done. The differences between the two will be more minimal than you think and either solution will most likely not have a problem hitting repeaters.
- Gary KC3PO
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Re: SpaceX Launch and recovery Oct7 19:30
Peter - WB6POT
Thanks for the link Carl. Can never get enough of those. Love to watch SpaceX nail the landings that everyone said could never be done. Peter - WB6POT
On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 3:28 PM Carl Schultz <caschultzca@...> wrote:
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SpaceX Launch and recovery Oct7 19:30
Carl Schultz <caschultzca@...>
YouTube Launch and booster landing video
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