From svj58 at optonline.net Tue Jan 1 15:47:15 2019 From: svj58 at optonline.net (Steve, KB1YLQ) Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2019 15:47:15 -0500 Subject: [CTSARA] Meeting Message-ID: Subject: ANNUAL Meeting Thursday January 3, 2019 ,Time 8:00 pm.? ? ? ? ? ?Stamford Government CenterWe will be voting on the slate of club officers below at our first monthly club meeting of the year 2019 on Thursday, January 3, at the Stamford Government Center. If you are a paid member and you do not attend the club meeting on that day, you can vote via email (details have been sent to paid members). Our proposed slate is: Steve Urso, KB1YLQ, President and Trustee Jon Shapiro, AB1HI, Vice-President Terry Martin, W1TSM, Treasurer Terry Papazidis, WA1JBO, Secretary Fred Cunningham, K1FC, Program Coordinator John Sabini, WB1GRB, Webmaster Ernest Laug, KA1NGG, Director at Large Chester Piorkowski, N1CHD, Director at Large Steve, KB1YLQSent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone From svj58 at optonline.net Wed Jan 2 19:14:29 2019 From: svj58 at optonline.net (Steve, KB1YLQ) Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2019 19:14:29 -0500 Subject: [CTSARA] Norwalk Net Message-ID: Subject: [gnarc] Net tonight Hi all,Tonight is the first net of the new year! See you at 8 on the Norwalk? 2 meter repeater. 73,Sam NV1P Steve, KB1YLQSent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone From svj58 at optonline.net Thu Jan 3 10:08:08 2019 From: svj58 at optonline.net (Steve, KB1YLQ) Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2019 10:08:08 -0500 Subject: [CTSARA] Tweet from ARRL (@arrl) Message-ID: <12.87.27291.A552E2C5@mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> ARRL (@arrl) tweeted at 10:01 AM on Wed, Jan 02, 2019: In the February 2019 issue of #QST, Dino Papas, KL0S, provides a mini manual for ?Installing Coax Crimp Connectors,? with step-by-step photos. Read it now as this issue?s free article of the month before the digital edition goes live January 9. https://t.co/AT23PJap9m https://t.co/Lk8q0j8qVB (https://twitter.com/arrl/status/1080479167353929728?s=09) Get the official Twitter app at https://twitter.com/download?s=13 Steve, KB1YLQSent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone From ranceiii at aol.com Fri Jan 11 23:36:40 2019 From: ranceiii at aol.com (ranceiii at aol.com) Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2019 04:36:40 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [CTSARA] I have some fiberglass quad element spreaders I need to get rid of so bartering for beer! References: <1938562119.59110.1547267800044.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1938562119.59110.1547267800044@mail.yahoo.com> Hello all, Here's an offer to all extended SARA and GNARC members (who are current in their dues of course!). I have some fiberglass quad element spreaders I need to get rid of shortly, and would like to find thema good home instead of throwing them out. We believe the quad that they came off of was a Cubex, but I can't be 100% sure of that. There are a few elements that are in very good shape that could be used to replace broken spreaders off yourexisting quad.?? So, if you are interested in seeing whether this stock is compatible with your antenna, you may want to bring along the broken element you are trying to replace for an up close and personal comparison. If you find a couple of the pristine ones compatible to your needs and want them, that will cost you one six pack of microbrewery beer.? (No Meisterbrau or Genesee please!) But most of them are in less than pristine shape, but still suitable for use as small spreaders used to separate the elements of folded dipoles or coaxial dipoles. There are also several that can be re-sized to use as elements for a small light-duty portable beam for say six or two meters, or severalfox hunting antenna.? In fact, you could probably equip 2-3 fox hunt beams to put together a of club teams, if you are interested. I will give an armload of those away for a can of Foster's Lager or a 24 Oz Heineken! If that ain't a bargain, I don't know what is! 73,Terry W1TSM From ranceiii at aol.com Fri Jan 18 18:29:01 2019 From: ranceiii at aol.com (ranceiii at aol.com) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 23:29:01 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [CTSARA] I am looking to borrow a medal detector..... References: <564037130.112971.1547854141816.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <564037130.112971.1547854141816@mail.yahoo.com> Hello all, Does anyone have a working metal detector I can borrow for ham radio purposes. I need to find a ground rod and portable amplifier that I was using for a BOG beverage antenna that I installed and camouflaged so well that I can't find it now, as there's two seasons worth of leaves on top of it. Can anyone in either SARA or GNARC help me out? 73,Terry From svj58 at optonline.net Thu Jan 24 10:15:03 2019 From: svj58 at optonline.net (Steve, KB1YLQ) Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 10:15:03 -0500 Subject: [CTSARA] Its that time.... Message-ID: <1B.E0.26398.A76D94C5@mta3.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> Membership Renewal for 2019?We look forward to your membership renewal and participation in the coming year. Membership is open to all licensed hams. Dues is $25 for the year, which includes membership for you and your immediate family. You can register for membership online using?pay via PayPal.? You do not need a PayPal account to do so. The new website's?membership page? gets you 90% of the way there. Fill out the form, and once this is done and submitted, click the PayPal link to pay using PayPal Friends & Family.?Use stamfordamateurradio at gmail.com as the payment destination, and make a note in the payment of your name and call so that we can credit you properly.?If you want you can bring payment to the February meeting.? Steve Urso, KB1YLQ-President Steve, KB1YLQSent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone From svj58 at optonline.net Thu Jan 24 13:18:06 2019 From: svj58 at optonline.net (Steve, KB1YLQ) Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 13:18:06 -0500 Subject: [CTSARA] 80 meter net Message-ID: <17.2B.26398.0610A4C5@mta3.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> Tonight @ 8:30 on 3.843 +/- QRM.? Ragchew . Steve, KB1YLQSent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone From tom at k1ta.com Tue Jan 29 15:49:02 2019 From: tom at k1ta.com (Tom Alessi) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 15:49:02 -0500 Subject: [CTSARA] The FCC is Back in Business Message-ID: The FCC is Back in Business 01/29/2019 In the wake of the more-than-month-long partial government shutdown, the FCC has said it would begin processing the Amateur Radio application backlogs starting today, January 29, in addition to the other applications that have built up. Information released before the shutdown said the FCC would take the first day it was open, Monday, January 28, to get idle systems up and running again. ?The FCC has resumed all operations since the partial funding lapse has ended,? the FCC said via Twitter on Monday. This means the ARRL Volunteer Examiner Coordinator (VEC) should soon be able to transmit the some 2,300 pending Amateur Radio applications it has in the queue, many of them from 325 ARRL VEC examination sessions that took place during the shutdown or immediately prior to it. These do not include files that the other 13 VECs may be waiting to upload to the Universal Licensing System (ULS). ARRL VEC Manager Maria Somma, AB1FM, said that as of 15:30 UTC, the FCC was not yet processing, and that the ARRL VEC won?t send all its pending files until it?s sure the system is working properly. ?We had some files already pending in their system, and then also uploaded a few new files into their system today to see if anything is happening yet,? she said. ?So far, no movement as we are continually checking for them to be processed.? Somma said an FCC source told her that the filing system is scheduled to resume processing today. ?As soon as those pending files go through, we are sending all of our files!? she said. In a January 28 Public Notice addressing filing deadlines, the FCC pointed out that its filing window, mail operations, and electronic filing systems have been unavailable or unsupported during the partial shutdown, ?except for filings necessary for the protection of life and property and filings related to spectrum auction activities.? The FCC had announced in early January that all filings that would have been due during the suspension of operations, including applications to the ULS, would become due on the business day following the resumption of normal operations, January 29. ?If the Commission is unable to restore electronic filing systems on the day the government reopens, the Commission may issue another Public Notice further extending filing deadlines.? The January 28 Public Notice said the Commission now is extending those deadlines by 1 day. ?Thus, deadlines for all filings that would have been due from January 3 through January 29 are now extended until January 30, 2019,? the FCC said. If an Amateur Radio license recently had expired or was about to expire before the shutdown, the licensee could apply for license renewal via the ULS and continue to operate while the FCC was closed, with the filed application remaining in limbo. Licensees who waited until the FCC reopened to apply will have 2 days to submit a renewal application before the license is considered to have expired in the FCC database. The resumption of normal FCC operations means the FCC?s January 30 open meeting will be an in-person session. The Commission had made provisions for a teleconference should the shutdown not be over by the meeting date. The FCC said, however, that due to the funding lapse, items initially included in the tentative agenda published on January 3 would not be considered at this week?s meeting, which would address only ?Commission announcements.? Tom - K1TA Tom Alessi Tom at K1TA.com | K1TA.com | ARRL DXCC Card Checker State of Connecticut - Justice of the Peace & Notary Public C: (203) 253-7745 | O: (914) 231-1691 | F: (914) 813-4091 "CW Forever !" Look for me on 20m, 30m or 40m CW From ranceiii at aol.com Wed Jan 30 13:23:58 2019 From: ranceiii at aol.com (ranceiii at aol.com) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 18:23:58 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [CTSARA] Looking for an osciliscope for a new SARA member References: <606885271.351668.1548872638359.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <606885271.351668.1548872638359@mail.yahoo.com> Hello all, A retired doctor named Maurice Miller has joined SARA, and will likely be attending his first meeting in February. He is looking to buy an oscilloscope, and has asked me to help him locate one for a reasonable price. Does anyone in SARA or GNARC have an oscilloscope gathering dust that they would like to sell? Let me know if you do. 73,Terry MartinW1TSM