From sgriffin1 at stx.rr.com Thu Jan 1 06:15:21 2015 From: sgriffin1 at stx.rr.com (=?utf-8?B?c2dyaWZmaW4xQHN0eC5yci5jb20=?=) Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2015 11:15:21 GMT Subject: [HCARC] DX Message-ID: <000f4244.6cfd84e5672eeeb4@stx.rr.com> happy new year everyone I know this is going to sound silly but what a way to start out the first of the new year. First I made my first DX to Puerto Rico but what really made it interesting is that I did it on 80 meters and a hundred watts. WD5ENH Steve Happy Connecting. Sent from my Sprint Phone. From kerryk5ks at hughes.net Thu Jan 1 10:11:44 2015 From: kerryk5ks at hughes.net (Kerry Sandstrom) Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 09:11:44 -0600 Subject: [HCARC] DX In-Reply-To: <000f4244.6cfd84e5672eeeb4@stx.rr.com> References: <000f4244.6cfd84e5672eeeb4@stx.rr.com> Message-ID: <54A563B0.908@hughes.net> Very good, Steve. That was on SSB I'm guessing. Frequently there are stations in that area that are pretty easy to work. particularly good times are just before or after a DX contest when there are stations from Europe and North America that are down on the islands for the contest and do some fairly casual operating for a couple days before or after. There are also several stations in Central America that are easy to work. You can get a pretty good DXCC total just working stations in that area. 80 meters is actually a good band particularly this time of year. Its biggest problem is lack of stations. This is the time of year to be looking for DX on 80. Have fun, Kerry From hcarc at mailman.qth.net Thu Jan 1 10:38:29 2015 From: hcarc at mailman.qth.net (Don Murray via HCARC) Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2015 10:38:29 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] DX Message-ID: <11074a.20f8ba56.41d6c3f5@aol.com> EXCELLENT Steve!! In a message dated 1/1/2015 5:15:40 A.M. Central Standard Time, sgriffin1 at stx.rr.com writes: happy new year everyone I know this is going to sound silly but what a way to start out the first of the new year. First I made my first DX to Puerto Rico but what really made it interesting is that I did it on 80 meters and a hundred watts. WD5ENH Steve Happy Connecting. Sent from my Sprint Phone. ______________________________________________________________ HCARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html From qltfnish at omniglobal.net Tue Jan 6 01:49:26 2015 From: qltfnish at omniglobal.net (Gary J - N5BAA) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 00:49:26 -0600 Subject: [HCARC] Wild life In-Reply-To: <6C07DF40E9F145428F734B8ED8FE3797@ham296dac95944> References: <6C07DF40E9F145428F734B8ED8FE3797@ham296dac95944> Message-ID: I hate deer - they are nothing other than large grey brown RATS. Gary J N5BAA -----Original Message----- From: Fred Gilmore Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 11:44 AM To: "Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCARC] Wild life Anyone living in an area where there are a lot of deer or other large wild life need to watch this. Here in the Texas Hill country its not if you hit a deer, but when. http://huntinginsider.com/index.php/content?id=3046 ______________________________________________________________ HCARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5577 / Virus Database: 4257/8877 - Release Date: 01/05/15 From tower2 at stx.rr.com Tue Jan 6 09:42:11 2015 From: tower2 at stx.rr.com (Harvey N. Vordenbaum) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 08:42:11 -0600 Subject: [HCARC] test Message-ID: <000b01d029be$f4a84d60$ddf8e820$@rr.com> Test From dale.gaudier at windstream.net Tue Jan 6 11:09:46 2015 From: dale.gaudier at windstream.net (Dale Gaudier) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 10:09:46 -0600 Subject: [HCARC] Wild life In-Reply-To: References: <6C07DF40E9F145428F734B8ED8FE3797@ham296dac95944> Message-ID: <012f01d029cb$31624c90$9426e5b0$@gaudier@windstream.net> Fred: Thanks for the informative posting. We tell folks who move here that there are two groups of people in the Hill Country: those who have hit a deer, and those that will. Everyone in the Gaudier family (four of us) has hit a deer. We live 12 miles south of Kerrville and see lots of deer on the roads. Most recent collision was shortly after Christmas where a whitetail went after my F150 and lost. That's the second one the F150 has taken out with only minor damage to the truck. I think Ford must build their trucks with deer in mind - this last collision was on the front bumper at 60 mph and I only lost a small replaceable rubber bumper guard. All our collisions have been at night. We watch for them constantly, but they are quite adept at springing out of the brush alongside the road directly in front of your vehicle leaving you no opportunity to slow down or avoid the collision. One thing I've taught my kids to NOT do is jerk the wheel when collision is unavoidable - that can send you off the road or into oncoming traffic. 73, Dale - K4DG -----Original Message----- From: Fred Gilmore Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 11:44 AM To: "Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCARC] Wild life Anyone living in an area where there are a lot of deer or other large wild life need to watch this. Here in the Texas Hill country its not if you hit a deer, but when. http://huntinginsider.com/index.php/content?id=3046 ______________________________________________________________ HCARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5577 / Virus Database: 4257/8877 - Release Date: 01/05/15 ______________________________________________________________ HCARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html From qltfnish at omniglobal.net Tue Jan 6 11:36:37 2015 From: qltfnish at omniglobal.net (Gary J - N5BAA) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 10:36:37 -0600 Subject: [HCARC] Wild life In-Reply-To: <012f01d029cb$31624c90$9426e5b0$@gaudier@windstream.net> References: <6C07DF40E9F145428F734B8ED8FE3797@ham296dac95944> <012f01d029cb$31624c90$9426e5b0$@gaudier@windstream.net> Message-ID: <1EFCA8D0D1DE4DFD85C9625BDA0A9BCD@GaryPC> I wonder what the legality would be of mounting driving lights in such a manner as to be turned towards the right side of the road, thus helping to illuminate that side of the road. Or mount them such that one is turned towards the left side and one towards the right side. You would only use them when there is no oncoming traffic. It would surely help to be able to see the sides of the road better. Also helpful would be to make it mandatory that each resident take 5 deer each year, preferably all Does. If you think about it, each 5 Does you kill would eliminate approx 13 deer for the next year (5 Does, and 8 babies). At 5 Does per resident it wouldn't take too many years to decimate the whitetail population thus limiting the number available to commit suicide against the side of vehicles, and secondly ensuring that Axis deer flourish. There is no comparison between the quality of Axis meat and whitetail meat. Gary J N5BAA -----Original Message----- From: Dale Gaudier Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 10:09 AM To: hcarc at mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [HCARC] Wild life Fred: Thanks for the informative posting. We tell folks who move here that there are two groups of people in the Hill Country: those who have hit a deer, and those that will. Everyone in the Gaudier family (four of us) has hit a deer. We live 12 miles south of Kerrville and see lots of deer on the roads. Most recent collision was shortly after Christmas where a whitetail went after my F150 and lost. That's the second one the F150 has taken out with only minor damage to the truck. I think Ford must build their trucks with deer in mind - this last collision was on the front bumper at 60 mph and I only lost a small replaceable rubber bumper guard. All our collisions have been at night. We watch for them constantly, but they are quite adept at springing out of the brush alongside the road directly in front of your vehicle leaving you no opportunity to slow down or avoid the collision. One thing I've taught my kids to NOT do is jerk the wheel when collision is unavoidable - that can send you off the road or into oncoming traffic. 73, Dale - K4DG -----Original Message----- From: Fred Gilmore Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 11:44 AM To: "Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCARC] Wild life Anyone living in an area where there are a lot of deer or other large wild life need to watch this. Here in the Texas Hill country its not if you hit a deer, but when. http://huntinginsider.com/index.php/content?id=3046 ______________________________________________________________ HCARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ----- No virus found in this message. 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Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5577 / Virus Database: 4257/8877 - Release Date: 01/05/15 From qltfnish at omniglobal.net Tue Jan 6 12:45:10 2015 From: qltfnish at omniglobal.net (Gary J - N5BAA) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 11:45:10 -0600 Subject: [HCARC] November/December 2014 Minutes Message-ID: HILL COUNTRY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB Meeting Minutes 6 November and 7 December 2014 MEETING COMMENCEMENT The meeting was called to order by President Terry Hipskind (W0HIP) who led us in the Pledge Of Allegiance. There were 35 members in attendance with 1 guest Johnathan Johnson (unlicensed) at the November meeting and in excess of 60 attendees at the Christmas Party. MEMBER AND GUEST RECOGNITION At the November meeting President Hipskind explained the 50/50 and gave out tickets to the following people for having helped during the past month: Barb and Pete Schuyler (N9NM, N9OF respectively) for providing goodies for the break and to Mort McKenzie (WB2GEU) for sugar free goodies. Gary Johnson (N5BAA) ,Tony Moore (KG5AAO) and Gordon Green (KG5DKI) were thanked by Alan Cone (K5AFC) for their having taken down the R-7 antenna which was delivered to his QTH. The October 2014 minutes were posted and approved. The Treasurers report was read and approved COMMITTEE REPORTS Repeater (Harvey K5HV) ? Nothing to report. Repeater functioning well. VE Testing (Fred W0LPD) ? 5 sessions were held in 2014 (27 candidates, 25 licensed or upgraded). Red Cross Liason (Terry W0HIP) ? Our local Red Cross? region has changed due to reorganization within the Texas Red Cross. There are now 3 Regions, our local region consisting of 18 counties or roughly the size of the State of Oregon. Significant thought needs to be applied to how we will communicate across an area that large. Nominating Committee (Bob K5YB) ? results and election are as follows: President ? Terry Hipskind (W0HIP) Vice President ? Bob Ritchie (K5YB) Secretary ? Gary Johnson (N5BAA) Treasurer ? Harvey Vordenbaum (K5HV) OLD BUSINESS None NEW BUSINESS San Antonio Radio Club Radiofest to be held in Schertz on 10 January 2015. The doors open at 8 am. Jan 10-11 Ultra Marathon in Bandera The Christmas Party was held at the 1st Presbyterian Church Social Hall (same wonderful venue as the last two years) on the first Saturday in December, the 6th, at 12:30 pm. Marilyn Vordenbaum (KE5DDR) did her consistently outstanding of planning and executing the party and a great time was had by all. $50.00 from the treasury was donated to the church for use of their facility. This was voted on by the membership and unanimously approved. All attendees were requested to bring a canned food item for distribution to Christian Assistance Ministries (CAM). REMINDER, the meeting in January is on the 8th since the first Thursday is New Years Day. BREAK FOR REFRESHMENTS FROM Barb, Pete, and Mort. The presentation was by Bob Ritchie who recapped the last years presentations and solicited input for what the membership would like to have for this years presentations. November 50/50 was won by Mike Connor. December 50/50 won by Sherry Noble. Submitted: Gary Johnson N5BAA HCARC Secretary 2013/14/15 From tower2 at stx.rr.com Tue Jan 6 20:14:13 2015 From: tower2 at stx.rr.com (Harvey N. Vordenbaum) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 19:14:13 -0600 Subject: [HCARC] Wild life In-Reply-To: <012f01d029cb$31624c90$9426e5b0$@gaudier@windstream.net> References: <6C07DF40E9F145428F734B8ED8FE3797@ham296dac95944> <012f01d029cb$31624c90$9426e5b0$@gaudier@windstream.net> Message-ID: <000101d02a17$3fb64a70$bf22df50$@rr.com> One ran into the driver's side of my car a number of years ago on 16 South between Ranchero and Camp Meeting roads. It broke my rear view mirror. I wonder if it had trouble eating after that? Hv -----Original Message----- From: HCARC [mailto:hcarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Dale Gaudier Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 10:10 AM To: hcarc at mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [HCARC] Wild life Fred: Thanks for the informative posting. We tell folks who move here that there are two groups of people in the Hill Country: those who have hit a deer, and those that will. Everyone in the Gaudier family (four of us) has hit a deer. We live 12 miles south of Kerrville and see lots of deer on the roads. Most recent collision was shortly after Christmas where a whitetail went after my F150 and lost. That's the second one the F150 has taken out with only minor damage to the truck. I think Ford must build their trucks with deer in mind - this last collision was on the front bumper at 60 mph and I only lost a small replaceable rubber bumper guard. All our collisions have been at night. We watch for them constantly, but they are quite adept at springing out of the brush alongside the road directly in front of your vehicle leaving you no opportunity to slow down or avoid the collision. One thing I've taught my kids to NOT do is jerk the wheel when collision is unavoidable - that can send you off the road or into oncoming traffic. 73, Dale - K4DG -----Original Message----- From: Fred Gilmore Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 11:44 AM To: "Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCARC] Wild life Anyone living in an area where there are a lot of deer or other large wild life need to watch this. Here in the Texas Hill country its not if you hit a deer, but when. http://huntinginsider.com/index.php/content?id=3046 ______________________________________________________________ HCARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5577 / Virus Database: 4257/8877 - Release Date: 01/05/15 ______________________________________________________________ HCARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ HCARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html From billandmattie at windstream.net Tue Jan 6 21:58:11 2015 From: billandmattie at windstream.net (Bill Tynan) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 20:58:11 -0600 Subject: [HCARC] Wild life In-Reply-To: <1EFCA8D0D1DE4DFD85C9625BDA0A9BCD@GaryPC> References: <6C07DF40E9F145428F734B8ED8FE3797@ham296dac95944><012f01d029cb$31624c90$9426e5b0$@gaudier@windstream.net> <1EFCA8D0D1DE4DFD85C9625BDA0A9BCD@GaryPC> Message-ID: And then deer would become endangered species and the Government would prohibit anyone from hunting them. Just as thought. Hope to see you'll Thurdday evening. 73, Bill, W3XO/5 -----Original Message----- From: HCARC [mailto:hcarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Gary J - N5BAA Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 10:37 AM To: Dale Gaudier; hcarc at mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [HCARC] Wild life I wonder what the legality would be of mounting driving lights in such a manner as to be turned towards the right side of the road, thus helping to illuminate that side of the road. Or mount them such that one is turned towards the left side and one towards the right side. You would only use them when there is no oncoming traffic. It would surely help to be able to see the sides of the road better. Also helpful would be to make it mandatory that each resident take 5 deer each year, preferably all Does. If you think about it, each 5 Does you kill would eliminate approx 13 deer for the next year (5 Does, and 8 babies). At 5 Does per resident it wouldn't take too many years to decimate the whitetail population thus limiting the number available to commit suicide against the side of vehicles, and secondly ensuring that Axis deer flourish. There is no comparison between the quality of Axis meat and whitetail meat. Gary J N5BAA -----Original Message----- From: Dale Gaudier Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 10:09 AM To: hcarc at mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [HCARC] Wild life Fred: Thanks for the informative posting. We tell folks who move here that there are two groups of people in the Hill Country: those who have hit a deer, and those that will. Everyone in the Gaudier family (four of us) has hit a deer. We live 12 miles south of Kerrville and see lots of deer on the roads. Most recent collision was shortly after Christmas where a whitetail went after my F150 and lost. That's the second one the F150 has taken out with only minor damage to the truck. I think Ford must build their trucks with deer in mind - this last collision was on the front bumper at 60 mph and I only lost a small replaceable rubber bumper guard. All our collisions have been at night. We watch for them constantly, but they are quite adept at springing out of the brush alongside the road directly in front of your vehicle leaving you no opportunity to slow down or avoid the collision. One thing I've taught my kids to NOT do is jerk the wheel when collision is unavoidable - that can send you off the road or into oncoming traffic. 73, Dale - K4DG -----Original Message----- From: Fred Gilmore Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 11:44 AM To: "Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCARC] Wild life Anyone living in an area where there are a lot of deer or other large wild life need to watch this. Here in the Texas Hill country its not if you hit a deer, but when. http://huntinginsider.com/index.php/content?id=3046 ______________________________________________________________ HCARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ----- No virus found in this message. 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Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5577 / Virus Database: 4257/8883 - Release Date: 01/06/15 From vbiersch at gmail.com Tue Jan 6 22:09:08 2015 From: vbiersch at gmail.com (Virgil Bierschwale) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 21:09:08 -0600 Subject: [HCARC] Wild life In-Reply-To: References: <6C07DF40E9F145428F734B8ED8FE3797@ham296dac95944> <1EFCA8D0D1DE4DFD85C9625BDA0A9BCD@GaryPC> Message-ID: Personally, I happen to prefer smoked dried sausage made from a whitetail Guess that comes from growing up around here On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 8:58 PM, Bill Tynan wrote: > And then deer would become endangered species and the Government would > prohibit anyone from hunting them. > > Just as thought. > > Hope to see you'll Thurdday evening. > > 73, > > Bill, W3XO/5 > > -----Original Message----- > From: HCARC [mailto:hcarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Gary J - > N5BAA > Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 10:37 AM > To: Dale Gaudier; hcarc at mailman.qth.net > Subject: Re: [HCARC] Wild life > > I wonder what the legality would be of mounting driving lights in such a > manner as to be turned towards the right side of the road, thus helping to > illuminate that side of the road. Or mount them such that one is turned > towards the left side and one towards the right side. You would only use > them when there is no oncoming traffic. It would surely help to be able to > see the sides of the road better. > > Also helpful would be to make it mandatory that each resident take 5 deer > each year, preferably all Does. If you think about it, each 5 Does you > kill > > would eliminate approx 13 deer for the next year (5 Does, and 8 babies). > At > > 5 Does per resident it wouldn't take too many years to decimate the > whitetail population thus limiting the number available to commit suicide > against the side of vehicles, and secondly ensuring that Axis deer > flourish. > > There is no comparison between the quality of Axis meat and whitetail meat. > > Gary J > N5BAA > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dale Gaudier > Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 10:09 AM > To: hcarc at mailman.qth.net > Subject: Re: [HCARC] Wild life > > Fred: > > Thanks for the informative posting. > > We tell folks who move here that there are two groups of people in the Hill > Country: those who have hit a deer, and those that will. > > Everyone in the Gaudier family (four of us) has hit a deer. We live 12 > miles > south of Kerrville and see lots of deer on the roads. Most recent collision > was shortly after Christmas where a whitetail went after my F150 and lost. > That's the second one the F150 has taken out with only minor damage to the > truck. I think Ford must build their trucks with deer in mind - this last > collision was on the front bumper at 60 mph and I only lost a small > replaceable rubber bumper guard. All our collisions have been at night. We > watch for them constantly, but they are quite adept at springing out of the > brush alongside the road directly in front of your vehicle leaving you no > opportunity to slow down or avoid the collision. > > One thing I've taught my kids to NOT do is jerk the wheel when collision is > unavoidable - that can send you off the road or into oncoming traffic. > > 73, > > Dale - K4DG > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Fred Gilmore > Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 11:44 AM > To: "Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@mailman.qth.net > Subject: [HCARC] Wild life > > Anyone living in an area where there are a lot of deer or other large wild > life need to watch this. Here in the Texas Hill country its not if you hit > a deer, but when. > > http://huntinginsider.com/index.php/content?id=3046 > ______________________________________________________________ > HCARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2015.0.5577 / Virus Database: 4257/8877 - Release Date: 01/05/15 > > ______________________________________________________________ > HCARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > ______________________________________________________________ > HCARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2015.0.5577 / Virus Database: 4257/8877 - Release Date: 01/05/15 > > ______________________________________________________________ > HCARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2015.0.5577 / Virus Database: 4257/8883 - Release Date: 01/06/15 > > ______________________________________________________________ > HCARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > From tower2 at stx.rr.com Wed Jan 7 07:30:37 2015 From: tower2 at stx.rr.com (Harvey N. Vordenbaum) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 06:30:37 -0600 Subject: [HCARC] Wild life In-Reply-To: References: <6C07DF40E9F145428F734B8ED8FE3797@ham296dac95944> <1EFCA8D0D1DE4DFD85C9625BDA0A9BCD@GaryPC> Message-ID: <000301d02a75$bde36140$39aa23c0$@rr.com> 50-60 years ago deer the population was declining. That's why we have the hunting regulations. Does were off limits for hunting. Legally, deer are property of the state. That's why you have to have a license to hunt them. Hv -----Original Message----- From: HCARC [mailto:hcarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Virgil Bierschwale Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 9:09 PM To: Bill Tynan Cc: Dale Gaudier; Reflector Subject: Re: [HCARC] Wild life Personally, I happen to prefer smoked dried sausage made from a whitetail Guess that comes from growing up around here On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 8:58 PM, Bill Tynan wrote: > And then deer would become endangered species and the Government would > prohibit anyone from hunting them. > > Just as thought. > > Hope to see you'll Thurdday evening. > > 73, > > Bill, W3XO/5 > > -----Original Message----- > From: HCARC [mailto:hcarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Gary J > - N5BAA > Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 10:37 AM > To: Dale Gaudier; hcarc at mailman.qth.net > Subject: Re: [HCARC] Wild life > > I wonder what the legality would be of mounting driving lights in such > a manner as to be turned towards the right side of the road, thus > helping to illuminate that side of the road. Or mount them such that > one is turned towards the left side and one towards the right side. > You would only use them when there is no oncoming traffic. It would > surely help to be able to see the sides of the road better. > > Also helpful would be to make it mandatory that each resident take 5 > deer each year, preferably all Does. If you think about it, each 5 > Does you kill > > would eliminate approx 13 deer for the next year (5 Does, and 8 babies). > At > > 5 Does per resident it wouldn't take too many years to decimate the > whitetail population thus limiting the number available to commit > suicide against the side of vehicles, and secondly ensuring that Axis > deer flourish. > > There is no comparison between the quality of Axis meat and whitetail meat. > > Gary J > N5BAA > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dale Gaudier > Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 10:09 AM > To: hcarc at mailman.qth.net > Subject: Re: [HCARC] Wild life > > Fred: > > Thanks for the informative posting. > > We tell folks who move here that there are two groups of people in the > Hill > Country: those who have hit a deer, and those that will. > > Everyone in the Gaudier family (four of us) has hit a deer. We live 12 > miles south of Kerrville and see lots of deer on the roads. Most > recent collision was shortly after Christmas where a whitetail went > after my F150 and lost. > That's the second one the F150 has taken out with only minor damage to > the truck. I think Ford must build their trucks with deer in mind - > this last collision was on the front bumper at 60 mph and I only lost > a small replaceable rubber bumper guard. All our collisions have been > at night. We watch for them constantly, but they are quite adept at > springing out of the brush alongside the road directly in front of > your vehicle leaving you no opportunity to slow down or avoid the collision. > > One thing I've taught my kids to NOT do is jerk the wheel when > collision is unavoidable - that can send you off the road or into oncoming traffic. > > 73, > > Dale - K4DG > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Fred Gilmore > Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 11:44 AM > To: "Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@mailman.qth.net > Subject: [HCARC] Wild life > > Anyone living in an area where there are a lot of deer or other large > wild life need to watch this. Here in the Texas Hill country its not > if you hit a deer, but when. > > http://huntinginsider.com/index.php/content?id=3046 > ______________________________________________________________ > HCARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email > list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2015.0.5577 / Virus Database: 4257/8877 - Release Date: > 01/05/15 > > ______________________________________________________________ > HCARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email > list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > ______________________________________________________________ > HCARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email > list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2015.0.5577 / Virus Database: 4257/8877 - Release Date: > 01/05/15 > > ______________________________________________________________ > HCARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email > list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2015.0.5577 / Virus Database: 4257/8883 - Release Date: > 01/06/15 > > ______________________________________________________________ > HCARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email > list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ HCARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html From qltfnish at omniglobal.net Wed Jan 7 10:25:07 2015 From: qltfnish at omniglobal.net (Gary J - N5BAA) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 09:25:07 -0600 Subject: [HCARC] Wild life In-Reply-To: <000301d02a75$bde36140$39aa23c0$@rr.com> References: <6C07DF40E9F145428F734B8ED8FE3797@ham296dac95944> <1EFCA8D0D1DE4DFD85C9625BDA0A9BCD@GaryPC> <000301d02a75$bde36140$39aa23c0$@rr.com> Message-ID: <340F8715D23F47E08D5E4406294D6674@GaryPC> Well they are sure not "Endangered" now!! It seems there are almost as many deer living downtown Kerrville as there are people. If deer ate grass (which they don't do - it's why AXIS deer are invading their territory) they wouldn't have to mow the grass at the Courthouse. I still maintain the opinion that Whitetail deer are nothing more than overgrown RATS. Gary J N5BAA -----Original Message----- From: Harvey N. Vordenbaum Sent: Wednesday, January 7, 2015 6:30 AM To: 'Virgil Bierschwale' ; 'Bill Tynan' Cc: 'Dale Gaudier' ; 'Reflector' Subject: Re: [HCARC] Wild life 50-60 years ago deer the population was declining. That's why we have the hunting regulations. Does were off limits for hunting. Legally, deer are property of the state. That's why you have to have a license to hunt them. Hv -----Original Message----- From: HCARC [mailto:hcarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Virgil Bierschwale Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 9:09 PM To: Bill Tynan Cc: Dale Gaudier; Reflector Subject: Re: [HCARC] Wild life Personally, I happen to prefer smoked dried sausage made from a whitetail Guess that comes from growing up around here On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 8:58 PM, Bill Tynan wrote: > And then deer would become endangered species and the Government would > prohibit anyone from hunting them. > > Just as thought. > > Hope to see you'll Thurdday evening. > > 73, > > Bill, W3XO/5 > > -----Original Message----- > From: HCARC [mailto:hcarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Gary J > - N5BAA > Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 10:37 AM > To: Dale Gaudier; hcarc at mailman.qth.net > Subject: Re: [HCARC] Wild life > > I wonder what the legality would be of mounting driving lights in such > a manner as to be turned towards the right side of the road, thus > helping to illuminate that side of the road. Or mount them such that > one is turned towards the left side and one towards the right side. > You would only use them when there is no oncoming traffic. It would > surely help to be able to see the sides of the road better. > > Also helpful would be to make it mandatory that each resident take 5 > deer each year, preferably all Does. If you think about it, each 5 > Does you kill > > would eliminate approx 13 deer for the next year (5 Does, and 8 babies). > At > > 5 Does per resident it wouldn't take too many years to decimate the > whitetail population thus limiting the number available to commit > suicide against the side of vehicles, and secondly ensuring that Axis > deer flourish. > > There is no comparison between the quality of Axis meat and whitetail meat. > > Gary J > N5BAA > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dale Gaudier > Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 10:09 AM > To: hcarc at mailman.qth.net > Subject: Re: [HCARC] Wild life > > Fred: > > Thanks for the informative posting. > > We tell folks who move here that there are two groups of people in the > Hill > Country: those who have hit a deer, and those that will. > > Everyone in the Gaudier family (four of us) has hit a deer. We live 12 > miles south of Kerrville and see lots of deer on the roads. Most > recent collision was shortly after Christmas where a whitetail went > after my F150 and lost. > That's the second one the F150 has taken out with only minor damage to > the truck. I think Ford must build their trucks with deer in mind - > this last collision was on the front bumper at 60 mph and I only lost > a small replaceable rubber bumper guard. All our collisions have been > at night. We watch for them constantly, but they are quite adept at > springing out of the brush alongside the road directly in front of > your vehicle leaving you no opportunity to slow down or avoid the collision. > > One thing I've taught my kids to NOT do is jerk the wheel when > collision is unavoidable - that can send you off the road or into oncoming traffic. > > 73, > > Dale - K4DG > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Fred Gilmore > Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 11:44 AM > To: "Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@mailman.qth.net > Subject: [HCARC] Wild life > > Anyone living in an area where there are a lot of deer or other large > wild life need to watch this. Here in the Texas Hill country its not > if you hit a deer, but when. > > http://huntinginsider.com/index.php/content?id=3046 > ______________________________________________________________ > HCARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email > list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2015.0.5577 / Virus Database: 4257/8877 - Release Date: > 01/05/15 > > ______________________________________________________________ > HCARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email > list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > ______________________________________________________________ > HCARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email > list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2015.0.5577 / Virus Database: 4257/8877 - Release Date: > 01/05/15 > > ______________________________________________________________ > HCARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email > list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2015.0.5577 / Virus Database: 4257/8883 - Release Date: > 01/06/15 > > ______________________________________________________________ > HCARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email > list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ HCARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ HCARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5577 / Virus Database: 4257/8884 - Release Date: 01/07/15 From qltfnish at omniglobal.net Wed Jan 7 11:01:28 2015 From: qltfnish at omniglobal.net (Gary J - N5BAA) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 10:01:28 -0600 Subject: [HCARC] Hill Country Preppers Meeting - 3rd Thursday of Each Month Message-ID: <6F96A31A8D7246E4977C00D669385CDF@GaryPC> Received from Steve at Hill Country Preppers about their next meeting. They support us, we should support them. That said, this meeting could be well attended ? get there early to get your seat and something to eat. ?At the height of the current flu season and because of the recent Ebola scare and unknown infectious diseases drifting across our southern border, the Hill Country Preppers will revisit the subject of Pandemics at their January 15 meeting. The speaker will be Mark Wilkinson, a Registered Nurse with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing. He works at Peterson Regional Medical Center as the Patient Safety, Joint Commission Compliance and Emergency Management Coordinator. Mark is a former Army Major with Thirty-five years of comprehensive clinical, education, and healthcare management experience.. He will discuss what are pandemics and epidemics, how to avoid them and how to prepare for them. The meeting is free and open to the public. Come enjoy some award-winning barbeque at Buzzie?s, 213 Schreiner St. in Kerrville, before the meeting at 6:00 p.m.? Gary J N5BAA From sgriffin1 at stx.rr.com Sat Jan 10 10:55:12 2015 From: sgriffin1 at stx.rr.com (=?utf-8?B?c2dyaWZmaW4xQHN0eC5yci5jb20=?=) Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 15:55:12 GMT Subject: [HCARC] 80 meter dx Message-ID: <000f4242.072ad00001acfa40@stx.rr.com> Bob K5YB The the contact i made on 80 meter on new year day, his call is NP4A that morning his signal was 10 over S9. WD5ENH Steve Happy Connecting. Sent from my Sprint Phone. From galeheise at windstream.net Sat Jan 10 13:20:39 2015 From: galeheise at windstream.net (galeheise at windstream.net) Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 12:20:39 -0600 Subject: [HCARC] 10 Meter Transceiver for Sale Message-ID: For Tech Licensed hams who might be interested in experiencing 10 meter HF SSB/FM or AM operations I have a Realistic HTX-10 transceiver for sale with a matching Astron RS-7A 7 amp power supply.for $60. I tested it by working France and Cuba. It has a tuning quirk which is why it?s selling for a low price. If interested, please contact me directly via email or 830-896-9593 for more details. Gale KM4DR From gmigely at gmail.com Sat Jan 10 17:10:53 2015 From: gmigely at gmail.com (Gerald Migely) Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 16:10:53 -0600 Subject: [HCARC] Popular Communications issue September, 2011 Message-ID: Does anyone have a copy of the September, 2011 issue of Popular Communications? I'm looking for an article in that issue. I'd appreciate it if someone can share their copy with me. 73, Jerry wa9kxz From qltfnish at omniglobal.net Sun Jan 11 10:00:56 2015 From: qltfnish at omniglobal.net (Gary J - N5BAA) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 09:00:56 -0600 Subject: [HCARC] Winter Field Day - 2015 Message-ID: <7B263AD57D074FDFB4296121ADACA794@GaryPC> Society for the Preservation of Amateur Radio SPAR Announces Winter Field Day 2015 Not only during Field Day in June, do the bands come alive with improvised signals proving the ability to respond to emergencies. Since emergencies and natural disasters don't always happen in the summer, during Winter Field Day, frigid winds, icy limbs and bitter cold replace the thunderstorms and blistering heat of summer. In 2007 SPAR established a Winter Field Day event and invited all Amateur Radio operators to participate. The event was repeated in 2008 and was considered a success, so it was then designated an annual event to be held the last full weekend each January. In 2007 - 2014 the event was enjoyed by many, but it is time to issue the invitation for the Ninth Annual SPAR Winter Field Day! The 2015 Winter Field Day will be held from 1700 UTC (12:00 noon EST) Saturday January 24, 2015 through 1700 UTC (12:00 noon EST) Sunday January 25, 2015. The object of the event is familiar to most Amateur Radio operators: set up emergency-style communications and make as many contacts as possible during the 24 hour period. The rules encourage as many contacts on as many bands and modes as possible, because during a real emergency, the most important factor is the ability to communicate, regardless of band, mode or distance. The official rules can be found at the SPAR web site. The event is open to all amateurs, although we encourage everyone to join in the discussions and other activities sponsored by SPAR. Information about SPAR can be found on the SPAR Home Page. Membership is free and open to all amateurs who want to encourage technical and operating skills. You can register by going to the SPAR Forum and registering, using your amateur callsign as your user name. Please join with SPAR in promoting amateur radio and keeping our bands alive! RULES: Society for the Preservation of Amateur Radio The SPAR Winter Field Day NOTE CHANGE IN EXCHANGE THIS YEAR Purpose: To encourage emergency operating preparedness in the winter. When: The contest runs for 24 hours during the last full weekend in January each year from 1700 UTC (12:00 noon EST) Saturday to 1700 UTC (12:00 noon EST) Sunday. For 2015, the dates are January 24 and 25, 2015. Station set up may begin no earlier than 1300 UTC (8:00 AM EST) on January 24, 2015. Bands: All bands, except 12, 17, 30 and 60 meters. Modes: Any mode. Categories: a.. a) Number of operators: 1, 2, Multi b.. b) Site: Indoor, Outdoor, Home For example, 2 operators at a remote campground would be 2O, 1 person at home would be 1H, 5 club members operating from a community center would be MI. Exchange: Callsign, Category, ARRL Section (or DX outside of US and Canada), and local outside temperature (with F or C). For example 1 person from an North Texas campground where the temperature is 28 F might send "KX5XYZ 1O NTX 28F" or "KX5XYZ 1O NTX -2C" QSO Points: 1 point per QSO, regardless of band and mode. The object is to be able to communicate and in an emergency it doesn't matter what band and mode is used. Busted exchanges will be penalized by 1 additional point for each missed exchange or callsign. Duplicate contacts (same station, band and mode) will not be counted, but will not be penalized. Multiplier: Count 1 multiplier for each mode operated per band. For example, operating CW and Phone on 80, 40, 15 and 10 meters, CW and PSK31 on 20m, FM on 2meters and satellite on 1.2 GHz would be a total multiplier of 12. Bonus: Count 1000 points if commercial power is not used, 1000 points if outdoors and 1000 points if not at home. For example, operating outdoors in your backyard without commercial power would be 1000 + 1000 = 2000 points (outdoors, no commercial power), while operating from a campground tent using commercial power would be 1000 + 1000 = 2000 points (outdoors and not home). Note: There must have been at least 1 valid QSO in order to count bonus points. This is to ensure that someone claiming bonus points without actually making any contacts cannot win a category! Final Score: QSO Points x Multiplier + Bonus Points. Logs: Logs should be submitted to "winterfd at spar-hams.org" before 0000 UTC March 1st to be considered. All logs must be in Cabrillo format and should contain the following information: a.. Frequency (kHz) b.. Mode (CW = CW, AM SSB FM = PH, Digital = RY, SSTV = TV, Satelite = SA) c.. Date and time (UTC) d.. Callsign, ARRL/RAC Section and Exchange sent e.. Callsign, ARRL/RAC Section and Exchange received The Cabrillo QSO template is as follows. Please enter BONUS points in the Cabrillo Soapbox comments as shown SOAPBOX: BONUS 2000 --------info sent-------- -------info rcvd--------- QSO: freq mo date time call ct sec temp call ct sec temp QSO: ***** ** yyyy-mm-dd nnnn ************* ** *** **** ************* ** *** **** QSO: 3799 PH 1999-03-06 0711 W5ALT 1H STX 37F WB5XAC MO LA 13C Results will be posted on the SPAR website. Pictures, description of operations and logistics are encouraged and welcome. Definitions: Location - the place where an amateur station is setup for the contest. Home - operating from the place where an amateur station is normally established. If the station used in the contest is setup before 8AM local time, it should be considered a home operation. Indoor - operating from inside a building at a temporary location where amateur radio is not normally available, including community centers, etc. If it has a both a permanent roof and walls, it's indoors. Outdoor - operating from remote locations with no permanent building, including campgrounds, tents, RV's, etc. An open-air pavillion with no walls would be considered Outdoor. Band - the normal amateur band allocations recognized by the ITU, i.e. 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, 10, 6, and 2 meters, plus the UHF bands. To be counted as a band, at least 1 valid QSO must have taken place on the band during the contest. 75 meters counts as part of 80 meters. Mode - CW, Phone (including SSB, AM, FM), Digital (including PSK, RTTY, and other soundcard modes), SSTV, satellite. Operator - Any person that operates the radio, keyboard, microphone or CW key, including logging assistance. This does not include non-operators, such as someone who brings food, but does not participate in operating. Miscellaneous: a.. - All rules governing amateur radio must be observed throughout. b.. - The decisions of the SPAR BoD is final. From qltfnish at omniglobal.net Sun Jan 11 10:11:10 2015 From: qltfnish at omniglobal.net (Gary J - N5BAA) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 09:11:10 -0600 Subject: [HCARC] WINTER FIELD DAY - 2015 Message-ID: <597FCB353D414F688F31F1D98632A765@GaryPC> We have the Red Cross big meeting room and the radio room reserved for the entire weekend and can operate as much as we desire. It should be a good chance to practice for the ARRL Field Day and we should endeavor to try as many different antennas as Club Members desire. I have 4 one gallon bags of leftover (frozen) Brisket from last June available that should be quite good when mixed with some good BBQ sauce. As far as mounting antennas, I have the club antenna trailer available as well as another approx 40 foot crank up mast, and of course some aluminum military mast sections and the metal push up mast we used last Field Day. We left a halyard attached to the club tower that should make mounting an antenna there much easier. This is an excellent chance for new Ham radio operators to get significant air time. Come one and come all for some mid-winter fun. Gary J N5BAA From qltfnish at omniglobal.net Thu Jan 15 16:45:26 2015 From: qltfnish at omniglobal.net (Gary J - N5BAA) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 15:45:26 -0600 Subject: [HCARC] ARRL LIBRARY GOES LIVE Message-ID: >From the ARRL Newsletter rcvd 1/15/2015 ARRL Library Goes Live! After several months of planning, The ARRL Library is now live! The online Library is a free repository of educational presentations and oral histories. It is aimed at helping to preserve Amateur Radio's history and to educate clubs and individuals. "This long-term project will be home to what I hope will eventually become one of the largest repositories of Amateur Radio-related papers and presentations, created by and for the Amateur Radio community," said ARRL Media and Public Relations Manager Sean Kutzko, KX9X. "This is your opportunity to submit material for the betterment and education of all radio amateurs." Kutzko said the Library will initially consist of three major areas. These will include PowerPoint presentations that may be used at club meetings, for outreach to the general public, or for other public presentations; PDFs of general educational material about Amateur Radio, and oral histories of radio amateurs describing their personal experiences with Amateur Radio. Current content includes presentations on operating digital modes, HF basics, and impedance matching. While the available material is sparse right now, Kutzko invites all radio amateurs to submit material for consideration -- as long as it relates to Amateur Radio. The Public Relations Committee will vet all submissions, and once a submission is approved, it will be added to The ARRL Library. "We have lots of tutorials and information on how to create presentations on the site," Kutzko pointed out. "Presenting somebody else's PowerPoint slides is tough," he added, "so we're asking people who submit presentations to make use of PowerPoint's 'Notes' feature, which allows the author to provide more detailed information for the talking points found on each slide, visible only to the presenter. This will make it easier for the presenter to emphasize what the author intended to convey." Answers to typical questions, as well as information on how to upload content and how to conduct an oral history interview, can be found in the Frequently Asked Questions area. "Sharing expertise is one of the best things we can do for Amateur Radio," Kutzko said. "I hope you will consider submitting material for the Library and help give back to the entire community." Gary J N5BAA From hcarc at mailman.qth.net Sun Jan 18 01:43:09 2015 From: hcarc at mailman.qth.net (Don Murray via HCARC) Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 01:43:09 -0500 Subject: [HCARC] WANTED... Message-ID: <5bf63.2a45857d.41ecaffd@aol.com> Hello all... Looking for a small 6m beam. 3 elements would be nice. Anybody with one surplus to your needs?? TNX for looking!! 73 Don W4WJ From kerryk5ks at hughes.net Thu Jan 22 20:08:41 2015 From: kerryk5ks at hughes.net (Kerry Sandstrom) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 19:08:41 -0600 Subject: [HCARC] Solar Activity Message-ID: <54C19F19.7050501@hughes.net> I large sunspot group came around the sun's limb yesterday. Today the rest of the sunspot group appeared. It seems to be quite active. Solar flux is 120 today, but expect it to climb over the next few days. Unless the sunspot group decays it should be with us for the next ten days or so and look for conditions to improve. Kerry From qltfnish at omniglobal.net Fri Jan 23 19:40:27 2015 From: qltfnish at omniglobal.net (Gary J - N5BAA) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 18:40:27 -0600 Subject: [HCARC] Winter Field Day Reminder Message-ID: A reminder that we will be operating Winter Field Day at the Red Cross tomorrow and Sunday till noon assuming we get enough interest. I will be opening the RC before 6 am as I would like to try and catch a Ham in Panama (HP3AK ? Jay Mills) who transmits on 80m each day at just before 1200z (6am here). We can begin setting up what little we have to set up at 0800 and actual operating in the contest can commence at noon local. Here are the rules again from their website: Society for the Preservation of Amateur Radio The SPAR Winter Field Day NOTE CHANGE IN EXCHANGE THIS YEAR Purpose: To encourage emergency operating preparedness in the winter. When: The contest runs for 24 hours during the last full weekend in January each year from 1700 UTC (12:00 noon EST) Saturday to 1700 UTC (12:00 noon EST) Sunday. For 2015, the dates are January 24 and 25, 2015. Station set up may begin no earlier than 1300 UTC (8:00 AM EST) on January 24, 2015. Bands: All bands, except 12, 17, 30 and 60 meters. Modes: Any mode. Categories: a.. a) Number of operators: 1, 2, Multi b.. b) Site: Indoor, Outdoor, Home For example, 2 operators at a remote campground would be 2O, 1 person at home would be 1H, 5 club members operating from a community center would be MI. Exchange: Callsign, Category, ARRL Section (or DX outside of US and Canada), and local outside temperature (with F or C). For example 1 person from an North Texas campground where the temperature is 28 F might send "KX5XYZ 1O NTX 28F" or "KX5XYZ 1O NTX -2C" QSO Points: 1 point per QSO, regardless of band and mode. The object is to be able to communicate and in an emergency it doesn't matter what band and mode is used. Busted exchanges will be penalized by 1 additional point for each missed exchange or callsign. Duplicate contacts (same station, band and mode) will not be counted, but will not be penalized. Multiplier: Count 1 multiplier for each mode operated per band. For example, operating CW and Phone on 80, 40, 15 and 10 meters, CW and PSK31 on 20m, FM on 2meters and satellite on 1.2 GHz would be a total multiplier of 12. Bonus: Count 1000 points if commercial power is not used, 1000 points if outdoors and 1000 points if not at home. For example, operating outdoors in your backyard without commercial power would be 1000 + 1000 = 2000 points (outdoors, no commercial power), while operating from a campground tent using commercial power would be 1000 + 1000 = 2000 points (outdoors and not home). Note: There must have been at least 1 valid QSO in order to count bonus points. This is to ensure that someone claiming bonus points without actually making any contacts cannot win a category! Final Score: QSO Points x Multiplier + Bonus Points. Logs: Logs should be submitted to "winterfd at spar-hams.org" before 0000 UTC March 1st to be considered. All logs must be in Cabrillo format and should contain the following information: a.. Frequency (kHz) b.. Mode (CW = CW, AM SSB FM = PH, Digital = RY, SSTV = TV, Satelite = SA) c.. Date and time (UTC) d.. Callsign, ARRL/RAC Section and Exchange sent e.. Callsign, ARRL/RAC Section and Exchange received The Cabrillo QSO template is as follows. Please enter BONUS points in the Cabrillo Soapbox comments as shown. SOAPBOX: BONUS 2000 --------info sent-------- -------info rcvd--------- QSO: freq mo date time call ct sec temp call ct sec temp QSO: ***** ** yyyy-mm-dd nnnn ************* ** *** **** ************* ** *** **** QSO: 3799 PH 1999-03-06 0711 W5ALT 1H STX 37F WB5XAC MO LA 13C Results will be posted on the SPAR website. Pictures, description of operations and logistics are encouraged and welcome. Definitions: Location - the place where an amateur station is setup for the contest. Home - operating from the place where an amateur station is normally established. If the station used in the contest is setup before 8AM local time, it should be considered a home operation. Indoor - operating from inside a building at a temporary location where amateur radio is not normally available, including community centers, etc. If it has a both a permanent roof and walls, it's indoors. Outdoor - operating from remote locations with no permanent building, including campgrounds, tents, RV's, etc. An open-air pavillion with no walls would be considered Outdoor. Band - the normal amateur band allocations recognized by the ITU, i.e. 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, 10, 6, and 2 meters, plus the UHF bands. To be counted as a band, at least 1 valid QSO must have taken place on the band during the contest. 75 meters counts as part of 80 meters. Mode - CW, Phone (including SSB, AM, FM), Digital (including PSK, RTTY, and other soundcard modes), SSTV, satellite. Operator - Any person that operates the radio, keyboard, microphone or CW key, including logging assistance. This does not include non-operators, such as someone who brings food, but does not participate in operating. Miscellaneous: a.. - All rules governing amateur radio must be observed throughout. b.. - The decisions of the SPAR BoD is final. From qltfnish at omniglobal.net Sun Jan 25 17:19:35 2015 From: qltfnish at omniglobal.net (Gary J - N5BAA) Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 16:19:35 -0600 Subject: [HCARC] Winter Field Day Message-ID: <36DB0346FBA84281B125FA7CCF5377F0@GaryPC> Those that came for Winter Field Day yesterday had a good day ? at least once we figured out how to get the station radios to transmit. That said ? I confirmed I really love Elecrafts and Yaesu?s, am ambivalent about Icoms, and confirmed I HATE Kenwoods. Larry Altman and I got several good hours of Mic time, almost all calling CQ and running calls (we had about 110 QSO?s in 3 hours. Tony Moore got some good logging time, some Mic time (he was shy calling CQ) and some valuable training time from Gale Heise on the finer points of using receiving functions on Tony?s Yaesu FT-450AT. Terry H showed up later for moral support. Robert Russell got some good CW time calling CQ. Lessons learned were that we still need to do something with the antennas and operating stations at the club IF we plan to operate contests, emergency conditions from there. We are still hamstrung with daytime operations (20,15,10) being confined to one antenna thus one radio and one operator. The antenna problem is so bad that even with the station Icom 746 on 40m and the Kenwood on 15 meter CW, there was significant bleed over / splatter (?) from the 15m CW onto the 40 m SSB via the 40m antenna. We need to figure out if having the club tower trailer there with a beam antenna would allow one station to work another band with the beam antenna having the club antenna situated off the side of the beam antenna. Another idea and question would be can two beams maybe 250-300 feet apart operate side by side without interference?? I have a set of band pass filters we can use. One way or another, something has to improve before next Field Day. 73, Gary J N5BAA From tower2 at stx.rr.com Mon Jan 26 14:33:45 2015 From: tower2 at stx.rr.com (Harvey N. Vordenbaum) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 13:33:45 -0600 Subject: [HCARC] Winter Field Day In-Reply-To: <36DB0346FBA84281B125FA7CCF5377F0@GaryPC> References: <36DB0346FBA84281B125FA7CCF5377F0@GaryPC> Message-ID: <002101d0399f$002d81b0$00888510$@rr.com> -----Original Message----- From: HCARC [mailto:hcarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Gary J - N5BAA Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2015 4:20 PM To: hcarc at mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCARC] Winter Field Day Those that came for Winter Field Day yesterday had a good day ? at least once we figured out how to get the station radios to transmit. That said ? I confirmed I really love Elecrafts and Yaesu?s, am ambivalent about Icoms, and confirmed I HATE Kenwoods. I GUESS IT DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU ARE USED TO. THE TS-570 AT THE CLUB HAS A HANDICAP BECAUSE THE INTERNAL BACKUP BATTERY DOES NOT LAST FOR SOME REASON. I HAVE REPLACED IT AT LEAST ONCE. THUS SETTINGS YOU MAY PUT IN ARE NOT HELD, INCLUDING MEMORY CHANNELS. I AM NORE FAMILIAR WITH KENWOOD HF RADIOS THAN OTHERS. AFTER SETTING UP THE IC-746 WE GOT FROM HOLLIS WALKER, I AM CONVINCED THAT I WOULD NOT BUY AN ICOM. THEY ARE JUST NOT INTUITIVE TO PROGRAM OR SET UP. AND THAT REMINDS ME OF AN ICOM IC-W2A HT I HAVE HAD FOR ABOUT 30 YEARS. I STILL CANNOT PROGRAM MANY SETTINGS IN IT WITHOUT GETTING THE MANUAL OUT. I HAVE A YEASU FT-470 2M/.7M HT WHICH I HAVE HAD 35+ YEARS AND IT IS MUCH EASIER TO PROGRAM. Larry Altman and I got several good hours of Mic time, almost all calling CQ and running calls (we had about 110 QSO?s in 3 hours. Tony Moore got some good logging time, some Mic time (he was shy calling CQ) and some valuable training time from Gale Heise on the finer points of using receiving functions on Tony?s Yaesu FT-450AT. Terry H showed up later for moral support. Robert Russell got some good CW time calling CQ. Lessons learned were that we still need to do something with the antennas and operating stations at the club IF we plan to operate contests, emergency conditions from there. We are still hamstrung with daytime operations (20,15,10) being confined to one antenna thus one radio and one operator. The antenna problem is so bad that even with the station Icom 746 on 40m and the Kenwood on 15 meter CW, there was significant bleed over / splatter (?) from the 15m CW onto the 40 m SSB via the 40m antenna. We need to figure out if having the club tower trailer there with a beam antenna would allow one station to work another band with the beam antenna having the club antenna situated off the side of the beam antenna. Another idea and question would be can two beams maybe 250-300 feet apart operate side by side without interference?? I have a set of band pass filters we can use. One way or another, something has to improve before next Field Day. I THINK YOU NEED TO COMPLETELY RETHINK TRYING TO MAKE A CONTEST STATION OUT OF THE RED CROSS STATION. The antenna situation is limited due to the location. We can hardly set other towers on neighboring properties, etc. It is primarily meant to support the R.C. with local and regional contacts. 73, HARVEY 73, Gary J N5BAA ______________________________________________________________ HCARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html From qltfnish at omniglobal.net Mon Jan 26 18:22:09 2015 From: qltfnish at omniglobal.net (Gary J - N5BAA) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 17:22:09 -0600 Subject: [HCARC] Winter Field Day In-Reply-To: <002101d0399f$002d81b0$00888510$@rr.com> References: <36DB0346FBA84281B125FA7CCF5377F0@GaryPC> <002101d0399f$002d81b0$00888510$@rr.com> Message-ID: " I THINK YOU NEED TO COMPLETELY RETHINK TRYING TO MAKE A CONTEST STATION OUT OF THE RED CROSS STATION. The antenna situation is limited due to the location. We can hardly set other towers on neighboring properties, etc. It is primarily meant to support the R.C. with local and regional contacts" I might accept "WE NEED TO RETHINK" making a contest station out of the Red Cross. Last I checked it was not GARY (although sometimes it feels that way) holding Field Day at the RC - I do believe it is the HCARC trying to hold Field Day at the RC. As for erecting antennas on or towers on neighboring properties, I do believe that the parking lots behind the RC belong to the city and putting up the club tower on a weekend when there are no others using it is hardly a problem. If it is a problem then maybe we rethink supporting RC at all. The club trailer tower does absolutely no harm to anything. The same goes for the trees in the parking lot. BTW, IF ANYONE CARES TO VOLUNTEER FOR THE JOB OF FIELD DAY COORDINATOR THE JOB IS YOURS WITH MY BLESSINGS. LAST YEAR I FOUND SO FEW PEOPLE WHO CARED TO PARTICIPATE THAT I HAVE 40 POUNDS OF FROZEN BRISKET BBQ IN MY FREEZER LEFT OVER FROM FIELD DAY. WHO WOULD THINK THAT IN TEXAS ONE CAN'T AT LEAST FIND PEOPLE TO COME AND PARTAKE OF FREE BBQ - BUT ALAS THAT SEEMS TO BE THE MODUS OPERANDI OF HCARC THESE DAYS. HARVEY - PLEASE REMEMBER THE RECENT ELECTIONS OF CLUB OFFICERS - YOU ARE THE TREASURER BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE WOULD STEP UP AND TAKE THE JOB. Lastly, if there is a problem with the Kenwood it is not a commonly known problem. And if you read what I wrote I didn't say Kenwood radios are bad radios, just that I find them hard to use, and if they are your choice of radio to run, then by all means show up at Field Day or Winter Field Day and help get it on the air. As for me I was there this past weekend at approx 6 am and it was well past noon before the first QSO was completed.. I have been a club officer for 3 years and this is the first I have ever heard of such a problem with the Kenwood. Regardless of which radio we use though, the biggest problem we have with the station (in my opinion) is that all of the daytime bands (20/15/10) are concentrated on one and only one antenna, therefore regardless of the number of radios, only one has an antenna. I find it amazing that in a club with all the antenna expertise we have that no one can come up with a workable antenna situation. Gary J N5BAA -----Original Message----- From: Harvey N. Vordenbaum Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 1:33 PM To: 'Gary J - N5BAA' ; hcarc at mailman.qth.net Subject: RE: [HCARC] Winter Field Day -----Original Message----- From: HCARC [mailto:hcarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Gary J - N5BAA Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2015 4:20 PM To: hcarc at mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCARC] Winter Field Day Those that came for Winter Field Day yesterday had a good day ? at least once we figured out how to get the station radios to transmit. That said ? I confirmed I really love Elecrafts and Yaesu?s, am ambivalent about Icoms, and confirmed I HATE Kenwoods. I GUESS IT DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU ARE USED TO. THE TS-570 AT THE CLUB HAS A HANDICAP BECAUSE THE INTERNAL BACKUP BATTERY DOES NOT LAST FOR SOME REASON. I HAVE REPLACED IT AT LEAST ONCE. THUS SETTINGS YOU MAY PUT IN ARE NOT HELD, INCLUDING MEMORY CHANNELS. I AM NORE FAMILIAR WITH KENWOOD HF RADIOS THAN OTHERS. AFTER SETTING UP THE IC-746 WE GOT FROM HOLLIS WALKER, I AM CONVINCED THAT I WOULD NOT BUY AN ICOM. THEY ARE JUST NOT INTUITIVE TO PROGRAM OR SET UP. AND THAT REMINDS ME OF AN ICOM IC-W2A HT I HAVE HAD FOR ABOUT 30 YEARS. I STILL CANNOT PROGRAM MANY SETTINGS IN IT WITHOUT GETTING THE MANUAL OUT. I HAVE A YEASU FT-470 2M/.7M HT WHICH I HAVE HAD 35+ YEARS AND IT IS MUCH EASIER TO PROGRAM. Larry Altman and I got several good hours of Mic time, almost all calling CQ and running calls (we had about 110 QSO?s in 3 hours. Tony Moore got some good logging time, some Mic time (he was shy calling CQ) and some valuable training time from Gale Heise on the finer points of using receiving functions on Tony?s Yaesu FT-450AT. Terry H showed up later for moral support. Robert Russell got some good CW time calling CQ. Lessons learned were that we still need to do something with the antennas and operating stations at the club IF we plan to operate contests, emergency conditions from there. We are still hamstrung with daytime operations (20,15,10) being confined to one antenna thus one radio and one operator. The antenna problem is so bad that even with the station Icom 746 on 40m and the Kenwood on 15 meter CW, there was significant bleed over / splatter (?) from the 15m CW onto the 40 m SSB via the 40m antenna. We need to figure out if having the club tower trailer there with a beam antenna would allow one station to work another band with the beam antenna having the club antenna situated off the side of the beam antenna. Another idea and question would be can two beams maybe 250-300 feet apart operate side by side without interference?? I have a set of band pass filters we can use. One way or another, something has to improve before next Field Day. I THINK YOU NEED TO COMPLETELY RETHINK TRYING TO MAKE A CONTEST STATION OUT OF THE RED CROSS STATION. The antenna situation is limited due to the location. We can hardly set other towers on neighboring properties, etc. It is primarily meant to support the R.C. with local and regional contacts. 73, HARVEY 73, Gary J N5BAA ______________________________________________________________ HCARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5646 / Virus Database: 4273/9004 - Release Date: 01/26/15 From vbiersch at gmail.com Mon Jan 26 18:42:02 2015 From: vbiersch at gmail.com (Virgil Bierschwale) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 17:42:02 -0600 Subject: [HCARC] Winter Field Day In-Reply-To: References: <36DB0346FBA84281B125FA7CCF5377F0@GaryPC> <002101d0399f$002d81b0$00888510$@rr.com> Message-ID: <00f501d039c1$b5e43e50$21acbaf0$@gmail.com> I'm not going to touch this conversation, but I do want to pose a question or two. What do y'all do to attract new blood? I do know that I want to attend simply because you are the closest group in this area, but I can't until I can find a job. The reason I ask is because it seems that y'all always have the very same questions, finger pointing, etc. Do any of you use an Arduino to send text messages from your hobby to a teletype, or anything off the wall like that? I know I am interested in doing some aquaponics with Arduino/sensors and outputting the error / status messages to a model 28 teletype for reasons of my own. But surely there are other areas that would interest new blood. I don't know the answers, I just know that I have my interests and they are sort of ham radio related and it would be nice to have people to bounce ideas off of. I was invited in 1995 to turn around a bowling center in Lubbock for the owner, so I met with the local bowling club to find out what their objections were. One thing that stood out to me was them saying "We don't care what you do with our money just as long as we can see that you are doing something with it like paint, etc." I think every organization is like that is my point and sometimes we just need to ask ourselves if we are stuck in a rut or not. Virgil N5IVV -----Original Message----- From: HCARC [mailto:hcarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Gary J - N5BAA Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 5:22 PM To: Harvey N. Vordenbaum; hcarc at mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [HCARC] Winter Field Day " I THINK YOU NEED TO COMPLETELY RETHINK TRYING TO MAKE A CONTEST STATION OUT OF THE RED CROSS STATION. The antenna situation is limited due to the location. We can hardly set other towers on neighboring properties, etc. It is primarily meant to support the R.C. with local and regional contacts" I might accept "WE NEED TO RETHINK" making a contest station out of the Red Cross. Last I checked it was not GARY (although sometimes it feels that way) holding Field Day at the RC - I do believe it is the HCARC trying to hold Field Day at the RC. As for erecting antennas on or towers on neighboring properties, I do believe that the parking lots behind the RC belong to the city and putting up the club tower on a weekend when there are no others using it is hardly a problem. If it is a problem then maybe we rethink supporting RC at all. The club trailer tower does absolutely no harm to anything. The same goes for the trees in the parking lot. BTW, IF ANYONE CARES TO VOLUNTEER FOR THE JOB OF FIELD DAY COORDINATOR THE JOB IS YOURS WITH MY BLESSINGS. LAST YEAR I FOUND SO FEW PEOPLE WHO CARED TO PARTICIPATE THAT I HAVE 40 POUNDS OF FROZEN BRISKET BBQ IN MY FREEZER LEFT OVER FROM FIELD DAY. WHO WOULD THINK THAT IN TEXAS ONE CAN'T AT LEAST FIND PEOPLE TO COME AND PARTAKE OF FREE BBQ - BUT ALAS THAT SEEMS TO BE THE MODUS OPERANDI OF HCARC THESE DAYS. HARVEY - PLEASE REMEMBER THE RECENT ELECTIONS OF CLUB OFFICERS - YOU ARE THE TREASURER BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE WOULD STEP UP AND TAKE THE JOB. Lastly, if there is a problem with the Kenwood it is not a commonly known problem. And if you read what I wrote I didn't say Kenwood radios are bad radios, just that I find them hard to use, and if they are your choice of radio to run, then by all means show up at Field Day or Winter Field Day and help get it on the air. As for me I was there this past weekend at approx 6 am and it was well past noon before the first QSO was completed.. I have been a club officer for 3 years and this is the first I have ever heard of such a problem with the Kenwood. Regardless of which radio we use though, the biggest problem we have with the station (in my opinion) is that all of the daytime bands (20/15/10) are concentrated on one and only one antenna, therefore regardless of the number of radios, only one has an antenna. I find it amazing that in a club with all the antenna expertise we have that no one can come up with a workable antenna situation. Gary J N5BAA -----Original Message----- From: Harvey N. Vordenbaum Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 1:33 PM To: 'Gary J - N5BAA' ; hcarc at mailman.qth.net Subject: RE: [HCARC] Winter Field Day -----Original Message----- From: HCARC [mailto:hcarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Gary J - N5BAA Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2015 4:20 PM To: hcarc at mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCARC] Winter Field Day Those that came for Winter Field Day yesterday had a good day ? at least once we figured out how to get the station radios to transmit. That said ? I confirmed I really love Elecrafts and Yaesu?s, am ambivalent about Icoms, and confirmed I HATE Kenwoods. I GUESS IT DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU ARE USED TO. THE TS-570 AT THE CLUB HAS A HANDICAP BECAUSE THE INTERNAL BACKUP BATTERY DOES NOT LAST FOR SOME REASON. I HAVE REPLACED IT AT LEAST ONCE. THUS SETTINGS YOU MAY PUT IN ARE NOT HELD, INCLUDING MEMORY CHANNELS. I AM NORE FAMILIAR WITH KENWOOD HF RADIOS THAN OTHERS. AFTER SETTING UP THE IC-746 WE GOT FROM HOLLIS WALKER, I AM CONVINCED THAT I WOULD NOT BUY AN ICOM. THEY ARE JUST NOT INTUITIVE TO PROGRAM OR SET UP. AND THAT REMINDS ME OF AN ICOM IC-W2A HT I HAVE HAD FOR ABOUT 30 YEARS. I STILL CANNOT PROGRAM MANY SETTINGS IN IT WITHOUT GETTING THE MANUAL OUT. I HAVE A YEASU FT-470 2M/.7M HT WHICH I HAVE HAD 35+ YEARS AND IT IS MUCH EASIER TO PROGRAM. Larry Altman and I got several good hours of Mic time, almost all calling CQ and running calls (we had about 110 QSO?s in 3 hours. Tony Moore got some good logging time, some Mic time (he was shy calling CQ) and some valuable training time from Gale Heise on the finer points of using receiving functions on Tony?s Yaesu FT-450AT. Terry H showed up later for moral support. Robert Russell got some good CW time calling CQ. Lessons learned were that we still need to do something with the antennas and operating stations at the club IF we plan to operate contests, emergency conditions from there. We are still hamstrung with daytime operations (20,15,10) being confined to one antenna thus one radio and one operator. The antenna problem is so bad that even with the station Icom 746 on 40m and the Kenwood on 15 meter CW, there was significant bleed over / splatter (?) from the 15m CW onto the 40 m SSB via the 40m antenna. We need to figure out if having the club tower trailer there with a beam antenna would allow one station to work another band with the beam antenna having the club antenna situated off the side of the beam antenna. Another idea and question would be can two beams maybe 250-300 feet apart operate side by side without interference?? I have a set of band pass filters we can use. One way or another, something has to improve before next Field Day. I THINK YOU NEED TO COMPLETELY RETHINK TRYING TO MAKE A CONTEST STATION OUT OF THE RED CROSS STATION. The antenna situation is limited due to the location. We can hardly set other towers on neighboring properties, etc. It is primarily meant to support the R.C. with local and regional contacts. 73, HARVEY 73, Gary J N5BAA ______________________________________________________________ HCARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5646 / Virus Database: 4273/9004 - Release Date: 01/26/15 ______________________________________________________________ HCARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5646 / Virus Database: 4273/9002 - Release Date: 01/26/15 From qltfnish at omniglobal.net Tue Jan 27 21:50:17 2015 From: qltfnish at omniglobal.net (Gary J - N5BAA) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 20:50:17 -0600 Subject: [HCARC] Compressed Air Gun - Antenna Launcher Message-ID: <0278A46156A8411D8994D28AB2F5AC17@GaryPC> Has anyone ever made or used a PVC compressed air gun for shooting line over trees for putting up antennas?? I have solved all the parts including a rubber tire valve already installed into a PVC pipe cap and have some 1/2 inch PVC that has a smaller inner diameter than the stuff sold at Lowes, which just happens to perfectly fit some 3/4 ounce steel egg shaped fishing sinkers available at WalMart. The sinkers are almost a perfect fit for the 1/2 inch PVC. I am using a 3/4 inch PVC in-line valve for the trigger. The one model I have seen in QST costs about $65.00 for $10 bucks worth of parts. I plan to pump the 15-18 inch long 3 inch diameter PVC reservoir with between 70-100 psi of air. The PVC is rated for 600 lbs pressure if I remember correctly, so my working pressures should be safe. I am not sure how long to make the barrel for maximum muzzle velocity - assuming I want maximum muzzle velocity, since I don?t want to launch the bullet all the way to the next county ? just over a 50 + foot tree. All of the PVC was purchased at Lowes except for the 1/2 inch and I have enough to make almost anyone interested a barrel. I?ll bring the gun to the next meeting (assuming it passes it?s beta testing of course) for general critique. I am trying this method since most of attempts to utilize a slingshot have met with banged up fingers and a tendency for the sinker to curve to one side or another in flight due to the sinker being asymetrical. The sinkers I am using are pretty regular in shape and hopefully will fly pretty straight. Once the PVC air chamber is charged with air, all it takes between shots is a common hand tire pump to top off the pressure for the next shot. Gary J N5BAA From billandmattie at windstream.net Tue Jan 27 23:28:59 2015 From: billandmattie at windstream.net (Bill Tynan) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 22:28:59 -0600 Subject: [HCARC] Compressed Air Gun - Antenna Launcher In-Reply-To: <0278A46156A8411D8994D28AB2F5AC17@GaryPC> References: <0278A46156A8411D8994D28AB2F5AC17@GaryPC> Message-ID: Gary: Gary: Very ingenious: Instead of the fishing sinker, you might consider the right size egg insulator. Since they have holes, it's easy to attach the line. 73, Bill, W3XO -----Original Message----- From: HCARC [mailto:hcarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Gary J - N5BAA Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 8:50 PM To: hcarc at mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCARC] Compressed Air Gun - Antenna Launcher Has anyone ever made or used a PVC compressed air gun for shooting line over trees for putting up antennas?? I have solved all the parts including a rubber tire valve already installed into a PVC pipe cap and have some 1/2 inch PVC that has a smaller inner diameter than the stuff sold at Lowes, which just happens to perfectly fit some 3/4 ounce steel egg shaped fishing sinkers available at WalMart. The sinkers are almost a perfect fit for the 1/2 inch PVC. I am using a 3/4 inch PVC in-line valve for the trigger. The one model I have seen in QST costs about $65.00 for $10 bucks worth of parts. I plan to pump the 15-18 inch long 3 inch diameter PVC reservoir with between 70-100 psi of air. The PVC is rated for 600 lbs pressure if I remember correctly, so my working pressures should be safe. I am not sure how long to make the barrel for maximum muzzle velocity - assuming I want maximum muzzle velocity, since I don't want to launch the bullet all the way to the next county - just over a 50 + foot tree. All of the PVC was purchased at Lowes except for the 1/2 inch and I have enough to make almost anyone interested a barrel. I'll bring the gun to the next meeting (assuming it passes it's beta testing of course) for general critique. I am trying this method since most of attempts to utilize a slingshot have met with banged up fingers and a tendency for the sinker to curve to one side or another in flight due to the sinker being asymetrical. The sinkers I am using are pretty regular in shape and hopefully will fly pretty straight. Once the PVC air chamber is charged with air, all it takes between shots is a common hand tire pump to top off the pressure for the next shot. Gary J N5BAA ______________________________________________________________ HCARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5645 / Virus Database: 4273/9009 - Release Date: 01/27/15 From lee at besing.com Tue Jan 27 23:40:50 2015 From: lee at besing.com (Lee Besing) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 22:40:50 -0600 Subject: [HCARC] Compressed Air Gun - Antenna Launcher In-Reply-To: References: <0278A46156A8411D8994D28AB2F5AC17@GaryPC> Message-ID: <1d947f52-3665-43e9-b3a1-2a0572661ca7.maildroid@localhost> Just remember that shooting a hard metal obje t up into the air, can be dangerous to anyone on the receiving end. A friend of mine, Bryce Weathersby, KE5KFD, member of both Hill Country REACT Team and the San Antonio Radio Club, built one of these last year, using a tennis ball as the "bullet". He used his cheap Harbor Freight air compressor to pump it back up. Yes, having the gauge was very important to prevent damage. Knowing Bryce, he would likely be willing to share his experience with any other interested hams as well. Lee Besing, N5NTG 210-771-7075 ( voice/text) San Antonio, TX -----Original Message----- From: Bill Tynan To: 'Gary J - N5BAA' , hcarc at mailman.qth.net Sent: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 10:28 PM Subject: Re: [HCARC] Compressed Air Gun - Antenna Launcher Gary: Gary: Very ingenious: Instead of the fishing sinker, you might consider the right size egg insulator. Since they have holes, it's easy to attach the line. 73, Bill, W3XO -----Original Message----- From: HCARC [mailto:hcarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Gary J - N5BAA Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 8:50 PM To: hcarc at mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCARC] Compressed Air Gun - Antenna Launcher Has anyone ever made or used a PVC compressed air gun for shooting line over trees for putting up antennas?? I have solved all the parts including a rubber tire valve already installed into a PVC pipe cap and have some 1/2 inch PVC that has a smaller inner diameter than the stuff sold at Lowes, which just happens to perfectly fit some 3/4 ounce steel egg shaped fishing sinkers available at WalMart. The sinkers are almost a perfect fit for the 1/2 inch PVC. I am using a 3/4 inch PVC in-line valve for the trigger. The one model I have seen in QST costs about $65.00 for $10 bucks worth of parts. I plan to pump the 15-18 inch long 3 inch diameter PVC reservoir with between 70-100 psi of air. The PVC is rated for 600 lbs pressure if I remember correctly, so my working pressures should be safe. I am not sure how long to make the barrel for maximum muzzle velocity - assuming I want maximum muzzle velocity, since I don't want to launch the bullet all the way to the next county - just over a 50 + foot tree. All of the PVC was purchased at Lowes except for the 1/2 inch and I have enough to make almost anyone interested a barrel. I'll bring the gun to the next meeting (assuming it passes it's beta testing of course) for general critique. I am trying this method since most of attempts to utilize a slingshot have met with banged up fingers and a tendency for the sinker to curve to one side or another in flight due to the sinker being asymetrical. The sinkers I am using are pretty regular in shape and hopefully will fly pretty straight. Once the PVC air chamber is charged with air, all it takes between shots is a common hand tire pump to top off the pressure for the next shot. Gary J N5BAA ______________________________________________________________ HCARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5645 / Virus Database: 4273/9009 - Release Date: 01/27/15 ______________________________________________________________ HCARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html From qltfnish at omniglobal.net Tue Jan 27 23:58:54 2015 From: qltfnish at omniglobal.net (Gary J - N5BAA) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 22:58:54 -0600 Subject: [HCARC] Compressed Air Gun - Antenna Launcher In-Reply-To: <1d947f52-3665-43e9-b3a1-2a0572661ca7.maildroid@localhost> References: <0278A46156A8411D8994D28AB2F5AC17@GaryPC> <1d947f52-3665-43e9-b3a1-2a0572661ca7.maildroid@localhost> Message-ID: Well now you have gone and done it Lee. I either may have to make the gun with threaded barrels so I can switch out the small one for a larger one to give a thrill to my Black Lab. Never having fired one, I just figured that something small would have so much less air resistance. HMMM, maybe get a Hand Ball or racquet ball and try that. A smooth ball would have a tighter fit and not waste compressed air leaking through the tennis ball fuzz. A larger caliber could also launch fishing sinker, bait leader etc down at the coast on Padre Island. Load ball first and use it to push the sinker and rig out with the ball tethered and going only so far so you don?t lose the ball in the surf, but the sinker et al much further. HMMMM Gary J N5BAA From: Lee Besing Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 10:40 PM To: 'Gary J - N5BAA' ; hcarc at mailman.qth.net ; Bill Tynan ; Bryce Weathersby Cc: lee at besing.com Subject: Re: [HCARC] Compressed Air Gun - Antenna Launcher Just remember that shooting a hard metal obje t up into the air, can be dangerous to anyone on the receiving end. A friend of mine, Bryce Weathersby, KE5KFD, member of both Hill Country REACT Team and the San Antonio Radio Club, built one of these last year, using a tennis ball as the "bullet". He used his cheap Harbor Freight air compressor to pump it back up. Yes, having the gauge was very important to prevent damage. Knowing Bryce, he would likely be willing to share his experience with any other interested hams as well. Lee Besing, N5NTG 210-771-7075 ( voice/text) San Antonio, TX -----Original Message----- From: Bill Tynan To: 'Gary J - N5BAA' , hcarc at mailman.qth.net Sent: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 10:28 PM Subject: Re: [HCARC] Compressed Air Gun - Antenna Launcher Gary: Gary: Very ingenious: Instead of the fishing sinker, you might consider the right size egg insulator. Since they have holes, it's easy to attach the line. 73, Bill, W3XO -----Original Message----- From: HCARC [mailto:hcarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Gary J - N5BAA Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 8:50 PM To: hcarc at mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCARC] Compressed Air Gun - Antenna Launcher Has anyone ever made or used a PVC compressed air gun for shooting line over trees for putting up antennas?? I have solved all the parts including a rubber tire valve already installed into a PVC pipe cap and have some 1/2 inch PVC that has a smaller inner diameter than the stuff sold at Lowes, which just happens to perfectly fit some 3/4 ounce steel egg shaped fishing sinkers available at WalMart. The sinkers are almost a perfect fit for the 1/2 inch PVC. I am using a 3/4 inch PVC in-line valve for the trigger. The one model I have seen in QST costs about $65.00 for $10 bucks worth of parts. I plan to pump the 15-18 inch long 3 inch diameter PVC reservoir with between 70-100 psi of air. The PVC is rated for 600 lbs pressure if I remember correctly, so my working pressures should be safe. I am not sure how long to make the barrel for maximum muzzle velocity - assuming I want maximum muzzle velocity, since I don't want to launch the bullet all the way to the next county - just over a 50 + foot tree. All of the PVC was purchased at Lowes except for the 1/2 inch and I have enough to make almost anyone interested a barrel. I'll bring the gun to the next meeting (assuming it passes it's beta testing of course) for general critique. I am trying this method since most of attempts to utilize a slingshot have met with banged up fingers and a tendency for the sinker to curve to one side or another in flight due to the sinker being asymetrical. The sinkers I am using are pretty regular in shape and hopefully will fly pretty straight. Once the PVC air chamber is charged with air, all it takes between shots is a common hand tire pump to top off the pressure for the next shot. Gary J N5BAA ______________________________________________________________ HCARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5645 / Virus Database: 4273/9009 - Release Date: 01/27/15 ______________________________________________________________ HCARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5646 / Virus Database: 4273/9010 - Release Date: 01/27/15 From qltfnish at omniglobal.net Wed Jan 28 03:38:28 2015 From: qltfnish at omniglobal.net (Gary J - N5BAA) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 02:38:28 -0600 Subject: [HCARC] Compressed Air Gun - Antenna Launcher In-Reply-To: References: <0278A46156A8411D8994D28AB2F5AC17@GaryPC><1d947f52-3665-43e9-b3a1-2a0572661ca7.maildroid@localhost> Message-ID: <504CF3062357489AAE9AA8390855BA0C@GaryPC> Here is the link to the commercial one for $59.95. Their video says 40 lbs pressure is more than enough. They also seem to use 2 inch PVC for the air chamber, but it appears to be longer than the 3 inch one I have. I just figured that more air meant more push and in so many things volume counts. We will see tomorrow. kr4loairboss.com Gary J N5BAA -----Original Message----- From: Gary J - N5BAA Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 10:58 PM To: lee at besing.com ; hcarc at mailman.qth.net ; Bill Tynan ; Bryce Weathersby Subject: Re: [HCARC] Compressed Air Gun - Antenna Launcher Well now you have gone and done it Lee. I either may have to make the gun with threaded barrels so I can switch out the small one for a larger one to give a thrill to my Black Lab. Never having fired one, I just figured that something small would have so much less air resistance. HMMM, maybe get a Hand Ball or racquet ball and try that. A smooth ball would have a tighter fit and not waste compressed air leaking through the tennis ball fuzz. A larger caliber could also launch fishing sinker, bait leader etc down at the coast on Padre Island. Load ball first and use it to push the sinker and rig out with the ball tethered and going only so far so you don?t lose the ball in the surf, but the sinker et al much further. HMMMM Gary J N5BAA From: Lee Besing Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 10:40 PM To: 'Gary J - N5BAA' ; hcarc at mailman.qth.net ; Bill Tynan ; Bryce Weathersby Cc: lee at besing.com Subject: Re: [HCARC] Compressed Air Gun - Antenna Launcher Just remember that shooting a hard metal obje t up into the air, can be dangerous to anyone on the receiving end. A friend of mine, Bryce Weathersby, KE5KFD, member of both Hill Country REACT Team and the San Antonio Radio Club, built one of these last year, using a tennis ball as the "bullet". He used his cheap Harbor Freight air compressor to pump it back up. Yes, having the gauge was very important to prevent damage. Knowing Bryce, he would likely be willing to share his experience with any other interested hams as well. Lee Besing, N5NTG 210-771-7075 ( voice/text) San Antonio, TX -----Original Message----- From: Bill Tynan To: 'Gary J - N5BAA' , hcarc at mailman.qth.net Sent: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 10:28 PM Subject: Re: [HCARC] Compressed Air Gun - Antenna Launcher Gary: Gary: Very ingenious: Instead of the fishing sinker, you might consider the right size egg insulator. Since they have holes, it's easy to attach the line. 73, Bill, W3XO -----Original Message----- From: HCARC [mailto:hcarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Gary J - N5BAA Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 8:50 PM To: hcarc at mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCARC] Compressed Air Gun - Antenna Launcher Has anyone ever made or used a PVC compressed air gun for shooting line over trees for putting up antennas?? I have solved all the parts including a rubber tire valve already installed into a PVC pipe cap and have some 1/2 inch PVC that has a smaller inner diameter than the stuff sold at Lowes, which just happens to perfectly fit some 3/4 ounce steel egg shaped fishing sinkers available at WalMart. The sinkers are almost a perfect fit for the 1/2 inch PVC. I am using a 3/4 inch PVC in-line valve for the trigger. The one model I have seen in QST costs about $65.00 for $10 bucks worth of parts. I plan to pump the 15-18 inch long 3 inch diameter PVC reservoir with between 70-100 psi of air. The PVC is rated for 600 lbs pressure if I remember correctly, so my working pressures should be safe. I am not sure how long to make the barrel for maximum muzzle velocity - assuming I want maximum muzzle velocity, since I don't want to launch the bullet all the way to the next county - just over a 50 + foot tree. All of the PVC was purchased at Lowes except for the 1/2 inch and I have enough to make almost anyone interested a barrel. I'll bring the gun to the next meeting (assuming it passes it's beta testing of course) for general critique. I am trying this method since most of attempts to utilize a slingshot have met with banged up fingers and a tendency for the sinker to curve to one side or another in flight due to the sinker being asymetrical. The sinkers I am using are pretty regular in shape and hopefully will fly pretty straight. Once the PVC air chamber is charged with air, all it takes between shots is a common hand tire pump to top off the pressure for the next shot. Gary J N5BAA ______________________________________________________________ HCARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5645 / Virus Database: 4273/9009 - Release Date: 01/27/15 ______________________________________________________________ HCARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5646 / Virus Database: 4273/9010 - Release Date: 01/27/15 ______________________________________________________________ HCARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/hcarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:HCARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5646 / Virus Database: 4273/9010 - Release Date: 01/27/15 From qltfnish at omniglobal.net Sat Jan 31 14:54:44 2015 From: qltfnish at omniglobal.net (Gary J - N5BAA) Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 13:54:44 -0600 Subject: [HCARC] 4:1 Baluns Needed Message-ID: I am running out of sources for inexpensive 4:1 Baluns to keep making Dale Gaudier designed OCFD antennas for new(er) Hams. Dale?s OCFD requires a 4:1 balun for its use. Gale Heise has been generous enough to provide much of the necessary wire and end insulators and the occasional 4:1 balun from old wire antennas he gets, but we are getting enough people that can use Dales antenna that I have begun to run short. The advantage of Dale?s OCFD dipole is that it will do 40/20/15/10 meters without a tuner. Not having to purchase a tuner, especially to a person starting out in radio is a big plus. If you happen to have an old(er) 4:1 balun you would either be willing to donate to the cause, or would sell for a very reasonable price, please bring it to the meeting on the 4th and I will be sure it gets to a good new home. I know of 5-6 new(er) Hams in the club that will need an antenna in the next 3-4 months. Gary J N5BAA From qltfnish at omniglobal.net Sat Jan 31 14:57:00 2015 From: qltfnish at omniglobal.net (Gary J - N5BAA) Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 13:57:00 -0600 Subject: [HCARC] 10-10 International Winter SSB QSO Party Message-ID: <5F850E81FBB841A2BCBA98F1B99B26AC@GaryPC> An excellent time to make contacts on 10 meters and gather the required ten 10-10 numbers to qualify for 10-10 membership. There should be plenty of DX also. 10-10 WINTER SSB QSO PARTY Saturday 7 Feb 0000z - Sunday 8 Feb 2359z Contest rules on 10-10 International Website. Gary J N5BAA From cw4evr at hctc.net Sat Jan 31 18:32:45 2015 From: cw4evr at hctc.net (Fred Gilmore) Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 17:32:45 -0600 Subject: [HCARC] Remote Auto Tuners Message-ID: <6F2C616E291149AD9A1CDA73652A9CD2@ham296dac95944> KF5AIE asked me to post this for him. Looks good to me. I use the LDG Z-100 and a LDG1000ProII Autotuner and am completely satisfied with both of them. http://www.ebay.com/itm/LDG-Model-RT-100-Remote-Tuner-and-RC-100-Controller-/121553732465?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0 73 Fred/W0LPD