[South Florida DX Association] Monthly Southern Florida Section News Summary

Wed Mar 17 14:20:56 EDT 2010

Hi everyone,

I received lots of reports this month so there's no soapbox comments from me.

Karen, K8KB and I will be doing a joint Section and ARES forum at Stuart
Hamfest on March 20.  Scheduled time is 11AM so you will have plenty of time
to shop for bargains before attending.  It's rumored there will be door
prizes at the forum.
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ARES Report from Karen, K8KB:
Total ARES members in the 10 counties reporting: 869

ARES nets active: 13, Sessions: 47, nets with NTS liaison: 6
DECs/ECs reporting:  N4LEM, KJ4AWB, N5KFR, WA4ASJ, W4LWZ, K8KB, K4NNX, AD4RZ, 
K4DLF, W4ZE
Drills, tests and training sessions: 44,  Person hours: 490.5
Public service events: 4, Person hours: 122
No emergency operations this month.
Total  ARES operations: 48, Total Person hours: 612.6
SFL  ARES Net Report ---        QNI 33, QTC 1, Time 40 Min.

Comments:
Broward: Completed ARECC Level 1 course
Indian River County: Participated in Nuclear drill
Martin County: approximately 14 members participated in Nuclear drill and
helped provide communications for the LOST Run
Okeechobee: Provided communications for LOST Run (around Lake Okeechobee)
totaling 85 person hours.
St Lucie County: Participated in Nuclear drill, contributing 32 person hours.
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From Miss Phil, KA4FZI:
SFL February 2010 Station Activity Reports, Public Service Honor Roll Reports,
and Net Reports.
SAR February 2010:  WA4BAM  238,  WD4DNC  207,  KE4CB  122,  KA4FZI  70, 
K1UQE  21,  K9GCF  7,  N8BGJ  5,  K9GZT  5,  KI4PTZ  3,  W9MCC  1
PSHR February  2010: N4IRW 268, KJ4AWB 171, KA4FZI 120, K4DLF 107, KE4CB  105

From Steve Adams  N4JRW about his work during the Haiti earthquake rescue
effort:  I was a net controller on the IRESC International Radio Emergency
Support Coalition during that time. I was glad to see I was on the list in
the most recent QST I don't think I will be posting anywhere near to these
numbers. The net controlling was a busy time and in the end a bit exhausting
but the mission was there and I needed to contribute what I could.  Next
month maybe I'll try the NTS.  Thanks for your help Phyllisan, 73 from
Pompano Beach.
Congratulations, Steve, and thanks for sharing your 53 hour experience with
us. We'll listen for you on NTS!
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Better stats this month: Jan QNI 2286, Feb QNI 2616, Jan QTC 579; Feb QTC  692
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NET    ABB.    SESS    QNI    QTC    QND    MGR
All Florida CW Traffic Net, QFN,  56,  579,  285,  948,  WD4DNC
Florida Amateur SSB Traffic Net,  FAST,  28,  340,  79,  ------,  K4SCL
Florida Medium Speed Net,  FMSN,  28,  270,  87,  602,  AG4RJ/AB4XK
Glades County ARES Net,  GCAN,  3,  33,  1,  40,  N5KFR
Jupiter Comm Emer Resp Team,  JCERT,  8,  43,  23,  360,  AG4BV/W4FK
Jupiter-Tequesta Repeater Group,  JTRG,  7,  52,  19,  375,  AG4BV/W4FK
Palm Beach County Ares Net,  PBCAN,  8,  116,  14,  185,  AG4BV/W4FK
Southeast Florida Traffic Net,  SEFTN,  28,  658,  52,  1223,  AG4RJ/KI4IQZ
Southwest Florida Traffic Net,  SWFTN ,  24    ,  525,  132,  2262, 
KE4CB/N9WS
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Our Technical Specialists have been busy:

N4TZH: When does once in a lifetime opportunity become a BETTER once in a
lifetime opportunity? When the NFL Pro-Bowl and Super Bowl XLIV comes to
South Florida within the same week!
I was fortunate enough to be selected to support the NFL Frequency
Coordination crew for the 2010 Pro-Bowl and Super Bowl 44. Frequency
coordination is critical to the success of these events. With over 10,000
different frequencies in use pre-game, durring and post-game, the chance that
2 or more users will show up on the same frequency at the same time is a very
real scenario. My job was to assist in ensuring that members of the media
were coordinated on frequencies that would not interfere with other users. I
operated a service monitor which read the frequency of the equipment then
viewed the signal on a spectrum analyzer to ensure a 'clean' signal. The crew
did a great job, with no reports of any frequency colisions and 2 smooth
productions.
Other local hams participating were (Sorry if I miss anyone, there were a lot
of Hams!), Ernesto Diaz-KG4LXH (Miami Dolphins Co-GDC[Game Day Coordinator]),
Jan Fine-KI4GQQ, Peter Pisano-W4PRP, Orlando Rojas-W4JN, Joe Belden-K3JDB,
Charles Ebert-KB4PFC, Kevin Scanlon-K4PCS, George Abrams-K4PAA, Jared
Lambert-K4JJL, Virgil Salisbury-K4VSC, and Robert Wyman-KI4RGR

WB9JTK
I visited K4BMU.She had been off the air for many many years (rasing a
family).  Radios sure have changed a lot since she was last on. So I went
over there and showed her how to 'program' her new 2 meter rig (the CTCSS
tone stuff was confusing to me too).  Also, checked her new HF rig and icom
autotuner to ensure her that it really was working. Put in maybe two
leisurely enjoyable hours. Didn't need to get out a meter or a screwdriver.
We  broadcasted some of the forums at the radio fest LIVE on the internet !
www.PalmBeachRadioFest.com/videos.html  for the archives.
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Silent Key
Sal Ippolito N4YQU passed away 2/15.  Sal was always ready to help the club
with cleaning up, contests or antenna work. Sal was always seen at Field Day
where on several occasions he showed off his cooking skills.
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Some interesting web sites:
An in depth tutorial on Baluns and audio interfacing:
http://audiosystemsgroup.com/RFI-Ham.pdf Ham's Guide to RFI, Ferrites,
An interesting reference in the article has tons of information about antennas
and tuning.  Here is a link to on line chapters of W2DU's book:
http://w2du.com/Reflections2.html

OLD QSL COLLECTION:  visit the Les Nouvelles DX (LNDX) Web page to see more
than 7300 old QSL cards in several different albums/galleries. This site
contains the ten most wanted DXCC entities (2004 to 2008), at least one card
for each 58 deleted DXCC countries (more than 1000 QSLs) and much more. The
URL address for the Web site is : http://LesNouvellesDX.free.fr
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Last, but not least please see the following link for action you can take to
help eliminate some of the issues we have with CC&Rs.
http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2010/03/10/11385/?nc=1

Till next month stay safe and stay on the air.

73,
Sherri, W4STB

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ARRL Southern Florida Section
Section Manager: Sharon T. Brower, W4STB
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