From tmrainformation at gmail.com Thu Nov 2 16:41:20 2017 From: tmrainformation at gmail.com (Brad Ruhberg) Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 16:41:20 -0400 Subject: [TMRA] Soldering Project Message-ID: <5A9423DC-DCE5-4E13-9A12-C691AF7B9149@gmail.com> All, Rich / KD8WCB, has asked us to survey the club, to determine if anyone would be interested in joining him in a project build. The build is a digital Antenna Analyzer that is good on the Ham Bands from 1 to 30 MHz. The cost is estimated by Rich to be in the $60.00 (est) range. Rich is intending to build the unit and wants to see if others are interested in the project. Rich has already downloaded the specs. You can see the unit and get a better idea of what's involved by turning to page 40 of your November 2017 copy of QST Magazine. If you are interested in joining Rich in this build please contact him. Rich Peper / KD8WCB rich.peper at gmail.com Or You can contact me, and I'll pass along your interest to him. Brad Ruhberg/WB8RG tmrainformation at gmail.com All are welcome to join in this build. Thanks Bradley Ruhberg TMRA Information Officer tmrainformation at gmail.com 2 From rhall987 at robhall.org Fri Nov 3 17:29:59 2017 From: rhall987 at robhall.org (Robert Hall) Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 17:29:59 -0400 Subject: [TMRA] Need a hand Tuesday 11/7 ( afternoon, sometime between noon-4pm) Message-ID: I'll need help moving the new 224.140 antenna into storage once it is taken off the delivery truck. It will be short notice (last time I had a 20 minutes heads up when they called). Anyone available to help? (should be quick, but it is a 2 person job) It can be done with 2 people, albeit slowly, but we don't have to go that far with it. Thanks in advance! Rob - KV8P From tmrainformation at gmail.com Sat Nov 4 19:16:44 2017 From: tmrainformation at gmail.com (Brad Ruhberg) Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2017 19:16:44 -0400 Subject: [TMRA] Time change Message-ID: <9A27CD3A-97A0-429C-A45E-50F5464B90F5@gmail.com> All Reminder to set your clock back one hour tonight before you head off to sleep. Time change at at 0200 am. It's also an excellent time to check your Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Detectors. Severe storm threat in the area for us tomorrow afternoon and evening. Stay safe Bradley Ruhberg From w8ter at bex.net Sun Nov 5 12:26:30 2017 From: w8ter at bex.net (Stephen Bellner) Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2017 12:26:30 -0500 Subject: [TMRA] MARS COMEX 17-4 Simulated Solar Storm Exercise Message-ID: > All Station All Stations... > > > ***MARS EXERCISE*** ? ***MARS EXERCISE*** > > > Please be aware of the MARS COMEX 17-4 that is currently underway. The > exercise started 021200Z NOV 2017 and runs through 062359Z NOV 2017. > This is a catastrophic solar (NATIONAL) storm that will effect all > electronic equipment not protected. We are currently under a > communications minimize condition until the effects of the storm pass > the earth. > > > On 041200Z NOV 2017, COMMS will resume and MARS station will begin to > contact amateur stations on K5403.5 to gather information on "County > Status", which will be brought to the MARS circuits to be forwarded to > MARS HQS for consolidation. > > > If you could be so kind as to pass this information through your > sources to make as many amateurs aware of the above situation and to > monitor the 60 meter channel "5" (K5403.5 MHz) and be listening for > both Army and Air Force MARS stations looking for county status > reports. Army and Air Force MARS stations will be using their assigned > calls to contact the amateur community. > > > Thanks for taking the time to help get the word out if you can. > REMEMBER, THIS IS ONLY AN EXERCISE AND NOT AN ACTUAL EVENT> > > > ***MARS EXERCISE*** ? ***MARS EXERCISE*** > > > 73 Al/ W8AII/ AFA5AM > > Air Force MARS > From rhall987 at robhall.org Sun Nov 5 21:09:36 2017 From: rhall987 at robhall.org (Robert Hall) Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2017 21:09:36 -0500 Subject: [TMRA] Covered: 220 repeater antenna into storage on Tuesday In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dave (KD8EVN) has moved his schedule around so that he can assist me with moving the new 224.14 repeater antenna into storage on Tuesday. Big thanks to Dave! The antenna is about 110lbs and 20' long, so it is definitely a 2 person job once it comes off the truck. (As we learned with the others). More on install timing later. Thanks Dave! Rob - KV8P From tmrainformation at gmail.com Mon Nov 13 08:41:28 2017 From: tmrainformation at gmail.com (Brad Ruhberg) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 08:41:28 -0500 Subject: [TMRA] LCARES INC Board Elections Message-ID: <42325A85-8D64-41FE-A321-5F73B792624E@gmail.com> All The following is from Richard Brownlee the President of LCARES Inc. LCARES, Inc. is the legal corporate arm of Lucas County ARES. It holds property, seeks grants, and enters contracts to support the work of Lucas County ARES. LCARES, Inc. is incorporated under the laws of the State of Ohio. The Board is composed of 9 members. The Lucas County Emergency Coordinator (Lowell ? Skeet? Kern - KD8KXD) is an ex-officio member. The Class of 2018 is: Richard Brownlee, KA9IVY: President Brian Harrington, WD8MXR: Treasurer Brent Stover, WD8PNZ: Statutory Agent Rick Sharpe, K8RKS, The Class of 2019 is: Tom Szuba, K8XXA: 2019: Vice-President Tim Gray, KD8IZU: 2019: Secretary Chuck Krukowski, KB8FXJ: 2019 Mike Farkas, N8GBU: 2019 The class of 2018 will complete their term when a new class of 2020 is elected. Four trustees will be elected at the January meeting of Lucas County ARES, January 27, 2018. Any qualified Amateur is eligible for nomination. A qualified Amateur has a valid license as an Amateur Radio operator, is a registered member of Lucas County ARES, is 18 years old or older, and, should be prepared to meet any EmComm requirements needed for LCARES or LCARES, Inc. to be eligible for financial support. Under the terms of the ASPR FY-12 Grant at least 50% of the Trustees need to have ICS100, 200, and 700 training. Current Trustees are eligible for re-election. The board meets at 8:00 a.m. prior to the Lucas County ARES meeting in February, April, July, and October, and when a special meeting is called according to the bylaws. Person nominated should normally be able to attend the regular meetings. Persons interested in serving can submit their name to Richard Brownlee, KA9IVY at ka9ivy at arrl.net, or 419-450-0466, or at my home, 3716 Mapleway Drive, Toledo, OH 43614 to have their names placed in nomination. Nominations will be accepted from the floor, if the person nominated has agreed to serve and meets the requirements above. Richard D. Brownlee, KA9IVY President, LCARES, Inc. Posted 11/13/17 Bradley Ruhberg/WB8RG TMRA Information Officer tmrainformation at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From craig at uniqsys.com Tue Nov 21 17:38:49 2017 From: craig at uniqsys.com (Craig Szczublewski) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 17:38:49 -0500 Subject: [TMRA] Fulton County Winterfest Change in Venue Message-ID: <05a712ca-a386-28c7-74af-367ef6cac4ad@uniqsys.com> For anyone venturing out to Delta on December 2, the venue for the Winter Hamfest is changing to The Village of Delta Memorial Hall at 401 Main St, in Delta. Sorry for the short notice, but some unforeseen circumstances had us scrambling to find a new temporary home. -- Craig Szczublewski - KD8KBU From w8ter at bex.net Wed Nov 22 21:53:29 2017 From: w8ter at bex.net (Steve Bellner) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 21:53:29 -0500 Subject: [TMRA] Volunteers are need to assist with the Holiday Hustle and the Holiday Light Parade. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4a69892f-77ee-584a-72ff-fca62e5ca251@bex.net> VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Attention Amateur Radio Emergency Service*(ARES)* volunteers?. Volunteers are need to assist with the Holiday Hustle and the Holiday Light Parade. We have provided communications for this event since it started? Due to circumstances beyond our control we are taking a different approach. Since we do not self-deploy we can volunteer to assist with what ever the organization needs us to do. If you _do_ volunteer, please remember to bring your Orange reflective vest, ARES ID badge, your 2 Meter Handie Talkie and other communication gear in case it is needed. There is this caveat? We do not know exactly what we will be asked to do. There is a good possibility we may not be asked to perform or provide communications in anyway. Please consider that before volunteering. Dress to be out in the cold. Remember to bring warm gloves and dress in layers?typically 2 to 3 layers for about 32 degrees freezing temperature or more if it is single digits. To Volunteer please contact *Danielle Walker: ndcwalker at gmail.com or call 419-307-0498. * * * * * Please contact W8TER or KD8KXD as well. w8ter at arrl.net kd8kxd at arrl.net The following is an exert from a message sent out by officials who are organizing this event; Help?. The Maumee Uptown Business Association is in need of volunteers to assist with the Holiday Light Parade on *November 25^th from 4 ? 6:30 p.m. *The volunteers will help assemble the position of the floats on Ford Street and assist with getting the floats successfully across the A.W. Trail. The Maumee police Division will also be on hand for this event, leading the parade and assisting in the process. Volunteers are asked to meet at the Foot and Ankle Specialists (Podiatric Associates of NWO) located at 609 Ford Street. Please consider helping out. Your support of the community is greatly appreciated!!! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tmrainformation at gmail.com Tue Nov 28 17:20:59 2017 From: tmrainformation at gmail.com (Brad Ruhberg) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 17:20:59 -0500 Subject: [TMRA] Weekly Email Message-ID: <4FEB71BE-BC2E-4999-8B2E-4F49D14A3084@gmail.com> Hello All, I hope you had a great Thanksgiving. This is the first of what will be a weekly E-mail. The following is information for the good of the club and its Members. ------------------------------------ The TMRA Holiday Party will be held on Wednesday December 13th 2018 at 6pm. The location is 2727 Lime City Road, Rossford Ohio. This is the usual location of the General Club Meeting. Please bring a dish to pass. In related news TMRA is collecting pictures for a slide-show to be presented during the Christmas Party (Wednesday, Dec 13th, at 6:30pm). Please send a picture of one of the following to Rob Hall (KV8P) at kv8p at kv8p.com before the Christmas party! (we'll take one of each if you have one of each!) 1. Picture of your ham shack. No shack is too small or big. We are hoping for some variety! 2. Any Holiday Pictures of you and your family you don't mind sharing! 3. Any crazy sweater pictures! Thanks for participating! The more picks we get the better! ------------------------------------ Rich / KD8WCB is looking for people to join him in a Digital Antenna Analyzer Build. The Estimated cost of this project is around $55.00. If you need more info please look in the November edition of QRZ Magazine. There you will find a write up of the unit on page 40. If you want to join in the build or for any other info please contact Rich. rich.peper at gmail.com ------------------------------------ Chrissy / KC8UFV Is hosting a surface mount clock build. The cost is $15.00 The build will take place following the February 2018 V.E.Session. The build will be held at Maumee Fire Station 2 on Dussel Drive in Maumee on Feb 10th 2018 at 10:00. Orders for the clocks must be received by Chrissy no later then Jan 1st to allow time for shipping from China. For more info or to order a Clock Kit see Chrissy at one of the Meetings or e-mail her at kc8ufv at gmail.com ------------------------------------ This months Fox Hunt winner was Rob/KV8P Congratulations Rob There will NOT be a Fox Hunt in December The next Fox Hunt will be January 27th 2018 at 1030am (weather permitting). ------------------------------------ There will NOT be an ARES meeting in December. The next ARES meeting will be January 27th 2018 at 0900 at St.Lukes Hospital. lucasares.org In Ares related news Brian / WD8MXR Is still looking for a few Volunteers to man Hospital Radios this Saturday Dec 2nd at 1000am. If you are an ARES member and want to help contact Brian wd8mxr at arrl.net ------------------------------------ RON / N8RLH Has asked me to announce that he still has some silent Key equipment for sale. For more info contact RON at 419-345-6382 or rlhornbeck at att.net ------------------------------------ Are you new to Ham Radio or so you just feel inexperienced, or do you just have a question that you need answered? Be sure to tune into the TMRA Newcomers and Elmers net each Sunday night at 8pm. This new follows the ARES in brief net on the 147.270 repeater. In related news Net Control Stations for the Newcomers and Elmers net are needed. If you would like to take the net and try your hand at Net Control, or do you have a topic to suggest for the net? Well then get ahold of Dave / KD8EVN buellshug at buckeye-express.com ------------------------------------ Don't forget to stop by the TMRA Facebook page Do a Facebook search of TMRA and check it out. Don't forget to give us a like so you can be sure to get notified of updates. www.tmrahamradio.org the clubs Webpage has been updated and has lots of great info about our club and the hobby. Be sure to stop by the website. Also don't forget that the clubs current and Archived News Letter(s) can be found on the Web site. ------------------------------------ Don't forget to sign TMRA up as your Organization of choice for Kroger and Amazon Smile. This results in a donation to the club as a portion of your purchase. ------------------------------------ (Non-Club Related) Mike / KE8RIN Is hosting a Christmas Party at his Home in West Toledo. The Party will be held Saturday December 16th from 3 till 8 pm. This party is non-club affiliated and everyone is welcomed. However If you intend to Attend you will need to rsvp to Mike by December 4th. You can contact Mike at ke8rin at gmail.com for more information or to rsvp. ------------------------------------ My Final The TMRA Information Officer is here to help you stay in touch with club activities. I am also here to help you promote your activities. If you have an activity, or just some information that you want help distributing to the club, please feel free to email me. I'm here to help. 73s Bradley Ruhberg/WB8RG TMRA Information Officer tmrainformation at gmail.com 147.270 + 103.5pl 147.270 + 250.3pl 442.850 + 103.5pl www.tmrahamradio.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From w8ter at bex.net Thu Nov 30 16:26:56 2017 From: w8ter at bex.net (Steve Bellner) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 16:26:56 -0500 Subject: [TMRA] NORC NET THIS SATURDAY In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <7a7ca2b2-da32-568e-4f2a-88c07fef7a8d@bex.net> Hello?NORC?Net?Hams, This Saturday is the 1st Saturday of the month and time again for the "NORC?Net" (*_N_*orth-West *_O_*hio *_R_*egional *_C_*ommunications) at 11:00 AM. This?net?is designed to provide backup emergency communications between the 18 counties (ARES District 1 & 2) in Northwest Ohio, and encourage?checkins from the local County EOC's, but all checkins are welcome. The net?will?start on *_?3.915 +/- _*then, when the?75 meter is completed will go to *_7.215 +/- _*and see how it goes?on 40 meter. Thanks everybody. Daniel L Stahl, Administrator * * *EMA * 9-1-1 * Public Safety Communications *** LEPC* Seneca County Public Safety Building Fairgrounds - Building ?# 3 126 Hopewell Av ?Tiffin? OH 44883-2636 Voice 419-447-0266 X10 Fax ? ? ? ? ? ??419-448-5064 Cell _419-934-1967_ 24/7 E-mail dstahl at senecacountyohio.gov EOC-900 ? ? ? ? ? KC8PBU 145.150R/442.300R/107.2 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. 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