THE AIRWAVES November 2018

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1 THE AIRWAVES November 2018 SIERRA AMATEUR RADIO CLUB An ARES ARRL Special Service Club P O Box President Steve Hendricks First VP Mark Rosenthal Second VPJeff Potter Secretary Bill Burns Treasurer Keith Middleton Ridgecrest California BOARD OF OFFICERS KK6JTB (760) kk6jtb@gmail.com W6BST (760) w6bst@arrl.net N6LIP (562) kg6dkj@gmail.com WA6QYR (760) bburns@mediacombb.net N6WZZ (760) kk6lkn@gmail.com SARC OWNED AND MAINTAINED REPEATERS Randsburg WA6YBN MHz (-), PL Hz, Wide Area, Emergency Power Ridgecrest WA6YBN MHz (+), PL Hz, Local, Emergency Power SARC Committees Technical Assistance: Mike, WA6ARA Public Relations: Mark, W6BST Program: Jeff, N6LIP, (562) Airwaves Editor: Mike, WA6ARA RF Interference: Bill, WA6QYR (760) Emergency: Dennis, W6DQ, (562) THE AIRWAVES CALENDAR Every Monday 02 Dec IWV Emergency Net 730pm WA6YBN Repeater MHz +600KHz offset, tone Visitors Welcomed! Night 10 Meter Rag Chew Net 8pm USB 12 Nov SARC Board Meeting 6:30pm SARC General Meeting 7:00pm Program CHP Use of amateur radio while driving 17 Nov Ridgecrest Desert Classic OTHTC Ultra Marathon 26/27 Jan Winter Field Day! 08 Dec Amateur Radio License Exam Every Even Month, Second Saturday Location: Old Fire House, located behind the Historical USO Building, 231 W. Station St., Ridgecrest CA Pre-reg by 03 Dec. Space is limited! All must register at 9 AM Contact Mike Herr, WA6ARA WA6ARA@GMAIL.COM

2 SARC minutes from 08 October 2018 SARC Board meeting A list of items planed for the installation dinner prizes was discussed. Treasurer Keith N6WZZ wasn t present to report on the SARC bank account. The board agreed to move the speaker to the front of the meeting. Discussed the FCC article in the newsletter about non-compliant VHF/UHF transceivers. SARC General meeting Present Steve KK6JTB opened the meeting at 7 pm and thanked Judith N7TTH for bringing the snacks. He then introduced John Kristy of the Indian Wells Valley Ground Water Authority committee. John indicated the whole issue of ground water sustainability came about in the 2014 California law called the Sustainability Ground Water Act. A committee was formed to create a plan to meet the law before the state took over the authority of the area and forced us into something we didn t want. The committee has some 100 years of data to look over. The committee has two subcommittees, a Technical Advisory committee and a Policy Advisory Committee. The Policy Committee is looking at many ways to do the plan and things to include in it. The Technical committee of which John is a part, is looking at the science of how what ever plan could be done. One can use the internet to check out the website IWVGWA.org. There was a discussion of the use of gray water like the base golf course uses to keep the grass green. Ridgecrest City has been looking at gray water uses for many years. A preliminary report of the helicopter survey is to be presented at city hall sometime soon. Brackish water clean up has been discussed. Proposition 3 on the up coming election deals with the water issues. There are water bottling companies like Crystal Geiser to the north of us that are taking water out of the Owens Valley area and selling it all over the world. Questions and comments were taken. President Steve thanked John for coming to speak to us about this current and important issue. We had two visitors; David Norcross WH6EAD and Bonnie Ryan W6CAE, welcome. Steve asked folks to sign up for snacks in the future meetings. Mike WA6ARA talked about fixing the echo link on the repeater. Dave W6TLA talked about the IWV ARES group meeting on the 4 th Thursday 6:45 at the hospital conference room. Bob AD6HF said there still is some HF DX to be worked. President Steve KK6JTB asked for more folks to sign up for the upcoming Bill Thornburg horse ride coming up on the 21/22 weekend and to contact Tammy KG6VYA. Pacificon is also on that October 20/21 weekend. Boy Scout Jamboree On The Air is also on that same weekend. Show and tell had Steve N6MVX show off his new Ultra Fire flashlight he purchased on Amazon and the booklet and eyeball QSL card he received when he visited NIST WWV station in Colorado. Steve indicated he was the first visitor to WWV in two years and that the funding for NIST operations is being cut, so WWV may not be on the air much longer. Upcoming SARC support events include the Ridgecrest Desert Classic bike ride on November 17; Desert Ultra Marathon on December 2; the Fire Mountain horse ride in January 12/13; the ARRL Winter Field Day January 26/27; and the 20 Mule team horse ride on February 23/24. Nominations for the officers of SARC in 2019 include; President Steve KK6JTB, 1 st Vice President Mike WA6ARA, 2nd Vice President is open, Secretary Bill WA6QYR, and Treasurer Mark W6BST. The door prize went to Mike WA6ARA and the 50/50 prize $10 went to Mark W6BST. The meeting closed at 8:30. Submitted by Bill WA6QYR SARC Secretary.

3 01-Oct-18 Treasure Report Checking Deposits Debits $2, $64.00 $(56.44) Oct-18 Checking Balance $2, Oct-18 Checking Balance 31-Oct-18 Saving Balance Reserve Cash Available $2, $9, $(1,000.00) $10, Notes: Deposits from membership, Sept/Oct 50/50 drawing's & snack donation. Debits for ice cream social expenses. Keith Middleton N6WZZ SARC Treasurer Repeater News! SARC's repeater has been replaced. For the most part, there will not be any changes to you the user, except for a much improved receiver. Power output is limited to 20 watts at the present time (vs 110 watts for the old repeater). Also, the Alstar and Echolink functions at not implemented at this time. We hope to have both functional in the future. Operation is exactly the same, same frequencies and tones. You should not have to make any changes to your radio. There is a time out timer of 3 minutes. I.E. if you transmit continuous for longer than three minutes the repeater will shut down. It will reset automatically. There is no courtesy tone, only the squelch sound. Also, no announcement at 8am or 6pm. Again, these may be implemented at a future date. So far, the reports of performance have been outstanding! It certainly hears much better than it did in the past. We now have HT capability for most, if not all, of the valley. To the north good performance thru Coso Junction and to Olancha. So, please enjoy the repeater. We are in a testing phase and want to hear how well, or not, it is working for you. We all owe a big thanks to Ed, WI6RE, for donating the repeater and to Bob, K6ECM, for work in putting it on the air.

4 Bill Thornburg Endurance Ride Jeff and Julie Potter, N6LIPl & W6FIA Jeff and myself volunteered for the Bill Thornburgh Endurance Ride as new helpers for an event SARC has assisted for a time now. Special thanks to Tammy Johnson, KG6VYA who did a great job organizing the communications portion of this event, also being base camp net control for the entire time. What a cool fun time we all had together assisting the riders. Ham Radio was an important part of the Endurance Ride thanks to SARC Ham Radio operators. Hope to see you next year at the Bill Thornburgh Endurance Ride. P S - Lunch was provided and for dinner volunteers met at the base camp "Chuck Wagen" for a home cooked tritip meal with Cowboy coffee and dessert, too.

5 Up Coming Public Service Events Ridgecrest Desert Classic (Mountain bike ride) 17 Nov 2018 Desert Ultra Marathon (Run) 02 Dec 2018 Fire Mountain (Horse endurance ride) Jan Mule Team Ride (Horse endurance ride) Feb 2019 IWV 10 Meter Rag Chew Net The 10 meter Rag chew net is starting up again in earnest. We meet on Monday night, after the IWV ARES nett at 8pm, on MHz, USB. Hope to see you o Pacificon!

6 For Free/ Sale ICOM IC HM7 mobile microphone, 8 pin connectors; ICOM IC-HM8 mobile microphone 8 pin connector FREE Tri-EX Tower Corp Model THD ft crank up light weight tower FREE HF antennas which have been in the desert sun a long time and need replacement plastic pieces: High Gain TA33 triband 3 elements beam FREE; 14AVQ vertical FREE; 2 element triband beam FREE RF Concepts MHz amplifier 200mw-15w input 100w output 12v $5 Craftsman Professional MIG wire feed welder input 120vac 25aac. Output 105adc 19.5vdc 20% duty cycle. Cart, helmet, plus lots of accessories. 2 gas bottles. $120. Bird Electronics Thru line wattmeter kHz- 1MHz 5-100watts dual direction FREE Power Supplies Lambda modular reg power supplies: 0-7vdc 0.8a; 15vdc 1.4a; 0-32vdc 0.4a; 36vdc 3a. FREE Standard Power Supplies: 5vdc 35a; dual 12-15vdc 8a; 8vdc 12a; FREE Eico 1030 Regulated Supply 0-150vdc 2ma, 0-400vdc 150ma, 6/12 vac 3a; FREE Power Tec power supply 18-26vdc 1a; FREE Trimag power supply 350vdc 0.26a Free Simpson 269 analog volt ohm amp meter FREE Heat sinks, many sizes free Free Wire! Lots of RG-8 coax- some RG-141 small coax free Lots of shielded two wire cable and multi-conductor cable- free Lots of Romex copper wire number 12 and 14 -free Several hundred feet spool of black #26 stranded wire free Reels of surface mount resistors and capacitors. A strip a foot long will give you enough parts for a year. These are 1206 and 606 size parts. Free Bill WA6QYR 247 Rebel Road Ridgecrest bburns@mediacombb.net Want Looking to get on HF - would like to hear from anyone who has a transceiver for sale. Dust collector? Unused set need a good home? Contact WH6EAD David. Looking to get on to operate, but not much repairing. Will be on the net most Mondays. Or djnorx@gmail.comg

7 Visit WA6YBN.COM

8 Open Area Repeaters Status Location Call Freq in MHz Tone Notes UP Randsburg WA6YBN (-) Wide Area, Emergency Power UP Ridgecrest WA6YBN (+) Allstar #27178, Echolink #518309, Info Standby Ridgecrest WA6YBN (+) *510 Club Portable Repeater, used only for UP El Paso Pk WI6RE Packet events Node (ELPASO) Down El Paso Pk WI6RE APRS Allstar W1 Node Digi, (27167) iwvaprs.net usually on UP El Paso Pk WI6RE (-) WINSYSTEM UP Trona K5GFM (-) Trona low level repeater UP Bird Springs KF6FM (+) Wide coverage of Indian Wells Valley - UP Mazourka Pk W6TD (-) swrrc.org Linked to Lone Pine, Silver Pk, Bishop, UP Hauser Pk K6OX (-) Mommoth Near Palmdale, Wide coverage of UP Keller Pk KE6RYZ (+) Antelope kpra.net - Valley Near Big Bear, Wide SoCal UP Lake Isabella N6SR (-) Lake Coverage Isabella area UP Lone Pine (+) UP Mazourka Pk (+) UP Ridgecrest WI6RE IRLP-3741, contact tiplerek@iwvisp.com UP El Paso Pk WI6RE (-) IRLP-3877 for codes - WinSystem.org UP Ridgecrest NC9RS (-) 88.5 Linked to Mazourka, Silver Pk, Bishop, Mommoth Input: Linked to NC9RS system to wa6ybn@gmail.com to report changes

9 Sierra Amateur Radio Club Membership Application Please fill this out. It is used to make the club roster and newsletter mailing list. This form must accompany all membership payments. All renewals are due by March 31 st. Please mail this application along with your payment to: SARC P.O. Box 1442 Ridgecrest, CA or give them to the Secretary at a meeting. Membership Individual - $17.00 Family - $27.00 Full Time Student - $8.50 Active Duty Military - $8.50 Individual or Family Member Last Name: First Name: Date: Callsign: Class: Address: Address: Radio Interests: Phone: < Required for newsletter delivery Are you currently an ARRL Member? May the club publish your Name, Callsign and Interests only, on its web page? Yes Yes No No Second Family Member (For more Family Members, please duplicate) Last Name: Callsign: First Name: Class: Address: < Required for newsletter delivery Radio Interests: Are you currently an ARRL Member? May the club publish your Name, Callsign and Interests only, on its web page? Yes Yes No No Badge Order Club Badges are now done Online. Visit for more information and to place an order. - Membership Application v3 by K6ECM (DEC 2017)