SBARC-list June 2003

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Rhona Anderson (fwd)
by Dennis Schwendtner 18 Jul '03

18 Jul '03

***** Remember, an out of tune piano makes noise, not music! ***** ***** E-MAIL: dennis(a)rain.org . ***** http://www.rain.org/~dennis *** Dennis Schwendtner *** WB6OBB *** ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 23:44:31 -0700 From: ka6rpn(a)juno.com To: dennis(a)rain.org Subject: Rhona Anderson We would like to tell you about Rhona K6NOO. She had a CT scan of the abdomen a little over a week ago and the results were cancer throughout her abdomen, liver, and pancreas. Kip also tells me her lungs are affected. She was at Cottage Hospital but is home now. It has been a shock to all of us, who are close to her, and it has been devastating to Kip and to Rhona herself. She has been such a fighter through all of her trials these past few years but this journey is a real blow to her and her loved ones. It would be a good idea (if Rhona meant something to you) to call, send a card, take up a meal or just pray that she will be comfortable and live out the time she has here with us in peace. It is a shock to many of us. It will be a loss to us and to Amateur Radio. We remember working with her on the Hamfest the year that she was chairman. That was one of the best Hamfests we have ever had. To thank us afterwards for a job well done she had a BBQ and swimming party. It was a blast and she wanted to just thank us for a job well done. That's Rhona. Well, we think it would be a good idea if we can do now for her. Even if it is kind word or a little note please extend yourself now that we have a chance. She will be missed and if you really know her you know what we mean. We spoke to her today and she was having a hard time eating. She took a little apple sauce and wanted to try a little avocado this evening. She hurts when she eats but she is trying to keep a little down and get some nourishment. She took one treatment of chemo but says she will not continue because she does not feel the results of the chemo are worth it. So, we are sorry to come to you with this news but we want you to have a chance to write, call or just pray for her. Thank you. If you would like to know more details, please do not hesitate to call or email us. 966-7060 73 and 88's Dennis and JoAnn Schwendtner WB6OBB KA6RPN

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Summer 2003 Events
by kc6nah＠juno.com 29 Jun '03

29 Jun '03

Greetings All, SBARC will be supporting the following events: Walk as One-A-Thon, Sunday, July 20, 2003 http://www.nccj.org/nccj/nccj.nsf/articleall/4529?opendocument&1#873 Fiesta Parade, Friday, August 1, 2003 http://www.oldspanishdays-fiesta.org/home.html Santa Barbara Triathlon, Saturday, August 23, 2003 http://www.adventours-inc.com/common/sbct2003.htm I'll have more details for each event If you'd like to work any or all of the events, please contact me. If you prefer a specific assignment, please let me know as soon as possible ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!

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Steve, was that you?
by Jay Hennigan 27 Jun '03

27 Jun '03

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Computer equipment wanted
by Bill Talanian 25 Jun '03

25 Jun '03

COMPUTER EQUIPMENT WANTED The Club would like to proceed ahead with integration of the INTERNET RADIO LINKING PROJECT (IRLP) to the Club'S 446.400 MHz repeater. WHAT IS NEEDED: PENTIUM I or II Computer capable of operating under LINUX Minimum 32 MB of RAM Minimum 1 GB Hard Drive Linux friendly network card ISA true Soundblaster16 sound card If you have a portion or all of these assets which could be donated to this Club project then please contact Bill Talanian (964-7432).

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Small felxible solar panel needed for Field Day
by rod＠sbatv.org 25 Jun '03

25 Jun '03

Hi, As you may know, we'll have a blimp for Field Day. We're planning to try to put a small video transmitter on it, but need a power source. Batteries that would handle the load over time are two heavy, so we're looking for a small, lightweight, flexible solar panel. It needs to put out about half an amp anywhere between 8 and 24 volts (it will be regulated). Voltages closer to 8 are preferred because they generate less heat in the regulator. If you have a panel that you lend us for the weekend, please email me at rod(a)sbatv.org. Thanks, Rod, WB9KMO

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Santa Barbara ARDF Practice
by Marvin Johnston 21 Jun '03

21 Jun '03

The weather turned out to be almost perfect for the practice held on Saturday, June 21 at Lake Los Carnaros in Goleta, California. With overcast skys in the morning, the weather was cool and comfortable for running. There were a total of 9 transmitters; 5 2M transmitters for the ARDF Competition, 1 80M practice transmitter, and 3 practice transmitters about 100 feet from each other near the starting area. I layed out the course with a goal of a 35 - 40 minute winning time. The course length varied depending on the route, but the optimum was probably 1 2 5 3 4 which gave a course length of about 2.5 Km. Taking the order of 1 5 2 3 4 would have been a close second. Bob Cooley and Jay Thompson were both members of the US ARDF team and had competed in the World ARDF Championships. Scott Moore had competed both in the Albuquerque and Georgia US ARDF Championships. Most of the other hams were either planning on, or hoping to attend the US ARDF Championships in Cincinnati, OH this year. We had four beginners that enjoyed todays event, and we are hoping they will be attending more of these events! TWO METER EVENT Name Callsign Time Foxes Found Order Bob Cooley KF6VSE 38:50 5 1 5 2 3 4 Jay Thompson W6JAY 40:40 5 5 2 1 3 4 Jay Hennigan WB6RDV 49:40 5 1 2 3 5 4 Dean Dods KD6I 54:45 5 Scott Moore KF6IKO 1:00:42 5 1 2 5 3 4 Matthew Dods KG6EPB 1:12:09 5 Bill Smathers KF6HXX 1:43:45 5 Richard Thompson WA6NOL 1:53:10 3 Jim Whitted --- 2:37:10 3 5 2 4 Gab Knapp + --- 1:15:25 1 Chris Knapp + --- Matt Smith --- 80 Meter Transmitter Name Callsign Time Jay Thompson W6JAY 15:48 Bob Cooley KF6VSE 30:10 Several other went after the 80M transmitter but were not timed. Marvin Johnston, KE6HTS ------------------------------------------- ebaY's Security Breach and Coverup http://www.auctionguild.com/generic110.html SellYourItem.com - Your Member Driven Auction Community! http://www.sellyouritem.com

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ARDF Practice Saturday
by Marvin Johnston 16 Jun '03

16 Jun '03

Hi everyone! Just a reminder that next weekend on Saturday, June 21st, we will be having an informal ARDF (Amateur Radion Direction Finding and sometimes called Radio-Orienteering) practice. The location will be at Lake Los Carneros Park in Goleta, CA. The 2M hunt will begin at 9:00AM, will be around 3 - 3.5 Km in length, and I expect the winning time to be about 35 minutes. We will have standard 1:5000, full color orienteering maps available. I plan on being at the registration area about 8:30AM. The start times will be 5 minutes apart with each competitor starting when transmitter #1 first goes on as is standard in Championship events. There will be a starting chute to keep everyone starting out in the same direction. The start times for those people who just want to give it a try without being timed will be just after the last timed start. Right now, I would guess that would be sometime after 9:40AM. Standard orienteering punches will be used, and the transmitters will be identified with the standard Orance and White control flag. There are quite a few foxtails in the park, and gators might be advisable. For those of you who might just like an armchair idea of what this is all about, take a look at http://www.rain.org/~marvin. I copied this description from the web about 5 years or so ago. I have not been able to find the original author. Since this is an informal meet, there are no entry fees. However if you are planning on attending, please let me know. A map and directions can be found on the HomingIn web site at http://www.homingin.com. ------------------------------------------- ebaY's Security Breach and Coverup http://www.auctionguild.com/generic110.html SellYourItem.com - Your Member Driven Auction Community! http://www.sellyouritem.com

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Safety & Communications (kinda long) lessons learned
by Marvin Johnston 16 Jun '03

16 Jun '03

This was forwarded to me, and I thought the information presented here might provide some ideas of what we, as a club, could be doing. E-Box - Electronic Scoring box. Runners carry a finger "stick" they place in the EBox and that records the time and ID of the runner when they visit that control. HOC - Houston Orienteering Club. OT - Overtime OCAD - An Orienteering CAD (an excellent programming for drawing Orienteering maps.) For those of you who have seen the Lake Los Carnaros Orienteering Map, it was done in OCAD 5.0 (now offered as freeware.) ******************* Hi my name is Mike Urich and I'm a member of HOC and also a ham radio operator. We just finished up teaching our annual summer camp, Texas Junior Orienteering Camp, TJOC http://tjoc.us, where we were beginning to push the envelope of technology and orienteering some. TJOC is the vision of Maj Vidinha of LaPorte JROTC and is supported by the NTOA, HOC &ALOS clubs. We learned a couple of things from this years camp that I'd like to share. First we run this camp at the Sid Richardson Scout Ranch (SR2) in Bridgeport TX which is a 3000 acre facility that is longer than it is wide. >From the bottom of the map to the top is about 5 - 6 Km and we used the entire map over the course of the week. SR2 is a very rough and unforgiving so we felt it was necessary to have good communications in addition to good medical support, we had one RN and one Paramedic on site all week. Because my son, Chase, KC5MPK and I are ham radio operators and practice emergency communications we felt that it was necessary for us to have a map of the facility that was broken up into some type of a grid system so if needed we could call for medical at grid square "G12" and everyone who needed to respond could look at their map and know where to go without going into some long detail about where to turn off the road etc etc. We found that OCAD has a grid overlay (draw grid) feature and it worked perfectly for us. We actually printed 3 separate maps covering various areas of the main map (mainly so it wouldn't be too small) and had copies with both medical staff, myself (safety observer & communications supervisor) and the camp director. These came in handy when we had missing (OT) runners and had to mount a search. We could drop off people at different spots and tell them to go search a particular grid(s). We set the grids to 150X150 meters in size This was greatly enhanced by using good two way radios. If you scan through the pictures on the tjoc web-site you will see a gazebo which is one of the highest spots on the facility. We set up our fixed communications center (net control station or NCS) there On events where the courses were too long for reliable hand held to hand held communications we would man the (NCS). Any time we had a missing (OT) runner and had search teams out each team would be equipped with a hand held radio and the NCS would be manned as well as we had our medic in a vehicle with a radio. In HOC we are currently using MURS Ch5 (154.600 MHz) and we have 10 hand held and one fixed (base) station radio. Here's a couple of pictures of the antenna on top of the trailer and the radio inside the equipment trailer. Once the trailer is unloaded with meet gear we set it up for computations and NCS. These were from a local meet back in the spring. http://www.ka5cvh.com/arespix/tn014.jpg http://www.ka5cvh.com/arespix/tn015.jpg http://www.ka5cvh.com/arespix/tn015a.jpg Our next goal is to look into doing some type of data communications between start / finish & computations via packet (digital mode). We'll probably be using MURS Ch3, 151.940 MHz for data. What we want to be able to do is automatically update start list changes for finish and computations from start as they are made. We've also discussed how we could use APRS (another digital radio mode) to let us know who has punched an E-Box so we can evaluate where competitors may be on the course. Another benefit to the digital modes is having someone at a man control, like map exchange, sending bib #'s back to finish so the race can be "monitored" so to speak. We're also interested in talking with anyone who has come up with a PDA interface where we could go out and check E-Boxes to see if a missing runner has made it to that control or not. We are seriously interested in what other clubs are using for two way radios (if you do) at your meets, and if any other of you techno geeks have considered any of these other items too!. I have set up an email reflector for the purpose of discussing "license free" "personal communication radio services" including all digital modes and how we could apply them to orienteering. If you're interested in joining go to http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/murs and sign up. Mike Urich www.ka5cvh.com www.ka5cvh.com/democracy.htm ------------------------------------------- ebaY's Security Breach and Coverup http://www.auctionguild.com/generic110.html SellYourItem.com - Your Member Driven Auction Community! http://www.sellyouritem.com

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Field Day Request
by steve hammer 09 Jun '03

09 Jun '03

Dear SBARC Members: I am writing to the general membership today to ask for a favor. As you know, the 28-29th of June is Field Day. KG6JMJ and I are running the HF Phone Station. We had this bright idea of getting a car dealership to lend us their blimp for Field Day operations. It appears that we have been successful and expect to have a 17 foot blimp flying above the Phone Station. What could be more exciting? We need two things and we thought that we would appeal to the membership for help. We need: 1. Ladder Line. 450 ohm 14 gage 1 inch ladder line is preferred. 2. Ideas about what antenna would take the best advantage of the blimp (maximum elevation is 190 feet). If you have some ladder line you would like to LEND (you will get it back), please let us know. We would like to obtain about 300 feet in total. It can be in many pieces...anywhere from 25 foot sections to 100+ foot runs. If you have an antenna idea, we'd love to hear it. If you have an antenna you would like to lend and see it fly high above Santa Barbara, we'd like to hear that too! With the solar conditions poor, we need to concentrate on 40-80 meters. Having the blimp will allow us to get a long wire high in the sky. As a skyhook, we can suspend most any design. Looking through the ARRL Antenna book brings several good choices to mind, including a tilted half rhombic. So, if you'd like to help us field day operators out, please let us know. Please send email to kg6ena(a)sbarc.org do not reply to this email as we used the list server. Thanks for your time. KG6ENA, KG6JMJ Steve Hammer Ken Mueller

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Orion Wish List
by steve hammer 09 Jun '03

09 Jun '03

Here is my short list: Orion Feature Wish List (software defined) 1. manual transmit key 2. bandscope active on all receivers, main, b and sub; switchable 3. two bandscopes: 1 for A, 1 switchable between B and sub 4. programmable step sizes other than the presets 5. memory positions for rx audio settings that does not require a reset of other radio functions. recall would be instant. 6. the external speaker output on the rear panel should be a STEREO plug and not a monaural plug. this would allow us to connect two speakers so we could enjoy the binaural and diversity reception. 7. separate control of both compression and alc in the speech processor. 8. display of transmit audio signal in real time. 9. ability to reassign features to buttons we may not use. for example, item 5 above could be assigned to VOX button. multiple pushes would cycle different settings (as the AGC button does now). cheers! steve kg6ena

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SBARC-list June 2003