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4th US ARDF Championships Update #1
by Marvin Johnston 14 Apr '04

14 Apr '04

4th US ARDF Championships Update #1 This year, the Fourth U.S. ARDF Championships will be held in Southern California, and is being sponsored by the Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club and the Los Angeles Orienteering Club. with the headquarters at the EconoLodge in Gorman, California (about 35 miles north of Los Angeles on I-5.) The registration form (PDF file) is now available for download on both the SBARC web site and the HomingIn web site. Registration will cover only the costs of the competition (permits, awards, bus, etc.) with meals and lodging being the responsibility of the competitor with the exception of the awards banquet Saturday night. A block of rooms has been reserved at the EconoLodge in Gorman for those of you who would like to stay at the headquarters location. There are also a number of campgrounds located within a 20 mile or so radius. As was done at the 2002 ARDF Championships in Georgia, we are making the venues public information. The venues that were chosen have excellent orienteering maps and will provide challenging courses. The reason for making the maps public information is these venues have been visited a number of times by California competitors and this is a way to even things out. The start/finish locations will not be public information. To encourage early registration, preview maps of the venues will be included if the registration is postmarked by May 14, 2004. After that, they will cost $5.00 for the pair including mailing. The 2M competition will be held at Vasquez Rocks on Friday, April 18, in Agua Dulce California. Because it can get quite hot, we plan on starting the competition at 8:30AM so most people can finish before the heat gets to be too much in the afternoon. In addition, we will have water at each of the controls. This is also a very scenic area and many movies have been partially filmed there including Star Trek and The Flintstones. The 80M competition will be held on Saturday, April 19, at Mt Pinos. Mt Pinos is situated at about 8000 feet in pine forest type terrain. This is one of the nicest venues in Southern California for this type of activity. Because of limited parking and to keep competitors together for the start of the competition, everyone will meet at Gorman and take the bus to the competition area. How to handle lunch has not been decided as of yet since it is not included in the registration. We are currently looking into a low cost ($5.00 or less) Santa Barbara Style Tri-Tip BBQ (tri-tips, beans, salad, garlic bread, drinks) after the 2M competition. We plan on having a training camp from Saturday, June 12 through Wednesday, June 16, available for any of the competitors who care to participate. The most probable venue will be the Travel Town section of Griffith Park in Los Angeles. This will provide a challenge both physically and with 2M reflections. More information will be on the web site as it becomes available. The latest information as it becomes available will be posted on the Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club web site at: http://www.sbarc.org/ardf/index.shtml and the HomingIn web site at: http://www.homingin.com Marvin Johnston, KE6HTS Chairman, 4th US ARDF Championships

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ATV Net - Tuesday Night at 7:30pm
by rod＠sbatv.org 12 Apr '04

12 Apr '04

ATVSIG'ers, The turnout for the ATV Net has been light for the past few weeks, but I attribute that to the TV Repeater being down for reconstruction. We expect to have it on the air again with the SSTV repeater, too, in a few more weeks. More about that in the near future. I will not be able to run the ATV Net on Tuesday nights until sometime in June due to a clash in my schedule. If someone would volunteer, I'd like to see continuity in ATV/SSTV activity during that period. I look forward to returning as soon as I can, hopefully in a big way. Thank you for your support. I'll be around, but not on Tuesday nights for awhile. 73, Rod, WB9KMO

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Chardonnay Run, Sat., April 17, 2004
by kc6nah＠juno.com 12 Apr '04

12 Apr '04

Greeting All, We still need 5 more communicators for this weekend's Chardonnay Run. The event begin around 7:30 a.m. and should conclude about noon.Please let me know as soon as possible If you're available. Thanks, Hubert ________________________________________________________________ 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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Chardonnay Run, Saturday 4-17-04
by kc6nah＠juno.com 09 Apr '04

09 Apr '04

Greeting All, We need 11 more operators for the Chardonnay Run. Please contact me as soon as possible if you'll be available. Thanks, Hubert ________________________________________________________________ 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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Jay & RDF in LA Times Tuesday
by ke6dcj 03 Apr '04

03 Apr '04

On my way back to Jacksonville, FL, I read the Tuesday edition of the Los Angeles Times and their was a special interest story on Fox Hunting/Radio Detection Finding. Our Jay Henningen (sp?) was featured as a contender to the World Radio Detection Finding finals. Good going Jay! 73's, :-) neil & tiffany ke6dcj / ke6jsc

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Griffith Park Radio-Orienteering 4/17/04
by Marvin Johnston 02 Apr '04

02 Apr '04

These practice hunts are getting progressivly more difficult. I will be doing the course setting with Joe and April Moell doing the start/finish. The point-to-point course length will be about 5K. We will have training available starting shortly after I get back from setting out the transmitters :); sometime around 9AM. For you orienteers looking for a challege, this will do it! If you want to find out why this is growing in popularity, we'll also have an easy course where you can learn the ropes ... and then take on the advanced course if you dare! Marvin *********************************************** The next southern California on-foot foxhunt will be Saturday, April 17, in the TravelTown section of Griffith Park in Hollywood. This will be the fourth in a series of local events leading up to the USA ARDF Championships in June. It is open to anyone of any age. There is no charge for participation. A ham radio license and/or knowledge of radio equipment is not required. If you are a beginner, there will be a practice two-meter fox transmitters and a short 3-fox course just for you. Experts will be on hand to teach you the basic techniques of on-foot direction-finding. For advanced radio-orienteers, there will be a challenging 5-fox two-meter course of about the same length as typical national championship courses. Copies of LA Orienteering Club's excellent orienteering map will be available, so you can practice using map-and-compass techniques while navigating to the foxes. Practice transmitters will go on the air around 10 AM, and the main multiple-fox hunt will begin soon thereafter. You may start the course at any time before 1 PM. There are plenty of picnic tables, so you can bring your lunch. This event begins in the Mineral Wells picnic area in the northeast part of Griffith Park. From the 134 freeway eastbound or westbound, take the Forest Lawn Drive exit and go south. Turn left into park area on Zoo Drive towards Travel Town. At the entrance to Travel Town, turn right (south) onto Griffith Park Drive and follow it straight past Mt. Hollywood Drive (gated) on right and then a quarry on the left. You will soon see the picnic grounds (starting area) on your right. Look for signs and an orange-and-white orienteering flag at the starting site. If you see the driving range, you have gone too far. >From I-5 northbound, exit at "Griffith Park." Turn right (north) on Crystal Springs Drive and continue past the Ranger station on your right and the large picnic areas on your left. At the stop, turn left on Griffith Park Drive and head past the golf clubhouse and driving range to the Mineral Wells picnic area on your left. A map to the site is at www.homingin.com A limited amount of radio direction finding gear will be available for loan. If you have receivers, scanners, directional antennas, attenuators, or other equipment suitable for on-foot RDF, be sure to bring it. Make sure all batteries are fresh. Ham radio talk-in is on 146.97 MHz simplex. In addition to the two-meter band, international ARDF championships also include an 80-meter band event. At least one optional 80m transmitter (3542 KHz) will be on the air for you to try. Come on out and try international-style foxhunting! Joe Moell K0OV USA ARDF Coordinator www.homingin.com

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RE: [Sbarc-list] FCC Licensing of Personal Computers
by Reynolds, Michael 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

Gee. What will the FCC think of next... Requiring a license to talk on the radio??? ---Michael, AE6QC > -----Original Message----- > From: Marvin Johnston [mailto:marvin@rain.org] > Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 01:24 PM > To: sbarc > Subject: [Sbarc-list] FCC Licensing of Personal Computers > > > April 1, 2004 > Associated Press, Washington - The United States Federal > Communications Commission, as part of a joint project funded by the > Department of Defense, has approved measures to begin requiring US > consumers to obtain licenses for all new personal computers purchased > after January, 2005.

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FCC Licensing of Personal Computers
by Marvin Johnston 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

April 1, 2004 Associated Press, Washington - The United States Federal Communications Commission, as part of a joint project funded by the Department of Defense, has approved measures to begin requiring US consumers to obtain licenses for all new personal computers purchased after January, 2005. "It's basically the same process that CB radio owners had to go through in the 1970's, only we require a slight amount of additional information.", said Lance O. Onie, director of the FCC's PC Freedom Initiative. Purchasers of new PCs will have to fill out a simple "one step" form, with only the following information: The purchaser's Social Security number, current address, e-mail address(es), date of birth, driver's license number and the computer's CPU's unique serial number. "By requiring the driver's license number, we are able to simplify things by not requiring consumers to be inconvenienced by having their photos taken for inclusion in our database; we can just get that data from the states in which they're licensed.", Onie was quick to point out as a benefit of this simplified procedure. The user will be able to access the CPU's serial number through the use of a computer program distributed on a CD ROM with each new PC sold. The program must remain installed on the computer whenever the computer is used with the Internet. Owners of older computers will be exempt from this new law until December 25, 2006, "giving them plenty of time to upgrade their systems as necessary in order to comply with the new law", says Onie, who commented that this program will also be "very helpful to the economy." After that time, the FCC will work with the CIA, state and local law enforcement officials to conduct random high-tech sweeps throughout the country to check for the illegal possession and use of unregistered computing equipment. Fines and penalties were not specified, but sources say that illegal possession will be considered to be a very serious offense, necessary for the freedom, safety and well-being of all Americans.

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DARPA Grand Challenge
by Marvin Johnston 31 Mar '04

31 Mar '04

Popular Science has an article in the March 2004 issue on some of the competing vehicles hoping to win the challenge. The online article along with some photos that weren't published in the magazine are located at: http://www.popsci.com/popsci/auto/article/0,12543,591428,00.html

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Chicken wire available
by David Hackleman 28 Mar '04

28 Mar '04

I have a 5' x 30' length of chicken wire in good condition available free to good home. Contact me by e-mail or by phone at 967-9313 if you are interested. Mounted on the inside of my apartment's patio fence, it worked quite well as a counterpoise for my HF Ham Stick antennas. You might find it useful for your own base station antenna configuration. Or for anything else! David Hackleman K6VML

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