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Saturday Mornings
by AD6EZ＠aol.com 30 Jun '00

30 Jun '00

Here is a good story. Enjoy .... 73 de Denny AD6EZ <>< ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------- Saturday mornings The older I get, the more I enjoy Saturday mornings. Perhaps it's the quiet solitude that comes with being the first to rise, or maybe it's the unbounded joy of not having to be at work. Either way, the first few hours of a Saturday morning are most enjoyable. A few weeks ago, I was shuffling toward the basement shack with a steaming cup of coffee in one hand and the morning paper in the other. What began as a typical Saturday morning, turned into one of those lessons that life seems to hand you from time to time. Let me tell you about it. I turned the dial up into the phone portion of the band on my ham radio in order to listen to a Saturday morning swap net. Along the way, I came across an older sounding chap, with a tremendous signal and a golden voice. You know the kind, he sounded like he should be in the broadcasting business. He was telling whomever he was talking with something about "a thousand marbles". I was intrigued and stopped to listen to what he had to say. "Well, Tom, it sure sounds like you're busy with your job. I'm sure they pay you well but it's a shame you have to be away from home and your family so much. Hard to believe a young fellow should have to work sixty or seventy hours a week to make ends meet. Too bad you missed your daughter's dance recital." He continued, "let me tell you something Tom, something that has helped me keep a good perspective on my own priorities." And that's when he began to explain his theory of a "thousand marbles." "You see, I sat down one day and did a little arithmetic. The average person lives about seventy-five years. I know, some live more and some live less, but on average, folks live about seventy-five years." "Now then, I multiplied 75 times 52 and I came up with 3900 which is the number of Saturdays that the average person has in their entire lifetime. Now stick with me Tom, I'm getting to the important part." "It took me until I was fifty-five years old to think about all this in any detail"; he went on, "and by that time I had lived through over twenty-eight hundred Saturdays. I got to thinking that if I lived to be seventy-five, I only had about a thousand of them left to enjoy." "So I went to a toy store and bought every single marble they had. I ended up having to visit three toy stores to round-up 1000 marbles. I took them home and put them inside of a large, clear plastic container right here in the shack next to my gear. Every Saturday since then, I have taken one marble out and thrown it away." "I found that by watching the marbles diminish, I focused more on the really important things in life. There is nothing like watching your time here on this earth run out to help get your priorities straight." "Now let me tell you one last thing before I sign-off with you and take my lovely wife out for breakfast. This morning, I took the very last marble out of the container. I figure, if I make it until next Saturday then I have been given a little extra time. And the one thing we can all use is a little more time." "It was nice to meet you Tom, I hope you spend more time with your family, and I hope to meet you again here on the band. 73 Old Man, this is K9NZQ, clear and going QRT, good morning!" You could have heard a pin drop on the band when this fellow signed off. I guess he gave us all a lot to think about. I had planned to work on the antenna that morning, and then I was going to meet up with a few hams to work on the next club newsletter. Instead, I went upstairs and woke my wife up with a kiss. "C'mon honey, I'm taking you and the kids to breakfast." "What brought this on?" she asked with a smile. "Oh, nothing special, it's just been a long time since we spent a Saturday together with the kids. Hey, can we stop at a toy store while we're out? I need to buy some marbles." HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND AND MAY ALL SATURDAYS BE SPECIAL!

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Key-Klix Deadline
by Marvin 28 Jun '00

28 Jun '00

Hi all, Just a reminder that the deadline for Key-Klix will be next Monday, July 3. If something is going to be late, let me know and I'll try and reserve room for it. The list below shows a projection of what will/might be in the July Key-Klix. Please email me and let me know if something below won't be in this months issue, or anything that needs to be added. Just as a FYI (For Your Information), a typical Klix page will use about 475 words or so depending on the number of paragraphs, any lists, photos, etc. It helps a LOT to have photos with articles. Lou - Prez-Sez, anything for the October Meeting? George - If you have some photos along with the article for how Field Day went, I would much appreciate it. I am also looking for a good cover photo. Rod - Same as above. Are you going to include the ATV Field Day report in your ATV column? Mack - Did you take any pictures you think might make a good cover photo? Jim - Are you going to have an article this month for QRP Notes? Jug - Anything covering the activities for this month? This would be a good time to include an article on the Fiesta Parade, and perhaps some information on what we do during the parade. This would be a great activity to get more club members involved. Hubert - We need a publicity article for our Hamfest. I am assuming that we will include a flyer as an insert in this months Key-Klix, is this true? Darryl - Are you going to have a promo article this month to start publicizing the September meeting with Bill Pasternak? Lou/Marcia - Is there going to be a Balance sheet printed this month? George - Is there going to be anything for ARES for July? Bill G - Are you going to have anything this month for the For Sale, or will the Bazaar eliminate the need for it this month? Bill or Bruce - Anything on repeaters this month? Michael - Anything on the VE Sessions for this month? Everyone - We have been trying to keep the calendar updated, so if you have the dates of any activities, please email me and I'll get them in the list. We are still looking for another editor for next year. I haven't contacted the person who expressed an interest in doing/helping with it, but that will happen in the next day or so. Thanks to everyone for all the articles; this is what keeps Key-Klix interesting to read! Marvin

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Re: [Sbarc-list] HTX-202 Battery problem
by Darryl A. Widman 24 Jun '00

24 Jun '00

Hello Paul, Sorry to hear about your battery trouble. Or is it a battery or a charger trouble? If you have a voltmeter that will read in the 0 to 15 volt range, take a measurement of the terminal voltage on the battery. Then, take a reading on the plug coming out of the charging unit and goes into the battery or HT (whichever it is with the HTX-202). There should be at least 10 volts at this plug. I am not sure where this red light is that you speak of. If it is on the radio, it may light up when it is taking a charge. Likewise, the charger may have its light lit when either it is charging (and go out when the battery is fully charged), or just show that it has voltage at its plug whenever it receives power from the a.c. outlet. A DC voltmeter will tell you the whole story. Hope this will shed a little more light on your light. 73, Darryl, KF6DI On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 19:43:05 -0700 "Paul Cronshaw, D.C." <paulc(a)silcom.com> writes: > I have been using an HTX-202 since I got my license year and a half > ago. > Every time I plug in the battery recharger the little red lite goes > on. > However, in the last 2 days it has not gone on and I can only use > the unit > in my truck with the cigarette adapter. Looks like the battery is > dead and > can no longer hold a charge. The manual says that there batteries > last 3-5 > years. My time must be up. > > My question to the group: > > Is there a good source for a replacement? > > Paul Cronshaw DC > KF6TRT > > > > > _______________________________________________ > SBARC-list mailing list > SBARC-list(a)lists.netlojix.com > http://lists.netlojix.com/mailman/listinfo/sbarc-list ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

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HTX-202 Battery problem
by Paul Cronshaw, D.C. 24 Jun '00

24 Jun '00

I have been using an HTX-202 since I got my license year and a half ago. Every time I plug in the battery recharger the little red lite goes on. However, in the last 2 days it has not gone on and I can only use the unit in my truck with the cigarette adapter. Looks like the battery is dead and can no longer hold a charge. The manual says that there batteries last 3-5 years. My time must be up. My question to the group: Is there a good source for a replacement? Paul Cronshaw DC KF6TRT

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Fw: MORSE CODE RADIO STATION KPH... Lives!
by W6YN Don Milbury 22 Jun '00

22 Jun '00

FYI: 73, Don Milbury, W6YN --------------------------------------------------- HISTORIC MORSE CODE RADIO STATION RETURNS TO THE AIR Former "Wireless Giant of the Pacific" Will Once Again Be Heard 22 JUNE 2000 (MRHS) - The former Marconi and RCA Morse code radio station KPH will make a commemorative broadcast on Wednesday, 12 July, the first anniversary of the last commercial Morse code transmission in North America. KPH began life at the dawn of radio. Its first home was the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, from which it derived its first call letters, PH. When the Palace Hotel was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire the station moved to several different locations, eventually finding a permanent home on the mesa west of the small California town of Bolinas. Along the way federal regulators added the K prefix to the original PH, creating KPH, one of the most famous radio call signs in the world. Radio operators ashore and afloat came to regard KPH as "the wireless giant of the Pacific". Only the best operators worked at KPH. They were there 24 hours a day, ready to help with everything from the mundane messages of maritime commerce to urgent requests for assistance from ships in distress. The KPH signal literally spanned the globe. Radio operators on ships in the far corners of the world were comforted by the steady signal of KPH in their earphones. As technology progressed the end of Morse code was predicted many times. But KPH soldiered on providing good, reliable service to the maritime community. The end came at Bolinas in 1997 when Globe Wireless purchased the license and the big transmitters were finally shut down. On July 12, 1999 Globe Wireless sent the last commercial messages in Morse code from KFS, their master station near Half Moon Bay. It was the last time the famous call KPH would be heard on the air - or so it was thought. Today the former KPH facilities are part of the Point Reyes National Seashore which has a strong interest in the important role the station played in the history of radio communications. The Maritime Radio Historical Society has been working with the Point Reyes National Seashore to preserve and restore KPH with the goal of eventually creating a museum dedicated to this great station that was once heard throughout the world. On 12 July KPH will return to the air from its original location, using its original equipment and its original frequencies - generously made available by Globe Wireless, the current owner of the KPH license and operator of the equally famous KFS from which the last commercial Morse message was sent. Veteran operators, radio engineers and those with an interest in radio history will gather at the Bolinas transmitter building to watch the station come on the air one year and one minute after the last Morse transmission from Half Moon Bay. Commemorative messages will be sent by hand by the operators who once stood watch at the station. And then they will listen for any calls from the few remaining ships at sea with Morse capability. While this event does not signal the return of KPH to commercial Morse service we intend it to acknowledge and honor all the radio operators who have "worn the earphones" and played a role in the history of maritime radio. The station will operate on 4247.0, 6477.5 and 13002.0Kc on shortwave and 500/426Kc. on medium wave. If additional frequencies become available by 12 July these will be announced in the commemorative broadcast. Contact: Dick Dillman Maritime Radio Historical Society Phone: 415-512-7137 Email: ddillman(a)igc.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Amateur Radio: If you're not having fun, you are not doing it right! http://www.qsl.net/arrlsb ARRL, Santa Barbara Section To subscribe: mailto:arrlsb-subscribe@egroups.com Internet Manager: AD6AD(a)arrl.net

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"FD" VHF OPERATORS
by RICHARD L JOHNSON 19 Jun '00

19 Jun '00

I have ben assigned the task of chairing the VHF field day station, 6m, 2m, 220m, 432, with Rod wb9kmo doing ATV So at this time I am looking for operators to man the various stations I have a time table for you to sign up for the time that you want to work and what band. Your commitment for these hours will be yours only, if some one else is on the radio, they will have to relinquish it to you I am sure there will be times that no one will be there to operate, THE OBJECT IS TO HAVE FUN Please don't let all this hard work setting up these stations go for nought Call dick w6dnn to sign up your time and band 967-7573 or e-mail by Thursday AM ( I am home all day) TNX

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New license procedure obsoletes VE program
by Jay Hennigan 19 Jun '00

19 Jun '00

http://totl.net/Ham/ -- Jay Hennigan - Network Administration - jay(a)west.net NetLojix Communications, Inc. NASDAQ: NETX - http://www.netlojix.com/ WestNet: Connecting you to the planet. 805 884-6323

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Fw: SB-1714: Letters Needed!
by Donald L Milbury 15 Jun '00

15 Jun '00

June 28th is the day the Assembly Committee will consider bill. Please take action NOW! 73, Don Milbury, W6YN ------------------------------------------------- SB-1714: Letters Needed! By Jim Maxwell, W6CF, Director, Pacific Division, ARRL w6cf(a)arrl.org You may know that SB-1714, which is our first step toward restraining local jurisdictions from regulating Amateur service antennas out of existence, passed the California Senate 39-0 on May 30. From there it has gone to the Assembly for consideration. On June 6 SB-1714 was assigned to the Local Government Committee of the California Assembly. The members of the committee are Assembly members Longville (Chair), Pacheco (Vice-chair), Corbett, Kaloogian, Kuehl, Thompson, Torlakson and Wiggins. The present text of the bill may still be found at http://www.leginfo.ca.gov; click on "bills" and search on "1714" (no quotes). We have just been informed that the SB-1714 will be considered in the Local Government Committee on Wednesday, June 28. Preparations are in progress right now for a small group to appear before the Committee in support of the bill. The makeup of our group is in a state of flux at the moment, but current plans are for our group to be led by Vice Director Vallio, W6RGG, ably supported by Sacramento Valley Section Manager Jerry Boyd, K6BZ, and possibly Volunteer Counsel Coordinator Harry Styron, K6HS. I will be out of the country on that date, so will not be able to attend. We do not have a sponsor in the Assembly, so we need to be more active in support than was necessary in the Senate, where we had the minority leader carrying the bill. We continue to face opposition to any meaningful bill from the California League of Cities and other lobbying organizations concerned with land use and real estate. You should express your opinion (hopefully supportive) to your individual Assembly member and to the members of the Local Government Committee and/or to the committee staff. At this point please do not suggest changes to the bill, because any amendment in the Assembly would effectively kill it for this year. In its present form it doesn't hurt, and it will permit us to work with the Governor's Office of Planning and Research to get (hopefully) something next year that will really help. You may find your Assembly member's name in the government pages of the telephone directory or on the web by going to http://www.assembly.ca.gov and using the zip code finders that can be found off those pages. Every Assembly member may be contacted by mail addressed to him or her by name at P. O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0001. Every Assembly member may be contacted by email at an address constructed as assemblymember.<name>@assembly.ca.gov, where <name> is the last name of the Assembly member. For example, Assemblyman Sam Aanestad of the 3rd district has email address assemblymenber.aanestad(a)assembly.ca.gov. Each member of the Assembly has individual office, telephone and fax numbers in their district and in Sacramento. Local offices are listed in the government section of your phone directory. A great deal of information about each member can be found off of the http://www.assembly.ca.gov page. The Local Government Committee is more primitive, for they have no email address. Their snail-mail address is 1020 "N" Street, Room 157, Sacramento, CA 95814. Their telephone number is 1-916-319-3958 and their fax number is 1-916-319-3959. You should send them a copy of every letter addressed to your Assembly member or to the Assembly members of the Local Government Committee. In the Senate we got a very misleading support count in the legislative analysts' comments, because few of our letters went to the committee staff. They said we only had six letters in support, which is only the count of letters that went to the staff itself - they apparently did not see the many letters addressed to individual Senators. It is sufficient just to write or telephone to say "I am an Amateur Radio Service licensee and I support SB- 1714." Staff at each level simply keeps a count for and against for the member. The Assembly member generally will not see the individual letters, only the count. Please at least tell me and our Pacific Division Volunteer Counsel Coordinator Harry Styron, K6HS, (hlstyron@ wcrklaw.com) that you have written, to whom you have written, and if your letter was for or against the bill. This way we can keep a count for when we appear before the Committee. Harry, K6HS, has also created a SB-1714 mail list. The list contains periodic updates and alerts related to SB-1714. If you wish to subscribe, send email to 1714- info-request(a)contra-costa.net with the word "subscribe" (no quotes) in the subject line. Thanks to Harry Styron, K6HS and Mike Mitchell, W6RW, for most of the information provided above. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Amateur Radio: If you're not having fun, you are not doing it right! http://www.qsl.net/arrlsb ARRL, Santa Barbara Section To subscribe: mailto:arrlsb-subscribe@egroups.com Internet Manager: AD6AD(a)arrl.net

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MEMORIES!
by Dennis Schwendtner 11 Jun '00

11 Jun '00

Subject: As seen in an ARRL Letter... This should bring back memories... ======================= HAMS REMEMBER BIG BAND LEADER "TEX" BENEKE, K0HWY, SK Big band singer and saxophonist Gordon L. "Tex" Beneke, K0HWY, of Santa Ana, California, died at a rest home in Costa Mesa May 30, reportedly of respiratory arrest. He was 86. Beneke took over the Glenn Miller Orchestra in 1946 after Miller's death during World War II, and he continued to capitalize on the Miller sound throughout his career. He later broke with the Miller estate and formed his own band, billing it as "Tex Beneke and His Orchestra: Playing the Music Made Famous by Glenn Miller." A native of Forth Worth, Texas, Beneke joined Miller's orchestra in 1938. His southern-style vocals helped make hits out of Miller's "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" and "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree," among others. Fred Mason, W5SLT, recalls that Beneke operated 10 meters from his hotel room during his travels around the country, using a wire hanging out the window. Mason also remembers running phone patches in the early 1950s, so Beneke could talk with his parents in Fort Worth. Tim La Marca, N6RNK--a younger-generation big band leader--says he met Beneke in the early 1990s--first on the air and later in person. A mutual acquaintance had told Beneke about the young musician, so Beneke gave him a call on the local repeater. "Imagine my surprise when one evening, just as I was about to turn off my radio, there was a voice I had not heard on the repeater before." A few months later, La Marca got to meet Beneke when his band was performing in Pasadena. "After the performance, we went backstage to meet Tex--one of the highlights of my life," he said. "You can't mention the Big Band Era without the name of Tex Beneke coming to mind," La Marca said. "Even though his key is silent, we still have the recordings of his wonderful music to remember him by." Curiously, Beneke's role was omitted from the movie, "The Glenn Miller Story." Beneke himself appeared in films such as "Sun Valley Serenade" in 1941 and "Orchestra Wives" in 1942. ***** Remember, an out of tune piano makes noise, not music! ***** call, (805) 966-7060 . E-MAIL: dennis(a)rain.org . *** Bye from the Paradise Playground of the Pacific Beaches. *** Dennis Schwendtner *** WB6OBB *** *** http://www.rain.org/~dennis *** *** Schwendtner Piano and Service *** WB6OBB repeater web-site ***

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ARRL Newsletter
by Marvin 09 Jun '00

09 Jun '00

* C'mon clubs, strut your stuff! Think you belong to the best ARRL-affiliated or Special Service Club anywhere? Ready to go up against any club to compare the variety of ham radio activities and community service your club can muster? Then what are you waiting for? Let's hear about it! See http://www.arrl.org/field/club/club-awards/ for details. It's not every day that a club can exercise bragging rights and earn a cash award. But wait! There's more! We'll spread the word about your exceptional club far and wide, so other clubs can get motivated. Not yet affiliated with ARRL? Point your browser to http://www.arrl.org/field/club/#affiliation. Be part of the vibrant movement to insure the future of Amateur Radio. Thousands of ARRL-affiliated clubs know they are making a difference!--Mary Lau, N7IAL

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