ARRL VEC Test Session Processing Status as of Wednesday May 24, 2000:
They are presently processing test session results which arrived at the
ARRL VEC on April 24, 2000
The following listings indicate when a particular test session package
was received at the ARRL VEC:
73,
Don Milbury, W6YN
Test Date City Receipt date
4/13 Santa Barbara 4/26
4/22 Ventura 4/27
4/26 SLO 5/01
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This is the latest information I have received about the ARDF event that
will take place on June 3, 4. For those of you who haven't been at Schabarum
before, it consists of a flat area where the tables, parking lots, etc. are
located, and a very hilly area where some degree of physical shape is
required to climb the hills with any speed.
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1. In order to provide the best possible 2m Qualifying Run in the limited
amount of preparation time, I am moving the June 3 event to Schabarum Park
near Rowland Heights, CA. Expect a much more difficult course than in the
previous ARDF events at that site. The 80m event on June 4 will be in a
park
in the Fullerton area that has not been used for ARDF before. Directions
and
maps (TO the sites, not OF the sites) will go up on the "Homing In" site
soon.
OOPS!
As of today 5/17/00:
The ARRL VEC is presently processing test session results which arrived
on April 19, 2000
The ARRL Santa Barbara Section test sessions awaiting processing are:
4/13 Santa Barbara Arrived 4/26
4/16 Agoura Hills Arrived 4/20
4/22 Ventura Arrived 4/27
73,
Don Milbury, W6YN
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As of today 4/17/00:
The ARRL VEC is presently processing test session results which arrived
on April 19, 2000
The ARRL Santa Barbara Section test sessions awaiting processing are:
4/13 Santa Barbara Arrived 4/26
4/16 Agoura Hills Arrived 4/20
4/22 Ventura Arrived 4/27
73,
Don Milbury, W6YN
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Information from our ARRL SW Division Director
"Fried Heyn (SW Dir)" <wa6wzo(a)arrl.org>
FYI:
73,
Don Milbury, W6YN
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Below is an update of a couple of days ago on SB-1714 by the Pacific
Division Director, Jim Maxwell (W6CF). The Pacific Division includes
northern California and Jim is closer to the action in Sacramento.
Anyway,
it will give you more details of where we are at this point. Note, the
current amended copy of the bill is at the bottom. Tnx for helping get
the
word out and encouraging fellow hams to write their state Senators (and
Assemblymen).
73/Fried(ô¿ô)2b=2do=2b
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Update on California S.1714
As has been mentioned in the past,
legislation has been introduced in the California State
Senate with the objective of providing relief to many
California hams who live in communities with highly
restrictive antenna ordinances. Senator Brulte of Rancho
Cucamonga introduced the legislation, S.1714. In April
the bill was assigned to the Senate Local Government
Committee (SLGC) for hearing. The chair of the SLGC is
Senator Richard K. Rainey, of Contra Costa County.
Senator Rainey is the former County Sheriff, and was
responsible for establishing the Sheriff's Amateur Radio
Reserve in his county.
The committee hearing was held on May 3, in
Sacramento. Five hams attended: Dave Leeson, W6NL, Jim
Maxwell, W6CF, Mike Mitchell, W6RW, Dean Straw, N6BV, and
Harry Styron, K6HS. Prior to the committee hearing the
group met with Sen. Brulte in his office. It developed
that discussions between Sen. Brulte's staff and the SLGC
staff had revealed that the committee would not vote the
legislation out of committee due to the specific height
limitations given in the proposed statute. We were
informed by Sen. Brulte that the committee would accept
an amended bill which included the following major
elements: a section that would place the essential
language of PRB-1 into California law, plus a provision
that would require the State Office of Planning and
Research to develop a model ordinance, with amateurs
participating in the development of that ordinance. Those
of us present at the meeting felt that the compromise was
the best deal we could get at this time.
The amended bill was then passed handily based upon a
verbal agreement of the amended contents; a formal,
written version did not exist at that time. However, last
week the official text of the amended version of S.1714
became available. A copy of the text is included at the
end of this Update. A careful reading reveals some
discrepancies with our May 3 discussions. Subsequent
investigation has revealed that some text was
inadvertently left out of the version now published.
Steps are now being taken to correct the error. Several
of us will be tracking the bill very carefully to ensure
that the corrections are made.
The bill is now awaiting action by the Senate
Appropriations Committee. You may follow the progress of
this bill by going to http://www.leginfo.ca.gov and
following the links to "subscribe" to the bill by number.
You will then receive email notice whenever any action
takes place.
Meanwhile, letters to your Senator and Assemblyman
will still be helpful. If you're not certain who your
Senator or Assemblyman is, go to
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/yourleg.html to locate them.
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Text of S.1714 as Amended:
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 65850.3 is added to the Government
Code, to read:
65850.3. Any ordinance adopted by the legislative body
of a city or county shall not preclude amateur radio
service communications. Any ordinance shall reasonably
accommodate amateur radio service communications and
shall constitute the minimum practicable regulation to
accomplish the legitimate purpose of the city or county.
SEC. 2. On or before July 1, 2001, the Director of the
Office of Planning and Research shall do all of the
following:
(a) Prepare and publish a technical assistance
bulletin suitable for use by local officials and planners
in the preparation and adoption of local ordinances that
regulate the placement, screening, and height of amateur
radio service antennas. In preparing this bulletin, the
director shall consult with individuals and groups with
experience in amateur radio service communications and
land use regulation, including, but not limited to, the
American Radio Relay League, the American Planning
Association, the California Association of Realtors, the
League of California Cities, the California State
Association of Counties, and the Federal Communications
Commission.
(b) Prepare and publish a model ordinance suitable for
adoption by the legislative bodies of cities and counties
for the regulation of the placement, screening, and
height of amateur radio service antennas.
(c) Report to the Legislature and the Governor
regarding any recommendations for changes to the state
statutes regarding state or local regulation of amateur
radio service antennas.
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Hi All,
I'm in the process of cleaning out my office, and I came across a bunch of
QST magazines from 1994 and 1995, and I believe they have all 12 issues for
each year, plus a few others that I picked up along the way after that. I
don't want to round-cycle them, since I figured someone out there might be
interested in them. If you are, e-mail me.
Thanks,
Scott M. Phillips, Owner
Digital Symmetry
http://www.digitalsymmetry.comhttp://www.sbcoast.net
scott(a)digitalsymmetry.com
This is from the ARRL Newsletter
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FCC DEBUTS ULS INTERNET FILING!
Amateurs now can file Universal Licensing System applications via the Web!
With little fanfare, the FCC opened ULS to Internet filers on April 29. It
formally announced the system this week.
ULS users now can file applications and notifications via the Internet for
all services previously only available by dial-up connection to the
Commission's Wide Area Network. To access the new capability, visit the ULS
home page http://www.fcc.gov/wtb/uls and click on "Online Filing." (Users
may ignore the on-line survey.) Applicants must first be registered with ULS
and use their ULS password to log onto the system.
The ULS--the FCC's interactive on-line licensing application, modification
and renewal system for wireless telecommunications services--was deployed
for the Amateur Service last August 16. ULS also lets users research the
status of applications filed in ULS and licenses issued by the Wireless
Telecommunications Bureau.
WTB Chief Thomas Sugrue said this week that many ULS users had requested the
ability to access ULS through the Internet in order to utilize their high
speed Internet connectivity. He also addressed concerns about the security
of transactions handled via the Internet.
"We now have the technology in place that assures the integrity and security
of data transmitted over the Internet along with high speed connectivity,"
he said. "This is another step forward in the expanding functionality of
ULS."
The FCC has told the ARRL that making online payments--to file a vanity call
sign application and pay on line, for example--requires that users be
running the 128-bit encryption version of Netscape Communicator Ver 4.73 or
later. The FCC says Netscape 4.7, 4.61 and 4.51 have been tested and are
compatible with the ULS. While different browsers and platforms other than
Windows-based systems may work for some ULS functions, the FCC currently
supports only these recent versions of Netscape for online filing tasks.
Netscape 4.6 and versions earlier than 4.51 are not compatible with ULS,
however.
Filers should configure browsers to enable Java and Java Script and to
accept all cookies. Users also will need to download and install Adobe
Acrobat Reader 3.0 or later as a plug-in to their Web browser. Netscape and
Acrobat are available free via the Internet.
ULS support for other browsers and platforms, such as the Mac, is in the
works and should be available shortly. The FCC will continue to provide
dial-up access to the ULS. Information on making a dial-up connection is
available via the ULS home page by clicking on "Connecting to ULS."
Those experiencing problems logging onto the ULS should contact ULS Tech
Support at 202-414-1250.--FCC
Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club
Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club
Meetings
_
Upcoming May Meeting
Friday, May 19, 2000 7:30 PM
(Doors open at 6:45!)
Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club
Special Location!!!
St. Andrews Presbyterian Fellowship Hall
4575 Auhay Drive
(off Hollister between Turnpike and Modoc)
Visitors are cordially invited!
Talk in is available on K6TZ 146.79/19(131.8).
and 147.000 +600 MHz pl 131.8 .
Old Timers' Night
with Wayne Green, W2NSD
Wayne Green, W2NSD Special Guest Speaker:
Wayne Green, W2NSD Bio:
Every time someone asks me for a brief bio I start out
innocently enough
born in Littleton, New Hampshire in 1922. Father: aviator;
mother: artist, it says on my birth certificate. Kinda an
artist and engineer start for me. The problem is that the next
thing I know Im up to volume five of my bio, so lets cut to the
ham radio chase.
I was bitten by the radio bug when I was 14. It happened
in church!
Some guy came in with a big carton of radio parts and gave
em to my friend Alfie. Having no interest in em, he gave the
carton to me. That was part one of a two-part disaster in my
life. The second part was when I found an article in Popular
Mechanics that used the parts to make a cigar box radioand
the damned radio worked! I was hooked.
No, Im not complaining. Amateur radio has provided me with a
lifetime of fun and adventure. Ive visited hams in over 130
countries and operated from sixty some including places such as
Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Nepal, Swaziland, Lesotho, the Korean
DMZ, Fiji, Wake Island, and so on.
And what could be more fun to do for a living than publishing
a ham magazine? Talk about nirvana! Ive traveled around the
world with hams. Twice. I ski with em. I go scuba diving with
em. Ive taken hams on tours of Europe and Asia. I even
organized an all-ham African hunting safari. My father got into
aviation right in the beginning, so I guess its no wonder that
Ive been attracted to new technologies. The first time I heard
ham teletype signals I had to know more. So I built a
terminal unit, bought an old Model 12 machine, and had so much
fun hat I started a small magazine on the subject. I loved
building ham gear and wanted to share the fun I was having. This
lead to my starting 73 magazine in 1960. Well, I have this
genetic problem of wanting to share anything I particularly
enjoy with as many people as I can.
W Jack Babkes W2GDG invented narrow-band FM in 1946, I was one
of the first on the air with it. Then came RTTY in 1948. Wow,
was that fun!
John Williams W2BFD and I set up a repeater atop the New York
City Municipal building in 1949, making it so RTTYers all around
greater New York could be in contact. A little over a year later
I started publishing my RTTY Journal. When sideband arrived in
1955 I had a ball, o I published everything I could about it.
In 1959 I flew
around the world, working tens of thousands of stations on 20
m SSB from the plane, and visiting hams in 26 countries. That was
also the year I represented amateur radio for the U.S. at the
International Telecommunications Union in Geneva. This was the
conference when Kruschev saved amateur radio. But that story
would take an hour to tell. In 1963 we had the worst
disaster in the history of the hobby,
but that, too, is a long and fascinating story. Thats when, in
less than two years over 85% of the ham dealers were forced out
of business, 90% of the ham clubs folded, and over 90% of
the ham manufacturers folded. 1966 I almost got the ITU to
officially endorse amateur radio. Thats a several chapter story
in itself.
In 1970 I heard that His Majesty King Husseins wife had given
him a ham rig for Christmas, so I cabled him, asking if hed
like me to come over and show him how to use it. A few days
later I was in Amman,
where I operated from the palace for two weeks with His
Majesty. And thats another long and fantastic story. A few years
ago, when I visited Jord n, Prince Raad held a special
meeting of the Royal Jordanian Amateur Radio Society and
introduced me as the man who had
had more of an effect on Jordan than anyone other than the
King imself.
Exciting moments for me? Working my home station on 20m from
VK3ATN in Birchip, Australia. And then going down to 75m and
hearing my home station coming through S-9+! Wow! My two
DXpeditions to Navassa Island. Working several states on
10.5 GHz. My Oscar contact with
Moscow, where there was a 20-second window. Round tables
on 75m with me relaying DX stations from Africa and the Indian
Ocean via 20m on 75m. Yes, I had two kilowatt rigs. Then
there was that Finnish Sauna with OH2SS, where we went from a
half hour in a 250� room and jumped into a lake, where the ice
had just melted a few days earlier.
I got excited about repeaters, setting up WR1AAB on nearby
Pack Monadnock Mountain. The results were spectacular, so I
published hundreds of articles on 2m FM and repeaters in 73,
plus I published a separate repeater magazine. I organized
repeater conferences around the country to standardize
channels. We went from about a hundred repeaters to thousands,
and all this with no help whatever from any of
e other ham magazines.
I have my 60-year ARRL plaque. Ive come from the 1930s, when
amateur radio was crystal controlled and 90% was on CW, to todays
synthesized solid-state transceivers. Ive worked 100 countries
in a weekend, 200 in a month, and 300 in a year. All states in
one night. Rag chewed, pioneered NBFM, SSB, slow scan,
repeaters, and satellites. Ive worked moonbounce from the big
dish at Arecibo. And, you know, there hasnt
been anything Ive done that anyone else couldnt have, if theyd
taken advanage of the opportunities.
Yes, I know, thats all me-me me. Well, its a bio, so what
did you expect. My controversial editorials in 73 are more
about you than me.
I write about anything I think should interest you. I review
books Ive discovered which youre crazy if you dont read. I talk
about how you can make more money, how you can be healthier, how
you can raise your babys IQ by 40 to 50 points, and how we can
enormously improve our schools, our government, and so on. We
have the best country in the world, but if we work at it, we can
make it a whole lot better. So,
lets get busy.
The Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club holds its General
Meetings on the third Friday of the month (except for the months
of June, July, August) at either the County Schools Auditorium or
the Goleta Union School Dist. Admin. Center Board Room.
The meeting starts at 7:30pm, but come early for the
"Free-to-Good-Home" Table, SBARC Bookstore, and socializing.
Topics and speakers have ranged from DXing with the Pope, Gordon
West, JPL Demonstration, Old Timers' Night, and Come Fly With Us!
(hang gliding and Amateur Radio. This year's topics will include
Transmitter Hunting and Fiber Optics.
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