I am researching solar rechargers for HTs that we take on backpacking
trips. They need to be lightweight and compact. Jim Henry gave me a
resource in Ohio but lost the directions. Any resource info would be
helpful.
Thanks
Paul Cronshaw DC
KF6TRT
Many people will walk in and out of your life.
But only true friends will leave footprints in
your heart.
To handle yourself, use your head;
To handle others, use your heart.
Anger is only one letter short of danger.
If someone betrays you once, it is his fault;
If he betrays you twice, it is your fault.
Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.
Thought you'd all like to know: According to the minutes of the last ARRL
Board meeting, Fried Heyn, WA6WZO, recently retired SW Div Director, was
just voted in as a Vice President of ARRL...Congratulations Fried! Ô¿Ô
This could be a wonderful way to help promote amateur radio. My interest
is see what it takes to use this media for ARDF/transmitter hunting
training.
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>>> Goleta DeskTop Publishing Users Group Meeting <<<
7pm Thursday February 7, 2002
Goleta Public Library
500 N. Fairview Ave
Goleta, CA
>>> Digital Video <<<
presented by Harold Adams
This months' presentation on digital video is by Harold Adams, whose
web site company produces videos for online use, as well as videos on
CD and DVD (visit www.sblife.com to see some online examples). He will
cover the basics of how to take digital video and prepare it for
several different purposes: as a tiny clip to attach to email, as a
larger format QuickTime movie that can be played from a CD or web
site, and even an introduction to VideoCD and DVD, both of which can
be played on most modern DVD players. Harold will be using a Mac and
iMovie. These concepts can be applied to other platforms as well.
***********************************************************
Parking is available at the church next door to the library. Please
park there because the library lot is often full on Thursday night.
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Remember, the meetings are free and open to the public. Please bring a
friend.
Visit our web site at <a href= "http://www.troutcom.com/gdtpug" >
http://www.troutcom.com/gdtpug </a> for future meeting dates and other
information.
It is with the deepest sadness I relate to you the death of Allen
Sochel, WA6IDZ, at his home on Tuesday night, January 29th. His passing
was peaceful with his wife June at his side. A memorial gathering is
planned for Saturday, February 16th, at 10 a.m. at the Montecito Country
Club. Details will be announced later this week in the News-Press.
Al had served on the SBARC Board in past years and was our Executive
Vice President in 2001. His calm presence added so much dignity to our
gatherings and, when asked, his wise advice was always logical and fair.
He enjoyed participating in event communications and was a friendly
voice to chat with any time. He was a great friend and I will miss him
greatly.
Lou Dartanner, N6ZKJ
From:
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The ARRL Letter
Vol. 21, No. 5
February 1, 2002
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==>ARRL FIELD DAY, AFFILIATED CLUB COMPETITION CHANGES ANNOUNCED
The ARRL has adopted rule changes affecting Field Day and the ARRL
Affiliated Club Competition program. The primary Field Day
change--effective
with this year's event June 22-23--phases out the Novice-Technician
station
and replaces it with a new station category, the "Get-On-The-Air"--or
GOTA--station.
A GOTA station is intended for operation by Novice and Technician
operators
or by generally inexperienced or inactive amateurs as well as by
as-yet-unlicensed or "under-licensed" operators working under the
privileges
of a licensed control operator (third-party traffic rules apply--see the
International Third Party Traffic page on the ARRL Web site
<http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/regulations/io/3rdparty.html>). Under
the
revised rules, any Class A Field Day entry operating at least two
transmitters may include a GOTA station, which will not count as an
additional transmitter for the purpose of entry category.
The GOTA station may operate on any Field Day band and mode, but only
one
GOTA transmitter may be in use at any given time. The GOTA station may
complete up to 400 QSOs to be counted toward the group's total Field Day
score. A Field Day group can claim 100 bonus points if its GOTA station
successfully completes 400 QSOs. The GOTA station does not affect the
additional VHF/UHF station provided under Field Day rule 4.1.2.
Field Day 2002 will mark the first in which stations throughout the
Americas
have been invited to participate. As approved at the July 2001 ARRL
Board of
Directors' meeting, all International Amateur Radio Union Region 2
countries--North and South America--may take part in Field Day starting
this
June.
Complete Field Day rules and information packet will be available on the
ARRL Web Contest Forms and Rules page
<http://www.arrl.org/contests/forms>
in early February. Field Day 2002 pins and T-shirt may be ordered now
via
the ARRL Web catalog
<http://www.arrl.org/catalog/?category=&words=Field+Day+Pin>.
Changes to the ARRL Affiliated Club Competition program also were
included
in the report of the Membership Services Committee (MSC), presented to
the
ARRL Board of Directors at its January meeting. In accordance with the
advice of the ARRL Contest Advisory Committee, five specific affiliated
club
competition changes will go into effect November 1. Under the revised
rules:
* The requirement that a member must attend at least two club meetings a
year in order to be allowed to submit a score for a club in the
unlimited
and medium categories has been altered. The new rules will allow
participation by "a member in good standing, as defined by the club."
* Medium and unlimited clubs now may define their club service area
either
as a 175-mile radius circle or as an entire ARRL section. This change
will
allow clubs from larger states that encompass entire ARRL sections to
compete with each other.
* The percentage of operators who must be members of a club in order for
the
club to claim a score from a multioperator station has been reduced from
66%
to 50%.
* A station owner no longer must be a member of a club in order for a
guest
operator at the station to claim the score for that club.
* Canadian clubs that are full Radio Amateurs of Canada affiliates now
may
participate in the ARRL Affiliated Clubs Competition.
These changes affect ARRL contests that include a club
competition--January
VHF Sweepstakes, the ARRL International DX Contest, the September VHF
Party,
the ARRL November Sweepstakes, the ARRL 160-Meter Contest and the ARRL
10-Meter Contest.
Complete rules for all ARRL-sponsored operating events are available on
the
ARRL Web site <http://www.arrl.org/contests/announcements/>. For more
information, contact ARRL Contest Branch Manager Dan Henderson, N1ND,
n1nd(a)arrl.org.
***** 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 ***
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 16:23:15 -0500
From: Richard Moseson <w2vu(a)cq-amateur-radio.com>
To: cq-l(a)sunserver.com
Subject: [cq-l] Correction to Bush message
To all:
In case you hadn't already figured it out, 3950 kHz is in the 75-meter
band, not on 40 meters. Our apologies for not paying attention to detail.
73,
the editors
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