Greeting All,
This year's American Diabetes Association's Tour de Cure bike ride is on
Saturday, May 22, out of Carpinteria State Beach. The ride consists of
four events, a 12-mile family ride, a 30-mile, a 60-mile, and a 100-mile
ride. We need 12 to 14 SBARC operators for this event. Please let me
know as soon as possible if you'll be available for this event.
Thanks,
Hubert Stamps, SBARC V.P. of Operations
operations(a)sbarc.org
www.sbarc.orghttp://tour.diabetes.org (888-342-2383)
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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
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
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
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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
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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
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
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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
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.
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.
