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The link is to an interesting blog post about people who meet others and try to
connect them with other like minded individuals. I've done this for years, and
it really is fun. This kind of "connecting" can also help build membership and
interest in our club. This post describes how it is done :).
The Me Game
http://www.chrisbrogan.com/the-me-game/
The ARRL newsletter just came out with terrific news for ARRL members!!!
==> ARRL PRESENTS NEW MEMBERSHIP BENEFIT
With just a mouse click or two, ARRL members can now access the online
QST magazine archive <http://www.arrl.org/members-only/qqnsearch.html>.
This new benefit -- a service of the ARRL Technical Information Service
(TIS) <http://www.arrl.org/tis/> -- provides PDF copies of all QST
articles from December 1915 through December 2004, enabling members to
view and print their favorite article, project and more. For many years,
the TIS has provided members with assistance researching ARRL
periodicals and publications, as well as providing members and
non-members with article reprints for a small fee. Access to the new
online digital QST archive is free for ARRL members, and is for their
personal use only -- material in the archive may not be freely
distributed or copied.
Hi folks:
Please join us at this Friday at the SBARC club meeting for a very special
presentation on amateur radio space communications, including:
A LIVE DEMO OF A HAM RADIO SATELLITE PASS
Oscar 50 will make a pass overhead just after 7:30 PM, and we will show you
HOW EASY IT IS to "work the birds" with just a handheld radio! After the
pass we will have a PowerPoint presentation discussing certain particularly
interesting aspects of the satellite hobby.
POWERPOINT PRESENTATION AND VIDEO OF OUR RECENT CONTACT WITH THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION (ISS)
We will give you a behind the scenes tour of our much publicized contact
with the ISS, and we'll show you a great video of the boy scouts talking to
an astronaut live via ham radio! We will also give you some background on
the ARISS program (Amateur Radio on the International Space Program) and
discuss why SBARC was given a priority spot to make a contact with the ISS.
I will be joined by Christian, WV6N, and we will both demonstrate our
equipment in action. COME EARLY, DON'T MISS OUT, IT'S GOING TO BE A GREAT
CLUB MEETING!
Ken, N6KTH
AMSAT Area Coordinator
To: ListServer
From: Bill Talanian
Subject: Tower
Enclosed pictures of 60' tubular crank up tower with attached raising
fixture. Tower is immediately available and the price is right. For
further information please contact me.
SK
Brian B. Carlin, KB6NVH
22 August 2008
At age 49 of a stroke at Marian Hospital, Santa Maria.
Brian graduated from UCSB in 1983 with a BS is Computer Science. He
was fluent in many computer languages and was hired by Apple Computer
at Cuppertino as a Senior Programmer Analyst. After retiring back to
Santa Barbara was a member of the technical staff at SBRC. Brian was
widely known amongst the Santa Barbara MacIntosh User's Group where
he was a Board member. His skill's with all models of the Apple
Computer were widely known and his knowledge was sought out by Mac
user's throughout Santa Barbara.
His gift of memory and world events was never challenged. A Civil War
Historian who could describe each event as though it were yesterday.
As a world history buff Brian would always draw from historical
military battles going back hundreds of years and compare them to
contemporary event's.
While not very active in Amateur Radio Brian's close friends were
many Amateur Radio Operators. In the early days of the WD6GNG "skunk
works" Brian worked closely with Gene Nicholson, W6YJO, and the
145.18 Repeater.
Brian was single and leaves his brother Steve, K6PX, of San Diego.
RIP Brian B. Carlin, KB6NVH, SK
Some of you may remember Gyuri Nagy, HA3PA, from Hungary who got his US call at
special VE Session at the Red Cross. He legally changed his name to George Neal
when he got his US citizenship. And I just got an email that he took 3rd place
(Bronze) in the M50 class at the World ARDF Championships being held in Seoul,
So. Korea!!! This is the second medal the US has won! I haven't seen the results
so I don't know how either Jay Hennigan, WB6RDV, or Scott Moore, KF6IKO, have
done.
Here is a report from Bruce Patterson from Australia; the Aussie team consists
of Bruce and Bryan (Bryan designed and built the popular "blue box" 2M
receiver.) The US team and the Australian team met in 2000 in China and we all
keep in contact. Bruce also has some pictures up on the Australian ARDF website:
www.ardf.org.au -> Calender->World Champs->Images
**********
Well this is the first chance I've had to even look at email since my
last message.
Today was of course the first day of real competition, but perhaps I've
got ahead of myself. Maybe perhaps I'll add a bit of suspense by leading
up to it via what's been happening yesterday as well, as at the time of
writing I can't see the results on the website yet.
Yesterday we all trooped onto the buses for the practice event. A map of
this will appear in the pictures area of the website at some stage.
It is a mix of mainly dark green (jungle) and what appealingly looks
like open land (orange) till you check the legend which tells you it's
"cultivated land": read mainly rice paddies. This one was largely a
matter of sticking to the tracks and making a short excursion off the
side right near a transmitter. I found 3 of the 2m ones without too much
difficulty, but then my sniffer crashed. I hadn't experienced this
particular problem before, but later investigation by Bryan showed it
was a combination of flattish batteries and a falling apart battery
holder inside the sniffer. Well I guess it's had a fair bit of use !
Easily fixed with new batteries and carefully placed bits of cardboard
packing. At the time on the practice event I couldn't un-crash it, so
luckily I also had my 80m receiver with me, so I swapped over to that.
Turns out 3 of the 5 were co-located anyway, so I ended up going to most
locations anyway.
Bryan, on the other hand, was having terrible difficulties on 2m. Later
on, after he'd given up in disgust and found at least some 80m
transmitters, he discovered he'd assembled a "Geoff Special" beam (ie.
backwards).
The good thing was all these teething troubles ocurred at the practice
event, so we could confidently go into the world champs event today with
everything fixed (I carried a spare receiver today in my camel back
anyway, just in case).
The opening ceremony was another bus ride to nearby Suwon University.
They issued us with translation receivers (good idea...that should cut
down the length of the speeches!) and another Aussie flag (on a pretty
pole with a gold ball on the top). Then announced that each country
should appoint two people to march/carry the flag. After extensive
debate within the team we came to the conclusion that Bryan and I would
volunteer for this role. With all the other Ark animals (2 by 2) we were
ushered out of the main hall to spend what seemed hours but was probably
only 30mins or so for some introductory drumming thing to finish (I'm
not quite sure; we weren't there!) and on we marched onto the stage.
Australia being of course 1st as this was to the English rather than
Chinese alphabet. Noone had told us what we were meant to do, or whether
we were meant to be staying on stage till everyone else came on, but it
turns out they wanted us to march off again.
After all the countries (31?) had their go , it got down to the real
entertainment, and I have to admit, unlike many other cermonies, it was
actually pretty good. Sort of a mix of traditional Korean musicical
instruments, but updated music, singling girls and the B-Boy breakdancers.
Speeches...well, all I can say is luckily we didn't have to listen to
then twice (Korean & English).
On out return we were ushered straight off the buses to the gardens
where dinner was served in a garden party setting. Very pleasant in the
cooler evening. We were invited over the the Croatian team table and had
many discussions about ARDF participation, juniors development and
garmin GPS's. Seems they have managed to get some funding through their
education department (it wasn't easy) to run schools ARDF programs.
Sounds a bit like what Peta does, but more developed within each school
itself (so it's self sustaining to a degree; some schools even trying to
get competitors into Region 1 junior champs). They don't seem to have as
much traditional foot orienteering development; perhaps they got in
first. The next world champs are to be in Croatia in 2010.
Straight after dinner it was off to a Region 3 meeting to consider the
bid from Thailand to run the 2009 Region 3 championships. it's not
official yet, but it looks like they could well be happening there in
November next year, so keep that free ! We need a bigger them than just
2 of us.
Fall into bed after getting everything ready for the early start this
morning. Lucky for the 1 hour time difference so for me the 5am start
was more like 6am ! Even so sleep was slow coming last night, but spare
a thought for the teams (eg Croatia) who have ended up with thin 1cm
futons on the floor rather than beds. Luck of the draw it seems. I'm
glad we arrived earlyish on arrival day.
Well, finally I'm up to the 2m VHF event today. As a mini spoiler I will
point out we both finished in time with our required 4 controls
(transmitters found). Doing M40 we had to miss transmitter number 5.
The early start in the monring is because all competitors have to be
bussed to the start. At a championships the location is meant to be a
secret, unlike traditional orienteering events. Also, all the receivers
have to be impounded at the start before the transmitters can be turned
on. Due to some slight mixups in all this (I think we did it better back
in 2003) the actual first start was delayed 30mins to 9:30am. My start
was 10:20 and Bryan's 12:05pm.
It was pretty hot and very humid.
The M40 start corridor aimed directly at TX#5; the one we didn't have to
get at all. This caused most some confusion. In fact, the quickest way
out was to run back through the Start, but we weren't too sure if this
was even allowed ! Very messy anyway.
My route was to go to a slightly more distant #4 prior to the
closer-to-the-start #3 so that I could use a main road at the edge to
bypass a lot of nasty looking deep green across the middle of the very
elongated map (a little bit longer than A4 long, but narrower). As it
turns out, my gamble did work out, and though it may not have been the
quickest route, it was easy navigation and running (for some of it). I'm
not sure if I'd gone 3->4 if I'd have a better time or not; even drawing
out my route later on the map it looked pretty good.
After bypassing a range of deep green in the middle, I cut in from the
road to #2, which turned out to be on my side of the green range (phew!!).
The road was fast running, and the deep green was passable in places,
especially on the ridges, but the rice paddies (orange) were often slow
as the little pathways amongst them didn't always take you where you wanted.
My time was 94mins and 52s, putting me in 14th place out of 46.
Bryan zipped out of the start faster than I did and took a different
approach, aiming for the road on the far side of the map. He ended up
doing the same control order as I did, but suspect considerably more
km.(16 or more). Still, he's happy he got the required 4, was back in
time (just) and knew where he was on the map nearly all the time. His
place was 24th, with time of 115 mins 47s, unofficial results at the finish.
Pity the poor competitor I was speaking to just after I finished who was
overtime by a mere 5 seconds !
The time limit was 140 minutes.
