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FIELD DAY 2009
The WCARA 2009 Field Day event will be held June 27 at the Voice of America site on Tylersville Road in West Chester! See below for the WC8VOA Field Day plans!
JULY 2009 CLUB MEETING
The next monthly club meeting will be July 13, 2009 at 7:00PM at the VOA. The VOA is located at 8070 Tylersville Road. The meeting is open to hams and non-hams alike!
Radio Night Open House
All area ham radio operators, club members and friend of the WCARA are
invited to come to "Radio Night Open House" each and every Wednesday
Night from 6:30 to 8:00 PM local time at the WC8VOA Club Station at the VOA on
8070 Tylersville Road
All area ham radio
operators, club members and friend of the WCARA
are invited to come to "Radio Night Open House" each and every
Wednesday Night from 6:30 to 8:00 PM local
time
at the WC8VOA Club
Station at the VOA on 8070 Tylersville Road.
This is your newsletter!!! Please send Mike Ashley N8XW@arrl.net any and all club news, event updates, digital pictures, buy or sale needs, license upgrades or call sign changes.
'09 WINTER/SPRING WCARA NET OPS ASSIGNMENTS
2009 Winter/Spring WCARA Net OPS Assignments are as follows:
2009 Winter/Spring WCARA Net OPS Assignments are as follows:
The WCARA Monday Night Roundtable
meets each Monday
Night at 8:00 PM local time(except Meeting Nights on the 2nd Monday
of the Month) on the FARA 145.39 (-600)
Repeater.
Jan-09
Feb-09
Mar-09
Apr-09
May-09
9-Jun
1/5/2009- WB0NPN
2/2/2009 - N8DZ
3/2/2009
- AC8CS
4/6/2009 - KB8ZYE
5/4/2009
- W8BXG
6/1/2009 - K8DEV
1/12/2009
- Club Mtg.
2/9/2009 - Club Mtg.
3-9-2009
- Club Mtg.
4/13/2009 - Club Mtg.
5/11/2009
- Club Mtg.
6/8/2009 - Club Mtg.
1/19/2009
- W8CDA
2/16/2009 - N8MIQ
3/16/2009
- KC8ZGW
4/20/2009 - N8MIQ
5/18/2009
- AC8CS
6/15/2009 - WB0NPN
1/26/2009
- KB8ZYE
2/23/2009 - N8VSI
3/23/2009
- WB0NPN
4/27/2009 - N8VSI
5/25/2009
- KC8ZGW
6/22/2009 - W8CDA
3/30/2009
- W8CDA
6/29/2009 - KB8ZYE
Please
contact Cary Clarke at W8CDA@fuse.net as soon as possible if you cannot make
your assigned date.
Joe Phillips, K8QOE, WCARA club member and ARRL Section Manager for Ohio, passed away this past weekend.
Arrangements are as follows:
Friday, June 26
5-8 PM: Visitation at the Webster Funeral Home, 3080 Homeward Way, Fairfield, OH 45014 Map
Saturday, June 27
10 AM: Funeral Mass at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 400 Nilles Rd,
Fairfield, OH 45014
Map
11:30 AM: Luncheon at Receptions Conference Center, 5975 Boymel Dr.,
Fairfield, OH 45014. If you plan to attend lunch on Saturday, please
send an e-mail to k8je@arrl.org with the number of people you expect to
be in your party. Please send this information ASAP. The family needs
to provide the approximate number of people who will eat lunch at
Receptions on Wednesday or by Thursday at the latest. Map
Burial will be in Youngstown, OH.
Posted by n8eci on Tuesday, June 23 @ 10:53:48 EDT (23 reads)
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FIELD DAY 2009
Anonymous writes "Summary of Field Day 2009 Activities
Bob Fay - WB0NPN - Field Day Chairman
Here is an outline of field day activities for 2009
1. Before field day, we have moving day. This is Thursday, June 25. We have to move all of the equipment from the present room on the 2nd floor in preparation for the building renovation. All of the exterior facade and windows will be removed. Please plan on helping at 9:00am.
2. Field Day setup begins at 2:00pm, Friday, June 26. We will work until about 8:00pm, and set up everything except the station equipment and computers.
3. Operating will be on the south side of the Voice of America building (Tylersville Road side), to gain better visibility.
4. Antennas will be one beam mounted on a 27 ft ladder, two G5RV's strung from the building, an 80m wire, and a NVIS antenna. No balloon antenna this year.
5. We will operate as 4A, the same as in past years. This year, we will have additional digital equipment courtesy of N8VSI, and will operate one position as digital as long as operators familiar with the mode are present. One position will be CW, and the others flexible between CW & voice, depending on personnel available. The digital station will be responsible for sending the section manager traffic to
earn the additional 100 points, and copying the ARRL field day bulletin.
6. Operating reservations may be made by contacting WB0NPN at wb0npn@arrl.net.
7. The digital station will also be the welcome and sign in location. All operators and guests are requested to sign in so we can maintain an accurate account of participants and visitors.
8. The digital station will have manual logs to use in case of
computer failure, and the field day rules book for reference.
9. We will have a cook out Saturday evening, with the club providing dogs, burgers, etc. Bring whatever else you would like to share. KB8ZYE will furnish the grill.
10. Field day operation is from 2:00pm Saturday, June 27, to 2:00pm on Sunday. We plan to operate 24 hrs continuous.
11. During station tear down, we want to pack all of the equipment in boxes for storage while the building is being renovated. Please be sure to mark the contents on the boxes, and seal them with tape.
12. We have made several new publicity contacts, and we hope that broader coverage will result. We have also invited the township trustees, as in past years. Please make them feel welcome.
13. Due to family circumstances, I have to be out of town during field day. John Kerr, N8JK, has volunteered to take over management of the actual event. Many thanks for his help!!
"
Posted by God on Wednesday, June 17 @ 21:44:45 EDT (42 reads)
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N8XW and HF Chronicles Win Award
"HF CHRONICLES," newsletter of the West Chester Amateur Radio
Association, is the 2007 winner of the 16th annual Ohio
Ham Radio Newsletter Contest. It had won second place in a previous
contest.
Congratulations for an Excellent Job Mike !!
Posted by kc8zrk on Tuesday, September 18 @ 08:32:46 EDT (2836 reads)
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First two moonbounce QSOs!
n8eci writes "On 15-April Mike KA8ABR and Jim N8ECI made WC8VOA's first two QSOs with Al, W5LUA in TX and the club station IQ4DF in Italy via a 10 GHz earth-moon-earth path. With only 8 watts of microwave power and the tremendous gain of the 7.2m satellite antenna, these QSOs were made over a half-million-mile path.
Work continues on improving the antenna's feed system though waveguide matching and tuning!"
Posted by god on Wednesday, April 18 @ 09:01:55 EDT (3062 reads)
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IS YOUR SCANNER QUIET THESE DAYS ?
Anonymous writes "IS YOUR SCANNER QUIET THESE DAYS ?
By : Jim Kimmel W8FEJ
If your scanner seems unusually quiet these days it may not be because of a reduction in crime, 911 calls , or a
reduced frequency of natural disasters. More and moreof the local emergency services are converting to digitaloperation.. Even scanners equipped for trunking such as
the Pro 2052 and its siblings listen in vain for analog signals
which are no longer there. Is it time to go to Dayton or onto eBay and get what you can or even donate that “obsolete
scanner to Goodwill? Not at all.!! Especially when a new digital scanner may cost approximately $400.00 or more.
Radio Shack will print up for you a page or two of frequencies
in Butler and Warren counties and other nearby areas which
still use the analog mode. It might help if you make them awarethat you own a Radio Shack scanner and/or make a purchase.
The manager seemed willing to print a copy from his store
The source of this information is Scancat-Lite ComputerAided Technologies. They produce “full featured programming
software for your Radio Shack scanner.” The frequency list “sampleincludes about 60 analog frequencies in the VHF Lo, VHF HI, and 800mhz bands. The cost for the whole software package is $29.95. It may possibly be purchased from Radio Shack storesfrom their website, or directly from the information below. For a more comprehensive list of local frequencies see National
Communications information below. Your scanner will come to life again using the remaining (and very active) analog channels in the Butler / Warren County area
Contact:
Computer Aided Technologies
1112 Francais Dr.
Shreveport, LA
71118
Ordering: Call 1( 888) 722 6228
Technical Questions: Call1-(318) 687 2555
Website: www.scancat.com/scancat-lite
Or
You can order your local frequency list
from National Communications by calling <
1-800 423- 1331 or visit http://www.nat-com.org.
"
Posted by n8xw on Monday, April 17 @ 22:27:27 EDT (4005 reads)
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