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I have been unable to publish a Parasitic Emission since January, for personal reasons I won’t go into here. I apologize for letting all the readers down, and I realize the importance of a regular newsletter to each and every club. A monthly newsletter serves many purposes, not the least of which is a monthly reminder of upcoming club activities. I hope to be able to resume publication soon.
I also have a duty as QCARC Secretary to publish the minutes of each month’s club meetings on a timely basis, and I have failed to do so. Beginning immediately, I will publish meeting notices and monthly minutes on this website, until such time as I am able to resume newsletter publication.
//Joe W3BC
LINK TO MONTHLY MEETING MINUTES FOR 2013 (CLICK HERE)
We send our best wishes for a speedy and full recovery out to Doug Rowles W3DWR, the QCARC Treasurer.
Doug is recuperating from a heart procedure at Shadyside Hospital in Pittsburgh. He expects to be home early this week, and reports that everything went well. He expects a full recovery.
Please add your comment to this message with your get-well wishes for Doug.
Hello everybody, now we are going to have some fun!
As some of you new hams might remember, at the last meeting I promised that you were going to play with some of my rigs at upcoming meetings, and I thought you should get acquainted with the easiest rigs first, so, take a look at the radio at the right, that is a Kenwood TS-520, from about 1975, its a so called hybrid rig, which means that it is both transistors and tubes. The tubes are used in the out-put amplifier, but the rest of the radio uses transistors, and has a built in power-supply. Bands are 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10m.
 The second rig I’m going to introduce you to, will be the next generation of Kenwoods HF rigs, namely the Kenwood TS-440s. This radio came out around mid 80’s and is all transistorized, its got a built in antenna-tuner, the receiver covers 100khz-30mhz. It can transmit on 160, 80, 60, 40, 30, 20, 17, 15, 12 and 10m. As you can see, it also sports a digital frequency display, plus it also has a built in squelch, it does not have an internal power-supply, so you would need an external 20Amp power source. As the older radio, it too produces about 100w output. This radio also do FM and split, so you can use it on 10m repeaters.
 The third radio I will let you play with, is the newest in my “fleet”, it came on the market in 1998- 99 and I bought it a few weeks after it came out. This is the Yaesu FT-847 and was called The earth station, because of it’s ability to operate the OSCAR satellites, on any band, and any combination. The receiver covers 100khz – 470mhz and transmits on all bands from 160m to 70cm. HF bands and 6m is 100w, 2m is 50w and 70cm 40w. So, it’s all band and all mode. The radio also have DSP and other goodies, but does not have antenna-tuner nor does it have an internal power supply. It does have 4 antenna connectors, HF, 6m, 2m and 70cm and it also have built in key’er for cw.
I also have another rig, the Icom 706MkII, but I think these three radio’s are gone be just fine to begin with, I’m sure that some of our other members can let you try some of their radio’s, but, since we are coming into the summer months, I believe we can wait till the fall before we continue with “play N learn”. If you guys N gals have any questions, or any special wishes, please do ask!!! No question are stupid or to dumb, so please ask!! I’m sure we will all have fun playing with the “real stuff”, so come down to our next meeting and “widen your horizon”
Yours truly
The Swede KB3WBT
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PETER |
DERENSBURG |
11:47 |
17M |
| M0ZRQ |
55 |
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GLENN |
LINCOLNSHIRE |
11:58 |
17M |
| IN3ZJI |
55 |
57 |
DOMONICO |
STORO |
12:02 |
17M |
| YO4DEQ |
54 |
59 |
PETER |
CEI |
12:07 |
17M |
| EA5HQJ |
56 |
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JOSE |
S.SPAIN MJRCIA |
12:11 |
17M |
| GI4VKS |
59 |
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PASCAL |
N. IRELAND |
12:18 |
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55 |
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YURI |
ROSTOW |
12:24 |
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52 |
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PETER |
FRANKFURT |
12:30 |
17M |
| IW1FZR |
59 |
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LUKE |
TURIN |
12:34 |
17M |
| KA3FHV |
59 |
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JEFF |
ALL PORT PA |
12:37 |
17M |
| DL3TW |
59 |
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TODD |
HAMBURG |
12:42 |
17M |
| MM0DVZ |
59 |
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JOHN |
N.INVERNES |
1:01 |
17M |
| YO4ROV |
59 |
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COSTEL |
ROMANIA |
1:03 |
17M |
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59 |
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JIM |
ST. JOHNS |
1:06 |
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59 |
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DAVE |
ROSLEY |
1:10 |
17M |
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59 |
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BRUNO |
TELESTE |
1:17 |
17M |
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59 |
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PETER |
MANCHESTER |
1:21 |
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59 |
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TONY |
NOTTINGHAM |
1:23 |
17M |
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59 |
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RAY |
WELLS |
1:25 |
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59 |
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WOLFGANG |
HAMBURG |
1:30 |
17M |
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56 |
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SAM |
WATKINS, GA |
1:43 |
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58 |
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LINDA |
LONDON |
1:46 |
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52 |
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MIKE |
LONDON |
1:53 |
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53 |
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PAT |
BOLOGNA |
2:00 |
17M |
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58 |
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JD ROY |
AUSTIN,TEXAS |
2:05 |
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59 |
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GARY |
FLORIDA |
2:08 |
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59 |
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JEFF |
S.WALES |
2:12 |
17M |
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51 |
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KENNY |
SW SCOTTLAND |
2:19 |
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54 |
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MALTA (GOZO) |
2:24 |
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56 |
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N.IRELAND |
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BELFAST |
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51 |
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RAINER |
ZWEIBRUECKEN |
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ANNA SCALA |
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Checkout the blog post by Tim Carter, W3ATB, concerning amateur radio support on the Boston Marathon 2013 on http://w3atb.com
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Genesis G59: All Mode 160-6m SDR Transceiver Kit ‹ SPARKY’s Blog
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The “G59″ is an all-mode 160-6m SDR transceiver with 10mW of output power. The output is boosted to 10W with the “GPA10″ linear amplifier.
The Genesis “G59″ is the best performing SDR kit for the money currently available to amateur radio operators.
Worked following semi rare stations within last 10 days.
3V8BB 30m cw
9u4u 15m ssb & cw
XT2TT 30m cw, 12m cw, 17m ssb
H44KW 17m cw
J5UAP 17m cw
TX5K 30 m cw
Jack, AA3AZ
I just work Hungry HA8RM & Germany DF2BO on 3.796
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DF2BO
 I just worked a Japan station on 21.365.00 100watts!!
 Twelve Hams from all four counties came early for the meeting on January 18th, to take part in an Introduction to NIMS Training session. Instructor W3BC described the courses availble from FEMA that are now required for the ARRL EC-001 and EC-016 courses, and other free NIMS courses that are useful for all hams wishing to imporve their understanding of emergency communications and the structure of incident management involving multiple agencies.
Those attending learned about the structure of the Incident Command System, and the National Incident Management System. They discussed the role of the Amateur Radio Service within this framework, and the positive contributions our service provides as a voluntary agency. The class concluded with an overview and discussion of the IS-700 course, and those attending were encouraged to complete self-paced, online IS-100 and IS-700 training.
The Website for the NIMS courses is training.fema.gov/IS. The public is encouraged to take any of the courses, and the cost is free.
Recommended Courses
Although there are many interesting courses, and no restrictions on taking any or all of them, hams interested in completing NIMS courses identified as prerequisites for the ARRL EC-001 and EC-016 courses are encouraged to complete the following courses first:
For EC-001 “Level I”
- IS-100 b Introduction to Incident Command System
- IS-200 b National Incident Management System (NIMS) An Introduction
For EC-016 “Level II”
- IS-120 a An Introduction to Exercises
- IS-230 b Fundamentals of Emergency Management
- IS-235 b Emergency Planning
- IS-241 a Leadership and Influence
- IS-241 a Decision Making and Problem Solving
- IS-242 a Effective Communication
- IS-244 a Developing and Managing Volunteers
(Note: For EC-016, an additional prerequisite is Skywarn certification)
Of course you can (and should) take any others that interest you.
All members completing each of these courses are asked to send an email to Public Service Coordinator, Kevin Snyder KA3YCB for his records at PublicService@qcarc.org
 Well, here we go again!
Remember a while ago, when I wrote about needing a project in order to stay sane, while my shoulder healed? Well, I sure found one!
If you look at the picture at the right, that’s it!
It’s a fantastic little rig from Kenwood, when they still made simple but very good HF stations – no menus, no electronic band-switch, etc.
The model number is TS-130s, and it covers 80m -10m, including the WARC bands, it’s got 100w output and is a cw/ssb rig only, but hey, its a great rig for ragchewing, field-day, beginners’ rig, or when going camping! :)
When I got it, someone had dropped the top lid while looking inside, resulting in tearing the wire off from internal speaker, but with the help from some junked speakers, that was an easy fix. Then came the question why the RF power came and went. Well, what really was wrong, was a voltage regulator, sitting on the heat sink, and it was supposed to be insulated from ground. As you might already have guessed, it was not really…that is to say, the little washer with a little flange on, that is supposed to keep the screw from touching the regulator, was damaged, so when keying the rig, sometimes it made contact, and sometimes not…. After having found this, it now works just as new!
Speaking of cleaning, now I’m going to tell you what not ever to do!! (AND I MEAN THAT!)
When cleaning knobs, do not EVER try to do that in a sink, without a strainer! Why? I’ll tell you why, if you haven’t felt your heart fly up into your throat, YOU WILL! Also, if you haven’t had to take the drain apart, YOU WILL!
Now, if you have stopped laughing, and stopped saying S****D I***T, I can tell you, I now know how it feels! I was just lucky that the knob wasn’t flushed out. Having put it all together again, I buffed up the scuffed paint on the case. It looks so good, that I don’t want to let it go, but since it’s only a project rig, I must (at least that’s what XYL says…)
A radio in this condition sells really fast, and so did this. Roger KB3ZKJ, is now the happy owner. Congrats Roger!
Your storyteller
Lars KB3WBT
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