THE NOARC NEWSLETTER

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1 THE NOARC NEWSLETTER NOARC TECK NIGHT THURSDAY 7PM MARCH 27, 2014 AT DORCAS FIRE STATION 42 8 MILES EAST OF CRESTVIEW ON HIGHWAY 90. STATION IS ON A DIRT ROAD DIRECTLY BEHIND THE MATTOX STORE 10th ANNUAL BLACKWATER BLUEGRASS BAR-B-QUE NOARC RADIO OPERATORS ON DUTY 6:25AM SATURDAY MARCH 29TH. MEET AT HIDEAWAY PIZZA ON MAIN STREET SCOUT-A-RAMA SATURDAY APRIL 5TH 10AM-3PM NOARC AND PARC MEMBERS NEEDED TO PARTICIPATE IF YOU WERE A BOY SCOUT, OR GIRL SCOUT... COME HELP US INTRODUCE AMATEUR RADIO TO SCOUTS AND THEIR FAMILIES

2 WE WILL BE ABLE TO HANG A 20 METER SLOPER FROM BELOW THE FLAG DOWN TO OUR OPERATING POSITION! WE WILL SET UP THE ANTENNA'S FRIDAY AFTERNOON APRIL 4TH. IF YOU CAN HELP FRIDAY, OR SATURDAY PLEASE BOB WALKER N4CU CAL ZETHMAYR W4GMH

3 The North Okaloosa Amateur Radio Club, Inc. Quick Links DO YOU USE THE REPEATER? OR ANY OTHER REPEATER? PLEASE CHECK OUT THE INFO TO THE RIGHT OF THIS... IF YOU ARE NEWLY LICENSED... AND JUST GETTING STARTED USING THE AREA REPEATERS THIS IS VALUABLE INFO FOR YOU. Sure wish it was part of the test for a license!! It has always been an OPEN repeater. MESSAGE FROM NOARC PRESIDENT BOB-N4CU Dave Hayden, WB4EWS, will be giving a presentation on a new digital mode. The new mode is C4FM and is used in the commercial sector extensively for digital communications installations. This is the Yaesu digital system introduced as a plug and play system that allows repeater users to utilize older analog FM radio's in addition to newer Yaesu digital radios such as the FT1DR handheld or the FTM-4000DR. Also, we will hear about the West Mountain Radio CLR dsp unit that can be used inline with a speaker. The meeting is March 27th. We did not vote on a by-laws update at our business meeting March 13th, Mike Martell, KK4KRZ, read the proposal and suggestion were made. He has written the proposal and this has been ed in PDF. Let me know if you would like a copy in another format. I have received a couple of suggestions already. CLICK HERE TO OPEN THE PDF OF THE PROPOSED BYLAWS CHANGES This Saturday NOARC will assist at the Black-water Bluegrass and BBQ cook-off in downtown Crestview. Ron Mahn, KI5FR asked those who have volunteered to meet at Hideaway Pizza at 6:25 AM simplex frequency is to be used. Donations for the NOARC table at the PARC hamfest were loaded for transport after the meeting. Thanks to the salesmanship of Cal, W4GMH, we made $ Over $600 came from the donations of Dick Russell formerly K6SSD, now W4IPA. We have items left for the Milton hamfest so we need more donations for that hamfest. The BBB is the primary NOARC event for the weekend however those interested in the CQ WW WPX contest which starts at 6PM this Friday should contact Bob, N4CU,

4 The cost of keeping it on the air is covered by NOARC along with the generous contributions listed below. BUT YOU CAN HELP WITH $1 A MONTH.. Become an associate member of NOARC click here for a membership application. Of course we welcome anyone interested in Amateur Radio to our club. DO YOU CHECK INTO THE GULFCOAST VHF TRAINING NET AT 8PM EVERY NIGHT ON ? DO YOU USE THE CRESTVIEW REPEATER OFTEN CALLED THE 36 MACHINE? This repeater is one of the busy ones serving a lot of NW Florida and S Alabama. REPEATER USE ETIQUETTE... How often do you hear QSO's where both users are close enough to each other that they could QSY to a simplex Frequency to chat? here is a link to a good discussion of repeater use This link is for a very good Beginners Guide to Repeaters And you can read more in this PDF File *************************************************** Since the ARRL is celebrating it's 100th Anniversary this year... I am going to include some of our NOARC history in these newsletters for the rest of the year. HERE ARE PHOTOS OF A NOARC JUNE 2007 MEETING at the Elder Services Building at the corner of MLK and S Wilson in Crestview. They met in the kitchen of the house! This repeater has been on the air as a service of the North Okaloosa Amateur Radio Club over 30 years. The repeater site

5 (250' towerantenna-feedlinerepeater buildingutilities-30kw natural gas generator...are all provided FREE to NOARC by Whitaker Communications. Jimmy Whitaker (our life member) let several local hams put the first Crestview Repeater on the big tower he owned back in the 80's. It that tall 4 legged tower just north of the North Okaloosa Medical Center on Redstone in Crestview.. Later the repeater was moved to the current tower on the north side of town. Since then the DStar stack was installed at the same location COME OUT AND SEE OUR NEWLY RE- BUILT CLUB STATION SETUP. IF YOU DON'T LIVE IN OUR AREA,TO SEE AN AERIAL VIEW OF THE CLUB STATION CLICK HERE Hover your mouse over the markers This is WB4CDR E Y Mock mowing area at his Blueberry Patch as we were getting ready for the Scouts 2009 JOTA

6 and look for the one that pops up our call sign W4AAZ. It has good info on our location. Gee doesn't make you wish you had been part of Field Day 2013! NOARC The North Okaloosa Amateur Radio Club meets twice a month (2nd and 4th Thursdays 7pm) atthe Dorcas Fire Dept#42 which is at 5232 Deer Springs Road (dirt) immediately behind the old Mattox Store on highway 90 east of Crestview. THESE ARE FROM OUR FIRST JOTA AT DORCAS #42. It is 3.9 miles East of the Shoal River Bridge. 7.6 miles east of the highway 90 and 85 intersection in Crestview. This is.48 mile west of Okaloosa County Road 393. click here for meeting location Our meetings are at 7pm on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month

7 except December PLEASE VISIT OUR NOARC WEBSITE ======================================== and SPEAKING OF HISTORY... how did you like reading all about the events happening in January in the January issue of CQ, which just arrived in the mail this past week...

8 Our Club President had these comments... I had noticed that for several months I had not receive CQ. That was kind of OK because I get QST, NCJ, QRP Quarterly, AMSAT Journal, News, not to mention stuff like National Geographic...So I really didn't care. Just for fun I called CQ and told them the good news about getting the January issue and asked about February and March. I got a nice spiel about the problems they had discontinuing two other magazines and how that confused the printer and he is catching up, I will get February soon and they will combine March and Aprilextend my subscription. So I said "You just told me what they told you to say like they did to Susan Rice" I got a brief silence and muttered agreement. Bob, N4CU ITEMS FOR SALE I bought these special (top-of-the-line) items as my retirement present and since have had a change in plans. These have NEVER been on the air. (I have kept them inside my house/radio room.) The Alpha 8410 sells for $5,750 The Palstar AT-5K sells for $1, The DL5K sells for $ This totals at: $7, I will sell these for $6, OBO This price includes hand delivery within reasonable range from Huntsville, AL. Or, I will reduce this price to compensate towards your driving expense. I have the documents, boxes, etc. that came with these. If interested, please call my cell phone, listed below. I bought these items with the strategy that you buy the best

9 once and you're done. Hopefully, this will work for your circumstance. Thanks. 72/73, Craig W. Behrens--NM4T (256) (My Cell #) FOR SALE: ALSO HAVE A HY-GAIN 204 BA --$ Original Message From: Tom Hardison To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, February 18, :42 PM Subject: [Contest] Equipment Sale Equipment for sale (moving) K0XG Rotating Tower System. This is an excellent operating system. I have 3 guy ring bearings, the base motor/bearing assembly, and controller with control cables to the tower. Not sure of the exact length of the control cable but over 120 feet. The controller looks as new and has been mounted under the shack and out of the weather. There are 9 sets of guys. They are phillystran guys and then to ¼ EHS guy wire nearer to the turnbuckles/ground supports. Also 1/2 Andrews hardline feet plus. Check out: k0xg.com and also reviews at Antennas: 2---Hy-Gain DIS-72, 40 meter 2 element 2---Hy-Gain LJ-205BA, 20 meter 5 element 2---Hy-Gain LJ-155BA, 15 meter 5 element 2---Hy-Gain LJ-105BA, 10 meter 5 element 1---Hy-Gain TH-7DX tri-band 10/15/20m 1---Cushcraft D-3W WARC band 1---Cushcraft 4 element 15 meters 1---M2 5element 6meter beam meter vertical, 100 feet of 6 inch tubing, and base

10 insulator. It was a full 1/4 wave until a storm 2 years ago, so had to go with top loading. This antenna performs very well using about 40 radials. Misc: Rohn 45, Rohn 25, stack matches, antenna remote switches, rotors and control boxes, lots of coax and control cable. For more info call # tom-zgb NOARC is fortunate to have the support of the Dorcas Fire District allowing us to really expand our club station as we have this year.

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13 And we thank Mr. Kenny Seiler the Manager/Owner of the Mattox General Store for letting us plant 4 of these 5 poles on his land. WANT TO BUILD A HF WIRE ANTENNA... it could be a teck night program..and you could use the W4AAZ antenna farm to test it. We have four 45 foot utility poles set in a rectangular area about 120 ft by 140 ft. And a 50 foot pole set about 50 feet behind the Dorcas Fire Station #42. The 50 footer has a length of angle iron(donated by K4QBH) at the top. We'll put some vhf antennas up there. And it will be the center post for feed lines. Check out the 160 meter wire we put up there.

14 Each of the 45 footers has a 7 foot cross arm of a 2x6 and there are pulleys at each end with two ropes. So each pole can be part of four different antennas. How about a 4 or 5 element 40 meter beam (made of wire of course)? The four corner post have four ropes (two per pulley) so there are lots of combinations of antennas we can put up. Cal W4GMH Thank you to our webmaster N6COP - PHIL for putting a lot of interesting links on our website FOR EXAMPLE...Here's info on area Clubs and Repeaters WANT INFO about VHF NETS or HF NETS

15 Check out our club website for all kinds of good stuff including back issues of the NOARC NEWSLETTER. YOU CAN READ THE MINUTES OF OUR BUSINESS MEETINGS ON THE CLUB WEBSITE BEFORE YOU COME TO THE MEETINGS. GOT SOMETHING TO SELL? Send me an ARE YOU READY FOR HURRICANE SEASON, HAVE YOU SIGNED UP FOR CODE RED PHONE CALLS, OR THE EOC FACEBOOK AND TWITTER FEEDS? CHECK OUT THE NEW SMARTPHONE APP TO GET LINKS FOR ALL OF THIS JUST CLICK HERE ABOUT THIS NEWSLETTER You may get more than one copy of this newsletter if I have 2 or more addresses for you. PLEASE let me know which address you prefer I use. OR YOU CAN UNSUBSCRIBE THE ADDRESS THAT YOU WANT DELETED FROM MY LIST. Also some of you have ARRL addresses. Not all s sent to an ARRL address get forwarded. And if it does, you will probably get this newsletter at whatever address you set up for your ARRL address to forward to. I am using CONSTANT CONTACT to do this newsletter and it has an excellent data reporting system to help a user manage

16 their contacts list. This newsletter will be sent to you at least twice a month early in the week of each of our meetings and also in advance of any activities we have scheduled. Some of you do not live in our area, some have moved away from here, some of you are part of the ARRL organization and we want you to know what this ARRL affiliated club is doing, others may or may not want to keep up with NOARC activities. If you don't want to get this newsletter just click the UNSUBSCRIBE link. You have been in my personal data base for quite some time. This newsletter format will replace the old fashioned messages I have sent you. If you have comments or suggestions for this newsletter please send me an Cal Zethmayr W4GMH N. Ferdon Blvd. #138 Crestview, FL SHARE THE NEWS OF AMATEUR RADIO ACTIVITIES IN NORTH OKALOOSA COUNTY. PLEASE FORWARD THIS NEWSLETTER TO YOUR HAM RADIO FRIENDS. Copyright All Rights Reserved.