An ARES ARRL Special Service Club P O Box 1442 ......An ARES ARRL Special Service Club P O Box 1442 Ridgecrest California 93556 1442 BOARD OF OFFICERS President Steve Hendricks KK6JTB

THE AIRWAVES               December 2018             SIERRA AMATEUR  RADIO CLUB

                                                      An ARES ARRL  Special Service Club              

P O Box 1442 Ridgecrest California93556­1442

BOARD OF OFFICERSPresident Steve Hendricks KK6JTB (760) 608-4147 [email protected] VP Mark Rosenthal W6BST (760) 793-2778 [email protected] VPJeff Potter N6LIP (562) 756-8962 [email protected] Bill Burns WA6QYR (760) 375-8566 [email protected] Keith Middleton N6WZZ (760) 793-6901 [email protected]

SARC OWNED AND MAINTAINED REPEATERSRandsburg WA6YBN 145.34 MHz (-), PL 100.0 Hz, Wide Area, Emergency PowerRidgecrest WA6YBN 147.00 MHz (+), PL 107.2 Hz, Local, Emergency Power

SARC CommitteesTechnical Assistance: Mike, WA6ARA 375-5324 Public Relations: Mark, W6BST 793-2778Program: Jeff, N6LIP, (562) 756-8962 Airwaves Editor: Mike, WA6ARA 375-5324RF Interference: Bill, WA6QYR (760) 375-8566 Emergency: Dennis, W6DQ, (562) 858-2883

THE AIRWAVES CALENDAREvery

IWV Emergency Net 730pmMonday WA6YBN Repeater-147.00MHz

+600KHz offset, 107.2 toneVisitors Welcomed!

Night10 Meter Rag Chew Net8pm28.400 USB

10 Dec SARC Board Meeting – 6:30pm SARC General Meeting – 7:00pm Program – Ultra Analysis

12 Jan Fire Mountain Horse Endurance

26/27 Jan Winter Field Day !

23 Feb 20 Mule Team Horse Endurance

08 DecAmateur Radio License Exam

Every Even Month, Second SaturdayLocation: Old Fire House, located behind the Historical USO Building, 231 W. Station St., Ridgecrest CAPre-reg by 03 Dec. Space is limited! All mustregister at 9 AMContact Mike Herr, WA6ARA 760-375-5324

E-mail [email protected]

Board ElectionsPresident - Steve KK6JTB

1st VP - Mike WA6ARA2nd VP - Open

Secretary - Bill WA6QYRTreasurer - Mark W6BST

SARC minutes from 12 November 2018SARC Board minutes

The board discussed the need for a second VP nominee. The next VE session is 8 December but need sign ups by 3 December to Mike WA6ARA. We decided that any radio prize for the installation dinner should be a legal type OKed by the FCC. We noted that the SARC Facebook page should be up dated.

SARC General meeting minutesPresident Steve open the meeting at 7:03 pm and welcomed new or visitors- Jeff KM6LAB, Greg WA7IRW down from Reno, and Sam KG6EMT. Snacks were brought by Tom N6NPG thanks. Treasurer Keith N6WZZ reported changes to the bank account since the Airwaves was published. Bob K6ECM reported on the repeater changes since last meeting. The donation of the new repeater by Ed WI6RE and the installation by Bob K6ECM and Mike WA6ARA. Thanks to all. Jeff N6LIP reported that the Bill Thornburg horse ride went fine. Upcoming events were the Ridgecrest Desert Classic bike ride November 17; The Desert Ultra Marathon December 2; The Fire Mountain horse ride January 12/13; and the 20 Mule Team horse ride February 23/24. Upcoming VE session December 8 in the old Fire House with reservations needed by December 3 to Mike WA6ARA. Reminders that the 10-meter rag chew is Monday nights following the net on 28.400 MHz, and the 2-meter rag chew is on the 147.000 repeater at 2000 hours. It was noted that Pacificon was smaller than previous years. Show and Tell had an NCX 2.5w single band transceiver for $49 brought in by Greg WA7IRW. Steve KK6JTB talked about the elections coming up next month and the need to a second VP. The other nominees were President Steve KK6JTB, 1st VP Mike WA6ARA, Secretary Bill WA6QYER, and Treasurer Mark W6BST. Our proposed speaker was a CHP Officer who was to talk on ham radio used in a car, but he canceled out.

Our speaker was Roy N6JR who is a broadcast chief engineer of 3 stations in the Los Angeles area. He talked about the local IWV TV and FM broadcast booster. It started in 1950 after some experimental TV stations by hams started up in the LA area. Don Lee started a 2KHz 500w station that was an 80-line scan type under the call sign W6SX in 1933. Next was W6XYZ on Mount Wilson in 1942, an electronic scan type. In 1952 KNXT moved to Mount Wilson. In 1954 NOTS volunteers started an effort to build a booster (translator) on Laurel mountain to bring the signal into the IWV. It was an VHF to UHF translation and had problems with isolation of input to output. The Bishop area also had a translator for their area in the 1960’s. In 2012 the government has a Middle-Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act which sold off channels 37 and up to commercial interests. The current booster will have $130,000 changes to give us 67 channels with a new scan mode. The IWV Boosteroperation is all volunteer and survives on donations. Thanks to Roy for his informative talk and historical pictures of the IWV Booster system.

The door prize went to Malin AC7MC (a $25 gift card to the Tractor supply store). The 50/50 drawingwent to Dave KC6UUR, $11. Mike WA6ARA returned from the Desert Classic Bike ride meeting and indicated that they had donated $200 to SARC for the support of the ride on Saturday.Submitted by Bill WA6QYR, secretary.

December ProgramThe program for December will be a bit different from the regular fair. SARC recently participated in the OTHTC Ultra Marathon. During that event we had an “incident”. While all came out in the end well, cold have been bad. One of the participants, Tim, NH2BV, recommended we conduct a forensic analysis of how the event was executed, SARC participation and of the “incident”. After thinking about it, I believe he is right and now, while every thing is still fresh, is the time to do it. So, with discussion with the program chair Jeff, N6LIP, we decided to go ahead and conduct it as part of the December meeting. This should be interesting and we are looking for good input on possible solutions.

Up Coming Public Service EventsFire Mountain (Horse endurance ride) 12 – 13 Jan 201920 Mule Team Ride (Horse endurance ride) 23 – 24 Feb 2019

Ridgecrest Desert Classic

The Ridgecrest Desert Classic started out on November 17. This was the same format as in previousyears and the RDC Team from High Sierra Cyclists really has it working like a well oiled machine. SARC supplied the communications for the event. The new 147 repeater had excellent coverage at all locations, with and held radios. We did deploy the portable repeater as a backup but did not use it. Those form SARC who helped were Paula N6VGW, Dave W6TLA, Sandy KJ6VRW, Keith N6WZZ, Tim NH2BV, Bill WA6QYR, Bob KC6YYT and Mike WA6ARA.

OTHTC Ultra MarathonSARC participated in the Over The Hill Track Club Ultra Marathon onDecember 2nd. There were 245 runners, plus or minus, It was an“interesting” event, one that we will be talking about at the DecemberSARC meeting. Once again, the new 147 repeater worked excellent.SARC communicators helping included Paula N6VGW, Dave W6TLA,Cap WX1WIZ, Keith N6WZZ, Keith W6KRF, Tim NH2BV, RussKG7SOH, Tom W1ERG, Philip KG6JEL and Mike WA6ARA.

For Free/ SaleICOM IC HM7 mobile microphone, 8 pin connectors; ICOM IC-HM8 mobile microphone 8 pin connector FREE

Tri-EX Tower Corp Model THD237 40 ft crank up light weight tower FREE

HF antennas which have been in the desert sun a long time and need replacement plastic pieces: High Gain TA33 triband 3 elements beam FREE; 14AVQ vertical FREE; 2 element triband beam FREE

RF Concepts 10-110 440 MHz amplifier 200mw-15w input 100w output 12v $5

Craftsman Professional MIG wire feed welder input 120vac 25aac. Output 105adc 19.5vdc 20% duty cycle. Cart, helmet, plus lots of accessories. 2 gas bottles. $120.

Bird Electronics Thru line wattmeter 4450 30kHz- 1MHz 5-100watts dual direction FREE

Simpson 269 analog volt ohm amp meter FREE

Heat sinks, many sizes free

Free Wire!Lots of RG-8 coax- some RG-141 small coax – freeLots of shielded two wire cable and multi-conductor cable- freeLots of Romex copper wire number 12 and 14 -freeSeveral hundred feet spool of black #26 stranded wire free

Reels of surface mount resistors and capacitors. A strip a foot long will give you enough parts for a year. These are 1206 and 606 size parts. Free

Bill WA6QYR 247 Rebel Road Ridgecrest 375-8566 [email protected]

Visit WA6YBN.COM

Open Area Repeaters

Status Location Call Freq in MHz Tone Notes

UP Randsburg WA6YBN 145.340 (-) 100.0 Wide Area, Emergency Power

UP Ridgecrest WA6YBN 147.000 (+) 107.2

Standby Ridgecrest WA6YBN 147.060 (+) 100.0

UP El Paso Pk WI6RE-2 145.050 Packet Node (ELPASO)

Down El Paso Pk WI6RE 144.390 APRS W1 Digi, iwvaprs.net

UP El Paso Pk WI6RE 147.975 (-) 100.0UP Trona K5GFM 146.970 (-) 123.0 Trona – low level repeaterUP Bird Springs KF6FM 146.085 (+) 141.3

UP Mazourka Pk W6TD 146.760 (-) 103.5

UP Hauser Pk K6OX 146.730 (-) 100.0

UP Keller Pk KE6RYZ 146.385 (+) 146.2

UP Lake Isabella N6SR 145.450(-) 156.7 Lake Isabella area

UP Lone Pine 147.21 (+) 103.5

UP Mazourka Pk 442.300(+) 131.8

UP Ridgecrest WI6RE 446.500 100.0

UP El Paso Pk WI6RE 448.800 (-) 100.0 IRLP-3877 - WinSystem.org

UP Ridgecrest NC9RS 927.0125 (-) 88.5

Allstar #27178, Echolink #518309, Info *510Club Portable Repeater, used only for events

Allstar Node (27167) usually on WINSYSTEM

Wide coverage of Indian Wells Valley - swrrc.orgLinked to Lone Pine, Silver Pk, Bishop, MommothNear Palmdale, Wide coverage of Antelope Valleykpra.net - Near Big Bear, Wide SoCal Coverage

Linked to Mazourka, Silver Pk, Bishop, Mommoth

IRLP-3741, contact [email protected] for codes

Input: 902.0125 – Linked to NC9RS system

Email to [email protected] to report changes

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