Daron sez: I hope to have all the parts for and be able to assemble and test from my motel room in Medford. I’m working on a few refinements to make it cheaper to build, and if there is interest I’m happy to put together a ‘kit’ with the pipe, elements, coax pigtail, and all the other parts you need and we’ll work on doing this in person for one of the meetings.
This is a very basic VHF yagi useful for direction finding and adding some gain to your handheld to get a better signal into the repeater or work the International Space Station. Feel free to share the link on the website with anyone interested, I’ll see you Wednesday and hope that I’m ready!
Wednesday, November 2, 2022 marks the 75th anniversary of the first and only flight of this massive “proof of concept” plane, which was moved from Long Beach to the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, OR quite a few years ago. To mark the occasion, the “Spruce Goose 75th Anniversary of Flight Amateur Radio Special Event” has been established. It’s scheduled to run from Saturday, October 29, 2022 at 1700 UTC, through Sunday November 6th 2022, at 2359 UTC. The special event is a joint effort between the Hughes Amateur Radio Club of El Segundo, CA, and the McMinnville Amateur Radio Club here in Oregon. The callsigns for the event will be W6HA, and W6HA/7 respectively, and frequencies will be SSB: 3.833, 7.233, 14.233, 21.333, and 28.333 MHz, and CW: 3.533, 7.033, 14.033, 21.033, and 28.033 MHz.
Address for special commemorative QSL Card:
Brian Johnson, AB6UI, W6HA Trustee 5207 Lillian Street Torrance, CA 90503
For more information regarding this special event, check out Hughes Amateur Radio Club website: www.W6HA.org
Mike Eastman N7ONP will lead a 2-day class on successive Saturdays, intended to help prospective new hams prepare to pass the exam for a Technician Class license. Attendees are encouraged to use additional self-learning opportunities in addition to the class. Bring your lunch, or plan to make a quick lunch run.
Day 1: Saturday, October 22, 2022 from 9:00 am – 3:00 pm Day 2: Saturday, October 29, 2022 from 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
First Presbyterian Church 227 NE 12th St., Westminster Conference Room Newport, OR 97365
Do you know of a site that might be good for Field Day? Winter Field Day? Some other event or exercise? Download the (fillable) form below and return to Michelle KA7OQQ, or to n7oy.lcarc (at) gmail.com. This will help us build a database of sites to choose from as we plan events.
We will be working at the “barn” this Saturday from 10 to 12 then lunch. Have a project, something to work on, or just want to help out?
Last month Michelle and Anne (Ann ?) helped us to get our work space cleaned out. Hue cleaned the gutters for Margaret. She made the request and told me that I could not!
This coming Saturday July 9 at 10 AM to noon we will be having a work party at Willies barn. We will be working on cleaning up the benches, sorting equipment, determining what to sell next time, preparing tower and antenna for the next event, etc. We will have some fun.
Field Day planning for the Lincoln County Amateur Radio Club has been rather ad hoc this year, with a major emergency exercise (Cascadia Rising) taking place less than two weeks prior. But, it’s happening!
Our location will be on NE Harney, across from the Lincoln County Commons (Fairgrounds), in the field north of the Animal Shelter. You can’t miss it.
Setup will be Friday afternoon, June 24. Field Day operations begin at 11:00 Saturday morning, June 25 and will continue into Sunday morning.
I’d like to have a Tuesday night planning meeting at 6pm every Tuesday (except for regular meeting nights) between now and through Cascadia Rising. I’m hoping this weekly update will help get folks prepared for the exercise, dial in our staffing and planning, and give us time to work through the forms to be transmitted. I know… yet another meeting, but I don’t know how else to share ideas and practice without something structured like this.
I’ll do my best to send out a reminder 24 hours before and maybe 8 hours before each week so it is fresh in everyone’s mind. The 8 hours before reminder should have some agenda type information so you know what we’ll be discussing and working on.
Yes… It is a different meeting number than the regular meetings, I’ll send it out with every single email reminder to it should be easy to open the email reminder and select the link.
Tuesday May 3 – 6pm-7pm – Cascadia Rising Planning – still refining scheduling, assignments. Working towards one location to go to retrieve all the documents when we get closer so you can download the stuff you need prior to the event. (and we’ll take some feedback and ideas on the previous weekend’s events, what worked and what didn’t, how we could make it work better, etc.)
Starting this year, the maximum PEP output for a transmitter used by anyone submitting a Field Day log will be 100 W. The power multiplier of 2 will remain in place, and the high-power category will be removed from the rules. Until this year, the maximum low-power limit had been 150 W for most ARRL-sponsored operating events. The power multiplier will remain at 5 for QRP participants running a maximum of 5 W or less. As previously announced, 100 W is now the low-power category limit for all ARRL and IARU HF Contests, effective January 1, 2022.
ARRL.org
A couple of changes instituted initially as accommodations for the COVID-19 pandemic will remain. Class D (Home) stations will continue to be able to earn points for contacts with other Class D stations. The club aggregate scoring change initiated in 2020 as a temporary measure will become part of the permanent rules. In the aggregate scoring plan, the scores of individual stations are combined under the score of a single club.
Folks, Winter Field Day is just around the corner. www.winterfieldday.com has all the information, we’ll be doing what we can setting up a bit Friday evening the 28th at the Fairgrounds. We should have at least two HF setups, several different HF antennas, the communications trailer and a couple of us are camping out for the event.
You may have some memory of last year’s Winter Field Day, we landed a vacation rental, brought way too much stuff, and I cooked way too much food. While it was a great time, it takes a fair amount of time and effort to plan and put that together. This year it won’t be that deluxe, but it will still be functional.
For me, I plan on setting up the buddiepole portable HF antenna, so if anyone wants to learn about that, try adjusting and tuning, etc. this should be a good time for that. We’ll have a dipole of some type up for the HF rig in the trailer, and another one of my projects is a trapped fan dipole that I need to raise up to 30’ or so, make some measurements, lower it down and adjust wire lengths, then repeater over and over until I get it tuned. I plan on spending a fair amount of time working on some projects in the trailer, perhaps doing some firmware upgrades on some of the upcoming AREDN hardware hoping to appear on Otter Crest, etc. I’ll bring some portable satellite setup since there is a good bonus if we can make a satellite contact.
My goal is provide a platform for those who wish to come out and participate, while trying to get some of the many ham radio projects complete. What gets done and how much depends a lot on the weather, it will likely be raining off and on which makes some of the projects and working outside a bit more challenging. As Matthew and I proved last year, there will be a fire to sit around in the evening regardless of the weather.
Please let me know if you are interested in attending and participating, and roughly when that would be so we can plan a bit. I’ll have more details out but I expect to be onsite around 4pm on Friday afternoon, setting up a bit, and then decamping around noon or so on Sunday.
I’ve not planned meals or anything fancy (though I do intend to eat), I am willing to do something Saturday evening for food if we have a small group and interest. We may be testing out some of the food delivery options in Newport or simply making a food run sometimes rather than cooking on site.
As it was last year, you can participate at home with your callsign and if we submit records for all that marked Lincoln County ACS we get the credit for it. ACS and the Club are working together to provide this opportunity for everyone interested.
