From kb9wsl at hotmail.com Thu Oct 1 06:54:57 2009 From: kb9wsl at hotmail.com (Tom Murray) Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 06:54:57 -0400 Subject: [Ccarc] ARRL Club News for September 2009 In-Reply-To: <20091001064751.8691D3164E@www.arrl.org> References: <20091001064751.8691D3164E@www.arrl.org> Message-ID: > > Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 02:47:51 -0400 > > ARRL Club Newsletter > September 30, 2009 > > > > Norm Fusaro, W3IZ, Editor > > IN THIS ISSUE: > > + The Thumb > + Hamfest Shakeup > > > The Thumb > Norm Fusaro, W3IZ > > Let's consider the thumb for a moment. The thumb's ability to work > with all the fingers on the hand makes it very important to humans. > The opposable thumb separates humans (and primates) from other > animals and is responsible for most human accomplishments. Because > thumbs give us dexterity and allow us to use tools, we have been able > to build many wondrous things. Some of these things are as small and > intricate as a Swiss watch and as grandiose as skyscrapers and > vehicles that allow us to explore beyond our planet. It is > absolutely amazing that if not for the opposable thumb and the human > brain that controls it, pretty much everything in our world would not > be possible. > > There is a lot of power in the thumb. Pointed downward a thumb could > send a gladiator to his death. Hung out along a roadway the thumb > can stop a car. Authorities keep subordinates under their thumb to > maintain control. The thumb lets us know when we've done a good job, > calls out baseball players, gives an artist perspective, counts money > and can pacify a crying baby. The thumb also has a sinister side. > We can thumb our nose at people, card cheats use the thumb to deal > from the bottom of the deck or mark cards with a thumbnail, and the > dishonest butcher has been known to place his heavy thumb on the > scale. > > For as much as the thumb has done to enhance our lives it seems that > the index finger has been getting a lot of exercise recently. The > index finger is very good at pointing however a pointing finger has > not really accomplished as many positive things as the thumb has. > Sure the index finger may dial a telephone, but without the thumb the > telephone would never have been built. Pointing fingers send people > away, poke-out eyes and blame others for our condition. In every > aspect of our lives we see people pointing the finger of blame rather > than accepting responsibility. A kid fails in school not because the > teacher taught the lesson poorly, but because he failed to study. A > lady scalds herself with hot coffee not because the restaurant did > not label the cup--she was scalded because she put hot coffee in her > lap. People find it easier to point a finger instead of planting > their thumb in their chest and saying "I am the one who will make a > difference." If you ever feel the need to point a finger remember > the thumb and all that is possible because of it. Let's > metaphorically use our opposable thumbs to grip the rope and pull in > the same direction. > > > > > > Shake Up Your Hamfest. > By Bob Bastone, WC3O radiofreebob at att.net > > Have you ever been to a hamfest? I am sure that many of you have and > you know what to expect. A general rule for veteran 'festers is to > get there early to look over the stuff and keep an eye under the > table for those goodies that others miss. Attendees at a hamfest are > an eclectic bunch. There are the newly licensed operators, the soon > to be licensed and the old-timers. Whether it's new gear or back > breaking antiques, a.k.a boat anchors, there is something for > everyone. You could even buy a raffle ticket and hope for the best. > > Not much is different with hamfests all over the country but it > doesn't have to be that way. A hamfests is a perfect opportunity to > try something new. Ideas don't have to break the budget but they can > be something that offers the crowd something just for making the trip > to the show. > > Here are a few suggestions that we have used at the Skyview Radio > Society's < http://www.skyviewradio.net/ > events. Feel free to use > them at your club's next event. > > Car Show > > Our club has been doing this for a few years now. Some have classic > cars, hot rods, bikes or whatever. Leave some preferred parking for > them as incentive to bring their fancy car to your fest. Folks really > enjoy looking over these between looking at that old GE receiver card > and that old, busted, early Palm Pilot with no docking station for > $10.00. Depending on your hamfest situation it doesn't cost you > anything extra to do and people really enjoy it! > > Jam Session > > Many hams are also pretty good musicians. Why not advertise on your > hamfest fliers for folks to bring their instruments. This has been > great fun every year at our hamfest some time now. Wait until later > in your fest to get started. Promote it on your PA system. Try it, > you'll like it. > > Culinary Delights > > Do you do your own cooking for your hamfest? Try something different. > Come up with a signature dish and give it a cute hammy name. At our > fest we have the Skyview Burger and the Skyview Dipole Hotdog. Both > are spicy and sloppy. Most folks will break a sweat so much that > when you're done eating them you normally need a shower. Folk love > them! Here is a tip: Don't buy low quality generic food. Get the good > stuff and charge for it. People don't mind paying extra if they feel > they are getting something special for their money. Taste is a very > strong sense and emotion. They will be back to your fest next year, > with friends. > > Paparazzi > > Take lots of pictures of your event especially pictures of people > having fun. Crop out unnecessary background images and post the > pictures on your club web site soon after the event. It's not as good > as getting you face on the cover of QST but it's nice to see your > smiling mug on a web site. > > The hamfest season is just about over here in the northeast so this > is a good time to plan for next year. I hope some of these > suggestions might help your club with its next hamfest. They have > worked well for us. Use your imagination. You know what you have to > work with. The idea is to shake it up. Let's get some young folks > interested and make your fest much more memorable for everybody. Good > luck and I hope that old rusty D-104 you got from that box on the > ground works out for you. I think you got a good deal on it. > > > > > > Milestones September 2009 > > 10 Years September > > *W2 > NNJ Hudson Amateur Radio Council > > *W8 > WV West Virginia State Amateur Radio Club W8WVA > > *W0 > MN Courage Handi-Ham System Amateur Radio Club W0EQO > > > 50 Years September > > *W2 > WNY Orleans County Amateur Radio Club WA2DQL > > *W3 > WPA Somerset County Amateur Radio Club K3SMT > > *W6 > SDG San Diego DX Club W6PT > > *W0 > ND Souris Valley Amateur Radio Club K0AJW > > > 75 Years September > > *W4 > WCF St Petersburg Amateur Radio Club W4GAC > > ====================================================================== > The ARRL CLUB NEWS is published on the first Wednesday of each month by > the American Radio Relay League--The National Association For Amateur > Radio--225 Main St, Newington, CT 06111; tel 860-594-0200; fax > 860-594-0259; www.arrl.org. 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URL: From kb9wsl at hotmail.com Fri Oct 2 20:38:25 2009 From: kb9wsl at hotmail.com (Tom Murray) Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 20:38:25 -0400 Subject: [Ccarc] Another ham that is sick and would like qsl cards In-Reply-To: <345544.47802.qm@web45105.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> References: <345544.47802.qm@web45105.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: > Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 09:38:26 -0700 > From: kc9isj at yahoo.com > To: InHam at mailman.qth.net > Subject: [InHam] Another ham that is sick and would like qsl cards > > Folks: > Levi Mayes WB9CAO, has been a active member of the Starke County Amatuer Radio Club for a few years and now is off the air due to health issues,and I thought it would be nice if the amateur community could do a little something to let Levi know we are thinking of him. > > If you could send a QSL card to Levi in care of: Starke County Amateur Radio Club, 615 Cherry Street, North Judson, IN 46366-1108; I will gather them and get them to him. I feel that by gathering the cards and bringing them in bunches to him, it will be better than one or two showing up at his callbook address. Just put a word or two of encouragement on the back and I'm sure we will bring a smile to the face of a good ham. > > I would also like to thank the Muncie Radio club for this idea especialy Jim McDonald, KB9LEI for the idea > > > Randy Stafford KC9ISJ > S.C.A.R.C. > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > InHam mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/inham > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:InHam at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141665/direct/01/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From k9dvl at comcast.net Sun Oct 4 10:14:08 2009 From: k9dvl at comcast.net (Dave Rothermel) Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 10:14:08 -0400 Subject: [Ccarc] Gone Message-ID: <4AC8ADB0.5070108@comcast.net> We will be leaving Monday Oct. 5 for Hawaii to see the Grandkids. Will be back Wend. Oct. 14. Hold all e-mails till then. Will have cellphone. Remember, it's 6 hours earlier there. Dave & Rita From kb9wsl at hotmail.com Tue Oct 6 21:23:06 2009 From: kb9wsl at hotmail.com (Tom Murray) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 21:23:06 -0400 Subject: [Ccarc] Lake County Hamfest, Crown Point, IN, Saturday, 10/10 In-Reply-To: <224906.86713.qm@web112209.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <224906.86713.qm@web112209.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: > Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 11:27:50 -0700 > From: wb9qzb_groups at yahoo.com > To: IndyHamRadio at yahoogroups.com; inham at mailman.qth.net > CC: chicagoamateurradio at yahoogroups.com > Subject: [InHam] Lake County Hamfest, Crown Point, IN, Saturday, 10/10 > > www.lakenetnwi.net/member/lcarc/html/hamfest.html > > > Lake County ARC Hamfest > Oct. 10, 2009(SATURDAY) > Lake County Fairgrounds > 889 South Court Street > Crown Point, IN > * Commercial Vendors > * Indoor Flea Market > * Refreshments > * Walk-In VE Testing > * Totally Indoors > * Tickets still only $5.00 - Tables FREE while they last or bring your own! > > Talk in on > 147.00 + PL 131.8 > 146.52 Simplex Doors open at 8:00 a.m. > (6:00 a.m. for Vendors) > > For more information contact our Hamfest chairman: > Rich Gilles > 156 S Ridge Street > Crown Point, IN 46307-4179 > e-mail HAMFEST CHAIRMAN paris156 at yahoo.com > > DIRECTIONS TO THE HAMFEST > * U.S. 231 to Main Street > * Left on Main Street to South Street (first Stop Sign) > * Right on South Street to Court Street (one block) > * South on Court Street to the Lake County Fairgrounds > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > InHam mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/inham > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:InHam at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft?s powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141664/direct/01/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kb9wsl at hotmail.com Wed Oct 7 06:45:32 2009 From: kb9wsl at hotmail.com (Tom Murray) Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 06:45:32 -0400 Subject: [Ccarc] Fall 70cm Sprint, Wednesday, 10/7 @ 7 - 11 pm Local Time In-Reply-To: <363447.22700.qm@web112211.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <363447.22700.qm@web112211.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: > Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 23:12:43 -0700 > > The 432 MHz Sprint will be from 7 PM to 11 PM local time on Wednesday October 7, 2009.LOG is due by November 7, 2009. > > http://www.svhfs.org/fall_sprint_rules_2009.pdf > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > InHam mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/inham > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:InHam at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html _________________________________________________________________ Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. 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URL: From kb9wsl at hotmail.com Wed Oct 7 21:13:22 2009 From: kb9wsl at hotmail.com (Tom Murray) Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 21:13:22 -0400 Subject: [Ccarc] FW: ARLB031 Senate Introduces Companion Bill to HR 2160 In-Reply-To: <20091007195457.ABC00B35C79@bmailer.arrl.org> References: <20091007195457.ABC00B35C79@bmailer.arrl.org> Message-ID: > Subject: ARLB031 Senate Introduces Companion Bill to HR 2160 > Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 15:39:25 -0400 >> > SB QST @ ARL $ARLB031 > ARLB031 Senate Introduces Companion Bill to HR 2160 > > ZCZC AG31 > QST de W1AW > ARRL Bulletin 31 ARLB031 > From ARRL Headquarters > Newington CT October 7, 2009 > To all radio amateurs > > SB QST ARL ARLB031 > ARLB031 Senate Introduces Companion Bill to HR 2160 > > October 6, Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT), along with Senator Susan > Collins (R-ME), introduced Senate Bill 1755, The Amateur Radio > Emergency Communications Enhancement Act of 2009. Similar to HR 2160 > -- also called The Amateur Radio Emergency Communications > Enhancement Act of 2009 -- that was introduced this past April by > Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX-18), the bill, if passed, > would direct the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to undertake > a study on emergency communications. S 1755 points out that "There > is a strong Federal interest in the effective performance of Amateur > Radio Service stations, and that performance must be given -- (A) > support at all levels of government; and (B) protection against > unreasonable regulation and impediments to the provision of the > valuable communications provided by such stations." > > "We are delighted to have the sponsorship of both the Chairman and > the Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs > Committee, and especially to have the support of Senator Lieberman > from the ARRL's home state," said ARRL Chief Executive Officer David > Sumner, K1ZZ. "The bill could not have a better pedigree." Lieberman > is the Chairman of the committee, while Collins is the Ranking > Member. > > Like HR 2160, S 1755 calls on DHS to undertake a study on the uses > and capabilities of Amateur Radio Service communications in > emergencies and disaster relief and then to submit a report to > Congress no more than 180 days after the bill becomes law. The study > shall: > > Include a review of the importance of Amateur Radio emergency > communications in furtherance of homeland security missions relating > to disasters, severe weather and other threats to lives and property > in the United States, as well as recommendations for enhancements in > the voluntary deployment of Amateur Radio licensees in disaster and > emergency communications and disaster relief efforts and improved > integration of Amateur Radio operators in planning and furtherance > of the Department of Homeland Security initiatives. Identify > impediments to enhanced Amateur Radio Service communications, such > as the effects of unreasonable or unnecessary private land use > regulations on residential antenna installations; and make > recommendations regarding such impediments for consideration by > other federal departments, agencies and Congress. > > In conducting the study, S 1755 directs the Secretary of Homeland > Security to "utilize the expertise of stakeholder entities and > organizations, including the Amateur Radio, emergency response and > disaster communications communities." > > S 1755 makes note of the fact that Section 1 of the Joint Resolution > entitled Joint Resolution to Recognize the Achievements of Radio > Amateurs, and To Establish Support for Such Amateurs as National > Policy -- approved October 22, 1994 (Public Law 103-408) -- included > a finding that stated: "Reasonable accommodation should be made for > the effective operation of Amateur Radio from residences, private > vehicles and public areas, and the regulation at all levels of > government should facilitate and encourage amateur radio operations > as a public benefit." The bill also pointed out that Section 1805(c) > of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 757(c)) directs the > Regional Emergency Communications Coordinating Working Group of the > Department of Homeland Security to coordinate their activities with > ham and Amateur Radio operators among the 11 other emergency > organizations, such as ambulance services, law enforcement and > others. > > ARRL New England Division Director Tom Frenaye, K1KI said that > Amateur Radio operators in the State of Maine have "an outstanding > relationship" with their Congressional representatives -- plus > Governor John Baldacci is KB1NXP!" Both Connecticut and Maine are > part of the League's New England Division > > Frenaye said that Maine Section Manager Bill Woodhead, N1KAT, > dropped off a letter at Senator Collins' office in Lewiston two > weeks ago, asking for her support. "After that, we had amateurs in > Maine write the Senator," he said; more than 40 Maine hams wrote > Senator Collins. > > The Senate bill points out many positive things that Amateur Radio > operators do, including "provid[ing] on a volunteer basis, a > valuable public sector service to their communities, their States, > and to the Nation, especially in the area of national and > international disaster communications." > > It mentions that amateurs provided emergency and disaster relief > communications services during both natural and manmade disasters. > "The Amateur Radio Service has formal agreements for the provision > of volunteer emergency communications activities with the Department > of Homeland Security, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the > National Weather Service, the National Communications System, and > the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials, as well > as with disaster relief agencies, including the American National > Red Cross and the Salvation Army," the bill reads. > > Right now, S 1755 has been read twice in the Senate chamber and > referred to that body's Committee on Homeland Security and > Governmental Affairs. HR 2160 -- now with 27 sponsors -- is in the > House Committee on Energy and Commerce. > NNNN > /EX > > _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft?s powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141664/direct/01/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From k9dvl at comcast.net Fri Oct 9 14:52:46 2009 From: k9dvl at comcast.net (k9dvl at comcast.net) Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 18:52:46 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Ccarc] Hawaii In-Reply-To: <890854393.2233471255114309743.JavaMail.root@sz0090a.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net> Message-ID: <402572597.2233951255114366708.JavaMail.root@sz0090a.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net> Here we are in Hawaii seeing the grandkids. It is hard to e-mail addresses off the comcastcast website. Hope this works. I am ready to get home! ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 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Name: latest D & R in Hawaii 032.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 808464 bytes Desc: not available URL: From kb9wsl at hotmail.com Mon Oct 12 21:46:35 2009 From: kb9wsl at hotmail.com (Tom Murray) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:46:35 -0400 Subject: [Ccarc] FW: [InHam] IN-ARRL BULLETIN 04-2009 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: > IN-ARRL BULLETIN 04-2009 > Oct 12, 2009 9:20PM EDT > > Iowa QSO Party > Saturday October 17, 2009 > Sponsored By The Ottumwa, IA ARC > > By entering the Iowa QSO Party, the entrant accepts the judgments > and decrees of the Iowa QSO Party committee as final. > > QSO Party Period > 1400z(9AM CDT) to 2300Z(6PM CDT) > > Purpose > Iowa Stations: Contact as many stations as possible. > All Other Stations: Contact as many Iowa stations as possible > > Exchange > Iowa Stations: RST & County > All Other Stations: RST & State, Province, or DX Country (SPC) > > Modes > Phone All phone modes including Digital Phone. > CW/Digital modes Excludes Digital Phone but includes other digital modes. > No repeater or network qsos > > Bands > Contacts may be made on any amateur band except 60M and the WARC bands. > Suggested frequencies: (Plus or Minus) > CW 1810, 3555, 7045, 14040, 21040, 28040, 50.140, 144.190, 432.105 and up > SSB 1855, 3840, 7210, 14 285, 21330, 28415, 50.135, 144.215, 432.115 and up > FM 144.58 > > Categories > Iowa Single Op Fixed > Out of State Single Op Fixed > Iowa Single Op Mobile > Iowa multi-op Fixed > Out of state multi-op Fixed > Iowa multi-op Mobile > Out of state multi-op Mobile > Top number of counties worked > Club High Score > > Scoring > QSO Points: Each complete, non-duplicate phone is worth one point. Each > complete, non-duplicate CW or Digital contact is worth two points. > Duplicate contacts are worth zero points. A station may be worked ONCE > per MODE (1 cw or digital and 1 phone). Mobiles may be worked once per > mode per county. Note: Working the same station on the same mode on a > different band is a duplicate contact....just one contact per mode per > county with any given station. > > Multipliers > Iowa Stations: One multiplier for each Iowa county worked, one > multiplier for each state (including Iowa) or Canadian province > worked(NF, LB, NB, NS, PEI, QC, ON, MB, SK, AB, BC, NWT, YT, NU), and > one multiplier for each of the current or past Iowa *Section Managers > (SM1, SM2, or SM3). > Stations outside Iowa: One multiplier for each Iowa county worked and > one multiplier for each of the current or past Iowa *Section Managers > (SM1 and SM2) worked. (*-ones living in Iowa) Bonus Points: 100 bonus > points will be awarded for stations working the sponsoring club's > station - WA?DX > > DX stations do not have any multiplier credit, but may be worked for QSO > points > > Final Score > Non-mobile stations: Multiply total QSO points by the total number of > multipliers plus bonus points earned. > Mobile stations: Multiply the total QSO points from all counties > activated by the total number of unique multipliers worked from all > counties activated plus bonus points earned. > Club Competition: Scores attributed to any amateur radio club will be > credited towards that club. All clubs with at three or more credited > scores will be included in an overall ranking of those scores with a > certificate awarded to the club with the highest score. > > Miscellaneous > 1. All stations are limited to no more than 125 watts. > 2. Mobile Iowa stations who change counties are considered to be a new > station in each new county. > 3. Mobile stations should identify either /county abbreviation or /M > 4. Mobile stations may park on a county line but each county must be > worked in a separate contact. > 5. Mobile stations must be in a vehicle capable of being in motion. > 6. Spotting on the packet clusters or via internet is permissible, > including self-spotting. > 7. List of Iowa Counties and 3 letter abbreviations. All ops are urged > to use these abbreviations in the exchange. > 8. State and Province Checklist > 9. There are no multi-op categories this year, mobile operators are > encouraged to drive with a friend for safety (and better scores)! > > Submission of Logs > All stations must submit a log and summary form this one by email or > this one by USPS. > > Logs must be submitted by November 17, 2009. Electronic logs and summary > sheets should be sent to IAQSO at YAHOO.COM Other files sent which are > readable with a text editor are accepted. .BIN files should not be > submitted. > > Logs submitted via email must contain the call alone in the subject line > (call must be that used in the log). > > Note: Since this is our first go at sponsoring a qso party, it may > become necessary to modify or clarify the rules. Please check back from > time to time. > > Send paper logs and summary forms to: > Dale Stoy NS?D > 1335 N Van Buren > Ottumwa, IA 52501 > > Verification of receipt of the log will be made on the Iowa QSO Party > website. > > Comments or Questions? http://www.wa0dx.org/iaqsoparty.html > > Talk to you then! > > -- > > 73, > > Tom Brehmer, N0LOH > Iowa Section Manager > > ARRL, the national association for Amateur RadioT > 563-263-3097 > n0loh at arrl.org > > =-=-=-=-=-=- > VIA KB9BVN > > Brian Murrey - KB9BVN > IN-ARRL Bulletin Manager > 317-535-9887 > > ______________________________________________________________ > InHam mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/inham > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:InHam at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222986/direct/01/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kb9wsl at hotmail.com Tue Oct 13 13:11:17 2009 From: kb9wsl at hotmail.com (Tom Murray) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:11:17 -0400 Subject: [Ccarc] October, 2009 Newsletter In-Reply-To: <20091013130827.3ACF4AC5643@bmailer.arrl.org> References: <20091013130827.3ACF4AC5643@bmailer.arrl.org> Message-ID: > Subject: October, 2009 Newsletter > Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:08:27 -0500 > > Hello, > > The following Amateur Radio Operators became a Silent Key: Robert M. > Graham, W9CNE; Bill Meints, N9NAI. Our condolences go out to the > family. They will be missed by all. > > Please send me all reports of an amateur becoming a Silent Key so they > can be honored here and in QST. E-mail me at w3ml at arrl.org > > Foxhunting - state-wide? > > This topic was asked in an email recently. Just think what it would be > like to do a state-wide fox hunt. Are there any takers to organize such > a hunt? If so, just email me at w3ml at arrl.org and we will try to get > all of those interested together to decide how they will pull this > off. > > Indiana Radio Club Council > > The IRCC met on October 10, in Knox, IN. The fall meeting is where the > Amateur of the Year Award is voted on. The IRCC also sponsors the > Technical Excellence Award and the Bison Stampede Award. This Council > is for all clubs in Indiana and dues are only $10.00 a year. If you are > or were a member, then your dues are due for the next year. If you are > not, then consider joining the Council and supporting the fine Awards > that are presented each year at the Indianapolis Hamfest and the Fort > Wayne Hamfest. The next presentation will be at Fort Wayne on November > 14th. The next meeting is April 10th in Shelby County. Contact Jack > Parker, W8ISH at jparker at iquest.net for more information. > > ARES MEMBERS > > Amateur radio played a large role at a Disaster Preparedness Expo this > afternoon. The semi-annual event was held at the Elkhart County Chapter > of American Red Cross, located in Elkhart, Indiana. Elkhart County > ARES/RACES and SKYWARN were all represented with information and > equipment on display. In addition to emergency services that are > directly related to amateur radio, such as ARES/RACES and SKYWARN, hams > were spotted staffing the stations for several organizations from > volunteer fire departments, to an animal rescue organization, to > "Project Lifesaver". This was reported on the web page of Dave > Zollinger, W9DAZ. > > Packet is making a come back. > > We have established 145.610 as the ARES packet frequency. This way we > will be in-line with the states around us that are going to that > frequency. This frequency will be used strictly for emergency > communications. The frequency of 144.930 will be used for RACES and > also as a back-up for ARES emergency communications. > > October's SET for 2009 > > Tony reports that, "We had 39 different counties participating and > check-ins from 4 other States." > > INDIANA SET 2009 > > NETS PASS -PHASES > > ARES 30 EMA -BACKUP POWER 20 > > IDHS 28 ITN -NO POWER 15 > > QIN 6 EC -GENERATORS 14 > > ARES Digital 16 DEC - SOLAR POWER 10 > > QIN -BATTERIES 8 > > TOTAL 80 ARES DIGITAL NET > FULLY OPERATIONAL 3 > > Total 70 > > > NATIONAL TRAFFIC SYSTEM > > The Indiana Traffic Net needs a new Flower Fund Coordinator > > John Wallace, AB9AA has asked that someone step up and take over the > control of the Indiana Traffic Net flower fund. If you are a member of > the fund, then when you pass on the ITN will send flowers to the > funeral. If you are interested, you must be a member of the ITN and > check in regular to be able to receive the notices of a new SK. All you > need to do is check into the net and ask John about the position; he > will be glad to tell you what needs to be done. > > This flower fund started in 1949 and has been handled by only two hams > all this time. John will soon be 87 and as he has told me, "After 33 > years, I need to go out to pasture". We need someone younger to step up > and take over for John and keep this flower fund going to honor all > those hams that have passed on and have been members of the ITN. > > Region 9 Cycle 2 net report for September > > QNS 13 Net Sessions > > QNI 75 Total number of stations checked in > > QTC 59 Traffic Handled > > QTR 260 Total Time in Session (min.) > > Monday WB9YBI -- Wednesday WB9FHP -- Friday NA9L > > As you can see there are only 3 net controls, if you would like to pick > up the days that are not covered, please email NA9L, Vernon at > na9l at att.net . They could use some for the days that are free. > > August Public Service Honor Roll Report > > PSHR > > K9EOH 102 > > WB9FHP 175 > > W9ILF 104 > > W9AL 170 > > W9WXN 118 > > NA9L 175 > > > Totals 774 > > For an explanation of what this Public Honor Roll is all about go to > this website: > > http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/pshr/ > > September 2009 Net Report Totals > > Sessions = 136 > > QNI = 3677 > > QTC = 192 > > QTR = 5688 > > Nets Reporting = 14 - Be sure to email your nets reports to Brian at > w9bgj at verizon.net > > Hamfest for October and November > > 25 October 2009 Ripley County Repeater Association Hamfest > Napolean Community Town Building - Versailles Street and Main Street > Napoleon, IN > > > 14-15 Nov 2009 Indiana State Convention (Fort Wayne Hamfest & Computer > Expo) > Allen County Amateur Radio Technical Society > http://www.fortwaynehamfest.com > Fort Wayne, IN > Allen County War Memorial Coliseum 4000 Parnell Avenue > > > 28 November 2009 Evansville Hamfest > Ears and the Ham Station > Vanderburgh County 4H Center Auditorium > 201 East Boonville - New Harmony Road > Evansville, IN > > > The Section website is located at http://inarrl.org > > Until next month 73, > > John, W3ML > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > ARRL Indiana Section > Section Manager: John M. 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URL: From kb9wsl at hotmail.com Wed Oct 14 21:19:10 2009 From: kb9wsl at hotmail.com (Tom Murray) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:19:10 -0400 Subject: [Ccarc] Countdown to 2009 ARRL On-Line Auction In-Reply-To: <20091014201927.26CD9B353CC@bmailer.arrl.org> References: <20091014201927.26CD9B353CC@bmailer.arrl.org> Message-ID: Subject: Countdown to 2009 ARRL On-Line Auction Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:02:51 -0400 The 2009 ARRL On-Line Auction will open for bidding on October 22nd at 10AM ET. Bidders will be treated to over 175 items to browse through and bid on, including a vast array of QST Product Review items, new and pre-owned equipment and other goods and services. Proceeds from our yearly On-Line Auction benefit ARRL education programs including activities to license new hams, strengthen Amateur Radio's emergency service training, offer continuing technical and operating education, as well as creating instructional materials. This event would not be possible without the generosity of our donors. Our sincere thanks to all who donated items for this year's auction and a special mention to organization below who has chosen the highest level of participation as the 2009 ARRL On-Line Auction Golden Gavel Sponsor. Golden Gavel Sponsor - Icom America, Inc. donates the IC-7000 The ICOM IC-7000 represents the next generation in all-mode HF/VHF/UHF mobile transceivers. DSP at the IF level is the cornerstone of this impressive new multi-bander. In fact, the 7000 employs two DSP chips to work its magic. Imagine having 41 bandwidths available - standard! You can even select sharp or soft filter shape. And variable twin PBT allows you to either narrow the IF passband, or shift the entire passband to eliminate QRM. All the controls are intuitive to use. Eight of the most-used radio functions are controlled by dedicated function keys grouped around the display for easy visibility. One quick touch turns the function on and off. A longer touch activates adjustment of the function's setting. An internal memory keyer provides four memories for station information or contest exchanges. The keyer also performs automatic repeat, automatic contest serial numbers and cut-numbers. The Digital Voice Recorder (DVR) function has a front panel REC control that allows you to record incoming signals for up to 25 minutes. Other features include: a detachable control head (requires optional separation cable), 503 memories, S/PWR/SWR meter, RIT, Preamp, RTTY Demodulator, Attenuator, adjustable SSB bandwidth, NTSC video output, DTMF memory, VOX, full break-in and adjustable CW pitch. The IC-7000 comes with the HM-151 backlit remote mic, spare fuses, key plug and DC power cable. Please click the ICOM? link HERE for more information. We would also like to extend our sincere thanks to the following ARRL Business Partners for making donations to the 2009 ARRL On-Line Auction. Please visit their links to view the great assortment of products they offer. A & A Engineering www.a-aengineering.com bhi Ltd. www.bhi-ltd.com HOTPRESS T-Shirts www.hotpresstshirts.com Jetstream www.jetstream-usa.com So please join the fun on October 22. To ensure that you have adequate time to register, browse and bid, the auction site will be opened for preview and registration beginning October 15, 2009 at 10 AM ET at: www.arrl.org/auction Until that time, we will continue to work on the site, adding auction items every day. If you have any questions, please don?t hesitate to contact.... ARRL On-Line Auction Coordinator, Deb Jahnke, K1DAJ email: djahnke at arrl.org See you at the Auction! ABOUT THIS E-MAIL Participation in ARRL Product Announcements and Special Offers is voluntary. During the registration to access ARRL's Members Only Web Site features, you indicated a preference to receive these emails. To unsubscribe from future announcements, visit the ARRLWeb site and click the "Modify membership data" link. ARRL, the national association for Amateur Radio? 225 Main Street, Newington, CT 06111-1494 USA _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141665/direct/01/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kb9wsl at hotmail.com Thu Oct 15 07:52:50 2009 From: kb9wsl at hotmail.com (Tom Murray) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:52:50 -0400 Subject: [Ccarc] ARISS JOTA Contact In-Reply-To: <20091014.161202.13211.1@webmail02.vgs.untd.com> References: <20091014.161202.13211.1@webmail02.vgs.untd.com> Message-ID: > Subject: [InHam] ARISS JOTA Contact > > An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at JOTA, Boy Scouts of America HQ, Irving, Texas on 17 Oct. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 21:56 UTC. > > The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be a telebridge between NA1SS and WH6PN. The contact should be audible over Hawaii. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English. > > Contact should be on Echolink AMSAT Conference > > > The JOTA (Jamboree On The Air) is an annual event during which Scouts throughout the world meet each other through amateur radio contacts. JOTI (Jamboree On The Internet) is another event where Scouts make contacts using the Computers and Internet. JOTA/JOTI contributes to better understanding and mutual respect between youngsters in different countries. This annual event is sponsored by the World Scout Bureau. Thousands of amateur radio stations around the world participate. > > This event is sponsored by the Boy Scouts of America and the National Scouting Museum. For almost 100 years, Scouting programs have instilled in youth the values found in the Scout Oath and Scout Law. The Boy Scouts of America helps the youth develop academic skills, self-confidence, ethics, leadership skills, and citizenship skills that influence their adult lives. > The National Scouting Museum preserves, collects, organizes, and displays Scouting's treasures?documenting the movement's unique influence on American culture and the lives of more than 110 million people. > > 73, > John - AG9D > ARISS Operations Team > > > ____________________________________________________________ > Best Weight Loss Program - Click Here! > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2131/fc/BLSrjnsEGrF6pGEak1bIEq5ACqPPgWUP2IJGU7uGyW2Jstxlu3PyJFp2ilC/ > ______________________________________________________________ > InHam mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/inham > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:InHam at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222986/direct/01/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kb9wsl at hotmail.com Fri Oct 16 09:07:29 2009 From: kb9wsl at hotmail.com (Tom Murray) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:07:29 -0400 Subject: [Ccarc] FW: The ARRL Letter for October 15, 2009 In-Reply-To: <20091015190826.A0355B358C6@bmailer.arrl.org> References: <20091015190826.A0355B358C6@bmailer.arrl.org> Message-ID: Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:08:26 -0500 PreviewIf you are having trouble reading this message, you can see the original at: http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter/?issue=2009-10-15 October 15, 2009Editor: S. Khrystyne Keane, K1SFAARRL Home Page ARRL Letter Archive Audio News + Three Killed While Erecting Antenna + Public Service : Ham Provides Rescue Support at Utah Marathon + Operating : Team Leaders Selected for WRTC 2010 Operating : Get Ready for JOTA This Weekend! + Operating : After False Starts, Midway Island DXpedition off to Good Beginning Hints & Kinks : Altoids Times Two + Did You Know? The Wouff Hong + Events : Dayton Hamvention Crew Readies for 2010 Show This Week on the Radio: The ARRL Letter : HTML vs Plain Text Organizational : ARRL Membership Newsletters, Bulletins and Notifications + Available on ARRL Audio News + Three Killed While Erecting AntennaAt approximately 8:40 PM on October 12, a man, woman and their 15 year old son were killed while trying to erect a 50 foot vertical antenna at the home of the man's mother, Barbara Tenn, KJ4KFF, in Palm Bay, Florida. The deceased were not licensed amateurs. According to police reports, Melville Braham, 55, Anna Braham, 49, and their 15 year old son Anthony were putting up an antenna -- Tenn's second -- at night when they lost control of the antenna and it crashed into nearby overhead power lines. The impact sent 13,000 volts of electricity through the pole that the three were holding. A family friend, a 17 year old boy, was on the roof at the time of the accident. He and the couple's daughter, who was in the house at the time, were not injured. Click here for more information. + Public Service: Ham Provides Rescue Support at Utah MarathonBrian Plumb, KE7HNW, was at the right place at the right time with the right equipment. While not as well known as the Boston and New York City Marathons, Utah's St George Marathon draws more than 7000 runners to the town of St George -- located 300 miles south of Salt Lake City, near the Utah-Arizona-Nevada border -- each year. The race, now in its 33rd year, uses shuttle vans equipped with Amateur Radio operators and medical personnel to provide any help and support needed along its course. On October 3 -- race day -- Brian Plumb, KE7HNW, was driving Shuttle #3, with Kathy Hutchinson, a nurse at a local hospital, by his side. Click here for more information. + Operating: Team Leaders Selected for WRTC 2010After a grueling selection process, the organizers of the 2010 World Radiosport Team Championships (WRTC) have selected team leaders representing all six continents. Of the 76 applications submitted, 44 were selected as Team Leaders; these Team Leaders will now choose a partner. WRTC, held every few years, takes place during the IARU HF World Championships, July 10-11. In 2010, WRTC will be held just outside Moscow. Click here for more information. Operating: Get Ready for JOTA This Weekend!For more information on JOTA, check out this video featuring QEX Editor and Staff Liaison to the ARRL's ad hoc Scouting Committee Larry Wolfgang, WR1B. When Scouts want to meet young people from another country, they usually think of attending a quadrennial World Jamboree. But each year, more than 400,000 Scouts and Guides "get together" over the airwaves for the annual Jamboree-on-the-Air (JOTA). This year, JOTA celebrates its 52nd anniversary. JOTA follows a 48 hour schedule beginning at 0000 local time on Saturday, October 17, continuing through 2400 local time on Sunday, October 18. Click here for more information, including suggested frequencies, satellite operations, available resources and more. + Operating: After False Starts, Midway Island DXpedition off to Good BeginningAfter the airplane scheduled to take the K4M DXpedition team from Honolulu to Midway Island developed engine trouble, there was doubt as to if the team would even make it to the island. But Murphy didn't get in the way -- mechanics found the necessary parts to get the plane in the air safely. After a four hour flight, the team arrived on Midway at 0700 UTC on Monday, October 12 to start operations. Originally scheduled to be on-the-air for 10 days (beginning October 9), the team might not be able to extend their time on the island, due to US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) regulations. Click here for more information. + Operating: Hams On-the-Air to Support National Wildlife Refuge WeekThe KP1-5 Project -- organizers of the 2009 Desecheo Island DXpedition -- is pleased to announce that Amateur Radio operators will be operating in observance of the 2009 National Wildlife Refuge Week, on the air October 10-18. This event features scores of festivals and special events that help connect people with nature at the country's 547 National Wildlife Refuges. Click here for more information. + Operating: ARRL DXCC Desk Approves FT5GA OperationARRL DXCC Manager Bill Moore, NC1L, reports that the FT5GA operation on Glorioso Island -- September 14-October 8, 2009 -- has been approved for DXCC credit. Until this operation, Glorioso sat at number 4 on DX Magazine's Most Wanted list; five operators operating for 23 days made more than 50,000 QSOs to make this rare one available. Hints & Kinks : Altoids Times TwoSam Green, W0PCE, of St Louis, Missouri, has a different take on those ubiquitous Altoids tins:The finished device, all closed up and ready for travel. Many of us mount compact circuits in cases that previously contained mint candies. My friend Matt, W0XEU, suggested packaging more complex circuits in multiple Altoids tins by mounting them back to back, a simple yet elegant idea. I built this circuit in a "double-wide" arrangement because I needed somewhere to put theA view of both tins open. Notice the copper tape shielding on the right-hand tin. batteries. This offered the added advantage of providing a means to filter bench power during development and testing so I wouldn't leak ambient RF signals into the main compartment with its very sensitive circuitry. I simply drill a hole near each corner to screw the boxes together. If you are careful with the placement of the holes you can even turn the arrangement around later to reverse the way the covers open. Otherwise, plan ahead. I feed power between compartments via a threaded coaxial feed-through EMI (electromagnetic interference) filter, with additional bypass capacitors for this very sensitive application. The threaded filterA look at the interior of the shielded side with the copper tape along the edge and inside to eliminate RF interference. All photos by Sam Green, W0PCE. serves in place of one of the screws that hold the cases together. I use conductive adhesive-backed copper tape as a gasket to minimize leakage into the shielded compartment that contains the sensitive circuitry. You can extend this method to additional compartments where you might want many stages of gain and you need to isolate and control the coupling between them. This is a very simple and effective way to prototype more complex circuits before you have to worry about customizing the packaging. Matt and I hope you will find this method useful. -- 73, Sam Green, W0PCE, 10951 Pem Road, St Louis, MO 63146, w0pce at arrl.net + Did You Know? The Wouff HongThe Wouff Hong - a "fearsome instrument for the punishment of amateurs who cultivate bad operating habits." Every amateur should know and tremble at the history and origins of this fearsome instrument for the punishment of amateurs who cultivate bad operating habits and who nourish and culture their meaner instincts on the air. The Wouff Hong was invented -- or at any rate, discovered -- by "The Old Man" himself, just as amateurs were getting back on the air after World War I. The Old Man (who later turned out to be Hiram Percy Maxim, W1AW, co-founder and first President of ARRL) first heard the Wouff Hong described amid the howls and garble of interference as he tuned across a band filled with signals that exemplified all the rotten operating practices then available to amateurs (considering the state of the art as they knew it). As The Old Man heard it, the Wouff Hong was being used on some hapless offender so effectively that he investigated. After further effort, "T.O.M." was able to locate and identify a Wouff Hong. The Old Man never prescribed the exact manner in which the Wouff Hong was to be used, but amateurs need only a little imagination to surmise how painful punishments were inflicted on those who stoop to liddish behavior on the air. The Original Wouff Hong is on display at ARRL Headquarters. Find out more about this dreaded instrument of torture here. Amateur Radio in Space : Columbus Antennas to Take to the SkiesClick here to see video highlights of the AMSAT-NA Symposium, held October 9-11 at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel near the Baltimore-Washington International Airport. In February 2008, the new Columbus module -- built by the European Space Agency (ESA) -- was attached to the International Space Station (ISS). When ESA first announced its intentions for the module a number of years ago, the ARISS International team began planning how to get ham radio integrated. While ESA's blueprints were being drawn, hams made serious inquiries and gave presentations, eventually winning approval to have antenna feed-through connectors added to the module. ARRL ARISS Program Manager Rosalie White, K1STO, discusses the latest developments. + Events: Dayton Hamvention Crew Readies for 2010 ShowOrganizers of the 2010 Dayton Hamvention? -- May 14-16 -- are gearing up for one of the largest Amateur Radio gatherings in the world. According to Hamvention Assistant General Chair Michael Kalter, W8CI, a new online program for taking and tracking online orders has been implemented and all volunteer committee chairs and assistants are in place. Kalter said that the theme of the 2010 Hamvention is Amateur Radio Clubs Worldwide: The Lifeline. "We all recognize how much Amateur Radio clubs and organizations contribute to the service, Kalter said. "We all see this in how clubs pull together in disasters, Field Day, contests, working with youth, teaching classes and sponsoring hamfests; in parts of the world, the club truly is the communication link to the world." Kalter said that Hamvention organizers are asking hams to submit photos of your Amateur Radio club and the activities that the club participates in. "We would like to use some of these on the front and back cover of the Hamvention program for 2010," he said. "We are also looking for stories of interest from your club.". This Week on the Radio:William Fisher, WB2SIH, of Armonk, New York, makes a QSO via AO-51 from Lake George, New York (grid square FN33). This week, look for the School Club Roundup October 19-23. There's an NCCC Sprint October 16. The Iowa QSO Party, the Feld Hell Sprint and the Microwave Fall Sprint are October 17. On October 17-18, check out the New York QSO Party, JARTS WW RTTY Contest, the Stew Perry Topband Challenge, the Worked All Germany Contest and the W/VE Islands QSO Party. The Illinois QSO Party is October 18-19 and the Run for the Bacon QRP Contest is October 19. Next week, you'll find another NCCC Sprint on October 23. The CQ Worldwide DX Contest (SSB), the CW and Digital runnings of the10-10 International Fall Contest, and the 50 MHz Fall Sprint are October 24-25. The SKCC Sprint is October 28. All dates, unless otherwise stated, are UTC. See the ARRL Contest Branch page, the ARRL Contest Update and the WA7BNM Contest Calendar for more info. Looking for a Special Event station? Be sure to check out the ARRL Special Event Station Web page. ARRL Publications : Check Out the November/December Issue of QEXThe November/December issue of QEX is coming soon, and it is full of theoretical and practical technical articles that you don't want to miss. Click here to discover what's inside this upcoming issue. QEX is edited by Larry Wolfgang, WR1B, and is published bimonthly. The ARRL Letter : HTML vs Plain TextMany people have asked how they can continue to read The ARRL Letter in a plain text format. ARRL IT Department Manager Jon Bloom, KE3Z, has provided instructions to do just that. According to Bloom, most e-mail reading programs provide some means of accessing the plain-text version if you want it. Unfortunately, we are not able to send out plain text versions (like the ones prior to October 1) of The ARRL Letter. If you like the look of HTML (including pictures and videos), but do not want to receive the Letter in HTML format, you can access current and archived editions via the ARRL Web site. TAPR Elects New OfficersAt the recent ARRL and TAPR Digital Communications Conference (DCC) in Chicago, the TAPR Board of Directors of selected a new slate of officers and named Dr David Toth, VE3GYQ, President Emeritus of TAPR. Dr Toth served as TAPR President from 2005-2009 and as a member of the Board from 1987-1993 and 2004 to present. The new TAPR officers are: Steve Bible, N7HPR, President; Scott Cowling, WA2DFI, Vice President; Tom Holmes, N8ZM, Treasurer; and Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU, Secretary. TAPR recently elected three new members to their Board of Directors: Scott Cowling, WA2DFI; John Koster, W9DDD, and Mark Thompson, WB9QZB. -- Thanks to Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU, for the information Silent Key: Mathias Bjerrang, LA5NM/JW5NM (SK)Noted DXer Mathias Bjerrang, LA5NM/JW5NM, passed away October 11. He was 67. While in Svalbard, Norway, Bjerrang slipped and fell while walking, hitting his head and was later found Sunday morning, cold and unable to speak. He was brought inside where he later stopped breathing; he was unable to be resuscitated and died. A native of Norway, Bjerrang went on many cold weather DXpeditions, including the North and South Poles. Many times, he provided the sought-after double multiplier of Zone 40 and Svalbard in contests. Bjerrang earned WAS as JW5NM and DXCC as both JW5NM and LA5NM; he was previously on the DXCC Honor Roll as JW5NM. Thanks to The Daily DX for some information Organizational: ARRL Membership Newsletters, Bulletins and NotificationsDid you know the ARRL offers more newsletters than just The ARRL Letter? One of the many ARRL membership benefits includes other newsletters, such as the ARRL Contest Update (a bi-weekly contest newsletter), the ARES E-Letter (sent monthly, containing public service and emergency communications news), the ARRL Club News, the ARRL Instructor/Teacher E-Letter and the VE Newsletter, to name a few. You can also elect to receive news and information from your Division Director and Section Manager (keep in mind that not all Divisions/Sections send notices), as well as W1AW bulletins that relate to DX, propagation, satellites and Keplerian reports. The ARRL also offers a free notification service to members, letting them know when their membership and license are due to expire. Sign up for these newsletters, bulletins and notifications on the Member Data page of the ARRL Web site. ARRL Continuing Education Course RegistrationRegistration remains open through Sunday, October 25, 2009, for these online course sessions beginning on Friday, November 6, 2009: Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Level 1; Antenna Modeling; Radio Frequency Interference; Antenna Design and Construction; Ham Radio (Technician) License Course; Propagation; Analog Electronics, and Digital Electronics. To learn more, visit the CEP Course Listing page or contact the Continuing Education Program Coordinator. The ARRL Letter is published Thursdays, 50 times each year. ARRL members may subscribe at no cost or unsubscribe by editing their Member Data Page as described at http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter/. Copyright ? 2009 American Radio Relay League, Inc. 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We will have testing after the club meeting. > There will be discussion on changing the constitution. > > Phil Snider W9LVY > > Amateur radio for when all other communications fails > > > w9vmw.org club web page > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > ccarc mailing list > ccarc at culcom.net > http://ns1.culcom.net/mailman/listinfo/ccarc > -- Ed Norris e-norris at comcast.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From phil_snider at hotmail.com Fri Oct 16 15:54:01 2009 From: phil_snider at hotmail.com (Phil Snider) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:54:01 -0400 Subject: [Ccarc] CCARC club meeting this Saturday at 9 am In-Reply-To: <4AD8CB4D.6000004@comcast.net> References: Message-ID: sounds good. What would we have to do to modify the constitution to lower the quarum amount? Is it possible to just suspend the rules for one session if needed? thanks Phil Snider W9LVY EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD Join me Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:36:45 -0400 From: e-norris at comcast.net To: ccarc at culcom.net Subject: Re: [Ccarc] CCARC club meeting this Saturday at 9 am I will be there in spirit, but will need to miss this one. We'll be in Chesterton working as "officials" for the regional band contest. Ed On 10/16/2009 9:40 AM, Phil Snider wrote: Please attend the CCARC club meeting this Saturday, at 9 AM at Cass County EMA building on highway 17 North. We need more attendance so we can have a quarum. We will have testing after the club meeting. There will be discussion on changing the constitution. Phil Snider W9LVY Amateur radio for when all other communications fails w9vmw.org club web page _______________________________________________ ccarc mailing list ccarc at culcom.net http://ns1.culcom.net/mailman/listinfo/ccarc -- Ed Norris e-norris at comcast.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ccarcinc at culcom.net Fri Oct 16 15:20:49 2009 From: ccarcinc at culcom.net (ccarcinc at culcom.net) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:20:49 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Ccarc] [Fwd: Invitation to an Amateur Radio software webinar] Message-ID: <74ce94798f6a0bcff44f245f55b5dffc.squirrel@www.culcom.net> ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Invitation to an Amateur Radio software webinar From: "David Friedman, KE7GOY" Date: Thu, October 15, 2009 3:45 pm To: ccarcinc at culcom.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------- My name is David Friedman, KE7GOY, and I am an AEC with the Snohomish County, WA Chapter ARES. I am also with RACES, Skywarn, NOAA Weather Spotter, Government Liaison/ESF-6 American Red Cross and MuttShack Animal Rescue & Response Team. Though I have no economic interest in Depiction, Inc., I would like to invite you to a webinar I will be presenting about it and its many very valuable roles in Amateur Radio operations. Depiction mapping software includes tools for resource location, volunteer tracking, credentialing, scenario prediction, repeater location/coverage, NOAA weather, and APRS data integration. I have used it during hurricanes Gustav and Ike, California wildfires, Midwest floods and tornados, and in Washington state during several winter disasters. I have detailed some of those experiences in a review of the product that can be read in the November 2009 edition of QST Magazine. I will also be describing them in a webinar that I will be presenting along with Depiction, Inc.'s Kim Buike next week, to which you and your club members are invited. The webinar will be offered twice, on Wednesday, October 21 at 1 PM EDT/10 AM PDT , and then on Saturday, October 24, at 12:30 PM EDT/8:30 AM PDT . During each of these webinars, I will describe how to: Geo-locate all physical assets and volunteers in ???depictions??? to track deployment locations, Integrate maps, elevation plots, weather data, ???fly over??? imagery, situation reports and any critical proprietary data into a single depiction display, ???Depict??? antenna line-of-site footprints to help determine geographic frequency allocation, Use Depiction???s ???Live reports??? communication feature to enhance awareness of volunteer movements, resource status, damage assessments, etc. during a disaster, I hope you are able to attend one of these webinars, and that you pass this invitation on to any members of your club or on "Nets" that may be interested. Thanks for your time, David Friedman, KE7GOY Monroe, WA 360 794-3109 hm/office 206 390-9461 cell 47.8432 -122.9574 CN97au October 21 Webinar registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/940472729 October 24 Webinar registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/446997793 -- This message is sent on behalf of Depiction, Inc., 3305 Oakes Ave., Everett, WA 98201. If you would prefer not to receive any further solicitations from PreparednessWebinars.org, please visit http://www.preparednesswebinars.org/lists/?p=unsubscribe&uid=d35e927cc05f4821fca52754e6231da5 To update your preferences and to unsubscribe visit http://www.preparednesswebinars.org/lists/?p=preferences&uid=d35e927cc05f4821fca52754e6231da5 Forward a message to someone at http://www.preparednesswebinars.org/lists/?p=forward&uid=d35e927cc05f4821fca52754e6231da5&mid=18 -- Powered by PHPlist, www.phplist.com -- From rervin55 at msn.com Fri Oct 16 21:55:44 2009 From: rervin55 at msn.com (Rae Ervin) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:55:44 -0400 Subject: [Ccarc] good stuff Message-ID: I use some of these programs. They all are free. Download links ae included after each software discription. hgdd r a e -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Tom KB9WSL > From: ccarc-request at culcom.net > Subject: ccarc Digest, Vol 69, Issue 15 > To: ccarc at culcom.net > Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:00:03 -0400 > > Send ccarc mailing list submissions to > ccarc at culcom.net > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://ns1.culcom.net/mailman/listinfo/ccarc > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > ccarc-request at culcom.net > > You can reach the person managing the list at > ccarc-owner at culcom.net > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of ccarc digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Scouts Jamboree on the air today (Phil Snider) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:10:00 -0400 > From: Phil Snider > To: ccarc > Subject: [Ccarc] Scouts Jamboree on the air today > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > Is there anyone planning to participate in or interested in participating in the annual Boy Scouts Jamboree on the air today? It goes until 8 pm today. I hope to take some scouts to EMA and activate the station there this afternoon. 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SECRETARY?S REPORT: The minutes of the September 19,2009 meeting were read by Tom, KB9WSL. The minutes were approved as presented without additions or corrections. TREASURER?S REPORT: None. REPEATER: Phil, W9LVY, reported that the circuit breaker at the water tower for the 147.180 repeater has tripped twice in recent weeks. He went to the repeater site and re-set the breaker, restoring repeater service. Phil stated the club needs to look into replacing the circuit breaker. Phil also reported that the .230 repeater was off the air recently. He investigated and found a defective fuse. The repeater is back on the air. Phil W9LVY and Dave, K9DVL reported that work will resume to troubleshoot the new repeater controller. It appears there are some interfacing issues. Now that a Micor extender card has been acquired, efforts to trouble-shoot the problem should be easier. They will continue to trouble-shoot the problem and report back at the next meeting. Marion, KA9BYN, stated that work on one of the antennas on the 90 foot tower at the EMA building will be delayed until next spring, due to the colder weather now that we are well into fall. There is a problem with either the antenna, the feed-line or possibly both. Dave, K9DVL spoke with EMA Director Alvin Beckman, about the club possibly building a wooden storage cabinet to house Club equipment. Alvin said there would be no problem in storing such a cabinet in a corner of the garage at the EMA. Dave thinks this would be a good idea, so that Club equipment is all stored in a secure cabinet at the EMA site. OLD BUSINESS: None NEW BUSINESS: Marion, KA9BYN, made a motion to begin the process of amending the Club constitution/by-laws to reduce the size of a quorum from (10) members to (7) members. The motion carried unanimously, 9-to-0. It was thought the Club Board of Directors would have to take the formal action to begin the process. The reason for the proposed change is that attendance at meetings has dropped to the range of 6 to 10 members on average for the past few years. The current by-laws require at least 10 members to conduct official business and/or pay bills. There was also some discussion on how to get more members to attend club meetings. Among some ideas tossed out for consideration were breakfast or coffee meetings before the official club meeting, having speakers at meetings, or having projects or demonstrations on some aspect of amateur radio. It was also suggested to simply contact members who have not been coming to meetings and urge them to attend. No decision was made with regard to the attendance situation. BILLS: None GOOD OF THE CLUB: The Ft. Wayne Ham-fest will be held at the Memorial Coliseum at the corner of Coliseum Blvd and Parnell Ave in Ft. Wayne on Saturday and Sunday, November 14th and 15th. Hours on the 14th are 9am until 4pm. Sunday hours are 9am until 3pm. Tickets are 6 dollars for both days, or 4 dollars for Sunday only. Parking is 4 dollars per vehicle. For more info go to the following website: www.fortwaynehamfest.com There has still be no word or action regarding LMU setting up four utility poles at the EMA site for the Club?s loop antenna. Anyone with photos of past Field Day or other club events, or photos of past club members who are now SK?s?.please contact Anna Hendrickson, KC9IDO. She is putting together a Club scrap book photo album. Mark Babb, KC9CRP, was going to test for his upgrade to Extra following the meeting. 50/50: $8.00 raised. Winner was Marion, KA9BYN. He donated his winnings back to the club. Meeting was adjourned at 10:23 am. **** Those attending were: KB9WSL, W9LVY, N9PVQ, K9EQT,KA9BYN, K9AWH, K9DVL,KC9CRP, KC9MVQ. _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft?s powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141664/direct/01/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From phil_snider at hotmail.com Sat Oct 17 23:10:55 2009 From: phil_snider at hotmail.com (Phil Snider) Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:10:55 -0400 Subject: [Ccarc] New Extra class license Message-ID: Mark Babb, KC9CRP passed his extra exam. Congratuations. Phil Snider "the earth is but one country and mankind its citizens" - Baha'i Faith EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD Join me -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Extensive menus and multi-function controls are used to access the multitude of features and enhancements of modern transceivers. Other standard features in the ham shack today include computer software for logging, awards tracking, rig control and, of course, Logbook of The World. All are areas in which many of us could use a tutorial to enhance the enjoyment of an already great hobby. Perhaps at your next club meeting the emphasis can be on mentoring the not-so-new ham as well as the newer folks. Demonstrate popular software programs used in ham shacks today by using a laptop computer and a projector. If you are fortunate enough to have an internet connection at your meeting hall then you can have a live demonstration of ARRL's Logbook of The World. The next best thing to a live LoTW demo is to use the PowerPoint slideshow "LoTW Overview" which is available free along with many other programs from the ARRL Multimedia Library < www.arrl.org/multimedia > Make It Fun Hands on demonstrations have always been fun ways to teach new things. It is not uncommon for folks to get set in a routine and after a while they begin to lose touch with current technology. Allowing people experience things like new logging software, digital applications or Logbook of The World is a great way to broaden horizons and expose your club members to all the cool stuff that is out there today. Don't Overlook the Basics A symphony is played one note at a time demonstrating that complex functions can be reduced to a series of simple procedures. Mastering some basic skills will make anyone appear like an expert so demonstrating some basics can have a huge impact on proficiency. Some "Basic 101" topics may include soldering, computer file management, making a QSO or whatever you group asks for. Old Dog, New Tricks -- Young Dog, New Tricks Nobody is ever too old to stop learning. Exercising the mind as well as the body keeps us healthy. An operator who cut his teeth with Hartley oscillators and vacuum tubes can still master basic computer skills if they approach it with an open mind and the material is presented in comprehensible modules. Finally a club can develop a pool of people who are knowledgeable about different topics. Some clubs publish an "Elmer List" in the club newsletter or on their website. People requiring help can contact the expert and ask their question. Experience is a good teacher and an experienced person is a good mentor. Club Meeting Programs Clubs are always looking for meeting program ideas. Some programs that can be the most fun and successful revolve around hands-on projects or interactive activities. Involving members in the program allows them to share knowledge and experiences. Traditional club projects include kit building, antenna building or some other soldering project. These sorts of projects attract members to the meetings and teach useful skills to the radio amateur. As a program director in a club today you want to be looking at current topics with subjects that club members can apply to today's operating requirements. Some topics could include: Computer logging programs Operating digital modes Logbook of The World Wireless networking Software Defined Radio (SDR) Computer file management D-Star Contest software Radio to computer interfacing Sound card modes and interfacing Programming a VHF/UHF handheld transceiver Make your presentations lively and exciting and involve your audience. Quiz the audience. People love to jump in with an answer. Visual aids, charts or slides are great tools to help make a point and drive home an idea. When club meetings are exciting and informative people will be eager to attend. New PowerPoint Program Added To the Multimedia Library Logbook of The World This presentation is an overview of ARRL's exciting on-line QSO confirmation award service. The LoTW is a repository of digitally-signed log data uploaded by individual participants. The system compares the log data to all other logs to find matches (QSLs). These matches can be used as confirmation of a contact for award credit. Users can also use LoTW to track awards, check DXCC records, and find QSLs and QSOs. Many of today's popular computer logging software programs interact with LoTW providing users with an interface to LoTW from within the logging program. LoTW works with Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. The software is free to download and there is no charge for uploading data or viewing records. All PowerPoint programs are free to download at < www.arrl.org/multimedia > _________________________________________________________________ Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222985/direct/01/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From k9dvl at comcast.net Sun Oct 18 09:00:25 2009 From: k9dvl at comcast.net (Dave Rothermel) Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:00:25 -0400 Subject: [Ccarc] KC9CRP In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4ADB1169.2050602@comcast.net> Mark Babb, KC9CRP is now an EXTRA. K9DVL From e-norris at comcast.net Sun Oct 18 12:18:02 2009 From: e-norris at comcast.net (Ed) Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:18:02 -0400 Subject: [Ccarc] CCARC club meeting this Saturday at 9 am In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4ADB3FBA.80207@comcast.net> Phil, Saturday was an extremely long day complete with weather delays, and we didn't get home until 1 AM. I read through our Constitution today. It would be my suggestion that the quorum change be accomplished with an "amendment" without a need for rewriting the document. The amendment could state that Section III of the Bylaws be changed, etc. It is my recommendation that the quorum never be set to a number below 10% of the total membership, so 7 would be an absolute minimum number I think. I would be happy to write the draft, if you like. Note that this action requires notification be given to all members prior to a vote. Then, only one vote would be necessary, but the current quorum of 10 would need to be present at the voting meeting. So in reality, 6 members could vote the change (a majority of those attending). I also noted in the Constitution that the Board is supposed to "meet" the second Saturday of each year. I don't remember doing this in awhile, and I don't remember exactly why that clause was included, except to be sure that we actually met at least once per year. To the question of suspending the rules, I don't see a provision to do that. If we aren't going to follow the rules we set, then there's no need to have them. But we can change the rules. Ed On 10/16/2009 3:54 PM, Phil Snider wrote: > sounds good. What would we have to do to modify the constitution to > lower the quarum amount? Is it possible to just suspend the rules for > one session if needed? > thanks > > Phil Snider W9LVY > > > > > > i'm EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD > Join me > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:36:45 -0400 > From: e-norris at comcast.net > To: ccarc at culcom.net > Subject: Re: [Ccarc] CCARC club meeting this Saturday at 9 am > > I will be there in spirit, but will need to miss this one. We'll be in > Chesterton working as "officials" for the regional band contest. > Ed > > On 10/16/2009 9:40 AM, Phil Snider wrote: > > Please attend the CCARC club meeting this Saturday, at 9 AM at > Cass County EMA building on highway 17 North. We need more > attendance so we can have a quarum. We will have testing after the > club meeting. There will be discussion on changing the constitution. > > Phil Snider W9LVY > > Amateur radio for when all other communications fails > > > w9vmw.org club web page > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > ccarc mailing list > ccarc at culcom.net > http://ns1.culcom.net/mailman/listinfo/ccarc > > > > -- > > Ed Norris > > e-norris at comcast.net > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > ccarc mailing list > ccarc at culcom.net > http://ns1.culcom.net/mailman/listinfo/ccarc > -- Ed Norris e-norris at comcast.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From kb9wsl at hotmail.com Wed Oct 21 06:50:12 2009 From: kb9wsl at hotmail.com (Tom Murray) Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:50:12 -0400 Subject: [Ccarc] FW: [Inares] D-STAR / APRS / Packet in Indiana In-Reply-To: <007201ca51b9$00c4af50$024e0df0$@net> References: <007201ca51b9$00c4af50$024e0df0$@net> Message-ID: Thought I would pass this along as information......... Tom KB9WSL To: Inares at yahoogroups.com CC: IN_PACKET at yahoogroups.com From: wr9a at verizon.net Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:10:35 -0400 Subject: [Inares] D-STAR / APRS / Packet in Indiana I decided it is time to air my opinions on several matters of recent discussion. I try to not "react" to such topics by replying immediately, but rather prefer to wait a while, collect my thoughts, confirm the facts, and then "respond". This (long) email is a response to a variety of these topics. ____________________________ D-STAR: D-STAR absolutely has a LOT of support. Yes, Icom is currently the only major amateur manufacturer producing D-STAR equipment, but that's the fault of Yaesu, Kenwood, and others, isn't it? Others are now building their own radio adapters and even entire D-STAR repeater systems themselves. I won't get into the commonly-heard arguments that it's too expensive, it is proprietary (rubbish!), hard to learn, sounds terrible, and the other nonsense. Those questions and concerns were addressed long ago and those arguments are mostly moot, if one cares enough to research the facts. I am not here to "wave the flag" for D-STAR; it's certainly not perfect, but does have significant merits for EmComm. Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Washington, Oregon, Wisconsin, and others now have nearly state-wide D-STAR coverage, and it's primarily due to its EmComm capabilities that have been widely demonstrated. D-STAR in Indiana has been around for a good while now. Indianapolis has a 2M/440 system (W9ICE), there is a local coverage 440 D-STAR repeater in Fishers (WR9AND), and Lafayette has both 2M and 440 D-STAR repeaters (W9ARP). The W9ICE system covers an easy 50 mile mobile operating radius, and the Lafayette system around 35 miles. That's over 11,000 square miles of mobile D-STAR coverage in the central and northwest areas of the state. In addition, the three 440 D-STAR repeaters in Indiana are linked full-time, with no special programming needed to communicate between them. We are hoping that D-STAR will soon come to other cities in the state, like Fort Wayne, Evansville, Terre Haute, Bloomington, Muncie, Gary, South Bend, New Albany, etc. D-STAR is still growing like crazy, with new systems coming online almost weekly. There are over 10,000 D-STAR users registered on the gateway, with over 500 "systems" connected (each system is comprised of either a single repeater, two repeaters, or 3 repeaters and a high-speed data access point). D-STAR is NOT going to fade into ham history anytime soon. P25 (or APCO-25) will not become popular in ham radio for a variety of reasons. One is very high cost, even compared with D-STAR. The vocoder chip used in D-STAR costs about $20; research for yourself how much it costs to implement P25 in a single radio. Commercial P25 radios are available on the used market, but they require expensive hardware and licensed software to legally program. They are NOT field programmable by any stretch of the imagination. And a P25 repeater? Only affordable by a select few, even when buying surplus. If you think getting the average miserly ham to buy a D-STAR radio is difficult, try convincing them to get a P25 rig! D-STAR offers much, much more than just digital audio. I won't go into all the details, but they are easily found if you wish to be informed. Simply put, D-STAR was developed for amateur radio use, and all of the "big 3" amateur manufacturers were involved in D-STAR's development with the JARL. D-STAR's biggest drawback for EmComm use, is its reliance on Internet connections for linking between systems. (But that is also the requirement for IRLP and EchoLink to function.) But, when it is available (and under most circumstances, it likely will be), we should plan to use it; simultaneous voice and low-speed data capable of being user-routed practically anywhere in the country (or the world) where there is another D-STAR system. Yes, the infrastructure needs to be in place for it to work, but the same is true of packet. Enough about D-STAR. ____________________________ APRS: The idea of merging APRS and packet (BBS messaging, file transfers, etc.) onto a single frequency is preposterous. The first question I would ask is, why? Our VHF/UHF bands are really NOT that crowded, especially here in the Midwest. APRS is a fantastic tactical tool for local operations, as has been discussed by others already. APRS uses UI packets to achieve its mission, while normal packet uses the connected mode for most of its tasks. Putting them together on the same frequency would cause unbelievable chaos and interference, rendering both utterly useless. The bulk of APRS will likely stay at 1200 baud, due to 9600 baud packet not being well suited for mobile use. Anyone involved with packet should know this. And because the APRS packets are so short in length, congestion on a 1200 baud channel is generally not a problem when the network is managed well. Details about APRS and how it should be managed can be found at www.aprs.org. APRS works very well and a lot of work has gone into developing its present state of efficiency and effectiveness. Let's not make plans to screw it up. ____________________________ Packet: Whether we decide to have a common frequency statewide, or break up the state into regions as Michigan has done quite successfully, is something we need to discuss and plan. We most likely will never see the level of packet activity that was prevalent in the 1980's and early 90's, and I see no need for that. What I do see a need for is the re-establishment of packet as yet another "tool" in our arsenal and a backup to other means of data communication. The Internet works, and likely always will. Your connection to the Internet may stop working due to natural or man-made disasters, but computers will continue to converse with one another despite your local tornado, hurricane, HazMat incident, or volcano eruption. We talk about ham radio providing the "last mile" link for communications in a disaster. This should apply to voice and data communications equally. Let's face it; our served agencies, no, forget about that term for a moment - the PEOPLE we plan to help during a disaster or local emergency will have a need to communicate, "when all else fails". That's a neat slogan, and so true. But people today have just as much a need for data communication as they do for voice. We live in an information society. So, whether we're talking about helping out the Red Cross, Emergency Management, hospitals, or just the neighbor down the street, we will likely be looked upon to provide a way to pass data. One very good way to do that on amateur radio is with packet. 1200 baud is slow, but the infrastructure that can be put in place, tested, and more importantly, used on a regular basis, is rather robust. It may be 30 year old technology, but its simplicity and mesh-networking capability lend itself to its reliability and flexibility. In places where more capable voice and data networks exist in ham radio, like with the D-STAR network in Wisconsin, VHF packet is being kept in place and operational as a secondary data network and backup. Very smart! So, as we rebuild packet in Indiana, let's not try too hard to make it the end-all, be-all network. It is not possible to create that capacity, nor would we want to limit ourselves to its capabilities. Winlink RMS stations on 1200 baud VHF to provide a packet to email gateway is a very smart idea, and one that we hope to implement in the near future in the Lafayette area. We currently have a packet BBS, node and digi operating on 145.050 MHz just west of Lafayette at about 200' elevation. It is a standalone Kantronics KPC-3+ with 512K RAM and configured to provide Tippecanoe County ARES and other hams in the area with basic BBS, node and digi service. We can regularly connect to Terre Haute via the node, and we hope that a new node and digi will come online somewhere around Lebanon to provide reliable connection to the Indianapolis area. Until a viable, statewide plan (that makes sense) is developed for packet networking in Indiana, we will continue to operate on 145.050 MHz. We have very limited access to the facility our node is hosted at, so a frequency change would take some time and planning. This is something that state ARES leadership should take into consideration when designating a distinctively separate frequency for use during emergencies. Others may also not be able to quickly change the frequency of high profile nodes and digis. Why not take pause, promote discussion, and spend some time working with those involved and experienced in packet operations to develop a more detailed statewide packet plan? In ARES training, we are encouraged to "train like you'll fight, and you'll fight like you trained". Would it really be wise to designate an entirely separate frequency that we expect people to use just in an emergency? Wouldn't it be better to design our day-to-day packet network so that it is robust enough and has the capacity to handle disaster communications? That would allow us to utilize the same digis and nodes that we use on a regular basis. With nothing radically new to learn (maybe just a slight change in procedures) the supporting infrastructure would already be in place, tested and reliable. Winlink RMS stations throughout the state on VHF packet could easily complement the more traditional packet BBS messaging system. If we do want the Winlink access to be on a separate frequency, we need to make sure that nodes and digis are also there to support it, otherwise only a relatively few will have access to it. I really don't think we can expect our packet operators to use one frequency and network on a day-to-day basis, then switch to a different frequency (with different nodes and digis, if any at all) when there is an emergency or disaster. ____________________________ D-STAR, APRS, and packet are each very capable modes with unique benefits, as are CW, PSK31, Olivia, FM voice, SSB voice, etc. The shortcomings of one can be overcome by another, so they complement one another well. Let's not think we can combine them all into one "perfect" system. Not putting all of your eggs into one basket is another ARES training mantra; let's keep that in mind as we think about and discuss these topics. ______________________________________ Stephen M. 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We could also get access to the internet at EMA from that PC on the broad band wireless network at EMA. think about it Phil Snider "the earth is but one country and mankind its citizens" - Baha'i Faith EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD Join me -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kb9wsl at hotmail.com Wed Oct 21 19:12:50 2009 From: kb9wsl at hotmail.com (Tom Murray) Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:12:50 -0400 Subject: [Ccarc] Narrow-banding info Message-ID: We talked about narrow-banding at last weeks club meeting....Thought I would pass this article along....it comes from Mission Critical Communications magazine for public safety agencies. O N L I N E E X C L U S I V E FCC?s Barnett Talks Broadband, Narrowbanding and More October 21, 2009 In a recent interview with MissionCritical Communications Editor Sandra Wendelken, FCC Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB) Chief Jamie Barnett addresses public-safety communications issues from 700 MHz broadband to 800 MHz rebanding to emergency alerting. MCC: What further efforts can be taken to ensure the drive toward voice interoperability for public safety continues? Barnett: When I took this job, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski told me his top priority for this bureau was interoperability and operability, so the way this plays out in the 700 MHz proceeding is important. We are examining all our options along those lines. Also the side work we?re doing on the national broadband plan is related; there is major overlap in the study we?re doing. With the national broadband plan that we?re required to deliver to Congress in February 2010, Congress asked us for information on public-safety broadband. I think it?s important; we need to have a national public-safety broadband network. With the 700 MHz proceeding, following the failure of the D block option, we?re looking at everything. There have been a lot of suggestions, and we?re still taking in information. We?re really focusing more on the need than the use of the spectrum. Some people are making recommendations to us on spectrum use. The U.S. Attorney General [Eric Holder] recently made comments on [the D block], and other folks have mentioned it too. No decisions have been made. One thing we need to know from the public-safety community is what their needs are for broadband. That helps us determine how much spectrum is needed. And as we know, we need to move forward quickly. We?ve received some 13 petitions for waivers to the 700 MHz broadband spectrum, and that period closes Nov. 16 for final comments. We want to move forward. These people deserve answers. I wouldn?t want to presume on the commission?s timing [of a ruling]. But we want to move on it quickly. We?re pushing it. That?s why we jumped out and issued the public notice on comments for these petitions. We feel a strong duty to respond to them. MCC: Do you think public-safety communications leaders are taking the best course of action related to 700 MHz broadband issues? Barnett: The thing I would applaud is they?re being very vocal. Not everyone is saying the same thing, but there?s a great conversation going on. We want to look at all the ideas, line up the pros and cons, and have that help us on a fact-based decision. The dialog our public-safety leaders are leading is good. I think the process they?re using is very good. MCC: What about the funding piece of public-safety broadband? Barnett: Ultimately, I think Congress will have to address that. We definitely see ? regardless of what option is chosen ? that there is a role for the Public Safety Spectrum Trust (PSST), even if it morphs into something else. MCC: What are your thoughts on the 800 MHz reconfiguration? Could the process move forward more quickly? Barnett: I know it?s a source of frustration. We?re pleased we?re making progress. Phase 1 is essentially done. About 86 percent of the nonborder licensees have agreements, and about 46 percent have completed the process. We continue to be engaged with Sprint Nextel and the public-safety community. I know people want to move forward. We?re making progress on the Canadian border. About 300 waivers were filed from April 2009 to today, asking for some type of extension. We?re reviewing those and trying to act on those quickly. We are involved in a lot of talks with Mexico; I think we?re getting closer there. It?s hard for me to put a timeframe on [the Mexico agreement]. Our folks have been very engaged in that. There does seem to be progress. I have a personal goal; I would like to see significant progress in the next 12 months. It would be great if we could start rebanding there a year from now. MCC: Should readers expect any further clarifications or information related to VHF and UHF narrowbanding? Barnett: I want to help our public-safety community go out to their jurisdictions and local governments and get serious about what they need to complete this by the deadline. I realize some are in a bad place, and we want to give them the information they need and encouragement so their jurisdictions can move forward. Narrowbanding equipment has been available since 1997. The FCC wanted to provide a long lead-time. Equipment should be capable now, so it?s not a completely expensive switch to 12.5 kilohertz. My main focus is to help agencies convince local jurisdictions to put narrowbanding in the budget and move forward. In 2011, you can?t have equipment with 25-kilohertz mode, and there won?t be new applications for systems or modifications allowed after Jan. 1, 2011. Regarding 6.25-kilohertz operation, no deadline is set for 512 MHz and below. The FCC has said it would want to receive comments before any deadline that is set. So there will be an opportunity to discuss 6.25-kilohertz channels before a deadline is set for going to 6.25 kilohertz on those lower bands. MCC: Where is the commission on the next-generation emergency alerting system (EAS)? Barnett: I?m really excited about the commercial mobile alert system (CMAS). This is the biggest step forward in public-safety learning in a long time. One thing Chairman Genachowski impresses on us, is working with other federal partners and forming working groups to work on things like this. We will issue the specs for the CMAS interface in the next few weeks. That?s an important step forward for manufacturers. They can start looking at this, and the various carriers can start testing what they want to do. We want to have a national live code test in the next 12 months. I think the fact that we?re working so closely in concert with other federal agencies allows that. There will be a state test in the next few months, followed by national live code tests ? the first of its kind. That to me is a major step forward. The system has never had a national test, so by doing a state test, this allows us to see what we need to do to get the best results from a live code test. MCC: How does your new role at the FCC compare to your 32 years in the U.S. Navy and Navy Reserve? Barnett: I?m amazed at the parallel between the FCC and the military. Both include people who are dedicated and really want to make it work. 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Dave From phil_snider at hotmail.com Thu Oct 22 13:04:43 2009 From: phil_snider at hotmail.com (Phil Snider) Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:04:43 -0400 Subject: [Ccarc] update on K9YJY Vern Hilderbrand formerly of Logansport Message-ID: K9YJY VERNON L HILDERBRAND 2600 TACK LN RESTON, VA 20191-2122 USA updated 2008 Nov. Phil Snider W9LVY Amateur radio the professional hoby -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From phil_snider at hotmail.com Thu Oct 22 23:35:40 2009 From: phil_snider at hotmail.com (Phil Snider) Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:35:40 -0400 Subject: [Ccarc] Buxcomm site antennas, radios, packet, test equipment, tools, etc. Message-ID: Interesting site for antennas, radios, parts, packet, test equipment, tools, etc. http://buxcomm.com/ Phil Snider "the earth is but one country and mankind its citizens" - Baha'i Faith EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD Join me -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rervin55 at msn.com Fri Oct 23 20:19:54 2009 From: rervin55 at msn.com (Rae Ervin) Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:19:54 -0400 Subject: [Ccarc] Internet pricing Message-ID: This is not the first time I have heard this story. Bend over Internet lovers, here it comes!!! hgdd r a e ISPs: Internet Usage-Based Pricing 'Unavoidable' a.. by Bill Lindner on 20091023 @ 06:49PM EST Some cable and telecommunications providers are trying to return to the days of usage-based pricing for Internet connections. AT&T and Time Warner are two Internet Service Providers (ISPs) who say they may alter their pricing schemes due to the surge in bandwidth use. FCC: All Web Traffic is Equal Attempts to introduce usage-based Internet service have long been resisted by consumers. However, the FCC wants to adopt new policy that would force Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to treat all web traffic equally regardless of how much bandwidth users consume -- and that could result in ISPs changing how they charge for Web access. Philip Dampier, a consumer advocate focusing on technology issues in Rochester, N.Y., was among those who forced Time Warner Cable to shelve a metered Internet pilot program in several cities last year. Dampier says that it could come down to carriers saying "if you don't allow us to manage our networks the way we see fit, then we will just have to cap everything." (Source: wsj.com) ISPs: Pay-As-You-Go Plans Unavoidable Verizon Communications chief technology officer Dick Lynch believes that flat-rate, infinitely expandable service is unrealistic, indicating that ISPs will have to consider pricing structures that allow them to sell packages of bytes. Because online file-sharing software like BitTorrent takes up so much bandwidth, ISPs believe that heavy users should pay more. Advocates believe that paying by usage could hurt new and existing businesses, saying that unlimited monthly Internet services has been critical to the formation of many online start-up companies. Six Tiers of Pricing AT&T has been pricing Internet access based on usage in Beaumont, Texas and Reno, Nevada. Since last year, new customers in those two cities have chosen from one of six tiers of pricing depending on the desired speed and how much data they think they will download per month. Existing customers in those areas can keep their old plans, which are capped at 150 gigabytes per month. The basic plan costs $19.95 per month, offering 20 gigabytes of downloads. The most expensive plan costs $65 per month, offering 150 gigabytes of downloads. When a user goes over their limit, it costs them $1 for each additional gigabyte. It's rumored AT&T also believes that users who have abnormally high usage patterns should pay for some type of usage-based plan, but the company would not provide more details. FCC to Strengthen Net Neutrality laws Some ISPs have instituted monthly usage limits -- Comcast, for instance, instituted a cap of 250 gigabytes per month -- but the limits are so high that they only affect the heaviest users. The average Internet user consumes around 15 gigabytes per month. To use 150 gigabytes, a user would have to send and receive 75 million emails or download over 30,000 songs in a single month. (Source: wsj.com) The FCC wants more transparency in how carriers manage their networks and is trying to strengthen existing principals on network neutrality to ensure that all ISPs treat Internet traffic equally. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From phil_snider at hotmail.com Fri Oct 23 21:43:26 2009 From: phil_snider at hotmail.com (Phil Snider) Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:43:26 -0400 Subject: [Ccarc] Internet pricing In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Here are my thoughts: If you are using more than 150 gigabytes per month, what are you doing other than running a big file server or swapping videos? Are you watching TV (or have several TVs or DVRs over internet 24/7? The electric company charges more if you use more, as does the gas company and the water company. The costs to the internet provider for some of these big bandwidth hogs is not minimal, plus it soaks up the bandwith from the other people on that same node. If my neighbor is sharing videos big time, and my internet slows down to a crawl as a result of that, am I getting my money's worth? Is that fair? It is not a easy thing to decide what is justified, but there has to be some limit. What we found at pwrtc was if someone was using a huge amount of bandwidth, they either were running a porno site or had a virus that was sending out huge amounts of spam. Then our tech support would look at where their traffic was going, and what port number, and contact the user, or shut them off till they fixed the problem. All you can eat internet is popular, and if not abused or over used is much easier than monitoring and billing on a per useage basis. The headaches and costs for billing add a lot. On the home phones it costs between 1.5 to 2.0 cents per minute for long distance billing and collections. Most experts thing that flat rate long distance telephone calls are coming for everyone. Cell phones have it now, but they don't give you free local calls, you pay for the air time. (either per minute or in a package). In summary: There is no free lunch. Costs have to be paid by someone. So the question is, what is the most fair way to do that, and the most efficient? Phil Snider EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD Join me From: rervin55 at msn.com To: ccarc at culcom.net Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:19:54 -0400 Subject: [Ccarc] Internet pricing This is not the first time I have heard this story. Bend over Internet lovers, here it comes!!! hgdd r a e ISPs: Internet Usage-Based Pricing 'Unavoidable' by Bill Lindner on 20091023 @ 06:49PM EST Some cable and telecommunications providers are trying to return to the days of usage-based pricing for Internet connections. AT&T and Time Warner are two Internet Service Providers (ISPs) who say they may alter their pricing schemes due to the surge in bandwidth use. FCC: All Web Traffic is Equal Attempts to introduce usage-based Internet service have long been resisted by consumers. However, the FCC wants to adopt new policy that would force Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to treat all web traffic equally regardless of how much bandwidth users consume -- and that could result in ISPs changing how they charge for Web access. Philip Dampier, a consumer advocate focusing on technology issues in Rochester, N.Y., was among those who forced Time Warner Cable to shelve a metered Internet pilot program in several cities last year. Dampier says that it could come down to carriers saying "if you don't allow us to manage our networks the way we see fit, then we will just have to cap everything." (Source: wsj.com) ISPs: Pay-As-You-Go Plans Unavoidable Verizon Communications chief technology officer Dick Lynch believes that flat-rate, infinitely expandable service is unrealistic, indicating that ISPs will have to consider pricing structures that allow them to sell packages of bytes. Because online file-sharing software like BitTorrent takes up so much bandwidth, ISPs believe that heavy users should pay more. Advocates believe that paying by usage could hurt new and existing businesses, saying that unlimited monthly Internet services has been critical to the formation of many online start-up companies. Six Tiers of Pricing AT&T has been pricing Internet access based on usage in Beaumont, Texas and Reno, Nevada. Since last year, new customers in those two cities have chosen from one of six tiers of pricing depending on the desired speed and how much data they think they will download per month. Existing customers in those areas can keep their old plans, which are capped at 150 gigabytes per month. The basic plan costs $19.95 per month, offering 20 gigabytes of downloads. The most expensive plan costs $65 per month, offering 150 gigabytes of downloads. When a user goes over their limit, it costs them $1 for each additional gigabyte. It's rumored AT&T also believes that users who have abnormally high usage patterns should pay for some type of usage-based plan, but the company would not provide more details. FCC to Strengthen Net Neutrality laws Some ISPs have instituted monthly usage limits -- Comcast, for instance, instituted a cap of 250 gigabytes per month -- but the limits are so high that they only affect the heaviest users. The average Internet user consumes around 15 gigabytes per month. To use 150 gigabytes, a user would have to send and receive 75 million emails or download over 30,000 songs in a single month. (Source: wsj.com) The FCC wants more transparency in how carriers manage their networks and is trying to strengthen existing principals on network neutrality to ensure that all ISPs treat Internet traffic equally. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rervin55 at msn.com Fri Oct 23 22:15:22 2009 From: rervin55 at msn.com (Rae Ervin) Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:15:22 -0400 Subject: [Ccarc] Internet pricing In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Phil: Interesting and several points I have not considered. What worries me is the precedent it sets. Once providers begin to charge for bandwidth, not a problem for the average user, when will they decide to charge for minutes similar to the cell companies? It is my understanding that many companies already limit the speed and bandwidth based on how much you pay. I recently upgraded from 768k to 1 meg on my dsl from Verizon. No or very little man hours were associated with this upgrade, but I pay more each month for the service. Is this an increased cost or a way to take more of my money? Does it really cost the companies more the more a user uses? If they really are choking off the amount of bandwidth as I have heard, how much extra cost is associated with opening it up? Greed is powerful and any way MOST companies can make more money they will without regard for the customer. hgdd r a e ----- Original Message ----- From: Phil Snider To: ccarc Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 9:43 PM Subject: Re: [Ccarc] Internet pricing Here are my thoughts: If you are using more than 150 gigabytes per month, what are you doing other than running a big file server or swapping videos? Are you watching TV (or have several TVs or DVRs over internet 24/7? The electric company charges more if you use more, as does the gas company and the water company. The costs to the internet provider for some of these big bandwidth hogs is not minimal, plus it soaks up the bandwith from the other people on that same node. If my neighbor is sharing videos big time, and my internet slows down to a crawl as a result of that, am I getting my money's worth? Is that fair? It is not a easy thing to decide what is justified, but there has to be some limit. What we found at pwrtc was if someone was using a huge amount of bandwidth, they either were running a porno site or had a virus that was sending out huge amounts of spam. Then our tech support would look at where their traffic was going, and what port number, and contact the user, or shut them off till they fixed the problem. All you can eat internet is popular, and if not abused or over used is much easier than monitoring and billing on a per useage basis. The headaches and costs for billing add a lot. On the home phones it costs between 1.5 to 2.0 cents per minute for long distance billing and collections. Most experts thing that flat rate long distance telephone calls are coming for everyone. Cell phones have it now, but they don't give you free local calls, you pay for the air time. (either per minute or in a package). In summary: There is no free lunch. Costs have to be paid by someone. So the question is, what is the most fair way to do that, and the most efficient? Phil Snider EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD Join me ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: rervin55 at msn.com To: ccarc at culcom.net Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:19:54 -0400 Subject: [Ccarc] Internet pricing This is not the first time I have heard this story. Bend over Internet lovers, here it comes!!! hgdd r a e ISPs: Internet Usage-Based Pricing 'Unavoidable' a.. by Bill Lindner on 20091023 @ 06:49PM EST Some cable and telecommunications providers are trying to return to the days of usage-based pricing for Internet connections. AT&T and Time Warner are two Internet Service Providers (ISPs) who say they may alter their pricing schemes due to the surge in bandwidth use. FCC: All Web Traffic is Equal Attempts to introduce usage-based Internet service have long been resisted by consumers. However, the FCC wants to adopt new policy that would force Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to treat all web traffic equally regardless of how much bandwidth users consume -- and that could result in ISPs changing how they charge for Web access. Philip Dampier, a consumer advocate focusing on technology issues in Rochester, N.Y., was among those who forced Time Warner Cable to shelve a metered Internet pilot program in several cities last year. Dampier says that it could come down to carriers saying "if you don't allow us to manage our networks the way we see fit, then we will just have to cap everything." (Source: wsj.com) ISPs: Pay-As-You-Go Plans Unavoidable Verizon Communications chief technology officer Dick Lynch believes that flat-rate, infinitely expandable service is unrealistic, indicating that ISPs will have to consider pricing structures that allow them to sell packages of bytes. Because online file-sharing software like BitTorrent takes up so much bandwidth, ISPs believe that heavy users should pay more. Advocates believe that paying by usage could hurt new and existing businesses, saying that unlimited monthly Internet services has been critical to the formation of many online start-up companies. Six Tiers of Pricing AT&T has been pricing Internet access based on usage in Beaumont, Texas and Reno, Nevada. Since last year, new customers in those two cities have chosen from one of six tiers of pricing depending on the desired speed and how much data they think they will download per month. Existing customers in those areas can keep their old plans, which are capped at 150 gigabytes per month. The basic plan costs $19.95 per month, offering 20 gigabytes of downloads. The most expensive plan costs $65 per month, offering 150 gigabytes of downloads. When a user goes over their limit, it costs them $1 for each additional gigabyte. It's rumored AT&T also believes that users who have abnormally high usage patterns should pay for some type of usage-based plan, but the company would not provide more details. FCC to Strengthen Net Neutrality laws Some ISPs have instituted monthly usage limits -- Comcast, for instance, instituted a cap of 250 gigabytes per month -- but the limits are so high that they only affect the heaviest users. The average Internet user consumes around 15 gigabytes per month. To use 150 gigabytes, a user would have to send and receive 75 million emails or download over 30,000 songs in a single month. (Source: wsj.com) The FCC wants more transparency in how carriers manage their networks and is trying to strengthen existing principals on network neutrality to ensure that all ISPs treat Internet traffic equally. _______________________________________________ ccarc mailing list ccarc at culcom.net http://ns1.culcom.net/mailman/listinfo/ccarc -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From phil_snider at hotmail.com Sat Oct 24 04:30:27 2009 From: phil_snider at hotmail.com (Phil Snider) Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:30:27 -0400 Subject: [Ccarc] Internet pricing In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Competion is forcing providers to provide more bandwidth (faster speeds) at lower cost, but there are limits, and the big users need to pay more than the small users. Companies can only lose money for a short while, then they have to raise rates or go out of business. If you get internet on your cell phone, you pay more for higher speed and more bytes of downloads. If I decide to start a new internet company, I will have to have a location (closet, garage or building, or space in the telephone office) for my equipment. I will have to have lines going to the customers (maybe rent the lines from Verizon, or go wireless) and I will have to buy my connection from a bigger provider (a T-1 or bigger from some other larger company). This all costs money, plus administrative costs for maintenance, sales, and billing. If I buy a T-1 from somewhere for my connection to the outside world internet, they will charge me by the peak bandwidth that I contract for ( or for the highest burst that I use). Where I used to work a 1.5 Meg pipe ( a single T-1) for access cost us about $2000 per month plus milage to our connect point . When we started we had 1/2 of a T-1 for our 50 dial up users. They all had to share this. As we got more users, we increased this to 3 T-1s for 2000 dial up users. When we went to DSL we provided 256K to each user on DSL, plus what the dial up users were taking. We would watch the graphs of usage, and as we got more DSL users, we would see the graphs max out between 7 pm and 10 pm at night. Then we started getting complaints that our service was getting slow, so we would order more T-1s bandwidth (think more $). The we changed providers to Indiana Fiber Network, and received a better rate (since we were part owners of that company) and got 10 mb pipe burstable to 20 mb. Then we started providing 512K to the DSL users and for those that would pay more we would provide 1 Meg or 1.5 meg. We then spent $200, 000 to upgrade the equipment to be able to go above 1.5 meg to the users. Now they can provide speed to between 10 meg and 24 meg to the users (over 10 Mb only if they are not too far away from the cabinet where the fiber stops and the copper begins). lIf the user wants faster speeds they pay more per month, since the cost to the provider is more per month. Also the bandwidth from the upstream provider was closely watched and increased as needed to prevent congestion. That also was getting the company ready for being able to provide video over copper someday plus voice over IP. That show you some of the additional costs involved when a company provides additional speeds to the users, and also that as you have more users it requires more bandwidth to the upstream provider. Some of the big internet providers use pipes that are between 155 Mb and 40 Gigabites or more of bandwidth, or multiples of that by using up to 360 different colors of light on the fiber. Each color can handle up to 40 Gig. Each color is a different wavelenght (or frequency). It does get very expensive for that equipment. The telephone companies in Chicago and other places for years have charged by the minute for local service on land lines, calling it local measured service. You can buy packages of minutes, and the bigger the package, the less cost per minute. Because of competion from the cell phones and voice over IP (VOIP) like cable service and Vonage, many telcos sell flat rate long distance. Most of them lose money on that service, but they keep the users from going to cell phone only. In the 1950s when we lived in Germany, you paid 3 cents per call for all local calls. If you went to a neighbors house and used his phone you gave him 3 cents. The only fair way to charge for phone service is to have the people who use it more pay more for it, but it is a billing nightmare, and people use it much less if they are charged by the minutes. Should the little old lady that uses their phone or internet pay the same as the gamer or the heavy user or business? That is why flat rate is better for businesses and homes. Flat rate helps businesses and commerce and personal usage to skyrocket, and for countries to advance technelogically. In some Asian countries they have 100 mbs internet to everyone for less than $20 per month and that includes phone and fax with toll free inside the whole country. It helps when there are many more people per square mile. That reduces the costs to the provider. Phil Snider EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD Join me From: rervin55 at msn.com To: ccarc at culcom.net Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:15:22 -0400 Subject: Re: [Ccarc] Internet pricing Phil: Interesting and several points I have not considered. What worries me is the precedent it sets. Once providers begin to charge for bandwidth, not a problem for the average user, when will they decide to charge for minutes similar to the cell companies? It is my understanding that many companies already limit the speed and bandwidth based on how much you pay. I recently upgraded from 768k to 1 meg on my dsl from Verizon. No or very little man hours were associated with this upgrade, but I pay more each month for the service. Is this an increased cost or a way to take more of my money? Does it really cost the companies more the more a user uses? If they really are choking off the amount of bandwidth as I have heard, how much extra cost is associated with opening it up? Greed is powerful and any way MOST companies can make more money they will without regard for the customer. hgdd r a e ----- Original Message ----- From: Phil Snider To: ccarc Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 9:43 PM Subject: Re: [Ccarc] Internet pricing Here are my thoughts: If you are using more than 150 gigabytes per month, what are you doing other than running a big file server or swapping videos? Are you watching TV (or have several TVs or DVRs over internet 24/7? The electric company charges more if you use more, as does the gas company and the water company. The costs to the internet provider for some of these big bandwidth hogs is not minimal, plus it soaks up the bandwith from the other people on that same node. If my neighbor is sharing videos big time, and my internet slows down to a crawl as a result of that, am I getting my money's worth? Is that fair? It is not a easy thing to decide what is justified, but there has to be some limit. What we found at pwrtc was if someone was using a huge amount of bandwidth, they either were running a porno site or had a virus that was sending out huge amounts of spam. Then our tech support would look at where their traffic was going, and what port number, and contact the user, or shut them off till they fixed the problem. All you can eat internet is popular, and if not abused or over used is much easier than monitoring and billing on a per useage basis. The headaches and costs for billing add a lot. On the home phones it costs between 1.5 to 2.0 cents per minute for long distance billing and collections. Most experts thing that flat rate long distance telephone calls are coming for everyone. Cell phones have it now, but they don't give you free local calls, you pay for the air time. (either per minute or in a package). In summary: There is no free lunch. Costs have to be paid by someone. So the question is, what is the most fair way to do that, and the most efficient? Phil Snider EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD Join me From: rervin55 at msn.com To: ccarc at culcom.net Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:19:54 -0400 Subject: [Ccarc] Internet pricing This is not the first time I have heard this story. Bend over Internet lovers, here it comes!!! hgdd r a e ISPs: Internet Usage-Based Pricing 'Unavoidable' by Bill Lindner on 20091023 @ 06:49PM EST Some cable and telecommunications providers are trying to return to the days of usage-based pricing for Internet connections. AT&T and Time Warner are two Internet Service Providers (ISPs) who say they may alter their pricing schemes due to the surge in bandwidth use. FCC: All Web Traffic is EqualAttempts to introduce usage-based Internet service have long been resisted by consumers. However, the FCC wants to adopt new policy that would force Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to treat all web traffic equally regardless of how much bandwidth users consume -- and that could result in ISPs changing how they charge for Web access. Philip Dampier, a consumer advocate focusing on technology issues in Rochester, N.Y., was among those who forced Time Warner Cable to shelve a metered Internet pilot program in several cities last year. Dampier says that it could come down to carriers saying "if you don't allow us to manage our networks the way we see fit, then we will just have to cap everything." (Source: wsj.com) ISPs: Pay-As-You-Go Plans UnavoidableVerizon Communications chief technology officer Dick Lynch believes that flat-rate, infinitely expandable service is unrealistic, indicating that ISPs will have to consider pricing structures that allow them to sell packages of bytes. Because online file-sharing software like BitTorrent takes up so much bandwidth, ISPs believe that heavy users should pay more. Advocates believe that paying by usage could hurt new and existing businesses, saying that unlimited monthly Internet services has been critical to the formation of many online start-up companies. Six Tiers of PricingAT&T has been pricing Internet access based on usage in Beaumont, Texas and Reno, Nevada. Since last year, new customers in those two cities have chosen from one of six tiers of pricing depending on the desired speed and how much data they think they will download per month. Existing customers in those areas can keep their old plans, which are capped at 150 gigabytes per month. The basic plan costs $19.95 per month, offering 20 gigabytes of downloads. The most expensive plan costs $65 per month, offering 150 gigabytes of downloads. When a user goes over their limit, it costs them $1 for each additional gigabyte. It's rumored AT&T also believes that users who have abnormally high usage patterns should pay for some type of usage-based plan, but the company would not provide more details. FCC to Strengthen Net Neutrality lawsSome ISPs have instituted monthly usage limits -- Comcast, for instance, instituted a cap of 250 gigabytes per month -- but the limits are so high that they only affect the heaviest users. The average Internet user consumes around 15 gigabytes per month. To use 150 gigabytes, a user would have to send and receive 75 million emails or download over 30,000 songs in a single month. (Source: wsj.com) The FCC wants more transparency in how carriers manage their networks and is trying to strengthen existing principals on network neutrality to ensure that all ISPs treat Internet traffic equally. _______________________________________________ ccarc mailing list ccarc at culcom.net http://ns1.culcom.net/mailman/listinfo/ccarc -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Learn more. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pc-scout/default.aspx?CBID=wl&ocid=PID24727::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WWL_WIN_pcscout:102009 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From laird.realty at verizon.net Sat Oct 24 08:38:29 2009 From: laird.realty at verizon.net (LAIRD-M-E) Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:38:29 -0400 Subject: [Ccarc] Internet pricing References: Message-ID: <5EF0D80352BF4D25B556692F7AF657A6@house> From: N9LMC We have had an account for the home for some time, also have a business account. Same bandwidth and personal webpage space for both, but the business is $20 higher. Cannot tell a bit of difference in service from home or office account other than the bill Never have had a service call at the home or office. I do understand that the service persons have to be in place if needed. For 2 years, the big V has sent me enough junk mail to offset the price difference, heck fire they could lower the price if they quit the j-mail. A week ago I had 4 snail mails and 4 phone calls from them to upgrade. Example: I can get all the services, 2 phone lines, dsl, free long distance in USA for LESS than I pay for 1 line + dsl and no services at my office. Don't let them kid you, they have plenty of bandwidth and lines. I upgraded and pay the price for but don't get the 2nd line. Every week, it's mail from V, Direct TV, Comcast. I get mail and my daughters' business gets the same mail on the same day. Only good thing is it keeps the postman employed but they will have to double or triple the amount of junk mail to save the postal system. ----- Original Message ----- From: Phil Snider To: ccarc Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 4:30 AM Subject: Re: [Ccarc] Internet pricing Competion is forcing providers to provide more bandwidth (faster speeds) at lower cost, but there are limits, and the big users need to pay more than the small users. Companies can only lose money for a short while, then they have to raise rates or go out of business. If you get internet on your cell phone, you pay more for higher speed and more bytes of downloads. If I decide to start a new internet company, I will have to have a location (closet, garage or building, or space in the telephone office) for my equipment. I will have to have lines going to the customers (maybe rent the lines from Verizon, or go wireless) and I will have to buy my connection from a bigger provider (a T-1 or bigger from some other larger company). This all costs money, plus administrative costs for maintenance, sales, and billing. If I buy a T-1 from somewhere for my connection to the outside world internet, they will charge me by the peak bandwidth that I contract for ( or for the highest burst that I use). Where I used to work a 1.5 Meg pipe ( a single T-1) for access cost us about $2000 per month plus milage to our connect point . When we started we had 1/2 of a T-1 for our 50 dial up users. They all had to share this. As we got more users, we increased this to 3 T-1s for 2000 dial up users. When we went to DSL we provided 256K to each user on DSL, plus what the dial up users were taking. We would watch the graphs of usage, and as we got more DSL users, we would see the graphs max out between 7 pm and 10 pm at night. Then we started getting complaints that our service was getting slow, so we would order more T-1s bandwidth (think more $). The we changed providers to Indiana Fiber Network, and received a better rate (since we were part owners of that company) and got 10 mb pipe burstable to 20 mb. Then we started providing 512K to the DSL users and for those that would pay more we would provide 1 Meg or 1.5 meg. We then spent $200, 000 to upgrade the equipment to be able to go above 1.5 meg to the users. Now they can provide speed to between 10 meg and 24 meg to the users (over 10 Mb only if they are not too far away from the cabinet where the fiber stops and the copper begins). lIf the user wants faster speeds they pay more per month, since the cost to the provider is more per month. Also the bandwidth from the upstream provider was closely watched and increased as needed to prevent congestion. That also was getting the company ready for being able to provide video over copper someday plus voice over IP. That show you some of the additional costs involved when a company provides additional speeds to the users, and also that as you have more users it requires more bandwidth to the upstream provider. Some of the big internet providers use pipes that are between 155 Mb and 40 Gigabites or more of bandwidth, or multiples of that by using up to 360 different colors of light on the fiber. Each color can handle up to 40 Gig. Each color is a different wavelenght (or frequency). It does get very expensive for that equipment. The telephone companies in Chicago and other places for years have charged by the minute for local service on land lines, calling it local measured service. You can buy packages of minutes, and the bigger the package, the less cost per minute. Because of competion from the cell phones and voice over IP (VOIP) like cable service and Vonage, many telcos sell flat rate long distance. Most of them lose money on that service, but they keep the users from going to cell phone only. In the 1950s when we lived in Germany, you paid 3 cents per call for all local calls. If you went to a neighbors house and used his phone you gave him 3 cents. The only fair way to charge for phone service is to have the people who use it more pay more for it, but it is a billing nightmare, and people use it much less if they are charged by the minutes. Should the little old lady that uses their phone or internet pay the same as the gamer or the heavy user or business? That is why flat rate is better for businesses and homes. Flat rate helps businesses and commerce and personal usage to skyrocket, and for countries to advance technelogically. In some Asian countries they have 100 mbs internet to everyone for less than $20 per month and that includes phone and fax with toll free inside the whole country. It helps when there are many more people per square mile. That reduces the costs to the provider. Phil Snider EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD Join me ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: rervin55 at msn.com To: ccarc at culcom.net Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:15:22 -0400 Subject: Re: [Ccarc] Internet pricing Phil: Interesting and several points I have not considered. What worries me is the precedent it sets. Once providers begin to charge for bandwidth, not a problem for the average user, when will they decide to charge for minutes similar to the cell companies? It is my understanding that many companies already limit the speed and bandwidth based on how much you pay. I recently upgraded from 768k to 1 meg on my dsl from Verizon. No or very little man hours were associated with this upgrade, but I pay more each month for the service. Is this an increased cost or a way to take more of my money? Does it really cost the companies more the more a user uses? If they really are choking off the amount of bandwidth as I have heard, how much extra cost is associated with opening it up? Greed is powerful and any way MOST companies can make more money they will without regard for the customer. hgdd r a e ----- Original Message ----- From: Phil Snider To: ccarc Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 9:43 PM Subject: Re: [Ccarc] Internet pricing Here are my thoughts: If you are using more than 150 gigabytes per month, what are you doing other than running a big file server or swapping videos? Are you watching TV (or have several TVs or DVRs over internet 24/7? The electric company charges more if you use more, as does the gas company and the water company. The costs to the internet provider for some of these big bandwidth hogs is not minimal, plus it soaks up the bandwith from the other people on that same node. If my neighbor is sharing videos big time, and my internet slows down to a crawl as a result of that, am I getting my money's worth? Is that fair? It is not a easy thing to decide what is justified, but there has to be some limit. What we found at pwrtc was if someone was using a huge amount of bandwidth, they either were running a porno site or had a virus that was sending out huge amounts of spam. Then our tech support would look at where their traffic was going, and what port number, and contact the user, or shut them off till they fixed the problem. All you can eat internet is popular, and if not abused or over used is much easier than monitoring and billing on a per useage basis. The headaches and costs for billing add a lot. On the home phones it costs between 1.5 to 2.0 cents per minute for long distance billing and collections. Most experts thing that flat rate long distance telephone calls are coming for everyone. Cell phones have it now, but they don't give you free local calls, you pay for the air time. (either per minute or in a package). In summary: There is no free lunch. Costs have to be paid by someone. So the question is, what is the most fair way to do that, and the most efficient? Phil Snider EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD Join me ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: rervin55 at msn.com To: ccarc at culcom.net Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:19:54 -0400 Subject: [Ccarc] Internet pricing This is not the first time I have heard this story. Bend over Internet lovers, here it comes!!! hgdd r a e ISPs: Internet Usage-Based Pricing 'Unavoidable' a.. by Bill Lindner on 20091023 @ 06:49PM EST Some cable and telecommunications providers are trying to return to the days of usage-based pricing for Internet connections. AT&T and Time Warner are two Internet Service Providers (ISPs) who say they may alter their pricing schemes due to the surge in bandwidth use. FCC: All Web Traffic is Equal Attempts to introduce usage-based Internet service have long been resisted by consumers. However, the FCC wants to adopt new policy that would force Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to treat all web traffic equally regardless of how much bandwidth users consume -- and that could result in ISPs changing how they charge for Web access. Philip Dampier, a consumer advocate focusing on technology issues in Rochester, N.Y., was among those who forced Time Warner Cable to shelve a metered Internet pilot program in several cities last year. Dampier says that it could come down to carriers saying "if you don't allow us to manage our networks the way we see fit, then we will just have to cap everything." (Source: wsj.com) ISPs: Pay-As-You-Go Plans Unavoidable Verizon Communications chief technology officer Dick Lynch believes that flat-rate, infinitely expandable service is unrealistic, indicating that ISPs will have to consider pricing structures that allow them to sell packages of bytes. Because online file-sharing software like BitTorrent takes up so much bandwidth, ISPs believe that heavy users should pay more. Advocates believe that paying by usage could hurt new and existing businesses, saying that unlimited monthly Internet services has been critical to the formation of many online start-up companies. Six Tiers of Pricing AT&T has been pricing Internet access based on usage in Beaumont, Texas and Reno, Nevada. Since last year, new customers in those two cities have chosen from one of six tiers of pricing depending on the desired speed and how much data they think they will download per month. Existing customers in those areas can keep their old plans, which are capped at 150 gigabytes per month. The basic plan costs $19.95 per month, offering 20 gigabytes of downloads. The most expensive plan costs $65 per month, offering 150 gigabytes of downloads. When a user goes over their limit, it costs them $1 for each additional gigabyte. It's rumored AT&T also believes that users who have abnormally high usage patterns should pay for some type of usage-based plan, but the company would not provide more details. FCC to Strengthen Net Neutrality laws Some ISPs have instituted monthly usage limits -- Comcast, for instance, instituted a cap of 250 gigabytes per month -- but the limits are so high that they only affect the heaviest users. The average Internet user consumes around 15 gigabytes per month. To use 150 gigabytes, a user would have to send and receive 75 million emails or download over 30,000 songs in a single month. (Source: wsj.com) The FCC wants more transparency in how carriers manage their networks and is trying to strengthen existing principals on network neutrality to ensure that all ISPs treat Internet traffic equally. _______________________________________________ ccarc mailing list ccarc at culcom.net http://ns1.culcom.net/mailman/listinfo/ccarc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ ccarc mailing list ccarc at culcom.net http://ns1.culcom.net/mailman/listinfo/ccarc -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From k9dvl at comcast.net Sat Oct 24 16:37:58 2009 From: k9dvl at comcast.net (Dave Rothermel) Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:37:58 -0400 Subject: [Ccarc] Emailing: scan0002 Message-ID: <4AE365A6.7070404@comcast.net> This is the law in Hawaii! I wonder if this effects Ham Radio. I got yelled at,"give mom the cell phone". Glad to be back in America. 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I got yelled at,"give mom the cell phone". > Glad to be back in America. > K9DVL Dave > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > ccarc mailing list > ccarc at culcom.net > http://ns1.culcom.net/mailman/listinfo/ccarc > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 46298 bytes Desc: not available URL: From k9dvl at comcast.net Sat Oct 24 20:20:39 2009 From: k9dvl at comcast.net (Dave Rothermel) Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:20:39 -0400 Subject: [Ccarc] Hawaii Message-ID: <4AE399D7.5080904@comcast.net> Wile over there I didn't see any try band beams, or mobile antennas. We were all over the island. Dave From phil_snider at hotmail.com Sun Oct 25 00:13:32 2009 From: phil_snider at hotmail.com (Phil Snider) Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:13:32 -0400 Subject: [Ccarc] about daylight saving time Message-ID: article about the history of daylight saving time and the present and past regulations and if it saves enengy and reduces crime and accidents: http://www.energy.ca.gov/daylightsaving.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kb9wsl at hotmail.com Mon Oct 26 06:45:45 2009 From: kb9wsl at hotmail.com (Tom Murray) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:45:45 -0400 Subject: [Ccarc] Internet in your vehicle Message-ID: Is no one concerned about distracted driving??? Tom KB9WSL This article is from Radio-Info Newsletter In-car Internet access becomes more common, with GM adding Buick, GMC and Chevy. When he was still running CBS/Infinity, Mel Karmazin used to say that no matter what else happened to traditional AM/FM radio, it still had the consumer in the car. No longer true. Mel?s own Sirius and its then-rival XM invaded the cockpit, followed by dockable iPods, radio with hard drives, and then a few carmakers started offering Internet access in their vehicles via Wi-Fi. (Chrysler jumped in pretty early.) General Motors had offered a Wi-Fi accessory and service for its Cadillac models. Now ? it?s adding Buick, GMC and Chevrolet to the list. Automotive News says GM?s going with a system made by Autonet Mobile, which creates a Wi-Fi cloud for as much as 150 feet around the vehicle ? not just the kids in the backseat playing online video games. The service isn?t free. List price for the hardware is $499 and the access itself is $29 a month. One nice feature ? it?s portable. The Autonet gizmo can be un-docked and transferred to another GM car or truck. _________________________________________________________________ Windows 7: It works the way you want. Learn more. http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/windows-7/default.aspx?ocid=PID24727::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WWL_WIN_evergreen2:102009 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From k9dvl at comcast.net Mon Oct 26 21:01:41 2009 From: k9dvl at comcast.net (Dave Rothermel) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:01:41 -0400 Subject: [Ccarc] [Fwd: [AMRadio] Blank log pages] Message-ID: <4AE64675.6020804@comcast.net> An embedded message was scrubbed... From: sbjohnston at aol.com Subject: [AMRadio] Blank log pages Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:14:13 -0400 Size: 5231 URL: From phil_snider at hotmail.com Tue Oct 27 21:45:00 2009 From: phil_snider at hotmail.com (Phil Snider) Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:45:00 -0400 Subject: [Ccarc] about narrow banding Message-ID: There are days I really love my job Oct 27, 2009 3:56 PM, By Glenn Bischoff More From Policy & Law There are days I really love my job Dare to give a hoot FCC needs to be pragmatic regarding future of broadband wireless FCC should heed NPSTC concerns about 2011 deadlines It?s time to rethink the FCC's purpose ? more Journalism is a grind much of the time. Though every issue is different, for editors the mechanics usually are the same from week to week and month to month. Deadlines, stress-inducing as they may be, are a necessary evil. Scrambling to make up the lost time when writers miss their deadlines is an unnecessary, though inevitable, evil. I have heard it said often that the best place for journalists to hang out when in search of a good story is in a bar; based on experience, I think there may be a few other reasons. That said, the job of journalist has its moments, one of which is the opportunity to chat with smart, interesting people. I will have that chance tomorrow, as I moderate a webinar on the FCC?s narrowbanding mandate, which requires land mobile radio systems operating on spectrum between 150 MHz and 512 MHz to utilize 12.5 kHz-wide channels or equivalent efficiency ? instead of 25 kHz-wide channels ? by 2013 to better utilize the spectrum that is available to such entities. The panel includes Tracy Simmons, branch chief for the FCC?s policy division, Roberto Mussenden, an attorney with the same division, Mark Crosby, president and CEO of the Enterprise Wireless Alliance and Ralph Haller, chairman of the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council. They will provide all of the details on what needs to be done, clear up common myths and misconceptions, and examine the likely logistical and engineering challenges that could derail ? or at least delay ? the migration. They?ll also field questions from the audience. One question that is virtually certain to be asked concerns what will happen to a licensee should it fail to execute the narrowbanding migration by the 2013 deadline. In a rehearsal call we conducted last week, Haller said that ?this is a very important question, because there are people out there who absolutely believe that they don?t have to do this and nobody is ever going to find out.? According to Mussenden, those people would be making a very big mistake. ?What will happen is that the coordinators are going to start coordinating applications on your adjacent channels and you?re going to be causing interference to a station that?s in compliance with the commission?s rules,? he said. ?So ? you?re going to go off the air.? I know that if I were tasked with executing the narrowbanding migration, I would want to hear everything this panel had to say on the topic. I hope you can find an hour tomorrow to join us. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From k9dvl at comcast.net Wed Oct 28 09:22:17 2009 From: k9dvl at comcast.net (Dave Rothermel) Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:22:17 -0400 Subject: [Ccarc] [Fwd: [Mw] Arecibo special event station on the air this weekend] Message-ID: <4AE84589.5020007@comcast.net> An embedded message was scrubbed... From: "Charles S. 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The operations are based across 14 states, mostly tied to residential and small-business customers in rural areas. "This transaction is part of our multiyear effort to transform our growth profile and asset base to focus on wireless, FiOS fiber-optic services and other broadband development, and global IP," said Ivan Seidenberg, chief executive officer of Verizon. "All of Verizon's remaining local landline operations have high concentrations of FiOS in more densely populated markets." Verizon shareholders will be big beneficiaries. As part of the deal, Frontier will merge with a new company that will be spun off as common stock to Verizon investors. The transaction is expected to net Verizon and its stockholders a total value of $8.6 billion, according to Verizon. The deal also stands to increase the size and foothold of Stamford Conn.-based Frontier. "With more than 7 million access lines in 27 states, we will be the largest pure rural communications provider of voice, broadband and video services in the U.S.," Frontier CEO Maggie Wilderotter said. The transaction includes all of Verizon's landline assets in Arizona, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin, as well as some assets in California. Verizon expects the deal to be completed within 12 months. The move is the latest in Verizon's efforts to shake up and refocus its operations. Earlier this week, Verizon said it will sell the wireless assets it picked up from Alltel, a requirement of its recent merger with Alltel. AT&T will pay Verizon $2.35 billion for the wireless licenses, subscribers, and other assets. In return, AT&T will sell Verizon its former Centennial wireless operations. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Something was interfering with Ft. Wayne 89.1(WBOI), but not the pirate on the north side of of town near the State Police post. I heard the inteferance and tuned around to find the broadcast. I don't recall the frequency but it was close enough to splash over. This was some sort of religious broadcast. Very overmodulated. Nearly impossible to understand. Also with very short range. I first heard it near Kroeger and lost is mostly by the time I reached the 31 overpass going toward Logan. Do you know where the studio or transmitter is located? hgdd r a e ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Murray To: remailer remailer Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 2:41 PM Subject: [Ccarc] Peru radio station This is from FCC Daily Digest News letter: IN BNPED-20071022AXI NEW 175235 FATHER PETTIT HOME ASSOCIATION Engineering Amendment filed 10/27/2009 E 89.7 MHZ PERU, IN Tom KB9WSL ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Windows 7: I wanted more reliable, now it's more reliable. Wow! _______________________________________________ ccarc mailing list ccarc at culcom.net http://ns1.culcom.net/mailman/listinfo/ccarc -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From n.ninepvq at verizon.net Fri Oct 30 17:51:54 2009 From: n.ninepvq at verizon.net (Todd Ervin) Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:51:54 -0400 Subject: [Ccarc] Peru radio station In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <52DC7AC40576450BAA3CEECC1D398D1D@toddgcjaks494m> Tom 89.5 WBKE is a station in North Manchester where we here to the North Manchester football games. The station is an NPR station. Todd Ervin N9PVQ http://www.w9vmw.org -----Original Message----- From: ccarc-bounces at culcom.net [mailto:ccarc-bounces at culcom.net] On Behalf Of Rae Ervin Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 3:08 PM To: ccarc at culcom.net Subject: Re: [Ccarc] Peru radio station Tom: I may have heard this the other day in Peru on the west side of town. Something was interfering with Ft. Wayne 89.1(WBOI), but not the pirate on the north side of of town near the State Police post. I heard the inteferance and tuned around to find the broadcast. I don't recall the frequency but it was close enough to splash over. This was some sort of religious broadcast. Very overmodulated. Nearly impossible to understand. Also with very short range. I first heard it near Kroeger and lost is mostly by the time I reached the 31 overpass going toward Logan. Do you know where the studio or transmitter is located? hgdd r a e ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Murray To: remailer remailer Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 2:41 PM Subject: [Ccarc] Peru radio station This is from FCC Daily Digest News letter: IN BNPED-20071022AXI NEW 175235 FATHER PETTIT HOME ASSOCIATION Engineering Amendment filed 10/27/2009 E 89.7 MHZ PERU, IN Tom KB9WSL _____ Windows 7: I wanted more reliable, now it's more reliable. Wow! _______________________________________________ ccarc mailing list ccarc at culcom.net http://ns1.culcom.net/mailman/listinfo/ccarc No virus found in this incoming message. 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Rochester is supposed to be getting a new FM station at 90.1 MHZ with 300 watts with antenna 312 feet above average terrain licensed to Noll Club Inc which is the Knights of Columbus organization in Warsaw, IN.The new station will broadcast Catholic Church programming. The antenna will be on a cell phone tower just west of the junction of US Hwy 31 and State RD 14 west of Rochester. I will keep an eye out for more on this Peru station for those interested. The Educationaol Media Foundation (EMF) station in Rochester is a contemporary christian station (KLove)...WQKV 88.5 Mhz broadcasts from the WROI tower with 250 watts with it's antenna at 171 feet above average terrain. This station has a construction permit to go from class A to class B1....and to increase it's power to 25-thousand watts from a tower in Silver Lake Indiana in Kosciusko county with it's antenna at 295 above average terrain...and change frequency to 88.7 Mhz. The FM antenna will be directional with a slight null to the south and south-west. This station will still be licensed to Rochester. Tom KB9WSL > From: ccarc-request at culcom.net > Subject: ccarc Digest, Vol 69, Issue 34 > To: ccarc at culcom.net > Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:55:30 -0400 > > Send ccarc mailing list submissions to > ccarc at culcom.net > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://ns1.culcom.net/mailman/listinfo/ccarc > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > ccarc-request at culcom.net > > You can reach the person managing the list at > ccarc-owner at culcom.net > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of ccarc digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Peru radio station (Tom Murray) > 2. Re: Peru radio station (Rae Ervin) > 3. 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I first heard it near Kroeger and lost is mostly by the time I reached the 31 overpass going toward Logan. Do you know where the studio or transmitter is located? > > hgdd > > r a e > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Tom Murray > To: remailer remailer > Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 2:41 PM > Subject: [Ccarc] Peru radio station > > > This is from FCC Daily Digest News letter: > > > IN BNPED-20071022AXI NEW 175235 FATHER PETTIT HOME ASSOCIATION Engineering Amendment filed 10/27/2009 E 89.7 MHZ PERU, IN Tom KB9WSL > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Windows 7: I wanted more reliable, now it's more reliable. 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The station is an NPR station. > > Todd Ervin > N9PVQ > http://www.w9vmw.org > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ccarc-bounces at culcom.net [mailto:ccarc-bounces at culcom.net] On > Behalf Of Rae Ervin > Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 3:08 PM > To: ccarc at culcom.net > Subject: Re: [Ccarc] Peru radio station > > Tom: > > I may have heard this the other day in Peru on the west side of town. > Something was interfering with Ft. Wayne 89.1(WBOI), but not the pirate > on the north side of of town near the State Police post. I heard the > inteferance and tuned around to find the broadcast. I don't recall the > frequency but it was close enough to splash over. This was some sort of > religious broadcast. Very overmodulated. Nearly impossible to > understand. Also with very short range. I first heard it near Kroeger > and lost is mostly by the time I reached the 31 overpass going toward > Logan. Do you know where the studio or transmitter is located? > > hgdd > > r a e > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Tom Murray > To: remailer remailer > Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 2:41 PM > Subject: [Ccarc] Peru radio station > > This is from FCC Daily Digest News letter: > IN BNPED-20071022AXI NEW 175235 FATHER PETTIT HOME ASSOCIATION > Engineering Amendment filed 10/27/2009 > > > E 89.7 MHZ PERU, IN > Tom KB9WSL > > _____ > > Windows 7: I wanted more reliable, now it's more reliable. 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