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1 Issued October 2014 Issue No. 57 Club Website: S-Meter Club Repeater: Output MHz; Input MHz, No Tone Next Meeting Friday November 21 st 2014 Meeting QTH is: Walnut and Hawthorne Street in Colville Don t Forget the eating before the meeting 6:00pm Rancho Chico CLUB NET: Sunday Evenings 8:00p.m. Local

2 The President s Corner With the close of summer and the cooler and cold weather on the way it seems that at this time of the year we start turning our thoughts to our radios. This is a good time to renew old friendships and make new one on the radio. Halloween is over and there was a very good turnout for Hoot Owl, with 14 HAMs participating. Even though we had some rain it didn't seem to slow or hinder the little monsters, goblins, princess, super heroes or any others out there. There were a couple of radios that went out of service for a short time but with a prayer and good luck they were fixed and put back in service. Remember that our November meeting we will be having our elections for next year's officers and discussing our upcoming Christmas party each is on December 19. Also don't forget our Sunday night net at 8 pm so tune in and let us know how everything is going for you and share any upcoming plans or projects you may have. 73 s Tom Howe KE7TEG Announcements Northwestern Division Scholarship Fund For more information on the Scholarship or to make a contribution, go to or contact your Section Manager. ARRL W1AW/7 QSO party fun had by all - de Bill KL7BB Go to and check out the whole story! Thanks Bill KL7BB 2

3 Highlights from our October meeting. Attendance: 16 Meeting was called to order by Tom KE7TEG, at 19:30hrs A quorum of officers were present. Minutes of the September meeting were read and accepted. Treasurer's Report $9, ARES Dave WD7K was absent. PARC Net George W7WBN currently only has five operators, he would like a couple more please! Board Report - Bruce KC7H reported the nominations for new officers is open until the elections which will be held at the November meeting. There is a board member position open. Nominations so far: President: Tom KE7TEG Vice Pres: Gimme AL7LB Secretary: Ed KF7DVL Treasurer: Randy N7CKJ Board Member: John KL7LL and Diane KC7WQB Announcements: Cynthia - Karl WX7DX and Cleo KC7TTM were in a car accident. Cleo was in an induced coma at Sacred Heart, and may be moved to St. Luke s hospital. The prognosis is good. Bruce Let us know that Ric Tell K5UJU has been sick in Nevada we wish him a speedy recovery. George Reported on the bike race in Dave s absence, one person had a heart attack, but everything else went well. Randy The Spokane Hamfest had a good turn out again this year, thank you to those clubs members that helped out. Old Business: None New Business: Christmas party for our December meeting 19 th and 20 th were discussed, Debbie KF7GUB will book the room at the ambulance shack, Tom KE7TEG volunteered to smoke and roast (2) turkeys. Rest is potluck see Debbie to sign-up for what you are bringing. The club will provide the meat, plates, and utensils. Jim WW7DD volunteered to do the annual gift basket, and cook a ham. We will do the gift exchange again try to keep your gift reasonable priced, this is voluntary. Hoot Owl discussion followed Bruce KC7H answered most of the questions, the ARES command vehicle will be present, all volunteers to report Westside of Colville City park by 5:30pm. Club Logo s were brought up again tabled to November meeting. Meeting was adjourned. Minutes respectfully submitted by: Edward Zeiser KF7DVL Secretary 3

4 ARES Report by Dave - WD7K The 2014 Hoot Owl Patrol was another success. No lost children, unsafe bonfires, drunks, speeders, etc.. The ARES bus was parked at Yep Kanum Park (aka Colville City Park) for Net Control. We even had two trick or treaters come to the bus! The Hoot Owl Patrol is a lot of fun, but it also qualifies as an ARES training exercise. A report gets filed with the state that lists the volunteers, miles traveled, and hours spent. We had 14 people involved who drove a total of 217 miles and spent 57.3 hours. Colville s City Police Chief Bob Meshishnek stopped by the bus a couple of times over the course of the evening but was pretty good at evading the camera. He thanked us several times for what we do every Halloween. Thanks to Bill-KD7MMU, Bruce-KC7H, Tracie-KF7DRA, Tommy-KE7TEG, Gimmie-AL7LB, Cynthia-WW7CA, Bert- N7YPP, Kris-KB7TWC, George-W7WBN and [his son], Jeff-K7JSM, Michael-KF7SYS, and Bert-KE7MAK. Special thanks to David-KF7QEN for stepping up to the Net Control hot seat! ARES Net is every Sunday at 7:45pm local. The Stevens County ARES net can be heard on the repeater located SW of Colville on Monumental Mountain and, when linked, the repeater (which has a PL tone of 77.0) located NW of Spokane on Lookout Point. The Washington State Emergency Net (WSEN) anyone with HF privileges is welcome (encouraged) to check in when Stevens County is called. Saturdays at 0900 on 3985 khz and on Mondays at 1830 also on 3985 khz. Dave Klimas - WD7K Stevens County ARES Emergency Coordinator H (509) C (509) wd7k@hughes.net QST QST QST All ARES Members and potential-members. WHAT: Presentation on "Message Handling & Radiograms" WHEN: Saturday December 6, 2014 TIME: 11:00AM WHERE: Abundant Life Fellowship, E. 2nd & Clay [basement] in Chewelah, WA On Saturday morning directly after the regular NEWARC meeting guest speakers Don Felgenhauer - KB7BFL and Michael Carey - KD7GHZ will present a talk on message handling. Don and Michael are two of the most knowledgeable people in Eastern Washington, if not the whole state of Washington. This is a very important and helpful skill to have for anyone who wants to help in the event of an emergency or disaster. 4

5 Gimmie AL7LB and Jeff K7JSM Checking in at the City Park. Hoot Owl Patrol 2014 Pictures By: Bert Klimas KE7MAK David KF7QEN learns the ropes of being net control with Dave WD7K looking on! Dave WD7K Tom KE7TEG Waiting to sign in! Kris KB7TWC Let s get this party started! Cynthia WW7CA and Gimmie AL7LB Partner up to cruise the town. 5

6 Tracie KF7DRA With Daughter Patty worked foot patrol. Go Indians as Dakota (misses the fun) to play in the Pep Band! David & Command gets trick or treaters! David KF7QEN checks in Bill KB7MMU George s (W7WGN) son-in-law Steve volunteered while home from Hamilton Montana; do you think he knows what he got himself into? Michael KF7SYS doesn t think so! Bert N7YPP dressed will for the chilly evening ahead. 6

7 ARRL Centennial QSO Party 2014 The ARRL Centennial QSO Party is a year-long operating event that celebrates hams making contacts. The Centennial QSO Party is made-up of two main activities: (1) W1AW operating portable in each state and most territories, and (2) The Centennial Points Challenge which is the accumulation of points from qualifying contacts made throughout This last week November 5-11 (UTC) was the second Washington State time to host the portable operation as W1AW/7. I was fortunate in that I was invited to operate my station as W1AW/7 during this time. Jim - W7JWT joined me for an afternoon of operating on 20m. Band conditions were up and down throughout the day but together we totaled 760 QSO's. The week's total for my station was 1,228 QSO's. The stats for the entire State of Washington W1AW/7 operation, was 37 operating stations, 88 operators, and 45,542 QSO's. All in all, fun was had by all who participated. For more information on the 2014 ARRL Centennial QSO Party visit this website: Dave - WD7K Dave WD7K and Jim W7JWT work hard to make 760 QSO s. Way to go guys! Nice looking station Dave. 7

8 PARC Sunday Night Net PARC Net Simplex Test November 23 rd 2014 In an emergency, if the PARC 2-Meter repeater is disabled, members must communicate by Simplex Mode. Given the relative short range of 2-Meters, and natural barriers in the area, members/visitors may not be able to communicate throughout the county. Because the present Net Control Operators reside north and south of Colville, a few tests will be conducted to determine what locations are able to communicate directly or by relay. Periodically, in conjunction with the Sunday Night Net: At the part where we conduct the roll call everyone (members and visitors) will shift their gear to the Simplex Mode and set up on mc. The assigned Net Control Operator will conduct the roll call and the remaining net procedures on the new frequency. Another Net Control Operator will remain on mc to take the roll for members/visitors who cannot make contact on Simplex. Your help and cooperation in conducting these tests will be greatly appreciated. The more folks we can get to check in the better the data collected. When completed, the results will be published here. The first of these tests will be conducted next Sunday, November 23 rd. If there are any questions please contact George, W7WBN, either on or at audax@gotsky.com Thank You George W7WGN Sunday Night Net Manager 8

9 PARC BIO October 2014 sorry nobody stepped forward this month. Where is he? Corporal Gomez is stationed at Camp Pendleton in Oceanside California. Of course the warm weather and beautiful beaches fits right in with what he left behind in Japan. Mailing Address: CPL Gomez, Alberto CLB-15 TSLS Box Camp Pendleton, CA

10 The Radio Corner by Jim W7JWT The Zenith Model 8G005Y Trans-Oceanic Last month was the introduction of the first Zenith Trans- Oceanic, the 7G605 Clipper. The speaker cloth started as a clipper ship and ended with a B-17 bomber. Well we won the war, and now was the time to really sell some radios to the public. Actually the initial design for the 1946 TO started in the spring of Radio was really coming into its own, and the war over seas just increased the public interest in the news. A top shelf radio had to work well and be something special to look at too. From a looks standpoint the designers favored the colors of black or dark brown with bright gold trim for the Zenith line. This color scheme was used throughout the1940s and most of the1950s, and related at least in part to the Zenith motto of the era, The Royalty of Radio. The design theme for most of the post war line involved the use of concentric semi-circles and other related forms. This late Art Deco design theme is found throughout the Zenith line for the remainder of the tube era. The upwardly rotating front door also newly introduced remained a signature feature of Zenith Trans-Oceanic from 1946 until the demise of the line in The extensive use of war-developed plastics was adopted throughout the radio industry. The Black Stag cabinet covering was one of the first uses of what would become known as vinyl-covered fabrics. The electronics design also had to include innovation. Bringing out a post-war radio in a post-war cabinet was a strategy which most manufactures used to meet the immediate post-war surge of demand in the civilian radio market but not for Zenith. Although the 8G005Y and its pre-war ancestor, the 7G605 Clipper, share the basic super heterodyne circuit design and even have somewhat similar tube complements, the 8G005Y cannot be considered a pre-war radio in a post-war cabinet. While maintaining the pre-war loktal-type tubes, the 8G005Y circuit design was a more modern design with several times the number of components dedicated to improvements of selectivity, sensitivity and audio quality than was the case in its ancestor the Clipper. (If you remember, the Clipper was based on an AM radio design that was modified to pick up shortwave in addition). The 8G005Y was a much better radio with more components deployed in a more sophisticated manner. It was also the most electronically complex tube-type Trans-Oceanic ever produced. The post-war Trans-Oceanic was teased with a non-specific Back Soon-Better than Ever magazine ad in November The 8G005Y was actually introduced in April 1946, with a massive spring ad blitz in major national magazines. A typical advertisement was a full page ad in Better Homes and Gardens, May 1946, with the headline: NEW SUPER POWER TRANS-OCEANIC PORTABLE RADIO. The 8G005Y initially sold for $120. These early advertisements also introduced companion Radios : the new Zenith Universal Portable and the new Zenith Global. Electronically, the 6G001 Universal was one of the finest portable AM radios offered in the post-war market. Its circuits employed six tubes rather than the four or five tubes then common in portables and small table models. It was, and is, an excellent AM radio producing very mellow audio, thanks to its comparatively large cabinet / sound box. The Global was the Universal with the addition of a shortwave band of MHz. The Global appeared in only the earliest print advertisements in the spring of It was produced in very low numbers and is quite rare today. In addition, another very rare radio was the 6G001Y Universal built with the cabinet made entirely from aluminum formed to emulate the wooden cabinet used on all other versions. It is entirely speculation, but this unusual model was probably an experiment to determine the economics of shifting from wood to aluminum cabinets on Zenith portables. Commander McDonald wrote 10

11 several internal memoranda, even before World War II, urging Zenith engineers to experiment with aluminum, then considered a marvelous new material. This article was based on info obtained from the book, The Zenith Trans-Oceanic, The Royalty of Radios, by John H. Bryant and Harold N. Cones. See you next month. Happy Thanksgiving! CUL & 73s from Jim W7JWT I have not restored this one, but it was purchased in excellent shape, (I think). It was the only TO to have a front door hiding a radio station frequency listing and log book for the listener. At that time, logging AM radio and short wave DX was a big deal. Listeners were introduced to skip. 11

12 The heating element device was an external short wave antenna that could be stuck to car / train windows. (The AM antenna mounted on the front flip up panel could also be mounted externally). The portable battery was very heavy. It included an A battery for tube filaments and a B battery for tube plate voltages. 12

13 This is the AM only Universal. This is the Global with the short wave band. You can see the additional band switch and tone switch on the front, along with the short wave antenna in the back. Here are close-ups of the insides - very similar. 13

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16 Calendar of Events 2014 November nd 2 nd 2 nd 4 th 6 th 7 th 8 th 11 th 11 th 14 th 15 th 15 th 15 th 16 th 17 th 21 st 21 st 23 rd 27 th 28 th 29 th 30 th December st 4 th 5 th 6 th 6 th 7 th 7 th 12 th 13 th 13 th 14 th 19 th 19 th 21 st 21 st 22 nd 25 th 26 th 27 th 27 th 28 th Sunday Night Net - Net Control Operator George W7WBN ARRL Sweepstakes Contest CW High Speed Club CW Contest Medicare Open Enrollment Spokane DX Monthly meeting Argonne Library Spokane Valley 7:00pm NCCC RTTY Sprint ARRL EME Contest Sunday Night Net - Net Control Operator Courtney KE7ZDL Veterans Day NCCC RTTY Sprint SARL Field Day Contest ARRL Sweepstakes Contest SSB Holiday Craft Sale at the Agri-Center Colville 9:00am to 3:00pm Sunday Night Net - Net Control Operator Karl WX7DX Run for the Bacon QRP Contest NCCC Rtty Sprint PARC Monthly Meeting 7:30pm Election for New Officers Snacks by Kris Watson Sunday Night Net - Net Control Operator Cynthia WW7CA Simplex Test Thanksgiving Day Downtown Colville Tree Lighting CQ Worldwide DX Contest CW Sunday Night Net - Net Control Operator Jim WW7DD First Day of Winter Gingerbread House Contest NCCC RTTY Sprint and ARRL 160-Meter Contest ARRL EME Contest Presentation on Message Handling and Radiograms 11:00am Chewelah SARL Digital Contest Sunday Night Net - Net Control Operator George W7WBN NCCC RTTY Sprint ARRL 10-Meter Contest Colville Chamber Gala Dinner Dance Sunday Night Net - Net Control Operator Courtney KE7ZDL NCCC RTTY Sprint PARC Christimas Party and Monthly Meeting 6:00pm Ambulance Building Potluck Sunday Night Net - Net Control Operator New George WA7MLS ARRL Rookie Roundup, CW Run for the Bacon QRP Contest Christmas Day! NCCC RTTY Sprint RAC Winter Contest Stew Perry Topband Challenge Sunday Night Net - Net Control Operator Cynthia WW7CA o Calendar of events will be an ongoing part of the news letter, submit your dates to parcnews@hotmail.com Source: PNW Hamfair webpage at 16