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1 Volume 3 Number 2 Febuary Pizza Party! There is no membership meeting this month because it is time for our annual Pizza Party! The party was originally scheduled to be held at Toni and Joes by the southside Walmart. However there was a charge to use the room so we decided to move it over to the Pizza Ranch, 1761 S Pueblo Blvd, Pueblo, CO It is in the same shopping center as Harbor Freight Tools. Membership badges are available. If you want one, it will be provided free of charge to members. Please contact AD0JL (richard@ad0jl.com) with your name and call sign. The next batch will be printed before our regular meetings. Calendar of Events February 12 th - PARC Pizza Pizza Ranch 6:30 pm. February 22 nd - ARES Pueblo ESC 6:00 pm. (ARES meetings are now on the last Thursday of the month) March 12 th - PARC Membership Pueblo ESC 6:00 pm. All meetings are now being held at the new Pueblo County Emergency Services Center 101 W. 10 th St. Pueblo, unless otherwise noted. It is at the corner of 10 th and Main. 1

2 PARC Minutes for 01/08/18 PUEBLO AMATUER RAIDO CLUB MEETINGS MINUTES January 8, 2017 Meeting called to order at 6:00 p.m. Treasure REPORT: Balance brought forward $ despot $180 new balance $ expensep.o.box $ keys for trailer $32.67 total expenses $ new balance $ REPEATER Chas still the same Radio drawing 2m Mike C. 2m Dan W. Power supply Brain T. HF Darrel B. Pizza Party Feb. 12, at 6:00 p.m. at Pizza Ranch Field Day June 23&24 Corn Feed Aug 18. Election of new officer, President Steve Worley (wb0slw) Vice President Brad Fox (ke0llh) Secretary La Dawn Worley (kd0qms) Treasure Carrie Worley (kd0sov) Board of Directors Deb Balsick (nd0q) Brain Thompson (ke0kep) and Chas Carmichael (k0ffw) Deb want off of trustee of our repeaters Chas will take over. Tech. class starting March 8, through April 17 th from 6:30-8:30 the class will be taught by Bill, Brain, Chas, and Braid. It will be held at First U.M.C 310 W.11 th MEXT MEETING Feb.12th Submitted by La Dawn Agenda for Agenda. February 12, 2018 Minutes of last meeting Treasures report Old business Eat pizza Repeaters and Nets PHC Repeaters, ND0Q Trustee: offset 88.5 Tone, Baculite Mesa (Skywarn and primary) offset 88.5 Tone, Pueblo offset 88.5 Tone, 12 Mile offset 88.5 Tone, Rattlesnake Butte - Down temporarily due to wind DMR 12 Mile, Stand Alone DMR Jackson Hill, Stand Alone offset 88.5 Tone, Walsenburg Coming Soon! Nets: PHC NET: local; backup ARES NET: pm local; backup ARES Simplex Net 146:580 Thurs 7pm. No net on last Thurs of the month due to the ARES meeting. NEW HAMS! Checking into a net is one of the best ways to ease into the hobby. It is also a good way to learn net procedures should you want to get involved in emergency communications. 2

Repeater Group. This will greatly extend the range of this repeater.

This will also be linked and should provide good coverage.

Winter Field Day was well received by the community.

3 Club News The repeater on Baculite Mesa is on the final stages to be linked up to the Cheyenne Mountain Repeater Group. This will greatly extend the range of this repeater. Bill Nicoll is also putting a 70 cm coordinated repeater pair up at his cabin in Rosita. This will also be linked and should provide good coverage. Chaz Carmichel will be taking over as repeater trustee for PARC from Deb Balsick. Winter Field Day was well received by the community. The communications trailer was set up at the southside Walmart in Pueblo on Saturday Jan 27. Dan Wantuck talks on a radio inside the emergency communications trailer, on site at the Southside Walmart in Pueblo, Colorado on Jan, 27, (John jaques, The Pueblo Chieftain) Left. Installing the antennas to link the 79 repeater on Baculite Mesa. 3

TUBES TUBES TUBES! The Pueblo Ham Club has a large inventory of vacuum tubes for sale. If you need tubes, please contact Jon Fredericks at 719-547-7537. Prices vary.

4 TUBES TUBES TUBES! The Pueblo Ham Club has a large inventory of vacuum tubes for sale. If you need tubes, please contact Jon Fredericks at Prices vary. For sale two new lightning surge protectors. OPEK Model LP-350A Coaxial Surge protectors. Price is $32.45 each. This is what you need to protect your equipment from lightning. Contact Stan Clark WB0JRG at or see him at the next meeting. Kenwood TS-480 SAT 100W HF/50 MHZ All Mode Transceiver with built in auto tuner. This is an almost new radio. It can be used base or mobile. Comes with microphone, separation cable and manual. $650. Don AD0RQ Old style FCC AMATEUR licenses and Skywarn IDs available. All license classes now available! Personalized replications of the 1970s and 80s FCC licenses and laminated photo Skywarn IDs are now available. Licenses are $15 for a printed copy. Message AD0JL for more info. Skywarn IDs are $10. Visit for more info or richard@ad0jl.com AD0JL will be willing to trade graphics and web design services for any used radio odds and ends. Contact Richard at richard@ad0jl.com or at AD0JL is also looking for FCC part 15 certified radios such as the old Kenwood Pueblo Zoo TK-280s to use for youth programs at the Ice Arena. Remember if you would like to place an ad for something to sell or are looking for something to buy, please contact AD0JL on the 79, richard@ad0jl.com, or at No calls before noon or after 9pm, please. Wanted! Your photos! We need pictures of our events, past present and future for the website and the archives. 4

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6 PARC Organizational Structure GRIDLEAK DISCLAIMER... The GRIDLEAK is published by the Pueblo Amateur Radio Club, INC., P.O. Box 92, Pueblo, CO The deadline for articles submitted for publication is the 20th of the month prior to the article being published. Members are encouraged to submit original articles. Please send all correspondence to the above club address. Permission is granted to reprint any article in the GRIDLEAK as long as credit is given to both the original author and the GRIDLEAK. All submissions are considered the opinion of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of Pueblo Ham Club In. or the Editor. Articles are considered for editorial content and the PHC is not responsible for technical or editorial errors. Richard Holmes AD0JL Editor. articles to Richard A KEY TO GETTING THIS OUT ON TIME IS FOR PEOPLE TO GET ME THEIR INFORMATION IN ON TIME. FRIENDLY REMINDER...IF THE CONTENT IS NOT WHAT INTERESTS YOU THEN PLEASE TAKE THE TIME AND SUBMIT ARTICLES FOR PUBLICATION TO THE EDITOR! 6

7 MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION FOR PUEBLO AMATEUR RADIO CLUB INC. Date: ARRL Member? New Member/Renewal? Name: Address: City: State: ZIP: Your CALLSIGN: License Class: HamPhone: Cell Phone Additional Family Members to Join/Renew Name Call: Class: Name Call: Class: Name Call: Class: Would you like your Grid leak to be delivered by E MAIL or regular mail? COSTS: Full Member $25, Senior (60+) $20, Associate $20, Family $35 Senior Family $27.50, Student $20. Make checks payable to "PARC Circle Membership Above Total Amount Included: or Toll Free Main Street, Newington, CT USA Welcome to the only national organization representing Amateur Radio in the US. As an ARRL member you support the ranks of thousands of other ham radio enthusiasts shaping the Amateur Radio service today. If you consider yourself an active ham... you need ARRL now. If you are not presently an active ham... let ARRL help you.as a member of the ARRL, for as little as $39.00 per year, here are some of the benefits you will enjoy:qst Magazine your monthly membership journal Online Services Download digital copies of QST articles from 1915 through December 2006 view and print your favorite articles and projects. ARRL Diamond Club members have exclusive access to the most recent years of QST online archive. QST, QEX and NCJ article index forwardinge Newsletters delivered to your inbox A voice in the affairs of ARRL and ham radio through locally appointed volunteers Publication Specials and on line course discounts Emergency Communication Services Technical and Regulatory Information ServicesOperating Awards Ham Radio Equipment Insurance Plan Available Outgoing Foreign QSL Service Plus much more! 7

8 PUEBLO AMATEUR RADIO CLUB, INC. P.O. BOX 92 PUEBLO, CO ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED 8

Volume 3 Number 5 May Club News

Volume 3 Number 5 May Club News Volume 3 Number 5 May 2018 Club News The 146.790 repeater on Baculite Mesa is linked up to the Cheyenne Mountain Repeater Group. This will greatly extend the range of this repeater. The 73 repeater on