London Bridge Amateur Radio Association November 2013 WINGS, WHEELS, AND WAVES L BARA DEMONSTRATES HAM RADIO TO THE COMMUNITY LBARA participated in the Lake Havasu City Airport Open House on Saturday, November 11th. Along with the aircraft displays, automobiles, and other venders the Club set up a display of ham radio and our Emergency Communications trailer. The Club had an operating HF station as well as local VHF operations. We had approximately 40 people stop by and express interest in what the Club was doing to provide emergency communications. A few even picked up some flyers and inquired on how to become a ham. The code practice keyer was a big hit too. Lyle Ross(W6TPT), the event Chairman, was assisted by Club members: Jim Varner(AE6N), Dick Jernigan(W7DXJ), Carl Schiller(W7CRL), Charlie Kotan(K0TAN), and Tom Hutter(K7THJ).
LBARA MEETING SCHEDULE MONTH BOARD REGULAR NOV NOTE: BOARD 11/21 DEC MEETINGS WILL NOW 12/19 JAN TAKE PLACE ONE 1/16 FEB HOUR PRIOR TO THE 2/20 MAR REGULAR MEETING 3/20 ELECTRICAL TRAINING FOR AMATEUR RADIO PERSONNEL TOM HUTTER, K7TJH Tom Hutter will be presenting Electrical Training For Amateur Radio Personnel at the November LBARA meeting. Tom is currently the head of our ARES group and a retired Lake Havasu City fireman. His presentation was designed to train fire department personnel and he has agreed to show us just how dangerous power lines can be to hams. Be sure and attend this presentation.this may save your life someday. System Location Freq Offset PL MCARS Bullhead City 145.27-131.8 Kingman 146.76-131.8 Kingman 448.25-131.8 Lake Havasu 146.62-131.8 Willow Beach 147.12-131.8 CRRA Lake Havasu City 146.96-162.2 Lake Havasu City 224.24-156.7 Lake Havasu City 146.64-156.7 Lake Havasu City 449.95-141.3 BARN Lake Havasu City 447.54-136.5 Las Vegas, NV 449.95 136.5 Onyx(Palm Springs) 449.34-136.5 Orange County, CA 447.54-100 2
Lake Havasu City ARES Post Exercise Report November 6 th, 2013, State wide Power Outage Drill By Tom Hutter, K7TJH LHC EC The Lake Havasu City ARES team responded to the state wide drill with a total of eight members participating: K0TAN - Charlie Kotan, K7LY - Jerry France, K7YQ - Lyle Sibbald, K7TJH - Tom Hutter, N6BRH - Bruce Hunt, W7CRL - Carl Schiller, W7DXJ - Dick Jernigan, and WB5VUH - Bob Ideker. Two team members, N6BRH Bruce and K7YQ Lyle, were deployed to the local Red Cross shelter at the Lake High School at approximately 07:00 hrs. They supported the Red Cross operations by providing licensed radio operators to set up and operate their amateur radio equipment. They maintained contact with the ARES team using VHF and were successful in communicating with the Red Cross Net on HF radio. The Lake Havasu City ARES team activated the emergency communications trailer at 07:30 hrs and set up a wire antenna in an inverted vee configuration, directly outside of the Lake Havasu City EOC at Fire Station #2 on Kiowa Blvd. The UHF link to our other ARES teams in the cities of Bullhead and Kingman was not connected and would not connect; this resulted in the need to use VHF net (W7DXJ) locally to establish communications with all team members. The trailer HF radio was tested at 08:20 hrs and a communications check was conducted on 3.980 MHz with KD7MIA - Bill Smith, Mohave County DEC in Bullhead; the test was successful. Bill was advised that we were going to contact and monitor the State RACES NCS W7IO at 3.990 MHz. The ARES team initiated contact as K7LHC with the State RACES NCS, W7IO - Gary Hamman, at approximately 08:38 hrs on 3.990 MHz, the contact was successful. At approximately 09:15 hrs the NCS advised the net that he would be checking propagation on 40 meters 7.252 MHz. All stations changed frequency to 7.252, and contacted the NCS W7IO. The test was successful and improved our ability to hear Kingman and Bullhead as well as other stations around the state. The Net then returned to 75 meters at 3.990 MHz. At approximately 10:30 hrs band conditions on 75 meters made it necessary to change to 40 meters at 7.252 MHz as the primary net frequency. The ARES team re-established contact with the Net NCS on the 7.252 MHz frequency and continued to maintain check in s and monitor net traffic. The LHC ARES team with permission of the NCS attempted to contact TOAD #1, NF7D - Bob in Kingman at approximately 13:15 hrs, but was unsuccessful. It was later determined, Toad #1, had shut down at approximately 12:15 hrs. At approximately 13:45 hrs with the Lake Havasu City EOC shut down; the NCS was advised that we were going off the air, and the emergency communications trailer was deactivated. All equipment was shut down and made ready for storage. 3
MORE PICS FROM THE ARES EXERCISE CHRISTMAS PARTY London Bridge Amateur Radio Association Date: Saturday, December 7th Where: Golden Corral (Northwest Dining Room) Time: 5:30 P.M. Cost: Simply pay for your food and drink as you enter. Your choice of anything on the menu. Please bring a $5 gift for each person in your party to be shared in our gift exchange. 4
LBARA MEMBERS CONQUER CROSSMAN PEAK Repairs needed to be made to the 144.39 APRS repeater located atop Crossman Peak. A few hardy souls from LBARA agreed to make the trip up the mountain and bring down the repeater for repairs. This repeater is used for the APRS site in Lake Havasu City. It also provides the out-going data from the Club s weather station located on Lake Havasu to the National Weather Service in Las Vega as well as interested parties on the APRS system s internet site. The Static Editor heard this one from one of the mountain men and it went something like this. it was a trip of a lifetime, but I don t think I ll ever try this again! 5
SATURDAY MORNING S BREAKFAST HAS MOVED! You re all invited to join LBARA members for a great breakfast each and every Saturday morning at a new location, Peggy s Sunrise Café. Peggy s is located at 1584 Countryshire. Breakfast is served at 6 a.m. (or earlier if you want a good seat!) Most important, the food is great!!!! Upcoming Activities and Hamfests Supestition Superfest, 12/7, Schnepf Farmx. Queen Creek, AZ (www.superstitionsuperfest.com) Quartzfest/ARRL Convention, 1/19-26,2014, Quartzsite, AZ (www.quartzfest.org) Yuma Hamfest, Yuma, AZ, 2/14-15, 2014 (www.yumahamfest.org) Palm Springs Hamfest, 3/15/2014, ( http://palmspringshamfest.com/) Are you looking to upgrade your license? Give our VE Exam Team a call. See Ed Gillespie, AB7EM at #453.7412 6
FOR SALE FOR TRADE: Would like to trade a Kenwood 271 2 meter radio for a 440 radio. You can contact Bob at <bovan@yahoo.com>. Bob Evans, K7RCE. FOR SALE: D-104 Microphone (Amped, but modified for SSB) - $25 MFJ 989C Tuner - $100 Vibroflex Key (Gold) - $100 CB Whips modified to the 10, 12, 15, 17 bands - make offer. Also other misc. parts and equipment. Take a look and make your offer. See Earl Reynolds, KB7NJW, at #566.4144 in Lake Havasu. LBARA OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS Jerry France (K7LY) Carl Schiller (W7CRL) Reiner Schick (KD5MBA) Lyle Ross(W6TPT) Dick Jernigan (W7DXJ) Al Key(WA6FLL) Jim Gould(KF7X) President Vice-President Treasurer Secretary Director (2 YR) Director (2 YR) Director (1 YR) VISIT OUR WEBSITE www.lbara.net FROM THE EDITOR Cliff Baril (W7IRC) Director (1YR) Jim Varner(AE6N) Sgt-at-Arms Linda-Martin Hunt(W7LAM) Web Master Jerry France(K7LY) Static Editor Lana Lotspeich(N7WST) Membership Chair If you have anything you would like to see included in these issues, please let me know. I m always looking for articles, news items, construction articles, or anything that might be of interest to our readers. You can contact me at 928.855.7941 or email at grf@uneedspeed.net or francej@ajsinsurance.com. 7
L.B.A.R.A P.O. BOX 984 LAKE HAVASU CITY ARIZONA 86405 ATTENTION READERS Please note that this issue represents a work-in-progress and there are a number of changes to be made in subsequent issues. I would greatly appreciate your comments, both good and bad, as well as any suggestions for future issues. This issue also begins our first attempt to deliver the STATIC to your doorstep electronically. Please keep me abreast of any email address changes you may have and I promise to have this delivered promptly and accurately. Also, I still have a number of articles awaiting publication and will do so in the future. This is your newsletter, so keep the articles, letters, and pictures coming. I can be reached at home (855.7941) or via email at grf@npgcable.com. EQUIPMENT FOR SALE EDITOR S NOTE : List your items for sale here. Ham radio related only, please. Include a picture if you like (please use a jpg format). Email all to me at grf@npgcable.com) along with your name and phone number. 8