THE RESULTS ARE IN FOR 2017! Results for club officers; W5SLA Helping to make Ham Radio great again President: Ron WB5CXJ Vice Pres: John AA5UY Treasurer: Tom KD5GFG Secretary: Frank WA5VCS Board: Paul WB9SUG John KF5OPB Glen KG5CEN -SK- 1
HAMFEST (Bill KF5PQ): The kick off meeting will be the last Thursday of this month 1/26/17 at 7:30 PM. Thanks to John AA5UY the Ham fest page is now on the W5SLA site. Bill is working to get new vendors and resign old vendors. If anyone has access to Video projection equipment he would like to consider video projection at the Ham fest. Also if you know of interesting speakers he would like to juice up the forum presentations. Watch for updates @ http://www.w5sla.net/hamfest.htm 2
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2 Meters Repeaters 147.27 MHz (+) CTCSS 114.8 70 Centimeters Repeater 444.425 MHz (+) CTCSS 114.8 444.100 MHz (+) D-STAR (Limited Range) 2 Meters Packet 145.010 MHz FM AX.25 W5SLA-4 Digi-peater / Node (SIL) W5SLA-3 Mailbox W5SLA-5 NWS Mailbox 144.390 MHz FM AX.25 Area APRS objects & digi s St. Tammany ARES Net Every Tuesday at 8:00 pm on the W5SLA 2 meter repeater 2 Meters Club Net Every Friday at 7:30 pm on the 2 meter repeater 10 Meters Club Net Every Friday at 8:00 pm on Or about 28.425 MHz USB 75 Meter Club Net Alligator Net Every Friday 8:30 pm On or about 3.920 MHz LSB Some of your OARC Facilities 4
Subject: Re: Special Event station Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 19:57:50-0600 From: Bill Neubauer To: John Guthans John: Here are the details of the cruise: Thirty Five (35) ham radio operators from the US, Europe, and Japan will be on the Carnival Cruise Lines ship 'Breeze' (1104 ft long and weighing 130,000 tons) during the period 8 to 14 January 2017. The ship will depart Galveston, TX on the afternoon of Sunday, 8 Jan and return Saturday morning, 14 Jan. While in international waters, operators will sign "HP" slant "home call-sign" slant "maritime mobile". No operations will be authorized while the ship is in port (11 Jan: Jamaica, 12 Jan: Grand Cayman, and 13 Jan: Cozumel) during daytime hours). There are two (2) Kenwood TS-480HX 200W transceivers using individual screwdriver 102" whip antennas mounted on the rear of the ship.. We will operate SSB and CW on all bands 80-10. Bill (W5LB- Madisonville) plans to concentrate on PSK-31 and RTTY on the usual 80/40/20m frequencies. We appreciate this opportunity to contact the ham radio community from a decent fixed station with decent antennas and with the full support of Carnival Cruise Lines. The ship is registered in Panama and must use the HP prefix. 73s Bill Neubauer HP/W5LB/MM http://www.arrl.org/special-event-stations 5
The Ozone Amateur Radio Club began in 1964. It started out as a group of people getting together and forming a club and their common interest was Ham Radio. As time went along this group grew and they purchased the land and built their own building that came to be known as the Ozone Amateur Emergency Communications Center, which is located at 2190 4th Street in Slidell, LA next to the City Court of Slidell. http://www.w5sla.net/about.htm 6
A current look Did you know that W5SLA owns and operates a packet system that is a part of a greater networked system that is geared towards public service via the NWS for surrounding areas? W5SLA-5 LIX NWS Collocated Station SIL Digi-peater Node Mailbox 145.010 PIC WASH1 BTR2 HMU GPT You can also find Objects, i-gates, positions and digi s on 144.390 (APRS) as well. MSY Services available to HAM s via this network are; Mailbox based P2P messaging, e-mail gateways via Winlink packet, BBS systems, NTS and more 7
A 24 hour look into local APRS activity courtesy APRS.FI APRS has an objects built in to basically advertise services in the local area. Like repeaters, PBSS, mailboxes, digi-peaters, EOC s and much more. If anyone is interested in learning more, I have successfully used 3 different software systems to do this to date; 1.) APRSCE-32 (Windows) 2.) XASTIR (Raspberry Pi) 3.) AGWTracker (Windows) All of these systems work both via RF and via APRS-IS (internet) simultaneously or either one individually. 8
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http://www.arrl.org/qst If you are not a member of the ARRL. Joining now would be a good thing. The CEO is embracing the maker world and HAM radio is at several fronts as far as change goes. SDR, digital audio, data modes, global networking, organizing and of course; innovation. Below is only a brief excerpt from this month s (January 2017) QST index and an article from the ARRL CEO Tom Gallagher - NY2RF 10
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While I don t believe ALL the tally s are in yet; It s looking good for the home team! WAY TO GO JOHN AND JUDY NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS! 12
HAPPY NEW YEAR and GOOD DX in 2017 EVERYONE DE W5SLA - SK 13