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PART I) Successful Field Day Events for Local Ham Clubs Tallahassee Amateur Radio Society July 2005 The Tallahassee Amateur Radio Society meets at 7:00 p. m. on the first Thursday of every month. Our primary meeting location is the conference room on the upper floor of the Publix on Ocala Road in Tallahassee. Talk-in on the AE4S repeater 146.655 (down .600, tone 94.8), or 146.520 simplex if you require entry into the building FIELD DAY EDITION (PART I) Successful Field Day events for Local Ham Clubs Tallahassee Amateur Radio Society TARS Officers Elected at the Annual Meeting of the Tallahassee Amateur Radio Society The 2005 – 2006 TARS Officers elected: President: John Swindle - KI4EWB Vice President: Dan Moniz - KI4HGO Secretary: John Love - NZ4QJ Treasurer: Carlton W. Wells - AG4UT The Tallahassee Amateur Radio Society July 2005 1 TARS Meeting June 3, 2005 June 2nd 2005 TARS meeting called to order by Brian AI4AI at 7:30 p.m. at Publix Ocala road Tallahassee Dan KI4IGO presented a slate of candidates for 2005-06as follows: Pres.John KI4EWB V.P. Dan KI4IGO Sect. John NZ4QJ Tres. Carlton AG4UT Slate was elected unamiously. Congratulations to the new officers. John AD4DO presented a program on message handling. John emphasized reading slowly, follow the ARRL format with,get a phone number if possible. 50/50 netted$16.00 Gene AI4KK presented plans for field day. David KC4YZI presented a certificate to TARS for their help in the Tallahassee Airfest. Meeting adjourned at 9:30 Submitted John NZ4QJ TARS Treasurer’s Report June 2005 Not Available at this time. The Tallahassee Amateur Radio Society July 2005 2 TARS Field Day The Tallahassee Amateur Radio Society held their Field Day Exercise at historic Mission San Luis in Tallahassee. Gene Floyd AI4KK coordinated the Field Day weekend activities. Kent Hutchinson KC4TOC worked closely with the Park and provided PR. Carl NN5I brought two generators. The Red Cross provided a mobile office. The sheriff’s Department provided a mobile tower. Phil N4IPH, John NZ4QJ, Dan KI4HGO and Larry KI4JOJ constructed a couple of dipole antenna and got the GOTA station up and running. Ted W1XO helped hold down the CW station, there were very busy!! Brian AI4AI and Carlton AG4UT were busy ensuring everything was running smoothly. Breakfast was a real treat, Evelyn Williams provided Sunday Morning breakfast, take it from me, it was terrific. There were lots of hard working Hams present during the weekend; I know I have missed a lot of you, please forgive me, thanks for your efforts. Committee Volunteers: Safety: Larry Workman, KI4JOJ Food: Bonnie Floyd, KI4JOL and Stefan Floyd, KI4JTA VE Testing: Allen Terrell, N4KGT EMCOMM Testing: Kimo, K4IMO and Brian Dunworth, AI4AI Electrical Power: Carl, NN5I Facilities and Public Affairs: Kent Hutchinson, KC4TOC Logistics/supply: Carlton Wells, AG4UT and Randy Pierce, AG4UU Sign Coordinator: Dan Moniz, KI4HGO Band Captains: HF Phone: Ken Decoteau, KGFDXT HF CW: Ted Zateslo, W1XO SATcom: Randy Pierce, AG4UT GOTA Station: Phil Ashler, N4IPH The Tallahassee Amateur Radio Society July 2005 3 The Tallahassee Amateur Radio Society July 2005 4 BPL In Tallahassee -- An Update As of June 6, the City of Tallahassee was finalizing engineering & contractual details with Apogee Telecom for an In-Building BPL deployment at the Campus Lodge Apartments located at Old Bainbridge Road & I-10. I'm not aware of any other BPL initiatives that the City may be pursuing, but have requested my contact there, Gary Brinkworth, to keep me advised of any & all BPL activities the City is involved with. Mr. Brinkworth states that he will contact me once the build-out plan is complete to discuss the system design further. Its my intention to check this location as soon as possible to observe existing (baseline) noise before the BPL system is activated. Note that any interference generated by "in-building" BPL is likely to be very localized as compared to "access" BPL, which uses overhead distribution lines. Therefore, any conclusions drawn from this deployment, while informative, may not be applicable to a conventional, wide-area deployment of BPL. Please feel free check with me first on this important issue as I am maintaining close contact with the City. 73, Steve - AD4E [email protected] ****************************************************** Testing Information: The ARRL/VEC administered FCC Amateur Radio License Examinations are provided in Tallahassee the first Tuesday of EVEN numbered months (February, April, June, etc.) in the conference room located at 2631 Municipal Way at 7:00 p. m. The Tallahassee Amateur Radio Society July 2005 5 Hams work with Red Cross in Hurricane Zack The Capital District Hams provided communications for the Capital District of the American Red Cross on May 21. The four hour exercise, starting at 9 a.m., simulated a category 3 storm blowing through the Big Bend area, leaving, as you might imagine, a scene of devastation. The problem play focused on what the Red Cross would do after the storm. Chris Floyd, the Director of Emergency Services for the 10 county area required all his chapters to rely almost exclusively on amateur radio to tell the Tallahassee headquarters what needs they had and what damage they saw. It was an extraordinarily busy time for all. Except for Taylor and Liberty counties, hams manned Red Cross facilities and passed traffic to all counties in the Big Bend. The TARS van was set up in a parking lot near the Red Cross headquarters and acted as the net control for the operation. A lot was learned from this short exercise. We need to work on writing messages. Some were letters, rather than short, concise messages. Some messages would have been better sent digitally. We need to develop that capability, and I am looking for hams who would like to try that mode of communications. We had some equipment and antenna problems that need to be looked at in the near future If we had problems, and we did, we solved them by some remarkable ingenuity and a “never say die” attitude. I was very proud of our effort and was especially gratified by the number of newly licensed hams who showed up. We could not have done it without their help. Unfortunately, I misplaced the list of hams who participated, and what follows are the ones that I recall. If your name is not on the list please accept my apology for not listing you. Jefferson County-KC7GHI, Russ; KI4JOO, Mary; Madison County, WD4ODB, Pat; KD4EKS, John; several others from Madison county; Wakulla County, KG4KLR, Brett; W4GJM, Greg; Leon County, KI4EWB, John, KI4HGO, Dan, KG4YZI, Dave, KG4YZE, Art; AG4UU, Randy; KI4EBD, Bill, KF4UPU, Dave; AI4KK, Gene; KA4EQZ, Wayne, W1ABT, Alan;AI4GF, Dave, KI4JOJ, Larry, KI4JOL, Bonnie, Stefan Floyd, KI4JOG, Bill; Gadsden, KG4LFT, Bill; WA4WES, Dave The Tallahassee Amateur Radio Society July 2005 6 News from our neighbors Sportsman's Paradise Amateur Radio Club meetings are every 3rd Thursday of each month at the Wakulla County Emergency Management Facility (Sheriff’s Department) at 7:30pm. Wednesday Night Net Meeting 2000 Hours 146.550 MHz Simplex Thomasville Amateur Radio Club: will not meet in the month of July nor will there be any nets. ******************************************************* Net News: Don’t forget these popular nets in the Tallahassee area: 2 METERS The Seven Hills Two Meter Side Band Net meets every Sunday night at 8:45pm. The frequency is: 144.208 USB Everyone is welcomed. 73’s John KG4GXT Sparc Wednesday Night Net Meeting 2000 Hours 146.550 MHz Simplex Thomasville Amateur Radio Club: suspended for July. 6 METERS The Big Bend Six Meter Net meets Wednesday evenings at 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time or at the conclusion of the Sportsman's Paradise Amateur Radio Club Two Meter Simplex Net - - whichever is later. The Net meets on 50.150 MHz upper sideband. Use whatever antenna you have, but try to get around to using a horizontally polarized antenna. 73’s IVAN (K4SRB) Other nets are listed on the K4TLH website. All the new ham radio operators are welcomed to use the repeaters and join in on the nets. Dave Davis will be the presenter at the next TARS meeting on July 7th. He will cover everything you want to know about being prepared for this hurricane season. The Tallahassee Amateur Radio Society July 2005 7 TARS Officers President: John Swindle - KI4EWB Vice President: Dan Moniz KI4HGO Secretary: John Love - NZ4QJ Treasurer: Carlton W. Wells - AG4UT TARS Committees Repeater Trustee #1: Randy Pierce AG4UU Repeater Trustee #2: Vacant Newsletter Editor: Dan Moniz KI4HGO Historian: Shawn Wilson AG4VE Equipment Manager: Carlton Wells AG4UT Education: Phil Ashler N4IPH Special Events: Carliane Johnson KG4CJT Webmaster: David A. Heupel WE4RA Upcoming Events: TARS Meetings: Every first Thursday of the month at 7:00 p.m. EDT at Puvlix at Ocala Rd. Friday Lunch 11:30 a. m. EDT at Golden Coral on No. Monroe St. Capital District ARES Net: Every Sunday, 8:00 p. m. Eastern on the AE4S repeater 146.655). North Florida ARES Net: Every morning, except Sunday on 3950 KHz at 9:00 a. m. Eastern. The Seven hills two meter side band net meets every Sunday night at 8:45pm. on 144.208 USB The Big Bend Six Meter Net meets Wednesday evenings at 8:30 p.m. on 50.150 MHz Please submit upper sideband. your articles and announcements to the news- EDITORIAL POLICY letter by the th 20 of the month Submitted material received by the editor from dues paying members in good standing, on or before the 20th of the month will appear in the following month’s newsletter as space permits. Comments and/or suggestions to improve the newsletter are welcomed.
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