2009 11 bulletin - tarc.orgTARC Bulletin November 2009 page 2 Heres hoping that your Halloween was...

Officers

President Cliff Williams KE5CTW (254) 493-4189 KE5CTWyahoocom

Vice President Franklin Baugh KA5IHY (254) 778-5622

Secretary Al Howe N5AWH (254) 773-3153 ahowe20790hotrrcom

Treasurer Dale Duke W5DUK (254) 217-6533 w5dukarrlnet

Board Members

John Hobson WD5BFS (254) 554-7705 jshobsonembarqmailcom

Darwin Geiselbrecht K5DOA (254) 487-3167 k5doavvmcom

Steve Bosshard NU5D bosshardgmailcom

Myron Mesecke N5TFK (254) 770-0529 meseckemvvmcom

Committees

Programs Board of Dir

W5LM Trustee Ron Thompson W5WRE (254) 859-3000 rwthomp-sonclearwirenet

Technical Director

Education

Membership

HamEXPO Mike LeFan WA5EQQ (254) 773-3590 expotarcorg

RACES

Bulletin Editor Mike Le-Fan WA5EQQ

Webmaster John Dvo-racek KE5C (254) 774-8376 johnke5cnet

HamEXPO Did Well At Our Next Meeting 1

HamEXPO Too Many Golden Eggs WWV and WWVH

Key Clicks from the Armadillo 2

DSTAR at St Mary s Happy Thanksgiving TARC 3

ARRL Membership Meeting Info 4

In this issue

W5LM Repeaters 146820- MHz (PL 1230) 444700 MHz (PL 1230)

wwwtarcorg November 2009

At Our Next Meeting

November 2009

Nov 5 is the date for our next TARC meet-ing The program will include the electing of club officers for 2010 This is a really impor-tant club event so please be there for this one

Plus you ll find great camaraderie and tasty refreshments Join us on Nov 5 at 700 pm at Western Hills Church of Christ in Temple

HamEXPO was again a success in terms of attendance and receipts We had paid gate attendance of 819 had about 150 tailgaters and vendors and sold 608 raffle tickets It looks like gate admissions were up about 60 from last fall and the table and tailgate space sales were higher

The big winner in the door prize drawing was Mike Wisby KA5HIA of College Station He took home the first prize a Kenwood TMD-710A

The second-place prize a Yaesu FT-7900R went home with W5JMD Johnny Durham of Shallowater TX Joe Peterson KD5YCY of Ovala TX won the Yaesu FT-60R third prize

See page 2 for an Opinion article on HamEXPO by KE5C

Have a good one y all

TARC Bulletin November 2009

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Here s hoping that your Halloween was spooky fun and safe

The Monday Night Net has been short on check-ins in recent weeks but there have been some new participants from DX locales Join the fun

TARC s Christmas party is tentatively set for lunch on Saturday Dec 5 at Wildflower Country Club Stay tuned for de-tails TARC Bulletin is dis-tributed to most members in an online digital edition in pdf format If you need a printed copy notify John KE5C or Mike WA5EQQ

Most weekdays and Saturdays area hams meet for coffee at McDonalds at IH-35 and Adams Ave from 930 to 1100 am Everyone is invited so come on by and add your 2-cents worth

Dates to Remember Next year s spring HamEXPO is scheduled for April 17 2010 The fall date is Oct 2 Mark your calendar

TARC Net Mondays at 7 pm on 146820 MHz (PL 1230) Get the net habit

See you on at the TARC meeting on Nov 5

KEY CLICKS

FROM THE

ARMADILLO

HamExpo made money So what The flyer calls Belton a Hamexpo Webster s does not define either hamexpo or hamfest but enwikipediaorg believes a hamfest is a convention of amateur radio enthusiasts often combining a trade show flea market and vari-ous other activities of interest to hams The other various activities of interest to hams are typically license examinations educational forums group meetings and the like No one would doubt that Belton is a flea market a type of bazaar where inexpensive or secondhand goods are sold or bartered A trade fair (trade show or expo) however is an exhibition organized so that companies in a specific industry can showcase and demon-strate their latest products service study ac-tivities of rivals and examine recent trends and opportunities The retailers present at Belton are not representatives from amateur radio companies and do not showcase or demon-strate products they simply sell them Unlike Dallas HamCom YaeComWood and the like are not in attendance Thus Belton HamExpo is not a trade fair (an expo ) and only rarely includes various other activities of interest to hams there is simply not the time man-power or facility to do so Belton HamExpo is functionally a flea market with a few dealers present a sellfest not a hamfest

What does HamExpo accomplish for TARC How does HamExpo make TARC a more fun club experience Folks do not join TARC so they can help at HamExpo Nothing consistently useful (altruistic community im-proving) is done with the proceeds its not like the Shriners supporting the Children s hospi-tal On the other hand TARC is not a service club anyway so why should the members ex-pect to be improving the community HamExpo is almost always successful as a fund raising event but why does TARC need to raise funds especially twice a year with so much already in the bank As a sellfest rather than hamfest Belton has become a burden on TARCs dwindling membership demands time from members to support a twice yearly retail business diverts the focus from core amateur radio activities and does nothing to increase the attractiveness of TARC to potential mem-bers Members of a hobby club have only so

much time to devote to the club and time de-voted to HamExpo is time not available for Field Day the Fourth of July the Christmas parade etc Is it time to steer TARC away from the flea market business and back to-wards ham radio Should HamExpo be at most a once yearly event in the fall so as to not con-flict with Field Day In any case Belton HamExpo should not define TARC amateur radio activities should

[Do you have an opinion on the status of HamEXPO Do you have a pro or con im-pression of the article above Share your thoughts with us]

Has the Goose Laid Too Many Golden Eggs Opinion from John Dvoracek KE5C

Today most amateurs know that radio stations WWV and WWVH broadcast time and fre-quency information 24 hours a day seven days a week to millions of listeners worldwide Administered by the National Institute of Stan-dards and Technology (NIST) WWV is lo-cated in Fort Collins Colorado about 60 miles north of Denver WWVH is located on the Island of Kauai Hawaii on a 30 acre site near Kekaha at Kokole Point Both stations broad-cast information that includes time announce-ments standard time intervals standard fre-quencies UT1 time corrections a BCD time code geophysical alerts marine storm warn-ings and Global Positioning System (GPS) status reports Most hams today think of WWV and WWVH as time stations Ac-cording to QST Editor Steve Ford WB8IMY thats only half-true they are really time and frequency stations The time signals that you hear are regulated by an atomic clock that uses the oscillations of Cesium atoms as its stan-dard -- 9162361770 oscillations equal 1 sec-ond wrote Ford in the June 1994 issue of QST [More information in the News sec-tion of the League s website at wwwarrlorg]

via The ARRL Letter Oct 22 2009

Did You Know WWV and WWVH


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A BIG thank you to Steve Bosshard Hal Pagel Steve Stickley Paul Molina and Mike Sherrod for making possible this DSTAR demonstration project at St Mary s school in Temple on Oct 5 It took only a few minutes to set up this very functional interference-free DSTAR station with all

digital clarity for making international contacts This really beats trying to string wires

between trees and listen to crackle and static said NU5D And the kids really like being able to have contacts with distant stations

Happy Thanksgiving TARC


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Temple Amateur Radio Club Inc PO Box 616 Temple TX 76503

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Temple Amateur Radio Club meets the first Thursday of each month from 700-900 pm at the Church of Christ in Western Hills 210 N General Bruce Dr in Templeacross I-35 from Star-bucks Coffee Refreshments are served and guests are invited and welcome


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Here s hoping that your Halloween was spooky fun and safe

The Monday Night Net has been short on check-ins in recent weeks but there have been some new participants from DX locales Join the fun

TARC s Christmas party is tentatively set for lunch on Saturday Dec 5 at Wildflower Country Club Stay tuned for de-tails TARC Bulletin is dis-tributed to most members in an online digital edition in pdf format If you need a printed copy notify John KE5C or Mike WA5EQQ

Most weekdays and Saturdays area hams meet for coffee at McDonalds at IH-35 and Adams Ave from 930 to 1100 am Everyone is invited so come on by and add your 2-cents worth

Dates to Remember Next year s spring HamEXPO is scheduled for April 17 2010 The fall date is Oct 2 Mark your calendar

TARC Net Mondays at 7 pm on 146820 MHz (PL 1230) Get the net habit

See you on at the TARC meeting on Nov 5

KEY CLICKS

FROM THE

ARMADILLO

HamExpo made money So what The flyer calls Belton a Hamexpo Webster s does not define either hamexpo or hamfest but enwikipediaorg believes a hamfest is a convention of amateur radio enthusiasts often combining a trade show flea market and vari-ous other activities of interest to hams The other various activities of interest to hams are typically license examinations educational forums group meetings and the like No one would doubt that Belton is a flea market a type of bazaar where inexpensive or secondhand goods are sold or bartered A trade fair (trade show or expo) however is an exhibition organized so that companies in a specific industry can showcase and demon-strate their latest products service study ac-tivities of rivals and examine recent trends and opportunities The retailers present at Belton are not representatives from amateur radio companies and do not showcase or demon-strate products they simply sell them Unlike Dallas HamCom YaeComWood and the like are not in attendance Thus Belton HamExpo is not a trade fair (an expo ) and only rarely includes various other activities of interest to hams there is simply not the time man-power or facility to do so Belton HamExpo is functionally a flea market with a few dealers present a sellfest not a hamfest

What does HamExpo accomplish for TARC How does HamExpo make TARC a more fun club experience Folks do not join TARC so they can help at HamExpo Nothing consistently useful (altruistic community im-proving) is done with the proceeds its not like the Shriners supporting the Children s hospi-tal On the other hand TARC is not a service club anyway so why should the members ex-pect to be improving the community HamExpo is almost always successful as a fund raising event but why does TARC need to raise funds especially twice a year with so much already in the bank As a sellfest rather than hamfest Belton has become a burden on TARCs dwindling membership demands time from members to support a twice yearly retail business diverts the focus from core amateur radio activities and does nothing to increase the attractiveness of TARC to potential mem-bers Members of a hobby club have only so

much time to devote to the club and time de-voted to HamExpo is time not available for Field Day the Fourth of July the Christmas parade etc Is it time to steer TARC away from the flea market business and back to-wards ham radio Should HamExpo be at most a once yearly event in the fall so as to not con-flict with Field Day In any case Belton HamExpo should not define TARC amateur radio activities should

[Do you have an opinion on the status of HamEXPO Do you have a pro or con im-pression of the article above Share your thoughts with us]

Has the Goose Laid Too Many Golden Eggs Opinion from John Dvoracek KE5C

Today most amateurs know that radio stations WWV and WWVH broadcast time and fre-quency information 24 hours a day seven days a week to millions of listeners worldwide Administered by the National Institute of Stan-dards and Technology (NIST) WWV is lo-cated in Fort Collins Colorado about 60 miles north of Denver WWVH is located on the Island of Kauai Hawaii on a 30 acre site near Kekaha at Kokole Point Both stations broad-cast information that includes time announce-ments standard time intervals standard fre-quencies UT1 time corrections a BCD time code geophysical alerts marine storm warn-ings and Global Positioning System (GPS) status reports Most hams today think of WWV and WWVH as time stations Ac-cording to QST Editor Steve Ford WB8IMY thats only half-true they are really time and frequency stations The time signals that you hear are regulated by an atomic clock that uses the oscillations of Cesium atoms as its stan-dard -- 9162361770 oscillations equal 1 sec-ond wrote Ford in the June 1994 issue of QST [More information in the News sec-tion of the League s website at wwwarrlorg]

via The ARRL Letter Oct 22 2009

Did You Know WWV and WWVH


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