Issued June 2014 Issue No. 53

Club Website: www.qsl.net/k7jar

S-Meter e-mail: parcnews@hotmail.com

Club Repeater: Output 146.62 MHz; Input 146.02 MHz, No Tone

Next Meeting Friday July 18th 2014

Meeting QTH is: Walnut and Hawthorne Street in Colville

(Across from the city park and Colville Junior High School)

CLUB NET: Sunday Evenings 8:00p.m. Local

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The President’s Corner

73’s Tom Howe KE7TEG

Announcements We still need a Secretary ASAP!

Cynthia WW7CA submitted this article from N.W Division Newsletter June 2014. SeaPac Regional Convention was held June 6th through the 8th the news letter had a couple page spread about everything that went on – this particle article caught Cynthia’s attention:

Northwestern Division Scholarship Fund

This year ARRL Foundation awarded one scholarship, from the N.W Division Scholarship Fund, to Aaron Morrill, NA7AM of Spokane Washington. Congratulations Aaron!

The N.W. Division Scholarship Fund was established in memory of Wilse Morgan, WX7P, who became a silent key shortly after the SeaPac Convention in 2013. Wilse was a strong advocate for Amateur Radio, personally teaching over 1,000 licensees in his career. Wilse was also the first VE appointed by the FCC, while he lived in Alaska.

Each year the Scholarship Fund will provide some financial assistance for higher education to a/an member(s) of the N.W. Division who is/are pursuing a career in engineering, medicine, science or business.

This fund was established by the generosity of members and clubs in the N.W. Division, in memory of Wilse. The continuation of the program depends entirely on continued donations. This year at the N.W. Division Convention at Seaside, in a pass the hat (rather bag) campaign, the Ham community donated $1,477 to the fund, guaranteeing that at least one individual will receive a scholarship next year. It is our hope that eventually, we will be able to award at least one scholarship in each of the Division’s 6 Sections, as the donations allow.

Thank you Seapac attendees for your spirit and wonderful contribution and thank you to the members of the Northwestern Division for your continued support.

For more information on the Scholarship or to make a contribution, go to

http://www.nwarrl.wetnet.net/node/132 or contact your Section Manager. Thank you again Cynthia!

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Highlights from our June meeting…….

Attendance: 16

Treasurer's Report – $9,350.72 Introductions were made.

ARES – No Report Dave Absent

PARC Net – George W7WBN reported an increase in traffic. The average is about 16 checks per week. He is still looking for new operators for Net Control.

Board Report - Bruce KC7H had nothing new to report, but thanked the temporary secretaries that were providing clerical support to the Board.

Old Business More discussion on field day – we will join with the Chewelah club and go up to the Ski Lodge at 49 degree’s north. Bruce asked if our club would buy sandwiches for Saturday lunch. We did not have to vote, since there was a budget already set in place. Not much interest was shown in going, the ARES command center will go up – thanks to Bruce KC7H. Jim W7JWT will be transmitting from the Radar Dome, if anyone is interested in dropping in on him and his buddy. Sign up with Debbie KF7GUB if you want to work Tiger-Tri. T-shirts will be available at the July meeting.

New Business Meeting was adjourned.

Minutes over view submitted by ?

See at our next meeting July 18th 2014

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ARES Report by Dave - WD7K

Washington State ARES Places in the Top 10 in Nation – 2013 SET

According to the July QST, Eastern Washington and Western Washington ARES teams placed in the top 10 in the Nation, in points, for the 2013 SET. WWA was #8 and EWA was #9. N.W. Division Newsletter June 2014

A reminder, that the ARES Net is every Sunday at 7:45pm local. The Stevens County ARES net can be heard on the 146.620 repeater located SW of Colville on Monumental Mountain and, when linked, the 147.060 repeater (which has a PL tone of 77.0) located NW of Spokane on Lookout Point. The Washington State Emergency Net (WSEN) – anyone with HF privileges is welcome (encouraged) to check in, when Stevens County is called. Saturdays at 0900 on 3985 kHz and on Mondays at 0630 also on 3985 kHz. Dave Klimas - WD7K Stevens County ARES Emergency Coordinator H (509) 738-6876 C (509) 675-8843 wd7k@hughes.net

PARC Sunday Night Net

Thanks for another great year on the PARC Sunday Night Net. We had lots of good sessions and look forward to many more this New Year. During the long winter months we tend to have more participation, since more members and visitors are spending Sunday nights at home. Come on, get on the air and join your friends discussing club and other ham activities.

A special thanks to all the Net Control Operators who greatly supported the Sunday Night Net during 2013. If you want to give your hand a try at Sunday night Net Control send George an e-mail at audax@gotsky.com

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PARC BIO – June 2014 – sorry nobody stepped forward this month.

Where is he?

Okinawa Japan

Alberto passed the Corporal Course with a 96.

He also got his orders for his next tour which begins October 1 2014.

And yep – you guessed it he’s coming home! Or back to the States

anyway! We do not have a confirmed date, but by October he will be

going to Combat Logistics Battalion 15 in Camp Pendleton CA!

He’s happy that he is coming back to the States! (so am I)

Mailing Address: CPL Gomez, Alberto

3D MLG CLR- 37 MT HQ

Unit #38404

FPO AP 96380-8404

Jim-WW7DD watches for that first bike! Jim WW7DD awaits that first bike!

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The Radio Corner by Jim W7JWT

The Drake Novice Station

In the past, I focused on the ‘top of the line’ amateur equipment produced by the Drake and Collins manufactures. This time I am going to describe the Drake equipment manufactured for those just starting the hobby. How many of you started ham radio with a Novice License? Originally the Novice License required passing a simple written exam and passing a 5 wpm Morse code, send & receive, exam. That was the case for me in 1972. Up until then I was part of the CB gang. And to be honest, CB was a lot of fun back then. I was part of a React Team that helped out with communications during various public activities. But in 1972, I graduated from high school and started college. The school had a nice ham radio station and the support to push me into getting a ham license. I passed the Novice exam in the fall of 1972. At that time all I could afford was an old used National NC-109 receiver and a Heath-kit DX-60B transmitter I built from a kit. For those that had the ‘big’ bucks, the perfect Novice station could be had from Drake. It consisted of their 2C receiver and matching 2NT transmitter.

The 2C receiver had the 5 original HF bands. It received AM, SSB and CW. It had selectable passband filters of .4KHz, 2.4KHz and 4.8KHz. Its sensitivity was less than .5 microvolt. The dial divisions were about 1KHz. This is a pretty nice receiver for a Novice, but it had a price tag of $229. Based on its SN, mine was built in 1972.

The 2NT transmitter was designed specifically for the Novice. It was a crystal controlled 0-100w transmitter. It had both break in and manual CW operation with an adjustable time delay TR relay. Just closing the key put the transmitter on the air and muted the receiver. It had a side tone oscillator and could put out a spotting signal to match the receiver to the transmitter’s frequency. All you had to do to tune up the transmitter was to

Randy N7CKJ hands

John KL7LL

The Gift Certificate

For the HRO Raffle!

The Gift Exchange

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‘dip the plate’ and select the power output. The plate current meter even had a red line on it to make it easy to stay below the 75w Novice limit. It used a 6HF5 ‘compactron’ tube as the final amplifier which was kind of fancy for its day. The transmitter had a price tag of $129. Based on its SN, mine was built in 1968.

These two pieces made Novice operation a dream. The following is a picture of my full station.

As you can see I have a couple other accessories. On the far left I have the combination Speaker / Q Multiplier. For CW it worked great. You could increase the gain of the CW signal while reducing other adjacent signals, very convenient for the Novice. I have a Drake CW electronic keyer on top of the speaker. On the right side is a Hallicrafters HA-5 Variable Frequency Oscillator (VFO). It plugs into the 2NT crystal socket and provides for a variable frequency transmitter. By the way, if you ever want to buy a VFO for an old Novice station, this is the one to buy. It has a built in power supply and will operate in either grid or cathode keying. It

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is very stable and will interface with any transmitter. On E-Bay, expect to pay a premium for it, but it’s worth it. The Drake W-4 wattmeter sits on top of the VFO.

If you plan to buy a Drake 2C or 2NT, remember, the price is driven by the condition of the copper plated chassis. You can easily fix them, but you can’t do much to repair a badly corroded chassis. Here are chassis pictures of my 2C and 2NT. You can see the optional Noise Blanker and Crystal Calibrator plugged in on the 2C chassis.

2C

2NT

What more can I say? If you like CW, these are a ball to play with. They are super easy to tune, are built like a tank and are normally repairable by the ham who owns them. I will leave you with comments made by ‘Hams just like you’, on E-Ham’s Product Reviews for the receiver / transmitter. That’s it for this month.

CUL & 73s from Jim W7JWT.

E-Ham Product Reviews: The Drake 2C is in my opinion a very good receiver and one that complements my station. I operate it often with its companion Drake 2NT transmitter on 80 and 40 meter CW. This is a triple conversion receiver with less than .5 microvolt sensitivity and with selectivity of three passbands: .4 khz, 2.4 khz and 4.8 khz. This radio may not have sharp crystal lattice filters; however, it receives CW, SSB or AM signals with very excellent audio quality. A typical performance factor of older radios is stability. I’m amazed at how stable all my Drake

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equipment is…even after all these years; certainly a testament to quality design and workmanship. When used with the accessory 2AC calibrator, 2NB noise blanker and the indispensable 2CQ speaker/Q-multiplier and notch filter, this radio may indeed have outperformed many receivers of higher price tags in the late 60’s. In tandem with my 2NT transmitter, this Drake combination is only exceeded by my R4B/T4XB. The Drake 2NT is by itself a fine CW transmitter…when paired with its Drake companion receiver, the 2C, they become a great old time CW novice delight. ‘Out of the box’, this transmitter covers 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 meter amateur bands at an input power of 100 watts, CW, crystal controlled (many vfo’s of the era could be used, such as the Heath HG-10 series). It also offers break-in CW or semi break-in CW or manual CW (with other receivers than the 2C); the delay control determines the time frame. Internally it has a built-in antenna-switching relay, which mutes the 2C, has a sidetone monitor (has an adjustable side tone gain control) and a frequency spotting function. Two types of crystal sockets are provided…pin spacing of .050 inch or .093 inch. Tuning could not be more fool-proof…turn the TUNE control for a dip then set the POWER SET control for desired output. Almost, but not quite total ‘idiot’ proof! Three tubes and some diodes and transistors….uses a commonly found 6HF5 final tube. I have a 2NT paired with a 2C rcvr and 2CQ speaker q-multiplier. It’s simply the best it got with a fully integrated CW stn. I use a Halli HA5 vfo and it all works together flawlessly. 50W gets QSOs any time I want, front panel sidetone adjust, front panel T/R delay adjust. The heck with novice rigs, this station blows a lot of full featured rigs away. If you enjoy cw and enjoy tube gear, this is as good as it gets.

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ARRL Field Day 2014

Debbie - it was sure fun to see you get on the air and get some "HF experience". I hope you got the "bug" and will endeavor to further your skills. I had a great time, and if one thing could have been better I think it would have been nice to see more participation from all the club members of both clubs. Below is a summary for the Field Day Entry Form, I just submitted it via the web applet. It looks like we scored 1284 points. This is a great score for the size of the group participating. I hope next year we can join clubs for Field Day again, and we can only get better and learn more skills. I plan on working on a couple of filters for the bands we use the most, so we can minimize the interference between the radios next year. It is hard enough to hear stations on the air, we could benefit from our stations not interfering with one another. Although for the most part the interference was minimal most of the time. I had fun, I hope the rest of you did as well.

73 Guy Fiola N7YRT --------------------------------------------------------------------

ARRL Field Day Entry Form

Datestamp: 2014-07-01 20:38:20 PDT

Confirmation: 250ea28eca368f35

Call Used: W7GHJ GOTA Station Call: (none) ARRL/RAC Section: EWA

Class: 2A

Participants: 25 Club/Group Name: N.E. Washington ARC/Panoramaland

ARC

Power Source(s): Generator, Battery, Solar

Power Multiplier: 2X

Bonus Points:

100% Emergency power 200

Media Publicity 100

Set-up in Public Place 100

NTS message to ARRL SM/SEC 100

W1AW Field Day Message 100

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Natural power QSOs completed 100

Submitted via the Web 50

Total Bonus Points 750

Score Summary:

CW Digital Phone Total

Total QSOs 70 0 102

Total Points 140 0 102 242 Claimed Score = 484

Submitted by:

Guy Fiola, N7YRT

Band/Mode QSO Breakdown:

CW Digital Phone

QSOs Pwr(W) QSOs Pwr(W) QSOs Pwr(W)

160m

80m 8 100

40m 52 100 37 100

20m 15 100 56 100

15m 3 100 1 100

10m

6m

2m

1.25

Other

Satellite

GOTA

TOTAL 70 0 102

Supporting documentation for Bonus Points will be sent via mail to: Field

Day, ARRL, 225 Main St., Newington, CT 06111 USA

We had nice weather and OK participation from the club members. We had a couple of guests as well.

The food was fantastic – Thank you Chewelah club for doing the cooking (Gordon and helpers!). Thank

you Bruce KC7H for bringing up the ARES command center and then staying with it all weekend! Guy

N7YRT was amazing with CW – I had never seen anyone work with morse code before – and I thought

I could type!! And a big THANK YOU for all who helped put up and tear down the antennas and the

camp!

I actually put in some radio time from about 8:00pm until 1:00 am on Saturday and I actually did (4)

contacts all by myself! Which means, making contact and then typing the info into the program!

Otherwise it was mostly a two person job, one typing and one person on the radio. Thank you Bruce

KC7H and Guy N7YRT for being patience with me.

Debbie

KF7GUB

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Pictures by Ed KF7DVL: Dennis, Jerry, Guy & Gordon

Set up Camp and Tower Raising

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Ed & Jerry

Guy, Randy, Visitor

ARES Command Vehicle had two

radio’s set up, four could sit comfortably.

Sub sandwiches were for lunch – I missed that, but then there was the amazing

bar-be-que Saturday night. Gordon cooked, Norm’s wife Helen made salads

and chili and the rest just filled in. I should have spent the night, for I heard

the coffee was good and black!

David, Diane & Debbie

Guy

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Gordon & Norm

David & Randy

Norm & Helen

Helen’s Gr. Daughter & Family

Check out that grill –

thanks Karl & Cleo!

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Calendar of Events – 2014

July – 2014

4th Fourth of July – Fireworks! 5th DL-DX RTTY Contest

6th Sunday Night Net – Net Control Operator – Jim WW7DD 11th 5th Annual KUH Pig Roast & Campout, Springdale cdknray@wildblue.net

12th Salmoncon. Pacific NW QRP Group annual weekend outing. North Bend 13th Sunday Night Net – Net Control Operator – George W7WBN 17th The ARRL Centennial Convention – Hartford CT

17th Annual Side walk sale downtown Colville 18th PARC Club Meeting 7:30 pm in Colville – Snacks by Gimmie AL7LB

18th Glacier Waterton International Peace Park Hamfest www.gwhamfest.org 19th Tiger-Tri Volunteers Needed – Colville High School 6:00am 19th North American QSO Party, RTTY

19th CQ Worldwide VHF Contest

19th Coos County Radio Club Hamfest – North Bend Oregon 20th Sunday Night Net – Net Control Operator – Donna KF7UIM

25th 59th Annual Pacific Northwest DX Convention – Vancouver BC 27th Sunday Night Net – Net Control Operator – Courtney KE7ZDL

31st Kiwanis BBQ Colville City Park 5:30pm

August – 2014

2nd ARRL August UHF Contest and North American QSO Party CW

2nd Colville Rendezvous Days

2nd Colville airport fly-in and breakfast

3rd Sunday Night Net – Net Control Operator – Karl WX7DX

7th YLRL Convention – Vancouver WA

7th Omak Stampede

10th Sunday Night Net – Net Control Operator – Cynthia WW7CA

15th PARC Club Meeting 7:30 pm in Colville – Snacks by

16th Annual Clark County Amateur Radio Club Ham Fair, Vancouver WA

16th North American QSO Party SSB

16th Arden Kids Day Rodeo

17th Antique Radio Swap Meet. Puget Sound Antique Radio Assoc. www.eskimo.com

17th Sidewalk Sale – downtown Colville

17th Sunday Night Net – Net Control Operator – Jim WW7DD

21st NE Washington Fair in Colville

23rd Highline Amateur Radio Club SwapFest – DesMoines WA

23rd Spokane DX Club Summer Picnic 4:00pm at Chris Pritchard’s house

24th Sunday Night Net – Net Control Operator – George W7WBN

30th SCC RTTY Championship

31st Sunday Night Net – Net Control Operator – Donna KF7UIM

o Calendar of events will be an ongoing part of the news letter, submit your dates to parcnews@hotmail.com

“Source: PNW Hamfair webpage at http://www.n7cfo.com/amradio/hf/hf.htm”

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