VOLUME XXXII #8

AUGUST 2013 Q5

DOWNEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB

SERVING DOWNEY AND THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES SINCE 1951

DARC 2013 Public Service Events

Show and Tell Time, plus Ice Cream Social

The August DARC membership meeting will fea-ture our annual Show and Tell Ice Cream Social.

The Show and Tell for-mat allows members to share a project, report on new equipment, show off a new QSL design, report on activi-ty, or bring in something interesting to show to the group. Plan to share from 5 – 7 minutes your item or project.

Too busy for a project? Attend any other clubs and like to share what you found there? Did you ‘Rover’ during any contests? Let’s hear how that was.

Buy a ‘Boat Anchor’ that you are planning on re-storing, some day, maybe? Bring that in!

Anyone have contacts with a group or civic entity that has an emergency re-sponse vehicle? Any kits you are working on? Work Ham Radio on vacation?

Let’s see how interesting we can make this event.

Event Date Lead

JOTA Oct 19, 2013 Frank Myllo

Amazing Day Walk Oct 19, 2013 Dave Glen

Tour de Sewer Oct 26 2013 Norwood/Savage

Christmas Parade TBA Kent Savage

The True Spirit of Field Day

By Bill Heather KB6WKT

2013 Field Day Chairman

Sunday afternoon before Field Day I re-ceived a phone call from Kent K6WCI, and he uttered the dreaded words "we no long-er have the parking lot" due to a schedul-ing conflict. With a sinking feeling that there is a real chance of Field Day not

happening for W6TOI, is when the true sprit of Ham Radio kicks in. With less than a week left before the event, a new site needed to be found or otherwise Field Day would not happen. After multiple phone calls on that Sunday afternoon amongst various committee members multiple options were laid out fair-ly quickly and was agreed on that we will start communicating by email list that Dave, N6TEB started.

On Monday evening the committee had an on air meeting on Club simplex to discuss the day’s progress at locating a new site. Kent reported that there is a possibility that we could use the back parking lot of Downey Adult School and Buck, AE6DT, reported that he has emailed Chief Glillaspie and is awaiting a reply. So it was agreed on by all that the committee will have another on air meeting on Tuesday evening to dis-cuss further progress.

By Tuesday’s on air meeting the committee had great news we

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THE DOWNEY

AMATEUR RADIO CLUB, INC.

P.O. Box 207

Downey, CA 90241

Q5 Staff

Editor

John Powell, KF6EOJ john.powell@csulb.edu Phone: (562) 862-4608 Alt Phone: (562) 985-8610

Associate Editors

John Schroeder, N6QQ Jon Olesen,KD6HXP Steve Hartranft, KI6SUF Electronic Publishing

Rick Norwood,KD6KHJ Phone: (562) 865-5750 kd6khj@arrl.net

Permission to copy material from the Q5 is granted provided that credit is given to the “DARC Q5”.

Q5, as in: a signal that is perfectly readable, hence the name of our newsletter. We hope you agree.

Club Officers President Rick Norwood, KD6KHJ Phone: (562) 865-5750 kd6khj@arrl.net First Vice President Ron Eveland, W6QM Phone: (562) 860-3623 w6qm@msn.com VP Programs

Dave Glenn, N6TEB Phone: (562) 928-8560 n6teb@arrl.net

VP Membership OPEN VP Service OPEN VP Ways and Means Steve Hartranft, KI6SUF Phone: (562) 923-0070 grandpasjh@aol.com Secretary

Bill Heather, KB6WKT Phone: (562) 863-6607

kb6wkt@arrl.net Treasurer Frank Myllo, KC6YPV Phone: (562) 860-4045 kc6ypv@arrl.net Director (One Year) Buck Kerns, AE6DT Phone: (562) 634-8441 ae6dt@arrl.net Director (Two Years) Kent Savage, K6WCI Phone: (562) 716-6070 k6wci@arrl.net Trustee, W6TOI

Bill Heather, KB6WKT Phone: (562) 863-6607

kb6wkt@arrl.net

Looking for an Elmer?

Here are a few resources that can get you going: Bill Heather, KB6WKT, 562 863-6607 kb6wkt@arrl.net, Helping Hams, Contesting Ivan Mikulich, KB6ATT, 562 862-4592 kb6att@att.net, Helping Hams, Field Trips Glenn Allen, KE6HPZ, 562 928-2080 ke6hpz@ham-radio.com, Microwave Harold ‘Buck’ Kerns, AE6DT, 562 634-8441 ae6dt@arrl.net, Public Service John Schroeder, N6QQ, 562 404-1112 n6qq@msn.com, Contesting, DXing, DXCC and WAS Card Checker, QSL cards for CQ WAZ and WPX awards.

When and where we meet:

We normally meet the first Thursday of each month at 1930 hrs in room 120 of

the First Baptist Church in Downey. The church is between 2nd and 3rd

streets, near City Hall, address is 8348 E. 3rd St. Use 2nd St, east from

Downey Ave (1 block north of Firestone Bl), adjacent to City Hall. Entrance via

double glass doors on the north side of 2nd St.

Swap Meet Information:

CHHS Electronics Swap Meet

Chino Hills High School

16150 Pomona Rincon Rd

Chino Hills, CA

Held the third Saturday of each month, 06:30 to 11:30 AM

W6TRW Swap Meet

Northrop Grumman Parking Lot

Corner of Marine and Aviation

Manhattan Beach, CA

Held the last Saturday of each month, 07:00 to 11:30 AM

Affiliations:

Affiliated ARRL Club

ARRL Special Service Club

Los Angeles Area Council of Amateur Radio Clubs

Orange County Council of Amateur Radio Organizations

Club Frequencies:

Simplex: 145.595 MHz*

440 Repeater #1: 445.640 (-) PL 156.7 Hz*

440 Repeater #2: 445.640 (-) PL 88.5 Hz

* See Calendar for Net Schedule

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Board Minutes

July 9, 2013 President Rick Norwood, KD6KHJ brought the meeting to order at 19:01 hours in room 120 at the Downey First Baptist Church. Besides Rick, other board members present are: First Vice President, Ron Evelaand, W6QM;VP-Ways Means, Steve Hartranft, KI6SUF; Treasurer Frank Myllo, KC6YPV; Secretary Bill Heather, KB6WKT; Director 2 years Kent Savage, K6WCI Director 1 year Buck Kerns, AE6DT. Absent: VP Pro-grams, Dave Glenn, N6TEB; VP Service Open; VP Membership Open.

Mass Mailing: Kent, reported that 2 mailings went out and had a decent return. The first

mailing was to invite to Field Day and the second was to July's General meeting. PO Box: Steve, KI6SUF, reported that there is a need for a “back up” person to pick up either “overflow” and or mail that needs to be signed for. The only one on the list is Frank, KC6YPV. Steve can still get into the box but needs to get on the list as a “back up”. Frank needs to make this happen since he is in charge of the PO Box. (Note: correction per proof reader –ed) Ice Cream Social: Rick reported that for the August General Meeting the presentation is the Annual Ice Cream Social and show and tell. Ho'olaule'a: Buck, AE6DT, reported that operators are needed for Saturday. 3 more operators are needed for Saturday. There are enough operators for Sunday. EMCOM Plan: Buck, AE6DT, reported that he sent out the abbreviated version of the Emcom plan. Buck will send out a letter by next Board meeting asking for volunteers to participate in the required training and be part of the overall EMCOM plan. Field Day: Buck reported that a couple of people commented about our personal appearance and our station appearance not being satisfactory. After a short discussion amongst various board members it was recom-mended the next year's Field Day committee emphasize that Club members that are participating should be wearing Club merchandise if possible. Bill provided the group with preliminary score for Field Day and a short discussion took place regarding different aspects of the event. There is a planned debrief Field Day barbeque meeting for July 27 at 17:00 at Bill's QTH. Raffle: John Schroeder, N6QQ, the raffle chairman won't be at the next two general meetings and there will not be any raffle for those meetings. John also has requested that the Club find a new raffle chairmen due to other commitments related to the Boy Scouts. Meeting adjourned on 19:49 Respectfully Submitted Bill Heather

Field Day, Saturday Night 2013

KD6KHJ Photography

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General Meeting Minutes July 11, 2013 President Rick Norwood, KD6KHJ, brought the meeting to order at 19:32 with 20 in attendance. We commenced with the Pledge of Allegiance led by Rick. Follow-ing the Pledge of Allegiance introductions were done for those that were in attend-ance. Rick, KD6KHJ requested a motion be made to accept the May's treasurer’s report as printed in the June edition of the Q5. A motion was made and seconded and passed unanimously. Rick, KD6KHJ, requested a motion be made to accept the May minutes as printed in the June edition of the Q5. A motion was made and seconded and passed unanimously.

Dave, N6TEB, introduced Wayne Overbeck, N6NB, as tonight's guest speaker. Wayne provided the group a presentation of his current tower trailer, built from a kit trailer. Wayne's presentation showed the group past tower trailers that he built and past and present outings that he has done with the tower trailers. Field Day report: Bill, KB6WKT, provided the group a Field Day report. The preliminary score is approximately 4500 points. The club made a total of 1469 contacts this year. The breakdown is 156 CW, 30 digital and 1293 phone contacts. At the last minute the Club had to find a new Field Day location due to a scheduling conflict that happened with the north parking lot at the First Baptist Church. This year the new location was at Apollo Park and most seemed to like the new location. Buck, AE6DT announced that volunteers are still need for the Ho'olaule'a Days event for Saturday. There are enough volunteers for Sunday. The date for the event is July 21 - 22. Rick reported that John Schroeder, N6QQ, is not available for tonight and will not be available for August's General meeting. Unless someone volunteers to do the raffle for next month there will not be any raffle. Also John is looking for a new raffle chairman due to new commitments with the Boy Scouts. Meeting Adjourned 20:33 hours. Respectfully Submitted

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had not 1 but 2 possible locations for the event. The first site se-cured was at Downey Adult School’s back parking lot, however, not our first choice. The second site is at Apollo Park which is our 1

st choice. During the day Buck made contact with Chief Gillaspie

and was advised to visit Apollo Park. So, Buck and Kent went and visited with the Park Director and scoped out a location within Apollo Park. Once Buck and Kent visited the site I was contacted and informed of the location which sounded great! But, now here comes the hurdles that needed to be jumped.

In order for a group or club such as ours there is an administrative process that needs to be accomplished especially adding to the fact that some of us will be staying at the park for 2 nights. There is an application that needs to fill out and proof of insurance pro-vided to the City for the use of the park area. In fact the director reminded Buck and Kent these things usually don’t happen this fast. But once again with the true spirit of Field Day a copy of the application was filled out Rick, KD6KHJ and Frank, KC6YPV, contacted the insurance company for proof of insurance and by Thursday afternoon we had our permit for the weekend.

Friday morning all plans started to kick in. Station mangers started showing up and locating themselves at the site. The generator comes in and the porta-potty people deliver the porta-potty. Stations start setting up their antennas and stations and of course like in typical fashion Friday afternoon had to be the hottest day of the year without Murphy showing up. Will, until the 6th and final plug on the spider box was used. Unbeknownst to me I had connected my radio’s power supply to a 220 volt plug and when I turned it on all the factory smoke came out of the vents. Well once again here comes the true spirit of Field Day. Karl, KF6MDF, and Dale W8RRV, jump in open the power supply and found the MOV's inside the power supply did their job which is shorting out and then blowing an internal fuse. A quick temporary fix was made and the power supply was up and running once again.

Operations on Saturday morning started at 1100 local without a hitch. The Club operated on 80 meters to 1.2 Ghz. This year we had a better representation of the different modes. CW contacts were made on 10 through 80 meters. Digital contacts were made on 15 and 20 meters with phone contacts made on all the bands.

Despite all the trials and tribulations for 2013 Field Day yet once again the true spirit of Field Day comes out which were we instituted a logging program change. For many years the Club used the Scott Davis, N3FJB, logging program. This year we wanted a little more options then was available in the past so we switched to Writelog for Windows. Writelog for Windows offers network logging and also the ability to copy digital and cw modes which Scott Davis’s program does not. Dave, N6TEB, with his experience studied Writelog to make the network worked and Glenn, KE6HPZ, providing the Wi-Fi and internet access for Field Day.

The scores break down as follows:

CW Contacts: 156

Digital Contacts: 30

Phone Contacts: 1283

Total Contacts : 1469

Claimed Score : 3310

Bonus Points: 1070

Total Preliminary Score of 4380 points.

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Treasurer’s Report—Income

Treasurer’s Report— Expense

2012-2013 Jun 13 (OVER)/

ACTUAL YTD ANNUAL UNDER

ACTUAL BUDGET BUDGET

EXPENDITURES

Repeater $32.06 $2,412.75 $2,800.00 $387.25

Club Merchandise $162.20 $150.00 ($12.20)

Correspondence

Printing $0.00 $200.00 $200.00

Supplies $100.13 $100.13 $100.00 ($0.13)

Postage $0.00 $300.00 $300.00

Committees

Award $31.81 $50.00 $18.19

Education/Awareness $0.00 $75.00 $75.00

Membership $0.00 $75.00 $75.00

Equipment/Maintenance $0.00 $500.00 $500.00

Events

Christmas Party $0.00 $50.00 $50.00

Field Day $0.00 $800.00 $800.00

Luncheon $1,100.00 $1,100.00 $0.00

Picnic $0.00 $0.00 $0.00

Insurance $325.00 $325.00 $0.00

Misc. Expenses $1,905.00 $250.00 ($1,655.00)

Officers' Expenses

Board Members $0.00 $100.00 $100.00

Treasurer $0.00 $150.00 $150.00

Other Organizations

Dues $0.00 $80.00 $80.00

P.O. Box Rental $124.00 $124.00 $150.00 $26.00

Refreshments, Meetings $0.00 $150.00 $150.00

Total Expenditures $256.19 $6,160.89 $7,405.00 $1,244.11

2012 - 2013 Jun 13 YEAR-TO-DATE ANNUAL (OVER)/UNDER

ACTUAL ACTUAL BUDGET BUDGET

INCOME

Club Merchandise $12.00 $189.02 $150.00 ($39.02)

Dues $20.00 $585.00 $900.00 $315.00

Luncheon $12.50 $550.00 $537.50

Misc.Income $2,275.00 $2,000.00 ($275.00)

Total Income $32.00 $3,061.52 $3,600.00 $538.48

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Treasurer’s Report— Summary

August Birthdays

Larry Cude, KE6EOL, 2nd

Sam Lollar, K1SL, 3rd

Ivan Mikulich, KB6ATT, 25th

Arlene Schwartz, KE6GFI, 27th

Jack Gardner, KE6PD

DOWNEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB

TREASURER'S REPORT

Jun-13

SUMMARY

CHECKING-WA MUTUAL $7,492.24

BALANCE AS OF May 31, 2009

INCOME $32.00

EXPENDITURES $256.19

Raffle (Month)

Raffle (Total Holdings) $0.00

Brunch (Month)

Brunch (Total Holdings) $0.00

CHECKING-WA MUTUAL

BALANCE AS OF Jun 30, 2009 $7,268.05

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August 2013 DX By Mike Gauthier, K6ICS 7-14-2013

August Propagation Outlook The long summer days has brought high signal absorption and QRN noise. Signals are weak on all bands. The long daylight hours and noise have almost eliminated DX activity on 160 and 80 meters. 60, 40 and 30 meters have been and will remain poor even during the short night time hours. Listen on 20 through 15 meters for possible around the clock, long path, and spot openings. 12-10 meter DXing will remain poor. 17 meters should remain to best DX band this month. Check current propagation at

http://www.voacap.com/prediction.htm .

August DX

BAHRAIN, A92IO. Dave, EI3IO, is on the air as A92IO until mid-December. Activity is on 80 to 2 meters, in-cluding two channels on 60 meters. QSL to home call. CHRISTMAS ISLAND, VK9X. Fred, VK3DAC is on the air as VK9DAC. Activity is holiday style on 80 to 10 me-ters using SSB. QSL via operator's instructions ECUADOR, HC/IZ1DPS. HC/IZ1DPS from Ecuador is active until January 12, 2014, QSL via IK2DUW or LoTW. FAROE ISLANDS, OY/DL3UB. Ulf, DL3UB will be operating as OY/DL3UB until August 9. Activity will be holi-day style, primarily using CW on 30, 17 and 12 meters. QSL via this home call sign, direct or via the Bureau. GRENADA, J3. WX7E and WJ7R, Clarence and Ron, will have Grenada on the air for the CQWW DX SSB October 26-27, multi-single. QSL on LoTW. Details will be announced. ICELAND, TF/SP5IXI. TF/SP5IXI, Mirek from Iceland will be on the air until mid-August. QSL via SP5UAF. He is on a business trip and he will be occupied with work Monday until Saturday weekly, He is working from his hotel room with a poor antenna. IVORY COAST, TU5DF. Dim, F5SWB is operating as TU5DF from Abidjan until October. Activity is on 40 to 10 meters, using mainly CW. QSL to home call. JAPAN, 8N5CLEAN. Special event station 8N5CLEAN will be operating from Shikoku, IOTA AS-076, until Oc-tober 31 during the Clean Reception Environment Month. QSL via bureau. LAOS, XW6OU. Larry, AG6OU is active as XW6OU. It is not known how long he will be in Laos. Activity is on 20 meters. QSL direct (see QRZ.com) or via E21EIC MALTA, 9H3N. JJ2NYT will have the callsign 9H3N from Malta August 2-5. Tsuyoshi plans to be on 40-10 CW and SSB with his IC-706mk2G to a dipole. He plans to be active in the nighttime hours. QSL via JJ2NYT. MINAMI TORISHIMA, JG8NQJ/JD1. Take, JG8NQJ is on the air as JG8NQJ/JD1 from Marcus Island, IOTA OC-073, until August 15. QSL via JA8CJY. MOZAMBIQUE, C91GBA. Antonio, EA4GBA is active as C91GBA from Matola until December 15. Activity is on the HF bands using SSB. QSL direct to home call.

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MOZAMBIQUE, C92IO. C92IO is currently active from Mozambique. ZS6HB is the operator, he is active on HF. QSL to his home call. REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO, TN2MS. The TN2MS DXpedition to the Republic of the Congo, originally sched-uled for September 28-October 11, has been pushed back to October 12-24. They have a website at www.TN2MS.nl and are on Twitter at https://twitter.com/DXpedition . SCOTLAND, 2M1EUB. 2E1EUB, Paul, will be active for two weeks starting August 5, driving around Scotland to give out new grids for those wanting them. Paul will be on 160, 80 and satellites, mostly AO-7 B/A mode and 2M SSB. He takes emails for sked arrangements: 2e1eub@amsat.org. QRZ.com under 2M1EUB has more info and updates. ST. MARTIN FS/N1NSB. Listen for FS/N1NSB October 24-31 and the CQWW SSB contest. The activity will be by N0TG, AA4VK and N1NSB. QSL via AA4VK. SVALBARD, JW9JKA. Svein, LA9JKA is operating as JW9JKA from Bear Island, IOTA EU-027, until mid De-cember. Activity will be in his spare time on the HF and VHF bands. QSL direct to LA9JKA. UKRAINE, EO15QRP. Members of the Ukrainian Radioamateur QRP Club are celebrating their 15th anniver-sary and will activate special callsign EO15QRP until August 12. QSL via UT2AB, via the Bureau or direct. This months DX news was made possible with information provided by OPDX, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, DXNL, The Weekly DX, and ARRL thanks to all. DARC Member Recent DX Contacts: 80 Meters: None

40 Meters: ZL3TE*#, FG8NY, KH6B, & KH7M.

30 Meters: FO/UT6UD* (Marquesas), WP4U, 8P9PW, & KG4TO

20 Meters: G100C*, 5N7M, EA7ATE, OH1VR, DU1WGA, PJ7FF, E77A, E718S, & TA1I.

17Meters: TG9ADM*, FO/UT6UD* (Marquesas), VR2UW*, OH2BV, SM3NKS, 9A3IH, WP2XX, 8J4M13OO/4,

6Y5/G3SWH, 9M6XRO, SV1CQN, IS0IGV, & SM4OTI.

15 Meters: ZL3TE*#, JT1DX*, ZP6CW, HA3FTA, BY4BBS, 4X6FR, TU5DF, & HB0/PC5A. 12 Meters: J68HZ*, LU7HF, 8J4M13OO/4, ZF2AH, & HH5/KC0W, 10 Meters: ZL1BYI, VK2IM, LR1S, JA1XRH, JE1IWT, JK1YMM, JA7EDZ, & JA1MOR. *More than one report. # Wes, W3TE, ex DARC member. DARC Member DXCC Count N6QQ - 350 Mixed, 336 SSB, 313 CW, 252 RTTY, 8-Band DXCC, 6-Band WAS,

5-Band WAZ, 3052 WPX. K6ICS - 321 Mixed, 300 Phone (AM & SSB), 166 Mixed on 40 Meters. KB6ATT - 305 Mixed, 60 CW. K6TV - 257 Mixed, 240 SSB, 126 QRP, 151 CW, 30 RTTY. W6TOI - 215 Mixed, 145 Phone, 104 CW, 100 RTTY. WA6OUD - 161 Mixed, 131 Phone on 10 Meters. W3OB - 150 Mixed. KJ6YQV – 97 Mixed, 77 Mixed on 10 Meters. K6EH - 57 on 30 Meters CW. I am interested in receiving DX reports for this column, one contact or many. e-mail: k6ics@arrl.net

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DARC Annual Membership

Single: $20 Associate: $10

Maximum for Family: $35

Make checks payable to “DARC”,

Send to: DARC Membership

PO Box 207

Downey, CA 90240

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Do you have an idea for an article for the Q5? Remember, this is OUR newsletter, about OUR hobby. Please submit articles to: John Pow-

ell, KF6EOJ, john.powell@csulb.edu

DARC INFORMATION

VE Exams

The Downey Ama-teur Radio Club provides VE exami-nations for all clas-ses of Amateur Radio licenses on

the third Saturday of each even-numbered month. Exams are held at the Downey Fire Department Headquar-ters EOC rear building, 12222 Paramount Boulevard, beginning at 08:30 AM.

The upcoming dates are:

August 17, October 19

Contact Steve or Ginny Grudzinski 951-674-4699 prior to the session.

The ARRL/VEC test fee is $15.00 for all tests which goes to the ARRL to cover their expenses in providing the tests and handling the applications.

After the test session please wait 10 days before contacting the ARRL at (860) 594-0300 or http://www.qrz.com/callsign for new license information. Please do not call the FCC directly.

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SINCE 1951

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