SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AMATEUR RADIO CLUB, INC. |
||||||||||||||||
|
*Serving Amateur Radio Since 1974* |
||||||||||||||||
| Updated: August 3, 2010 |
||||||||||||||||
Club Net =========== SELARC meetings are held on the 2nd Thursday of each month Come meet your new Officers! Thursday, August 12th, 7pm Ponchatoula Community Center (300 North 5th Street, Range Road) Elevator Access Talk-in 147.00 (-600) w/107.2Hz Tone ================================================ Congratulations to new SELARC officers for 2010-2011 ! Contact them at the e-mail links below:
5th Anniversary K5R Special Event Station in commemoration of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita will be held Saturday, August 28th, from 9am-3pm. Sponsored by the Southeast Louisiana Amateur Radio Club (SELARC). More details at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/K5R New Orleans Hamfest is scheduled for Saturday September 25 at the Harahan Recreation Gymnasium, 6601 10th Street. More info at NOHamfest@w5gad.org Multiple Sclerosis bikeMS:Louisiana Ride 150-mile bike ride from Hammond to Percy Quin Park in Mississippi and back will be held on Saturday, Oct. 2nd & Sunday, Oct. 3rd. Ham radio volunteers to assist with communications can contact wb5fbs@arrl.net for more info. Southeast LA Amateur Radio Club VE tests are scheduled for the last Sunday of each month in Room "B" of the North Oaks Medical System Diagnostic Center. All sessions are on Sundays from 2pm-5pm with $15 testing fee. Bring photo ID and any appropriate CSCE.
Sympathy is expressed to the family of Jeanette and Kevin Calmes, KD5JWW, on the death of Jeanette's mother, Hallie Howes Perrin of Ponchatoula. Sympathy is also extended to the families and many friends of two well-known area ham operators who are now Silent Keys: Jan Edwards, W5EV, of Folsom and George Rush, K5GWR, of Baton Rouge.
Attendance: Scott KD5PCK, Tyrone N5XES, Forrest KD5PKS, Ralph K5CAV, Jim WB5LSH, Bob WB5FBS, Walter N5RYI, Ronald N5QVZ, Patti KE3OW, James KC5JLA, Kathy KF5HEE, David N5QOX, David WB5NPV, James K5QNT, Ray K5AZU, Carol KE5GOC, Jason KC4LOS and Al Baker. Committee Reports: REPEATER (Bob WB5FBS) - no report, all OK. HAMFEST (Tyrone N5XES) - the hamfest prizes will be delivered via the Slidell Hamfest and are paid for; David Sumner K1ZZ, ARRL Chief Executive Officer, will be the featured speaker at the Hamfest/Delta Division convention. ARES (Bob WB5FBS) - thanked all who volunteer as Net Control Stations for the Monday night ARES net; also advised that Tangipahoa Parish President Burgess has issued a 'state of emergency' due to the BP oil spill impinging upon Lakes Ponchartrain and Maurepas, but there is no ham radio activation. FIELD DAY REPORT (Scott KD5PCK) - preliminary figures show over 1200 total points with 205 QSO's logged.ELECTION OF OFFICERS: Nominating Committee presented slate of candidates - for President: Tyrone Burns N5XES, Vice-President: Ralph Shaw K5CAV, Secretary: Robert Priez WB5FBS, Treasurer: David Catania N5QOX. Additional nomination was made from the floor for Jason Liuzza for Vice-President. After balloting for Vice-President, Ralph Shaw was announced the winner; since there were no other nominations Burns, Priez and Catania were elected by acclamation. Congratulations to the new officers and a big "THANK YOU" to outgoing Vice-President Scott Hernandez KD5PCK and Treasurer Carol Redmond KE5GOC!! Old Business: (1) Scott KD5PCK reminded all of the K5R Special Event on Aug. 28, the 5th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Operation will be from the club station at Ponchatoula Community Center. (2) The library book donation in memory of Larry Jacobson KD5LWJ is still pending. (3) Scott demonstrated the club shirts with SELARC logo; cost is $20. He is also planning to place order for the ARES radio vests, so asked interested parties to contact him with size and quantity. (4) Application for membership by Jason Hunter KC4LOS was voted upon and approved. Welcome to SELARC, Jason! New Business: Application for membership by James Michael Whittington KE5HEY was received and will be voted on at the August meeting. Announcements: Tyrone again reminded members that the club station at the Community Center is available for use (before or after meetings would be a good time!). If interested contact him or one of the officers.
I apologize for the late report, but I had a computer operating system crash about four weeks ago and recovery has been quite a task. I had all my important files backed up to an external drive but lots of information stored in files associated with Outlook was not backed up. Thank goodness for my external hard drive! Remember, it is not a question of IF you will have a computer failure, but a question of WHEN. Backup your important data. External hard drives are cheap and backup can be accomplished automatically. UPCOMING HAMFESTS (See http://www.arrl.org/hamfests.html for more
details): Note: The West Central Louisiana Amateur Radio Club of Leesville has decided not to hold their hamfest this year. SECTION APPOINTMENTS: Marvin Rush W5MRR Emergency Coordinator Beauregard Parish SECTION ARES STATISTICS: ARES MEMBERS 524, DRILLS/TRAINING 16 MH 591,
PUBLIC SERVICE EVENTS 1 MH 96, EMERGENCY OPERATIONS 1 MH 1, TOTAL
OPERATIONS 18 MH 688, ARES NET SESSIONS 57 CHECKINS 578. OTHER REPORTS RECEIVED: Chuck Standlee AC5PW OO, Virginia Bryant KE5DJA PIA, Ron Riviere WB5CXJ. AFFILIATED AND SPECIAL SERVICE CLUBS: ARRL Club Database not functional at this time. If you have questions or need help please contact Jim N5NVP at n5nvp@arrl.net. FLOWER FUND: Virginia reports that the fund total stands at $125. There have been no expenditures to date. If you wish to have noteworthy information about club activities, individual achievements, etc. included in the Section Summary please send them to k5gls@arrl.org. This year for Field Day I visited as many sites as I could
south of Alexandria. By the time I made it back to Shreveport I had
clocked 975 miles in two days. I enjoyed visiting with the clubs and
groups that I was able to reach and I apologize to those that I
couldn’t. Just too many miles and not enough time! I was impressed with
the operation of each group and I know that everyone had lots of fun. Louisiana Section Announces Online Swapmeet Forum: The Rules are posted on the LA ARRL Section website. We hope this addition to the web site will provide you with many hours of pleasure and a few sales as well.USS Kidd June Events: From the Baton Rouge Amateur Radio Club -- We had one demonstration this month. Two separate groups enjoyed a presentation by Ava, Buddy, and Les. Young people from the West Baton Rouge Library youth program and some older cadets from the Civil Air Patrol were our guests. Thanks to Wayne Matherne N5YFC who was able to put both of our Ten Tec transceivers online and update their soft-ware. Most changes were subtle but a noticeable improvement is the addition of the 60 meter band. Museum Ships weekend proved to be touch and go as the bands typically would fade and return with a vengeance. One of the most interesting contacts was made by Marvin Owen when he answered a call from a 10 year old girl, extra class, who had been licensed for a year. Other museum ships of note were the Queen Mary, the New Jersey, the Lexington, and the Missouri. There were a total of 313 contacts of which 38 were CW. Thanks to the volunteers of the day: David Ducote, Ava Gerald, Marvin Owen, Russ Allor, Mike Hammet, Cheryl Warren, Jeremy Gerald, Dave Thomas, and Wayne Matherne. LOUISIANA SECTION WEBSITE -- The site is updated daily by Webmaster Ken Standard AD5XJ. It would be a good idea to check www.laarrl.org daily. As stated above the Louisiana Section Summary will be available here and not on the ARRL site until the ARRL site is functional.SILENT KEYS: Sadly the following Section Silent Keys were reported to me this month – Rosa Duchan KA5RQU; Ben Roumain Babin, Sr. W5ROQ 73, Gary Stratton K5GLS LA Section Manager
For sale: (1) 40 ft crank-up HyGain tower with antenna rotor & power cable and HyGain Direction Control (2) 5-element HyGain HF beam antenna with coax cable (3) Drake MN 2000 Matching Network (4) Books and code tapes. Call for details (985) 419-8893 Clarence Abadie KB5GUW cypress2@juno.com
DELTA DIVISION SURVEY Delta Division Website: www.arrldelta.org/
==>Vanity Call Sign Fees to Decrease August 17 - On July 19, the Federal Communications Commission announced via the Federal Register that the cost of an Amateur Radio vanity call sign will decrease 10 cents, from $13.40 to $13.30. The new fees take effect 30 days after publication, making August 17, 2010, the first day the new fee is in effect. In FY2010, the FCC expects to grant 14,800 vanity call signs, bringing in $196,840 from the vanity call sign program. The FCC is authorized by the Communications Act of 1934, As Amended, to collect vanity call sign fees to recover the costs associated with that program. The vanity call sign regulatory fee is payable not only when applying for a new vanity call sign, but also upon renewing a vanity call sign for a new 10 year term. ==>John Robert Stratton, KE5ISX, Appointed West Gulf Division Vice Director- The ARRL's West Gulf Division consists of the States of Texas and Oklahoma. After review of eligibility by the ARRL Ethics and Elections Committee, President Kay Craigie, N3KN, has appointed John Robert Stratton, KE5ISX, an attorney in Austin, Texas, to serve as Vice Director of the ARRL West Gulf Division for the remainder of the current term that expires January 1, 2011. Stratton, an attorney, fills the vacancy created when John Thomason, WB5SYT, resigned the position earlier this month. A General class licensee, Stratton has been licensed and an ARRL member since 2006. In February 2007, Stratton became active in League affairs after learning about the new cell phone bills that were introduced in the 2007 Texas Legislative Session, and he volunteered to help work against the bills. "We were successful in defeating the cell phone bills that would have made mobile Amateur Radio operation illegal. With the help of some smart and dedicated hams, we were also successful in obtaining passage of new laws that protected those state employees who were hams [so they could operate] when they deployed in emergencies" Stratton said. ==> FCC Modifies Rules to Allow Limited Employee Participation in Disaster and Emergency Drills - In a Report and Order released Wednesday, July 14, the FCC amended Part 97.113 to allow amateurs to participate without an FCC waiver in government-sponsored disaster preparedness drills on behalf of their employers participating in the exercise. The FCC also has amended the rules to allow employees to participate in non-government drills and exercises up to one hour per week and up to two 72 hour periods during the year. The effective date of these new rules will be September 3, 2010. ==> First Half of 2010 Sees Upswing in New Amateur Radio Licensees - As of June 30, the number of new licenses issued by the FCC in 2010 is outpacing the January-June 2009 totals by almost 8.5 percent; at this time last year, the FCC had issued 16,844 new licenses. As of June 30, 2010, there are 694,346 licensed Amateur Radio operators in the US, an almost 1 percent rise over all of calendar year 2009. Broken down by license class at the end of June 2010, there were 16,299 Novices, 342,064 Technicians, 154,284 Generals, 60,059 Advanced and 121,640 Amateur Extra licensees. ==> Spain Extends Amateur Privileges on 70 MHz- The Union de Radioaficionados Espanoles -- Spain's IARU Member-Society -- announced that the Secretaría de Estado de Telecomunicaciones y para la Sociedad de la Información (Spain's equivalent to the FCC) has extended temporary privileges on the 70 MHz band (4 meters) to hams in that country. In 2008, hams in Spain were granted 70 MHz privileges for six months. Spanish amateurs may now use 70.150-70.200 MHz, with a maximum of 10 W; the average power of emission outside the authorized band should not exceed 25 microwatts. ==> Order Your IRCs Online at USPS Web Site - Many hams have long complained about difficulties they have encountered when purchasing International Reply Coupons (IRCs) from their local post offices. Now the US Postal Service has made it easier to get those IRCs to send with your direct QSL cards -- order them online from the USPS Web site. The USPS ships all in-stock domestic orders for stamps and retail items within 1 business day via Priority Mail with Delivery Confirmation or First Class Mail. Shipments should arrive within 3-5 business days. All stamp orders are charged a $1 handling fee, regardless of the order amount. IRCs purchased from the USPS, whether online or in person at a post office, cost $2.10 each. ==>IN BRIEF: * Coming events on the radio: SARL HF Phone Contest is Aug. 1. ARS Spartan Sprint and QRP Fox Hunt are Aug. 3 & 4. NCCC Sprint Ladder is Aug. 6 and TARA Grid Dip Shindig is Aug. 7. ARRL UHF Contest, North American QSO Party (CW); 10-10 International Summer Contest (SSB) are August 8. SKCC Weekend Sprint, NAQCC Straight Key/Bug Sprint, QRP Fox Hunt are August 11-12. Worked All Europe-CW, ARRL Rookie Roundup-Phone and Keymen's Club of Japan Contest-CW are Aug. 14-15. Maryland-DC QSO Party (Phone,CW,Digital) is Aug. 14-16. ARRL 10GHz & Up Contest, North American QSO Party and SARTG WW RTTY Contest are Aug. 21-22. Hawaii QSO Party, YO DX Contest, Kansas QSO Party and Ohio QSO Party are Aug. 28-29. All dates, unless otherwise stated, are UTC. *The Amateur Radio Safety Foundation (ARSFI) has announced the availability of RMS Express user software with WINMOR, a new radio-email application for use with the Winlink 2000 network. The WINMOR protocol was introduced at the 2008 ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference in Chicago. The goal of the WINMOR development effort was to create a soundcard digital mode that would provide an alternative to PACTOR for accessing the Winlink 2000 network. After two years of beta testing, WINMOR TNC, a software-based "helper application," is now available as part of the new Winlink RMS Express user software suite. --The ARRL Letter and The American Radio Relay League
Members Listed by Callsign KF5CJU Varisco,
Martin
Stay Radio Active ! See you at the meeting !! ================================================ SELARC is proud to have partnered with Southeastern Louisiana University to serve the university and community for over 30 years. Through our association with the Tangipahoa parish Office of Homeland Security, Project LION and Southeastern radio station KSLU-FM we have been an active component in the communications plans for Homeland security and disaster management for local and regional events including severe weather incidents, train derailments, and evacuations. The campus amateur radio station located in the facilities of KSLU is an integral part of radio communications for campus emergency management. ================================================ When you are ready drop us a line: wb5net@arrl.netSELARC
|
SELARC Membership Application
Amateur Radio Week Proclamation
Apply/Update your ARES contact info here!
PHOTO Gallery : Clubs Acadiana Amateur Radio Association Baton Rouge Amateur Radio Club Greater New Orleans Amateur Radio Resources Central Louisiana Amateur Radio Club Shreveport Amateur Radio Assoc. Northeast Louisiana 6 Meter Repeater Assoc. Piney Hills Amateur Radio Assoc. West Central Louisiana Amateur Radio Club Atchafalaya Amateur DX Association Opelousas Area Amateur Radio Club Mississippi Clubs Chickasaw Amateur Radio Assoc. Mississippi Amateur Radio Assoc. Southwest Mississippi Amateur Radio Club West Jackson County Amateur Radio Club Hattiesburg Amateur Radio Club Lowdnes County Amateur Radio Club Repeater DB Other Links National
Hurricane Center USGS - Current Hydrologic Observations AMSAT - Amateur Satellite Organization Young Ladies
Radio League (YLRL) Packet Radio PacketRadio.com FCC Pages UTC World Time |