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ARLX001 National Hurricane Center Amateur Radio Station Annual Test

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Special Bulletin 1 ARLX001
From ARRL Headquarters
Newington CT May 16, 2023
To all radio amateurs

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ARLX001 National Hurricane Center Amateur Radio Station Annual Test

The amateur radio station of the National Hurricane Center, WX4NHC
(NHC), located on the campus of Florida International University in
Miami, will conduct their on-the-air Annual Communications Test on
Saturday, May 27, 2023, from 9 AM - 5 PM EDT (1300z-2100z).

This is the NHC's 43rd year of public service. NHC Amateur Radio
Assistant Coordinator Julio Ripoll, WD4R/WX4NHC, reports that the
purpose of this event is to test amateur radio equipment and
antennas at the NHC as well as operators' home equipment, antennas,
and computers prior to this year's hurricane season. The 2023
hurricane season begins June 1 and runs through November 30.

This event is good practice for amateur radio operators worldwide to
practice amateur radio communications during times of severe
weather.

Ripoll said WX4NHC will be on HF, VHF, UHF, 2- and 30-meter APRS,
and Winlink. To contact the NHC's amateur radio station send an
email to, wx4nhc@.... The subject of the email must contain
//WL2K.

The Hurricane Watch Net will try to stay on 14.325 MHz for most of
the time, as well as 7.268 MHz depending on propagation. They may
also change frequencies due to potential QRM.

You may be able to find WX4NHC on HF by using one of the DX spotting
networks, such as the DX Summit website at, .

The VoIP Hurricane Net will also be active from 4 PM - 5 PM EDT
(2000-2100z), on IRLP node 9219/EchoLink WX-TALK Conference node
7203. Visit their website at for more
information.

WX4NHC will also make a few contacts on local VHF and UHF repeaters,
as well as the Florida Statewide Amateur Radio Network (SARnet)
system to test station equipment.

QSL cards are available via WD4R with a self-addressed stamped
envelope. More information about the NHC is available at their
website .
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ARLB006 ARRL Advocates for Radio Amateurs as FCC Proposes Changes to
60-Meter Band

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ARRL Bulletin 6 ARLB006
From ARRL Headquarters
Newington CT April 28, 2023
To all radio amateurs

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ARLB006 ARRL Advocates for Radio Amateurs as FCC Proposes Changes to
60-Meter Band

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is seeking comments
about changing the secondary allocation available to radio amateurs
on 60 meters. The FCC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM)
on April 21, 2023, that deals with the band. In a prior petition,
ARRL, The National Association for Amateur Radio, urged protecting
the existing use of the band by amateurs when adding a new
allocation adopted internationally.

Currently, radio amateurs in the US have access to five discrete
channels on a secondary basis: 5332 kHz, 5348 kHz, 5358.5 kHz, 5373
kHz, and 5405 kHz. Users of these channels are limited to an
effective radiated power (ERP) of 100 W PEP.

The FCC proposes to allocate 15 kHz of contiguous bandwidth between
5351.5 - 5366.5 kHz on a secondary basis with a maximum power of 15
W EIRP (equivalent to 9.15 W ERP). This allocation was adopted at
the 2015 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-15).

The federal government is the primary user of the 5 MHz spectrum.
The government's manager of spectrum use, the National
Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), has
expressed support for implementing the allocation as adopted at
WRC-15. Doing so would result in amateurs losing access to four of
the five discrete channels, and power limits would be reduced from
100 W ERP to 9.15 W ERP. However, it would provide access to a new
contiguous 15 kHz band that includes one of the current five
channels.

In 2017, ARRL petitioned the FCC to keep the four 60-meter channels
that fall outside the new band, as well as the current operating
rules, including the 100 W PEP ERP limit.

The ARRL petition stated, "Such implementation will allow radio
amateurs engaged in emergency and disaster relief communications,
and especially those between the United States and the Caribbean
basin, to more reliably, more flexibly, and more capably conduct
those communications."

ARRL said that years of amateur radio experience using the five
discrete channels have shown that amateurs can coexist with primary
users at 5 MHz while complying with the regulations established for
their use. The petition also stated, "Neither ARRL, nor, apparently,
NTIA, is aware of a single reported instance of interference to a
federal user by a radio amateur operating at 5 MHz to date."

In the NPRM, the FCC recognizes that Canada has already adopted
60-meter allocations and related rules that align with those
proposed by ARRL. The Commission wrote, "Finally, we note that
Canada has essentially implemented the same rules as ARRL has
requested." The NPRM can be found online at, .

The FCC proposed to allocate the 15 kHz bandwidth but stopped short
of making a proposal on whether the existing channels should remain
allocated to amateur radio and what the power limitations should be.
They requested comments on their proposal and the related channel
and power issues.

Comments will be due 60 days after the NPRM is published in the
Federal Register, which is expected within the next two weeks.
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City of Garland Emergency Warning Siren Test

When:
Wednesday, August 2, 2023
11:30am to 12:30pm
(UTC-05:00) America/Chicago
Repeats: Monthly on the first Wednesday

Where:
Garland Emergency Warning Siren Test - Monthly

Organizer: Rob Whitener - KI5AON

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Description:
City of Garland Emergency Warning Siren Test for Garland and surrounding area.

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Unfortunately due to a bad back I won’t be able to help this year sorry.

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The PARK Club Auction returns to the March 20th monthly meeting.? YOU will want to be here for this one!

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This was a big hit last year, and we look forward to it being even bigger this year. We already have a few headline items, including a complete Drake TR7, RV7, PS7 station, and an ICOM HR71 HF receiver, several power supplies and more. You need to be here to bid.

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AND, If you have HAM gear you'd like to bring to the auction – you are invited and welcome to join the fun as follows:

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1. Keep ownership and let the club auction it with 10% of the final price being donated to the club.
2. Donate it to the club, and the club auctions it with the proceeds going to the club.
3. Put it on a free table to be available to any interested ham to put it back into use.

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Only HAM related gear please.

Anything not auctioned is open to a person-to-person exchange (sale or given away).

At the end of the night, if you brought it and it doesn't go home with someone else, it must go home with you.

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When:

Monday March 20, 3023 @ 7:00 PM? (Get here early to scope out the treasures)

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Where:

First United Methodist Church Plano

3160 E. Spring Creek Parkway? (corner of Spring Creek / Parker Rd.)

Plano, TX 75074

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Here’s a list of treasures that we know we have.? You never know what other treasures may be brought to the auction:

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~35 feet Stranded Copper Antenna Wire

~55 feet Tandy RG8/U Mini Foam Coax

~70 feet Window Feed Line

3’ Antenna Roof Mount Tripod - NEW

5’ Antenna Roof Mount Tripod - NEW

AEA Morse Memory Keyer with manual & cable

Alpha Delta DX-EE 40-10 meter Dipole (NEW in Bag)

An Assortment of BNC type connectors/Adapters

An Assortment of N type connectors/Adapters

AT-271A/PRC Military Antenna Whip

Bencher Iambic Paddle , chrome

Bird 43 Wattmeter & 3 slugs - 2500w HF, 250w HF, 100w 2m

Bird AT-500 Antenna Tester w/ manual

Buxcomm MM-41 4:1 Balun

C.H. Ellis #377-931 19x19x11 Hard Case Tool / Go Box

CDE Ham III Rotator

Drake PS7 Power Supply in original box with original manuals

Drake RV7 Remote VFO with original manuals

Drake TR7 Transceiver in original box with original manuals

HeathKit 1KW Cantenna dummy load with manual

HeathKit HS-1661 Speaker with manual

Icom IC-R71A Receiver, like new in box

Jensen 15x18x13 Wheeled Hard Case Tool / Go Box

Meca 404-1 35W Dummy Load DC-6.0 GHz

Polyphaser IS-50NX-C2 N to N Lightning Arrestor 125-1000 MHz

RF Industries RFA 4024 Unidapter Kit (UHF-MiniUHF-N- MiniN-BNC-SMA)? 1 full set, 1 partial set

Shure desk mic model 444 with manual

Transel THF-75 Mobile Antenna Whip (2).? With a bracket to combine them into a 75 meter Portable Dipole

Weller WP-25 Soldering Iron and Station

Yaesu FT-208r HT with desk charger & manuals (needs battery replacement)

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73 and see you there,

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Dallas County SkyWarn Training

When:
Saturday, February 18, 2023

Where:
Granville Performing Arts Center

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Here's an announcement that should be of interest to all hams:

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Update on Emergency Communications in Turkey after Earthquake

For immediate release:
February 6, 2023 –

The following news post is from Carlos Alberto Santamaría González, CO2JC, the Emergency Coordinator, for Region 2 of the the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU R2):

“As you know, last night there was a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that mainly affected Turkey and Syria but also other neighbouring countries with 3,700 people dead and more than 16,000 injured until the last hours, but it is suspected that there are more.

According to information received from the Emergency Coordinators of the IARU Region 1 countries and especially from Greg Mossop, G0DUB, the Emergency Communications Coordinator for this region, communications in Turkey are mainly on VHF, but transmissions in Turkish have been heard on the frequency of 28.540 MHz, although they can also use 3.777 and 7.092 MHz. For this reason we ask our colleagues at IARU R2 to protect those frequencies and be on the lookout in case we can help with anything.

As for Syria, it has been reported that apparently there are not many Radio Amateurs there, so we do not know if there is any frequency in use in that country.

Aziz ?ASA, TA1E, Turkish Emergency Communications coordinator, suggested that any help from other countries to his should be coordinated through the Turkish embassy in each country.

Humanitarian aid groups from several European countries are currently moving into the affected regions.

We appreciate the concern of colleagues from IARU R2 member societies for this earthquake that has occurred in these countries.

We offer our condolences to all the people and colleagues in the countries affected by this terrible disaster.”

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Carlos Alberto Santamaria Gonzalez, CO2JC
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Emergency Communications Coordinator
International Amateur Radio Union, Region 2.