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US Radio Orienteering Championship September 17, 2024 -- News courtesy Amateur Radio Daily The 23rd ARRL and 12th IARU Region 2 Radio Orienteering Championship event takes place October 5-13 in Chelsea, Michigan. This event combines navigation racing and radio direction finding to form a competition among its contestants. Participants will move through the woods hunting transmitters utilizing a receiver and a map. This year, 54 individuals will compete with the Paul Bunyan Trophy at stake. Source: Radio Orienteering Champs

Hi everyone, If you have a D-STAR radio, we invite you to join us on Tuesday evenings at 6 p.m. for a quick test of the new CARC D-STAR repeater. We anticipate making a few adjustments in repeater settings and would appreciate a few test signals to verify performance and coverage. Our repeater operates in Mixed Mode - FM Analog and D-STAR. Our Drive Home Net operates from 5:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. in traditional FM Analog. Join us there if you have time. This will, also, allow to compare performance between the two modes. The Drive Home Net operates every Tuesday except for the 4th Tuesday, which is our monthly meeting night. The D-STAR tests continue after the Drive Home Nets through October, with no tests on the 4th Tuesday. FM Analog settings: 441.875 MHz, PLUS OFFSET (5 MHz), PL=131.8 Hz D-STAR settings: 441.875 MHz, PLUS OFFSET (5 MHz) -- DR mode Set for Local Mode -- CQCQCQ Set RPT1 as N5CXX..B (replace periods with spaces) RPT2 is NOT USED; some radios or software require something in this field, so use N5CXX..B or N5CXX..G (again, replace the periods with spaces) The N5CXX D-STAR repeater operates only in local mode at this time. There is no Gateway. We hope to have a connection to the D-STAR network in early 2025. 73, Frank Krizan KR1ZAN

Bullwinkle and Boris are out playing around White Rock Lake today. Bullwinkle is calling out at 146.545 and Boris is at 146.580. No coordinates today. Be careful of the poison ivy! Both foxes will be coming out after 6PM Sunday. Good Luck! Hope you have as much fun finding them as we had putting them together and getting them out there. Dave, K5YR, and David, KG5VSR

Wayne passed away on Wednesday, September 11 after a long illness. There will no public services. Bill

Hi all, The Collins Amateur Radio Club of Richardson has a new Icom repeater configured for Mixed Mode -- FM Analog and D-STAR. Our weekly Drive Home Net, using FM Analog, will be held tonight (Sept. 10th) from 5:30 to 6:00 p.m.. Following the Net, at approximately 6 p.m., we will conduct a brief test of the repeater's D-STAR capability. If you are equipped for D-STAR, we invite to take a few minutes and join in the test. Here's the info on the repeater. FM Analog: 441.875 PLUS 5MHz, PL=131.8 Hz D-STAR 441.875 PLUS 5MHZ Use CQ CQ CQ for Local Call RPT1= N5CXX B Gateway NOT USED If necessary, setup RPT2 as N5CXX G Tonight's NCS for the Drive Home Net is Kerry, K5WKS. The D-STAR test will be conducted by Frank, KR1ZAN. We will operate the repeater for a few months exclusively in LOCAL until we get our Gateway established and announce when we are of the world-wide D-STAR Network. We hope you can join us. 73, Frank KR1ZAN

Francine update September 10, 2024 Noon Eastern: ARRL Director of Emergency Management Josh Johnston, KE5MHV, just participated in a call with the National Weather Service Shreveport, Louisiana Field Office. "Our partners at NWS are closely monitoring the situation and preparing Louisiana for multiple possibilities, that each could change as the situation unfolds," he said. Read more and frequencies to avoid for Hurricane Watch Net at:https://www.arrl.org/news/view/francine-updates FWD by KR1ZAN

?FWD de KR1ZAN ------------------Registration is Open for the Nov 2nd, 2024 RaDAR Rally RaDAR is Rapid Deployment Amateur Radio conceived by Eddie Leighton ZS6BNE. RaDAR encourages outdoor operating with a unique challenge: make five contacts and redeploy as fast as possible in four hours. The RaDAR Challenge has become the RaDAR Rally with some rule tweaks. Please take a look at the complete rules here. If you are interested, please make your plans and register. Registration will facilitate RaDAR to RaDAR contacts. Email your registration info below to the RaDAR Rally POC, Greg Lane, at lanekg@.... I'll accept registrations through Nov 1st UTC. If your plans change, send me an update. This is not a contest; it is just for fun! Check out this intro video and the November 2024 roster here. Registration info includes: Name Call Day (Sat or Sun) Venue, Start UTC Conveyances Bands Modes QRP (Y or N) Spotting method (optional) Good luck, Greg N4KGL

Just a quick FYI for those interested in the balloon launch coming up on 9/21, we'll be talking about the payloads, how to interact with the payloads, and how to participate in the launch at the RWK meeting tomorrow (Monday) night. The meeting is at St. Barnabas church in Richardson (1220 West Belt Line Road, Richardson TX 75080). Social hour starts at 6:00PM and the official meeting starts at 7. Zoom details and more location info: https://www.k5rwk.org/events/event/general-meeting/ Please pass this along to any other interested hams/clubs. 73 de KE5GDB -- Andrew Koenig ------------------- FWD by KR1ZAN

September is National Preparedness Month, and ARRL is working to help radio amateurs have a plan for family resilience. Many hams enjoy public service as part of their operating. Being ready to activate for a served agency through the ARRL Amateur Radio Emergency Service? (ARES?) involves not only being licensed and trained, but also prepared and equipped. Read more at: https://www.arrl.org/news/national-preparedness-month-have-a-go-kit de KR1ZAN

Hi from the Collins ARC Drive Home Net --- We're writing to let you know that the Net is moving back to its original repeater at Collins Aerospace in Richardson, effective Tuesday, September 3rd, 2024. The Collins ARC N5CXX 70 repeater is on 441.875 MHz, Plus Offset, PL=131.8 Hz The Collins ARC Drive Home Net operates on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th Tuesdays of each month with exceptions in November and December, from 5:30 to 6:00 p.m. CT. We hope you'll join us on a regular basis and participate in ham talk. We have a new repeater in service with twice the power of the old repeater, as well as, a new antenna. The antenna will probably be upgraded in the not too distant future to give us additional gain and coverage. The new Icom repeater is a dual mode 70cm repeater which allows for FM analog and D-STAR. We anticipate being able to begin testing local coverage using D-STAR, and, hopefully, sometime next year be connected into the world-wide D-STAR network. We'll be announcing on the Drive Home Net and on our Club website (n5cxx.us <http://n5cxx.us/>) when we plan to start testing D-STAR. If you're equipped for D-STAR, we hope you'll participate in these tests. Hope to see you Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. We sincerely thank the Garland Amateur Radio Club for use of their 70cm repeater for the past year for hosting our Net while our repeater and antenna were being replaced. This is an example of the true spirit of amateur radio. 73, the Collins ARC Repeater Team

Interest report on the dxpedition to Jarvis Island. Bill https://jarvisisland2024.com/news/108-the-dxpedition-to-jarvis-island-n5j-2

Join us on Tuesday, August 27th, at 5:30 p.m. for the monthly meeting of the Collins Amateur Radio Club to be held at Woodcreek Church, 3400 E. Renner Rd, Richardson. The meeting will, also, be streamed via Zoom. Login instructions are available on the Club’s website, n5cxx.us. Following a brief business meeting, Jonathan Brandenburg, KF5IDY, Assistant Vice President of Engineering, will present a program entitled "A conversation on current and future AMSAT engineering projects”. AMSAT has over fifty years of experience building and launching spacecraft for the amateur radio community. As technologies evolve, AMSAT has taken advantage of advancing technologies and standards to launch CubeSat missions and use commercial, off-the-shelf components. This rich history continues today as AMSAT engineers diligently work on multiple exciting projects to advance AMSAT’s vision and mission to deploy amateur radio satellite systems. These projects range from the ambitious GOLF-Tee satellite, to the more immediate Fox-Plus satellites, and on to research and development projects to develop new technologies for both current and future missions. With these projects, AMSAT’s goals include progress to highly elliptical orbits, a steady supply of low earth orbit payloads, and early-stage research into thrust and deorbit options for AMSAT spacecraft. Please come to this presentation prepared to ask questions about the various aspects of AMSAT’s engineering efforts that interest you. Jonathan Brandenburg was raised in the small town of Ralston, Oklahoma graduating high school from Ralston Public High School boasting a graduating class of thirteen students before completing an undergraduate degree in Computer Science at Oklahoma State University. But a long-standing interest in space later led him to obtain a Masters in Space Studies from University of North Dakota when distance learning consisted of shipping VHS tape recordings of the previous semesters’ classes. Professionally, he looks back on a varied sequence of positions in document and records management consulting, an adjunct professor teaching introductory computer science and biotechnical engineering, and the occasional attempt at being an IT corporate executive. Today, Jonathan spends his days working with NASA and commercial clients to develop systems and flight software for space stations and commercial customers. As you might imagine, this is his dream job! As a former private pilot, a former SCUBA diver, and current amateur radio operator you see he has a history of expensive and time-consuming hobbies and today you find him volunteering with AMSAT engineering. As a recent Assistant Vice President of Engineering at AMSAT, Jonathan kicked off the Fox-Plus program and expanded the research-and-development-oriented ASCENT projects.

To GARC from Allen Yoder, NG5Y. I need help making the car payment. If you live in North Dallas and need help with your computer be it Mac or Windows I can help. I have 30 years of IT experience. I can also help with iPhone. Let me know. Email: ng5y@...

Can you help? -----Forwarded Message----- From: Jim Ashmore <jmshmr3@...> Sent: Aug 21, 2024 11:03 AM To: John M. Abbott @ home <jmabbott@...> Subject: Power line noise meter John, Do you know anyone that might have a power line noise meter (MFJ-852)? Doing a little static chasing. Many thanks, 73 Jim W5AAQ

For those who have not heard, GARC HAM Robert (Bob) Chandler, KR5BC, passed away August 1st. Funeral information is at New Hope Funeral Home: https://www.newhopefh.com/obituaries/robert-chandler

Sad news posted in the Nacogdoches ARC August 2024 newsletter: Silent Key Marshall Williams K5QE SK We are sorry to report that Marshall Williams K5QE passed away on July 26 at home. Memorial service will be held on August 6 at Starr Funeral Home in Hemphill. Marshall has been a long time member of NARC and was instrumental in getting a number of club members interested in VHF and microwave contesting and roving. His contest station at Hemphill is world class. He will be missed. de KR1ZAN Garland, TX

SB QST @ ARL $ARLB012 ARLB012 W1AW to QSY on 17 Meters for CW ZCZC AG12 QST de W1AW ARRL Bulletin 12 ARLB012 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT August 5, 2024 To all radio amateurs SB QST ARL ARLB012 ARLB012 W1AW to QSY on 17 Meters for CW Beginning on Friday, September 6, 2024, Maxim Memorial Station W1AW will begin using a new 17 meter frequency for its scheduled CW transmissions due to increased activity near the current bulletin frequency. In order to reduce the possibility of interference, W1AW will move to 18077.5 khz. NNNN /EX ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio?

From the ARRL.COM website:Hurricane Debby Updates 08/05/2024 Monday, August 5, 2024 AM Update: Hurricane Debby made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend coastal area just after 11:00 PM on Sunday night as a Category 1 Hurricane, near Steinhatchee, Florida, just 9 miles southeast of where Category 3 Idalia made landfall on August 30, 2023. Amateur Radio Emergency Service? (ARES?) nets have been activated and will continue to monitor the situation. The amateur radio station at the National Hurricane Center, WX4NHC is active on the with The Hurricane Watch Net (HWN) frequency of 14.325 MHz and is working with the VoIP Hurricane Net. via IRLP node 9219 / EchoLink WX-TALK Conference node 7203. Surface reports may also be filed via Winlink or online form. Full story at https://www.arrl.org/news/hurricane-debby-updates de KR1ZAN

R E M I N D E R <----- de KR1ZAN Begin forwarded message: From: "Steven Lott Smith KG5VK ARRL NTX SM" <lottsphoto@...> Subject: [Special] [ClubOfficersVirtualRoundTable] This Tuesday evening at 7 Pm I have a planned Zoom meeting with Club Officers, Please Join me we have much to talk about and I am eager to listen to each of you. Date: July 25, 2024 at 11:16:57 CDT To: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] Steven Smith KG5VK is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. 7 PM this Tuesday Evening 30 July 2024 Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81092937131?pwd=0VsSQkJqgXPZIopcYQ18clyhFZ2VQK.1 Meeting ID: 810 9293 7131 Passcode: 453755 --- One tap mobile +13462487799,,81092937131# US (Houston) +17193594580,,81092937131# US -- Steven Lott Smith KG5VK ARRL NTX Section Manager Tele 318-470-9806 KG5VK@... LottsPhoto@...

To all Communicators in Collins and Garland ARCs and Richardson Wireless Klub, plus any that receive this communication via forwards to other clubs or groups: The coordinator for the Labor Day Blackland Triathlon, Frank Cortese, has put out an emergency request for communicators that are willing help out with a bicycle race, in Granbury, this upcoming weekend. Specifically, they are in need of SAG vehicles for the race - helpful to have a pick-up truck or large SUV. I know that this would be a bit of a stretch for many/most of our members - time and distance-wise, but please remember that members of many other clubs come from many distances to help us with "our club-headed" communication events. Specifics that I know about the race and contact information is listed, below>>> ALL INFORMATION I KNOW FOR THIS EVENT IS LOCATED BELOW! PLEASE DO NOT EMAIL ME, DIRECTLY, FOR DETAILS. I DO NOT KNOW DETAILED SPECIFICS, AND CANNOT ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS. ALL RACE QUESTIONS NOT ANSWERED IN THIS EMAIL NEED TO BE SUBMITTED TO FRANK CORTESE. COMMS-SPECIFIC OR TECHNICAL QUESTIONS NEED TO BE SUBMITTED TO TOMMY HYDE, THE PRESIDENT OF THE HOOD COUNTY CLUB. THANK YOU! Here are the details: Blazin' Saddle 75 (https://blazinsaddle75.com) Blazin Saddle 75 | Saturday, August 3rd Granbury, Tx Begins at 7:30a and course closes at 2:30p so we'll most likely do a briefing at 6:30a. Start/finish and briefing at Granbury Middle School (2000 Crossland Rd, Granbury, TX 76048) Here is a volunteer signup link the Hood County ARC put together that you can send out. https://volunteersignup.org/BAA88 Hood County ARC Blazin' Saddle 75 2024 Communications Team Hood County ARC Blazin' Saddle 75 2024 Communications Team Volunteer signup sheet Volunteer signup sheet volunteersignup.org Frank Cortese email is: coachfrank@... Tommy Hyde email is: txwr@... If you are capable, and able to help with this event, please consider volunteering to assist. If you cannot assist, at this time, please forward to as many other local clubs as you possibly can. It would be greatly appreciated. In addition to clubs on this distribution, the Plano ARK has been notified. 73, Frank KR1ZAN