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I got this from a ARRL today! A few weeks ago, I sent out a request for members to comment to the FCC about proposed changes to the 60 meter band. Jim Boehner, N2ZZ, Roanoke Division Director and Bill Morine, N2COP, Roanoke Division Vice Director recently wrote a great request for action to members of their division about the proposed changes. Because the FCC has extended the deadline for comments to November 28, 2023 *from the original October 31) I thought it worthwhile to forward their message to the Midwest Division. Here is Jim and Bill’s request for support (with the corrected due date): *** We need your assistance, and we need it NOW. We strongly encourage you to assist the ARRL and the entire U.S. Amateur Radio community by submitting comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) before November 28, 2023, to save the privileges we have fought to gain on 60 meters. Even if you are not currently active on 60 meters, the proposed reduction in power from 100 watts to an equivalent of less than 10 watts is the most sweeping reduction of HF privileges in decades. If Amateur Radio opposition to this proposed change is weak and the FCC goes through with the change, will a lackluster response from the Amateur Radio community embolden the FCC to remove or modify more HF privileges? Please read this message in full to understand why your help is needed prior to submitting your comments. The FCC has issued Notice of Proposed Rulemaking’s (NPRM) Docket Number 23-120 which would reduce power on 60 meters from 100 watts ERP (Effective Radiated Power) to the equivalent of 9.5 watts ERP. The NPRM would replace the current five channels (currently each with a 100-watt power limit) with a 15 KHz continuous spectrum from 5351.5 to 5366.5 KHz, but limiting power to the equivalent of 9.5 watts ERP. ARRL is proposing to keep the current five channels AND add the docket’s proposed 15 KHz of continuous spectrum, all at a power level of 100 watts ERP. It’s important to note that in 2022 our neighbor, Canada, enacted ARRL’s position by keeping the five current channels AND adding the expanded 15 KHz of continuous spectrum, all at 100 watts. ARRL is advocating for the FCC to adopt the identical allocations and power limits which Canada put in place over a year ago. When the FCC authorized 60-meter access for Amateur Radio operators in July 2003, the Commission cited the positive propagation attributes for emergency communications. Over the past twenty years during hurricanes, Caribbean Amateur Radio stations used 60 meters to relay critical weather and situational reports to U.S. operators. Clearly, 9.5 watts ERP would be woefully inadequate to maintain communications for these purposes. In the May 2023 ARRL survey, members overwhelmingly pointed to Spectrum Defense as the #1 priority of the League. The Roanoke Division takes this priority seriously. For the maximum impact, the FCC needs to hear from ARRL members in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and West Virginia to underscore the importance of 60 meters in our densely populated region on the eastern seaboard situated between active hurricane zones and our nation’s capital of Washington, DC. Having a consistent bandplan with Canada will also ensure harmonious communications throughout most of North America. PLEASE support the ARRL's filing in this matter. To learn more about the NPRM and its impact on our 60-meter privileges, please visit https://www.arrl.org/60-meter-band . On this webpage you will find the links to file comments with the FCC. Please don’t delay. A substantial response from the Ham community before the November 28 deadline is the only way to forestall the loss of our valued operating privileges. Please urge your fellow Hams to file comments as well. Protection of our Amateur Radio spectrum is our number one priority. 73 de Jim Boehner, N2ZZ Roanoke Division Director Bill Morine, N2COP Roanoke Division Vice Director * I

Ardmore Ok is the intersection of a Y between Oklahoma City, and Tulsa at the top and Dallas at the bottom. Nice rainy weekend, Drove down from Mulvane Friday. Booked a Day's Inn -King bed for $33 a night-- Free Breakfast & HBO too.. Sunday stopped at Eskimo Joe's in Stillwater on the way home. Excellent hamfest at the EXPO-Convention Center. I'd say 150 tables and 1500+ attendees. While I was there I met Jason KC5HWB of YOU TUBE's "Ham Radio 2.0" He lives near Dallas.. Real nice guy..If you want to know the latest in Ham Radio watch his 200+ shows on his YOUTUBE CHANNEL My Big Buy - new 10 inch ZTE K92 tablets Can take the AT&T SIM for $20 each.. On Ebay used they are $49 and last night I found instructons to upgrade the O/S from Android persimmon (11) to Android 14- the latest.. Anyhow here is the thank you I received, with who won the prizes Larry -W8LM. Thanks for a great Ardmore 2023 Texoma Hamarama hamfest! The 75th version of the Texoma Hamarama is in the books. Thanks for a great 2024 Texoma Hamara. We had lots of vendors, exhibitors, and attendees. See you next year at Oklahoma City's Ham Holiday on July 27/28, 2024, and at the Ardmore Texoma Hamarama on October 26, 2024. Both hamfests will be returning to their venues and we'll hope to bring more amateur radio fun to these events. We thank everyone for their participation and look forward to seeing you next year. This year's prize winners are as follows: 2023 Special Raffle - ICOM 705 super package - Eric Chambless K5OD - Amarillo, TX 2023 Pre-registration prize - Vonnie Meritt KE5RKC - Union City, OK 2023 Grand Prize - Toby Roberson KO5T - Grandview, TX Hourly Prizes 9:00 a.m. - Wolf River Coils SOTA Special Antenna - Shelley Stevans - KD5CCI 10:00 a.m. - Alpha Delta 4-Position Antenna Switch and $25 Hamthreads gift card - Kenneth Eppler AD5CC 11:00 a.m. - TekPower TP305WI 30 Amp DC Power Supply and $25 Hamarama Bucks - Lyndle Smith KI5JTT 12:00 p.m. - ICOM IC-V80 2M HT and $25 Hamaram Bucks 1:00 p.m. - Yeasu FT-70DR C4FM Fusion Dual Band HT - Mike Rockey KE5EQC 2:00 p.m. - Quansheng UV-K5(8) Walkie Talkie and $50 Hamarama Bucks - Tim Maloney KA7NWT 73 - thanks a lot - and see you next year! Central Oklahoma Radio Amateurs (CORA) https://coraok.org/ | | Virus-free.www.avast.com |

Upon reaching home from the club meeting tonight, I was hearing "strange doings" on the repeater.. An almost dead carrier.. 3-5 seconds with a single "go Ahead" beep. If I keyed the repeater I got a double beep "go ahead" beep indicating the repeater was on the internet.. Single go ahead beep shoul dbe when we are in local area mode- not on Blind hams. Anyhow I went to AllStar Link | Node List | | | | AllStar Link | Node List Tim Sawyer WD6AWP - standing on the shoulders of giants Repeater Controller with VoIP linking for Ham Radio | | | and looked up the blind hams network.. We usually connect to node 50631X... X being 5 one of many portals based on our geographical location.Since we're in Wichita the closest is 5- Plano TX and it is not there.. Allstar is indicating it's off the "air" since 00:49 zulu 10/25 I also did this with my SHARI hot spot and found that when either the repeater or the hotspot was connected to 506315... we'd get the almost dead carrier burst for 3-5 seconds.. So it must be on the internet... We should connect to 506315 5 being Plano Texas. The Allstar node list shows active nodes 0- Freemont Ca.1- Newark, NJ2- Ottawa Ontario Canada 3-London, UK 4-Sidney NWT 5- NOT ACTIVE---- Down for some reason.. last ping 00:49 10/25 6- Test bench N2DYI7- Newark, NJ again. We are now connected to 0 - Fremont, Ca and I am not hearing the 3-5 second almost dead carrier with a single go ahead beep... I did hear a "static burst" on both my Shari and Freemont on the W0VFW repeater and it is 22 miles away from my QTH.. I did put my Shari on 1 Newark and the W0VFW repeater on 0 Fremont CA and I heard the static buzz 1 second long with a single courtesy tone.. So something in the Blind Hams network is not perfect.. I am going to send a copy of this post to Patrick, N2DYI to see if he can fill me in... I'm glad it isn't us... But I'm not sure. Pat N2DYI knows he can shut us down if were the problem. Larry W8LM am_fm_radio@...

Hello VFW Ham Family This Tuesday at 7pm at the post we will hold our October meeting. Please attend as lots of important decisions need to be made. I share the September minutes along with a few highlights of what we need to do. Highlights 1. This meeting we will nominate officers for the 2024 year of service. Please consider who you would like to nominate for president, Vice President, treasurer and perhaps board members if desired. We need good leadership for the benefit of the club. Radio Shack Derby will officially be closing December 16th. We want to honor Mark and Carl with a retirement party. Christmas means the Angel tree activity again and we need to plan how to get things done. As a member of the Post 3115 Amateur Radio Club your help is most appreciated. Please come to the meeting prepared to get involved. Also please watch your inbox for the agenda from our president. Blessings Patricia Hawkins, Secretary

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Saturday I'm seting up my hf antenna Saturday, it will be an inverted 'V'. What length/frequency should it be? Mike

As of 11:30am Local 10/16 I disconnected Blind Hams because VE3RWJ commented on a "long Static Crash" and I inquired . He and another commented they were putting up with it on Blind Hams for 3 days.. We've had high winds for 3 days.. Right now I have ZERO wind in Mulvane. and the repeater is quiet.. Now it's quiet for the last 1/2 hour. I am also now monitoring Blind Hams on my HOTSPOT.. to make sure we were the one causing it as I polled connections and there were about 45 users connected. We are now standing alone. If the sun has burned off the frost we will not know if It's us till tomorrow about 9am.. but it was making noise till 11:30 this morning. We have PL on the repeater, so any carrier has to have the same PL in order to get into our machine. Our transmitter transmits a DPL tone so it cannot mix and produce a PL tone for the receiver.. I may try to get up to the post at 3pm today.. to check connections on coax cables, etc.. Tomorrow-Wednesday I will be busy.. Larry W8LM

Taking words from the 1960's group and The Doors Album..... Drove past Derby Radio Shack.. There is a FOR SALE Sign on the Radio Shack sign at the street. So I swung in and tried to trade tonight's lotto ticket for the store.. NO DICE... I did get the skinny--- Radio Shack Derby is closing DECEMBER 16th.. A Saturday... The Building is for sale, Shawn and Mark are retiring!!! Now for the purpose of this posting- I think we- W0VFW Amateur Radio Group should give then a send off.. A "retirement party" either at the store or at the VFW... Mark, when I was President, was Awarded W0VFW Ham of the Year. He used to provide Radio Shack Gift Cards for a meeting raffle every month.. Especially with the $25 hand helds on Amazon,, and dollar store batteries, and every store selling phone cigarette lighter adapters, and USB cables. Time to retire Radio Shack- one of the last stores alive.. Mark has been in the business all his life. His father was district manager.. So--- DECEMBER 16th is the 3rd Saturday...isn't that next our lunch day???? What better way to combine them- a fund raiser with a retirement party for Shawn and Mark.. Even hot dogs- chili dogs, sloppy joes, mac & cheese... cake and cookies.. type thing.. Or do we take Donuts to the store that Saturday morning?? The board needs to address this and present something at the next meeting. Perhaps -- food 1/2 price with W0VFW membership.. After all 8 dogs and 8 buns is like $2.50 even with inflation..that 32 cents our cost plus condiments and a paper plate. Invite the entire ham radio community. WE better get this advertised by NOV 1st.. Now the VFW people won't join the ham club but other hams coming to Shawn and Marks retirement will .. Larry W8LM ARRL Life Member- Licensed 57 years.

We've been getting some carrier with what sounds noise on the repeater.. it is followed by a single beep- indicating it is local.. double beep is a real signal and going into the ALLSTAR system. I am not hearing anything on the input here in Mulvane, I am 17 air miles from the repeater. Since the last 3-4 days were quite windy, I don't know if it is RFI from a EVERGY pole or HV line. .. or since it seems to last sometimes for 10 seconds or more, and is something else. At the time of this writing , in Mulvane my WX station says ZERO wind.. Yet is is continuing. I almost wonder if it is intentional, as if someone can generate the signal, then tires after a few hours. Sometimes it is ovbiously a week signal, other times quite strong. If someone is close to the VFW than my 17 miles and when it's active switch to the repeater input. 144.67 and see if it can be heard nearby. or at all... I am starting insulating and sheet rocking my addition this week and it's a 2 man job. So I really can't just take off 22 miles to the VFW - besides the VFW doesn't open to 3pm. Like with everything else Delays continue to plague me. My truck has been in the shop since August 5th. We finally have the right bumper tenatively arriving Tuesday.. Today I have to go with my contractor to Menards on Maise with my trailer to get 248 sticks of Harty board, and sheet rock. Lowes in derby does not have selection or prices found on the other side of town. That makes every trip a 2-3 hour venture. I do have a direction finding antenna but not the time, a it's intermittent. If anyone hears something on the input let me know...Last year it seemed to be dew-frost on the antenna.. fiberglass antennas are known for that. I believe those antennas are 10 years old now. they were epoxied when assembled to insure moisture proof ability.

Park K-2331 Cheney is QRT.Gaylen W. Klein, USN(Ret.)

FOR SALE- NanoVNA- Vector Network AnalyzerTinySA Spectrum Analyzer- Signal generator. I thought I'd offer them to Club members before listing/ taking them to #1. 520 Crew on Facebook- will post10/15/23 #2. Ardmore, OK- Texoma Hamarama- 75th annual Hamfest Oct 27-28 These are orginal Zeenko Store purchases (FACTORY) . -Not clones. For more information on the NanoVNA go to official wiki at: /g/nanovna-users/wiki For more information on the tinySA go to official wiki at: https://tinysa.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.HomePage Both are 2.8 inch color touch screens and have USB connections to a computer for large screen display, and parameter storage.. These are very sophisticated and 20 years ago woul dcost $15-30,000 each.. Both come with calibration standards, and all cables. Both have rechargible ni-cads so they can be operated in the field. These both are a 10 of 10 NanoVNA- sells for $59.95 plus $ 8.95 from RandL.com Asking $50. TinySA - sells for $59.95 plus $ 8.95 from RandL.com Asking $50.

If you or anyone you know is interested, here is the information for our upcoming, free, live General Class Licensing course on Zoom. Please feel free to share the following announcement on line or at your club meetings.A free, weekly, live, Amateur Radio General Class Licensing course on Zoom will begin on Thursday, Nov 2, and will run through Thursday, January 11. The three-hour sessions will start at 6:30 PM Eastern Time. These are the classes that we have been holding for years sponsored by the National Electronics Museum. Prerequisite is to have or be studying for the Technician Class License. Please publicize this with anyone you know that you think would be interested. Those wishing to sign up should email Roland Anders, K3RA, at roland.anders@.... | | Virus-free.www.avast.com |

Greetings Hams Per discussion on last night’s net I am writing to ask if you plan to be with us at the park on Saturday. If you plan to attend please respond to this email. This will help leadership know who to expect. Sorry but I will not be there as I already had other plans for this day. 73 Patricia Hawkins Secretary, VFW-ARC

----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Hamarama Info <n5hzr@...>To: "am_fm_radio@..." <am_fm_radio@...>Sent: Wednesday, October 4, 2023 at 09:00:00 AM CDTSubject: Texoma Hamarama hamfest is October 28, 2023 The Ardmore hamfest, Texoma Hamarama is October 28, 2023. Ardmore Hamfest Texoma Hamarama October 28, 2023 The 75th version of the Texoma Hamarama is October 28, 2023. Friday, the hamfest will open for flea market and vendor setup between noon and 5:00 pm. On Saturday, the hamfest opens at 8:00 a.m. (7:00 a.m. for flea market/vendor setup) and runs until 3:00 p.m. Registration entry tickets are $10 online and $12 at the door. Flea market/vendor tables are $15 ($20 at the door). Get your tickets online today at hamarama.org/. The hamfest is located at the Ardmore Convention Center at 2401 N Rockford Rd, Ardmore, OK 73401. Take I-35 to exit 33 and head east for a block or so to reach N Rockford Rd. Turn south, and you will see the convention center on the right. There will be the ARRL/ARES forums meeting and several other forums. The complete forum schedule is available at https://hamarama.org/. We have free club tables for promoting your club; having one also gives you a place to roost and rest your feet. SPECIAL ICOM 705 Package Raffle This special $20 raffle ticket will give you a chance to win a spectacular $3,000+ ICOM 705 package. This package contains the radio, automatic tuner, carrying cages, antennas, antenna analyzer, and more. Buy your tickets online and get more information here. There will be a limited raffle. Only 300 tickets will be sold, and they are going fast. You do not have to be present to win. This package contains the following: - ICOM IC-705 – 5-watt HF (10 watts with external battery), plus VHF/UHF - Peovi carry cage for the ICOM IC-705 radio - Peovi full wrap add-on for the carry cage - Peovi front cover for the carry cage - ICOM IC-AH705 Compact Antenna Tuner for the IC-705 - WINDCAMP RC-2 Quick Release Antenna Support for ICOM 705 - M5Stack Core2 ESP32 IoT Development Kit – External wireless connected display - Universal Spring Cable Clamp (2 pcs) MD2418 - and a whole lot more All of this is assembled and ready to go. You'll be able to run CW, SSB, FM, and more. Connect your computer, and you can run FT8, FT4, Winlink, and more. The winner of this prize does not have to be present to win, and the winner will be announced at the 2023 Texoma Hamarama Hamfest. Don't miss it. See you there. Get your tickets today! | Forums on Saturday morning will start at 9:00 a.m. Topics scheduled are ARRL Forum with West Gulf Division Director John Stratton N5AUS and Oklahoma Section Manager Mark Kleine N5HZR; AUXCOM with Gayland Kitch WX5MOR; and lots more. See you there!!! Copyright ? 2023 Ham Holiday, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at http://hamholiday.com. We send information regarding hamfests in Oklahoma. Our mailing address is: Ham HolidayPO Box 1103Nicoma Park, Ok 73066 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list | Virus-free.www.avast.com |

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All, This coming Saturday the 7th we will be conducting a POTA event at the Cheney Lake Marina where the last W0VFW POTA event was held. It appears that we have sufficient radios/antennas/etc. What we need are operators and loggers to make this a successful event for the club. Several members of the club have said that due to previous commitments they will be unable to attend or will be late in attending and I understand but, if you can make it, even for a short time it would be much appreciated. To avoid the overabundance of food that we had at the last POTA event I would recommend that each person bring burgers/hotdogs and a side dish/salad for themselves. If you wish to share, then, by all means, feel free to do so. Contact Micheal Moore, KF0BFU, for details. We've worked hard over the past year to get where we currently are, and it couldn't have been done it without each and everyone of you. This past year was one of reconstruction and we've made significant inroads with the leadership and members of Post 3115. Let's make this coming year one of growth and fun so that we may continue to support and serve our Veterans, our Post, and the VFW. Respectfully, Gaylen W. Klein, USN(Ret) President, W0VFW ARC

Sent from my iPhone just a reminder that our meeting is tomorrow. Hope to see you at 7 PM at the post.

I have been in contact with the Executor of Marc's estate. They will not be in possession of his home until the 24th at the earliest and quite possibly as late as the first week of October. I will be meeting with them Saturday the 9th of September to take pictures that I'll post so we'll have a better idea of what needs to be done. For those who have graciously volunteered to assist in taking down the antennas and mast I am most appreciative I will keep you posted as I get further information. Respectfully, Gaylen W. Klein, USN(Ret) President, W0VFW ARC