Volume 1 Number 5
October 5
, 2004
Published Monthly
Our Program Chairman, Rick Tilton, N4WYK, has secured several general-interest ham-related video tapes for viewing at our upcoming meetings.
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The club repeater (currently signing N4NIN) is back on the air on a limited basis! Due to antenna problems, until a new one is secured, the repeater is located down-hill from it's usual location atop the ridge behind James' house. This, of course, limits its' range and affects its' radiation pattern...but is useful in many parts of town. The frequency is 147.195
Lenoir, North Carolina
"Dedicated to Public Service"
Happenings!
The next scheduled meeting of the Lenoir ARC is set for
October 14th (Thursday), 7PM
, at the Caldwell County Public Library. The October meeting of each year is the month for
nominations for officers
to be voted upon at the November meetingl. Please make plans to attend this important meeting!
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The December meeting will be an "eating meeting" at
Captain's Galley
on Hwy 321 South on December 9th at 7:00 PM.
The Caldwell Amateur Radio Emergency Services (CARES) Net is called every Sunday Night at 8:30 PM on the 147.33 (Hibriten) repeater. This is a formal directed net and is sponsored by the ARES. Its' purpose is to train, and keep in readiness, a pool of qualified emergency radio operators in the event of a local and/or regional emergency. Net checkins will be called by alpha groups and, unless you check in & out, you will be called again during the informal portion to offer any comments, etc. The 147.33 repeater has a tone of 104.3.
Satellite & APRS
by
Rick, N4WYK
?? Did you know... ??
Three hundred and fourteen acres of trees are used to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of
The New York Times
. There are nearly 63,000 trees in the 314 acres.
(Reprinted from Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts, 1981 Ed., Pg. 414).
Bike Ride Postponed! Due to Hurricane Ivan and it's close proximity to the Bike Ride Route during the selected weekend, the ride was postponed to November 14th (bri
ng your jackets!) by Chamber of Commerce ride officials. Reasons were possible flooding and/or lack of emergency and volunteer groups to help manage the ride.
KF4WOD - 147.195 (N4NIN)
A new 2m repeater is now operating on the International Space Station 24/7. The uplink is on UHF 437.80 and the downlink
is on VHF 145.80
. No tone burst or ctcss is required. The radio used in the repeater is a Kenwood TM-D700 operating in remote-crossband mode. It retransmits on VHF what it hears on UHF...so if you are gettng through, you can hear yourself on the downlink. To see where the station is "live", click on this link:
Nasa
(To download the pcsat decoder program for making predictions for 3 days in advance, click on:
download
).
http://www.lenoir-arc.org
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