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TARC MEETING 20
September Route 66 On The Air Special Event and Ice Cream Social With burgers and hot dogs (about 3 PM) |
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Back for 2008 by popular demand
The Route 66 Special Event continues to be a success each year. Follow the links for some pictures at the 2005, 2006 and 2007 event. W5IAS operating
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(Friday, Sept 12, 7PM till Sunday, Sept 21, 7PM Tulsa Time) Route 66 On The Air Guidelines QSL
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Fall Century Bike Ride
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
The Fall Century bicycle ride is coming up September 27th. This all day bike event is a 100 mile ride plus several shorter routes. Sponsored by the Tulsa Health Department, the route starts at the Whirlpool plant near Owasso and goes north and east through Collinsville and Claremore before coming back to the start. We need 12 to 15 operators to support rest stops and sag operations for this ride. If you can help, please contact Jay, AD5PE at 918-834-6297 or ad5pe@arrl.net (or ad5pe@sbcglobal.net). |
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Public Service:
DAM JAM Sept 6th VOLUNTEERS NEEDED ARES is again providing communications support for the upcoming DAM JAM bike ride. This ride covers a large area, and we will need about 15 operators. To allow time for better planning, PLEASE send an e-mail or call to volunteer soon. When: Saturday Sept. 6th Times: Most of the day (more info to come) Where: Start - Pryor, OK (ride through out Mayes Cty) To Volunteer please contact: DEC Mike Orange N5YIQ at contactus@orangetech.net or call 918.864.6848 |
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BA Repeater Change
The Broken Arrow Amatuer Radio Club voted at its regular business meeting lasting Monday night (August 4th) to enable PL tones on the 91/444 repeater. Effective Tuesday, August 12 at 8 am, the PL tone 88.5 will be enabled on the transmit and receive side of each repeater. |
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DIY Vertical Antenna
Kit
The Portable-Convertible-Vertical that was the presentation at the July TARC meeting will be made available in kit form at the Ice Cream Social club meeting in September. In order to take advantage of quantity discounts, we'll be collecting pre-payments for the materials through the August club meeting (August 19th). The cost is $20. Quantities are limited, so first come, first served. For those that missed it, this antenna is not an antenna for permanent mounting, but is rather a portable quick setup antenna suitable for emcomm or similar use on 10-20m including the WARC bands. It's made of 3/4" EMT conduit, wood and wire, and is designed to be ground mounted and guyed with rope. It can be set up in 5 minutes and packs in a 4' 6" by 4" tube. The conduit will be pre-cut into the appropriate lengths - base, 10m top, and add-on stubs for 12m, 15m, 17m and 20m. Switching bands is done by adding the stubs with couplers, with each lower band requiring all the stubs for the higher bands. The lengths will be cut for the middle of the SSB portion of each band, but tuning down for CW can be handled by adding a short (2" to 6" as needed) tuning stub to the top. The kit is the wood base, conduit (pre-cut and drilled), couplers, conduit straps, screws, ring terminals, and radial wires (8), plus a PVC ring for the guy ropes. Building requires a screwdriver and crimpers or soldering iron and takes 15 minutes. 73, Jay, AD5PE |
Field Day 2008 Pictures Click here |
 CC&Rs More
and more hams live in residential subdivisions governed by deed
restrictions, sometimes known as Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions
(CC&Rs), that prohibit the operation of ham radio stations and
that
prohibit the erection of ham radio antennas.
The West Gulf Division believes these restrictions unreasonably infringe the rights of its members. Accordingly, on June 14, 2008, the West Gulf Division announced at its Convention Meeting at Ham-Com in Plano, Texas that the West Gulf Division Legislative Affairs Group intends to introduce legislation in the 2009 Texas and Oklahoma legislative sessions to eliminate CC&Rs that prohibit the operation of ham radio stations and the erection of ham radio antennas in residential subdivisions. Coy Day (N5OK), Division Director, conducted the Division Board Meeting before the Convention Meeting to brief all Section Managers. The Section Managers for West Texas (John Dyer AE5B) and Oklahoma (John Thomason WB5SYT) attended the Board Meeting and pledged their enthusiastic support for this legislative effort. This legislative effort will be conducted by the West Gulf Legislative Affairs Group, led by Dr. David Woolweaver (K5RAV), West Gulf Vice Director and Division Legislative Action Chair. John Robert Stratton (KE5ISX) will coordinate all legislative action in Austin. But to successfully pass this legislation, the Legislative Affairs Group needs information and help from you. If you are affected by CC&Rs, or if you want to help make it possible to enjoy ham radio without unreasonable CC&R restrictions, please send an email to K5RAV@arrl.org AND KE5ISX@arrl.net. Include your call sign, physical address and a copy of the sections of your deed restrictions/CC&Rs that limit your ability to operate or erect antennas in the email. Please send the CC&R copies as PDFs. If you can’t email the copy of the sections of your deed restrictions/CC&Rs that limit your ability to operate or erect antennas, please mail them to: CCR Investigation PO Box 2232 Austin, Texas 78768-2232. The
Legislative Affairs Group will be forwarding updates once the
legislation is introduced and throughout the 2009 legislative session.
Thanks for the help. 73 Coy, N5OK |
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Edmond Repeater The Edmond repeater is now
online and a part of the TARC W5IAS Super Link System. Look
for it on
443.250 and a PL tone 88.5 |
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Spreading Ham Radio
into Cooper Elementary School One of the goals of the ARRL is education regarding amateur radio, with the intent of bringing new licensees into the fold. As a special service club, the Tulsa Amateur Radio Club strives to do the same in many ways. One obvious way is through licensing classes, but there are other ways we can reach out to non-hams as well, such as holding events in public, or giving presentations to other community organizations. |
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ARES ON-LINE Take a look in your wallet, your desk drawer, glove box of your car... if you have a ARES ID card please ask yourself one very important question – Are you currently registered on line on the ARES OK website? If you not currently a volunteer and would like to be, PLEASE go to the ARES OK website and register as a volunteer. Why should you register on line? By registering on line we have one consistent information source for volunteer information throughout the state, as well as a resource listing for each county. To register go to http://www.aresok.org/mkApplication.asp and click on the map of your county. Scroll down and fill in the blanks. Please register as a VOLUNTEER. The website is password protected, only persons that are registered on ARESOK.org can see your information. If you are interested in becoming a leader with in ARES with in ARES OK you should contact the EC, DEC or ZEC in your area for more information about the duties and responsibilities. Most of the information is located on the website. Also to help get information out to volunteers quickly - Oklahoma ARES is inviting all hams in area to sign up on the aresoklahoma yahoo group. To sign up go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aresoklahoma (then click on the big blue "Join This Group!" button at the top right). These groups is how ARES will broadcast all area or state events, information, etc. that is of a timely or critical nature. This is not an email forwarding system. Please keep the posts to items that effect the Oklahoma State, i.e. weather updates, calls for assistance, ECOMM, situation reports. THIS GROUP IS FOR ALL HAMS THAT ARE INTERESTED IN HELPING OUT DURING AN EVENT.
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Tulsa Amateur Radio Club Store Check out the large selection of TARC items and apparel available for your purchase. Tee shirts, golf shirts, sweat shirts, caps, coffee mugs, bumper stickers, buttons, clocks and stickers. It's all there and at a reasonable price. If you do not see something of interest to you, contact Tom, KE5EHX, at tom.white@gmail.com, with your ideas. |
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ELMER Help is just a click away For technical
questions, email our 'elmer committee' at
elmer@w5ias.com
and we'll get you hooked
up with a volunteer mentor with expertise in the field pertaining to
your
question. Please include email or phone preference, and if
you prefer a phone
call be sure to include your number and the best time to reach you. |
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444.600 Is On The Air Tim, KB5ZVC, and I finalized the installation of
the 444.600-mhz machine into
the Mounds Oklahoma site. This installation will be easier for us to
support and
provide a better coverage pattern to the south and west of Tulsa for
storm
spotting and other community support activities. |
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FREE On-Line Incident Command Training IS-700 National Incident Management System (NIMS), http://training.fema.gov/emiweb/IS/is700.asp On-Line Emergency Communication Training ARRL Certification and Continuing Education (C-CE) http://www.arrl.org/cce/ 73 Mark Conklin N7XYO |
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Google TARC REPEATER MAP Thanks to the hard work of Gregg, W5GGW, you can now see where the Tulsa Amateur Radio Club repeaters are located and their status. It is amazing to explore both the maps and the satellite imagery that this system provides. It can keep you occupied for hours! |
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TESTING First Saturday of ODD numbered
month 9:30 to 11:00 A.M. Second Saturday in EVEN number month 9:30 A.M. Third
Wednesday
in ODD numbered months, 7:00 PM Saturday, 20 September,
10:00 - 11:30 AM
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The
Tulsa Amateur Radio Club
and Eastern Oklahoma / Northwestern Arkansas Skywarn As you may or may not know, the TARC is involved with the Skywarn network of community service oriented clubs. The W5IAS linked repeater system is the largest, the best and most efficient repeater system in the State of Oklahoma. When emergencies arise in our areas of coverage, the W5IAS linked repeater system serves both as a communications system and a community service. Covering some 50,000 square miles from I-35 to deep into Arkansas and from Texas in the South to Kansas in the North. During times of disasters and other emergencies the W5IAS repeater system will be used for relaying information from one area to another. Several times in the past this impressive system has played major roles in the safety of our communities. Everything from severe weather to the phone outage of the year 2000, which was covered by the TARC and the link system was used to cover the area hospitals. Thirty minutes after the phones went down the TARC was there with a net organized, hours before the EOC and others in the area even knew the phones were out. The TARC is very proud of this system and is always ready to help out in those times of trouble when we are needed the most. The W5IAS linked repeater system is still growing more impressive by the day and is always ready to leap into action.
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