1989 - Palomar Amateur Radio Club

year o~ getting good programs for the club.
The president has the responsibility of
keeping everyone happy (no easy job) and
seeing that some progress is made towards
improving the club's many activities.
Usually the old VP and President depart the
club and are never more seen at club
meetings again with the possible exception
of Ed-N6GZI. If more people volunteered to
help the officers or accepted appointed
committees, then the officers might last a
little longer than they have been doing in
some of our positions.
###-- ME MB E R S HIP --1##
Many of our members are also members of
more local clubs or special interest groups
but use our repeaters for communication
throughout the county. It needs to be
remembered that when using the PARC 146.730
repeater and Erick's 147.130 repeater that
it is only fair to PARC to invite visitors
to first investigate membership in PARCo
If at a later date you find that their
needs are different than what PARC can
supply easily, then by all means, invite
them to join another group. PARC is and
has been for supporting amateur radio. Ive
have no membership restrictions on the
traffic nets, packet nets, microwave nets,
computer nets, ARES nets, etc.
###--T-HUNTI:~G---###
The Escondido Amateur Radio Society
(EARS) T-hunt was a two stage hunt with
3arbara-KA6FPS and Susan-N6QDB serving as
fOX-#l up on the rim of the Escondio valley
and FOX-#2 was Stan-\~9FQN at Lawrence
\~elk' s Village. The fOXes were running 22
watts and 0.1 watts respectively.
Points were accumulated at the rate of
ten points per mile to the first Fox and
one point per minute from starting point to
the finding of the 2nd Fox. As usual,
Craig-N6ATQ was at the top of the pile with
a low score of 79.0, Paul-KE6YK was second
with 79.3, Jo-KB6NMK was third with 112,
Chuck-N6TJT was 4th with 116 points, Bill­
WB6ILH was 5th with 224 points, and Steve­
~6UIA was 8th with 324 points. The rest of
the scores were greater than 400 points.
The first and second place winners found
BOTH transmitters within 35 minutes.
Normal driving time is about 20 minutes so
you can see that Craig and Paul really zero
in quickly on their targets. Craig and
Paul were the DFers who put on our July
DFing club program.
I~e need to have more club members who an
experienced in DFing and all repeater users~
should go on a T-hunt at least once a year.
If you use the repeater, it would be wise
to support and protect it by being able to
identify unauthorized Signals on the
repeater. Fortunately, we seldom have any
problems with unidentified signals on the
repeater which is probably the reason that
many of us do not see the importance of
having DFing skills.
###-- H E L P
1) Tower climbers.
NEE D E D --###
2) 450 repeater technician.
3) 4 to 5 pipes 18-24"L, l.5-2" dia.
These are for FD tire stands.
4) 40+' AI. tower or crankup for FD.
5) Painter for inside of trailer.
6) Painters for outside of trailer.
7) Our ARES/RACES house trailer now
has new tires and is ready to roll
as soon as we can find a universal
way of connecting up turn lights
to all types of vehicles. Anyone
have any ideas?
###--THANKS---###
THANKS to Steve-N6UIA for his continued
efforts on 902HHz and the autopatch.
THANKS to Larry-\.jQ6V for keeping the PARC
35' air mast in proper operation and for
giving ~ovice tests for local prospective
hams.
THANKS to :Iac-~m6E'~ for his faithful
attention to supplying coffee at the club
meetings and seeing that we also have
goodies to eat.
THANKS to George-K6YGK for bringing
magazines to the club meetings for members
to browse through. Remember, please take
them home and ~EVER bring them back. The
magazines I bring to meetings come from
various sources: magazines received by
PARC, donations by Ralph-K6HAV, and Dennis­
N6KI.
THANKS to John-WB6IQS and his friend, a
non-club member, for doing the welding on
the generator door for the mountain site
and for the almost impo~sible job of
cutting a hole in the steel generator shed
for the emergency battery power cables.
73 de Stan W 9 F Q N
SCOPE-OCT '89 EXEC MTG THUR OCT. 12th 1930Hr at KB6NMK's Esc. Page 4