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Mike gave John a personal tour of<br />
his QTH on Palomar Mountain.<br />
- BK <br />
REPEATER RULE 18: You always<br />
wait to remember whether you locked<br />
all of the repeater buildings until<br />
after you have reach the 2.000 foot<br />
level of Palomar Mountain ••and then<br />
return to the 5.600 foot level only<br />
to find everything properly locked.<br />
A TRUE STORY - W9FQN.<br />
- BK <br />
Our repeaters in the PARC bunker<br />
on Palomar Mt. at 5.600' cover 2.000<br />
sq.mi. of SD.Co. and 100+ miles out<br />
to sea. It is club policy that<br />
these repeaters are open repeaters<br />
FOR CLUB MEMBERS AND OCCASIONAL<br />
TRANSIENT USERS with the ~<br />
PATCHES being ONLY for club members.<br />
Be FRIENDLY to those that you talk<br />
to. and INVITE them to support the<br />
club with their membership. You can<br />
check their membership in PARC by<br />
asking them if they have seen<br />
something in the most recent SCOPE.<br />
AUT 0 PAT C H E S on 147.130<br />
'~ KA6UAIIR: Er ik Thompson KA6UAI 11<br />
ENCINITAS + surrounding towns<br />
KA6UAI/R: Jerry Houser WB6FMT 12<br />
VISTA + the surrounding towns<br />
KA6UAI/R: Dennis Vernacchia N6KI 13<br />
SAN DIEGO. activated Fall of '911<br />
. KA6UAI/R: Kerry Banke N6IZW IS<br />
LA MESA. activated Fall of '911<br />
AUT 0 PAT CHon 146.175<br />
WA6IPD/R: Art Rideout WA6IPD 14<br />
FALLBROOK + surrounding towns<br />
For specific information on the<br />
autopatches please contact W9FQN.<br />
WB6FMT. WA6IPD. or KA6UAI.<br />
- BK <br />
The autopatches are being<br />
installed on our repeaters for<br />
emergency use: road accidents.<br />
earthquakes. fires. flood(1).<br />
personal injuries. etc. We need to<br />
be ready to use them during<br />
emergencies so in the meantime.<br />
while waiting for the emergency. we<br />
need to know that they are working<br />
properly so feel free to use them<br />
for emergency and non-emergency<br />
FARMERS INSURANCE GROUP<br />
OF COMPANIES<br />
Agent<br />
TIM HOY<br />
-KI6GI<br />
-~-<br />
commun f cat ions.<br />
Remember that autopatches are<br />
-third party· communications and do<br />
not have priority over amateur to<br />
amateur communications except in<br />
emergencies. Therefore. it is not<br />
proper to BREAK into a conversation<br />
to advise the spouse that you are<br />
headed for home or for any other<br />
mundane communications unless the<br />
information is really important and<br />
would cause undue stress if not<br />
received. The KA6UAI repeater is<br />
for amateur to amateur communications<br />
and is not an -autopatch onlymachine.<br />
PERSONAL messages should<br />
be delivered by land line along with<br />
any BUSINESS communications. Don't<br />
even call a number that answers with<br />
a bUSiness recording or a secretary<br />
giving the name of a company! Some<br />
of you might even want to consider<br />
-re-programming- your answering<br />
machine so that it just says. -LEAVE<br />
A MESSAGE AFTER THE BEEP.<br />
AUTO FIRE <br />
LIFE COMMERCIAL <br />
619-466-9770 <br />
8911 La Mesa Blvd., Suite 103<br />
La Mesa, CA 92041<br />
In general, PARC has been pleased<br />
with the operation of the present<br />
autopatches by club members and for<br />
this reason we are working on the<br />
completion of the last phase of the<br />
autopatch project. The KA6UAI<br />
Encinitas patch is averaging about<br />
1.5 calls per day while the WB6FMT<br />
Vista patch is at 5.7 calls per day.<br />
Every club member at some time<br />
should attempt to place a call on<br />
one of the patches so that in an<br />
emergency it will not be -a first<br />
time- experience. Remember, the<br />
codes are on your address label: 1st<br />
Encinitas KA6UAI/R, 2nd Vista<br />
KA6UAIIR. & 3rd Fallbrook on<br />
WA6IPD/R. To take the KA6UAI/R off<br />
of PL use *80 and back on with 180.<br />
- BK <br />
The club has been operating two<br />
autopatches on the KA6UAI repeater<br />
this past year using a system that<br />
works but is not of the quality and<br />
reliability of the WA6IPD Fallbrook<br />
repeater that we would like to see.<br />
We have asked Jerry-WB6FMT to look<br />
into ways of improving our present<br />
autopatches and to expand them into<br />
the last two areas of interest, mid<br />
and south county, providing the club<br />
with almost 100% coverage of S.D.<br />
Co. during emergencies.<br />
During times of emergencies we<br />
have observed Amateur Radio<br />
Emergen cy Personnel (AREP) want i ng<br />
to make calls to other emergency<br />
personnel or governmental agencies:<br />
ARES, RACES, Red Cross, Animal<br />
Rescue, An ima1 Shelters, Po lice,<br />
Specific Fire Stations, Mountain<br />
Rescue Teams, Rescue Dog Teams, Red<br />
Flag Fire Patrols, Fire Liasions,<br />
etc. Sometimes the AREP are away<br />
from phone lines and sometimes<br />
certain phone areas are dead or<br />
their trunk lines cut by fire or<br />
accidents.<br />
Present plans call for making ALL<br />
autopatches available to ALL of our<br />
repeaters on Palomar Mountain:<br />
146.73. 147.13, & 449.425. Other<br />
repeaters will be opened up to<br />
autopatches as we gain experience<br />
and progress towards our goals. If<br />
we cannot make ALL autopatches<br />
available to ALL repeaters, we will<br />
probably put the Vista WB6FMT patch<br />
and the La Mesa N6IZW patch on<br />
146.73 and leave the KA6UAI<br />
Encinitas patch along with the N6KI<br />
San Dfego patCh on 147.13. It will<br />
also be possible to cover ALL areas<br />
with only the WB6FMT, N6KI, and<br />
N6IZW autopatches since the N6KI and<br />
CLUB MTG WED, July 3rd, 1930Hr. LINCOLN MID. SCHOOL Pg. 5
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