1986 - Palomar Amateur Radio Club

THE SAN DIEGO COUNTY PACKET RADIO VOICE NET meets on 146.730 mHz each
Tue sday at 2100 . This net is to provide information on Packet Radio for
t he beginner a nd the advanced packeteer. All are we lcome .
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MAY CLUB MEETING
THIS WILL BE OUR FIRST MEETING IN OUR NEW LOCATI ON: LINCOLN MI DDLE
SCHOOL ON ESCONDIDO AVE. BETWEEN EUCALYPTUS AND EAST VI STA WAY I N VISTA.
The meeting will be held in the cafeteria. Plenty o f parking is avail able
at the north side of the school, adjacent to, and e asily acces sible from,
East Vista Way near Escondido Ave. Parking is also available acr oss Escondido
Ave. from the School in the Vista City Hall p a r king l o t and on the
street adj acent thereto. See the map and diagram furthe r on i n Scope .
Those who must park close to the meeting site may do s o by i nforming W9FQN
of s uch a requirement two days prior to the meeting .
THE PROGRAM for the evening will be presented by a f ield crew from KFMB,
TV-8 from San Diego, who will help us to celebrate our 50th Anniversary by
recording parts of the club meeting for airing on t he 11 :00 news the same
night. TV- 8 's t echnical crew will also t alk t o u s about how the news i s
r ecorded and transmitted back to the station.
SHOW AND TELL will feature portable HT power pac k s a nd other items of
interest brought in by club members.
COFFEE AND THE USUAL NO-CAL GOODIES by Vina and all of u s kind e nough to
bri ng some of those tasty non-fattening little mou t h - wa tering j ewels ! Vina
s ays thanks to all those who have helpe d ; a nd that she still needs f olk s to
s i gn up to he lp her in May and other months - PREASE !
. APRIL CLUB MEETI NG .
At the April club meeting Bob Traynor, WA7GRW, and Kerry Banke , N6IZW,
t old us about X-band microwave and how to get start ed in i t . The y a lso
showed us some of their equipment to operate on this band whe r e 1/4 wavelength
is .28 inches. Bob Hoover, KA6HZF, showed u s his 12VDC C-64/ PK-64
packet radio station. W9FQN indicated t hat no meeti ng place had been
picked out for the May meeting, but that a decisi on would be made at t he
for t hcoming Executive Committee meeting and the r esult announced in t he May
Sc ope. N6INN announced that the new VE testing site had not been found y e t
and t hat the last tests at Glendale Fed would be t he ones conducted on
April 12. Coffee by Vina and goodies by Susan and Linda Rohrer . Wonder f ul!
Another very full house! It'll be great to have enough room f or our 1 00+
gatherings so that we can get around and see each o t her , get to the e x hibits
and the coffee. Glendale Fed has been good to u s for ten years o r so,
but it' s well we have to leave - we've outgrown theml Nearl y one-third of
our membership of 321 now comes to meetings!
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING
The Executive Committee, consisting of the Cl ub's officers and committee .
c hairmen, meets on the second Thursday o f t he mont h at the home of var i ous
o f i ts members. Without fail, the meetings usua l l y start at 7: 30 of the
p.m. Club members are welcome to attend and obser ve .
At the April meeting, which was held at the home o f W9FQN, the Committee
voted to utilize the cafeteria at Lincoln Middle Sc hool on Escondido Ave.
i n Vi sta for future club meetings; and to sell the second Motor ola MSY 450
mHz repeater back to WA7GRW. The Committee discussed the fina ncial strain
p laced on the Club by the 500% increase in liability insur ance ( f rom $150
to $750); the problems with the obvious disarray o f A.R.E.S. a nd the ­
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