1992 - Palomar Amateur Radio Club

send code. Also someone
else with a C-64 can help if
he could only get a C-64
code progrmn. Contact W9FQN
749-0276 if you can help
with the C-64 progrmn or in
the sending of CW on
Wednesday evenings. With
five members able to send CW
it would mean that you would
only need to send it once a
month. Please, we need your
help since there are many
people who are using the
code practice but do not
have licenses yet to check
into the net.
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- E D ITO R ­
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For those of you who
have worked with computers,
you can imagine my disgust
at loosing one-half of this
months SCOPE when my
computer locked me out of
one of my disks ••• this was
before I did my backup disk
so I really had nothing in
reserve. This occured just
as I had finished the SCOPE
and was ready to print it.
Now I mn typing like mad and
trying to remember
everything that everyone
told me ••• if I forget
I sorry but
know and I
all those
REPEATERS etc.
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TECHNICAL: John K. WB61QS
John-WB6IQS has been
at it again and has come up
with a deal for a $800 450
antenna which is going to
cost the club $15 and an
hour of work. Thanks John!
Mike-KC6KCQ for
accepting the engineering
position for the new 50 watt
449.425 solid state repeater
which is going to be built
to replace the old repeater
using a tube final running
900 volts and doesn't work
well on 12vdc during
emergencies. Mike will be
assisted by Jerry-WB6FMT and
John-WB6IQS will tune the
converted Motorola radios to
the new frequency. The new
repeater will have autopatch
connections and room for one
or two Iinks •
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AUTO PATCHES
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All autopatches are
up and working with the
449.425 patch the last one
to be added. If you have a
450 rig, use the 449.425
patch rather than the 2m
patches since it is more
private. The La Mesa patch
has suffered two down times.
Once the AC plug was pulled
and the second time someone
turned off the transmitter
and receiver.
We are sorry to say
that due to an error in
programming the following
prefixes were left out: 390,
748, 973-4-5-6-8-9. We hope
to have this corrected by
Febuary 15th when some other
modifications need to be
made.
As soon as the new
racks come in we will add
battery backup to the three
autopatches at VISTA, MMESA,
and LMESA. We also need to
add battery backup at the
repeater site for the
autopatch controller system
and improve the antenna
FEB'92
system.
If you are using the
patch and you are mobile,
please indicate for example:
THIS IS N6YZZ MOBILE CLEAR
PATCH, then press "#" to end
the patch. If you do not
use this form and the "I" at
the end, the phone number
you are calling could be
deleted from the system.
Newmembers need to
remember that you cannot
conduct business over the
patch and we frown on your
calling a place that answers
with a company name ••and
especially when they put
music on the line while
waiting to process your
call. If you can't kill the
music, we can kill your
calling that number again.
We already have a list of
phone numbers being called
that do not meet PARC (es
FCC) requirements and we
will disconnect these
numbers if they continue to
be abused. Possibly we
should list these numbers in
the SCOPE first and give you
a chance to beg that they
not be deleted. We already
have three numbers in this
list at present. When
deleted you will just get a
disconnect (dial tone) when
you dial the "not permitted"
number!
Your autopatches are
being recorded. The FCC
says that you must use a
beep to indicate that you
are being recorded every 15
seconds or advise the other
person before you start that
they are being recorded.
SO, THIS IS YOUR NOTIFICA­
TION THAT YOU ARE BEING RE­
CORDED and we are doing It
in writing. Everyone using
the PARC autopatch system on
Palamar Mountain IS being
recorded. (Cont.pg 7)
SCOPE-FEB'92
CLUB MTG WED FEB 5th, 1930Hr, LINCOLN MID. SCHOOL
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