1992 - Palomar Amateur Radio Club

MAY' 92
K6YGK
NEW ASSOCIATES: Art
Adams (guns, women, radio),
Tim Evans (guns, women,
radio), and Don Gunn.
Membership now stands
at 533 (4-25-92) ••and
counting! Possibly 550 by
July 31st???
NEWS: AI, W6FXL, has
had his license for 62
years. Anyone longer than
that?
New members joining
late in the month will be
included in next month's
SCOPE •• or the next ••or the
next.
- VET EST I N G ­
FCC LICENSE EXAMS in N.
Co. are conducted by the
PARC VE Team at the Carlsbad
Safety Center in Carlsbad
(Camino Real to Faraday,
14F6, follow CSC signs) on
the 2nd Sat. of the month at
1000 Hrs. Reservations less
than two days in advance and
walk-ins are not normally
accepted.
FCC 610 forms are
available from Jo, KB6NMK,
at PARC meetings or from the
FCC office in Kearny Mesa,
4542 Ruffner, 467-0549.
Requests with your
paperwork must be sent to
SANDARC, PO Box 2456, La
Mesa, CA. 91943, 10 days
BEFORE the test date.
MARCH TESTING: (Gen to
Adv) Larry Guggle-KC6PEN &
James Pratt-N6NHY; (Novice
to Tech) George-KA3FBX &
Mike-KA1VFF; (None to Tech)
Stan Campbell, Dick Nelson,
Lee Zook, James Cook Sr, &
Kelly Seals; (other) Tim
Evans (e12), Clarence
Lysdale (e12), & Wayne
Miller (el3B).
MARCH EXAMINERS: Paul­
KB5MU, Mark-AA6TR, Duane­
WB6R, Mike-KC6KCQ, Jack­
KI6JM, and Bob-KE6VX.
The PARC VE testing
organization deserves our
thanks for the wounderful
work that they have been
doing for amateurs in the
San Diego area.
GENERAL NEWS
Several PARC members
noticed that Ron-W6TXK was
shown on evening TV at a
local school making contact
with the space shuttle.
According to Ted-KD6AKT
some of the 146.730 morning
repeater users go out for
breakfast the 2nd Saturday
morning of each month and
everyone from north county
is invited. They started
out at Denney's and lately
have been at the Flying
Bridge in Oceanside. Check
with the morning "going to
work" group on .73 for the
latest information.
Ralph-K6HAV and Pat­
N6INN who are in Japan-rO:r
18mo are on the air
Thursdays at 2200 Japan time
on 14.287+- and on Fridays
at 1000 21.200+- ••if we
only knew what Japan time
was or what day Thursday
falls on this year.
Anyone interested in
participating in a weekly CW
ragchew net, please contact
Tim-N6ZUC 741-1054 or Larry­
KC6PEN 439-4109 or on our
repeaters. Initial plans
are to meet at 2pm Saturdays
on the 146.730 repeater,
then move to 7.140+- QRM.
Speed will be 5-2Owpm
(Novice to Extra) to suit
your needs.
Buck-WW6E who has been
recently making deliveries
to the S.D. area says "in
case somebody goes on a long
evening drive and gets lost"
that they should drop in on
the JOPOIN, MO, HAM fest
April 18th ••well, guess we
missed that one! Buck and
Mary live at Rt. 1, Box 256,
Quapaw, OK 74363.
E MER G E N C Y
NEW S
~ Scottie-KH6TL Director
Communications Palomar Chap.
Scottie-KH6TL of EVAC
has just announced that Bud
Lincoln, KG6VX, has been
appointed Deputy Communications
Director for EVAC.
Bud's phone number is 436­
9983. EVAC stands for Emergency
Volunteer Air Corps.
During emergencies they are
able to use the airplanes at
their disposal to fill in
where ARES and AREC are not
able to function. If you
are interested in helping
EVAC, please contact Scottie
(727-8836) or Bud. They are
especially interested in
anyone who flies or is
interested in Amateur Television
(ATV). They also can
use communicators for their
comm centers and to fly with
some of the pilots.
They are able to move
around the county to observe
problems (fire, the lost,
earthquake damage, etc.)
easily and even to take TV
pictures
interest.
of things of
As most of you already
know there was a disaster
drill held on April 9th.
The results were positive
and we put to good use the
knowledge gained from the
December 5th drill. One of
the best things done was to
have a temporary net
control, Stan-W9FQN, take
check-ins on 146.730 while
amateurs moved to their
assigned places leaving the
RACES repeater, 147.175,
available for RACES operations.
At first missions were
only simulated due to bad
weather but when the weather
Pg. 10 EXEC MTG THUR, MAY 14th, 1930Hr, W9FQN QTH SCOPE-MAY'92