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emergency communications organization in north county; correspondence with<br />
Fried Heyn, our ARRL Division Director and with TASMA; and the possibility<br />
o f raising enough money to buy the note on our property on Mount <strong>Palomar</strong> at<br />
"a discounted price should it become available (one member wil l kick in<br />
$1,000 towards the purchase). The Committee decided to publish a club<br />
roster in the May Scope. W9FQN was directed to respond to a letter from<br />
the ARRL SW Division Director.<br />
REPEATER<br />
On April 20th , a repeater site working party, consisting of N6LYX and son<br />
Richard, NU6L and brother Steve, W9FQN and daughters Susan and Linda, and<br />
WB6IQS, went to work and cleared brush, raked leaves, and installe d t emporary<br />
guy wires on the tower at the 30' level. WB6IQS, who had constructed<br />
a bench for the new 450 mHz repeater, installed it and connected up the<br />
batteries for the emergency supply to that repeater. A heavy-duty drill,<br />
loaned by NOCPS, made the work go faster. Another working party will be<br />
needed to finish the guy-wire installation and to install more batteries.<br />
Thanks to Jay, W6FAY, for his donation of a beautiful automatic battery<br />
charger for the emergency power system of our 450 mHz machine.<br />
We still need some support from our 450 repeater users to help pay for<br />
the MSY repeater. Our trea$urer, WI6B, says that we need nearly $100 more<br />
in the kitty. He has received contributions for the 450 repeater from:<br />
WD6B/WA60HB, WI6B, N6FMK, K6HAV/N6INN, WB6IQS, W9KEX, WA6KZN, and K6ROR.<br />
FIELD DAY JUST A NEWSLETTER AWAY<br />
The annual ARRL Field contest is just about seven or eight weeks away<br />
(June 28-29), so let's start sharpening up our antennas and oiling up our<br />
~ transceivers - o r what ever it is we do to get ready for the next coming of<br />
Murphy. This is our one big outing of the year, and a great chance for all<br />
of our club members to get out and participate, help with the setting up or<br />
the tearing down, or just plain spectate.<br />
We hope to operate all bands from 160M to 450 mHz, and maybe we can get<br />
Bob, WA7GRW, to come out and get us some contacts on "radar" , and Paul,<br />
KB5MU, to get us a bunch on packet radio. We'll see you there.<br />
SOUTHERN COUNTIES AMATEUR TELEPRI NTER SOCIETY NEARING EXTINCTION<br />
From recent issues of Scatter, the voice of the Southern Counties <strong>Amateur</strong><br />
Teleprinter Society, which were sent to us By Vern, W6HW, it appears that<br />
the waning interest in RTTY is imperilling the existence of SCATS , which<br />
operates two RTTY repeaters, one on 146.700 and the other on 224.72. Consideration<br />
is being given to other forms of digital communications.<br />
EXPIRING FCC LICENSES<br />
Licenses expiring In May: WB6UON, N6EQB, N6GZI. In June: NONE. In<br />
July: KA6PPD. August: WA6JPM.<br />
FROM THE ARRL LETTER<br />
An Extra Class certificate, suitable for framing, is available from ARRL.<br />
Send a copy of your Extra Class license and a $3 check payable to ARRL to<br />
ARRL Headquarters, Awards Branch, Newington, CT 06111.<br />
We are reminded that 2M simplex autopatches are legal AS<br />
separate control frequency, above 220.5 mHz is used.<br />
LONG AS a<br />
The National Association of Broadcasters has asked for federal preemption<br />
of local RF radiation standards where they exceed those of ANSI.<br />
SCOPE - May '86 Page 3
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