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how many BOX calls<br />
which repeater is used<br />
who is using the system<br />
number ofwrong access codes<br />
PARC's costicalIJpatch, etc.<br />
This second program will run on<br />
W9FQN's home computer after data is<br />
picked up from the SYSTEM computer.<br />
Gee, this is really fun!<br />
BOXed In<br />
(hello short stujJ7)<br />
If you have requested a PIN number<br />
and are tired of calling home by dialing<br />
an 18-digit number, then BOX numbers<br />
are for you. They only take 9 digits!<br />
Contact W9FQN at club meetings or<br />
via W9FQNl@juno.com with the<br />
phone numbers you would like to have<br />
in 1 to 4 boxes but be sure to tell what<br />
the phone number is: home, daughter,<br />
son, girlfriend, etc. (no business, cell, or<br />
pager). Also make sure you include<br />
your name, call, and PIN number.<br />
Use or Loose It<br />
<strong>Club</strong> members are reminded that the<br />
? ARC patches cover all of San Diego<br />
County west of the mountains and out<br />
several hundred miles into the Pacific.<br />
If you don't learn how to use the<br />
NEW patch SYSTEM, you won't<br />
have it available when you really need<br />
it.<br />
So, how do you practice?<br />
You need to "dream up" some uses<br />
for your practice such as <br />
a. call a friend to get on a repeater.<br />
b. call your house number and see ifyou<br />
hear the telephone ring. (BOXes are good<br />
for this one -Ed)<br />
c. call a son or daughter to say you are<br />
on your way to visit them.<br />
d. etc.<br />
Do not try calling WEATHER,<br />
TIME LADY, pagers, cell phones, etc. If<br />
we hear "strange" tests we will KILL<br />
that phone number. We already have a<br />
partial list ofKILLed numbers.<br />
If you do hear the TIME LADY on<br />
/-"tne patch sometime, it is because a control<br />
operator is testing one of the three<br />
patches from the SYSTEM location.<br />
Unfortunately, the SYSTEM at this<br />
time will not accept 911 or 411 calls.<br />
An emergency BOX system is being<br />
contemplated and within the next few<br />
months we hope that we will have some<br />
BOXes for emergency numbers. If you<br />
have suggestions for emergency number,<br />
send them to your editor (see<br />
pg.l).<br />
Murph Y<br />
(he lives!)<br />
WB6FMTIerry ordered a crystal for<br />
a reserve transmitter for the new autopatch<br />
system ..and Murphy is still<br />
with us and very much alive. Out of 75<br />
crystal orders over the years, this is the<br />
first time they sent him the wrong crystal!<br />
It turned out to be a crystal for<br />
someone else's order. Jerry is wondering<br />
what else can go wrong with the<br />
NEW patch SYSTEM.<br />
Antenna Workshop<br />
The "Open Barn Door," a workshop<br />
for antennas, transmission lines for all<br />
land, fixed, mobile, aeronautical mobile<br />
and anything else that has to do with<br />
emergency communications.<br />
The hours are from 1000 to 1400<br />
every Sunday. Water is furnished but<br />
you may want to bring a lunch. The<br />
barn is located at 1632 Elm St. Ramona<br />
among (almost) 2 acres of antennas.<br />
Walt Davis, WA60DQ, 760-789-7954,<br />
wa6odq@arrl.net.<br />
Adhesive (grounded and stuck up)<br />
Stan: Hal was looking for some adhesive<br />
backed copper tape for his mobile<br />
home for creating a ground plane. It is<br />
available for stained glass work, up to<br />
112 inch in width, in 36 yd long rolls. In<br />
the above size it costs about $10.<br />
I only looked up one stained glass<br />
store in SD. There are probably others<br />
that are even cheaper. VE7CQAPeter<br />
Dead Time<br />
(time sk)<br />
At the present time we are receiving<br />
a lot of requests for PIN and BOX<br />
numbers.<br />
We like to activate these new numbers<br />
as quickly as possible and this<br />
many times is done during the pg.ll<br />
day when quite possibly you l~;;'l<br />
might be wanting to use the Mar.<br />
patch.<br />
It takes 50 seconds to contact and to<br />
update the computer so the patches<br />
might be dead during the day ONL Y for<br />
50 seconds which probably will go unnoticed<br />
by patch users.<br />
If you experience a failed patch,<br />
check your number dialing and try again<br />
after 60 seconds. This is all it take to<br />
resurrect the DEAD.<br />
Contests<br />
Harry Hodges W6YOO@amsat.org<br />
Feb 5 DE, vr, NH, & ME QSO Parties<br />
Feb 5 Spanish RTfY Contest<br />
Feb 6 NA CW Sprint<br />
Feb 6 Freeze Your B_OffQRP FD<br />
Feb 12 HAL WW RTfY WPX Contest<br />
Feb 12YL..()M SSB Contest<br />
Feb 13 NA SSB Sprint<br />
Feb 19 ARRL DX Contest, CW<br />
Feb 25 CQ WW 160 Meter Contest, SSB<br />
Feb 26 NC QSO Party<br />
Feb 26 CO QRP QSO Party<br />
Mar 4 ARRL DX Contest, SSB<br />
Mar 7 CLARA DX CW Contest<br />
Mar 14 CLARA DX SSB Contest<br />
February is a great month to increase<br />
your count of states worked with<br />
several state QSO parties. Also there<br />
are a number of DX contests with the<br />
major ARRL DX contests in late February<br />
and early March. See QST, CQ,<br />
Worldradio and National Contest Journal<br />
for rules. Good luck in the contest,<br />
73, Harry, W6YOO<br />
Magazines (jor readers & thinkers)<br />
QST:<br />
(...and doers)<br />
Dec99,p38, Direct Freq Entry to Transceivers<br />
Dec99,p62, APRS MIM Module<br />
Dec99,p67, Portable Generator Safety<br />
Dec99,p89, 1999 Field Day results<br />
.Jan00,p60,2-m compact 2-e1 beam<br />
73:<br />
Nov99,p28, All about lead-acid batteries<br />
Nov99,pS2, PSKlI Infonnation<br />
.Jan00,pSl, URLs for all sorts Ham Info<br />
JanOO,pS3, Fox Hunting (finding xmtrs)<br />
CQ:<br />
Feb00,pll, Lazer repeaters (beam me up S.)<br />
Feb00,p44, J-pole antenna designs (good)<br />
Feb00,p74, Pkt Internet Gateways .. and more
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