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Intercom<br />
(newer members)<br />
Some of our newer <strong>Club</strong> members<br />
need to be reminded that when they are<br />
using the club's repeaters that their usage<br />
needs to be continuous.<br />
This problem most often occurs<br />
when both parties are mobile or one is<br />
mobile and the other one is at home.<br />
Sometimes you hear conversations<br />
something like this ...<br />
"J am just passing Lake Hodges"<br />
several minutes later<br />
"Oh, J am at 805 & 163"<br />
several minutes later<br />
"where are you now?"<br />
etc<br />
Note that while you might give your<br />
callsign every 10 minutes, this is not<br />
proper repeater usage because the conversation<br />
is not continuous. h is intermittent!<br />
A club member could tune to the<br />
repeater, hear nothing. and start up a<br />
QSO with someone and the original two<br />
people would be "out in the cold" without<br />
properly signing off with their callsigns<br />
as required by the FCC<br />
..especially ifit turns out be be a "long<br />
winded" QSO or others join the QSO.<br />
Ifyour conversation cannot be continuous,<br />
then make your needed communication,<br />
sign with your callsign, and<br />
then call the other party back in 3-5<br />
minutes.<br />
Callsign Order (newer members)<br />
Newer hams need to be reminded<br />
that the accepted way of making a call<br />
is to say<br />
"W6VYY this is N6XXX"<br />
and not to say<br />
''N6XXX to W6YY¥"<br />
The station you are calling is to be<br />
mentioned first and your callsign last.<br />
Not the other way around.<br />
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Work<br />
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Parties<br />
With the cancellation ofthe December<br />
5th work party, we bave probably<br />
ended our lonna! work parties until next<br />
Spring when the weather improves<br />
enough to allow us on the tower.<br />
It is unfortunate that we did not<br />
complete the moving of the digital repeaters<br />
when they could have been<br />
moved easily.<br />
This also means that we will not be<br />
able to work on the block building to<br />
change it over to a battery building<br />
during the winter months.<br />
For not baving any organized work<br />
parties this month, a significant amount<br />
of work and activity has taken place<br />
with much ofit still unreported.<br />
(l1.27)a nice Autumn day at the<br />
repeater site where several important<br />
things were accomplished.<br />
of the 147.075, 147.130 repeaters and<br />
the autopatch unit. These items were<br />
taken "offthe air" during the period of<br />
the move from the Frig building (an old<br />
photography freezer for star films donated<br />
by the <strong>Palomar</strong> Observatory) to<br />
the new Generator building (named thus<br />
since it used to house a 15 kWh diesel<br />
generator mIts other life).<br />
Other work: done was a ground wire<br />
(really 3" wide copper strap) all around<br />
the sunken building grounding all four<br />
comers with all ofthe work: being done<br />
by W6GNIAI and his daughter Julie.<br />
The buildings were cleaned, heliax<br />
moved from the Frig to the new building<br />
(5 nms) after removing them from plastic<br />
pipe. The Frig. Sunken, and New<br />
buildings were all placed so that the<br />
heliax could be easily changed from one<br />
building to another building since the<br />
same length heliax was needed to reach<br />
each lightning protection box.<br />
N6PIGBiU and Art re-tuned the 6m<br />
cavities and after several well placed<br />
kicks by Bill, everything seem to work<br />
great under the skillful hands ofArt.<br />
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