ARRLWeb: ARRL NEWS: Remote Control Your HF Rig via the Internet

ARRLWeb: ARRL NEWS: Remote Control Your HF Rig via the Internet: "Using the Internet to remotely control your amateur equipment is rapidly becoming a hot topic. Ten Tec recently introduced their new Omni VII with 'plug and play' remote capability. There have been several articles on the subject published recently but most of them seemed to stop short of actually telling you how to do it or just seem to be too complex for the typical ham to implement."

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ARRLWeb: ARRL NEWS: Surfin': Having a Ham Radio Cow

ARRLWeb: ARRL NEWS: Surfin': Having a Ham Radio Cow: "Starting with a surplus office trailer that Roland obtained for a bargain price, he and his radio compatriots proceeded to gut the trailer and build a deluxe five-position operating ham radio station on wheels that also provides some of the comforts of home, including a kitchen, bathroom and sleeping accommodations."

W I R E S - I I

Has anyone dealt with this system yet? I would like to learn.. What is on the net doesn't tell me much.

WIRESTM-II is a system of using the Internet's voice-communication capability as a bridge between distant stations. Where simplex- and repeater-based communication was basically limited to a local coverage area, with WIRES-II it is now possible to use the Internet as a long-distance link, allowing city-to-city, country-to-country, or continent-to-continent contacts from your hand-held or mobile rig. With WIRESTM linking, the distance between mobile or hand-held units becomes irrelevant, and the world becomes a much smaller place!

HamLinks Ham Radio Toolbar for Firefox and Internet Explorer

This is a must have! You will have hours of fun with it... Just too Kewl for words...

HamLinks Ham Radio Toolbar for Firefox and Internet Explorer: "HamLinks: The Ham Radio Toolbar for Firefox and IE

HamLinks is a free ham radio toolbar that extends your (Internet Explorer or Firefox) web browser to give ham radio operators quick access to great ham radio content. It's completely free, easy to install (and uninstall) and can be configured by the user. No registrations, spyware, spam or other hooks."

New Ideas

We will begin posting radio equipment for sale here on the site... If it becomes popular we will create a separate bulletin board attached to this site for equipment sales. The way it works for now is for you to follow the instructions on the right in the links column...

We may entertain ideas in the future to hold an on-line auction.... Think about it and put a comment below.. Share your ideas. KE7NIW

The VE Team at Florence

On Saturday March 8^th, 2008, the VE-team from Newport went to Florence, OR to provide a testing session for a group of prospective amateurs.

We had 9 people waiting to take their test. The VE team consisted of W6BL, John Wilson, K7BJ, Carol Moore, AB7QN, Hugh Aikenhead and WA2ZZZ, Pat Aikenhead; we also had Michael Moore, K7UUU, as a helper.

The picture shows some of the testers and the VE’s.

We passed 7 technicians, and of those 6 took the General class license. We passed 3 new generals.

We all had a great time.

Below We told you about Google DOCs and suggested some ways for club use... In the comments I see we sparked interest in a couple of you. KM7S Sharon and W7BL John. I'm thinking of holding a "how to" class. Others of you may be interested.

Since the Longview Hills Community has a small computer lab we could meet for an hour or so while we all become familiar with this exciting new program. Once learned the uses for it start popping into your head like crazy.

Everyone interested please email me with times and dates that you would like to attend...

teckron@gmail.com

News - StatesmanJournal.com

Wow! look at this guy's shack... What does yours look like? Email me a picture for the website.

News - StatesmanJournal.com: "There are 86 ham licensees in Dallas alone and nearly 1.5 million in the U.S. Nine joined the local ham community after a testing session in early February.

A radio as inexpensive as $100 to $150 will work for those wishing to become a part of the ham radio culture, Moellenberndt said, adding that serious users can spend upwards of $20,000 on equipment.

'One of the most important things to own is not the radio itself but the antenna,' Minehan said. 'The radio equipment you own is only as good as your antenna.'

His own setup includes a beam antenna with 600 feet of wire snaking through fir trees on his acreage just outside of Dallas.

'You can even used your own (rain) gutters or flagpole as a form of antenna,' he said.

Amateur radio around the world, then, seems mainly to be a mix of fun, friendship, convenience — and public service, the four Dallas group members said."

NEW DIRECTIONS RADIO

NEW DIRECTIONS RADIO: "Radio amateurs, like many other people these days, are buying home computers. And regardless of how many additional uses he or she might plan for the machine, a ham purchaser almost always wants it to be part of a system of communication.

In theory at least, personal computers and ham rigs can be interconnected, and the combination can then be used to transmit and receive text by radio. Three types of codes are commonly employed for these transmissions: ASCII (standard computer code), Baudot (normal teleprinter code), and Morse (dots and dashes)."

Excite News - Cell Carriers Fight Backup Power Rule

Sent in by Carol

Excite News - Cell Carriers Fight Backup Power Rule: "When Hurricane Katrina assaulted the Gulf Coast in 2005, wind and flooding knocked out hundreds of cell towers and cell sites, silencing wireless communication exactly when emergency crews and victims needed it."

NEW DIRECTIONS RADIO

NEW DIRECTIONS RADIO: "Radio amateurs, like many other people these days, are buying home computers. And regardless of how many additional uses he or she might plan for the machine, a ham purchaser almost always wants it to be part of a system of communication.

In theory at least, personal computers and ham rigs can be interconnected, and the combination can then be used to transmit and receive text by radio. Three types of codes are commonly employed for these transmissions: ASCII (standard computer code), Baudot (normal teleprinter code), and Morse (dots and dashes)."

HERE ARE THE POLL RESULTS
The question...

What time should the club meet?

Answers			Votes	Percent
1.		6:00PM	7	27%
2.		6:30pm	10	38%
3.		7:00pm	9	35%
4.		7:30pm	0	0%

To all Our HAMs viewing the site... Members or not.....

You will find a few new links on the right side of the page. They are designated by the red arrows... Give them a try.

New also, at the top of the page is a calendar.. This calendar shows events that you want to place like shows and field days...etc., If you click on a date entry you will get a pop-up window that describes all the particulars and details of an event.

Events that happen at the same time every month, week or day or even once a year that happen at the same time (recur) are programed in just once and then faithfully reproduce for the next 4 years.

If you want to add events and tell all about them you can be as long winded as you like... The pop up window is designed just for that. If you would like everyone's birthdays can be put on too. For now I have to do all the entering... But I expect that one or more of you will sit down with me for about a half hour and I will show you how to do this... I do this for a lot of blogs around the county and it does become tedious to keep up so at some point I turn over various functions of the website to members... Never hard and interesting to learn...

Similarly, the success of the website depends on receiving pictures and articles from the members...people like you...... Putting an article on is as simple as writing it in your email and sending it to a special email address. Just ask Carol K7BJ, Her first entry by email appears just below this article... Ask her using the comments just how easy it was.

Pictures, for now, have to be sent to my email and I put them on but when those of you want to learn about an hours worth I can teach you how to do it yourself.

Since this all as done at your leisure and on your computer with no deadlines or demands I expect at least a few of you will be interested and we can have classes on how to.

The more you participate the greater the site will become... I promise.

Carol Test

Ron this sounds good