Local Repeaters

Alfred K2BVD 146.955-

Ulysses K3QBU 145.430-

Wellsville KA2AJH 147.210-

Coudersport N3PC 146.685-

Bath N2HLT 146.805-

Allegany Highlands ARC Newsletter

April 2001 Edition Volume 24, Number 11

Club Callsign: KC2GJL

Club Website: www.aharc.org

President: Al Myers, KW2J

Vice President: Basil McCutcheon, K3QBU

Secretary/Editor: Dave Grice, N2WDS

Treasurer: Don Weiman, K2UOB

Program/Activities Chair: Mike Zias, NG2O

Meeting Reminder:

April 3^rd, 2001 is our next upcoming meeting. AHARC meetings are held the first Tuesday of each month at 7:30 pm at the Allegany County Courthouse in the Office of Emergency Services, room 8. All are invited to attend…bring a friend along!

Ø DON’T FORGET…

Annual dues will be coming up in May. At $10.00, membership in AHARC is a bargain! Send dues to Don Weiman, Turnpike Rd, Almond, NY. 14804, or give to him at the next meeting.

Ø NEW!! AHARC Web page www.aharc.org

Don, K2UOB has been hard at work building a web page for the club. On this site, you’ll find upcoming events, club news, and the AHARC newsletter. Plus pictures of activities AHARC members are involved with.

Many thanks to Don, our Webmaster, for securing the web site and address, as well as building the web page. Great job Don!!!

From ye old Editor’s Desk….

Well I wasn’t able to attend last month’s meeting, due to work obligations L, but should be there for the April meeting.

Scott Whitney, N2PEE, will be the club liaison to John Tucker, Director of the Office of Emergency Services. Scott has years of experience with the Wellsville Ambulance Corps, and in Search and Rescue as well. Please give Scott your full support in this important area, in which we have the capability to help provide communications when the need arises.

§ Skywarn info

A reminder, with the spring and summer weather shortly on it’s way, it time to once again to think about Skywarn. Our help is needed for Allegany County; to find out more go to the NWS web page at: http://www.wbuf.noaa.gov/ it is loaded with information.

I just finished reading an article in the April 2001 edition of CQ magazine. The article is titled “New HF Angle, Single-Site Emission-Locator (HASSEL) Stations Ready to Cleanse ham Bands”. A very interesting article. Take a look at the web site about it at:

http://archive.uwaterloo.ca/~brobinso/masset.html Hopefully this will help to cleanup the bands.

Contributions and articles of interest for the newsletter would be greatly appreciated. Please let me know via email or radio. That’s all this time around.

73, N2WDS

Upcoming Club Activities….

The STPR Road Rally is coming up the first weekend in June. So far it looks like AHARC will represented by K2UOB, K3QBU, N2XPG, and N2WDS to help with rally communications. If anyone else would like to participate, please contact Don, K2UOB at weimandn@usadatanet.net for further information. Don will point you in the right direction. Also, checkout Don’s website; he has pictures of last year’s rally and may have a link to the STPR website.

The annual AHARC picnic and Foxhunt….no dates have been set as of yet…anybody game?

Any other activities have yet to decided on, as of this date. Stay tuned for more info.

Upcoming Events

12 May, 2001

Special event station to commemorate the birthday of Glenn H. Curtiss. The location

of the event is at the Glenn Curtiss Aviation Museum in Hammondsport, NY

1400 – 2100z, 3.900, 7.250, 28.400MHz. For a certificate, send SASE to: Roy Koehler, KB2WXV, and PO BOX 451, AVOCA, NY 14809

(all above info courtesy of KLARA Klarion, Thanks Debbi)

LICENSE TESTING: The next ARRL/VEC testing session will be scheduled for May 19th at 9:00 am in the Potter County EOC. There is plenty of time to study for that upgrade. If you want an ARRL license manual, we can get them for you at a discount. We will place an order on March 2, so call Roy Heimel, 814-274-4239 or via email at rheimel@adelphia.net by March 1.

FIELD DAY: The Headwaters ARC, ARRL Field Day will be on 23 and 24 June this year. We have again arranged to use the Black Forest Conservation Association Camp on Jenkins Hill this year. This facility has sleeping and eating facilities, so we have operated to the wee hours of the morning. This has been a fun event for all who have participated in the past. It is also an opportunity to operate with full HF privileges, no matter your license class. Mark it on your calendar, and plan to spend some time with the rest of the club. For more info contact Roy at

rheimel@adelphia.net

(the above is courtesy of the HARC, Thanks Roy)

NTS Traffic Nets

(Coverage in Allegany & Steuben counties is needed and your help would be appreciated)

q Western District Net (WNY area) 146.640- @ 11 am, 6:30 pm, 9:30 pm

(If you cannot key up the .640 repeater, try the 145.310-, 145.110-, 146.670- repeaters. Relays are taken on these frequencies 5 to10 minutes after net starting time)

q Southern Tier Traffic Handler’s Net 147.015+, 145.190- Mon and Thurs @ 8 pm

q New York Public Operations Net 3.925 MHz, daily @ 5 pm

q Pennsylvania Phone Net 3.958 MHz, daily @ 5:30 pm

q Western Pa. Phone and Traffic Net 3.983 MHz, daily @ 6pm

AHARC Member Email Addresses:

WD2JHDEarl Stopfel

earls@infoblvd.net

K2PLQ Phil

phil_k2plq@infoblvd.net

K2UOB Don Weiman

weimandn@usadatanet.net

K3QBU Basil McCutcheon