Club Call: KC2GJL

Newsletter Volume 24 Issue 10

e-mail edition

01 February, 2002

AHARC Officers 2001-2002

President...............Al Myers, KW2J

Vice President......Basil McCuthcheon, K3QBU

Treasurer...............Don Weiman, K2UOB

Secretary/Editor....Dave Grice, N2WDS

Program Chair......Mike Zias, NG2O

Next meeting will be held on

February 5th

at 7:30 pm at the Allegany County Courthouse.

Directions may be found on our website:

www.aharc.org

Election of officers for 2002 – 2003 will be held

in April. Please plan to attend.

President's Message

= No report this month =

Local Repeaters & Nets

Repeaters

Ulysses - K3QBU 145.430- Alfred - K2BVD 146.955-

Wellsville - KA2AJH 147.210+ Coudersport - N3PC 146.685- PL 131.8

Bath - N2HLT 146.805- Arkport - KC2FWS 147.045+

Nets

New York Phone 3.925MHz @ 1 pm NYPON 3.925MHz @ 5 pm

WPA Phone 3.983 MHz @ 6 pm PA Phone Net 3.958 MHz @ 5:30pm

Western District Net 146.640- daily @ 6:30 & 9:30 pm; relay via 145.310-

160 mtr ragchew net nightly on 1.923 MHz @ 8 pm (NY, PA, WV OH & Ont)

Western New York SKYWARN Frequencies

SKYWARN spotter nets are held Tuesdays on 2-meters weekly throughout the convective-season months (March-September) and on the first and third Tuesdays during the winter months.

Net times are: 7:00PM on the 145.31 Attica and 147.15 Fulton repeaters.

7:30PM on the 146.67 Arkwright and 145.11 Bristol repeaters (linked) and the 147.255 Watertown repeater.

All amateurs are welcome to check in. Non-amateurs are also encouraged to tune in on their scanners to listen to these nets for updated spotter information, training sessions, and weather reviews.

A SKYWARN HF net is also held weekly on Sunday mornings at 9:30 AM at 7.234 MHz (+/- QRM). The net is structured much like the weekly 2-meter informational nets, but is geared to a larger audience of storm spotters from Ohio and Michigan east to the New England Coast.

Editor's Notebook

January has flown by! Now we’re into February….Field Day will be here before we know it!! J Karen, N2XPG, and myself are making plans to set up again back in our woods. Anyone is welcome to come over and join us…the more the merrier.

We have permission from AI2W’s wife, Roady to apply for Ed’s call for our club station. Al, KW2J is preparing the paper work on it. Karen and I will be visiting Roady soon to have her sign a paper that we must keep on file granting us her permission for Ed’s callsign.

Mike, NG2O, will be gathering the supplies to start our club project, building an interface for PSK31. I’m not sure whether we’ll have this done in one evening or not, but it’s exciting to see us start a club building project such as this! Let’s have a good turn out and learn some basics on building.

Don, K2UOB, is back from the 50^th state! Don, has cut checks for Basil, K3QBU, and Jim, KA2AJH, helping to cover their costs of maintaining and upgrading the Ulysses and Wellsville repeaters. The 145.430 has the new controller on it and sounds great, with just a little tweaking on it yet to do. And the 147.210 has been “revamped” so to speak; ( the following N2PEE, N2WDS, NG3W, KC2GMH, KC3HJC, WB2MOD gave Jim, KA2AJH a hand moving equipment around, etc. in early Janurary) when I find any info out from Jim about it, I’ll pass it on in the newsletter.

The Coudersport repeater, 146.685- is back up and running. The Vortex repeater has been removed and replaced with a GE Exec. running about 50 watts. The machine now has a PL on it, so if you use it, be sure to put 131.8 PL in your rig.

One more little reminder…if you changed your email address please let Don, K2uob know at – k2uob@arrl.net

Lastly, in this month’s newsletter, I have included the upcoming Hamfests for 2002, and Skywarn frequencies and other information. I plan on contacting the NWS to see if we can setup a date for an Skywarn session…details will be on the way!

Ok…that’s all I have for this month…anything subjects you would like to write about, send it to me at – n2wds@arrl.net

73, Dave N2WDS

The AHARC Tee-shirts are finally here!!!

Here is a picture of our new tee-shirt.

Karen and I will both be wearing them to

the February meeting. The shirt was seven

dollars plus change or you can buy one of

higher quality…we started cheap just to

see how the logo would come out.

- N2WDS -

Karen and I will bring 4 different styles to February’s meeting for members to look over.

Upcoming Activities

March: setting up a demo at the Olean Mall…Date to be announced.

Help will be needed. For more info contact NG2O mikezias@aol.com .

Skywarn Training from the NOAA. Date to be announced. Watch for more info in the next AHARC newsletter.

Amateur Radio News

* New ARRL section pages debut: Section News pages for all ARRL sections now

are available on the ARRL Web site. Hams can log on to read the latest news

from their section as well as keep up with what's happening in other

sections around the country. The pages include ARRL section leadership

contact information, links to hamfest and club listings, and a handy section

boundary map. These new pages provide section managers with the means to

communicate rapidly and efficiently with their constituents. ARRL members

who are logged on to the site as members will find their section page link

on the right-hand side of the screen--in the box just above the one that

says "Current Feature Articles." Non-members will find a link to a page that

lists all section pages. "Alert" messages tell hams of late-breaking

section-related news, urgent events, or last-minute changes to publicized

activities. To contribute news or photos, contact your section leadership

http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/org/smlist.html .

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* CQ VHF to return as a quarterly: CQ VHF will resume publication this

spring as a quarterly magazine, publisher Richard Ross announced today. The

magazine ceased publication in 1999. Longtime CQ magazine "VHF-Plus" Editor

Joe Lynch, N6CL, will be editor of the new quarterly. The first issue is due

out in May. In announcing the publication's return, CQ Communications noted

that the "overwhelming majority" of US hams have license privileges that

primarily permit operation above 50 MHz. "However, the prime focus of the

current ham magazines remains HF," CQ Communications said in a news release

announcing the change. CQ Communications said the revived CQ VHF was

designed with marketplace realities in mind and "will rely primarily on

subscription revenues to meet expenses." CQ Communications said CQ VHF "will

retain the friendly, conversational, look and feel of the original, but its

technical content will be somewhat higher-level." A subscription will be $25

per year in the US.

(Above stories Courtesy of ARRL Newsletter)

Hamfests for 2002

23 Feb 2002 +

ARA of the Southern Tier

http://www.arast.org

Contact: Andrew DonDero, KB3APR

PO Box 44

Elmira, NY 14902-0044

Phone: 607-737-1331 or 607-732-9827

Email: winterfest@arast.org

24 Feb 2002 +

Lancaster ARC

http://gbhamfest.hamgate.net

Contact: Luke Calianno, N2GDU

1105 Ransom Road

Lancaster, NY 14086

Phone: 716-634-4667

Email: luke@towncountryflorist.com

31 May-2 Jun 2002 *

Atlantic Division Convention

Rochester ARA

http://www.rochesterhamfest.org

Contact: Harold Smith, K2HC

300 White Spruce Blvd.

Rochester, NY 14623

Phone: 716-424-7184

Email: harold@rochesterhamfest.org

Rochester (Henrietta), NY

8 Jun 2002 *

Eastern Pennsylvania Section Convention

Columbia Montour ARC

http://www.qsl.net/cm-arc

Contact: George Law, N3KYZ

10 Whitenight Lane

Bloomsburg, PA 17815-8335

Phone: 570-784-2299

Email: n3kyz@jlink.net

Bloomsburg, PA

7 Mar 2002 +

Two Rivers ARC

http://www.qsl.net/w3oc/hamfest.htm

Contact: Bill Hetrick, N3LQC

696 King Street

McKeesport, PA 15132

Phone: 412-751-1937

Email: n3lqc@home.com

Monroeville, PA

13 Apr 2002 x

Drumlin ARC

http://www.drumlinsarc.com

Contact: Irv Walter, WA2SOK

57-2881 Macedon Ctr. Road

Palmyra, NY 14522

Phone: 315-597-2192

Email: wa2sok@rochester.rr.com

Newark, NY

4 May 2002 +

Binghamton ARA

http://www.wtsn.binghamton.edu/bara

Contact: Bill Coleman, N2BC

513 Ridge Road

Vestal, NY 13850

Phone: 607-748-5232

Email: n2bc@arrl.net

Owego, NY

20 Jul 2002 +

Batavia Hamfest

Genesee Radio Amateurs

Contact: Harold Hay, W2ABQ

5066 Clinton Street Road, #10

Batavia, NY 14020

Phone: 716-343-2844

Email: wa2abq@localnet.com

Alexander, NY

27 Jul 2002 +

Utica ARC

Contact: Bob Decker, AA2CU

4 Forest Road

Utica, NY 13501

Phone: 315-797-6614

Email: ktrnd@borg.com

Frankfort, NY

3 Aug 2002 +

Tompkins County ARC

http://www2.compcenter.com/~tcarc/

Contact: Doug Reid, NE2T

105 Sheldon Road

Ithaca, NY 14850-2501

Phone: 607-257-6066

Email: jdreid@lightlink.com

Ithaca, NY

4 Aug 2002 *

Western New York Section Convention

Lancaster ARC

http://hamgate1.sunyerie.edu/~larc

Contact: Luke Calianno, N2GDU

1105 Ransom Road

Lancaster, NY 14086

Phone: 716-683-8880

Email: luke@towncountryflorist.com

Williamsville, NY

28 Sep 2002 + ARA of the Southern Tier

http://www.arast.org

Contact: Randy Viele, N2SYT

PO Box 44

Elmira, NY 14902-0044

Phone: 607-625-5893 (days) or 607-738-6857 (eves)

Email: n2syt@arast.org

Horseheads, NY