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Volume V, Issue 8

UP FRONT IN THE REPEATER

August 2013

The Livonia Amateur Radio Club

Livonia Repeaters ▪ 145.35 PL 100Hz ▪ 444.875 PL 123Hz ▪ Echolink W8WQU-R LARC 2-Meter Net Every Thursday 8:00pm Local Time

Website: http://www.livoniaarc.com And, find us on facebook.

NEXT MEETING

Monday, Sept. 23rd, 7:30 pm Livonia Civic Center Library

TOPIC: TBD

IMPORTANT DATES

Sept. Board Meeting—Sept. 9 General Meeting—Sept. 23 LARC Night Out—Oct. 12

Oct. Board Meeting—Oct. 14

In This Issue: Up Front 1

From the Editor Hot Dog & Corn Roast

2

Do They Still? 3

Balloon Update 4

Raspberry Pi Tech Courses

6

DX News 7

Contests 8

Special Events 9

Swaps 10

Corn Roast Photos 11

Repeaters and Nets 13

About LARC 14

VE SESSIONS VE testing sessions are sched-uled throughout the year. Contact Bruno, WA8DHP, for more information.

• Our monthly General Meetings restart on Monday, September 23rd at 7:30 pm at the Livonia Civic Center Library, as usual.

• John Hopkins (K8YYZ) organized a successful “LARC in the Park” outing on August 10th, after the weekly breakfast. It is an opportu-nity to “get back to basics,” and practice communicating by HF in the field. Similar outings are being planned for the second Saturday of each month. Photos of this event are on the LARC web site as well as our Facebook page.

• Weekly Saturday Breakfasts are held at Steve’s Family Restaurant, 40370 Five Mile Rd., Plymouth, MI 48170 (W. of Haggerty). We start arriving shortly before 8:00 am when the doors open.

• A number of our members are in the process of organizing a local slow-code CW training net. Stay tuned for further developments.

• LARC Night Out will be held at Mama Mia’s restaurant on Plymouth this year. The date is October 12th at 6:00 pm. RSVP in the Members Forum on the website, and make sure you get your payments in to Doris (KD8DXJ), our Treasurer. The cost is $15 per person.

• Ryan (K8RDM) has set up a blog: http://www.K8UNS.org. This site contains information about the current status of the balloon project, from the research and assembly, will continue through the pre-launch preparation, in-flight information and post-flight wrap-up.

• The Wolverine Net (WSSBN) meets every night of the week on 3.935 MHz starting at 2300 UTC. They welcome everyone to visit their net, and several of our LARC members join their talk. Also, you are in-vited to join the pre-net group which starts at 2200 UTC where vari-ous topics of interest are discussed, and humor abounds.

FROM THE NEW EDITOR August 2013 The Repeater

My name is Sandy Allen (KD8UTR), and I’ve volunteered to be the new editor of The Repeater. Up front, I’ve had a lot more experience being an editor than being a ham, only being licensed since June, but putting out newsletters for decades. I re-tired several years ago after working 35 years with the Detroit News and Free Press. I took the Technician class mainly to figure out what my hubby, Bill (KD8KTF), was do-ing with his new hobby; but also as a mental exercise – just trying to exercise my brain by learning something completely new and different. In studying amateur radio, I took the “get the license first” approach - I took a one day class by Dan Romanchik (KB6NU) in Ann Arbor. Sometimes called “ham cram”, it doesn’t really teach the material in any depth, but rather taught me just enough to pass the test. The theory is that once some-one gets their license, they’ll be in a better position to learn by doing. Therefore, I’ll be looking at my fellow LARC members to serve as my “Elmers” to help me figure out what I’m doing now that I have my license. Part of my planning as editor is to in-clude more articles geared toward newbies; maybe to document my journey to becoming

a more knowledgeable and experienced ham. Please, share your tips with me. If there are others like myself out there, let me know what you’d like to learn. Basic in-formation might also give friends and family some insight into this crazy hobby of ours. Possibly convince others to join our ranks. Who knows? If this approach doesn’t work, we’ll try something different. Many thanks to Paul Huff (N8XMS) for his work as the previous editor. Paul’s increased involvement with the North American QRP CW Club is taking up more of his spare time, although he promises to continue contributing articles occasionally. Michael Rudzki (N8MR) remains the other brain behind The Repeater with his techni-cal skills and experience. I appreciate his encouragement and expertise. Until I get up to speed, The Repeater may not be as detailed and lengthy as it has been. I will welcome educational articles, stories and suggestions from you all, as I re-search online and though acquaintances for relevant material. Email is the best way to make contact: [email protected]. And so I begin…

ANNUAL HOT DOG & CORN ROAST A delicious time was had by all! A sunny (but not hot) afternoon, pleasant sur-roundings, 20+ friends and families, yards of yummy food – who could ask for a better Sun-day? On August 18th, Doris (KD8DXJ) and Tas (K8TAS) once again graciously opened their home and gardens to LARC members for our annual Hot Dog & Corn Roast, sometimes referred to as the Hot Corn & Dog Roast. Be-sides those main culinary attractions, there were bowls of salads and other side dishes,

plus an entire table of desserts – cakes and pies, Rice Krispy treats and several kinds of cookies. We probably all ate a bit more than we should have, but everything was just so darned good! After indulging, most of the male mem-bers retreated to the garage “classroom” for a project – building an Active Attenuator to im-prove last year’s yagi antenna for fox hunting excursions.

(See HOT DOG on page 5)

August 2013 The Repeater

Editor’s Note: I’m including this article because I actually got in a discussion re-cently with some friends who asked this very question – and, these were people closely as-sociated with amateur radio operators. Since it was Dream Cruise Weekend, I called on that analogy. Do people come to the Dream Cruise just for nostalgia?” Isn’t part of the experience seeing the newest ad-vances in technology? Just as some people prefer the classic vehicles with outdated en-gines and few accessories, there are hams who work with clunky rigs filled with vac-uum tubes or single transistors. Others on Woodward check out the soon-to-debut 2014 Stingray and the Ford Fusion Hybrid with futuristic MyTouch and Sync computers. “TechnoHams” have their multi-channel handheld transceivers, EchoLink, software defined radios and AMSAT. “Yes! We still do that.”

I am the station manager for WA2HOM, the amateur radio station at the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum. I spend a lot of time down at the museum operating the station, demonstrating amateur radio to the museum’s visitors, and answering questions about amateur radio. Without question, the most common question I get is, “Do they still do that?” My answer, of course, is “YES, we still do!” There are more licensed amateur radio operators now than there ever were, with more than 700,000 in the U.S. alone and more than 2 million around the world. Probably the second most frequent question is, “Isn’t ham radio old technology?” My answer is always a resounding, “NO!” Modern amateur radio gear, I point out, is quite sophisticated. The transceiver we use at the museum, for example, has several em-bedded processors and uses some of the lat-

est digital signal processing (DSP) technol-ogy. Most hams may not build their own equipment—like they did in the old days—but there are still lots of us out there work-ing to “advance the state of the radio art.” What else do hams do? If I haven’t lost them at that point, I try to tell them about all the services that amateur radio provides and all the other fun stuff that amateur ra-dio operators do. This includes:

• Emergency communications • SkyWarn • Operating Morse Code • DXing • Building kits • Contesting • Experimenting with computers like the Raspberry Pi, EchoLink and IRLP • Satellites • Vintage radio • QRP (using low-power transmitters) • Etc., etc., etc.

You can learn more from and about Dan on his website: http://www.kb6nu.com .

DO THEY STILL DO THAT? DAN ROMANCHIK (KB6NU)

www.qsl.net/K4ADL


The High Altitude Weather Balloon project was created by Ryan Marrs (K8RDM) as an independent club activity that spreads across many aspects of amateur radio, and provides a fun learning experience for any-one interested. We will be heavily document-ing this project in the interest of sharing, and hopefully doing more group projects in the future. An electronics package will be launched and carried by weather balloon above 100,000 feet broadcasting position, temperature, video (hopefully) and taking photographs. Teams on the ground will be tracking the package with the DF Yagi an-tennas constructed last year by members. After a to-be-determined period of time, a command will be sent to cut loose the balloon and para-chute the package back to earth for retrieval and data download. Launch has been moved from the original August 24th to a later date this fall. Two balloons and 6.5 ft. para-chute have been ordered. The payload plans have been modi-fied a bit to fit everything we want to do, and have redundant failover. The ATV equipment requires 12 v (not 7 as we were going to run), and that has also been purchased. We have the nichrome wire needed to cut the payload down powered by a single 9 volt battery, as the draw from the nichrome wire could be enough to shut the battery pack down and terminate all other equipment. We're going to run three separate ar-duinos for redundancy and to ensure every-thing operates smoothly. 1. A trackuino, which is currently on the air

at Dan's house (K8PLW) (http://aprs.fi/#!

call=a%2FK8RDM). 2. The second is the beacon transmitter,

which is online at Ryan’s house (minus the transmitter). It's currently outputting to a set of headphones in a 24 hour stress test. This arduino will loop an MP3 trans-mission endlessly, with a 2 minute pause in between. It also provides a logic high voltage out on one of the pins when it is transmitting so we can key the PTT on the Icom 2AT.

3. The third is for the DTMF decoder / cut down mechanism. This cut down mecha-

nism is currently in development by John (K8YYZ). He's setting up an MT-8870 to decode the tones and after a multi-tone input (which will be highly classified), trigger a relay for the 9v battery for the cut down mechanism. The nichrome wire with a 9v battery was tested at the Hot Dog & Corn Roast, and will cut down our 45 lb. payload tether. We also performed a partial test of our beacon and APRS trans-mitter arduinos by leaving them running from 11:30-6 pm during the hot dog and corn roast. The battery wasn't even half drained.

That's 7 hours, more than plenty for our ex-pected duration of 2-3 hours. Steps still left to complete: • We need to attach an NPN transistor to

the output of the beacon arduino to key the PTT on the Icom 2AT and the beacon portion of our payload will be complete.

• Complete the cut down arduino. We are waiting on delivery of an MT8870 DTMF decoder chip to complete this task. John (K8YYZ) is handling this.

(See BALLOON on page 5)

HIGH ALTITUDE WEATHER BALLOON PROJECT UPDATE


Conducted by Stanley Briggs (K8SB), the class proved to be a worthwhile and, for some, challenging exercise. As the hours went by, there were laughs and ques-tions, curses and sparks, and finally – suc-cess! Several of the students showed off their little silver boxes. Someone even brought out a partially open instrument, so us uninitiated could view the circuit board with its painstaking soldering. Good for

the guys! Great Job! Many thanks to Doris and Tas for their hospitality, and for all who assisted with the food (especially those corn husk-ers!), set-up and tear down. Don’t forget to sign up for our next social outing – LARC Night Out, October 12th at Mama Mia’s on Plymouth. There will be more details in our next Repeater. Check out some pictures from the roast and class on pages 11 and 12.

(HOT DOG, Continued from page 2)

• Clear the NEMA data out of the trackuino to the ATV equipment, so we can overlay the GPS/NEMA data onto the video feed. Load the payload box, and test weight, and battery duration.

• Perform a payload stress test in my chest freezer (the wife will be so pleased...)

• Design a balloon filling station. This will be made of PVC, and allow us to fill the balloon and tilt it while not putting additional stress on the balloon.

• Rent helium cylinder and purchase helium.

• We need to fly this thing!

As an independent project, funds for the Balloon Project are being privately do-nated through the Club. Incurred costs have been paid out of our own pockets up until this point. Those wishing to donate to The Balloon Project may send a check to our Club Treasurer, Doris Kelterborn, 37255 Eureka Road, Romulus, MI 48174. Please mark “Balloon Project” on the enve-lope and/or the check. Thank you.

(BALLOON, Continued from page 4)

Me and My Shack


John (K8YYZ) reports he got Raspberry Pi up and running last night and thought he’d pass along a great reference that he picked up at Barnes and Noble. It is a special edition Linux Pro Magazine issue that includes a CD with the various Raspberry Linux distributions as well as a number of other programs and utilities. I installed the Rasbian Weezy distribution that was on the disk. It comes with a nice GUI desktop with a web browser, games, etc.

If you can’t find it on the magazine rack at your local Barnes and Noble, you can

order it from the following web site: http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Resources/Special-Editions

For those not-in-the-know, the Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It’s a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing

and games. It also plays high-definition video. We want to see it being used by kids all over the world to learn programming. To learn more, check out: http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs.

RASPBERRY PI

TECHNICIAN CLASS LICENSING COURSES

Here is information about Two Tech-nician Class Licensing Courses that the Ha-zel Park Amateur Radio Club plans to run in September (Macomb County) and October (Oakland County). Macomb County WHEN: Monday, September 3, 2013 to Mon-day, November 12, 2013 TIME: each week @ 7 pm to 9pm for 11 weeks WHERE: Macomb Intermediate School Dis-trict (MISD) Building 44001 Garfield Road (North of 19 Mile on West side of Garfield) Clinton Township, MI Park in South lot, class will be in Room 104 COST: FREE except for License Manual ($25)—includes laminated Band Plan BONUS: FCC License Exam at Last Session ($15 exam fee) Cash preferred. Pre-registration required—by August 23, 2013, to allow time to order manuals Contact the Instructor: Paul Urbano, [email protected]

Oakland County WHEN: Tuesday October 3, 2013 to Tues-day, December 12, 2013 TIME: each week @ 7 pm to 9pm for 10 weeks WHERE: Oak Park Recreation Center 14300 Oak Park Blvd Oak Park, MI 48237 Recreation Building is ¼ mile West of Coolidge, attached to the Library. Park in the West Lot. COST: Oak Park Registration Fee: $10 col-lected at first session License Manual ($25)—includes laminated Band Plan collected at first session BONUS: FCC License Exam at Last Session ($15 exam fee) Cash preferred. Pre-registration required—by September 18, 2013, to allow time to order manuals Contact the Instructor: Jerry Begel, [email protected]

DX NEWS August 2013 The Repeater

NEPAL, 9N. Satish, 9N1AA has been QRV on 20 meters around 0100z and 15 meters around 0730z. QSL via N4AA.

BAHRAIN, A9. David, A92IO is generally ac-tive on 30 meters between 0130 and 0300. He is also active on 80 to 4 meters, including 60 meters. QSL via operator's instructions.

JUAN FERNANDEZ ISLAND, CE0. Mario is QRV as CE0ZEL and is here for six months. Activity is as time permits. QSL via CE3RAC.

PALESTINE, E4. Peri, HB9IQB is QRV as E44PM from Bethlehem until August 31. Ac-tivity is on the HF bands and 6 meters. QSL to home call.

NIUE, E6. Adam, K7ST is QRV as E6ST. His length of stay is unknown. Activity is generally on 40, 20, 17 and 15 meters using SSB. QSL via EA5GL.

FRENCH POLYNESIA, FO. Jean-Marc, F5LCI is QRV as FO/F5LCI from Hao Atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago, IOTA OC-066, until November 8 while with the local military unit. He is active on 40 to 10 meters using QRP power on CW and JT65-JT9. QSL direct to home call.

GALAPAGOS ISLANDS, HC8. Geoff, G8OFQ is QRV as HC8/G8OFQ from Isabella Island, IOTA SA-004, until the end of September. Ac-tivity is on 40 to 10 meters generally during 2200 and 0600z and during the weekends. QSL to home call.

PERU, OA. Arno, DL1CW plans to be QRV as OA1/DL1CW near Tumbes from August 26 to September 2. Activity will be on the HF bands using only CW. QSL to home call.

BANGLADESH, S2. Rana, S21R is QRV from Dhaka and is here for one month. He is active on the HF bands. QSL via N4VA.

POLAND, SP. Special event station

3Z45MFFZG is QRV until August 31 during the 45th International Folklore Festival in Za-kopane. QSL via SP9PTG.

COTE d'IVOIRE, TU. Dimitri is QRV as TU5DF until October 31 and has been active on 15 meters using CW around 1330z. QSL via F5SWB.

RODRIGUEZ ISLAND, 3B9. Group of Italians will be QRV as 3B9EME from Sept 1 till Sept 9. They will not only be on 144 and 432 MHz EME, but also 160 - 6m CW, SSB and digital. MICRONESIA, V63. JA2VWG will be active as V63DDD and JA7LU as V63LU from Pohnpei Island, QRV on 40 - 6 Meters SSB and RTTY. QSL via JA7LU.

BOTSWANA, A25. WB6OJB will be active as A25JK and K5LBU as A25CF from Sept 5 - Sept 12, on 20 - 10 Meters (maybe 80 and 40) on SSB and PSK. QSL via home call. NAMIBIA, V5. V5/DF2UU and V5/DF3GY will be active on the HF bands from Sept 7 - Sept Sept 15.

QSL via DJ8VC. FRENCH POLYNESIA, FO. JJ8DEN will be on 80 - 10 Meters CW and digital from Sept 18 till Sept 25. QSL via JJ8DEN. FIJI, 3D2. LZ1GC will be QRV as 3D2GC from Viti Levu Island from Sept 20 - Sept 26. He will be operating 160 - 10 Meters CW and SSB. QSL via LZ1GC. UGANDA, 5X. G3RWF will be active on the HF bands as 5X1NH from Sept 24 - Nov 16. ROTUMA, 3D2/R. LZ1GC will be QRV as 3D2GC/p and 3D2DD will be QRV as 3D2DD/p from Sept 27 - Oct 11. They will be active on the HF bands, SSB only. QSL per QRZ.COM.

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SPECIAL EVENTS August 2013 The Repeater

09/01/2013 | Labor Day 09/07/2013 | 125th Anniversary of Corwin OH Circus Train Wreck Sep 7, 1600Z-2359Z, W8C, Corwin, OH. West Ches-ter Amateur Radio Association. 21.350 14.250 7.250. QSL. Mike Braun, PO Box 913, West Chester, OH 45071. Also working the OSPOTA event same day. wc8voa.org 09/07/2013 | Indiana Dunes - Indiana Parks on the Air Sep 7, 1600Z-2200Z, N9D, Chesterton, IN. Lake County Amateur Radio Club. 14.260 7.225. QSL. Lake County Amateur Radio Club, W9LJ, PO Box 90, Crown Point, IN 46308. www.w9lj.org 09/07/2013 | Ohio State Parks On the Air Sep 7, 0800Z-1400Z, W8NCK, Fremont, OH. San-dusky Valley Amateur Radio Club. 7.240. QSL. John B. Stahl, 1700 County Rd 157, Fremont, OH 43420. [email protected] 09/13/2013 | Battle of Plattsburgh Commemora-tion Sep 13-Sep 14, 1600Z-2359Z, W2W, Plattsburgh, NY. Champlain Valley Amateur Radio Club. SSB 28.390 21.360 14.290 7.190; CW 28.190 21.140 14.060 7.030. QSL. John Jerdo, KA2WQK, 18 Sandy Pines Tr Prk, Keeseville, NY 12944. Commemorating the 199th anniversary of the September 11, 1814 battle that stopped the British invasion on and on the shore of Lake Champlain. The British were attempting to split the US in half along the lake and Hudson River. Their loss forced then to the negotiating table and the Treaty of Ghent ending the War of 1812 was signed December 24, 1814. www.cvarc.us 09/13/2013 | Northwest Angle Recognition Sep 13-Sep 15, 1400Z-2100Z, NW0AA, Angle Inlet, MN. Northwest Angle Amateur Radio Club. 14.240 7.200 3.930 DIGI. Certificate & QSL. Dan Whipple, 11726 Norway St NW, Minneapolis, MN 55448. An-nual activation of the Northern most ARC in the lower 48 states. qrz.com/nw0aa 09/14/2013 | National Road & "S" Bridge-185 yrs. old Sep 14, 1400Z-2200Z, W8VP, Cambridge, OH. Cam-bridge Amateur Radio Association. 14.260 7.235. Cer-tificate & QSL. Cambridge Amateur Radio Associa-tion, PO Box 1804, Cambridge, OH 43725. Celebrat-ing 185th anniversary of the National Road & "S"

Bridges. 9th Special Event in CARA's year-long 100th Birthday Celebration. QSL. Certificate available for anyone who works ALL 12 of CARA's monthly Spe-cial Events of 2013 www.w8vp.org 09/20/2013 | Stars & Stripes Sep 20-Sep 21, 1700Z-1700Z, W0S, Bloomfield, MO. Bootheel & SEMo Amateur Radio Clubs. 28.450 14.260 7.260 3.950. Certificate. Stars & Stripes, PO Box 98, Jackson, MO 63755. 09/21/2013 | 80th Anniversary of the Collins Ra-dio Company Sep 21-Sep 23, 1300Z-0500Z, N0CXX, Cedar Rap-ids, IA. Rockwell Collins Amateur Radio Club. HF and 6 m; CW AM SSB. Certificate & QSL. Steve Lar-son, N3SL, 22 N Hidden Acres Dr, Sioux City, IA 51108. Several stations participating. Primary oper-ating hours 0900 to 2400 local time for each station as operators are available. Work 3 different stations for certificate. 09/28/2013 | USS Wisconsin Final Decommission-ing Sep 28-Sep 29, 1000Z-1630Z, N4WIS, Virginia Beach, VA. USS Wisconsin Radio Club. 14.264 7.264. QSL. N4WIS, USS Wisconsin Radio Club, PO Box 6682, Vir-ginia Beach, VA 23456. www.n4wis.org/n4wis/index.php 10/05/2013 | Radioville Special Event Oct 5, 1000Z-1500Z, W9JOZ, North Judson, IN. Starke County Amateur Radio Club. 28.350 21.300 14.250 7.250. QSL. Starke County Amateur Radio Club, 7495 S 500 W, North Judson, IN 46366. On October 5th from 10 am to 3 pm CST, the Starke County Amateur Radio Club will hold a Special Event in the city that never was, Radioville, IN. The call sign is W9JOZ and they will be on all HF frequencies as band conditions permit. Radioville, was planned to be a booming community, but it just didn't develop. Now each year we celebrate the town that never was with a Special Event from the heart of what is Radioville, Indiana. It is listed on the State's records as a town, even though nothing really exist, but a few homes. www.w9joz.org 10/06/2013 | 250th Anniversary of the Royal Proc-lamation of 1763 Oct 6-Nov 5, 0000Z-2359Z, VX31763, Mississauga, ON. VE3RHE. All HF bands, 6, 10, 15 and 20 m. QSL. Robert Emerson, VE3RHE, 6950 Summer Heights Dr, Mississauga, ON L5N 7E9, CANADA. QSL via bureau or LoTW. If sending direct, please include Canadian tamps or green stamps. (links available about Oct 1) www.qrz.com/db/vx31763 or events.ve3rhe.ca/sx31763


Findley Hamfest Start Date: 09/08/2013 End Date: 09/08/2013 Location: Hancock County Fairgrounds 1017 East Sandusky Street Findlay, OH 45839 Website: http://w8ft.org Sponsor: Findlay Radio Club Type: ARRL Hamfest Talk-In: 147.15/75 Public Contact: Bill Kelsey , N8ET 3521 Spring Lake Drive Findlay, OH 45840 Phone: 419-423-3402 Email: [email protected] Adrian Hamfest Start Date: 09/15/2013 End Date: 09/15/2013 Location: Lenawee County Fairgrounds 602 North Dean Street Adrian, MI 49221 Website: http://w8tqe.com Sponsor: Adrian Amateur Radio Club Type: ARRL Hamfest Talk-In: 145.37 (PL 85.4) Public Contact: Mark Hinkleman , NU8Z 108 East Kilbuck Street Tecumseh, MI 49286 Phone: 517-423-5906 Email: [email protected] GMARC Fall Trunk Swap & Raffle Start Date: 09/21/2013 End Date: 09/21/2013 Location: Trinity Lutheran Church 45160 Van Dyke Avenue Utica, MI 48315 Website: http://www.GMARC.org Sponsor: General Motors Amateur Radio Club Type: ARRL Hamfest Talk-In: 443.075 + (PL 123) Public Contact: Robert Corr , N8CY 45601 Fox Lane West, Apt. 106 Selby Township, MI 48317 Phone: 248-346-2733 Email: [email protected] Cleveland Hamfest & Computer Show Start Date: 09/22/2013 End Date: 09/22/2013

Location: Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds 164 Eastland Road Berea, OH 44017 Website: http://www.hac.org Sponsor: Hamfest Association of Cleveland, Inc. Type: ARRL Hamfest Talk-In: 146.73 (PL 110.9) Public Contact: Glenn Williams , AF8C 513 Kenilworth Road Bay Village, OH 44140 Phone: 440-835-4897 Email: [email protected] USECA Hamfest Start Date: 10/06/2013 End Date: 10/06/2013 Location: United Food & Commercial Workers Hall 876 Horace Brown Drive Madison Heights, MI 48071 Website: http://www.usecaarc.com Sponsor: Utica Shelby Emergency Communica-tion Association Type: ARRL Hamfest Talk-In: 147.180+ (PL 100) Public Contact: Ray Anderson , K8RDJ 37237 Tamarack Drive Sterling Heights, MI 48310 Phone: 586-979-4456 Email: [email protected] Indiana State Convention (Fort Wayne Hamfest and Computer Expo) Start Date: 11/16/2013 End Date: 11/17/2013 Location: Allen County War Memorial Coli-seum 4000 Parnell Avenue Fort Wayne, IN 46801 Website: http://www.fortwaynehamfest.com Sponsor: Allen County Amateur Radio Techni-cal Society Type: ARRL Convention Talk-In: 146.880(-) Public Contact: ACARTS Fort Wayne , W9INX PO Box 10342 Fort Wayne, IN 46851 Phone: 260-579-2196 Email: [email protected]

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Net Day Time Frequency PL Tone Link

Southeastern Michigan Traffic Net Daily 10:15 PM 145.33 MHz 100 Hz SEMTN

Wolverine SSB Net Daily 7:00 PM 3.935 MHz None WSSBN

Great Lake Emergency and Traffic Net Daily 8:00 PM 3.932 MHz None NTS ARES

Utica Shelby Emergency Com Assoc Info Sunday 1:00 PM 147.18 MHz 100 Hz USECA

Utica Shelby Emerg Com Trade/Help Sunday 8:00 PM 147.18 MHz 100 Hz USECA

Spirit of 76 ARC Sunday 8:00 PM 146.76 MHz 100 Hz LEARA

Hazel Park ARC Sunday 9:00 PM 146.64 MHz 100 Hz HPARC

Garden City ARC Sunday 9:00 PM 146.86 MHz 100 Hz GCARC

Salvation Army Team Emerg Radio Net Monday 7:30 PM 147.18 MHz 100 Hz SATERN

ARROW ARC Monday 8:00 PM 146.96 MHz 100 Hz ARROW ARC

Utica Shelby Emer Com Slow Code Monday 9:00 PM 147.18 MHz 100 Hz USECA

Stu Rock ARC 2nd Tues 7:30 PM 146.92 MHz 100 Hz Stu Rock ARC

Motor City ARC Tuesday 9:00 PM 147.24 MHz 100 Hz MCARC

Spirit of 76 Skywarn Wednesday 8:00 PM 146.76 MHz 100 Hz LEARA

General Motors ARC Wednesday 8:00 PM 146.70 MHz 123 Hz GMARC

Wayne County ARPSC Net Wednesday 9:00 PM 147.16 MHz 100 Hz WA8EOC

Hazel Park ARC Kids Thursday 7:00 PM 146.64 MHz 100 Hz HPARC

RACES/ARES Thursday 8:00 PM 147.20 MHz 100 Hz ???

LARC 2 Meter Net Thursday 8:00 PM 145.35 MHz 100 Hz Livonia ARC

ECHO Thursday 9:00 PM 147.08 MHz 100 Hz LCARC


Livonia Amateur Radio Club Officers

President - Fred DesChenes, W8GKH— [email protected]

Vice President - Art Mumaw, W2EQX

Treasurer - Doris Kelterborn, KD8DXJ

Recording Secretary - Tas Foley, K8TAS

Public Information Officer - Mike Rudzki, N8MR

Repeater Trustee - Stanley Phlips, N8SP

Repeater Maintenance - Dan Suputo, K8PLW

2-Meter Net Manager - John Hopkins, K8YYZ

Equipment Manager - Lynette Rudzki, K8LCR

Safety Officer - Art Mumaw, W2EQX

ARRL VE Liaison - Bruno Walczak, WA8DHP

Repeater Newsletter Editor - Sandy Allen, KD8UTR

Volunteer Examiners - K1QD, K8ACS, K8LCR, K8LU, KN8B, N8DXR, N8MR, NW8E, WA8DHP, AC8ND

Livonia Amateur Radio Club

P.O. Box 51532

Livonia, MI 48151-5532

The Livonia Amateur Radio Club, founded in 1969, has been a long-standing part of the Livonia, Michigan community. Our club has wide and varied interests --

Special events, DX, Contesting and More.

LARC has been affiliated with the ARRL since February 7, 1976.

ABOUT LARC

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