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December 13, 2024 - Ham Breakfast

The next HAM Breakfast will be again, on the second Friday of the month.

DATE: December 13, 2024
TIME: 9:00 am PT
LOCATION: CG Public House, 9221 W Clearwater Ave A, Kennewick, WA 99336

This breakfast get-together is for any HAM operator and their significant others. Regardless of any club affiliation, the size of your antenna or how many radios you have. Anybody is welcome.

We hope to see there.

You can now find photos of our first HAM Breakfast right here.
http://www.w7az.org/photos/album/798

Dec. 2024 Club Meeting and Annual Election Results

The Tri Cities Amateur Radio Club held our monthly meeting this evening at 7 PM at Confluent Maker Space on Williams in Richland.
A presentation was given by Dan, K7NXL, covering Field Day 2022 at KM7W in Montana, and sharing his experience developing his CW skills. It was very interesting and entertaining. Thank you Dan for taking the time to share you experiences and insights into having fun with Ham Radio, and CW!
The club also held our annual election of officers. New terms run the upcoming calendar year of 2025.
The following positions were elected:
Trustee (3 year term): Mark N7MHB
Trustee (2 years remaining): Ed W6OLA
Treasurer (1 year): Corey KJ7GXG
Secretary (1 year): Tony WS7V
Vice President (1 year): Steve WA7DUH
President (1 year): Mike K7NT
Many thanks to Scott KC7UOC for his leadership and stewardship of our club for the last year!
It was a well attended meeting, and we hope to see many more of you in the months to come!
Meetings are the first Monday of each month at 7 PM at Confluent Maker Space on Williams between Geo Way and Jadwin.
This Friday at 8:30 +/- is the monthly breakfast at CG's on Clearwater. Saturday morning is the donut gathering at (I think) 9 AM at Popular Donuts on Union. (Others please correct me if I have any times wrong).
73,
Mike K7NT

Next Tri-Cities Amateur Radio Club Meeting

The next Tri-Cities Amateur Radio Club meeting will be held on Jan.6, 2025 7:00pm at:
Confluent Makerspace
285 Williams Blvd
Richland, WA 99354

Agenda includes discussion on club projects and events the club could do for 2025.

Confluent, a 501(c)3 non-profit makerspace next to Uptown in Richland that has been open since February 6th, 2016, has agreed to our use of their facility for our ham club monthly meetings. The club radio equipment/station and antennas have been stored until a location for a permanent club station can be found.

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Morning Social Net

146.64 morining social net

You’re missing out! The morning social net on 146.64 (W7AZ) is a real gem. It’s not your typical net. We talk about science, archaeology, business, pop culture, music, etc. You name it, we talk about it. We meet at 7:30 AM every day. Fire up your VHF and join in. You do not need to be a member of the Tri-City Amateur Radio Club to participate.
146.64, Negative Offset, Tone 100HZ

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December Coffee and Donuts at Popular Donuts in Kennewick

New to the Area? Come to Coffee and Donuts with a bunch of other hams 1st Saturday morning every month at Popular Donuts, in Kennewick( 101N Union St). It starts around 7:30 and the RAG CHEW could go on for a hour or two. If you can't make it, tune into the morning social net on 146.64Mhz (Neg. offset and tone of 100hz) at 7:30am. Ed W6OLA will be net control. Hope to see you there.

Pacific Northwest Hamfairs and Swapmeets

The below link is by far the most comprehensive list of amateur radio related events in the pacific northwest. Much thanks to N7CFO .....

Pacific Northwest Hamfair webpage at http://www.n7cfo.com/amradio/hf/hf.htm

QSL INFO: 2024 Tri-Cities Water Follies/ Columbia Cup (Unlimited Hydroplane Racing) Special Event Station

Members of the Tri-Cities Amateur Radio Club operated a special event station -- W7AZ -- celebrating the 57th running of Columbia Cup Unlimited Hydroplane races from July 26-28th 2024. The races are part of the Tri-Cities (Pasco, Kennewick, Richland WA.) area week long Water Follies celebration. The Water Follies and unlimited hydro racing has occurred every year since 1966, except 2020 due to Covid lockdown.

QSL Info

Contact confirmation/QSL Cards may be sent to:
Tri-Cities Amateur Radio Club
PO BOX 73
RICHLAND, WA 99352

Please provide a Self Addressed Stamped Envelope (SASE) and we will get a QSL card back to you

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Updated files in "New Ham Kit"

We have updated and expanded the files in our NEW HAM KIT area. We now have more relevant information for new and aspiring HAMs TCARC-HAM-INTRO-101.pdf to help them get started.

If you have one of those popular Baofeng radios, we have a nice, english and detailed operations manual UV-5RV2+ User Manual.pdf and a quick and dirty instructions sheet to manually program that radio Baofeng-Programming-ae2.pdf.

You will also find a Band Plan for Western Washington WWARA-BAND-PLAN-20211218.pdf.
Plus a file with humorous clips on being a HAM radio operator.

Enjoy . . . 73

liquidation sale ham shack

MFJ antenna analyzer 400.00 with case only used once, LDG KT-100= 150, Ameritron ARB-704 70.00, Icom CT-17 (CI-V) 100.00, MFJ code reader 80.00, Heathkit keyer 50.00, Vibroplex straight key 100.00, Bencher paddles 80.00, MFJ HFT-1500 275.00, Drake VSWR meter 100.00, Kenwood HM-36 40.00, Icom MC-44 60.00, MFJ motel tuner 50.00, three rotors and controllers 150.00 each, Steppir antenna controller 150.00, 30 foot rohn tower 300.00, 70ft tilt over crank up tower 3500.00, Icom 706Mk2G and AH-4 antenna tuner sold as a set 800.00, 5 band trapped verticle antenna 10-80mtr 200.00, diamond antenna 2mtr 100.00, diamond 2mtr-6mtr antenna 150.00, field day vertical antenna 10-40 mtr 200.00, various lengths of RG-8 coax make offer, 6-160 mtr off center dipole 300.00, palomar noise bridge 20.00, G5RV 10-80mter dipole 50.00, various resistors, capacitors, transistors, mostly new in organizers 200.00 for all. Contact Keith 509-942-4005 for address and time to come and shop.

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Starlink Sats may be causing interference.

I was sent this from a ham in Arizona. I am sharing it with you now.
Dear Fellow Hams,

A recent study discovered that 47 out of 68 tested Starlink Satellites were leaking RF radiation, far outside their GHz authorized frequencies. The researchers discovered that RF was leaking into the frequencies from 110 to 188 MHz and of course our 2-meter band falls right in the middle. Also of even more importance is the aeronautical frequencies from 108 to 136 MHz that pilots and air traffic controllers use to conduct safe traffic separation (voice starts at 118.0 MHz, navigation aids are below 118.0 down to 108.0 MHz).

At this time, I could not find any discussion as to whether the StarLink RF leakage is actually interfering with any comms between 110 and 188 MHz since this is just a very recent study. However the fact that some of the Starlink satellites were quiet but others were transmitting (leaking) in the 110 to 188 MHz frequencies should indicate that there is a RF quality problem with some of the Starlink birds. Since some of the signals used in this frequency band are considered to be weak signal (aircraft navigational stations and ACARS text messaging to airline cockpits for example), if any reports do develop about interference to aviation comms, you can bet that the FCC will be all over the problem. This will be a difficult problem to observe as the Starlink satellites are traveling at 17,000 MPH and so you might have one satellite exhibiting no leakage and the next one behind it will be a "leaker". It may turn out that there is no interference detected that is harmful to earth comms from Starlink but there are many other constellations of satellites that still need to be tested for RF leakage.

You can read more at: https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/unintended-satellite-emission...

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