Tri-Cities Amateur Radio Club

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

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

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

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

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...