Forsyth Amateur Radio Club, Inc. Newsletter

JUNE MEETINGThe general meeting of the Forsyth Amateur Radio Club will be (as almost always) on the second Monday of the month, June 10, at the NW NC Red Cross Building on Coliseum Drive. The meeting starts at 7:30 PM but plan on arriving early, say 7 PM to get a good seat and to chat with fellow hams. Ham Exams start at 6:30 PM and require pre-registration. Program this month will be planning for Field Day and the Hamfest report.

The Winston-Salem Classic Hamfest

Saturday, June 8, 2013 7AM - Noon, $5 admission

Summit School Dining Hall, 2100 Reynolda Road, Winston-Salem

Free Tailgating Premium Indoor Space

Move-in Seller Assistance

Please note that the Hamfest has moved from the Sports Gym to The Dining Hall!

Grand Prize!New Wouxun U/V Handheld Radio Donated by

Triad Electronic Supply!

License Testing will NOT be available at this Hamfest!Testing will be available at the next FARC Meeting!

Dealers attending the Classic Hamfest include:

Triad Electronics - New and Used ham equipment/accessories/parts

DWE Engineering - tubes, parts, custom design

W4DCW QSL Cardby Don WS4NCt

This month’s QSL is from Tink W4DCW August 14, 1935 at 7:30 AM. W4DCW worked W3BES in Philadelphia on CW. Lewis “Tink” Kanoy is a name that should resonate strongly with FARC as Tink (and XYL Ethyl) passed not long ago. Both were hams. Tink and Ethyl were dearly beloved and respected by all who knew them. Tink most embodied what I would

WINSTON-SALEM CLASSIC HAMFEST - JUNE 8, 2013

The Hamfest will take place in the Dining Hall at Summit School - the same place it has been the past few years - Tailgating will be located right outside of the building as in the past. $5 admission, FREE tailgating, FREE COFFEE AND DONUTS!

Limited table space inside available on a reservation basis. Questions? Call -336-245-5740 or send email to hamfest at w4nc.com to reserve indoor tables (mostly round tables) while they last.

For dealer and fleamarket info send email to: hamfest(@)w4nc.com Reserve yours today (Be early... last year we sold out!)

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Charlie W4TMR presented EZNec, Part 1, an exciting introduction into using EZNec for simple wire antennas in April. Last month we continued with EZNec, Part 2, dipoles and modeling more complex antennas. There was a rapt audience and great questions, more than time would permit. Charlie deserves big kudos for bringing great insight and clarity into a complex subject. His enthusiasm was contagious. Helper Gene, WB4MSG who so ably ran the computer program quickly anticipating display needs also deserves kudos, Gene has that rare ability to quickly master complex technical computer programs. And Charlie spent many hours learning EZNec and so professionally preparing his presentation. Thank you guys, a really great job.

Forsyth Amateur Radio Club, Inc is a non-profit (IRS 501(c)3) North Carolina corporation for the promotion of Amateur Radio, and for the education and training of hams and the general public primarily in Forsyth County, North Carolina.

FARC was originally incorporated as the Winston-Salem Radio Club on December 31, 1930 and has been in operation ever since. We currently maintain a state-of-the-art ham station in the basement of the Red Cross, 690 Coliseum Dr., Winston-Salem, NC and also maintain two 2-meter repeaters, 146.64 (100 Hz tone) and 145.47 (100 Hz tone) & 444.275 (100 Hz tone).

FARC has a general membership meeting with a program on the 2nd Monday of every month at the Red Cross building, 690 Coliseum Drive in Winston-Salem. The club conducts its main business meeting (sometimes called the Board Meeting) on the 3rd Monday generally at the same location. This is where most of the club’s business is conducted and all attending members have a vote. All club members are strongly encouraged to attend the business meeting. For more information about FARC mail us at FARC, Inc., PO Box 11361, Winston-Salem, NC, 27116; call 336-245-5740; or visit out web site at www.w4nc.com . Club email is to info -at w4nc.com .

Officers for 2013 are:

President: Tim King AG4RZ

Vice-President: Jerry Minor K4GW

Secretary: Don Edwards WS4NC

Treasurer: Henry Heidtmann W2DZO

Newsletter Editor: Don Edwards, WS4NC

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All content is Copyright 2013 by Forsyth Amateur Radio Club, Inc, unless otherwise noted. Permission is given to reproduce for non-commercial purposes provided proper credit is given. If you would like to help support the newsletter with an ad, please contact Don Edwards (email: ws4nc <at> arrl.net). Ad deadlines are 7 days before the end of the month. Rates are $50 for 12 months. Cheap!

We trade newsletters with other clubs, and many local clubs are on our mailing list. If your club has a newsletter and would like to trade please send us a copy.

Please help us spread the word. We are coming back home to Shelby, NC! Yes we are returning to the Cleveland County Fairgrounds in Shelby, NC. We are giving away awesome prizes in celebration of our "homecoming". You can order tickets online at http://www.shelbyhamfest.org or using the form attached and mailing your check with an SASE. You do not have to be present to win these prizes so order your tickets today!

Field Day Part 1Main Field Day Operation - Red Cross

by Henry W2DZO

The FARC will be hosting 2 Field Day sites this year! One component of the club will be operating as a 3F station from the Red Cross Chapter House. This will allow us to demonstrate to the public how the Red Cross and Amateur radio are very often side by in times of disaster. Henry W2DZO and Gene WB4MSG will be heading up this operation. We will be inviting the staff of the Red Cross to join us for a cook out at 6pm. Plans are still in development for a joint Press release and possible tours which may include members of the Red Cross staff. The 3F crew will run the 2 shack rigs, a portable rig setup outside and a GOTA station housed in John Kippe's trailer using the club antenna trailer. We will use W4NC and WS4NC (GOTA) at this site.

The second component of the FARC FD operation will be out at Hobby Park under the direction of Doc WB4QIZ (See FD Part 2 below)

We will have a unique opportunity to showcase and demo MT63, the latest data mode being used in amateur radio for disaster communication. We will have a hot link set up for the most of Field Day between the 2 operations using this mode. Regardless of which site you visit (or you may visit both!) you'll have a great Field Day experience!

Field Day Part 2Hobby Park

By Doc WB4QIZ

SISTER ARRL FIELD DAY OPERATIONHOBBY PARK JUNE 22, 23 2 PM-2PM ARRL Field Day should be another exciting event for the club as we are offering another place of operation.

The club will operate station W4NC at the American Red Cross building on Coliseum Dr. A sister station, W4WS, will operate at Hobby Park. The club wants to maintain the Hobby Park site for future events. Club members that have signed-up

for Hobby Park are as follows:

JOHN MCKEE, WW4DX; DAVID SHOAF, KC4X; S T E V E WAT S O N , W 4 K G ; H A R O L D RICHARDSON, N4HER; NEAL PRUITT, WD4LSS; MIKE ATKINS, N4VE; LES JONGBERG, KJ4JYZ; JERRY MINOR, K4GW; AND DOC HOLLIDAY, WB4QIZ. Doc is the contact person at dholliday <at> triad.rr.com. Other club members are welcome to join the sister group. The Hobby Park location will not operate from 9 PM to 6 AM. Hobby Park will use the station call W4WS. At present, three to four antennas with that many radios will be in use. Modes of operation will be SSB, CW, PSK31, AND RTTY. Band of operation will be 2 TO 160 METERS. Information will be available to visitors about Ham Radio. There are three groups of flyers: 22 THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH AMATEUR RADIO, A M AT E U R R A D I O . . . S E RV I N G Y O U R COMMUNITY, AND IMAGINE...CELEBRATING MORE THAN 100 YEARS OF RADIO WORLDWIDE.

With two locations for Field Day this year, twice as many people can learn and experience the world of Ham Radio!

To: All hams in the FARC. In order to keep everyone in the loop of what the sister group is doing at Hobby Park on June 22,23, the following notes were taken from a meeting of three of the group of eight who have shown an interest. Some could not meet because of previous commitments.

Hams who have indicated an interest in a sister station at Hobby Park are as follows: JOHN MCKEE, WW4DX,; DAVID SHOAF, KC4X; STEVE WATSON, W4KG; HAROLD RICHARDSON, N4HER; NEAL PRUITT, WB4LSS; MIKE ATKINS, N4VE; LES JONGBERG, KJ4JYZ; JERRY MINOR, K4GW. DOC, WB4QIZ

1. Date and time to erect antennas. June 15, a visit to determine location of antennas at Hobby Park. As rules allow, we will begin installing antennas Friday evening 6pm to dark. Saturday, June 22, We will complete the installation of antennas.

2. Type of antennas--bands? 80, 40, 20, 15, 10 Who has an antenna we can use? Steve: 40/20 fan dipole under construction, it can be tuned to work 10-80

The following notes by KC4X were made from our meeting on the 04 64 repeater, Tuesday May 21.

David: 10 meter vertical and coax. Neil 80/40 trap dipole- 15meter possibly. Neil has 125' RG-213 Needs testing and 75' RG-8x David has a high quality megger that can be used to test coax.

3. Who will help erect antennas? Where exactly will the antennas be erected, at the site? June 15, at Hobby Park, determine location of attennas Presently have 3 committed to assist in antenna erection (Friday pm June 21st) We feel sure the other five will help. 4. How many stations will operate? Who has a rig we can use? Presently considering only operating 3 stations on available bands. IC-706 club radio, Doc's rig and computer, David IC-726 plus laptop. We will attempt to acquire and use free logging program. Doc will use HRD with his equipment.

5. Mode of operation--ssb, psk, cw, rtty Who will operate those modes? Neal, WD4LSS, David, KC4X: SSB, Doc SSB, PSK and RTTY, Have not heard from the five other hams. 6. Since Field Day is Sat. 2 pm to Sun. 2 pm, what hours will be operate? Presently no one is committed to stay overnight. At some point, valuable equipment will be loaded up and brought back Sunday morning. Doc mentioned closing the park but I do not think there is a gate to lock the place up.

7. Determine next meeting date. We will try to meet up again on the 04/64 machine next Tuesday 5-28 at 8pm. We will want to meet with all the participants in this effort at our regular club meeting June 10th at 7pm. We will have a short meeting before the regular meeting at 7:30. 8. Anything else? We will plan for the public and visitors to also be at the site during field day. Handouts about ham radio will be available to visitors.

FCC Testing Resultsby Dale WB9SZL

Allow me to offer each of you a hearty congratulations on receipt of your New Amateur Licenses and your Amateur License upgrade. I know that each of you worked very hard to earn your license and are now well on your way to enjoying a great time in your Amateur Radio career. CHADHAM S MORRIS KK4RKKCARL D BROWN KK4RKLWAYNE H COLEMAN KK4RKMLINDA B DORTON KK4RKNJUSTIN M DORTON KK4RKOBRYAN E DORTON KK4RKPEVERETT DORTON KK4RKQTHOMAS R WOODSON KK4MIB

I'd also like to recognize the following hams who took time out of their busy schedules to not only host your Amateur Radio classes, but also serve as a Volunteer Examiner (VE) during last night's session. Please be sure to thank them for their efforts: N4VE, Mike Atkins; W4SNA, Tom Talbert; K4GW, Jerry Minor.

FCC testing is offered before the FARC meeting at 6:30 PM. Preregistration is required.

73,

Dale Mierisch, WB9SZLVEC Session Manager

Monday Nights

The FARC main Club meeting is always on the second Monday of the month at the Red Cross on Coliseum Drive in Winston-Salem, except in December. The FARC business meeting is open to all and is on the third Monday of the month and will be held at the Red Cross this month, starting around 7-ish. The after-meeting will be held at La Caretta’s across from the Red Cross on Coliseum Dr..

Business meeting: The business meeting is held on the third Monday night at the Red Cross to prepare for field Day. The meeting starts at 7-ish and usually runs about an hour and a half. The after-meeting (if there is one) will be held at La Caretta’s across the street.

Forsyth County ARESby Jim Mansfield WA4NOT

EC, Forsyth County ARES

Cancelled: June 1 Three Mountain Madness: On March 6th, Richard Nifong, safety director for 3 Mountain Madness events, notified me that the 2013 3MM has been cancelled due to administrative difficulties. The event directors hope to resume this annual charity ride in 2014.

ARES Net Reports

By Dan O’Leary KG4ECI

ARES Net Report for 09May2013Net Control Station: WS4FC (op KG4FGC)Check-ins: KG4JWU, NA4P, WF4DD, KK4RED, WA4ZKI, KE4ZFN, WA8IHW, WB4QXG, KC4WSK, KK4GAF.Topics: Early discussion of Tour to Tanglewood.Training: None.Traffic: None.Net time: 20:30-20:42.

November 30th. Earlier in May, Newport SKYWARN was part of the Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Cherry Point Emergency Preparedness Fair. Time to keep your batteries charged and your Go-Kits ready.

Dayton Hamfest

If you have never been to the Dayton Hamvention - it is ground zero for ham radio. A group of us go every year and describing the experience is not easy. We are usually limited to a small group of five now but if you are interested I can get you some information on bus trips that leave from the Triad and include hostel-like accommodations, nothing fancy. With planning it is not very expensive - but the operative word here is planning. This means you need to commit well before the end of August. If you weren’t on one of the lists before Oct 1 you can still go - but you will spend more on 2 hotel nights than we spend on the trip.

ARES Net Report for 16May2013Net Control Station: WS4FC (op KG4ECI)Check-ins: KG4FGC, WF4DD, WB9SZL, NA4P, KC4WSK, KF4EOD, KE4ZFN.Topics: No formal; check-ins only.Training: None.Traffic: None.Net time: 20:30-20:43.

ARES Net Report for 23May2013Net Control Station: WS4FC (op KG4ECI)Check-ins: WA4NOT, WB4QXG, KG4FGC, AK4D, KG4JWU, NA4P, WF4DD, WA4ZKI, W4KG, KA4JRL, KE4ZFN, KK4RED, KC4WSK.Topics: WA4NOT discussed ARES operations during the recent F5 tornado in Oklahoma.Training: None.Traffic: None.Net time: 20:30-20:58.

ARES Net Report for 30May2013Net Control Station: WS4FC (op KG4ECI)Check-ins: WA4NOT, KK4RED, WF4DD, NA4P, KG4FGC, KF4EOD, WA4ZKI, KJ4YXC, WK4CW.Topics: WA4NOT discussed the 2013 hurricane season (13-20 named storms forecast).Training: None.Traffic: None.Net time: 20:30-21:00.

Fox Hunt Antennas

On the program list for this year is a building program for a tape measure beam for Fox Hunting (or just 2-meter mountain-topping fun). We will have the supplies ready for building at the August or September meeting - cost will be about $12-15 including a BNC cable, payable at the meeting when we build them. But we will need to know how many to order; some of the parts are coming from China and will take more than a month so we have to order soon. A sign up sheet went around at the May meeting, be sure you are on the list email Tim at King <dot> TimA <at> gmail <dot> com .

Hurricane Season Starts

ARRL: “AN ACTIVE OR EXTREMELY ACTIVE” ATLANTIC HURRICANE SEASON for 2013ANE SEASON for 2013 was the forecast released in May by NOAA Acting Administrator Kathryn Sullivan. Dr. Bill Gray, noted hurricane forecaster, agrees projecting the Atlantic coast will face a 47% probability of a landfall, up from the historical average of 31%. National Hurricane Preparedness Week is underway May 26 to June 1, when the Atlantic hurricane season officially kicks off until

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1. We arrive. 2. What did you say? 3. Rare old stuff. 4. Big stuff (W2DZO with Collins rebuild). 5. Weird stuff. 6. Really, really BIG stuff (Gates BC-1G moved to 160 meters). 7. Fun Stuff (AK1D).

A “SPIRITED” TRIP HISTORY

The Dayton conversation made the trip - some things were so funny I started writing them down. Here are some lines that I recorded at Dayton. If you weren’t there you probably won’t understand this out of context. The experience with my friends, and meeting new ham friends from all over the world are the reason to go. Seeing all the new and old stuff is a side benefit. Now to the quotes:

“Last time I saw a mouth like that it had a hook in it.”

GPS: “Turn right now.” “DON’T LISTEN TO A MACHINE!!! DAMN IT JOHN THIS IS A SIDE WALK!!!!”

“Spirted.”

“Emergency black cherry juice run. Black cherry juice?”

Happy finish.

regard as the essence of a Southern Gentleman. He never uttered a bad word about anyone and generously gave his time and resources in support of others. Ethyl’s sweet and sour cucumbers were a treat at Field Days that I think of every year.

As a point of reference in time FDR starting doing presidential broadcasts in 1933, only 2 years prior. The FCC was created by the Communications Act of 1934 - in 1936 there were 46,000 hams in the US. Three cents for postage sounds cheap but then lunch was a dime (cream peas on toast anyone?) and pennies were hard to come by during the Great Depression. Europe was still reeling from WWI and in Germany the seeds of WWII were sprouting from the repercussions of WWI and the Depression. Edwin H. Armstrong would not publish his classic paper describing FM until 1936.

There is no mention of a frequency but I’m fairly

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certain this would have been on 80 meters. Crystal operation was mandatory. It was common practice for a station to call CQ and then sign “CQ and tuning”. That meant tuning up and down the band for a response since few people would have a crystal on your frequency. Replies could be anywhere in the band so contacts were mostly hit or miss. In the 1930’s you had to make at least 3 contacts (CW, not phone!) in the 6 months prior to renewing your license and certify that you could meet all the current requirements for renewing your license.

Tink used a 58 tube as a detector and a 56 tube for audio output, almost certainly a regenerative circuit. The probable schematic is on Page 6. His transmitter eludes me a bit; the QSL reads “’59 tri tet osc 15 Watts”. A number 59 tube is a power pentode so I’m not sure what he meant by “’59 tri”. 15 Watts was a respectable amount of power then.

Tink did his QSL card neatly with a fountain pen (remember those?) and proudly added ARRL. I tried hard to read the comments: “Sorri I had to (unreadable), but I had to go to breakfast pronto. (more unreadable)”

At the time of this QSO Tink would have been 18 and had been licensed for only about a year (but the FCC was only a year old). Tink was station engineer of WSJS (29 years) and then WFDD (11 years). Tink was the main contact for the Moravian Mission in Honduras and Nicaragua and his medical phone-patches were responsible for saving many lives and limbs. He passed away August, 2010 and was 93 years old. This QSL will go into the files at FARC.

Regenerative circuit probably close to W4DCW’s 1935 receiver. Number 58 vacuum tube used as a regenerative detector and a number 56 tube as an audio amplifier. This was close to state-of-the-art for hams in 1935. This circuit didn’t appear in the ARRL Handbook until 1937. Circuit from http://www.ohio.edu/people/postr/bapix/30sregen.htm

There’s the Man. Hello Man.

How would you like that served? Uh, in a French maid’s uniform?

Wayne’s world! Wayne’s world! Wayne’s world!

Bohemian Rhapsody. In stereo.

Ill pay $5 to see your cards. @$#& you!

I need to check on what the staff is doing under the table.

John assumes the position.

“Look at John sleeping there so peacefully. Laying there on his side, with his ear up. So carefree. Did you know that if you carefully pour a single tiny drop in his ear he'll pop up like he's drowning?”

“John bought a goat sacrificing kit (goat sold separately).”

From ARRL Newsletter:By Bill Moraine N2COP

INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION QSO A SUCCESS - The May 2nd QSO between the McNair Elementary School in Brown’s Summit near Greensboro and the International Space Station was a rousing success. 2,800 students across Guilford County submitted questions of which 20 were selected to ask astronaut Tom Marshburn, a native of Statesville and a graduate of Davidson and Wake Forest. The ten minute pass permitted 16 of the 20 questions to be presented by students of the school which emphasizes STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. McNair Elementary is named after Dr. Ronald McNair, North Carolina native and NC A&T graduate who perished in the 1986 space shuttle explosion. ARISS – Amateur Radio and International Space Station, a joint program between NASA, ARRL and other Amateur Radio organizations – coordinated the QSO. The McNair ARISS contact was only the third in North Carolina over the past six years. Special thanks to the Greensboro Amateur Radio Association (GARA) and to RF Micro Devices in Greensboro for coordination over the past ten months in preparing for this event. RF Micro Devices also donated radio equipment to McNair Elementary so it now has a fulltime Ham Radio station.

MEDIA HITS – The McNair ARISS QSO was covered by three area television news operations and the NPR station at Wake Forest University, WFDD-FM.

Big Towers for Sale

I have for sale 5 communications towers. They are 10 year old ROHN SSV towers to provide wireless internet for a local school system. The towers are currently standing, but are due to be taken down the last week of May.

One 120’ SSV tower. It has 6 – 20’ sections – 8N, 7N, 6N, 5N, 4N, & 3WN - $3,000One 80’ SSV tower. It has 4 – 20’ sections – 4N, 3WN, 2N & 1N - $1,500Three 60’ SSV towers. They have 3 – 20’ sections – 4N, 3WN & 2N - $1,200 each

Contact: Dwight Springthorpe, KO4N at 336-783-5908

Winston-Salem Hamfest!!Saturday, June 8, 2013

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Ghosts of Field Day Past

Diddle-de-Dah-de-DonThis month I went back to the banner I used in 2009. Yeah, I know, you didn’t notice. The one I had been using for the last few years didn’t print well in black & white.

I’m still hoping for a Hallicrafters HT-30 and a HT-33 (not 33A or 33B - just the 33 - it uses 4CX300’s). Also for a good cause (not for me) I’m looking for a cheap 6-meter multimode rig.

73, Don WS4NCNewsletter Editor

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