Clean Out Your Shack Week

I am declaring this week "Clean Out Your Shack Week." or as my wife calls it "Clean Up Your Room Week". That being said, if you have something you want sell or give away this week respond to this post and who knows, someone might want it.  I'm going to kick this off with a list of my own.  All things below are free, in working order, and have no warranty.








Computers

• Inspiron Zino HD 
• AMD Athlon 2650e 1.6 Ghz
• Memory - 2 GB
• HP Compaq 8510p
• Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 Ghz
• Memory - 4 GB
• Hard Drive - 120 GB SSD
• Screen - 15"
• Aspire One
• Intel Atom 1.6 Ghz
• Memory - 2 GB
• Hard Drive - 120 GB SSD
• Raspberry Pi Original

Networking

• Cisco Small Business Switch - SG200-26FP
• Ports - 26
• Speed - 1 Gigabit
• TP-Link - TL-SG1048
• Ports - 48
• Speed - 1 Gigabit
• 3Com - Switch 4226T
• Ports - 26
• Speed 100 MB
• 3Com Office Connect
• Ports - 16
• Speed 100 MB
• EnGenius Wireless-300N Bridge - ENH202
• Has most of the parts. Missing injector and a cover
• 1st Gen Chromecast

Send me an email at mat.murdock@gmail.com.  First come first serve.  If you have something you would like to get rid of as well respond to the email being sent out or attach a comment to this post.  Here is to cleaner rooms!

Mat

K2MJM

Happy Thanksgiving!

The Officers of WVCARC would like to wish all of you a Happy Thanksgiving.  Hopefully you all were able to spend time with family and friends, and of course had some wonderful pie!

Hopefully within the next two months we will be transition from the 146.70 repeater to the club repeater which will be on 443.800.  Many of the online ham radio stores have radios on sale right now, so if you do not have a radio that works on the 70 cm band, now may be a good time to pick them up.  Here are a few in no particular order:

HRO
DX Engineering
GigaParts
Ham City

Find any good deals?  Post them here!

Mat
K2MJM

Saturday's In Person Meet Location Change

Due to a scheduling conflict we are moving the in person meeting to Monticello Academy at 2782 South Corporate Park Drive, West Valley City.  Please enter through the North entrance and then follow the signs.  See you Saturday at 9:00 AM.

Mat
K2MJM

Saturday In Person Meet Topic - Let's Get That TNC Working FINALLY

So this Saturday the plan is to meet at Station 74 at 9:00 AM for two purposes.  One is to get that fancy new TNC you made six months ago hooked up to your radio and computer and the second is to give you hands on experience with Winlink.  Why the big rush you ask?  Well in the next 1 - 2 month we will have our West Valley City packet node installed at Fire station 76 as well as our shiny new repeater up and running,  Woot Woot!  Soooo, we need to make sure each and everyone of you are ready to go.

To help with getting your on the air I will have DB9 connectors for the TNC and 3.5 mm audio jacks, and RJ-45 ends, as well as some cable to connect it all up.  You will will need to bring a soldering iron, your radio, and a few bucks for the connectors to keep my wife happy.  Also bring your TNC and a laptop if you got it.  If you are all setup GREAT!, come and help others get their gear together.  Should be a fun morning and the results will benefit everyone.

If you didn't have a chance to build a TNC I will have them available as well.  $45 for the TNC and $8 for the case.

Any questions, let me know,

Mat
K2MJM

ARES/ RACES Workshop

Bob Craven, N7GTE, has asked me to send out a reminder about the ARES/ RACES Workshop that will be held on Saturday, 3 November 2018. Check-ins will begin Saturday morning at 0800 and the training will begin at 0900. The Work shop will be at a new location this year, 195 N 1950 W, Salt Lake City, (Multi Agency State Office Building/Environment Quality Building) Registration for this event will be different than in the past, please use Eventbrite.com , search for the ARES/RACES workshop on 3 Nov. We request that all registrations be submitted no later than Monday, 29 October. This is so the meals can be ordered for the free lunch that will be provided. Also we encourage you to register as soon as you can because there will be a limit on how many seats will be available.

Contact Bob Craven, N7GTE, n7gte@yahoo.com for more info if you have questions.

In Person Meet - Car Go Kit

Our in person meet this month will be this Saturday the 13th at 9:00 AM at Station 74.  We will be talking about Go Kits.

Below is a curated list of items that will fit into a Ammo Can style container.  We will be going over these Saturday.  I think everything is Amazon Prime eligible, so if you hurry you can have them for Saturday.

Ammo Can - https://wvcarc.page.link/tc4X
AA Battery Holders - https://wvcarc.page.link/fFWD
First Aid Kit - https://wvcarc.page.link/GLp8
Flashlight - https://wvcarc.page.link/82AY
Multi Tool - https://wvcarc.page.link/NSef
FM / NOAA Radio - https://wvcarc.page.link/DW7Y

Radio - You choose your own based on budget
Radio Manual -
Roll Up J-Pole - Made by club
Survival Bracelet - Made by club
Field Operations Manual - Coming Soon

Other Items
Water, Energy Bars, Gloves, Hat, Matches, Paper, Pencil/Pen

This is just the start of your kit so you can add more stuff to it.  Got anything else you want to add to the list?  Reply to this post.

Mat
K2MJM

Club Repeater Update

Ok, time for a Club repeater update.  We have received our frequency pair for the repeater that we are planning on installing at Station 76.  A special thank you goes out the the Utah VHF Society for getting for finding an open pair.  Our frequency is 448.800 Mhz with a negative offset.  Jason and I climbed up on the roof of 76 Friday and played around with some different locations and the station looks to be a great location for us.  We were actually able to contact someone in Ogden of 5 watts simplex.  Not bad at all.   

We are looking for some non penetrating roof antenna mounts like the one below.  If anyone knows were we can find some used ones or a local source of them let us know.  We will send out an announcement as we get closer to the install date.