BANDBITS The official publication of the Peoria Area Amateur Radio Club

An ARRL Special Services Club Volume 29, Number 7 July 2014

PAARC EVENTS

PAARC MEETS AT RED CROSS

The Peoria Area Amateur Radio Club meets at the American Red Cross Chapter House, 311 West John Gwynn Jr. Avenue between Hightower and Kumpf Blvd. in Peoria, Illinois. The meetings are held on the second Friday of each month.

June 6: PAARC Board Meeting 7:00pm Red Cross Chapter House. July 11 PAARC Club Meeting 7:00pm

Program: RTTY, Speaker Ron Morgan

Refreshments: July 11: Darhal K9DRF August 8: Dwight WD9HZK

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

1 President’s Message, PAARC Events, ARES, and Quote

of the Month

2 Club Information, Officers, Net Control Report 6-08 and

15-14

3 Net Reports 6/22 and 6/29/14; Fox Hunt, and Articles

4 Board and Club Meeting Minutes, Silent Keys, Articles

5 Field Day Pictures, Hamfests

6 Buy, Sell or Trade:

Peoria County ARES Peoria County ARES Net on the first and third Wednesdays of each

month on the .075 repeater.@ 7:00PM

Peoria County ARES will meet at July 9th 7:00PM at the Red

Cross Chapter Building.

Drill to show Winlink capabilities at the Red Cross Building,

we will set up an operating station and send emails. Bring your

dual band radio and laptop.

Update on ham radio volunteers for the Goodwill March

Forward Run in October.

Finish construction on any unfinished 40/80 meter NVIS

antennas, includes using an antenna analyzer to determine

lowest SWR. Bring your center feed point and the wire you

received at a previous ARES meeting.

Fritz Bock, WD9FMB 309-256-2297

Peoria County ARES EC

IL ARES District 6, ADEC, www.peoriacountyares.org

President’s Message Hi all, I hope you are enjoying your summer.

For those of you who joined us again this year at Bass Pro

Shops for Field Day I have two questions for you, did you

have a good time and did you see all the visitors we had who

really wanted to learn about our hobby? I had a blast and the

best part was watching new Hams make their first contacts,

our GOTA station was extremely busy which was absolutely

awesome. My sincere gratitude to everyone who helped make

FD a success. Special thanks to Merle Joiner (KB9VQH) and

Bob Bush (W9WTF) for putting together the three complete 2

meter stations that were the prizes for the new Ham special

drawings, any Ham who had gotten their license within the last

year and made at least one contact during FD were eligible to

win, the winners were Jeff Smith (KD9ZSR), Kevin Lawson

(AC9IU) and Nolan Smith (KD9BOP), congratulations guys,

enjoy your rigs!! And I can't say enough thanks to Fritz Bock

(WD9FMB) for everything he did to make this the best Field

Day yet, I am so very grateful for his assistance. I also want to

express our gratitude to Bass Pro Shops for their hospitality

again this year, they even posted our information on their

facebook page, I hope they were as pleased with the results as

I am.

Have you been working the W1AW Centennial stations?

The last week of June was the W1AW/9 week, Craig

Thompson (K9CT) coordinated the event and it was also a

huge success, I even got to be a guest operator during one of

the sessions Mark had signed up for, it was a lot of fun.

Don't forget Superfest will be here before we know it,

September 20th & 21st, please make sure it is on your

calendars and plan on attending. Your help will be needed and

appreciated.

73, Deb

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Tazewell County ARES

Tazewell ARES will meet at 6:30 PM on July 30th at the

Tazewell EoC. It will be a combined class so it is also the

Central Illinois ARES meeting. We will be going over ICS

forms so members are familiar with them.

Dan Dimitroff

Quote of the Month Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains,

losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we

soon shall see them in the proper figures.

--Joseph Addison

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Repeaters

The PAARC operates three 2 meter repeaters, which are open for all

amateurs with 2 meter privileges. The 146.250 (input)/146.850

(output) repeater is located in East Peoria on Washington Rd. The

repeater uses a 103.5 Hz output tone for CTCSS squelch control.

The 147.675 (input)/147.075 (output) repeater is located on the Rock-

106 tower in East Peoria. This repeater is used for the Sunday night

net. This repeater uses a 103.5 Hz input tone for CTCSS squelch

control.

The W9PIA D-Star 144.505 (input)/145.105 (output) repeater is

located on the Rock-106 tower.

The Peoria Area Amateur Radio Club

The club was originally chartered as the Peoria Radio Club on

May 2, 1919. Please address all correspondences to:

The Peoria Area Amateur Radio Club

P.O. Box 3508

Peoria, IL 61612-3508

Voice Mail at (309) 692-3378 E–mail w9uvi@arrl.net

Web Page – http://www.w9uvi.org/

Membership Information

Membership in the Peoria Area Amateur Radio Club is available to

any licensed amateur and is administered as follows:

Full Membership: $25 per calendar year. Ages 18 and under, or 65

and older are $20 per calendar year.

Family Membership: Full membership for first member and $10 for

each additional member in same household.

Associate Membership: $15 per calendar year for out of area

amateurs who are interested only in occasional participation.

Honorary Life Memberships: are free and are awarded by a vote of

the general membership after recommendations from the Board of

Directors.

Dues are payable by February 1ST of each year.

BANDBITS Policy

BANDBITS is the official publication of the Peoria Area Amateur

Radio Club and is distributed to all members in good standing, and

to other interested parties. Permission is granted to reprint from

BANDBITS provided that credit is given to the original author, if

listed, and that BANDBITS is identified as the source of the

material.

Opinions expressed in articles and letters are those of the author

and may or may not reflect those of BANDBITS or the Peoria Area

Amateur Radio Club. BANDBITS reserves the right to edit any

copy, and to print or refuse to print any contribution.

Articles are welcome and can be sent to:

BANDBITS Editor – Cliff Shoemaker- W9OI

P.O. Box 3508 Peoria, IL 61612-3508 or via E-mail at

w9oi@arrl.net

Articles for BANDBITS must be received by the Monday

following the club meeting for inclusion in the next issue.

Club Net Report – By Various Club Members

The Sunday Night W9UVI Net check-in results for the month

are shown in the table below, Highlights from the check-ins.

June 1 June 8 Jun 15 Jun 22 Jun 29 Total

NA 17 28 22 19 86+

Net Report

June 1 :

Report not available.

June 8:

Here is the list of check in's. No newsline. Sorry I didn't record

anyone’s traffic..

W9WTF, KC9ELK, N9HHU, WD9FMB, K9QXF, W9KCB,

WD9HZK, K9HJZ, KZ9DRW, KC9CCT,N9FLS, KG7EFA,

K9TNT, N9WFT, N9SJZ, KD9ANU, KC9YTT

Total 3 with traffic, 14 without.

73's Craig K9CEW

Net report for 6/15/14 Submitted by Craig K9CEW

Net Control Ron KB9NW

List of general check-ins total 28

K9TNT, W9WGN, N9FLS, N9FAM, KG9PH

N9HHU, N9HJZ, W9KCB, N9EJ, W9WTF, K9QXF

WD9FMB, N9WFT, K9CEW, KA9YSE, KD9AZR

AD9Z, KB9KBC, W9JDP, N9OMG, WD9HZK

W9WAT, KC0TOT, KD9ANU, WD9HJZ

KB9TNZ, KC9YTT, KD0EKA.

Some of the stations with traffic,

N9FAM, Looking for volunteers for the ALS Walk for anyone

interested contact me at 309-369-XXXX.

WD9FMB, General info update about field day at Bass Pro

Shop, and the club has been selected to beta test the new

system fusion by Yaesu, Bob W9WTF will give updates to

Yaesu on how the well the system performs.

N9WFT, Wanted to share some recent contacts recently

worked W1AW/5 on 15 meters, also worked W1AW on 40m,

Club Net/Newsline

The club holds a weekly net on Sunday Evening at 8:30 PM Local

Time on the 147.075 repeater. All Amateurs with 2 meter privileges

are invited to check in. Amateur Radio Newsline will be heard after

the Net.

Club Officers

President Deb Suhs, KA4DEB

Vice President Rick Weber, KC9SIP

Secretary Mark Suhs,W9WGN Treasurer Dwight Aussieker, WD9HZK

Directors Bob Sims, AB9B (2 years) Jon Dainty, NM0O (1 years) Trustee

Repeater Ch.

Superfest Ch.

Bob Bush, W9WTF

Fritz Bock, WD9FMB

Merle Joiner, KB9VQH

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Changes to Amateur Service Part 97 Rules

Go Into Effect on July 21

The FCC's recently announced revisions to the Part 97

Amateur Radio rules governing exam credit to former

licensees, test administration, and emission types will go into

effect on Monday, July 21. The new rules were published in

The Federal Register on June 20. Earlier this month, the

Commission announced that it would grant examination credit

for written elements 3 (General) and 4 (Amateur Extra) to

holders of "expired licenses that required passage of those

elements." The FCC will require former licensees falling

outside the 2-year grace period to pass Element 2 (Technician)

in order to be relicensed. The Commission declined to give

exam credit to holders of expired Certificates of Successful

Completion of Examination (CSCEs) or to extend lifetime

validity to CSCEs.

The FCC also embraced the use of remote testing methods,

allowing volunteer examiners and volunteer examiner

coordinators "the option of administering examinations at

locations remote from the VEs." The National Conference of

Volunteer Examiner Coordinators (NCVEC) in 2002 endorsed

experimental use of videoconferencing technology to conduct

Amateur Radio testing in remote areas of Alaska. The

Commission dropped its earlier proposal to permit two VEs to

administer exams; the requirement remains at three VEs. The

Commission did not spell out the "mechanics" of remote

testing, however, which, it said, would "vary from location to

location and session to session." VEs administering

examinations remotely must grade such examinations "at the

earliest practical opportunity," rather than "immediately," as

the current rule for conventional exam sessions requires.

In addition, the FCC adopted an ARRL proposal to authorize

certain Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) emissions in

the Amateur Service. The Wireless Telecommunications

Bureau in 2013 granted an ARRL request for a temporary

blanket waiver to permit radio amateurs to transmit emissions

with designators FXD, FXE, and F7E, pending resolution of

the rulemaking petition. That waiver becomes permanent on

July 21.

The Commission also made "certain minor, non-substantive

amendments" and corrections to the Amateur Service rules.

Taken from The ARRL Letter June 26, 2014

Net Report

Jun 22:

W9WTF, Bob discussed the new licensees, 5 Techs, 1 General

and 3 Extras either were new or upgraded

N9FAM, 13 hams aided the ALS walk

N9HHU, N9SJZ, N9FLS, all NT(no traffic)

AD9Z, called in to discuss the upcoming Field Day in Peoria

and that he might attend

K9TNT, K9CEW, N9QXF, KB9YYD, KD9AZR, all NT

KC9PZP, NM0O, both NT

N9WFT, checked into the net to discuss the his check in to the

Ole Miss net and others

WX9JC, K9AEQ, KC9PZP, KG7EFA, KB9ATO, all NT

KG9PH, K9HZK, both NT

KB9KBC, Dave checked in to discuss his opinion of the

World Cup soccer games

Submitted by: Fritz Bock, WD9FMB

June 29:

Check-ins

KB9NW K9TNT W9JDP K9QXF N9FLS KC9QYA

KC9YTT KG9PH KZ9DRW N9HHU KD9AZR K9HJZ

W9KCB N9SJZ WD9FMB KB9KBC W9WAT KC0TOT

KD0EKA

TOTAL OF 19, Stations with traffic 5

Submitted by:

Craig Warwick , K9CEW

FOX HUNT

Find your tape measure antenna or your portable 2 meter beam

for the W9UVI Fox Hunt to be held on Sunday, July 13 at

3:00PM in the East Peoria Fondulac Park at the top of

Springfield Road hill. Please see the W9UVI web site for

more details and map of the area.

There are instructions on building a small 2 meter portable

tape measure beam at the bottom of the Fox Hunt page on the

website. See you then!!

Fritz Bock, WD9FMB 309-256-2297

Peoria County ARES EC

IL ARES District 6, ADEC, www.peoriacountyares.org

SKYWARN Pioneer Alan R. Moller,

N5ZCB, SK

National Weather Service forecaster, storm chaser, and SKYWARN pioneer Alan "Al" Moller, N5ZCB, of Benbrook, Texas, died June 19. He was 64. Moller and Chuck Doswell were the primary contributors to the development of the

national SKYWARN program.

Al Moller, N5ZCB.

Moller was a Senior Forecaster (retired) at the National Weather Service Fort Worth, Texas, Office, where, the NWS said, he "tirelessly worked to better understand thunderstorms and tornadoes, while at the same time teaching others to responsibly observe and report storm information from the field. He was a voice and a bridge between operational and research meteorology, and thus, was respected by both of these meteorological disciplines." Cont’d next page

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PAARC Board Meeting Minutes June 6, 2014

Meeting called to order at 7pm by Deb KA4DEB.

Motion to accept the minutes as published in Bandbits by Bob

AB9B and seconded by Bob W9WTF. Motion approved

Motion to approve Treasures report as presented by Dwight

Fritz WD9FMB and seconded by Merle KB9VQH. Motion

approved.

Old Business:

Telephone and Cable bills: Fritz worked with AT&T to lower

the phone bill. The Comcast cable bill was also checked and it

was found that we have been off contract for the last 3 years.

Fritz will change the Comcast internet package from Business

class to residential.

Field Day: Fritz showed the proclamation from Gov. Quinn

acknowledging Amateur Radio and Field Day.

Fritz is still looking for a H.F. station to be used as a GOTA

station. Everything else that is needed for field day is listed on

the web site.

New Business: Bob W9WTF announced that club has

received the new Fusion repeater donated by Yaesu for Beta

testing. The repeater has been installed on the .075 machine.

The club was also given an FT1DR HT to use and help test

the new machine. The HT can be checked out by members to

try.

Motion to adjourn by W9WGN seconded by NM0O, meeting

adjourned at 8:21pm.

Submitted by

Mark W9WGN –Secretary

SKYWARN Alan R. Moller, N5ZCB, SK Continued

He also was a writer and cinematographer, known for StormWatch (1995), Tornadoes: A Spotter's Guide (1977), and Chasing the Wind (1991). In addition, Moller enjoyed nature and landscape photography.

Moller held bachelor's and master's degrees in meteorology from The University of Oklahoma. Doswell, a friend and colleague Moller met at the University of Oklahoma, described Moller as passionate about public service as well as about forecasting and severe storms.

According to his Dallas Morning News obituary, Doswell and Moller started a storm-chaser program in 1972, theorizing that weather observations from the field could help forecasters. This established the groundwork for SKYWARN, a volunteer program with nearly 290,000 trained severe-weather spotters, many of them Amateur Radio licensees, who work with NWS forecasters by providing real-time observations.

Memorials may be made to the Humane Society of North Texas, 1840 E Lancaster Ave, Fort Worth, TX 76103. -- Thanks to Sam Barricklow, K5KJ

Taken from The ARRL Letter dated June 26, 2014

PAARC Club Meeting Minutes June 13, 2014

Meeting Called to order at 6:58 pm by Deb KA4DEB

Introductions were made

Motion to accept minutes as published in Bandbits including

the correction of Harold’s call to read correctly KC9SZC.

Motion made by Bob W9WTF seconded by Bob AB9B.

Motion approved.

Motion to accept treasure’s report given by Dwight

WD9HZK by Bob AB9B seconded by Merle KB9VQH.

Motion approved.

Old Business: Field day: we will meet at Stake & Shake in

East Peoria at 7:00am for breakfast then proceed to Bass

ProShop around 9:00am to set things up.

Superfest: We are waiting to get conformation from other

indoor vendors. We are trying to get a speaker from Yaseu to

do a forum about the new system fusion repeater. We are also

trying to get a speaker from Icom to do a forum on DStar.

New Business: Bob W9WTF talked about the Yaesu system

fusion repeater that was just installed on the .075. He

explained how the repeater can automatically switch from

digital to FM analog by the signal that it detects. A FT1DR is

owned by the club and is available for members to check out

to give the new repeater a try especially in the digital mode.

m A motion to adjourn made by Merle KB9VQH and Bob

W9WTF. Meeting adjourned at 7:30pm

Program for the evening was the cruise in and cook out.

Submitted by

Mark W9WGN

Secretary

SILENT KEY Martha (Elaine) Tieber, WD9HGC age 67 passed away,

Sunday, June 22, 2014 at her home in Peoria. Elaine worked for

Illinois Bell Telephone where she met her husband, Francis

Charles (Chuck) WA9FCN. After her children left home, she

worked at the Cozy Corner Quilt Shop, Jo-Ann Fabrics,

Galesburg Sewing Center and CWTC in Peoria as a job coach.

Elaine had many hobbies. She was an amateur radio operator,

talking to and making friends around the country and world.

She was a quilter, embroiderer and sewer. Elaine enjoyed wood

turning, geocaching, traveling and camping with Chuck and

friends, Ron and Carole Bieber; for over 30 years. She also

volunteered for the Family Readiness Group with the U.S. Army

National Guard.

We extend our sincere condolences to her husband and their

children and grandchildren. Submitted by John Coker and Deb Suhs

Editor’s Note: I met Elaine and Francis (Chuck) several years ago at the

former Woodcraft store in Peoria, where I worked part time. They were good customers and always great to chat with.

Amateur Radio Newsline: No

Young Ham of the Year in 2014 Amateur Radio Newsline has announced that it will not name a 2014 Young Ham of the Year (YHOTY). Newsline Editor Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, told ARRL that not enough nominations were received by the May 30 deadline. “We initiated the award in 1986, so this would have been the 28th year it would have been presented”, Pasternak said.

More in the ARRL Letter dated June 26, 2014

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Lots of interest at the GOTA Station. All pictures from Deb Suhs

HAMFESTS

Here's what the ARRL website presently has for hamfests within 250

miles of Peoria. Not all fests are posted, or posted in a timely manner

on this website, so it may be an incomplete list.

07/12/2014 | Indianapolis Hamfest

Location: Indianapolis, IN

Type: ARRL Hamfest

Sponsor: Indianapolis Amateur Radio Association

Website: http://indyhamfest.com

07/12/2014 | SWAPFEST '14

Location: Oak Creek, WI

Type: ARRL Hamfest

Sponsor: South Milwaukee ARC

Website: http://www.qsl.net/wa9txe

07/13/2014 | Fox River Radio League Hamfest & Electronics

Market

Location: Aurora, IL

Type: ARRL Hamfest

Sponsor: Fox River Radio League

Website: http://frrl.org

07/19/2014 | Chippewa Valley ARC Tailgate Swap Fest

Location: Chippewa Falls, WI

Type: ARRL Hamfest

Sponsor: Chippewa Valley Amateur Radio Club

Website: http://www.w9cva.org

07/20/2014 | KARSFest

Location: Peotone, IL

Type: ARRL Hamfest

Sponsor: Kankakee Area Radio Society

Website: http://w9az.com/karsfest.html

08/02/2014 | West Central Illinois Hamfest

Location: Carlinville, IL

Type: ARRL Hamfest

Sponsor: Macoupin County ARC & Montgomery County AR

Emergency Corp

Website: http://www.k9mce.org

08/03/2014 | Hamfesters Radio Club's 80th Hamfest

Location: Peotone, IL

Type: ARRL Hamfest

Sponsor: Hamfesters Radio Club

Website: http://hamfesters.org

08/09/2014 | Angola Hamfest

Location: Angola, IN

Type: ARRL Hamfest

Sponsor: Land of Lakes Amateur Radio Club

Website: http://www.llarc.org

08/09/2014 | Riverland ARC Great Swap Meet

Location: Onalaska, WI

Type: ARRL Hamfest

Sponsor: Riverland Amateur Radio Club

Website: http://rarc.qth.com/

Fritz Bock, WD9FMB and Clyde Huffman, K9QXFoperating

the VHF station during Field Day at Bass Pro parking area.

Mark Suhs, W9WGN; John Ackerman, Tazewell County

Board member and Bob Bush, W9WTF

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Or via Email: w9oi@arrl.net

AREA FCC EXAMS

Morton:

FCC Amateur Radio Exams are held at the Morton Public Library, 315 West

Pershing at 12:00 noon the third Saturday of even numbered months or as noted:

Feb. 15, Apr. 19, Jun. 21, Aug. 16, Superfest and Oct. 18, and Dec. 20, 2014.. If no

one is there at that time the examiners will leave as they are all volunteers. Walk-ins

are welcome. Please bring your original Radio License (if any) and a copy, and the

original and a copy of any of any Certificate of Completion (CSCE) not already acted

upon by the FCC. Copies are needed to send with your license application. Fee for

2012 is $15.00. You will also need identification such as a Driver’s License, and a

Social Security Number. Contact Bob Bush W9WTF at tigrbob@gmail.com for more

information.

Bloomington: Note Location Change

The schedule for W5YI-VEC Amateur Radio exams for the year 2014 at the

Community Room of the Bloomington Public Library located at the intersection of E.

Olive St. and S. East St. Entrance is off of S. East St. July 19 and Nov. 08 Exam

location at Library not confirmed. Testing begins at 1:00pm. Bring two forms of

identification. You will need a copy of your current license plus and CSCE you want

to apply. Contact Keith Hanson AC9S at ac9s@hotmail.com (preferred) or

(309) 378-4416 for more information.

Note on testing – A Social Security number is now required for all FCC exams.