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w w w. f c a r c . u s Volume 29, Issue 6 June 2016 Issue

June 2016

2015 "Ham of the Year" W9RIC Rick Kosiorek

Field Day is soon approaching. June 25th and 26th at the Greenville Grange on Hwy 76 and Prospect Ave. Set up on Friday June 24th starting at 3pm. Field Day Pins will be available at the club meeting.

Inside this issue: `Welcome!

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Classifieds / Elmer’s List

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Club Information / Net Schedules

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General Info

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May Minutes

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A little about WIRES X

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Dayton Hamvention Photos

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June’s 50/50 Raffle

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Field Day Info

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Scout Merit Badge

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Membership Application

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FCARC Officers  President– Gary Hoehne, (KB9AIT)  Vice-President— Bruce Otto (W9BDO  Treasurer— Donna Mendyke (KC9THF)  Secretary– Terry Schilling (N9AOT)  Membership Co-ord—Dave Sprangers (ND9DW)  Technical Director— Larry Peterson (WB9KMW) Members At Large  Bernie Hengels (N9YMC)

This Month’s 50/50 raffle will be for a Yaesu FTM 3200

 Roy Hinz (KC9VLP)  Andy Lawton (KC9LWD)

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Elmer’s Contact List

Upcoming Events / Meetings

This is a listing of HAMS who are willing to help other HAMS out in special areas. Feel free to contact these fellow HAMS with any questions:

6/20

Club Meeting

6/25-6/26 ARRL Field Day

Call / Name

Specialty Area

Phone #

N1KSN– Andy

CW

720-2217

July 4th

Community Fest

N9LVS - Dan

FCC Personal Data Changes

205-4899

July 9th

South Milwaukee Hamfest

WB9KMW - Larry

SSTV (analog)

915-4499

WB9KMW—Larry Larry also Elmer’s Self-study plans with mentor for Technician, General & Extra 915-4499

If your interested in helping other hams and being an Elmer please contact a board member.

It is with great sadness that we were informed of the passing of Gloria Rood N9SVB. Gloria and her husband Vern N9RQm have been long standing members of FCARC. Gloria will be sadly missed, our prayer go out to Vern in his time of mourning.

For Sale/Wanted Ameritron AL-811 Amp $500.00 MFJ-962 Antenna Tuner $200.00 Both for $650.00 Prices are firm cash only! Both in very good condition. Items are being sold for a 97 yr old ham. Contact John K9JEF at 920-725-4772

WOLF RIVER COILS LLC Misfit Coil Sale Thru the years we made a few coils that we would not sell as our prime condition so we have misfit coils that need a home. All the coils have been tested and working condition, they cosmetically are not to our standard. We will sell these coils at this club meeting. There are still a few coils left. First come first serve, cash or credit. SB 1000 for $20.00 SB Mini’s $15.00 There is a limited supply. See Gary KB9AIT or Terry N9AOT. I still have a few items from Herman’s estate too many to list here. If your interested in Johnson radio’s give me a call. I also have some mobile speaker (Motorola and MFJ) Dentron Clipperton-T Antenna Tuner $200.00 MJF-962 Versa Tuner II $130.00 Have something Ham related to sell? If so, contact the Newsletter Team via our website to arrange for it’s insertion in the next issue of this newsletter. We will run it in the newsletter and on-line at www.fcarc.us

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·Club Information Meeting information & location

We meet at: UW-Fox Valley 1478 Midway Road Menasha, WI 54952. Room 1346 Meetings start at 7:00 PM every third Monday of the month except in January. Wednesday 2 Meter Net 8:00 PM 146.76 - Offset PL 100 Net Control Operator schedule 6/22

WB9KMW

7/20

KB9AIT

6/29

W9BDO

7/27

KC9TFM

7/6

KC9QFH

8/3

ND9DW

7/13

AB9IO

8/10

WB9KMW

If you can be a net control operator, contact Bruce W9BDO our coordinator FCARC SSTV 2 METER NET meets the second Sunday of the month at 6pm on the 145.33 repeater. Load up some of your pictures and start sending SSTV via VHF.

Thursday 6 Meter Net Day: Thursday Time: 8:00 pm Frequency: 52.570 FM

VE Testing Da tes Saturday, January 30, 2016 Location: FVTC B142 See page 7 for details Start 8AM/walk-ins until 8:30AM Testing 9AM Cost is $15.00 2 forms of identification are required. Up-grades must bring a copy of their current license for the VE's to keep and send in to the FCC. Please view the FCARC calendar of events on this web site for current dates Other testing dates: July 9 September 3 November 6 (at the swapfest.)

GOT QUESTIONS CALL our new Google Voice Information Phone Number 920-415-2426

If you have an item, rig, QSL card, or anything related to Amateur Radio and want to share it with club members, bring it to the club meeting for SHOW AND TELL. A 2-3 minute section put into the agenda for follow hams to share items they find useful or promotes Amateur Radio.

FCARC welcomes your donations in support of our mission to serve amateur radio. As a 501(c)(3) organization, your donations are tax-deductible. You can go to the FCARC website and click on the button!

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If you have an article or item of interest that you would like to share in our clubs newsletter send them to Terry N9AOT at [email protected]

Keep watching our website and keep listening on the nets when Gary KB9AIT will be offering kit building sessions. This will most likely happen in the fall.

Membership Renewal Reminders 1st of the year !!! FCARC members will be able to use PayPal for membership r enew! If you have already renewed— thank you.

If not, you can renew with Donna KC9THF at the next club meeting.

FCARC Scholarship Fund is Seeking Donations The Fox Cities Amateur Radio Club, a 501(c)3 charitable organization, is seeking donations for our scholarship fund. We would like to raise $2,000 this year to start off our program. We would like to start making scholarships available in five years. To donate, just make a check out to Fox Cities Amateur Radio Club. Make a note on the check that it is for the scholarship fund. Our treasurer, Donna Mendyke, will provide you with a receipt that you can use when doing your taxes. So far though generous donations from Gary, Terry, and Wolf River Coils LLC we are now at 10% of our annual endowment goal. For more information please contact our treasurer, Donna Mendyke, KC9THF May meeting has taken place and we would like to welcome the following new Board members: Vice President - Bruce Otto W9BDO Members at Large: Bernie Hengels N9YMC Roy Hinz KC9VLP Andy Lawton KC9LWD Returning at Treasurer, Donna Mendyke KC9THF We would also Like to thank the previous Board members for their time and service to the club: Tom Toonen KD9BMD, John Verwiel KC9TFM, and John Touzinsky K9KI Copyright © 2016, Fox Cities Amateur Radio Club, All Rights Reserved.

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Fox Cities Amateur Radio Club, Inc. Membership Meeting Agenda for May 11, 2016 President: Gary KB9AIT: Vice-President: John K9KI: Treasurer: Donna KC9THF Secretary: Terry N9AOT: Membership Coordinator: Dave ND9DW: Technical Director: Larry WB9KMW Members at Large: Bruce W9BDO, Tom: KD9BMD, John: KC9TFM “Rick Kosiorek 2015 Ham of the Year” Presiding Official: Gary Hoehne KB9AIT Call to Order and Opening Remarks: President, Gary Hoehne KB9AIT Called to order @7:00 PM Quorum count: Vice President, John Touzinsky Introductions / Roll Call Roll call taken Welcome to Our New and Renewed Members! Thank you for renewing your 2015 membership. Committee/Coordinator Reports: Financials and 5O1C3 – Donna Reports (field day, repeater, web) Rick repeater and VE testing No new updates Minutes last membership meeting Old Business: A.) If you have ideas or a program to share please see Bruce W9BDO or Tom KC9BMD New Business A.) Election for Vice President and Treasure and 3 members at large Election of officer took place, VP Bruce W9DBO, Treasue Donna KC9THF, Members at Large Andy KC9LWD, Roy KC9VLP, Bernie N9YMC B.) Vote on By-Law change (Dave) John K9KI pointed out the changes in the bylaws deal with renew of dues and Ham of the Year voting, motion made by Donna and seconded by Karen, motion carried. C.) Digital net and youth net discussions To help increase net participation the board is looking into a possible digital net or youth net D.) EAA (Jon) Jon reported that he still needs volunteers to man the special event station. E.) Field Day (Terry & Bruce) The South Greenville Grange has been secured as out FD site for this year. Antennas are being reworked. Set up will be on Friday June 24th at 3pm, Larry will be doing the radio merit badge for the scouts on Saturday. F.) A/R EC report (Andy) *contact Andy * May 24th there will be AREA meeting at the airport G.) Form a 1-3-5 year planning committee (June) Gary will be putting together a committee after the elections are held J.) Recap Appleton MS Walk 2016 (Dave) Sole Burner had good participation and lots of help, Rick W9RIC reported that the JDRF walk was approaching and some more help would be needed. K.) Show and Tell Andy shared his RF amp design and build with the group. Program: TBD Adjourn: Motion made by Larry and seconded by KC to adjourn at 7:42

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WIRES X One of the items I was looking at purchasing while at the Dayton Hamvention was the Yaesu HRI-200. This is their compatible Wires-X unit for the C4FM digital radios. What is Wires-X, anyone who has experience with Echolink would be somewhat familiar with Wires-X, but Wires-X is like Echolink on steroids. Wires-X stands for is WideCoverage Internet Repeater Enhancement System. It simply hooks up a repeater system or radio to the internet and uses VOIP (voice over internet protocol) to extend your coverage area on VHF/UHF. Without getting too complicated what this allows you to do, is communicate with hams anywhere in the world using a simple VHF or UHF HT or radio. Since I bought my unit and hooked up my system I have had contacts with hams from Australia, Korea, England, Japan and all thru the US using my Boefang HT walking around the house, (at that time for testing I was running in analog mode). I am not going to get into too much of the details here but I do want explain some of the operation and invite you to use the system. Currently I am running a Wires-X node out of my shack in Fremont. This is the connection point between the radio and the internet VOIP. At the node is a “room”. The room is where you can communicate with anyone that is in the room. You can find a full list of operating rooms off Yeasu website https:// www.yaesu.com/jp/en/wires-x/id/active_room.php Look at the listing, the DTMF ID is a 5 digit room id that is also used to connect to the room using a touch tone pad on your radio mike or HT if the node is running in analog mode. The Room ID is the name of the room, the Act is how many are connected to that room and the other info is city, state and country, and of course comments. My node # is 18411 and my room number or DTMF ID is 28411. I am currently operating my node on a two meter simplex frequency 145.630. Nodes are either digital or analog. As of now I am running my node in digital mode. Analog and digital nodes can connect and converse with each other without any issues. The big difference is some of the digital features are not available to the local user if the node is analog. You will need a Yaesu digital radio to connect to a digital Wires X node. And any radio can connect to an analog node. If you wish to use my node and connect to a room I will provide some basic simple instructions. First realize my shack is about 20 miles west of highway 41. I can activate my node from my mobile from my work location which is by Wisconsin Ave and Perkins St in Appleton without any issues, so if you live in the valley and have a decent 2 meter base antenna and a 25 watt rig you should have no problem accessing the node. So let’s say you want to enter a room, you checked the Yaesu room list and see the 21080 room looks interesting. It’s called America-Link and it’s located in Beaumont Texas. To access the room you must be on the node frequency, so in my case 145.630, push the “D X” or “X” button on the Yaesu digital radio, if you are in range you will get a connect message. Using good amateur practice, stand by and listen for a minute to make sure there is no activity, also if the node is already connected to a room you will see what room is connected at that time on your radio screen. If you want to connect to a room like America-Link you should see a search window where you can search using the room number (for my example 21080) or room name (America Link is listed as - - - America-Link- -) so if you enter - - - A you should see a short list with America Link on the list, tap on it and it will connect to that room. Again wait and listen to see if the room is being used by others, then if you want, put out a general call, like, “This is N9AOT in Wisconsin listening” and see if you get a responds. Don’t be surprise as who maybe calling you back. When you are all done using the room and want to disconnect from the room simply hit * key on your touch tone pad (you don’t need to hit the transmit, it will do it by itself), or if your using the new FT2DR the “Band” button will disconnect from the room. If you successfully disconnect, you will get a disconnect acknowledgement. It really is as simple as that. When you are all done just hit the “D X’ or “X” button on the radio to disconnect from the node. Let’s go the other way, say you’re at Radio Expo outside of Rockford Il and you want to get hold of your buddy up here in the valley. Rockford has a repeater WW9P that has Wires-X capabilities. You can access the repeater (ask if you can use the node) punch in my ID code #28411 or my room name is –Wolf-River-Room- now you have entered my room and if your buddy is monitoring my simplex frequency 145.630 you can put out a call and tell your buddy the great buys you made at Radio Expo. This is the simple break down of Wires-X. There is much more and much more you can do. One side note, since I wrote this brief article, Rick W9RIC has started linking his HRI-200 and Gary KB9AIT decided to buy one as well and opened a node by his QTH. There is additional information on node’s and node frequency on the Yaesu webpage https://www.yaesu.com/jp/en/wires-x/index.php in addition search YouTube for Wires-X, there are some great videos on how to connect and how to use Wires-X. 73’s Terry N9AOT Copyright © 2016, Fox Cities Amateur Radio Club, All Rights Reserved.

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This months 50/50 raffle is for a Yaesu FTM-3200DR. C4FM FDMA / FM 2-Meter TRANSCEIVER The new FTM-3200DR is a ruggedly built yet compact C4FM/FM VHF mobile transceiver, providing high output power of up to 65 Watts to ensure stable longdistance communications. One of the distinguishing features of this exciting new mobile transceiver is the Front Panel Speaker delivering 3 Watts of loud and crystal clear audio; designed for stress-free and enjoyable communications - even in noisy environments. While the new FTM-3200DR is a solid and durable transceiver in keeping with Yaesu’s legendary mechanical toughness, it also incorporates new technology such as Automatic Mode Select (AMS), one of the most advanced features of System Fusion. The AMS mode instantly recognizes whether a transmission is digital or analog, and appropriately switches the operating mode to allow flawless co-existence of both digital and analog users. The versatile FTM-3200DR transceiver also utilizes the ever-popular Digital Group Monitor (GM) function; a terrific asset allowing users to see at a glance if registered members of a group are within communication range.

144MHz 65W C4FM/FM Single Band Digital Mobile Transceiver Rugged & Compact 2m Digital Mobile with Front Speaker Radio Features: - 65W of Solid RF Power within a Compact Footprint - Modulation Modes: C4FM Digital (V/D Mode, VFR Mode*, DFR Mode), FM Analog - AMS (Automatic Mode Select) Function Automatically Recognizes the Signal as C4FM Digital or Conventional FM - Loud and Crystal Clear Front Panel Speaker with 3W of Audio Output - Digital GM (Group Monitor) Function - Bright Multi-Colored LED Mode/Status Indicator Vibrantly Shows the Transceivers' Status - Illuminated Microphone with Direct Frequency Entry - 220 Memory Channels with Alpha-Numeric Tags (Maximum 8 Characters) - DSQ (Digital Squelch Code) Signaling Feature - CTCSS and DCS Encode/Decode with Split Tone and DCS Encode-Only Capability - Expanded Receiver Coverage: 136-174 MHz - High Stability ±2.5 ppm TCXO Included - Weather Broadcast Reception (USA version only) - Severe Weather Alert Feature (USA version only)

Remember 50/50 raffle is only $1.00 each but you must be at the club meeting to participate.

2016 ARRL Filed Day is coming soon, sign up at the club meeting or on our clubs website. Come join the fun, operate, invite other hams, see you soon at the Greenville Grange. Set up begins Friday afternoon at 3:00 pm. ARRL Field Day Pin are available but there is a limited amount. $6.00 each, see N9AOT Copyright © 2016, Fox Cities Amateur Radio Club, All Rights Reserved.

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CQ CQ FIELD DAY this is W9ZL Field Day is this coming weekend June 25th and 26th with set up starting on Friday afternoon at 3:00pm. This year we will once again be at the South Greenville Grange at the corner of County BB and Highway 76. The contest starts at 1:00pm Saturday local time. We need all the help for set, manning the stations as well as getting equipment to the FD site. A lot of work has been done building new antennas and operating stations. We will have the CW station as well as the SSB and digital stations, in addition there will be a GOTA station set up for those visiting or inactive hams to operate. Invite someone to learn about amateur radio. Please do all you can to make this a successful Field Day. Below is a list of regulations concerning the Grange, I personally put down the security deposit so please help me retrieve my money by making sure when we leave on Sunday the Grange is the same condition as when we arrived on Friday. Thanks and 73’s Terry

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Field Day site is at the corner of highway76 and county BB at the old Greenville Grange

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FOX CITIES AMATEUR RADIO CLUB W9ZL, INC Membership Application Form Check one:

□ New Membership

□ Renewal (for existing members)

DATE__________________ NAME________________________________________________ ADDRESS_____________________________________________ CITY_____________________ STATE_______ ZIP____________ PHONE_____________________CALL SIGN_________________ LICENSE CLASS_________________ E-MAIL ADDRESS_______________________________________ ARRL Member

□ Yes □ No

Membership dues for one year: *Full - $15.00 *Associate (non ham) $15.00 *Student - $10.00 *Retired - $10.00 **Family – Member dues plus $5.00 each additional family member residing at the same address * A prerequisite to the family membership **see by-law’s Article IV section1 _____________________________________________________________________________________

Please make checks payable to FCARC Mail to: FCARC P.O. Box 2346 Appleton, WI 54912 _____________________________________________________________________________________

Admissions Use: ID# _________ □ Database □ List server-newsletter □ List server-email □ Website member □ Agenda □ Newsletter editor

□ Website renewal corner

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