JULY 13, 2018 VOLUME 1, NUMBER 3

Gulf Coast Amateur

Radio Club

PO BOX 595

NEW PORT RICHEY

FLORIDA 34656

Clubhouse QTH

6909 Tierra Verde St

Port Richey, FL

34668

ARRL Field Day

Gulf Coast ARC On June 23 and 24 the Gulf Coast

Amateur Radio Club participated in

the 2018 ARRL Field Day. This year

we decided to set up in the

clubhouse and operate. We used

the radios that were in the radio

room and the antennas on the roof.

In addition to that there was

another radio set up and antenna

mounted in the side yard.

The Pictures

Club Officers

President

Ralph McCullough

WA3YFQ

Vice President

Steve Coe, KI4LVH

Secretary

Frank Kaleyias

KN4EPU

Treasurer

Maureen Keaveny,

KB2QNK

Board Members

Roy Mitchell, KM4OR

Chris Bloxsom AA4CB

Chris McCullough,

KC3CJU

Bill Hugel, KJ4YYI

Immediate Past

President

Barry Keaveny

N2NVP

Webmaster

Chris Bloxsom AA4CB

One of our newest members Ron operating the clubs new FT8 Digital HF station. For this being his first time at a field day he did real good. I think he made the most contacts than anyone else there.

Here is Barry N2NVP getting on the air with the second station setup.

Chris AD4ZU and his daughter Ella stopped by the clubhouse Saturday to see what was going on.

Norn K4NRM made it out to the clubhouse Saturday. It was good to see him. He has not been able to attend many club activities due to his recent surgery.

Some Links of interest This month I will post a bunch of links to online QSL-ing FREE services.

eQSL.cc - The Electronic QSL Card Centre

Logbook of the World - ARRL QRZ Logbook - QRZ.com http://www.hamlog.eu/ HRDLOG.net Club Log

If you see something on the web that you would like to share please send an email to webmaster@gulfcoastarc.org

A More concerns about the Amateur Radio Parity Act

QST de W1AW Space Bulletin 008 ARLS008 From ARRL Headquarters Newington, CT July 11, 2018 To all radio amateurs SB SPACE ARL ARLS008 ARLS008 CubeSats to Deploy from International Space Station on July 13 Japan's space agency JAXA has announced that nine CubeSats will be deployed from the International Space Station on July 13. Three of the satellites - EnduroSat AD, EQUISat, and MemSat - will transmit telemetry in the 70-centimeter Amateur Radio band. EnduroSat AD will transmit on 437.050 MHz (CW, 9.6 kB GFSK); EQUISat will transmit on 435.550 MHz (CW, 9.6 kB FSK), and MemSat will transmit on 437.350 MHz (9.6 kB BPSK). NNNN Gulf Coast ARC Picnic We are looking for someone to head up that project. Do you have any good ideas on

where we can hold a picnic? Bring your ideas to the Tuesday night net for discussion. You can also shoot an email to webmaster@gulfcoastarc.org

ARRL VE test session

NO EXAMS WERE HELD THIS month due to Wednesday was

July 4th holiday. See you next month.

Exams are held on the first Wednesday of every month

At the Clubhouse 6909 Tierra Verde St. Port Richey FL 34668

Port Richey, FL 34668

Time: 6:30pm

Tech through Extra Exam’s

Walk-ins are welcome!!!!

Contact Roy KM4OR (727) 848-4829 or Kevin W4KJP (727)

842-7732

Documents required:

1) If applicable, an original and a copy of Amateur license held.

2) Positive (Photo) ID

3) A check for $15.00, payable to ARRL/VEC. or cash.

4) Any certificate of successful completion of examinations

(CSCE)

Clubhouse open house

Starting in April The Clubhouse will

be 'manned' on the 2nd and 4th

Saturdays of the month. As a paid

Gulf Coast Amateur Radio member

you always have access to the

clubhouse 7 days a week. Whether

you want to go up and operate

HF/VHF/UHF the new stations set up

in the radio room or watch TV , or

just get away from it all. It is there

for you.

There is also a new “Workbench area” assembled in the main room so you can

solder up some of those projects you have always wanted to build.

Gulf Coast ARC is on Social Media

Come find us on Social media. Twitter Youtube Facebook Keep up to date with the latest activities. Post your comments. Start some conversations. Ham radio Videos?? We have them. You can add your own to our Youtube page.

Upcoming Local Hamfests

08/18/2018

Start Date: 08/18/2018 End Date: 08/18/2018 Location: Tampa Amateur Radio Club 7801 North 22nd Street Tampa, FL 33601 Website: http://www.hamclub.org Sponsor: Tampa Amateur Radio Club Type: ARRL Hamfest Talk-In: 147.105 (PL 146.2) Public Contact: Bill Bode , N4WEB 14302 Capitol Drive Tampa, FL 33613 Phone: 813-382-9262 Email: n4web@hamclub.org

07/21/2018

Start Date: 07/21/2018 End Date: 07/21/2018 Location: U.A.W. Union Hall Local 788 1825 West Oak Ridge Road Orlando, FL 32801 Sponsor: Jack Moyer, K4KDI Type: ARRL Hamfest Talk-In: 145.130 - (PL 103.5) Public Contact: Jack Moyer , K4KDI 12026 Florida Woods Lane Orlando, FL 32824 Phone: 407-443-1963 Email: k4kdi@hotmail.com

Southeastern Division Convention (Huntsville Hamfest)

08/18/2018

Start Date: 08/18/2018 End Date: 08/19/2018 Location: Von Braun Civic Center 700 Monroe Street Huntsville, AL 35801 Website: http://www.hamfest.org Sponsor: Huntsville Hamfest Association Type: ARRL Convention Talk-In: 146.94 (PL 100) Public Contact: Dave Givens , K5RSI 10000 Ramsbeck Circle Huntsville, AL 35803 Phone: 256-883-2760 Email: dagivens@yahoo.com

When anyone first gets into a hobby, they have questions,

lots of questions. Some of the answers can be found in books or online, but like any hobby, ham radio has a lingo all its own. For the

newcomer, the lingo can be very intimidating. Being in a club allows one to absorb some of the language just by hearing it in context.

Most hams are only too happy to explain

it to someone else as well. Most ham operators

have more interests than just Amateur Radio. They may be expert gardeners, woodworkers or collectors. By joining a club and

participating actively in it, you can avail yourself of the friendships and

social contacts that the club provides. Who knows, you

likely bring a skill or an experience level to the club that others will see as valuable too.

Another area where belonging to a club brings benefits is in the area of what I call "the big project.” If there is a need for

a tower to be

erected, or some other large job, club members can be counted on to band together to get it done, whether for the club as a group,

or for the benefit of an individual member. Just remember to reciprocate on the next "big project" for

someone else.

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

HAPPY JULY EVERYONE. NOW THAT FIELD DAY IS BEHIND US WE

CAN START LOOKING TO OTHER INTERESTING THINGD GOING ON AND HOPEFULLY WE CAN KEEP MOTHER NATURE OFF OUR BACKS TO GET THINGS MOVING.

AT THE LAST GCARC MEETING WE

WERE FORTUNATE TO HAVE A GREAT SPEAKER ON THE 6 METER BAND. IF YOU MISSED IT YOU

MISSED A GREAT PRESENTATION. I HAVE BEEN IN HAM RADIO SINCE

THE EARLY 70’S AND LEARNED QUITE A BIT FROM THAT. AS I HAVE SAID BEFORE WE ARE

TRYING TO A SPEAKER OR PRESENTATION OF SOME KIND

AFTER A SHORT BUSINESS MEETING EVERY MONTH.

A LOT OF MEMBERS AND SOME POTENTIAL MEMBERS HAVE ASKED MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE NEW DIGITAL MODES. I SAY NEW

BECAUSE SOME ARE NEW, BUT SOME HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR QUITE A FEW YEARS. I AM AVAILIBLE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS

ANYONE HAS ON THE DIGITAL MODES. ALSO, I WILL BE AT THE GCARC CLUBHOUSE ON SATURDAY’S FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS TO ANSWER QUESTIONS, DEMO OR WHATEVER ON THE

DIGITAL MODES. I MAY NOT KNOW ALL THE ANSWERS BUT WILL FIND OUT AN ANSWER FOR YOU. SO, COME ON UP, THE

CLUBHOUSE WILL BE OPEN FROM AROUND 11:00 TILL AROUND 3 0R 4. HOPE TO SEE AS MANY OF YOU THERE.

73’s

Ralph McCullough WA3YFQ

PayPal now available

Next Club meeting

Our next club meeting is on July 23rd at the clubhouse. Time is 7pm. We will be

discussing the results of Field day and everything that happened that weekend as

well as some club activities. Meetings are always open to the public.

If you missed last month’s meeting it is not too late. Most meetings are available on

the Club’s Youtube channel.

http://gulfcoastarc.org

Club nets

The Gulf Coast Amateur Radio Club’s Tuesday Night Net is held on the WA4GDN club

repeater On 146.670 Mhz at 7:30 PM. This is a Trader’s Net and General Information

Net. If you have an amateur radio related item to buy, sell, trade, or want, you may

list it here. All brief amateur related announcements may be made here.

ARRL Volunteer Examiner Team in Australia Holds First

Technician Test Session under New Element 2 Question Pool

07/11/2018 An ARRL VEC Volunteer Examiner (VE) team in Bankstown, New South Wales, Australia, conducted the first Technician test session under the

new Element 2 Question Pool that went into effect on July 1. The newly revised pool, released in January 2018 (and subsequently updated and re-released in February) by the Question Pool Committee (QPC) of the

National Conference of Volunteer Examiner Coordinators (NCVEC), which must now be in use. Three graphics are required for this pool, which includes 423 questions — down slightly from 426 in the previous pool.

In the Australian session, two candidates passed the Technician exam “comfortably” and then went on to pass the General class exam, Australian VE (OzVE) team spokesperson Brad Granger, VK2QQ/AK2QQ,

said. They struck out on the Amateur Extra exam, however, although neither had really prepared for it, and both promised to come back and try again later in the year. “The OzVE team has been growing steadily

since our first exam session held in 2016, with teams now active in Queensland (VK4), Victoria (VK3), and New South Wales (VK2),” Granger said.

The guys from LARC went to this island to operate radio.

Stole this from their Twitter account ☺ @matt_nj4y, @ke4Alabama,

and @n4esssatellite, HF, and 6m grid expedition to the Dry Tortugas, EL84. July 6-8

W5KUB on Youtube.com

The latest video can be seen at https://youtu.be/vrvooplRHuc.

W5KUB.COM webcasting began in 2001 and has come a long way since those days of experimentation, low bandwidth. crude webcams, and operating with zero funding. Tom Medlin got his ham license in 1964 and was issued the Novice call of WN5KUB. Tom also holds the former FCC First Class Radio Telephone license with

Radar Endorsement. It is now called the General Radio Telephone license. Tom Is also a Senior Member of the IEEE. The early webcasting days were mostly for fun and an attempt to stream a long road trip or ham event so his friends could watch. Later he realized that there was a possibility to use this webcasting to help spread word about ham radio, to help others see many different aspects of the hobby. He

realized that there are many hams that are very young and could never travel to Hamfests. There were also many others that could not enjoy this ham experience

due to sickness, age, financial issues, long geographic distances. So that is where the real webcast service to ham radio was born. It was to let all these other people be a part of ham fests and special ham radio activities even if they could not attend. The webcast of Hamfests and other events became very popular. Over the years the webcast has had viewers in over 150 countries, with tens of thousands watching a single event like Hamvention. W5KUB.COM awards about $10,000 in prizes to

online viewers every year.

In February 2015 we started a weekly ham radio show on Tuesday nights called Amateur Radio Roundtable. The quality and format has greatly expanded over the

year. This program brings in special guests from around the world through remote video connections. The show has call in telephone lines and a chat room where users can ask questions or give comments during the show.

In addition to the show on video, the audio is also simulcast on famous international shortwave station WBCQ "The Planet" on 5130 KHZ reaching shortwave listeners in many countries.

Funding for all the webcasts have been paid out of personal expense and it is becoming apparent that we cannot continue to grow and put on the webcasts that our viewers want without financial help. We have not decided how to handle this yet, but it will probably be through donations. You can keep this excellent program going by making a donation

Wires-X node is now On-the-Air

There is a Wires-X node on the 146.670 repeater. It is accessible from any Yaesu Digital radio. Users can now connect to ‘rooms’ or connect to other repeaters around the world. For more info on Wires-X please contact Chris AA4CB.

WIRES (Wide-coverage Internet Repeater Enhancement System) is an Internet communication system which expands the range of amateur radio communication. For WIRES-X, an amateur node station connecting to the Internet is used as the access point and connects the wireless communication to the Internet. Users’

stations can communicate with other amateur stations all over the world using a node within the radio wave range.

WIRES-X supports the C4FM digital and the clear and crisp voice technology enables high sound quality. By repeating C4FM digital data as it is via the Internet, users can enjoy clear voice communications even if they are thousands of miles away each

other. Utilizing the digital communication, the WIRES-X operation is simple, easy and user friendly. Varieties of the new functions as well as voice communications expand opportunities for enjoyment of ham station operation.

How to Build a 6 Meter delta loop Click on picture to start video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ettbawdhqLc

The Technician class has access the entire 6 meter amateur radio band. They can operate CW, digital and phone. Antennas for 6 meters are small and easy to build. A delta loop antenna is one of the easiest antennas to build. I have built many of these antennas. Most of the new HF gear out there comes with SIX meters. The most common reason I get about why you’re not on 6m is “I do not have an antenna for

it” or “no room for a mono-band yagi antenna”. Well hopefully this will help you out and get you on the band. Easy to build and easy to put up. It will not break the bank and if you are like most hams you have the parts laying around in your shack. BTW The band is open especially in the summer and a bit in Dec-Jan. so get out there and get on the air!!

Call for Articles

We are always looking for articles to publish in the newsletter. Topics should apply to Amateur Radio, or other closely-related topics. Submissions may be edited for grammar, content, or length; however, that is usually pretty rare. The deadline for

submissions is the 25th of each month; however, submissions received after the deadline will be considered. If a late entry doesn't make it in the current month, it

may be used in the following month.

Email you article to webmaster@gulfcoastarc.org

Until next month… ( C :

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73 de AA4CB