The Koolau Amateur Radio Club Newsletter for May/June 2001

NEXT MEETING- Saturday, June 9, 2001, 9:30 AM in Kaneohe, at the Ho'omaluhia Botanical Garden Visitor Center Meeting Room.

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Apologies for the late/missing newsletter and Thanks to Greg Greenwood

As you know, our illustrious and dedicated editor, Greg Greenwood, WB6FZH, reluctantly stepped down, and we are going through a period of transition.  As well as being the KARC newsletter editor for many years,  Greg has also served as KARC president and as a director of KARC.  He was instrumental in making KARC well-known and famous for encouraging new or prospective hams.  His humor, enthusiasm, and expertise will be sorely missed.

Greg, thank you for all your years of service to this club and to amateur radio.  Good luck with your future endeavors, and please stay in touch.  72/73.

Art Neilson, WH7N,  David Lau, KH6AW, and Walt Niemczura, AH6OZ will be filling in until further notice.  If you have any articles, photos, or other information which should be included in the KARC newsletter, please send them to Art, at  art@pilikia.net , and David, at KH6AW@arrl.net.  We are trying to get this newsletter on the web.  We apologize for not getting one printed and mailed.  We will work on that aspect later.

 

FIELD DAY 2001  --  KEEP AN EYE ON THIS PAGE

This year we have two possible sites:

 

Kualoa Beach Park

 

This is our first choice, but we aren’t allowed to submit our application to use the park to the Department of Parks and Recreation until June 8.  So we won’t know whether we can use that park until the June 9 meeting.  Please stay tuned to this website.

 

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Driving Directions from Honolulu:

 

Take Likelike Highway (Hwy 63) to Kahekili Highway (Hwy 83).  Kahekili Hwy turns in to Kamehameha Highway near Kahuluu.  Go past Waikane (town).  Kualoa Regional Park is on the ocean side of Kamehameha  Highway.  There is a road into the park.  [Kualoa Ranch is on the other side of the road from the park.]

The desired camp sites are the #19/#20 pair at the very end of the park facing Chinaman's  Hat side of the Beach. The KARC banner should be up from Friday to Sunday AM

 

More information about Amateur Radio Operation in Beachparks can be found at http://members.aol.com/greg6fzh/qrphiop.htm.

 

 

Ho'omaluhia Botanical Garden – Camp site at the end of the road

 

If we can’t get the Kualoa Beach Park, we’ll be at our traditional site – the campground at the end of the road in the Ho’omaluhia Botanical Garden, in Kaneohe, Hawaii.

 

Driving directions to Ho’omaluhia Garden from Honolulu:

 

Take Likelike Highway through the mountain.  When you come to the second stoplight, turn right on to Anoi Road.  Take Anoi to Luluku Road.  Go to the end of Luluku Road.  Tell the person in the guard shack that you are there for the radio club event.  Go to the end of the road in to the park.  You’ll see a sign for the Nui campground and find parking there.

 

 

TRANSPAC RACE – June 25 to July 13? -- RADIO OPERATORS NEEDED

 

Our President, Walt, is the communications chair for the Transpac Race.  Operators will be needed to man the two stations – Diamond Head Lighthouse and the Hawaii Yacht Club.  Contact Walt for details [(808) 263-3872  and walt@hawaii.rr.com].  You can also check out the Transpac website at http://www.transpacificyc.org/  It can be fun operating and you meet some interesting people.

 

 

HAWAII STATE AMATEUR RADIO CONVENTION – OCTOBER 13, 2001, Pearl Harbor Community Center

 

The Hawaii State Amateur Radio Convention will be held at the Pearl Harbor Community Center.  It is the same site as last year’s Hawaii hamfest.  A Map and details can be found at the convention’s website: http://www.pilikia.net/karc/hamfest/index.html.  [We’ll put them in another newsletter.]  This will be an ARRL sponsored event.  Each year it has grown, and this year it promises to be the best yet.  Book your flight/hotel and plan to attend!

 

There will be VE testing from 7:30 a.m. (HST) until about 8:45 a.m.   So if you don’t have your ham license or want to upgrade, come take your test(s).  Reservations are recommended.

 

We will have speakers during the entire day, beginning at 9:00 a.m.   Planned speakers include Ed Hare, W1RFI, ARRL Laboratory Supervisor and QRP guru, Pacific Division manager, Jim Maxwell, W6CF, Hawai'i Section Manager Ron Phillips, AH6HN and other local ARRL officers.  Stay tuned for the list of speakers and topics.

 

In addition to speakers, we may have an operating station (any volunteers).  [Last year the Big Island folks set up a Pixie II station and handed out certificates for QSOs.]

 

Refreshments (hot dogs, chips, soda, etc.) will be available.

 

There will also be a swap meet, door prizes, and more.   So come and enjoy!

 There is plenty of parking adjacent to the Pearl Harbor Yacht Club and Community Center. It is located at the end of the road that leads away from the Arizona Memorial, to the right and past the Submarine Museum.

If you’ll be in town the entire weekend, consider visiting the U.S.S. Missouri.  It’s almost right next door to the hamvention site.

Lee Wical, KH6BZF, is working on a dinner afterwards.  It would most likely be at the Queen Kaiulani (sp?) at the end of Waikiki (at the corner of Kalakawa and Kapahulu across from the Zoo), which has a pay your own way buffet.  We will try to reserve space so we can all sit together.  More details to follow.

The next planning meeting will be on or before Saturday June 16th at Kimo's place, at approximately 9:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m..

New Members:

 

Mike Gibson, NH7ND

Mike is an excellent CW operator, K5K member, and an antenna guru.  For more on Mike, see http://www.pilikia.net/karc/FD2000/fdpic1.html

 

Dan Spears, KH6UW

Dan is a life member of the ARRL, also ARRL Assistant Section Manager and Official Observer Coordinator for the Pacific Section of the ARRL.

 

Stuart Brown, WH6H

Stuart is an avid DXer.  He has won several contests.  For example, in 1979 he won the CQWW DX Test for single op 20 meters, and in 1980 he won the Northwest Section Award for the 10 meter Contest.   He is the control operator for the Lanikai DX Association, WH7W.1

 

Welcome to all of you.  Please encourage your friends to come to meetings and join.  It is the members’ varied interests and skills that make this club interesting.

 

 

CLEM JUNG RESIGNS AS VICE-PRESIDENT

 

Citing personal reasons, Clem Jung submitted his resignation as vice-president on June 2, 2001.  We’re sorry to see you step down, we thank you for your years of service, and we wish you the best of luck.

 

SWAP, SELL & TRADE

KARC Members...Your FREE Advertisement can be here! Contact the KARC President, Walt, AH6OZ

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KARC E-MAIL LIST AND WEBSITE HAVE MOVED

As noted in the April newsletter, the "Members and Friends of KARC E-mail List" is now being maintained by Art, WH7N, of the KARC Board of Directors.   Please use this service.

 

Art has also graciously volunteered to do some maintenance on the KARC website.  So until further notice, the KARC website has been moved to Art’s server at http://www.pilikia.net/karc/. Note that old website URL http://www.chem.hawaii.edu/karc/ is still working, it will automatically redirect you to the new website until everyone becomes familiar with the new address. Update those bookmarks!!

 
Thank you, Art.

 

Art has other interesting things on his server.  Check it out at: www.pilikia.net .

 

MINUTES- Mike, AH7R

The regular monthly meeting of the Koolau Amateur Radio Club was held on April 14, 2001 at the visitor's center of Ho'omalahia Botanical Park.

It was a large meeting with over two dozen people present, many no doubt attracted by Kimo Chun KH7U, our featured speaker and his "beta" version of the Kingman Reef DXpedition multimedia presentation, kind of a sneak preview of what will be seen at Dayton.

The full compliment of club officers was present for the meeting, president Walt, Treasurer Al, Vice President Clem and Secretary Mike.

After introductions, one of the first orders of business was to officially vote in Mike Gibson, our specially invited member, to KARC, motion was made by Sid and seconded by Howard and enthusiastically passed. Stew Brown was also added as a new member on a motion by Harold and a second by Clem. We had several Oregon visitors who are enroute to Enewitok atoll for some ham radio.

Al reported that our treasury balance was a very nice $2,440.41.

There was a brief report on convention preparations for fall and the progress in lining up speakers, including a bit of discussion on the offer by the ARRL to send one of several speakers from headquarters for the event.

There will be a special meeting May 5 at the Ala Wai golf course clubhouse, a Tri Club meeting between KARC, EARC and the Honolulu Amateur Radio Club. This is in addition to the regular KARC meeting which will be in the usual location.

Greg Greenwood has resigned from his post as long distance newsletter editor. Mike and Walt will keep up the web pages, but some volunteers for the newsletter are required. There was a brief discussion on the future of the newsletter.

Alternate site for the FD this year is still at Kualoa Beach Park if we can secure the desirable camping ground areas that have been already identified. We have the regular site at Ho'omalahia Botanical Park as a backup. It is tricky since we can only reserve the other site two weeks in advance of the desired date. Field Day will be June 22-24 this year. Next meeting will included a much more detailed discussion of Field Day plans. Mike appealed for members to consider what they can do for the club's score, particularly what bonus points they can work to secure for us as this contest is heavy in bonus points. EARC will apparently be back at Bellows this year.

Clem announced several Kenwood specials, local clearance items of interest at special prices.

After a short break to make a dent in the great quantity of nifty food available, including a major spread of ultra healthy goodies from Jan, WH7Y! We all settled down to the big event.

The presentation on the Kingman Reef DXpedition was quite long and very detailed, and gave an excellent impression of what it was really like. In addition to Kimo who was the primary local logistics person for the event, we had side commentary by Mike Gibson who was one of the operators on the DXpedition. Mike had also spent considerable time on Palmyra before the Kingman trip. The entire presentation was just delightful and no one seemed inclined to hurry it to a finish.

After the meeting a testing session was held with a total of three participants, including several taking code tests, yes Virginia there are still code tests, and KARC can give them. Sid was in charge with help from Mike and Walt to round out this sessions testing team. 

 

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2nd Saturdays, 9:30am, Visitor's Center, Ho'omaluhia Park, Kaneohe (No December Meeting) Map and info on the KARC Website.

MEMBERSHIP & Field Day CHAIRMAN- Jerry Mulherin, WH6BKQ, 235-3042, email:jerham@aloha.net

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