At the Next Meeting the Exchange Box will be there if WB6FZH is back from Northern California. If not, the July Meeting will find it there full of books, catalogs, magazines and parts. "Show and Tell" needs you to bring something from your shack to show those attending, while you tell about it.
June will be the KARC Election Meeting. Come and railroad those on the slate into office, or better yet suprise a member nominating him or her. If you do not have the time to be an officer at present, but would like to work on a project that interests you, contact your officers. We need your ideas and your help, to have KARC reflect the membership and attract members.
The Banquet will be at 7:00 PM on a Friday Night. Come and meet the spouses of members that are brave enough to come. You are automatically entered for the prize drawing. The "Ham of the Year" award will be presented and a very short program. The Banquet Coordinator is Greg, WB6FZH. If you have any ideas for the banquet, let him know.
Make out your check to "KARC" for $14.00 for each person attending with the choice of main course written on the check. The choices are Chicken Cutlet, Mahi or Teriaki Steak. Send it to: KARC Dinner c/o Len Young, 1297 Maleko Street, Kailua, HI 96734. Thanks to Len for handling the reservation by mail!
The Meeting was called to order by Al Rivera, KH7BM, KARC President at 0940. There were 19 members and guests present.
Howard Williams, WH6LF, program chairman, introduced our guest speaker, Clay Caughill, AH6EL. Clay is President and CEO of Caughill-Palitz, Inc. His firm, headquartered in Honolulu, is a Broadcast Engineering, Planning, Design, and Construction Company with clients world-wide. Clay treated the club to a very informative and entertaining discussion of the many types of work the company does. He explained that many in broadcasting had been radio amateurs, and their ability to "tinker" with electronics have led to many inovations in broadcast electronics. The program included some photographs of various local and "DX" locations. All present agreed that this was an outstanding program! Thanks again Clay, for the great program!
After a brief recess, the previous minutes as published in the KARC NEWS were approved. The treasurer, Len Young, KH6NFN, reported a balance of $553.04 as of April 30, 1998.
Clem Jung, KH7HO, reported on "KARC in the Community", the Community Watch Fair at Kailua Intermediate School, on April 25. KARC members Randy Scott and Al Rivera, KH7BM, manned the Amateur Radio Display, handing out fliers about Ham Radio and KARC.
The July 10th KARC Annual Dinner at the Flamingo Restraunt in the Windward City Shopping Center was discussed.
Howard Williams, WH6LF, reported on the proposed slate of officers for the June Election Meeting.
Al Rivera, KH7BM, provided an update on the 145.15 repeater. It will be temporarily located at Richard LeChance's house until a more permanent location can be found.
During the presentation by Clay, KH6EL, we learned that there is dedicated space for a Ham Repeater at an installation that is nearing completion atop the Koolau's. Clem Jung said that EARC is meeting to discuss relocation of their .94 or .64 repeaters to this site, that would give Windward hams expanded island coverage.
Walt Niemczura, AH6OZ, reported on Fied Day planning, and requested assistance for the set-up on Friday, June 26th. We will be using KH6OS, courtesy of Tom, Thanks Tom.
No prize drawing was held, but Mike Burger, AH7R, brought a load of 12 volt lead gel cells donated by Lawrence Koga, that are availiable to anyone while the supply lasts.
Thanks to Jack, K1ER,(for bringing) and Mrs. Peters (for baking) the delicious brownies that were enjoyed by all! The meeting was adjourned at 11:00 AM.
AH6OZ, AH7R, WH6BKQ & WB6FZH need your help this year. Everyone is busy this year with one thing or another and some more help would be appreciated. Please contact Walt, AH6OZ,[Days-956-7503/Evenings & Weekends-263-3872] or any of the Field Day Committee. All members and guests are cordially invited to observe, operate, log, visit, picnic, enjoy the park, supervise, cook, eat, and be a part of this, one of Amateur Radio's most exciting days. This year's cooperative effort with mulitple stations looks to be bigger than ever! The plans for set-up, take-down, and ways to make the experience good for everyone will be formalized at the June 13 meeting.
June Contests
Recent reports of problems up-linking via 2 meters on RS-12 may be due to interference from the commercial navigation package on the same platform.
I worked my way to the 1960s section, There was some of my original Novice station, and re-purchased sets of the same kind to fill the compliment. The SX-110, Halicrafters Receiver, The Heath DX-40 Transmitter, the converted ARC-5 Transmitter that was my 1st VFO. The Johnson Ranger Transmitter and the Drake 2B Receiver. In my mind's eye, I can see myself, 15 years-old, on a page of a 1963 QST sitting next to this gear frozen in time. The kid is turning 50 this year, and is still enjoying the magic of radio.
While re-stacking some boxes near the HRO section, I found the AC operated BC-348 WW2 reciever I misplaced. It was in some of our planes well into the 1960s when the BC-648 replaced it. I dragged the box out into the light and decided to take it upstairs and fire it up!. It had been 10 or more years since I had heard anything from this 200-500kc, 1.5 to 18.1 mc receiver. I bravely plugged it in, and connected a WW2 headset into the front panel and waited for it to come alive. I copied some SSB signals on the 5' piece of wire I connected to the push terminal on the front panel, and then tried some CW... it worked fine. Then a few turns of the crank and the bandswitch and international shortwave signals were filling the room. I turned the bandswitch to 1.5mc, and up to 1530 to hear a Sacramento AM Broadcast station, instead of the distant tunes of Glen Miller, I heard the latest news and returned to reality.
Later,I returned to the same area and went to the Heathkit SB Series Dream Station boxes. Yes, I too had an SB-101 SSB/CW Transceiver, the Collins and later Yaesu look-alike. I had many of the matching accessories too. It took me 20 years to find an SB-640 Remote VFO. I modified the SB-101, and hooked it up and made a contact with it last year. (Better late than never)The LMO dial slipped a little, but it did when it was new in 1967.
I reviewed some Allied, Lafayette, Heath, Burnstein-Applebee, and other catalogs and saw gear that I dreamed of owning on the pages. Later, I owned alot of them, and some were more like nightmares.
The ring of the wireless phone in my back pocket brought me 30 years forward , in an instant. I reverently repacked the box and searched for a couple more boxes to fill the new shelf. I spotted a box just the right size, it was labled "Heath Twoer & Mic"(A 2mtr AM 1w Tx & regenerative receiver). It was light as a feather, I remember the #47 bulb that was the "dummy" antenna supplied with the kit for tuning. I also remember working several stations in San Rafael (SF Bay Area) while using that "dummy load". Now I know who the real "Dummy" was! I also thought about meeting my friend Bob, WB6QDR, on the air in the 1960s. Heathkit Twoer to Twoer, 25 years later, we were in contact patrol car to patrol car by Motorola radio.
Have you looked into your boxes lately?CUL & 73 GREG
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