NETNEWS
by WB6IXN
10/02/2013
10m Phone Net
There was no formal net tonite. OPs
held a small roundtable. Heard on frequency
were: KE6YHX, N6HC, WØMEC, KJ6OML, and W6UX. All OPs hoped that AF6C was doing FB wid no major
difficulties! HC has been busy wid life
& circumstances, and , UX flew in & flew out. OML said he volunteered at Braille Institute today.
IXN was unable to hear MEC in the QRN!
10/02/2013
2m Phone Net
W6ZE/WB6IXN checked in W6JTT, KJ6OML, KE6YHX, KJ6UFJ/m, and KK6FYT(Ron). JTT, busy wid body scans, gets up to the mountain
QTH to work on antennas now & then, and, the Triumvirate AF6C, OML, and DLA, serviced
6 new Talking Book machines and 2 old ones today at Braille Institute
Tnx, Guys! IXN is still having teeth repaired, and UFJ is
still mobile as he continues work on the base station.
YHX completed new shelving at the QTH, expanding storage space.
10/09/2013
10m Phone Net
W6ZE/AF6C checked in WB9YCJ, WØMEC, W6ATB, KJ6OML, WB6IXN, W6HHC, KE6YHX, and
K6DNR. YCJ made money in the stock market, had
a good trip to Japan and wnts to go back, bought a new rig, and will pick up a new folded
dipole antenna! IXN cudnt hear MEC who
was down in the QRN, but, Clem had a gud corn patch this year. Last Wed., AF6C was at a Douglas engineers
get-together. Today found Bob at OSH buying
lumber to repair a weathering fence. ATB, wid
a cold tonite, was on the long wire ant. having disconnected his regular ant. for fear of
a possible lightning strike. AF6C said OSH on
17th St. has gone Chapt. 11. OML,
DLA, and AF6C, skipped volunteer work at Braille Institute this week, and IXN & Lee
visited WEL-NAV off Red Hill Ave
They make a 5+ foot 2 ½ diameter tube filled with 4
or 5 sections packed wid electronics which provides a stable platform in a well bore to
show the orientation of the well bore hole
You cant drill over into someone
elses property!...The whole package must be long and Cylindrical
You cant send
a square box down a well bore hole! HHC TNXed
Ken-YCJ for the excellent pix from his Tokyo trip. Ken-HHC
& Diane enjoyed the colored leaves on their short vacation in VA. YHX, doing some alignment work, said that comet
ISON will go around the sun around Nov. 28
wid a magnitude of +6, it will be barely
visible to the naked eye. However, it will be
a nice telescopic object! DNR, wid vy little
noise at the shack, checked into Net after the 10-10 Net.
10/09/2013
2m Phone Net
W6ZE/WB6IXN checked in KE6YHX, KJ6OML, and W6ATB.
IXN will bring back QSTs to the Club Auction in October, and YHX will
attempt to see comet ISON wid his telescope on Oct. 17
Corey also mentioned the
upcoming CA. shake-out program for earthquake preparedness.
IXN heard high frequency hum on OMLs sigs, and ATB and all OPs had gud
sigs as usual, and Greg talked about a system analyzer.
10/16/13
10m Phone Net
W6ZE/AF6C checked in W6HHC, KJ6OML, KE6YHX, WB6IXN, W6JTT, and WØMEC. AUCTION!...come Friday night Club meeting! HHC is now sporting a new ASTRON power supply at
the shack, and Ken has been experiencing trouble wid email sent to him via his ARRL email
address! And AF6C has the car doctors looking
at an unsolved problem wid the auto. AF6C
& IXN have both been visiting their favorite dentist; AF6C getting teeth cleaned and
IXN getting bridge work done. All OPs are
gathering ham gear to bring to the Club Auction Friday evening!...Sounds like AF6C will
have the car pretty well loaded! Wid AF6C busy
at the dentist and other business, OML & DLA serviced Talking Books at Braille
Institute today
Tnx, guys! YHX was off to
Big Bear to view Comet ISON through his telescope, and MEC was Q5 at NCs QTH
QEC
was down in the QRN at IXNs QTH. W6JTT
flew in and flew out
Band conditions were BAD at Sams QTH tonite!
10/16/13
2m Phone Net
W6ZE/WB6IXN checked in AF6C, W6HHC, KJ6OML, W6JTT, and KJ6UFJ. IXN still has further dental work in his future,
and AF6C tests a 2m rig wid 45W out tonite
And Bob has the new saw table-mounted now. IXN will bring a SAPD Baker-to-Vegas report to Club
meeting for HHC and back issues of RF for AF6C to put up on the webpage. OML & AF6C briefly discussed the 6 cell 2
amphour Ni metal hydride batteries used in the Talking Book machines at Braille Institute. JTT is off to the mountains in two weeks to
continue work on their rental house, and, Sam has an old transmitter that needs some coils
befor he can operate it on 160m. UFJ & IXN
discussed things seismic in preparation for the Great Shakesup tomorrow
We
will continue our discussion at Club meeting.
10/23/13
10m Phone Net
W6ZE/AF6C checked in KE6YHX, W6HHC, WB6IXN, W6JTT, KJ6OML, WØMEC, and W6ATB. AF6C tells YHX that GMU will be editor of next
RF, and Corey & Bob discuss food recipes briefly. HHC & OPs were pleased wid the very successful
Club Auction held last Friday evening!...We cant thank Chip Margelli enough for the
excellent auctioneer performance! OPs thank
Robbie KB6CJZ for help wid auction procedures. AF6C
exercised his plumbing skills on 2 errant water faucets. E=h?
seems to be the basic formula to use in particle physics when we consider particles to be
wave bundles vibrating with definite frequencies, while E=mc2 does nicely when
we deal wid ordinary matter, says IXN. JTT
sigs were S7 at IXNs QTH. OML, UG, and
IXN find the overcast WX a bit depressing, and, Gene will be off to Vegas next week. AF6C and DLA had 20 Talking Book machines to
service at Braille Institute today
Tnx, guys! MEC
was down in the QRN at IXNs QTH but Clems corn stalks in the garden were
almost as high as the house! ATB, AF6C, and
IXN & brother, Lee, are all Ace Hardware visitors now and then.
10/23/13
2m Phone Net - WB6IXN turned on the rig wid nothing familiar on
the screen! IXN still doesnt know what
happened! The rig had to be reset for 2m
operation! In the meantime, Corey, KE6YHX,
called the Net to order, and, he checked in W6JTT, AF6C, KJ6OML, WB6IXN (finally), W6ATB,
and KA6TIM(Tim) in Pasadena. IXN did not get
many notes but did hear JTT plan to be doing antenna work at the mountain QTH next week,
and, joined OPs in a short discussion on computers making life and death decisions. OPs welcomed TIM to the Net and we hope he will
join us on future Nets! We thank Corey for taking NC duties during IXNs predicament!
10/30/13
10m Phone Net
W6ZE/AF6C/KE6YHX
checked in KE6YHX, W6ATB, WØRXX(Don), W6HHC, and WB6IXN.
KE6YHX then took over as NC so AF6C could continue to watch Boston win the
World Series. YHX made his first Japan contact
on Mt. Fuji on 10m! ATB, on the 10m vertical
tonite, has low noise tonite, and Greg frequently operates on the 10m band. Don-RXX, back back from a 5 yr lull in operating,
found 10 & 15m jam-packed over last weekend!...Don, in Irvine, operates mostly DX. IXN had a problem getting the rig back on frequency
Success
finally! HHC says DATV boards will soon be
ready fer sale probably by January 2014. Corey
and Greg asked many questions about what would be required to put together a Digital-ATV
station.
10/30/2013
2m Phone Net
W6ZE/WB6IXN check in WB9YCJ/m, KE6YHX, AF6C, W6ATB, N6NBV, KB6WHV(David), and
KK6FXZ/m. YCJ checked in mobile near Memory
Lane to report a Redsox World Series win. YHX
is now interested in DATV, and IXN commented that he never made a contact on Mt. Fuji,
Japan, as did Corey. AF6C was a loner at
Braille Institute today, but he serviced 14 machines, leaving 2 on charge
Bob talked
to his sister on the East Coast during the World Series game, and Bob wished all OPs a
Happy Halloween. And YHX told ATB to try
Satellite Service DVB-S on his new satellite receiver.
NBV dropped in to say hello wid vy strong sigs, and David, WHV, in
Northridge also had gud sigs at NC. Joe,
KK6FXZ, checked in mobile wid Gud sigs also.