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Callam County ARC
June 10, 2010
George,
W7TTY gave a trip report that he and Nita made to pick up a tower and
trailer assembly. This was an item donated to the club by Bob McClung
WA6KNW of San Jose, Ca. George described a short side trip they made to
the KPH Project at Point Reyes National Seashore, part of the National
Park Service . (No expenses were claimed for this part of the trip).
This included pictures of the facility.
Then George
showed pictures of the trailer and its various features. The trailer is
currently at Nita’s place and will be moved to Johan’s storage lot.
Note: This
trailer was a “get it now” kind of offer. George was offered the
assembly and said he couldn’t use it but that the Club might. The
trailer was located on commercial property and needed to be removed
immediately. The Board was contacted and approved $500 for gas to
get the trailer back to Washington.
The Raffle
Drawing was held for the YASEU FT-990. Thirty-nine tickets were sold and
the winner was……… George Hutchinson, W7TTY. |
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RTTY at Pacificon
2011
Many folks
enjoyed the presentation this month, presented by George Hutchinson,
W7TTY, on itty bitty rtty...hi hi. It's RTTY, but thought the rhyme was
cute. If I started saying exactly what it was, I'd mess it up so bad no
one would come, so learn with you I will. All I know is it's
communications over the Internet to a printer, 24/7, which reads out on
paper. He's tried to explain it to me, and I'm sure most of you
pros know what it is and how it works, but to me it sounds interesting
and I'm always up for new ways to learn how to get and give news, or
communications. Whether we like it or not, it's not 1999 no longer
my friends. New Technology, or even if it is old, let's keep up.
Nita~KE7DRT
CCARC President
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WLO RTTY News is now on the air! Aug 18, 2011
We will run
call bands for the next day or so, and then put on news traffic.
Frequency is 8473.000 KHz. Power is 1000 watts. On-Air time is 24/7.
Signal reports are of great interest to us. Those of you who can hear
and/or copy WLO RTTY NEWS are urged to listen to WLO at various times of
the day and night, and send us an e-mail noting your location (City and
State) the time of day when you hear us, and the signal strength. Please
bear in mind that this is a commercial class of transmission, and the
mark carrier frequency is lower than the space. This is opposite of
amateur RTTY transmission, so you will either have to adjust your
receiving apparatus to use reverse tones, or tune to the UPPER sideband.
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