Walter Emerson Peck, NB5TX Extra Class Ham
Funeral arrangements are complete at Zoeller Funeral Home for Walter Emerson Peck, who passed away on Wednesday (8/18/2010) at his residence at age 64.
Visitation will be from 5:30 until 8:30 p.m. Monday (8/23/2010) at Zoeller Funeral Home, with the family present to greet friends. Funeral services will be Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010, at 10 a.m. at Oakwood Baptist Church. Interment will follow in Hill Country Memorial Gardens.
The Chapparal Amateur Radio Club, CARC-ARES, in Seguin will be changing its weekly net effective Tuesday, August 17 from its current time of 2000 hrs on Thursday to 1900 hrs on Tuesday except for the second Tuesday of each month which is the clubs regular meeting night.
The purpose of the net is to promote the interests and activities of CARC and Guadalupe County ARES. It, however is not an ARES net and announcements of events of interest to hams in the surrounding areas are welcome.
The net convenes on the club repeater which operates of a frequency of 146.76 MHz with a negative offset and a PL tone of 141.3 in Seguin / Guadalupe County.
de Joe W4CTH
Be a part of this first of it’s kind competition! Rick Palm of the ARRL ARES E-Letter says of this event: “this is a cool idea!” and is including info about it in the August ARES E-Letter. He will be sent the results for possible ARRL publication. Your last chance to sign up. Get a team together.
TALK-NET PICNIC
DATE: JULY 17, 2010
TIME: 10:30 AM TO 2:30 PM
PLACE: Elks Club 15650 MARKET HILL
SAN ANTONIO, TX 78256
(Outside Loop 1604, near La Cantera Parkway)
We look forward to seeing you at the VE session for the Talk-Net Annual Picnic. Below I’ve listed information about our upcoming test session and what to bring.
Sorry for the delays, folks. Been a busy little bee lately and haven’t had time to post any stories or photos from last month’s Field Day events around the area… I’ve gotten photos sent to me from the AARO FD event from at least 2 hams, and have access to photos from KARS, GVARC and possibly one or two others. I keep extending invitations to folks to register and post their own stories / photos direct on this blog, but so far only a handful have accepted that offer. I can only spend a finite amount of my time collecting and posting, in between family duties and earning a living.
I’ll try to get these up later this week.
73 de Lee N5NTG
1.Object: To work as many amateur stations in as many different 2 degrees by 1 degree grid squares as possible using authorized frequencies above 50 MHz. Foreign stations work W/VE amateurs only.
2. Date and Contest Period: The second full weekend in June. Begins 1800 UTC Saturday, ends 0300 UTC Monday (June 12-14, 2010).
It’s almost that time of year again, the annual trek north up IH-35 to Plano, to attend the largest Hamfest in Texas.
HamCom 2010 will be Friday, June 11th and Saturday, June 12th. But if you want the best deals from the flea market areas, you best be there on Friday morning when they open. The event is more crowded on Saturday, for obvious reasons, but most of the vendors arrive on Thursday night, or Friday morning, ready to wheel and deal.
Parking is free, admission is $10 at the door. Hotel room info is available from the event website, www.hamcom.org by clicking on the Hotels link.
Lee, Just wanted to say thank you for all the hard work you put into the ride. It was my first time setting up and operating a field station on my own. Learned some valueble lessons, hope to do it again soon.
Thanks again, John – KD5ZEW
Voice: Yaesu FT-100d @ 5~10w into a 5/8 mag-mount at 6′ AGL
Data/APRS: Yaesu ft-1500m, 6db base antenna @ 30’+ AGL.
Power Supply: 125hr Deep Cycle Flooded Lead-acid Battery.
Pictures from TdC 2010 Day 1 Rest stop 6 where John KD5ZEW was located.
D1 Finish Line- Unicycle
Here is a collection of 56 photos taken by Lee N5NTG at the San Marcos Finish Line on Day 1, on the road on Day 2 from various rest stops and the Austin Finish Line.
I saw at least two of these uni-cycles on both days, this one (in photo) and one other. Unicycle riders have to peddle 100% of the time, no coasting, no shifting gears, oops, no steering wheel at all. Just their inate sense of balance and lots of forward movement. On Day 2, the other unicycle rider was zipping down the road, so we stopped on the side of the road to shoot some video of him. He waved and then stopped next to my mini-van and held on to its luggage rack, saying “you just knew I needed a break, didn’t you?” He rested for a few minutes and then went on to finish.
Click on thumbnails for a larger view.
Photos by Greg Lewis, N5XO, taken at the Day 1 Start Line at Retama Park. Other operators present at the Start Line were Ruth Lewis KE5HMU, and Dave Espinoza W5QS who ran net control until the San Marcos Finish Line was able to take over that morning. Click on thumbnail photo for larger views.
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