San Antonio Hams

KE6LGE Al Fields Driving Taxi #32 in San Antonio

Al Fields, KE6LGE, member of the Hill Country REACT Team, has taken his people & radio skills to a new height!

Those of us who worked the Tour de Cure these past couple of years, have grown familiar to hearing his melodious voice on the air as net control on the ham radio.     Now, you hardly see him at ham radio  events or meetings, because he’s busy taking folks from point A to point B and then to point C, or back again.  

He’s become an ambassador to San Antonio, picking up rides from the SA Airport, or bringing them in from outlying towns and cities.  Al now drives for Yellow Cab, in a brand new Toyota Sienna mini-van, yellow of course.

Al, who is a former law enforcement officer from both here in San Antonio and Southern California, runs what is called a “micro-node” transmitter from his Taxi, connected to IRLP.  He uses his Motorola 1250 HT to access the micro-node or local repeaters when not driving passengers around.  Al is running on the simplex UHF frequency, 445.500, with no pl tone, but you need to be within 50′ of his taxi (moving target) or connect to another IRLP node to reach him.

Al still operates a fixed base IRLP node at his house, over near Marshall High School on Eckert Road, using the same simplex frequency 445.500, but with a PL tone of 100 required for access. 

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 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