Utah Box Elder Thiokol Amateur Radio Club

Pot Luck and Fox Hunt

2007-07-26T21:41:00.000-06:00

The club is having a pot luck dinner and fox hunt see the calendar for time location and map. You bring a main coarse plates and utensils provided.

Contact Bob AA7TR with any questions

Jamborall Communications Friday May 18th, 2007

2007-05-16T00:09:00.000-06:00

Jamborall Communications Support at the Golden Spike Arena, Ogden Friday May 18th, 2007

What is needed: There will be a need on Friday for 18-25 people for communications support from 3 pm to 9 pm. They will use as many as we can send and fill in from other areas where needed.

Where to checkin: There will be a Mobile Command post at one of the Terraces. Check in there upon arrival.

Radio Frequencies: 146.90 repeater, pl tone of 123.0 and simplex 145.67. Please set your radio to access the repeater before the event.
The repeater will be monitored. Use this if you need directions to the command post as you are nearing the fairgrounds.

When to be there: Several people will be needed at 3 pm. The rest as soon as you can arrive. Deloss, Brad, Sandra, Boyd, Doris and Mary have currently offered to be there early. Troop checkins begin at 4 pm with most between 5 and 6 pm.

What to bring:
HT with enough battery for up to 6 hours.
Notepad, pencil.
Water, other fluids, food
Hat, chair, sunscreen.
Flashlight

It may be hot if there is blacktop where you are. You will need to be self-sufficient for the time you are volunteering.

Click on icon below for map and instruction on how to get to Jamborall

Club News From the Party

2007-02-26T21:08:00.000-07:00

New Club Leaders Elected.

President: Bob Anderson AA7TR
Facilitator: Lauren Woods NO7C
Treasurer: Bob Haynie KC7JO

Repeater near Fielding is getting closer to reality.
Technician and General upgrade classes are slated for March.

Thanks to Last Years Officers
President: Bob Haynie KC7JO
Facilitator: Deloss Everton W7TEU
Treasurer: Bob Anderson AA7TR

I will be working to try and update the website

An Opertunity to help the Boy Scouts this Spring

2006-12-19T23:21:00.000-07:00

On May 18-19th, at the Weber County Fair Grounds, the Trapper Trails Council of the Boy Scouts will be holding a Centenial Jamborall. This is a camping and exhibot event. We as a council expect a very large group of scouts and scouters of all ages.

We need help to communicate and pass information assisted by Hams. The council jamborall chairman is Ray Page from Ogden I think. He has asked to get help and volunteers to help over the two day event.

Will you please post on the UBET web site the info. If you go to Trapper trails.org the info is on the web site for the council.

There will be a need for command post and remote locations at the fair gounds to help pass info from sites to the chairman etc.

thanks,

Reed A Summers K7RAS

FCC Releases Report and Order in "Morse Code" Proceeding

2006-12-19T23:16:00.000-07:00

Attention All Amateurs... FCC Releases Report and Order in "Morse Code" Proceeding (Dec 19, 2006) -- The FCC has issued the complete Report and Order (R&O) in the "Morse code" proceeding, WT Docket 05-235. The R&O follows fast on the heels of the Commission's December 15 public notice announcing the elimination of the Morse code exam requirement for all Amateur Radio license classes. The R&O also addresses the ARRL's request to eliminate the disparity between "Tech Plus" licensees (Technicians with Element 1 Morse credit) and Technician licensees -- present and future -- who have not passed a Morse code test.
Full Story

FCC to Drop Morse Testing for All Amateur License Classes

2006-12-17T20:19:00.000-07:00

Attention All Amateurs... End of an Era: FCC to Drop Morse Testing for All Amateur License Classes (Dec 15, 2006 [REVISED Dec 15, 2006 23:33 ET]) -- NEWINGTON, CT, Dec 15, 2006 -- In an historic move, the FCC has acted to drop the Morse code requirement for all Amateur Radio license classes. The Commission today adopted, but hasn't yet released, the long-awaited Report and Order (R&O) in WT Docket 05-235, the "Morse code" proceeding. Also today, the FCC adopted an Order on Reconsideration in WT Docket 04-140 -- the "omnibus" proceeding -- modifying the Amateur Radio rules in response to an ARRL request to accommodate automatically controlled narrowband digital stations on 80 meters in the wake of rule changes that became effective today at 12:01 AM Eastern Time. The Commission said it will designate the 3585 to 3600 kHz frequency segment for such operations, although the segment will remain available for CW, RTTY and data as has been. In a break from what's been the usual practice in Amateur Radio proceedings, the FCC only issued a public notice at or about the close of business today and not the actual Report & Order, so some details -- including the effective dates of the two orders -- remain uncertain. Currently, Amateur Radio applicants for General and higher class licenses have to pass a 5 WPM Morse code test to operate on HF. Today's R&O will eliminate that requirement all around.
Full Story

November Club Meeting

2006-12-03T19:57:00.000-07:00

Club is working on a new repeater for the fielding area that will be connected to the other two existing repeaters.
Requests were made for what people would be interested in doing next year as a club. Several discussions took place including some interest in learning Morse code.

KD7OUP (Please post comments with what I missed)

FCC Corrects J2D Error in "Omnibus" Report and Order

2006-12-03T19:54:00.000-07:00

FCC Corrects J2D Error in "Omnibus" Report and Order (Nov 28, 2006) -- The FCC today released an Erratum that corrects one error in the recent Report and Order (R&O) in WT Docket 04-140 -- the so-called "omnibus" Amateur Radio proceeding -- that inadvertently limited J2D emissions to an occupied bandwidth of 500 Hz. J2D emissions are data sent by modulating an SSB transmitter. Had it been left to stand, the error would have rendered illegal below 30 MHz PACTOR III at full capability as well as Olivia and MT63 when operated at bandwidths greater than 500 Hz bandwidth, 1200 baud packet, Q15X25 and Clover 2000.
Full Story

FCC ERRATUM NEW BUREAU

2006-11-15T18:02:00.000-07:00

Matter of Establishment of the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau
And Other Organizational Changes

ERRATUM
Adopted: November 13, 2006 Released: November 14, 2006
By the Commission:
On September 25, 2006, the Commission released an Order, FCC 06- 35.
This erratum corrects several errors in the released text as follows:
34. Section 97.401 is amended by revising paragraph (b) to read as follows:
§ 97.401 Operation during a disaster.
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(b) When a disaster disrupts normal communication systems in a particular area,
the FCC may declare a temporary state of communication emergency.
The declaration will set forth any special conditions and special rules
to be observed by stations during the communication emergency. A request
for a declaration of a temporary state of emergency should be directed
to the Chief, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau.

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FCC "Omnibus" Amateur Radio R&O Published in Federal Register, Takes Effect December 15

2006-11-15T17:40:00.000-07:00

EVISED Nov 15, 2006 15:50 ET

FCC "Omnibus" Amateur Radio R&O Published in Federal Register, Takes Effect December 15

NEWINGTON, CT (November 15, 2006) -- Just a little over a month after the Federal Communications Commission released the Report and Order (R&O) in the so-called "Omnibus" Amateur Radio proceeding, WT Docket 04-140 (FCC 06-149) to the public, a revised version appeared today in the Federal Register. The changes in the R&O will take effect Friday, December 15, at 12:01 AM EST, 30 days after its publication.

As expected, the Report & Order as published this morning clarified two items that had raised some concerns when it was first released last month: That the 80/75 meter band split applies to all three IARU Regions, and that FCC licensees in Region 2, which includes North America, can continue to use RTTY/data emissions in the 7.075-7.100 MHz band.

Still to be resolved are three controversial aspects of the Proceeding:

Expansion of the 75 meter phone band all the way down to 3600 kHz (thus reducing the privileges of General, Advanced and Amateur Extra class licensees, who had RTTY/data privileges in the 80 meter band, and CW privileges of General and Advanced class licensees)
The elimination of J2D emissions, data sent by modulating an SSB transmitter, of more than 500 Hz bandwidth (thus making PACTOR III at full capability illegal), and
The elimination of access to the automatic control RTTY/data subband at 3620-3635 kHz.

The ARRL Board is discussing the possibility of a petition to reconsider several items in the R&O.

ARRL Regulatory Information Specialist Dan Henderson, N1ND, commented: "The release of the R&O in the Federal Register has started the countdown clock. We are all looking forward to being able to use the refarmed frequencies starting on December 15. We are still anxiously awaiting the release of the Report and Order for 05-235, the Morse Code Proceeding. We are hopeful that the Commission will be able to move on that petition and address the outstanding issues in the Omnibus R&O soon."

For more information, see the band chart [917,715 bytes, PDF] and the Frequently Asked Questions on WT Docket No. 04-140. Both have been updated to reflect the R&O as it was published in the Federal Register.

Club has a new web address

2006-11-05T00:54:00.000-07:00

We now have an easy to remember web address www.ubetarc.org/

ARRL Says "Attention All Amateurs..."

2006-10-31T22:00:00.000-07:00

League Seeks FCC's WRC-07 Support for 150-kHz 60-Meter Amateur Allocation (Oct 31, 2006) -- The ARRL wants the FCC to throw its support behind a Draft Proposal seeking to have World Radiocommunication Conference 2007 (WRC-07) delegates consider a worldwide, secondary Amateur Radio allocation from 5260 kHz to 5410 kHz. The ARRL included the request in comments it filed October 27 in IB Docket 04-286, "Recommendations approved by the Advisory Committee for the 2007 World Radiocommunication Conference." WRC-07 Agenda Item 1.13 will review allocations to all services between 4 and 10 MHz. The League told the FCC that a contiguous band of frequencies in the range of 5 MHz is an important goal of the amateur community -- domestically and internationally.Full Story

November Testing Session

2006-10-30T12:54:00.001-07:00

Their will be a November Testing Session in Tremonton Ut. at the Public Works Building on Rocket Road

July 15, 2006 Exercise Assignments Tremonton

2006-07-12T21:45:00.000-06:00

1. Central Command Laron W. NO7C and Ron A. N7RNA

2. Fire Dept. Command Wayne J. AB7TS and Bob A. AA7TR

3. Bear River Health Dept. Norm M. and N7HZB Brent L. KD7VXV

4. Bear River Hospital Deloss E. W7TEU and Sharon A. KD7VYA and Gary F. K7GJF

5.Red Cross Shelter Brad F. KE7DEJQ and Sandra F. KE7EHJ

6. Autoliv Jim A. KD7UTS

7. Intertape Polymer Dave C. KD7OUP and Ashley C. KE7BFR

8. Malt-O-Meal Jerry S. KE7DJN and Loren L. KD7UTQ

9. LaZBoy Richard E KE7DJO

10. CERT teams Daniel F. KE7CAM

General Instructions

Remember that you are working for the Agency you are assigned to.
Log traffic. Even if it seems unimportant.
Include the Recipient, the station called and the time. Time is recorded in Military time.
Frequencies to be used:
Primary 146.480; Secondary 147.480; Brigham City repeater, 145.290 if needed.
Report to your agency at the time they asked you to come. If you have not been given a specific time, then call me (Central Command) around 8:30 for an update. Fire Dept. Command assignments should show up around 8:00. Hospital: show up a few minutes before 8:00. You will begin receiving injured people by then.
Others are to be assigned by the development of the exercise. Understand, in a real disaster, you would need to be notified at home, have travel and set up time before you operate. We don’t know exactly where some will set up, such as BRHD trailer. It will be positioned where the facilitators put it.
Remember that we are being watched, look good, sound good, and we will shine.
If you have any questions the morning of the exercise, we are planning to be set up by 7:45.
Have Fun!! This is supposed to be a fun exercise.

Attention All Amateurs...

2006-06-22T17:01:00.000-06:00

Arizona ARES requests clear frequencies if needed for fire emergency (Jun 22, 2006) -- Given the heavy HF activity anticipated during Field Day weekend, Arizona Section Emergency Coordinator Rick Aldom, W7STS, has requested that radio amateurs steer clear of the ARES net frequencies of 7248 kHz (days) and 3992 kHz (night) and The Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network (SATERN) frequency of 3977.7 kHz. These frequencies may be used for Arizona fire-related emergency traffic, if necessary. He notes that since the HF operation would employ NVIS (near-vertical incidence skywave) antennas, stations outside Arizona may not be able to hear any emergency nets. Aldom says he expects that most emergency communication will take place on VHF and UHF repeaters, however.

Helping out and Learning While About, Tour De Cure

2006-06-13T23:32:00.000-06:00

What an opportunity to help and learn at the same time. Once a year the Local area amateurs of Box Elder County and surrounding Area get a chance to help out with Tour De Cure a bike race designed to promote Health and race funds to find a cure for diabetes. If you think about it some one you know either a family member or friend or fellow ham may have the disease. I have serveral friend and family members with type I and type II so this race has some meaning to me personally. This year we did a good job most of things went right. We all learned some things we can do to make things better next year. Nobody I have talked or heard on the net had major complaints.

I don't have a summary to post yet but, if you look below this posting you will see a comment button if you click on it you can make comments about what I have said and about last Saturday. So I look forward to seeing some comments

73

KD7OUP

Riley Hollingsworth to Amateur Radio Community: "Lighten up!"

2006-05-26T12:41:00.000-06:00

Riley Hollingsworth to Amateur Radio Community: "Lighten up!" (May 24, 2006) -- FCC Special Counsel for Enforcement Riley Hollingsworth advised those attending the FCC forum at Dayton Hamvention 2006 to try kindness instead of confrontation when problems arise on the bands. Hollingsworth spoke May 20 to a nearly full house at Hara Arena, and for the most part he praised the behavior of the majority of Amateur Radio operators, especially those who volunteered in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina last year. But, he noted, radio amateurs still could be more courteous and less inclined to fly off the handle at some perceived on-the-air offense.Full Story

Looks Good To Me!

2006-05-19T22:00:00.000-06:00

After I learn how to do this it will be a good way to keep everyone up to date with what is going on or in the plans.
I will have to talk with KD7OUP about some of the details of this blog but it does look promising.

Training and what do you think

2006-05-19T00:44:00.000-06:00

After visiting with NO7C I plan to add some training information to the web site after I fix some of the other information that is broken or out of date

What think ye so far ?

73

KD7OUP

Club Web site

2006-03-30T21:25:00.000-07:00

To those who read this, the club web page is under construction Bob and I will be replacing the old information that is wrong and out of date stay tuned in

Testing Blog

2006-03-30T10:42:00.000-07:00

I hope this works!
Looks good Dave!
Need to correct a few things.
I'll make a list and get it to you.
Thanks,
Bob

We are Testing this Blog Page

2006-03-25T01:50:00.000-07:00

Watch for changes