Fallbrook Amateur Radio Club Bulletin
April 2024
We Will Be Doing A Live Meeting April 6
Members To Get Email Invite
Visitors Will Need To Contact Webmaster.
And Zoom If Everything Works.
[email protected]
The Fallbrook Amateur Radio Club normally meet at 3:00 PM on the first Saturday of the month.
Normal Meeting Location, The Scout Hut, 231 E. Hawthorne St. Map
This Months Meeting Agenda
- Avocado Festival, April 21
- FARC – Talk, Email List
Fallbrook Amateur Radio Renewals
| Name | Call | Date Expires | |
| Third Notice | |||
| Lopez, Charles | WK3Y | 1/31/2024 | |
| Second Notice | |||
| Rideout, Arthur | WA6IPD | 2/29/2024 | |
| Eyerman, James | KI6OHO | 2/29/2024 | |
| Baker, Noel | KI6QYU | 2/29/2024 | |
| First Notice | |||
| Stubbs, Charles | KK6OBH | 3/31/2024 | |
| Rasp, Frederick | KN6YDQ | 3/31/2024 |
Upcoming Local Events
– Avocado Festival, April 21
– Field Day 2024, June 22-23
Upcoming ARES & Community Events
Join ARES to get more information. https://www.sdgares.net/
April 6, 2024 General Upgrade Class @ Pacific Beach https://www.sandiegohamclasses.com
April 13, 2024 @ 0800 ARES In-Person Meeting at Sharp Spectrum (with drill prep & HIPAA refresher by Bruce AG6X)
April 13, 2024 Hams support Oriflamme 50K Endurance Run on Mt Laguna
April 27 Big Bear Mini-Hamcation at Big Bear Lake, CA (https://bigbearminihamcation.com)
April 30, 2024 (Tuesday) @ 0800 ARES Hospital Drill
May 4, 2024 Tech Cram Class https://www.sandiegohamclasses.com/
May 11, 2024 @ 0800 ARES In-Person Meeting at Sharp Spectrum (with drill post-ex)
May 11, 2024 Hams support PCT50 Mile Ultra in East County
May 18, 2024 ARES Communicator Gateway (GOTA) @ Kearny Mesa Rec Center
June 1, 2024 Tech Cram Class https://www.sandiegohamclasses.com/
June 7, 2024 (Friday) Hams support SD100 Mile Ultra running event in East County
June 8, 2024 ARES In-Person Meeting at Sharp Spectrum
June 8, 2024 ARRL VHF Contest https://www.arrl.org/june-vhf
June 22, 2024 ARRL Field Day https://www.arrl.org/field-day
June 22, 2024 Hams support Black Mtn 50K in Rancho Penasquitos
July 13, 2024 Hams support The Peak 50K at Cuyamaca State Park
News & Views
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FALLBROOK 10 METER NET Every Wednesday evening 7:30pm 28.340 USB Ruben KD6CWI Net control Join the group for a good rag chew.
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Gigaparts New Store Huntsville Alabama
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Audio Innovator Bob Heil Dies
We have lost another great innovator perhaps best known in Amateur Radio circles for manufacturing excellent microphones (among other things). Bob Heil has died at age 83.
radioworld.com
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It turns out that Odysseus landed on the Moon without any altimetry data
$30 doorbell cameras have multiple serious security flaws, says Consumer Reports
After collecting $22 million, AlphV ransomware group stages FBI takedown
arstechnica.com
Makes you wonder if the affiliate that got stiffed by AlphV is going to come back to Change Healthcare for further ransom payments.
Automakers tracking drivers, sharing data with car insurance companies
foxbusiness.com
I don’t think “sharing” is the right word, more like “selling”.
I”ve been saying for a while now that this is the next big source of revenue for automakers.
Car Companies Are Tracking You and Selling Your Data
A better description of what’s happening by Steve Lehto.
Finally, engineers have a clue that could help them save Voyager 1
Disabling cyberattacks” are hitting critical US water systems, White House warn
Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys
arstechnica.com
Ah, the perils of hardware implementations. Probably better done in a FPGA at a small sacrifice in speed.
Meeting Minutes
Fallbrook Amateur Radio Club
Roy Noon Meeting Hall, Fallbrook, California
March 2, 2024
President Ron Patten, KG6HSQ, called the meeting to order at 1502 hrs.
The pledge of allegiance was conducted by Ron, KG6HSQ.
Brent, KJ6UMY, gave the following financial report:
| Checking Balance January 31, 2023 | $7,756.81 |
| Petty Cash Balance January 31, 2023 | $411.81 |
| Total | $8,168.62 |
FEBRUARY INCOME |
|
| Membership Dues | $100.00 |
| Total | $100.00 |
FEBRUARY EXPENSES |
|
| Insurance |
$200.00
|
| Total | $200.00 |
PETTY CASH |
|
| Petty Cash Balance January 31, 2023 | $411.81 |
| Cash Additions | $0.00 |
| Total | $411.81 |
| Checking Balance February 29, 2023 | $7,756.81 |
| Petty Cash Balance February 29, 2023 | $411.81 |
| Total | $8,168.62 |
Ron, KG6HSQ, reminded members to check their spam filter if they are not receiving club emails. Also they must accept the invitation to join the email lists.
Ron, KG6HSQ, introduced the new FARC-Talk email list. Generating or responding to an email on this list allows you to send an email to all FARC users on the list without needing individual addresses.
Ron, KG6HSQ, reported that the repeater’s 440 receiver was offline on last Monday due to power switching associated with the weekly generator test. This required a manual power reset on the mountain by Ron. An investigation will be made into the reset circuitry to eliminate the problem.
Ron, KG6HSQ, reminded repeater users to always identify when keying up.
Ron, KG6HSQ, reported that Dreamhost, our web hosting service, has reconfigured its servers and the performance of the FARC website is much improved.
Ron, KG6HSQ, pointed to new features on the members list posted on the FARC website.
Columns on the list show whether the member is signed up for the mailing list and is a member of ARES. Ron will add a column for to indicate members signed up for FARC Talk.
Ron, KG6HSQ, reported that sign-ups for the Avocado Festival are ahead of schedule with 390
sign-up for 455 booths as of a month ago. The next organizer’s meeting is next week. Hams wishing to sign up to work the Festival should email Ron.
Ron, KG6HSQ, updated us on his local RFI problem. SDGE has visited to assess the problem and is submitting a work order. The SDGE rep indicated that they found the FARC Broadcastify feed valuable during fires.
Brent, KJ6UMY, gave a presentation on Transmission Lines. Bob, W6VR, provided insight into several practical transmission lines used by radio stations and how they deal with the VSWR created by changes in direction.
President Ron Patten, KG6HSQ, adjourned that meeting at 1555 hrs.
Brent Dussia, KJ6UMY
Secretary/Treasurer
Fallbrook Amateur Radio Club