Cancelled: Arlington County Net

This event has been cancelled.

When:
Tuesday, 21 January 2020
7:00pm to 8:00pm
(UTC-05:00) America/New York

Where:
W4WVP 145.470 repeater

Description:

Cancelled: Arlington County Net

This event has been cancelled.

When:
Tuesday, 17 December 2019
7:00pm to 8:00pm
(UTC-05:00) America/New York
Repeats: Daily

Where:
W4WVP 145.470 repeater

Description:

Melissa Pore, KM4CZN, of Vienna, Virginia, is the 2020 recipient of the Carole Perry Educator of the Year Award, Orlando HamCation has announced.

http://www.arrl.org/news/view/melissa-pore-km4czn-is-2020-carole-perry-educator-of-the-year-award-recipient

As was announced on this week's Arlington County Net, the annual Christmas Party will be held on *MONDAY, Dec. 16th* , not Tuesday Dec. 17th as previously announced.

Venue is the same: Glory Days Grill, 3141 Duke St., Alexandria VA

Time: 6 p.m.

I can't commit to 12/17, but I can do the infamous "fifth Tuesday," which
this year is New Year's Eve. A double whammy.

Paul / KI4PW

On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 11:22 PM Michael Callaham via Groups.Io <vze32sw5=
verizon.net@groups.io> wrote:

With the December Party now scheduled for Monday, December 16, and the
December business meeting already history, we will have an unusual
third-Tuesday Arlington County Net on December 17. Would you like to be Net
Control Station?

First-timers are invited; there's a <a href="http://www.w4wvp.org/net.php">recommended
Net Preamble (script)</a> to use, and a veteran Net Comtrol Station
operator will be on frequency to act as back-up. NCS veterans are also
invited to volunteer.
We'll also need a volunteer to air Amateur Radio Newsline at 7pm, before
the net. Any volunteers for that?
If you wish to volunteer as Net Control Station or newscaster, please
email nw3v [at] arrl [dot] org .

With the December Party now scheduled for Monday, December 16, and the December business meeting already history, we will have an unusual third-Tuesday Arlington County Net on December 17. Would you like to be Net Control Station?

First-timers are invited; there's a <a href="http://www.w4wvp.org/net.php">recommended Net Preamble (script)</a> to use, and a veteran Net Comtrol Station operator will be on frequency to act as back-up. NCS veterans are also invited to volunteer.
We'll also need a volunteer to air Amateur Radio Newsline at 7pm, before the net. Any volunteers for that?
If you wish to volunteer as Net Control Station or newscaster, please email nw3v [at] arrl [dot] org  .

The weekly Thursday brunch at Silver Diner in Clarendon, 10 am - 12 pm, is canceled on Thanksgiving Day and will resume on Thursday, December 5.

Business meeting:

Date: Tuesday, Dec. 3, 7pm
Location: Knights of Columbus, 5115 Little Falls Rd., Arlington

Holiday Party:

Tuesday, Dec. 17
Location: Glory Days Grill, 3141 Duke St., Alexandria, VA

https://www.glorydaysgrill.com/locations/virginia/alexandria-commons/?locid=30

Watch this space for additional details about the Holiday Party. All
members, spouses, significant others, and visitors/guests are welcome to
attend.

----
73, KI4PW / Paul, Club Secretary

The following officers were elected last evening to serve the club for the next year, for terms expiring 30 NOV 2020.

President -- Gary Sessums, KC5QCN
Vice-President -- Doug Marshall, KK4QFR
Secretary -- Paul Wilson, KI4PW
Treasurer -- Jack Person, W4JWP
Activities Chair -- vacant

73, KI4PW / Paul

AMSAT OSCAR-7 turns 45. It was launched 11/15/74, and is still in
operation. It has had quite the career, including its clandestine use by
Poland's Solidarity movement in the 1980s.

https://www.amsat.org/two-way-satellites/ao-7/

AMSAT=Amateur Radio Satellite Corp.
OSCAR=Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio

I probably won't be able to attend as I am working on this weekend's SW Radiogram.

I hope you can attend and tell me how it goes.

IEEE will present an event on SDR in Arlington this evening:

https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/208735

The registration link doesn't work for me, so I will just show up. I'm an IEEE member, but I don't think you need to be a member to attend.

The page contains two addresses. The correct address is likely the first one, because that is the Arlington Central Library.

Benn AK4AV

Please join us for the November meeting of the Arlington Amateur Radio Club.

Date/time: November 19, 2019, 7:00-9:00
Location: Knights of Columbus Council Home, 5115 Little Falls Rd.,
Arlington, VA 22207
Program: Business Meeting, Election of 2020 Officers

Talk-in: W4WVP/R: 145.470 MHz, -600 kHz offset, PL 107.2 Hz.

The FCC today requested public comment on a Petition for Declaratory Ruling regarding the transmission on amateur radio frequencies of “effectively encrypted or encoded messages, including messages that cannot be readily decoded over-the-air for true meaning.”

The filing should be of particular interest to anyone involved in Winlink, which it cites as facilitating violations of FCC rules.

The petitioners are New York University professor Ted Rappaport N9NB and retired FCC engineer Mike Marcus N3JMM of Cabin John MD.

The FCC Public Notice is at this link:

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-19-1130A1.pdf

and it contains a link to the petition.

Benn AK4AV

Thanks!

Correction: not after every transmission, but at the end of a
"communication."

97.119 Station Identification.
(a) Each amateur station, except a space station or telecommand station,
must transmit its assigned call sign on its transmitting channel at the end
of each communication, and at least every 10 minutes during a
communication, for the purpose of clearly making the source of the
transmissions from the station known to those receiving the transmissions.
No station may transmit unidentified communications or signals, or transmit
as the station call sign, any call sign not authorized to the station.

On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 11:38 AM Paul Wilson via Groups.Io <dcmcrider=
gmail.com@groups.io> wrote:

I think Benn meant that supporting an event as Pubic Service event does not
exempt operators from giving their FCC-assigned call signs at the end of
every transmission, or every ten minutes.

On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 11:19 AM John Person <
john.person@...>
wrote:

Maybe we could work something out where club members come on every 10
minutes with call sign of Club Station

Jack Person

On Sun, Oct 27, 2019, 10:42 AM Benn Kobb <bkobb@...> wrote:

How is it that the Marathon net using W4WVP gets a free pass to avoid
station ID?

Mile marker numbers and "net control" don't exempt anyone from normal
amateur practice and FCC rules.

AK4AV

I think Benn meant that supporting an event as Pubic Service event does not
exempt operators from giving their FCC-assigned call signs at the end of
every transmission, or every ten minutes.

On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 11:19 AM John Person <john.person@...>
wrote:

Maybe we could work something out where club members come on every 10
minutes with call sign of Club Station

Jack Person

On Sun, Oct 27, 2019, 10:42 AM Benn Kobb <bkobb@...> wrote:

How is it that the Marathon net using W4WVP gets a free pass to avoid
station ID?

Mile marker numbers and "net control" don't exempt anyone from normal
amateur practice and FCC rules.

AK4AV

Jack, the repeater already identifies with club call in CW.

That doesn't exempt other stations from ID.

The FCC recently ruled on this very subject:

http://www.arrl.org/news/fcc-turns-down-petition-to-amend-amateur-radio-identification-rules

Maybe we could work something out where club members come on every 10
minutes with call sign of Club Station

Jack Person