UCARES

Title: Orem Summer Fest
Location: Orem City Park
Link out: Click here
Description: Parade
Fireworks
Date: 2009-06-13

The Timpanogos Emergency Response Team (TERT) Outdoor Training will be meeting on Saturday, May 30 (the weekend after Memorial Day) at the Theater In The Pines at Aspen Grove at 09:00-13:00.  This counts as a UCARES SET.  Come see how ham radio supports TERT.  For more info on them, go to www.TERT.org  .

The UCARES Woman’s Net  will be Tuesday, May 19th at 7pm on the 147.340 (100.0 Hz) repeater.

May 5th at 1900 HRS will be Interface. The Orem City Fire Marshall will arrange a lecture and instruction night on firework safety and what we will need to know regarding the Orem City Fire Works Display at the end of May. All of those planning to volunteer for this event or for the July 24th fireworks event in Spanish Fork, need to be at this meeting.

The fault on the 147.34MHz UCARES repeater has been repaired and the repeater can now be used normally. Don’t forget that the 147.28MHz and 145.23MHz repeaters are open for use too. Weekly training nets will continue on the .34 repeater.

Thanks to the repeater committee members who made the trips to the repeater sites to restore service.

Due to problems with .34 and .23 repeaters, the Thursday night RACES Net will be on the 449.475 repeater (negative offset) 100.0 Hz.

Due to a fault on the 147.34MHz UCARES repeater please refrain from using the repeater until further notice. Instead, use the 147.28MHz repeater (positive offset, 141.3Hz tone). For the time-being the 147.28MHz repeater will be the primary choice for UCARES weekly training nets unless otherwise advised.

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With Field Day just around the corner it is time to prepare for another great event. This year we are adding several more stations to the roster which will provide plenty of opportunity for everyone to participate and experience a variety of aspects to our hobby. At this point the needs we have can be summed up in two categories:

1. Volunteers – we need your time and expertise.
2. Equipment – we need your radios and other items to facilitate the event.

There are two primary roles that need staffing and we have plenty of places for people to fill. They are:

Control Operators

The control operators will be responsible to help new hams and non-hams with making contacts on the radio, they play an “elmering” role if you will. A control operator needs to be legally licensed to operate on the frequencies we’ll be using for Field Day and therefore should hold a minimum of a General Class license. Control Operators will staff their station for a 4 hour period from 12:00 to 16:00 Hours or 16:00 to 20:00 Hours. The list of Stations (modes) is:

• Phone 20 Meters (QRP)     [2 Open Positions]
• Phone 40 Meters (QRP)     [2 Open Positions]
• Phone 20 Meters (100w)     [2 Open Positions]
• Phone 40 Meters (100w)     [2 Open Positions]
• GOTA 20 Meters     [2 Open Positions]
• GOTA 40 Meters     [2 Open Positions]
• CW     [2 Open Positions]
• PSK31     [Filled]
• Packet     [Filled]
• APRS     [Filled]
• Information Booth     [Filled]
• Service Monitor     [Filled]

To volunteer send an email to: scott@w1byu.net

Host/Instructors

The Hosts will play a key role in standing just outside of each station and inviting people to stop by and learn a little something about Amateur Radio (for the first half of the day this will be the BSA Radio Communications merit badge). After each presentation the Host will encourage participants to sit down with the Control Operator and have a try at talking on the radio. This role is key since many people are curious but without some encouragement and reassurance they’re afraid to get on the air. Hosts will staff their station for a 2 hour period as follows:

12:00 – 14:00     [8 Open Positions]

14:00 – 16:00     [8 Open Positions]

16:00 – 18:00     [8 Open Positions]

18:00 – 20:00     [8 Open Positions]

To volunteer send an email to: scott@w1byu.net

Field Day 2009 – June 27th & 28th

Dear Field Day Participant:

Field Day… For the Fun of It!
We all became hams for our own reasons. Some of us were interested in public service and
helping others in times of need. Many discovered the hobby as an outlet to their curiosity about
electronics and communications. Still others joined our ranks because of the quest to meet new people
and expand their own personal bank of knowledge.

Whatever the reason you became an amateur, there is one compelling thread that brought us all
together in this fraternity of amateur radio. It is as simple as can be:

We became hams for the FUN of the hobby!

And while it serves a wide array of interests and purposes, there is no greater FUN-damental goal
for Field Day than to HAVE FUN! While it encompasses a broad range of amateur radio interests – CW,
Phone, Digital, emergency preparedness, public service, satellites, recruitment, antennas, new and vintage
equipment, and so many more – Field Day is, above all else, a chance for us to have some fun with our
hobby. After all, while it is a regulated service and there are serious aspects to our use of the bands, the
true “amateur spirit” of our hobby (defined by Paul Segal, W9EEA, back in 1928 in “The Amateur’s
Code”) is found in “slow and patient operating when requested; friendly advice and counsel to the
beginner; kindly assistance, cooperation and consideration for the interests of others.”

Fun is where YOU find it in this hobby. Some will discover the fun by operating overnight
building up their club’s total number of QSOs. Others will never make a single Field Day contact but
will derive their fun by helping set-up antennas and generators. The joy of sharing your radio
knowledge to a newcomer will be fun for many old-timers while other old-timers will experience the
“Field Day high” when they make their very first QSO using a new digital mode or via one of the
amateur radio satellites. The camaraderie of the annual club Field Day picnic covered dish supper will be
a fun highlight for many, while still others will find the joy in the hobby by simply being able to spend a
couple of hours from home on an otherwise busy weekend tuning the bands and making a few contacts.

Now is the time to start preparing. There are no significant rule changes for Field Day 2009. So
no matter how you choose to participate, let the planning and adventure begin. Try something new! Get
newcomers involved! Test your skills and limits. But what ever you do, remember the first and most
important element of Field Day is HAVE SOME FUN!

See you on the air June 27th and 28th. 73!

Dan Henderson, N1ND
ARRL Field Day Manager

Monday, April 20th is the Orem City Mock Disaster, 10:00-16:00 at Timpanogos Hospital

More information on this event can be found at http://www.mmserc.net/MMSERC/Emergency_Exercises.html 

April 4-5 Weekend, the major newspapers had a handbook,  ”Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country (Utah edition)”  A pdf format can be found at  http://www.earthquakecountry.info/roots/