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NEXT CLUB MEETING:
Guest Speaker:
To be determined. Please stay tuned....
At our last club
meeting... Our guest speaker at our August 4th club meeting
was Mario Badua-KD6ILO. Mario provided an overview of the
Amateur Television (ATV) repeater system that he has been building
in Pierce County. The overview highlighted the different
components including the various transmitters, receivers, scan
convertors, and internet linking between his sites, and California,
as well as the Western Washington Amateur Television Society's
Cougar Mountain repeater site.
List
of our Past Guest Speakers:
Click here.
Map to the club's meeting
place:
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EOC-TO-EOC DRILL ON THE 5th SATURDAY
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On
the Fifth Saturday of the month (when there is one)
is the time for the EOC-to-EOC drill organized by the
Emergency Management Department (EMD) at Camp Murray.
August 30th is the fifth Saturday of the month.
Feel free to participate by checking into the net by calling
Net Control on the 147.040+ (103.5) repeater on Saturday
morning. For more information about the Emergency
Communications Response Team (ECRT), the EOC-to-EOC drill,
or to check out the areas EOC radio rooms, please contact
Jerry Sugden-KC7NA. |
Jerry
Sugden-KC7NA
Phone: 253-838-2615
or via E-mail at ecrt(at)fwarc.org |
11th ANNUAL NORTHWEST APRS SUMMER GATHERING
11th Annual
NWAPRS Summer Gathering will take place at the Valley Camp RV park
in North Bend, WA on September 5th through 7th. The focus
this year will be a of gathering of friends and presentations for
the newbies interested in APRS. Folks are welcomed to bring their
APRS "stuff" and show it off or give individual presentations. Lots
of full-hookup RV, camping, and bunkhouse spaces available. Get your
RSVPs to Thom (K7FZO) and Teena (K9HAV) Proehl, managers of Valley
Camp via k7fzo@arrl.net. Doug/K7IP is coordinating events this year,
and has prepared a nice selection of presentations for us all.
Talk in on APRS or 146.52.
For more information or to learn more about APRS,
please visit the Northwest APRS web site at:
http://www.nwaprs.info/ |
FEDERAL WAY ARC's D-STAR REPEATERS
The FWARC's
D-Star repeaters are on the air! The 2-meter D-Star is
co-channeled on the same repeater pair as our analog
repeater-147.040 (plus offset). The 70-centimeter repeater is
on 443.850 (plus offset). The Federal Way D-Star net starts at
7pm each Sunday evening on the WA7FW-C D-Star repeater (147.040+). For more info, please visit:
http://wa7fw.com, or contact Steve
Hatch-WA7DAD at wa7dad@ fwarc.org.
WA7FW-B 443.850+
WA7FW-C 147.040+ |
PL
TONE DECODE FEATURE
So you
purchased that new radio that you have been drooling over, or maybe
you might have an older radio. You have it programmed with the
correct offset and PL tone to access your favorite repeater.
As you are out driving around town you notice the squelch keeps
breaking no matter how tight you adjust the squelch control.
If your favorite repeater transmits a PL tone, like the FWARC's
147.040 & 146.760 repeaters do, you can program your radio to
decode that transmitted PL tone. This way, you
will only hear your radio's audio when the repeater is keyed up and
transmitting the PL tone to your radio. Check your radio's
user manual to see how to turn on the PL tone decode feature on your
favorite radio. |
Content
Wanted
You
know who you are. You who have something important to pass on to
the membership. You know that it should be located right here on the
website for
all to see, but you haven't gotten around to sending the stuff to
the webmaster. Well, just do it. I am always looking for stuff
to put on the website.
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Federal Way Amateur Radio Club
P.O. Box 23415
Federal Way, WA 98093
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Federal
Way ARC
Repeaters
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147.040 +
146.760 -
442.950 +
All three
repeaters require a PL tone of 103.5 hz.
The Radio Club meets on the
147.040 + repeater each Sunday evening at 7:30 PM. Feel free
to check into our net.
D-Star Repeaters
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443.850+ WA7FW-B
147.040+ WA7FW-C
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UPCOMING EVENTS |
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Sunday
Nights at 7:30PM
The radio club meets on
the air on the 147.040 + repeater for a weekly check-in net.
Feel free to join in.
Tuesday Nights at 7:30PM
Tune in the club's 147.040 repeater to listen
to latest edition of the ARRL Audio News.
2nd
Thursday of the Month
The radio club holds their
monthly club meetings at the Federal Way Church of Christ's
Teen
Center. Board of Trustee's meeting is at 6PM, and general
membership meeting starts 7PM.
Everyone is welcome!
3rd
Thursday of the Month
The Club's Emergency
Communications Response Team (ECRT) meets at 7PM at the
South King Fire & Rescue Station 62.
All are welcome to attend.
4th
Saturday of the Month
Our monthly
breakfast, Hams' & Eggs. Come join us for a good breakfast,
and eyeball-to-eyeball QSO's at 8:30AM at the
Old Country Buffet
behind the Billy McHale's Restaurant.
You guessed it, All Welcome!
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UPCOMING EVENTS
IN 2008
August
30th
EOC-to-EOC Drill
October 3rd - 5th
Pacific Northwest VHF Society
Annual Conference in Moses Lake.
October 25th
Mount Baker Amateur
Radio Club Flea Market in Lynden, WA.
November 29th
EOC-to-EOC Drill
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