The
Federal Way Amateur Radio Club
would like the thank the individuals listed below, and the
organizations that they represent for supporting
our club by serving as our guest speakers.
| Date | Guest Speaker | Topic | Link |
| 2008 | |||
| August | 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. |
KD6ILO Web Site ATV Network WWATVS |
| July | Bonnie Crystal-KQ6XA | Bonnie talked about HF Automatic Link Establishment (ALE) presenting the same power point information she provided at the 2007 IARU Global Amateur Radio Emergency Communications conference. Bonnie will be visiting with the club via SKYPE as she is currently in Hong Kong. | HF Link ALE |
| June | Dan Camp-AF7O | Our guest speaker for our June 12th club meeting was the club's own Dan Camp-AF7O. Dan gave an overview of our upcoming Field Day 2008 activities that will be taking place at the Steel Lake Annex (near the soccer fields on the south side of 312th) during the weekend of June 28th-29th. Dan also provided a demo of the logging software that we will be using to log all of our FD contacts. |
FWARC Field Day 2008 N3FJP Web Site |
| May | Bob Preston-W7TSQ | Bob talked about QSL cards - How to send them & how to receive them, as well as, what makes a good QSL card. Bob has worked various countries such as Tonga, Costa Rica, the Cook Islands, and others. | 7th Area QSL Bureau |
| April | Alan Hughs-KB7SVU | Alan is coordinating the radio communications for the upcoming Tall Ships Tacoma event that takes place on the Tacoma waterfront from July 3rd through July 8th, and provided an overview of role that ham radio will play during this event. | Tacoma Tall Ships |
| March | Dave Swartz-KC7RRH | Dave provided overviews on a number of software programs with primary focus on using Airmail with the SV2AGW packet engine software. | |
| February | John Holmquist-W7WAY | John talked talked about and presented a power point presentation on electrical motors. He has been inducted into the Oregon State University's Engineering Hall of Fame, and appointed by the IEEE as a Distinguished Lecturer. John recently retired from Weyerhaeuser after 56 year of service, and managed over 100,000 motors. John has received his ARRL Life Membership after over 50 years of membership. | OSU College of Engineering |
| January | Dr. Bonnie Dunbar-KD5DCB | Dr. Dunbar is a technician class licensee and a former space shuttle astronaut. As a NASA Mission Specialist, Dr. Dunbar is a veteran of five space shuttle flights and has logged over fifty days in space including serving as Payload Commander on two flights, and docking with the space station MIR. Dr. Dunbar presented a power point presentation about NASA's space shuttle program and talked about her experiences of operating amateur radio from space. |
Dr. Dunbar's
Biography Boeing's Museum of Flight |
| 2007 | |||
| December | Mike Ford-KE7AYE | Mike is a licensed electrician with Fuller Electric, and talked about emergency generators & transfer switches. Mike will provided some insight on getting the right size generator and the right type of transfer switch, as well as touched on "Generator Do's & Don'ts." | Fuller Electric |
| November | None Scheduled | We didn't have any guest speakers scheduled for our November 8th club meeting. However, Mike-N7VWD, the club's Treasurer, presented the club's proposed budget for 2008. The members in attendance approved the budget unanimously. Additionally, Nick-N7QOR and Steve-WA7DAD talked about progress being made with the club's new D-Star repeater system. | |
| October | Nick Sutton-N7QOR | Nick provided a quick overview of how digital voice is accomplished on a RF carrier, and also talked about the club's new Icom D-Star repeater system. | Icom D-Star Web Page |
| September |
Brian Daly-WB7OML Western Washington Medical Services Team |
Brian provided an overview of the Western Washington Medical Services Team. | www.ww7mst.org |
| August | Art Jury - KF7GD | Art is a returning guest speaker talking about Radio Direction Finding. He also provided a short video of the six annual US National ARDF championships in Raleigh, NC in 2006. Art also brought along his RDF equipment and hid a number of transmitters in the parking lot for club members to try to find. The kids, big & small, had fun looking. |
Art Jury's T-hunt web page K0OV Homin' In |
| July |
John Rader - AA7ZV |
John talked briefly about the Winlink 2000 HF e-mail system, then talked in depth about various client software packages that interface with Winlink. These included Hyperterminal, Paclink, and Airmail. |
Winlink 2000 Airmail 2000 John's PP Presentation |
| June | Steve Hatch - WA7DAD | Steve is the club's new president, and talked about some of his goals & objectives that he has for the upcoming year. He also showed off one of ARRL's Go kits currently on loan to the FWARC for field day. | Federal Way ARC |
| May | Ed Bruette-N7NVP | Ed is ARRL's Western Washington section manager, and the Washington State RACES officer. Ed talked about the recent SHB-2335 activities, and presented a video produced by Mark Tharp-KB7HDX. The video, on emergency management, was presented to the Washington State Emergency Managers Association (WSEMA) earlier in the year. | ARRL WWA Section |
| April | Jim Fenstermaker K9JF | Jim is the ARRL's Northwest Division director and provided a PowerPoint presentation, giving a general overview of ARRL, and the four areas of which ARRL is concentrating to promote the league and amateur radio. | ARRL NW Division |
| March |
Steve Gentry South King Fire/Rescue |
Captain Steve Gentry of the South King Fire & Rescue Department talked about some of the departments cool hazardous materials (Hazmat) detection toys and how area fire departments will respond to a hazmat incident in the Federal Way area. | South King Fire & Rescue |
| February |
Mike Mertel-K7IR SteppIR Antennas |
Mike Mertel-K7IR, accompanied by his wife, Marla, provided a demonstration of his unique design of yagi antennas. Mike's design uses stepper motors & copper tape to change the length of the antenna elements. | SteppIR Antennas |
| January | No Guest Speaker | Due to inclement weather, the January 11th club meeting was cancelled for safety concerns. By the way, this is the first time in club history that we have cancelled a club meeting. | |
| 2006 | |||
| December | No Guest Speaker | Despite stormy weather conditions & the lack of electrical power, a small number of club members ventured out and celebrated the holiday season with punch & cookies, and a small gift exchange during the December's club meeting. Mike-N7VWD provided electrical power for lighting from the 120V AC outlet in the back of his pickup truck. | Federal Way Amateur Radio Club |
| November |
Bob Belcher Puget Sound Energy |
Our guest speaker for our November 9th club meeting was Bob Belcher of Puget Sound Energy. Provided a high voltage electrical safety demonstration. Talking about "Shock & Awe", this was a very good demonstration on what the dangers of high voltage can be. | Puget Sound Energy |
| October |
Ted Buehner Seattle NOAA Office |
Ted talked about how information is disseminated across the weather radio network, and touched on changes with the Emergency Alert System (EAS). |
www.weather.gov/seattle http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/sew/nwr1.php |
| September | Mike Dinkleman, N7WA | Mike talked about DX and how to work a "Pile Up". Mike is an avid DX'er, and a member of the Mike & Key and Western Washing DX Clubs. |
Mike & Key Radio Club Western Washington DX Club |
| August | Scott Honaker, N7SS | Scott talked what the Pacific Northwest VHF Society is all about, and of the upcoming annual conference being held in Bellingham in September. Scott talked about the other operating modes on UHF & VHF frequencies besides FM. He also mentioned the advantages of operating from hilltops vs marine mobile while contesting. | Pacific Northwest VHF Society |
| July | Pete Petersen, WY7Z | Pete Petersen wowed the crowd as he displayed some of the antique radios that he has restored over the years. Pete talked about the Puget Sound Antique Radio Society, and their upcoming swap meet on August 20th. Pete also mentioned the American Museum of Radio & Electricity located in Bellingham. |
Puget Antique Radio
Society American Museum of Radio & Electricity |
| June | Ray Gross | Ray Gross, the new Emergency Management Coordinator for the City of Federal Way provided some insight to some of his goals for his new job. | http://www.cityoffederalway.com/Page.aspx?view=72 |
| May | South King Fire & Rescue | A couple of firemen from South King Fire & Rescue were supposed to be our guest speaker, but were called out for a brush fire, & then an overturned boat on a local lake. The topic was supposed to be Hazardous Materials. Guest speaker & topic to be rescheduled. | http://www.southkingfire.org/ |
| April | Bill Balzarini, KL7BB | As our scheduled guest speaker couldn't make it to the April club meeting, Bill Balzarini-KL7BB provided an impromptu talk about various types of field day antennas. | |
| March | Commander Andy Hwang | Commander Hwang talked about personal safety, as well as the Federal Way Police Department's emergency response management. | http://www.cityoffederalway.com/Page.aspx?view=68 |
| February | Medi Sadri | Medi is the IT Systems Manager for the City of Federal Way, and Federal Way Wireless. Medi talked about Federal Way Wireless, and what WiFi in the Federal Way area is all about. | http://www.federalwaywireless.com/ |
| January | Dan Camp, KK7UZ | Dan Camp-KK7UZ, was our guest speaker at our January 12th club meeting. Dan provided a wonderful presentation into the different types of logging software as a lead into talking about the ARRL's Logbook of the World. | http://www.arrl.org/lotw/ |
| 2005 | |||
| December | Lee Leddy | Lee Leddy. Lee recently spent two years with the Army's Criminal Investigation Division (CID) Personal Protective Service, with some of that time spent in Iraq. Lee provided high level protection to civilian members of the US Department of Defense such as Secretary Rumsfeld during his visits to Iraq. Lee Leddy is currently a Lieutenant with the Federal Way Police Department. |
http://www.cid.army.mil/ http://www.cityoffederalway.com/Page.aspx?view=68 |
| November | Ward Silver, N0AX | Ward provided a power point presentation of the recent K7C DXpedition to Kure Island. Ward highlighted his new book, "Two-Way Radios & Scanners for Dummies", as well as his other book, "Ham Radio for Dummies". Ward also provided information on the 2005 Frequency Measuring Test that will take place on November 16th. |
http://rcordell.securesites.net/htdocs/KURE/ http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2005/11/09/3/?nc=1 Two-Way Radios & Scanners for Dummies |
| October | Mike Mraz, N6MZ | Mike talked about is participation in the FT5XO DXpedition to the Kerguelen Islands located between South Africa and Australia in the Indian Ocean in April 2005. Mike also hit on the K7C DXpedition to Kure Island in the Hawaiian Island chain. |
http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news@njdxa.org/msg01638.html http://rcordell.securesites.net/htdocs/KURE/ |
| September |
Al Church Connie Henke Harry Hart |
The Federal Way ARC had three guest speakers at the Sept 8th monthly club meeting. Al Church, the Federal Way Fire Department Fire Chief, presented the club with a plaque. Connie Henke, the chairperson for the Auburn Good Ol' Days, presented a donation to the club's president, Gary Bryan, and Harry Hart of Awarea Corp talked about RFID tags and of the projects that he is involved with in Pioneer Square and downtown Seattle. |
http://www.federalwayfire.org/home.html
http://www.auburngoodoldays.com http://www.awarea.com |
| August | Greg Beeck, KD7IIQ | FWARC's own Greg Beeck-KD7IIQ talked about the upcoming Federal Way Festival Days events that will take place during the weekend of August 26th through 28th. | http://www.festivaldays.org |
| July |
Pam Bryan, N7PRS & Art Kritzer |
Pam Bryan-N7PRS, and Art Kritzer representing the Seafair Parade Marshals, were our guest speakers. Pam & Art talked about the upcoming Seattle Seafair Tourchlight parade and other Seafair related parades. | http://www.seafairparademarshals.org |
| June | Alan Hughs, KB7SVU | Alan Hughs, and the Pierce County ARES/RACES group presented the new Pierce County communications van, and provided training for the upcoming Tacoma Tallships event that will take place on the Tacoma waterfront from June 30th to July 5th, 2005. |
http://www.pcsar-tac.org/ http://piercecounty.danawheels.net/ |
| May | Alan Hughs, KB7SVU | Alan provided information, and solicited for volunteers for the upcoming Tacoma Tallships event that will take place on the Tacoma waterfront from June 30th to July 5th, 2005. | http://www.tallshipstacoma.org |
| April |
Ross Morris WSDOT |
Ross Morris is a technical manager for the Washington State Department of Transportation's (WSDOT) Commercial Vehicle Information Systems and Network (CVISN) Program, which includes their "Weigh In Motion" system. Ross talked about how radio transceivers makes the Weigh In Motion system work. | http://www.cvisn.wsdot.wa.gov/ |
| March |
Rick Williamson Budget Batteries |
Rick Williamson talked about some of the different types of batteries, including how to maintain them and keeping them charged up. | http://budgetbatteriesinc.com/ |
| February |
Chris Hesseltine Backroom Computer Service |
Chris Hesseltine owns his own business in Auburn, WA called "Backroom Computer Services". Chris works on computers that have been hit with a virus, spyware, or adware. Chris talked about how to prevent viruses, spyware, and adware, and how to recover after catching one of these. | Backroom Computer Service |
| January | Ward Silver, N0AX | Ward Silver, N0AX, talked about his new book, "Ham Radio For Dummies". |
Ham Radio For Dummies http://www.arrl.org/news/puzzles/ |
| 2004 | |||
| December |
Ted Buehner NOAA |
Ted Buehner talked about the Skywarn program in Western Washington. |
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/sew/spotter.php http://www.skywarn.org/default.htm |
| November |
Greg Vause Federal Way Police Dept |
Greg Vause talked about the City of Federal Way's Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), and Neighborhood Emergency Team (NET) programs. |
CERT
Program NET Program Federal Way Police Dept |
| October | Dave Funk, WA7RSO | Dave provided at talk about Amplitude Modulation (AM), and Frequency Modulation (FM) theory. | http://www.solutionsforeducation.com/ |
| September |
Dan Humphery ARRL OO Program |
Dan talked about what the American Radio Relay League's (ARRL) Official Observer Program is all about. | http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/org/oo.html |
| August | Greg Beeck, KD7IIQ | FWARC's own Greg Beeck, KD7IIQ, talked about the upcoming Federal Way Festival Days events. | http://www.festivaldays.org/ |
| July | Meteor Communications | http://www.meteorcomm.com/ | |
| June | |||
| May |
Nick Sutton Icom America |
Nick talked about Icom's new D-Star digital radio system. | http://www.icomamerica.com/amateur/dstar/ |
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| March | |||
| February | |||
| January | DaveFunk, WA7RSO | FWARC's own Dave Funk, WA7RSO, talked about how to build and tune a J-Pole type antenna. | http://www.solutionsforeducation.com/ |