W6BB Amateur Radio Club

Upcoming meetings/UCB emergency exercise 2010

Fritz — Thu, 06 May 2010 02:59:05 +0000

Here the finalized dates of events leading up to the UCB emergency exercise:

1) Monday, May 10th 6-6:30PM – NALCO (Northern ALameda COunty) ARES/RACES ‘training’ scheduled for fire patrol
Cedar street Alternate Emergency Operations Center (AEOC). For more information: http://www.pdarrl.org/ebsec/nalco/

(This meeting is specifically for city of Berkeley Fire Patrol training and is of only very limited value for other emergency events. Nevertheless, any/all training is valuable and NALCO is happy to accommodate anyone interested in participating.)

2) Thursday, May 27: 6pm – Discussion of emergency communication support using amateur radio: local procedures and protocols
508-20 Evans Hall (Seminar room of the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience)

This discussion is specially arranged for the campus community amateurs who wish to be involved in any local amateur radio emergency communication operations, including the UC Berkeley campus.

The discussion will include an introductory description of procedures, protocols, frequencies and facilities for local emergency communications including the UC Campus, Berkeley, Albany as well as Tang and Alta Bates/Herrick/Summit hospitals.

Note that this is just an *introduction* to help UC hams become familiar with what is available and how it all functions in this specific local environment. The information will be necessary and hopefully sufficient to permit active involvement in the amateur radio communicationportion of the UCB emergency exercise on June 17th.

The discussion will be led by Mal Raff who has participated in UCB emergency exercises for many years, including 2009. In addition, he has been involved in amateur emergency communication for over 40 years and in the Berkeley area for over 30 years, having been a founding member (and presently EC/RO) of NALCO (Northern ALameda COunty) ARES/RACES. He has been an active participant in W6BB activities since he was a grad student at UCB in the early 1970’s.

3) Thursday, June 17th, 2010: 8am-11.30am – Annual emergency exercise at UC Berkeley
Location and other details will be announced through the W6BB mailing list.

Members of W6BB are explicitly asked to participate in the event. If you are interested in participating actively in emergency communication, please attend one of the preparatory meetings. You can also participate as an observer which does not require any preparation.

Please forward this mail to any radio amateurs on campus who might not be on the W6BB mailing list. (To sign up for the W6BB mailing list go to http://www.w6bb.org/, click CONTACT and follow the instructions under “W6BB mailing list”)

For questions contact: Fritz, k6ee@arrl.net

Meeting on April 7th, 2010

Fritz — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:49:53 +0000

We had our first meeting in 2010. Things are moving forward with setting up a shack for W6BB. Stay tuned…

Fritz, K6EE

W6BB General Meeting (9/16/2008)

WB6NLL — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:25:53 +0000

Present at this evening’s meeting were:

Erik Shirokoff, KO6OL, Pres.
Fritz Sommer, K6EE, Sta. Trustee
Jut Shanahan, KB3OJP, Sec.

Jack Burris, K6JEB
Will Coulter KG6SCW
Madeleine Leulllier
Bill Mallard, KF6YHX
Elliott Medrich, N6PF
Mal Raff WA2UNP
William Wells, WB6NLL

Minutes:

1. Introductions

2. Old Business:
a. Evans Hall Station:
(1) Fritz N6UK reported that we have a small room on 5th Floor of Evans Hall reserved for use by the club.
(2) Bill WB6NLL reported that he had testing receiving AM and SSB on amateur radio bands (10 – 80 m) at Evans Hall and found no significant local noise that would interfere with HF communications.
(3) Next steps were discussed. Jack K6JEB recommended contacting Evans Hall building/facilities manager. Fritz N6UK said he would do that. Bill WB6NLL will follow up with the IST radio technician.

3. New Business
a. Mal WA2UNP stated that the club was welcome to use the NALCO repeaters (QTH: Alta Bates Hospital): 224.900 MHz (-), 440.900 MHz (+) and 1285.550 Mhz (-).
NALCO web site is http://www.pdarrl.org/ebsec/nalco/
b. The club agreed to reestablish the W6BB Bears Net on campus: Thursdays 7pm 146.43 simplex.

4. Announcements:
a. Members may get an account password on www.w6bb.org by contacting Jack K6JEB.
b. For East Bay ARC information see: http://eastbayarc.org/
c. Pacificon 2008 Ham Radio Convention will be Oct 17-19 at the San Ramon Marriott Hotel, San Ramon, CA. For more see: http://pacificon.org. For information about BSA Jamboree on the Air at Pacificon 2008 (in the Pleasanton Room) see: http://www.pacificon.org/Scouts_On_The_Air.html There will be a Ham License class and exam at the convention.

5. The club agreed to have the next W6BB general meeting in 6 weeks at 5:15pm on Monday. (27 Oct 2008).

W6BB Organizational Meeting (4/3/2008) a Success

k6jeb — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:23:42 +0000

Present at this evening’s meeting were:

William Wells, WB6NLL
Elliott Medrich, N6PF
Jack Burris, K6JEB
Fritz Sommer, N6UK
Erik Shirokoff, KO6OL
Jut Shanahan, KB3OJP

The following have been elected to the W6BB Board:

President – Erik Shirokoff, KO6OL
Trustee – Fritz Sommer, N6UK
Secretary – Jut Shanahan, KB3OJP

Congratulations!

We’ve got a possible lead on a station space which we are now pursuing in earnest. The club would greatly appreciate a donation of low-loss COAX which needs to run about 160 feet.

Pacificon This Weekend

k6jeb — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:55:22 +0000

Friday, October 19th – Sunday October 21st, San Ramon Marriott Hotel – pacificon.org for more info

Welcome Aboard Fred – KI6IHO

k6jeb — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:27:50 +0000

A big welcome to Fred – KI6IHO who just got his license earlier in March.Â Fred works here on campus.Â When he stopped by and chatted, he mentioned how much he’s looking forward to using his radio aboard his boat (both in the Bay and out on the Pacific).Â Very cool to have a maritime mobiler with us!

Welcome Aboard Fred!!!

Move to New Server A Success

k6jeb — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:24:17 +0000

I just moved the website to a new and improved server.Â It will take a day or two for the domain to propagate, but you shouldn’t notice too much of a transition.

2006 California QSO Party (CQP)

k6jeb — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 20:19:41 +0000

Begins: 1600 UTC – 7 October 2006 Ends: 2159 UTC – 8 October 2006

The California QSO Party (CQP) is the premier state QSO party held every year on the first weekend of October. The Northern California Contest Club (NCCC) has sponsored CQP since 1974. CQP has traditionally opened the annual contest season by providing an opportunity for contesters to prepare for the ARRL November Sweepstakes since the format is similar.

Stations outside of California , worldwide, work stations in California only. The 58 counties of CA are the multipliers. California stations work all stations in or out of CA, The 50 US states and 8 Canadian areas are the multipliers. Stations outside of Canada and the US add to one’s QSO total but do not count as multipliers. See the full set of CQP Rules for more details.

Pacificon – October 13th – 15th

k6jeb — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 19:06:39 +0000

PACIFICON 2006, the great west coast ham radio convention, takes place Friday, October 13th through Sunday, October 15th, 2006 at the San Ramon Marriott Hotel at 2600 Bishop Drive in San Ramon, California.

Make your hotel reservations by October 1st and ask for the special PACIFICON 2006 room rate of $84 per night. Call 1-800-228-9290 for resevations. To insure availability reserve early.

PACIFICON 2006 Events Include:

Antenna Seminar – Friday

Legal Seminar – Friday

DXpedition Presentation – Friday evening

QRP Activities – Friday Evening & Saturday

HFpack Activities – Friday Eve, Saturday, Sunday

Breakfast/Keynote & Evening Banquet – Saturday

Great Swap Meet – Sunday Morning

Outstanding Technical Forums – Saturday & Sunday

Ham Radio Gear on Exhibit – Saturday & Sunday

One-Day Technician License Class – Saturday

Ham License Exams – Saturday & Sunday

Transmitter Hunt – Sunday Morning

ARRL Forum – Sunday

Club Meeting – 6pm, Wednesday Sep 6th – La Val’s Pizza, Berkeley

k6jeb — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 00:24:19 +0000

WHAT: W6BB Amateur Radio Club meeting
WHERE: La Val’s Pizza – North Side, 1834 Euclid Ave,. Berkeley (http://www.lavals.com/index.html)
WHEN: 6pm (schmooze) 6:30pm meeting – Wednesday, September 6th
WHO: You and anyone you know interested in amateur radio and the W6BB club here on campus.
TALK-IN: 440.900(+) PL131.8 WA2UNP
WHAT TO BRING: friends, other hams, anyone interested in ham radio, perhaps even something fun/silly/neat to give away on the sharing table (bring something, take something).

If you cannot make this meeting, and would like to be a candidate club officer (President, W6BB Trustee, Secretary), please send a bio/blurb about your ham ‘career’ to K6JEB or to the club list.

If you have agenda items, please send them to the list before the meeting.

OFFICIAL BUSINESS
Club Officer Elections – eligible members (you have to be a current student/staff/faculty to hold office in an OSL organization) will be tapped/elected, per our charter, for the next twelve months at our October meeting. THIS meeting we will have a chance to meet one another and anyone wishing to step-up or any nominations will be taken during the meeting tomorrow.

Club Program – until we have club officers elected, we won’t have a full meeting program hammered out. However, we have some prospects lined-up and we can discuss these and others during the meeting.

Shack Committee – the minute we get OSL recognition, we should start a search in earnest for an actual club Ham Shack. We already know of a few antennas up around campus, but we need leads on actual rooms where we can keep our equipment. As well, this (hopefully voluntary) committee should start discussing a workable policy with regard to recovering the equipment that might still be lingering for W6BB as well as laying out a plan to equip the shack. Remember, until we have an actual space, we won’t know whether we need things like chairs and desks and that sort of thing. We have already had a couple kind offers for equipment donations. The committee should be made aware of these and follow-up on the leads.

Club Dues – we shouldn’t collect any money until we have full OSL status. However, we should hammer-out and come to a CONSENSUS (for us country boys, that means when all the cows drink out of the same trough) on how much and for how long. Keep in mind if we had a few bucks, we could print up fliers and perhaps even subscribe to some of the ham radio magazines (or whatever the club decides to do with the money).

MEETING PROGRAM
NALCO ARES – Mal WA2UNP, will briefly discuss the W6BB relationship with NALCO (Northern Alameda County Amateur Radio Emergency Service). Part of our charter is to provide public service on campus as well as in the community during emergencies. NALCO membership is free to W6BB members.

This meeting will be mostly social and informal. Bring a pice of gear, or kit, or that old stack of QST, or even old W6BB trinkets or stories to share and amuse. And if you bring something to share/give away, you can take something. Future meetings might be spiced-up with a small raffle/drawing.