Since April 2011 the University of California Berkeley radio club, W6BB, runs a monthly emergency communication net.
The net takes place each FIRST WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH (AT NOON) immediately after the siren tests on the UC Berkeley campus.
There will be two net check-ins:
1) On repeater WA2UNP: 440.9+ Mhz, PL 131.8 Hz
2) On the Cal Bears 2m calling frequency: 146.430 Mhz simplex
Please program these two channels into your radio and make it a habit to have an operational radio with you at all times.

We encourage all licensed radio amateurs in the Berkeley area (on and off campus) to participate.

Net control will be the first station receiving a response from a second station.
In the future we might introduce a different rotating system for net control to give practice opportunities to all the regularly participating hams.

At any rate, I am looking for someone to take on the following task, for which I will pay you well. I have a 2 ele SteppIR yagi on the flat roof of my house. It is on a pushup mast and has been in place for 6 or 7 years. It’s time to take it down and clean it up–once the rains are over…and also add the 30/40m dipole that is available. As you probably know SteppIRs are fairly complex antennas, so I am look for someone familiar with these antennas to do the hard work…as I said I will pay handsomely for someone to take on the maintenance and installation task. So, if you think you might be up for the task–ready to tackle it on your own mostly–please contact me offline and I we can talk about it. Tnx and 73, Elliott N6PF (email: emedrich@mprinc.com).

This demo will be showing how to set up a small (ATS-3B and modified MP-1 antenna) QRP station and get it on the air and make contacts.

Look for us (W6BB) around 0100-0200UTC (probably closer to 0130 to start and probably as late as 0300 if conditions are good and you all want to help us out). Spots would be MUCH appreciated. Feel free to pass this on to other hams, especially Cal alumni/emeritus/retired.

WHERE: 60 Barrows Hall (this is where we’ll meet but then go to the adjacent practice field on the east side of Barrows Hall)

WHEN: 5pm Pacific until fun stops, November 18, 2010

Bring a jacket and a sense of humor.

From Keith Amaro and your flight scheduler at http://www.AircraftClubs.com/:

It is with great sorrow that I must advise of the passing of Mal
Raff. He was diagnosed with a rare brain tumor August 1st and passed away today at noon.

Thank you.

vy 73, Fritz, K6EE
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W6BB club roster in 1965
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K6IHO      - WILLIAM M BRACK, 950 Ahwahnee Drive, Millbrae, CA, 940301503

WB6KSK – N6MG VERNON D BUERG, 139 WHITE OAK CIR, PETALUMA, CA, 949521934

WA6ZWW Herman Cassaday – NN
Grant Date: 09/29/1987, Expiration Date: 09/29/1997, Cancelation Date: 09/30/1999
Registrant: Herman J Cassaday Jr, 27448 Rd 140, Visalia, CA 93277

WA6CMN – N4PLH MELVIN E COBB, 3332 VICTORIA DR, AIKEN, SC, 29801

WB6JHX  - GUY COVERT, 1921 EDDY CIR, MOUNT SHASTA, CA, 96067

NC Ralph Eschenbach – NN
Ralph Eschenbach is the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Trimble Navigation Ltd. He has held this position since June 1994. Before that he was Vice President of Avionics. He started that division in 1989 and grew it to $35M in annual revenue. Eschenbach came to Trimble from Hewlett Packard Labs where he developed the first low cost, working GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver in 1976. That receiver became the basis for Trimble’s entry into the GPS market.A leader in GPS technology, he has authored more than thirty papers on GPS receiver design and testing and has over twenty patents granted. Among his awards are the Institute of Navigation’s”Better Mousetrap Award” and Discover Magazine’s award for “Innovation in Computers and Technology”. His expertise is sought by industry, community and government alike. He is currently on the Board of Directors of several high tech companies and community charities. He is an advisor to the FAA Administrator on research budget and a member of the NASA R&D Advisory Committee. He serves as a Venture Partner for Osprey Ventures. Mr. Eschenbach received his BSEE from UC Berkeley in 1968 and MSEE from Stanford University in 1970. He is an instrument rated commercial pilot with over 3400 hours flight time.

WA6HCP – EDWARD M FARRELL, 20877 KITTRIDGE ROAD, SARATOGA, CA, 95070

WB6AEG Geoffrey Fernald – NN http://fernald.org/geoff/

Hopkins Fitzpatrick – NN

WB6HYX – BYRON B FONG, 220 GRAND AVE, OAKLAND, CA, 946104514

K6GWQ RICHARD F FREITAS, 13770 HARDING AVENUE, SAN MARTIN, CA, 95046

WB6ERS/K1MLX – KB6WC PETER J A GAPOSCHKIN, 1442A WALNUT ST 371, BERKELEY, CA, 947091496

A. Brooms Gelfand – NN

WA6RKF – W7TAG Thomas A Gibb, 8942 Walter Ct SW, Olympia, WA, 98512

WB6AQP Allen Ginzborg – WB6AQP ALLEN GINZBURG, 7255 VIEWPOINT RD, APTOS, CA, 95003

WB6IAE Noel Goldthwaite – NN

K6VAK PAUL H GRIFFITH, 1411 DEL NORTE ST, HOUSTON, TX, 770181207

WA6SWA IVAN D HAFSTROM, 6053 BROOK DR, FALLS CHURCH, VA, 22044

WA6SHL Eric Hannah – NN http://www.gigascale.org/people/directory/ehannah
Eric Hannah, Ph.D. Bio: Educated at UC Berkeley and Princeton University (PhD -Physics). Recognized as a UC Regents Scholar, elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and received an NSF fellowship. During his PhD studies on Josephson-effect millimeter-wave detectors he also consulted for a controlled fusion startup on plasma diagnostics and co-authored one of the foundational papers in quantum gravitation. After his PhD work in experimental solid-state physics he continued at Princeton as a Research Associate working on a NASA-funded project for space colonization and did original, published research on cosmic ray protection for space habitats. Eric worked at HP Laboratories on superconductivity and CMOS design. He founded two startup companies, one in the OCR market and a computational biotech firm; also served as VP Engineering in a desktop publishing software company and in a 3D graphics venture. For 9 years he was a senior architect with Intel Architecture Labs and the Home Products Group working on multi-media subsystems. He also served as the editor for the IEEE 1394b gigabit Firewire standard. For five years he was the Intel Research Sector Director in charge of physics, statistics, machine vision, robotics, and nanotechnology  funding many successful research projects. His current position involves analyzing issues and opportunities for electronics over the next decade as we reach the end of CMOS and charge-based electronics. 55 US patents awarded, 19 pending, and a number of international patents. 14 patents are “Intel Top Patents” and Eric is one of the top 20 inventors at Intel.

K7PXX DAVID HERON, PO BOX 12124, BERKELEY, CA, 94712

WN6PJF Bart Holmes – KA6HGW BART B HOLMES, 1474 South 810 West, PROVO, UT, 84601/ KD7SPF Bart W Holmes, 454 E 3500 S, Vernal, UT, 84078

Thomas Kaminska – NN

NC – K1MLC RICHARD L KAUFMANN, 19 OYSTER RIVER RD, DURHAM, NH, 03824

Andrew Korsak, VE3FZK – KR6DD

WB6HPB Allan Kreiss – NN

WB6IWS –  W3VS SCOTT J LOFTESNESS, PO BOX 7130, MENLO PARK, CA, 940267130

WB6DHT Ken Pier – NN

WA6HNS Joseph Pinkel – NN

WA6ZLC – N7NYE GEORGE A PUBANZ, 10627 WN 195TH AVE, HILLSBORO, OR, 971248036

NC Robert Ransom -N5RLV ROBERT W RANSOM, 437 W GRIGGS AVE, LAS CRUCES, NM, 88005

WV6YLY David Russell – ?

W3JNX Leonard Sasso – NN

WA6KTS Michael Schnetz – NN

NC Jerry Smith – ??

WA6PJO Jeff Sokol – NN

W7IMN T. D. Telford – NN

WA6GKX Stan Tucker – KD5JSF Stanley C Tucker, 29406 E 69th Circle S, Broken Arrow, OK, 74014

WA6HCS Brian Wachner – NN

WA6OJT Richard Webster – NN

WB6LZQ Carl J. Weston –  WY7B CARL J WESTON, 19945 SW WRIGHT ST, ALOHA, OR, 97007
Robert Willson – K8CUM ROBERT D WILLSON, 858 Fearrington Post, Pittsboro, NC, 27312 / KC0CZ Robert E Willson, 394 S 22nd Ave Ct, Brighton, CO, 80601

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

Fritz, K6EE

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).

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.