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20 October 20 General Membership Meeting Minutes
AH6T Joe Tabrah
Please note that the minutes from the 20 October 2020 General Membership meeting have been posted in the files section of this reflector.
Aloha, Joe KH6FHI
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Annual Membership Meeting via Zoom Meetings - Tue, 10/20/2020
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Annual Membership Meeting via Zoom Meetings - Tue, 10/20/2020 19:00-21:00
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Reminder: Annual Membership Meeting via Zoom Meetings When: Tuesday, 20 October 2020, 19:00 to 21:00, (GMT-07:00) America/Los Angeles Where:via Zoom Meetings Description: Steve KH6WG is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
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2021 Renewal Season has begun!
WH7GG Keith Higa
CQ EARC! I can't believe another year is almost over. I hope everyone is doing well in these unprecedented times. Although we aren't able to get together as a club for now, I know that we have definitely been staying in touch in other ways, including our Zoom general meetings and our nightly nets on the linked repeaters. With our radios, we ham radio operators have a way to keep in touch across miles. Of course, keeping repeaters on the air takes time and money, and this is where your membership and support of EARC comes in, now more than ever. Among other things, we use your membership dues to maintain and repair the repeater system so we can stay in touch even when physically separated. With the arrival of 4th quarter comes the beginning of renewal season, so I ask you to reaffirm your commitment to the EARC with your membership renewal. Annual dues are still $20.00 for calendar year 2021 (January 1 to December 31). You might not be able to pay me directly for your dues as you've done in the past, but we still have options for you: 1. You can mail your payment to PO Box 30315, Honolulu, HI 96820. We have been checking club email at least once a week during the pandemic and we'll continue to do so. 2. You can send your payment via PayPal by going to http://www.earchi.org/member_pay.html and following the directions. You don't need to have a PayPal account to pay. If you know any members who are not on the club reflector, please pass this on to them. Since our club meetings are now on Zoom and we announce the meetings via the reflector (we don't place the link on our website for security reasons), it's critical that all our members be getting the club emails.
I'll be sending reminders throughout renewal season. Let's see if we can reach 100 renewed members by December 31, and reach or exceed our current membership of 115 by March. If you have any questions on your membership, please let me know. Hoping to hear from you, and hope to see a lot of you at the meeting tonight! Thanks and 73, Keith Higa, WH7GG Treasurer/Membership Chair, EARC
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Annual Membership Meeting via Zoom Meetings - Tue, 10/20/2020 19:00-21:00
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Reminder: Annual Membership Meeting via Zoom Meetings When: Tuesday, 20 October 2020, 19:00 to 21:00, (GMT-07:00) America/Los Angeles Where:via Zoom Meetings Description: Steve KH6WG is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
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Event: Annual Membership Meeting via Zoom Meetings - Tuesday, 20 October 2020
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EARC Annual Meeting via Zoom Meetings
KH6WG Skawamae Kawamae
All, Annual Meeting - Election night. Please join us via Zoom Meetings. Steve KH6WG is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81487083374?pwd=SFJjNDBtdEM5eFo4TFhXaW5MMHU3QT09 Meeting ID: 814 8708 3374 Passcode: 239898
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Mauna Kapu going offline temporarily on Sunday 10/18/2020
KH6WG Skawamae Kawamae
All, Mauna Kapu 146.800 AllStar and the 444.100 DMR will be going offline for a few days while we bring the batteries down to recharge. Thanks for your patience. Aloha de KH6WG
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Fw: [SEC-ARES] Wednesday's Presentation: ARISS - Amateur Radio on the International Space Station .
KH6WG Skawamae Kawamae
All, Something you may find interesting. Amateur Radio onboard the International Space Station. Aloha de KH6WG ----- Forwarded Message -----
From: RATPAC Planning <ratpac.plan@...> To: "sec-ares@groups.io" <sec-ares@groups.io> Sent: Monday, October 12, 2020, 08:42:11 AM HST Subject: [SEC-ARES] Wednesday's Presentation: ARISS - Amateur Radio on the International Space Station . Please plan to attend Wednesday October 14 ARISS - Amateur Radio on the International Space Station. 9:00 PM AST / 9:00 PM EDT / 8:00 PM CT / 7:00 PM MDT / 6:00 PM PDT / 5:00 PM AKDT / 3:00 PM HST
Today's meeting will be OPEN for all to attend. Please feel free to invite others.
Note: This Zoom session will not be activated Wednesday morning. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2128884758?pwd=WlRkcTVSc2pPTlRubGc5RElpSjVNQT09 Meeting ID: 212 888 4758 Passcode: ARISS One tap mobile +13462487799,,2128884758#,,,,,,0#,,4140305# US (Houston) +16699006833,,2128884758#,,,,,,0#,,4140305# US (San Jose) Dial by your location +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 929 205 6099 US (New York) +1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown) Meeting ID: 212 888 4758 Passcode: 530431 - Dan
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The Great Hawaii ShakeOut 10/15/2020
KH7HO Clem
To all, You are invited to participate in the annual Great ShakeOut. It is scheduled for this coming Thursday, October 15, 2020 at 10:15 a.m. HST. We will be using the USGS Did You Feel It (DYFI) Winlink template. Please see the information on the http://www.hawaiiares.info web site. It was just posted this morning. Please get the word out to show Hawaii's Ham participation in the ShakeOut. Mahalo, Clem (KH7HO)
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Ham Radio Hawaii Newsletter
KH6OWL Darren Holbrook
If anyone can help Dan out please contact him. See below. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: <dcreasoner@...> Date: Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 8:15 AM Subject: Ham Radio Hawaii Newsletter To: <KH6OWL@...> Are you aware of someone who can come on my boat and inspect the installation of my ICOM IC-802 system, and insure all is working okay?
Currently at Ala Wei Small Boat Harbor near Waikiki.
Best Regards, Dan Reasoner +1 267-450-1446
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EARC Board of Directors Nomination Form
KH6WG Skawamae Kawamae
To: EARC All As we have not received any nominations thus far, the thought is that sending you this form will make it easier. Any and all positions are open. You may nominate yourself or others. If you nominate others, it would be wise to validate if that person is willing to accept the position. General Board member Garret Larson (WH6GL) has moved to Texas and has resigned his position. We would like to fill that position at minimum. The Board is there for its members. Please provide feedback to make this a better organization and promote the different facets of amateur radio. Thanks in advance. de KH6WG
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Re: Mauna Kapu
KH6WG Skawamae Kawamae
Someone might have just turned them on. The site is 100% solar/battery. I think we might have a bad panel pulling the charge voltage down. Discussion is underway to upgrade the system. de kH6WG
On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 9:24 AM WH6FQE RC Anderson <wh6fqe@...> wrote:
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Re: Mauna Kapu
RC Anderson, Ph.D. WH6FQE
Is the DMR repeater ever going to go back online? RC Sent using the mail.com mail app
On 9/28/20 at 20:49, KH6WG Skawamae Kawamae wrote:
From: "KH6WG Skawamae Kawamae" <skawamae@...>
Date: September 28, 2020 To: main@earchi.groups.io Cc: Subject: [earchi] Mauna Kapu All,
The Mauna Kapu DMR and Analog repeaters are offline through tomorrow, Tuesday and possibly Wednesday in an attempt to recharge the batteries.
Aloha
de KH6WG
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New video, 2 Winlink Tips
KH6OWL Darren Holbrook
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Re: Mauna Kapu
KH6WG Skawamae Kawamae
Thanks for your comments. The battery bank is 8x12 AGM de KH6WG
On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 7:45 AM WH6DWF Todd <hamsterradio13@...> wrote: Steve,
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Military adopts APRS like functions
KH6CP Craig Paul
In SET 2019 some Windward Hams demonstrated networking functions of APRS and geographical situational awareness, not of an enemy's location, but of road obstructions. Some in EARC built an inexpensive cable to utilize APRS between an HT and their Android phones for APRS. Looks like the military is finding this same capability useful. Craig/KH6CP
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November 2020 News Letter
KH6OWL Darren Holbrook
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=aGFtcmFkaW9oYXdhaWkuY29tfHd3d3xneDo1MjI2N2Y4ZTYxMGYxYjQ2 Find attached or click on the link to see the November newsletter. Also posted on the facebook group under files. --
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COVID 19 Project Help
KH6OWL Darren Holbrook
Please see below. I had a phone conversation with this gentleman and wanted to see if someone knows or can help his COVID project. He has been on the island for about 2 years. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the nice talk. First here’s the link to the project Im working on with UH We have submitted a proposal to DOH for funding. I
did most of the software on the original project that was performing
explosive detection, except the core signal processing detection
algorithms done by Dr. John Apostolos. Although
I originally have a hardware background. it has been so long I can only
build something if it has tubes with filament voltages hahaha. The
first problem I'm trying to solve is to establish a small R&D lab
here, where I can work on developing hardware to detect small signals
reacting from elements in the body. If you look at the web
page above, the theory is that our different body chemistry elements
will react to low power radio signals by emitting their own unique
signal when stimulated near its natural resonant frequency. We have done
this in practice by detecting explosives containing nitrogen. The
scientific nomenclature is termed NQR (nuclear quadrupole resonance) I
need to find a local contact hardware guy who knows about precision A/D
and D/A conversion, low noise rf amps, and can build low frequency
antennas for test. (200KHz-3MHz range). From my experience
with contracting with the Navy and NSA, those guys have the knowledge of
what the latest commercial technology has available. I don’t want to
build a special board with A/D D/A conversion if there is something
already available. Since this is for prototyping, I don’t need anything fancy, but just to test with and prove the theory. Right now there is no funding, but we are waiting to hear from the DOH for approval. So that’s it on the project side. So thanks again DJ WK1K (originally W8PID) 603.759.3975 --
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Re: Mauna Kapu
WH6DWF Todd
Steve,
If I remember correctly, you guys just replaced those batteries with 6 volt golf cart batteries last year. I recommend that you intergrade that battery bank with a combination of 6 volt and 8 volt golf cart batteries in series and parallel circuits so that you have a total of 14+ volts and this should prevent this from happening again. The other added benefit is that you will no longer require a charge controller because a 14 volt system is so close to the charging rate of 12 volt panels that charge between 18-22 volts at full sunlight conditions. The repeaters themselves are usually rated at 13.8 volts +\- 15% so under 16 volts at full charge shouldn’t be an issue. If you want these batteries to last for decades instead of years, you can add a $9 Pulse/Desulf circuit board, which you wire into place by connecting the negative to one end of the battery bank and the positive on the opposite end of the battery bank. These Pulse/Desulf boards are sold on eBay for around $9 each. For larger battery banks, you can use two of these independently. There is another alternative, you can add a Pulse/Desulf solar panel but is more expensive to go this route, plus the panels are usually in the 20-50 watt range. If you need help in future, I’m willing to help out whenever needed. Todd WH6DWF SEMPER FI
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