LARC – Longmont Amateur Radio Club Press Release

Info@w0eno.org

Contact:

Chuck Poch – K0ITP – LARC Board President

K0ITP@W0ENO.ORG

MEDIA ADVISORY

2020 On the Air with Santa — December 1 – 5, 2020, 6PM-7PM Mountain Time

Ham radio operators from the Longmont Amateur Radio Club in Longmont, Colorado will be giving other HAMS the opportunity for youngsters to talk to Santa. This will be done via the club’s repeaters at

VHF: 147.270 MHz (+) 100 Hz CTCSS tone
UHF: 448.800 MHz (-) 88.5 Hz CTCSS or
EchoLink: WØENO-R (node 8305)

During the event young and experienced can get on the air and talk to Santa. To participate all you need is a Ham Radio and a licensed operator.

Each night at 6PM Santa will get on the air and call out for hams to get on the air with him.

With Covid-19 and social distancing the LARC wanted to try to bring us a little closer and talk to Santa , since we probably will not be seeing him in person this year at Malls and such.

LARC is a non-profit community organization that is always trying to give back, since 1969.

LARC participates in parades, emergency events and in supporting the community anyway they can with additional communications means.

You are invited to join us for our weekly Thursday night club Net tomorrow, Thursday, at 8:00 pm.  You can find our repeater info on the left.  
Hope to hear you on the air!

LARC Meeting Videos

**************       Page Under Construction     ***********

Using this page as a starting point for developing a method to provide access to LARC members to ZOOM virtual meetings via the website

Currently we have .MP4 files stored on a Google Docs shared Drive.  ( Chuck, Jerry, and others ?????   _______   ________ _______    have access to the drive.

Jerry is working to learn how to clean these file up a bit before publishing     Editing videos will be a new skill for Jerry   ( Working on it )

Chuck has advised that we can use You Tube as a platform for the videos …….. Will get more info on this from Chuck

Appears that the .mp4 file type is not currently allowed on the website directly .  I imagine the website would not support the capacity for videos anyway. Confirm with Larry

General Meeting Videos  (these are simple links to the original .MP4 files on the LARC Google Drive – Not yet cleaned up for publishing )

April           Members Sharing Ham Shack Details

May            FT-8  Don Lewis KE0EE

June           History of Amateur Radio – Jeff Ryan

July             Club Member Roundtable

August        Amanda  K1DDN

September    ARRL – Jeff Ryan   (Orig File 590 Mb)

The General Meeting will be held via Zoom starting at 6:30 PM.  See Zoom information below. Special guest speaker Bob Witte (K0NR) – “Having Fun With VHF”. Also check out his book  VHF, Summits and More: Having Fun With Ham Radio.

Please join us, and feel free to invite family and friends!

Topic: October 2020  General Meeting 

LARC Members – As a way to help your club grow, the board needs your help.

Please fill out the 2020 Annual Survey Click on the link and give us your thoughts as soon as possible!  It should only take about five minutes of your time.

Thank you & 73!

ZOOM project testing

Jerry’s 1st Form

Jerry’s 2nd Form

Jerry’s third form

Jerry’s 4th Form

Looks like a pretty simple process so far

Add content > Choose Webform > Create Form > Move items around > Save the Form > Copy the url of the Form 

Create a basic page that will use the form > Add the link of the form to text on the basic page > Publish the basic Page

User will select the link for the form and fill it out > NEXT between pages > SUBMIT on the final page 

Author of the form will open the form and click on RESULTS tab > This will provide a list of form responses >

Each of these responses can ve VIEWED EDITED or DELETED >

RESULTS tab leads to the folllowing types of analysis….

Creating the FORM 

TextField provides the user to enter some text

Radios and Check Boxes do not provide for any text entry    (be careful not to use both – text and Check Boxes)

       The OPTIONS Tab allows for editing each Radio or check box and the adding and deleting of individual items

The TEXTAREA provides a place for the form user to add freeform text     ie: like a comment

The Grid allows for a range of answer to multiple questions

GRANTS are only allowed after the webform is published

Permissions are found under PEOPLE

This page contains historical repeater information.

Repeater Status as of May 2017

The LARC VHF and UHF repeaters are now operational at their new Justice Center location.  The move took three days to dissassemble, erect new antennas, and re-assemble the repeaters at the new location.  At this time the same components are in use, but a number of items including the controllers will be upgraded over the next few months.  In addition, we hope that some final tuning should further improve performance.  Please give the repeaters a workout and report any problems

 
Repeater Status as of 6:30 am 9/1/16:

The 2m repeater is experiencing intermittent intermodulation problems. It causes the repeater to transmit without user input and sounds like a howling or screeching.  

A number of things have been investigated and tried, and further work will be done soon.

The 70cm repeater is unaffected, and is recommended for use until the 2m problems are resolved.

NEW LOCATION – Finally!

The repeaters were moved to Fire Station 4 on August 26 Initial testing shows that the coverage area is considerably better than we had at the temporary location.  A big thank you to Ray, N1IUU for patiently hosting the repeater during its exile.

New antennas were installed 8/23 on the roof of Fire Station #4, using a bucket truck and very helpful crew graciously provided by Longmont Power and Communications. Thanks to Peter Perez of Longmont OEM for arranging their assistance.

Many thanks to Doug Sharp of Triple C Communications who generously obtained the antennas and donated them to LARC without charge.

Below is a bird’s eye view of the 2m and 70cm antennas, looking south. (The third antenna in the background is one of the fire station antennas).

19″ rack rails were custom fit and installed in the repeater cabinet in preparation for installing the repeater equipment. (A large nest of wasps in the cabinet door delayed the process, but they were soon routed by insecticide.) 

 2 Meter Repeater:

• Output frequency of 147.270 MHz with a positive (+) offset of 600 kHz
• 100 Hz CTCSS tone required to access, the tone is also transmitted
• ID is WØENO in Morse code
• A lower frequency courtesy beep identifies this repeater input
• Repeater is a Kenwood TKR-750, 50/25 watt
• Battery backup

70 cm Repeater:

• Output frequency of 448.800 with a negative (-) offset of 5 MHz
• 88.5 Hz CTCSS tone required to access, the tone is also transmitted
• ID is WØENO in Morse code
• A higher frequency courtesy beep identifies this repeater input
• Repeater is a Kenwood TKR-850, 50/25 watt
• Battery backup

Linking:

• The repeaters are currently left linked together
• The repeaters can be linked/unlinked with TouchTone commands

Thursday Night Net:

• LARC has net every Thursday evening at 8PM local time (Mountain Time Zone). Everyone is welcome to check in.
• Contact us if you would like to take a turn as the Net Control operator
• Click HERE for more info

New Ham (“Hamlet”) Tuesday Night Net:

• Every Tuesday night at 7PM local time (Mountain Time Zone), LARC has a net that is intended for brand-new amatures (but everyone is welcome)!
• Contact us if you would like to take a turn as the Net Control operator
• Click HERE for more info

Here is a useful link for technical details about building a repeater.

General Meeting Minutes – June 2020

The History of Amateur Radio – Jeff Ryan 

Item of interest for our club. Please read the email below I received on a new group for 6 meters!!!