For our first meeting after the summer break, Steve N6JXL and Ray KB6LQV will be giving a presentation on Radio Telescope.
Date/Time:
Friday September 6, 2019 at 7:00pm
Location:
Clovis Senior Activities Center Classroom
850 4th St
Clovis, CA 93612
CARP Meeting – September 6, 2019
Tour de Fresno Ride 2019 Comm Volunteers Needed
Tour de Fresno Ride – Communications Support
CARP in conjunction with Fresno County EMCOMM and amateur radio operators around the valley provide amateur radio communications as a public service for this event.
If you can help, please signup using the link at the bottom of the post.
When
Saturday September 21, 2019. Time: varies between 0700~1700hrs
Where
Fresno, and surrounding communities.
Mission:
To provide health and safety communications between rest stops and event coordinator.
Manpower needed:
17-20+ amateur radio communications volunteers.
Contact:
Sign up online by clicking the Tour de Fresno Signup link or contact Rob Mavis AE6GE ae6ge@k6arp.org for more details .
CARP Bylaws Revised
As with any corporation the bylaws should be reviewed and revised periodically so that they are inline with the mission and activities of the organization. Over the last 10 months a committee has painstakingly reviewed and reivsed the CARP Bylaws. The newly revised Bylaws were ratified by the Board of Directors and signed putting them into effect on August 27, 2019.
I would like to thank those who participated in the Bylaw Review Committee:
- AE6GE Rob Mavis
- NA6G Steve Bassett
- N6JXL Steve Stoehr
- N6MQG Tom Reinhart
- K6AVS Troy Wise
- N6MTS Ron Hunt (SK)
Below is a link to a PDF of the current bylaws. They can also be found on the K6ARP.org website.
North Fork Grizzly Century 2019 Comm Volunteers Needed
North Fork Grizzly Century – Communications Support
CARP in conjunction with Fresno County EMCOMM and amateur radio operators around the valley provide amateur radio communications as a public service for this event.
If you can help, please signup using the link at the bottom of the post.
When
Saturday September 14, 2019. Time: varies between 0530~1700hrs
Where
North Fork, Bass Lake and areas northeast.
Mission:
To provide health and safety communications between rest stops and event coordinator.
Manpower needed:
17-20+ amateur radio communications volunteers.
Contact:
Sign up online by clicking North Fork Grizzly Century Communications Volunteer Signup Form or contact Rob Mavis AE6GE
ae6ge@k6arp.org for more details .
Fireworks Block Party July 2nd
DFS Fireworks Block Party Sponsored by CARP and Crunch Fitness
Tuesday, July 2nd from 7pm to 10pm CARP along with . Crunch Fitness will be presenting the DFS Fireworks Block Party at the new Crunch Fitness (284 W. Shaw, Clovis)
- FREE pizza
- FREE Fireworks Show
- Register for give-aways for up to $500 in free fireworks.
Fireworks show will begin at 8:30pm.
Bring your own chair.
LightSail 2 Launches, Will Transmit CW Beacon
ZCZC AS04
QST de W1AW
Space Bulletin 004 ARLS004
From ARRL Headquarters
Newington, CT June 27, 2019
To all radio amateurs
SB SPACE ARL ARLS004
ARLS004 LightSail 2 Launches, Will Transmit CW Beacon
The Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 CubeSat, launched on June 25,
will transmit Morse code from space. LightSail is a citizen-funded
project to send a small spacecraft, propelled solely by sunlight,
into Earth’s orbit. The innovative satellite is due to be deployed
on July 2 from Prox-1, a Georgia Tech student-built spacecraft the
size of a small washing machine. Once deployed, LightSail 2 will
automatically transmit a beacon packet every few seconds, which can
be decoded into 238 lines of text telemetry describing the
spacecraft’s health and status, including everything from battery
status to solar sail deployment motor state. Every 45 seconds, the
spacecraft will transmit “LS2” on the spacecraft’s frequency of
437.025 MHz, within the Amateur Radio 70-centimeter band.
CARP Fireworks Stand 2019
The Clovis Amateur Radio Pioneers will be selling DFS fireworks June 28 though July 5th, 2019. The stand is located at the new Crunch Fitness (the old Wilson’s Motorsports) at 284 W Shaw Ave in Clovis.
Please consider supporting CARP by purchasing your fireworks at the CARP DFS Stand.
If you would like to volunteer to help us out, please check out our signup page: https://www.k6arp.org/carp-fireworks-stand-fundraiser-signup/
Date/Time
- Friday, June 28 – 12pm – 10pm – Opening Day!
- Saturday, June 29 – 10am – 10pm
- Sunday June 30 – 10am – 10pm
- Monday July 1 – 10am – 10pm
- Tuesday, July 2 – 10am – 10pm
- Wednesday, July 3 – 10am – 10pm
- Thursday, July 4 – 10am – Midnight
- Friday, July 5 – 10am – 10pm – Deep Discount Day!
Location
No Meetings in July or August
Each year CARP takes a summer hiatus from meetings in the months of July and August. We still have activities during these months so keep checking the website!
Tentative Camp-a-Long Dates 2019
Now that summer is here it’s time to go camping.
We attempt to schedule the trips around other activites and try to land on contest weekends to maximize HF activity.
Tentative dates for camping trips:
- July 13-14
Location – Dinkey Creek (old Camp Mar-y-Mac site)
IARU HF World Championship - Aug 17-18
Location: TBD
North American QSO Party - Oct 5-6
Location: TBD
Califorina QSO Party
These trips are typically to to a “dry” campsite location which means no running water and no toilets. We try to find sites that can accomodate camp trailers and RVs for those of you don’t want to “rough it” too much.
If you are interested in going let Rob AE6GE know (ae6ge@k6arp.org)
Pirate Radio and FCC Enforcement
Charles Cooper of the FCC gives a presentation on Pirate Radio and FCC enforcement at the 2018 IEEE Broadcast Technology Society (BTS) Symposium. The presentation presents a LOT of great information about the FCC Enforcement Field Division and interference.