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)
Fireworks show will begin at 8:30pm.
Bring your own chair.
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Space Bulletin 004 ARLS004
From ARRL Headquarters
Newington, CT June 27, 2019
To all radio amateurs
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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.
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/
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.
A New Jersey radio amateur, David S. Larsen Sr., WS2L, of Highland Park, will surrender his Amateur Extra-class license and pay a $7,500 civil penalty as part of a Consent Decree with the FCC to settle an enforcement action. An FCC Enforcement Bureau Order released June 18 said Larsen violated the Communications Act of 1934 and Part 90 rules by operating on frequencies licensed to the Borough of Highland Park for public safety communication.
Continue reading Radio Amateur to Lose License as Part of Enforcement Case SettlementGuy wires cut, causing radio tower used by Oregon firefighters to topple
“The tower at this location is used for emergency communication for Loggers, Fire Personnel and Ham Radio Operators,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement. “This is an integral piece of infrastructure in the woods in this particular region, especially with the onset of fire season. Loss of this capability is dangerous to responders, and could greatly impact logging and firefighting operations.” (CCSO)
Continue reading Vandals in Coos CountyAntennas are a core component of modern passive infrastructure. Understanding how to specify, design and install them is crucial to maintaining successful network performance the design of an antenna can have a substantial impact on signal strength.
Because of this, below we’ve outlined key antenna design considerations to increase signal strength.
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Space Bulletin 003 ARLS003
From ARRL Headquarters
Newington, CT June 14, 2019
To all radio amateurs
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ARLS003 Ham Radio Satellites to Deploy from ISS
Three BIRDS-3 satellites with Amateur Radio payloads are scheduled
to be deployed from the International Space Station on Monday, June
17. The BIRDS-3 constellation includes CubeSats from three
countries: They are Nepal’s first satellite, NepaliSat-1; Uguisu
from Japan, and Sri Lanka’s first satellite, Raavana-1.
The primary mission of the BIRDS constellation is to provide
ciphered short messages via its 435.375 MHz beacon, giving the
opportunity for the Amateur Radio community to decipher the messages
using a publicly available key on the BIRDS-3 website at,
http://birds3.birds-project.com/document/amateur/ .
Operators able to successfully decipher the message will be
recognized on the BIRDS-3 website and receive a BIRDS-3 QSL card.
Live streaming of the deployment starts at 0835 UTC at,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrw3cMw10nQ . An April 11 Cygnus
resupply mission to the ISS delivered the three BIRDS-3 CubeSats and
three other CubeSats.
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Your Immediate Help Is Needed To Request An Exemption From A 25% Tariff On The Fireworks CARP and other non-profits sell.
Background
The escalating trade clash between the United States and China has many U.S. companies on edge on how it will impact the cost of their goods that are sourced in China. The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has published a list of approximately $300 billion of goods imported from China—including fireworks — on which the USTR is proposing to impose additional tariffs of up to 25%. These tariffs could potentially be imposed on consumer fireworks as well as public display fireworks damaging the fundraising potential of thousands of nonprofits and forcing many communities to discontinue 4th of July fireworks shows because of the escalating cost.
IARU Region 1 notes that there are two proposals under discussion in Europe as possible future Agenda Items at WRC 2023, which potentially could impact important amateur radio frequencies. The following sets out the current IARU position on these proposals.
Continue reading WRC-23 Agenda Items may impact 144 MHz and 1240 MHz bands