Victoria Amateur Radio Club – W5DSC

Reminder: Our monthly Meeting is this Thursday, May 16, at 4902 Elk. (Harvey and Pat Babb’s home) in Victoria at 7:30 p.m..  Instead of a Demo, Harvey is planning to do packet station & software setup to get systems “water safari ready.”  Anyone who needs to get their packet stations set up for Texas Water Safari checkpoints should bring them to the meeting.

Some club members will meet at Ramsey’s Restaurant (across from DeTar Hospital) at 6:00/6:30 prior to the meeting. A couple of people have expressed interest in the club and testing – Visitors are welcome to join club members for dinner and welcome to attend the meeting.

Harvey and I (Stacey) are working on the agenda, so if anyone has anything to add, let me know ASAP.

- KF5QZL
Stacey Weaver, Secretary

The Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club will again participate in this year's
Museum Ships Weekend. June 1-2, 2013.  Our call sign, KK5W will be credited
as a contact with both WW II Submarine USS Cavalla and Destroyer Escort USS
Stewart.   representing the USS Cavalla and USS Stewart.  Visit our web page
for more information, www.bvarcmswe.org.  We will be operating from, Seawolf
Park in Galveston, Texas, NA-143.

WE will have four stations set up, two located in the park, aboard the
Cavalla and  aboard the Stewart.  Weather permitting these stations will be
on the air continuously.  

We need operators.  Amateur radio operators in the Galveston - Houston area
are cordially invited to participate. You can sign up on the web page if you
would like to operate KK5W during the event at Seawolf Park.

Frequencies as follows:
SSB
7.260 MKHz
14.260 MHz
21.360 MHz
28.360 MHz

CW
7.039 Mhz
14,039 MHz
21.039 KHz
28,039 KHz

Operation on OSCAR satellites is planned for daytime passes on Saturday,
June 1.

KK5W will host two VHF Nets for Houston-Galveston amateurs to contact the
local museum ships using the WA5CYI repeater 146.94 (-) PL 167.9 on Saturday
and Sunday from 11AM - 1 PM Local time.  We are anticipating the USS Texas
(NA5DV), Elissa (N5E), and the Grandcamp/High Flyer Memorial (AC0TX) will be
on the net. 

A balloon launch is scheduled for Saturday morning, APRS trackers will use
N5BPS (the Cavalla's wartime call sign was NBPS).  

Once again, we will be offering the Texas Navy Award.

This year's Texas Navy Fleet is expanded to include:
    USS Cavalla and USS Stewart  - KK5W
    USS Texas - NA5DV
    Tall Ship Elissa - N5E
    USS Lexington - W5LEX
    SS High Flyer and SS Grandcamp Memorial - AC0TX
    National Museum of the Pacific War - N5P 

For KK5W and AC0TX, one contact counts for both ships. Provide evidence of
two way communication (log extract) with at least four of the call signs
during MSWE 2013 to earn the 2013 Texas Navy Certificate.  Work all six to
earn the coveted "Clean Sweep" endorsement.

73,
Ron, K5HM
Event Coordinator
k5hm.ron@gmail.com
www.qrz.com/db/k5hm

Calling local hams to help finish up work on the trailer this Saturday, May 11, at 9:00 a.m. at 315 E. Johnson in Cuero, Texas (David Dodge’s place). The trailer needs to be painted and some of the stuff needs to be put back on it.

Mid-Coast Hurricane and Disaster Conference this Thursday. $15

http://www.redcross.org/news/event/Mid-Coast-HURRiCANE-and-Disaster-Conference

Monthly Meeting at Harvey’s house 4902 Elk Street in Victoria. 7:30 p.m.

Reminder: Our monthly Meeting is this Thursday at 4902 Elk. (Harvey and Pat Babb’s home) in Victoria at 7:30 p.m..  For our March meeting, we’ll have demos primarily on antenna tuners and secondarily, antenna analyzers.  Harvey would like assistance on this demo, so please bring equipment and willingness to share what you know.

Some club members will meet at Ramsey’s Restaurant (across from DeTar Hospital) at 6:00/6:30 prior to the meeting. A couple of people have expressed interest in the club and testing – Visitors are welcome to join club members for dinner and welcome to attend the meeting.

Harvey and I (Stacey) are working on the agenda, so if anyone has anything to add, let me know ASAP.

- KF5QZL
Stacey Weaver, Secretary

The Red Cross drill this Saturday. It will be held on Saturday, March 2, 8:15 a.m., Northside Baptist Church, 4100 N. Laurent in the dome part.

The VARC & CCARC Monday night NET is held every Monday ight at 8:00 p.m.
W5DSC 145.19 (-) PL 103.5

And Kerry wants to know: Anybody want to try re-starting our HF roundtable after the Monday night nets? Jimmy Podsim says he might be interested if we have it in the General part of the band. We could try 10m or 15m but I doubt we’d make it to Yorktown up there.

The Texas Traffic net is every night from 6:30 to 7:30 on 3.873. http://www.texastrafficnet.org/

The January 17 meeting will be held at 4902 Elk, home of Harvey and Pat Babb. Meeting starts at 7:30. We will meet at Ramsey’s for dinner around 6:15 if you are interested.

Victoria Amateur Radio Club VARC has a Facebook page. Search for either the full name or VARC or use this link: https://www.facebook.com/VictoriaAmateurRadioClubVarc