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NEWS Breakfast at Denny's: Remember, TBARC members and guests get-together on the first Saturday of each month at 7:30 AM at Denny's Restaurant just West of I-17 and W. Bell Rd. Members, non-member Hams and drop-in guests are all welcome to this "Dutch Treat Breakfast". Hope to see you there. Everyone is invited to attend. There will be no breakfast in January (New Year's Day). The next breakfast will be on February 5, 2011. Happy new year! ARIZONA WORKED ALL COUNTIES After twelve years of drought, Arizona once again has an Arizona Worked All Counties Award. AZ-WAC, sponsored by the Yavapai Amateur Radio Club in Prescott, Arizona, is honored to be sponsoring this award. AZ-WAC begins October 1, 2009 and is ongoing. Rules are listed at: http://www.w7yrc.org/az-wac.htm For an application, send an email to AZ-WAC@W7YRC.ORG Subject Line: Application. Make a contact with each of the 15 counties in Arizona, have your logs verified by two non related, general class or above hams and send your application to Yavapai Amateur Radio Club ATTN: AZ-WAC PO Box 11994 Prescott, Az. 86304-1994 Your serialized award will be emailed to you in .pdf format for you to print. If you prefer a hard copy, please include $5.00 US dollars to the above address and a copy will be sent to you. Question are to be directed to AZ-WAC@W7YRC.ORG The honor system will govern -- good luck and have fun. 73 ARRL Arizona Section Section Manager: Thomas J. Fagan, K7DF k7df@arrl.org NEWS from the W7ASC Ham Shack at the Arizona Science Center ADAW Column for August 2010
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W7ASC shack modifications and changes are still in the approval
progress. We have made several advances to the equipment and
operation in the Shack thanks to Steve WB4ZSC, Stuart AE7SS, and
Peter KD7OIW. We now have a better camera for the ATV rig thanks to
ASC – it came from their old virtual volleyball exhibit. We now
have both the TX and RX images on the big screen monitor. Since the
original remote control for the Sony LCD TV was "lost"
Stuart brought in a programmable remote and was able to program it
to bring up the TV menu and select the correct mode on the Sony LCD.
Steve, Stuart, and Peter successfully received Ron (AE6QU) ATV
signal via the Shaw Butte repeater. After overcoming additional
problems and a visit to the roof to check out the antenna situation,
we now have two-way TV via Shaw Butte but with the antenna
(satellite) pointed SW instead of NW. The ATV UHF signal is
bouncing off buildings and around corners to get from W7ASC to Shaw
Butte. Obviously we don't have a direct open path to the ATV
repeater. Still some work to do on the ATV but almost there. --73
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