before the
the first snow blocked the road, to re-install the 925 repeater.Robeert also relocated the .88 repeater to
Browns Mountain location recently
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NEW TRINITY HAMS!.... KA6WAT, Robbie Jackson; KI6WAX, Bobby McNeil; KI6WBL, Jeanne Simmons; KI6WBD, Nick Prindiville; and John Hanover (call listed soon!)... From the February 2009 test in Redding.
California QSO Party- October 2009
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Shasta-Trinity County Line on HWY 299 and Trinity Alps Wilderness Trail
TRINITY HAMS CONTACT THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
Ed Carpenter, WB6JZN, and Greg WB6FZH work ISS in October 2008
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Lightning Strike Forest Fires Ravage Trinity County
Firescape in Big Bar Area and Residents Flee Flames
Local Hams help in Recent Northern Californa Fire Emergency
FIELD DAY 2008 (6/28) - CANCELLEDRed Cross Safety Day at LONGS DRUG (6/21)
Greg Greenwood, Field Day Chairman and former TCARC President operates the Icom 735 100 watt
Shortwave Radio powered by 12volt battery, using a G5RV wire antenna 15 feet high.
The Washington St. side of Lowden Park in Weaverville was the location for the Emergency Communications exercise.
ARRL Field Day INFO - TCARC FD - Lowden Park INFO
The Field Day 2007 location is 50' from Washington St. The pine trees provide some shade and support for temporary antenna wire antenna. This year TCARC members will enjoy the casual operating event, communicating with other "Ham Operators" around the country and nearby northstate locations. Besides the HF SSB station, there will be a VHF 50W 2 meter voice radio station. All the equipment used is part of Greg Greenwood's deployable boxed radio system with all required accessories and antennas.
Reginald Fessenden, a Canadian inventor and Ernst Alexanderson, a Swedish immigrant, were hard at work in Fessenden’s Massachusetts laboratory. They developed a mechanical device to "alternate" a continuous radio wave. The device consisted of a huge disc that revolved at 20,000 rpm. They had connected it to a transmitter and a microphone, and discovered that they could "modulate" a radio signal!
On Christmas Eve, as wireless operators at land stations and aboard ships off the Massachusetts coast diligently maintained their radio watches by listening to the familiar Morse code signals; they were startled when they suddenly heard voices in their headphones! They listened spellbound. Then, they heard a woman singing! Finally, they heard someone playing a violin! It was Fessenden himself...playing the sacred carol "O Holy Night". No longer would radio sounds be restricted to the "dit’s" and "dah’s" of the Morse code.
That's how it happened. Christmas Eve...Nineteen Hundred and Six.
The Humboldt Amateur Radio Club sponsored a "special event station" using KA6PGN callsign. They utilized 3855 , 7250, 14.250 and 146.52 . They used a modern SSB station and Vintage AM/CW station with a 1940s Navy WW2 TCS Radio System. A commemorative QSL was produced to commemorate radio contacts. The ship is presently moored at the dock at the end of Commercial Street in Eureka, CA.
The US Navy LCI 1091 was one of 912 built during WWII. Their mission was to deliver troops and their equipment, directly on shore via ramp through bow doors. The troop capacity is about 200 with their gear. It can also deliver 75 tons of cargo for support. It is 158' Long, 23' beam with a draft of approximately 5'. It was commissioned Sept 21, 1944. After WW2 it was placed into use as a fishing boat in Alaskan waters for many years. It was donated by Dr. Ralph Davis to the Humboldt Bay Naval Sea/Air Museum in 2006.
UPDATED INFORMATION: 10/15/07-
HARC plans this to be an annual event. WB6FZH was able to contact the ship late on Saturday night, and spoke with KG6FWT, Jim. Conditions were not good enough for the onboard WW2 TCS station to be fired up.
Greg, WB6FZH, had his own TCS-8 WW2 radio equipment standing by incase the signals were strong enough. Greg has had TCS equipment on the air since 1963 in California and in Hawaii (93-99). Greg has a TCS-8 Radio manufactured by Borg-Warner in the 1940s set up with a homebrew AC power supply on the ham bands (160-30mtrs)
Greg has had WW2 radios that have been designed for WW2 aircraft, ships and land use. He has some equipment still in daily use RAO-6, TCS-8, . He is presently selling off most of his boatanchor and mil-radio gear anticipating smaller quarters in the future. He reminds us..."Real Radios Glow in the Dark".
TCS-8 Station at Weaverville and TCS Station onboard the 1091
On The Air!
Low Power Radio Communication
April 3rd about midnight.. 7mhz CW Contact with Cargo Ship 1000 miles N/E of Honolulu, on his way to Seattle,WA. K7HI/MM, Howard was running QRP at 2 watts with a "Wilderness Sierra" Radio Kit to a 30' whip antenna. He is Master Radio Operator-Engineer on the "SS Kauai" a Matson Navigation Cargo Ship. See photo above!
Greg, WB6FZH, was running 10watts out to a 27' Butternut Vertical using 1977 Ten Tec C-21 CW radio transceiver. The conditions were heavy fading, with signal reports of about 579 to 439. See photo above of C-21 radio taken in 1995 at edge of Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, Hawaii.
Today (2007) the radio now resides in Weaverville in his small cabin, on top of a very sensitive WW2 RAO-7 radio receiver used for communications and inteligence work to locate enemy radio installations with a directional loop antenna. These days the 110lb radio pulls in AM Coast to Coast and other programs all over the west coast in the early morning hours of the day and uses a 67'wire connected to a nearby Pine Tree.
Ham Radio Just Above the AM Broadcast band!
The recent 160 meter CW contests (CQWW and ARRL 160) resulted in contacts throughout the Western United States. The 160 meter band is located at 1.8mhz, just above the AM Broadcast Band (.54-1.7mhz). My 200 watt transmitter and end-loaded longwire antenna made contacts in British Columbia, Washington State, Oregon, Nevada, Colorado and Arizona in the ARRL 160 CW contest. The CQ WW160 SSB DX Contest netted contacts with New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Carribean, So America, Alaska, BC, and a ham I knew when I lived on Oahu, Hawaii. The contacts were made with morse code and SSB Voice using 40 year old tube type equipment.
The 160 contests are always a challenge, as the propagation (radio conditions) and man-made electrical interference often creates very noisy band conditions. Just think...The 160 band is located just above the AM Broadcast Band at 1800khz. (KFBK in Sacramento is 1530khz). My transmitter is about 100 watts output, and most Broadcast AM stations run from 10,000 to 50,000 watts of power into tall towers, not a 60' long wire 15' above ground held up by a pine tree!.
These recent operating activities show that you do NOT need high power, expensive modern equipment or a big antenna to contact stations around the world or across town.
"Real Radios Glow In The Dark..."
"73"- Greg, WB6FZH
Greg, WB6FZH and TCARC Emergency Radio Communications Unit
Communications with Ham, Gov't, Fire, Law, FEMA, MARS, MURS, FRS, etc.
This Emergency Communications Trailer is funded by the Trinity County Amateur Radio Club. It can be powered by 110VAC, Generator Power, or 12VDC Batteries. It contains 2-way radio gear for Ham, Local Gov't, Law, Fire, CB, FRS, MARS and ARES. It can provide voice or digital modes. It can access our 7/24/365 radio PBBS/MAILBOX on 145.050 WB6FZH-1 or other Northstate PBBS. It can work in coordination with Red Cross Shelters, Emergency Service INCIDENT COMMAND POSTS, or stand-alone by radio or hardwire-telephone. It can also contact our solar powered mountain top repeaters. The costs of this emergency unit is funded by the TCARC members, Donations are always welcome and needed!
We are always looking for new members, and will help them earn their Ham Radio License. It is easy to be licensed now, inexpensive equipment and no morse code is required.
73- Greg Greenwood, WB6FZH
Current project: Getting 1960's Drake Tube Radios back on the air
I owned same model radios in 1970, 1990 and now! -I Will keep these!
This equipment requires true radio operator skills to tune and operate!.
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