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President's Shack

The Kiwanis Walk-a-thon was today, and there were just enough of us to support it. There were

approximately 200 walkers (counts varied widely, as usual), but the SARC was only asked to provide

a “rough count”. There was no drama this year, perhaps owing to the new route, but when you’re

providing emergency communications, that’s a good thing. Thanks to Jim KI6PTA, Julie KI6YRA,

Dave KJ6VRV, Sandy KJ6VRW, and Bill WA6QYR, for being on hand to help keep track of the

participants.

A few folks had radio issues before (including the night before) and during the walk-a-thon, and that

got me to thinking about “secondary” reasons for participating in community-support events – we

have an excuse to make sure our stuff works, and that we’ll know how to use it when a real

emergency arises! A defective radio or user during a public service event can be somewhat

disruptive, but it is rarely critical, and we can usually get stuff ironed out pretty quickly and easily. If

the same problems occur during an emergency, though, you may find yourself up the proverbial

creek without a paddle (or boat). Sure, it’s easy to fire up the ol’ rig and talk to people on our local

repeaters in your rig’s memory, but how often do you practice using some of the other settings such

as soft DTMF keys, changing squelch tones, cross-band repeat, etc? What if the feature you want is

buried in a menu somewhere? Can you find it if your “nifty” guide isn’t handy? Honestly, I’m just as

guilty as other folks, but it’s still good food for thought.

We still only have about 5 people signed up to do the JOTA event, but we really need at least 3 or 4

more to do a good job: 2 to supervise the snap-together radio kit building for the young ‘uns, 2 for the

fox hunt, 3 for the soldering (more is better think safety!), and 1 for the GOTA station. Note that the

numbers above are MINIMUMS! Last year, Ed KI6PSP and his assistant, Ammon, could have used

someone to spell them, and Dave AD7GU ran the GOTA all by his lonesome. Even if you can only

spend an hour, it’d be a big help!

The next meeting will be held on October 10

. Be there or be elsewhere.

73,

Harry

K6HLS@webstephens.com

Minutes from SARC Sep 2012 meeting

President Harry, K6HLS called the meeting to order at 7:30 pm. Treasurer Julie, KI6YRA reported a

balance of $5871 in the bank. Roy Mayhugh, KG6SFT was our member but first meeting visitor.

Harry needs to talk with repeater chairman Ed, KI6PSP about the portable repeater mast and the

possibility of putting the 147 machine on emergency power. The 147.00 repeater has battery back up

but the batteries are dead and there are solar panels to keep the batteries charged if the club wishes

to continue efforts in that direction. The only problem is the controlling computer operating off ac

power.

Linda, KF6CMW of the Public Relations committee reported going to the lightly attended summer

Emergency Services meetings where CERT people talked about issues with home emergency

supplies for 2 or more days being available in each household.

Hal, N6HAL talked about getting Ridgecrest RACES going again along with Mike Cash, N6PM, the

eastern Kern County radio officer.

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