MAY 2015

London Bridge Amateur Radio Association

LBARA LOOKS FOR NEW HAMS AT THE

BASSMASTERS FISHING TOURNAMENT

Charlie Kotan, K0TAN, set up a display at the Bass Masters Fishing Tournament

held on May 9th and 10th to recruit new hams and introduce current hams to

LBARA. On Saturday he was joined by Bob Ideker, KB5VUH, Russ Nyblom,

K7RUS, Doug Tebo, K9DLT, and Mary Tebo, K7HAV. Bob worked the crowd

and demonstrated Echolink while Doug and Mary engaged passers by. Joe Mer-

rill, KF7RNT, Peter Van Baggen,

VA7RI, and Tim Lotspeich, KX7P,

stopped by along with several other

hams to say hello.

On Sunday, Doug and Mary came back

to help out. It was fun until the wind

kicked up, so they packed up and left in

mid afternoon. All this work resulted in

some hams who may join LBARA and

some folks interested in getting their li-

cense.

Russ, K7RUS and Charlie, K0TAN hard at work.

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LBARA MEETING SCHEDULE

MONTH BOARD REGULAR

MAY NOTE: BOARD 5/21

SEPT MEETINGS WILL NOW 9/17

OCT TAKE PLACE ONE 10/15

NOV HOUR PRIOR TO THE 11/19

DEC REGULAR MEETING 12/17

LOCAL REPEATERS

LOCATION FREQUENCY OFFSET PL SYSTEM

LAKE HAVASU CITY 448.60 DOWN 123.00 MCARS LINKED

BULLHEAD CITY 146.82 DOWN 123.00 MCARS LINKED

KINGMAN 147.24 DOWN 123.00 MCARS LINKED

LAKE HAVASU CITY 146.96 DOWN 162.20 W7DXJ

LAKE HAVASU CITY 146.62 DOWN 131.80 MCARS LINKED

LAKE HAVASU CITY 146.70 DOWN 131.80 K7LHC

LAKE HAVASU CITY 146.64 DOWN 156.70 K7LHC EOC

HAVASU LANDING 147.03 UP 156.70 SB SHERIFF

NEEDLES, CA 147.30 UP 156.70 SB SHERIFF

LAKE HAVASU CITY 449.125 DOWN 67.00 WIN SYSTEM

LAKE HAVASU CITY 447.54 DOWN 136.50 BARN SYSTEM

MAY PROGRAM

Field Day At The Paul Bunyan

Amateur Radio Club, Bemidji, MN

Here’s a great video (one of a couple of their FD videos) of this Club’s FD activities. This FD video also

includes a nice interview of AA7BQ, the President and Founder of QRZ.COM. Most of you have used

QRZ for ham radio information on QSL routes, individual ham station web pages, equipment sales,

and so much more. Wild weather at the FD site, but a very interesting look at the QRZ site.

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WELCOME TO THE LBARA NET

The LBARA Net is up and running now. Join us every Tuesday night

at 6:30 p.m. on the Club’s new repeater. The repeater is on 146.700

(-) with a PL of 131.8.

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MEET YOUR BOARD MEMBERS

Linda Martin-Hunt

Secretary

Retired. Previously employed by Toyota Tech-

nical Center in Torrance, CA, as a computer net-

work and telecommunications administrator.

Served as professor of Computer Information

Science at Palo Verde College in Blythe, CA.

Graduated from University of California, Irvine

with Bachelors and Masters of Business Admin-

istration degrees.

Linda holds the General call of W7LAM. She

was first licensed as KE6ONB in 1994. She uses

a Icom 756 Pro 3 into a SteppIR at 50 feet and wire dipoles for 40 and 80 meters. She is a

member of YLRL and enjoys operating on YL nets.

Bruce Hunt

Board of Directors

Bruce Hunt, N6BRH, was first licensed in 1994 as KE6MZK. He was raised and lived in

the Orange County, California area. Bruce attended Cypress College and then a trade school

for Computer Programming. He went to work doing programming and systems design for

various manufacturing and distribution companies. He has worked with very large IBM

Mainframe Computers, large, intermediate and small mini-computers as well as personal

(micro) computers from their inception in the late 1970's and early 1980's to where they are

today.

The main radio is an Icom 7700 and the backup radio is an

Icom 756 Pro III. The amplifier is an Icom PW1 amplifier (1

kW). The antenna system consists of a 3 element SteppIR Yagi

at 48 feet which supports 6 meters through 40 meters as well as

2 center fed dipoles for 40 meters and 80 meters. The Mic is a

Heil PR-781. Ham Radio Deluxe is used for logging and sta-

tion control. His primary interest is chasing DX with 230 enti-

ties confirmed.

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Are you looking to upgrade your license?

Give our VE Exam Team a call.

See Ed Gillespie, AB7EM at #453.7412

SATURDAY MORNING’S BREAKFAST

HAS MOVED!

You’re all invited to join LBARA members for a great breakfast each and

every Saturday morning at a new location, Peggy’s Sunrise Café. Peggy’s is

located at 1584 Countryshire. Breakfast is served at 6 a.m. (or earlier if you

want a good seat!) Most important, the food is great!!!!

Upcoming Activities and Hamfests

June 6 - Kachina/White Mountain Hamfest, Show Low City Hall , AZ

July 24-25, Williams Hamfest, Williams, AZ

Oct 23-24, Arizona State Comvention/Kingman Hamfest, Kingman, AZ

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LBARA OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS

Jerry France(K7LY) President

Tom Hutter (K7TJH) Vice-President

Doug Tebo (K9DLT) Treasurer

Linda Hunt (W7LAM) Secretary

Dick Jernigan (W7DXJ) Director (2 YR)

Bob Ideker (WB5VUH) Director (1 YR)

Charles Kotan (K0TAN) Director (2 YR)

Bruce Hunt (N6BRH) Director (2 YR)

Jim Varner (AE6N) Sgt-at-Arms

Jerry France (K7LY) Web Master

Jerry France (K7LY) Static Editor

Doug Tebo(K9DLT) Membership Chair

FROM THE EDITOR

If you have anything you would like to see included in

these issues, please let me know. I’m always looking for

articles, news items, construction articles, or anything

that might be of interest to our readers. You can contact

me at 928.855.7941 or email at grf@npgcable.com.

VISIT OUR WEBSITE

www.lbara.net

FOR SALE

SEARS BATTERY CHARGE SYSTEM MONITOR - FLOW CHAREGER - $20

REALISTIC CB TRC-424 - $25

ANALOG VOLT METER - $10

ADI AR4-147, 2M ONLY, 60 WATTS OUTPUT - $50

PLEASE CONTACT:

JACKIE SCHILLER

680.7262

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EQUIPMENT FOR

SALE

ATTENTION READERS

Please note that this issue represents a “work-in-progress”

and there are a number of changes to be made in subse-

quent issues. I would greatly appreciate your comments,

both good and bad, as well as any suggestions for future

issues. This issue also begins our first attempt to deliver

the STATIC to your doorstep electronically. Please keep

me abreast of any email address changes you may have and

I promise to have this delivered promptly and accurately.

Also, I still have a number of articles awaiting publication

and will do so in the future. This is your newsletter, so

keep the articles, letters, and pictures coming. I can be

reached at home (855.7941) or via email at

grf@npgcable.com .

EDITOR’S NOTE : List your items for sale

here. Ham radio related only, please. Include a

picture if you like (please use a jpg format).

Email all to me at grf@npgcable.com) along

with your name and phone number.

L.B.A.R.A

P.O. BOX 984

LAKE HAVASU CITY

ARIZONA 86405