Club member VE3UCY in the news

Quoting from VE3ES’s email “… if you were watching the CBC news this evening you saw Mike Ciacelli VE3UCY, a Deputy Chief of the Leamington Fire Department being interviewed vis-a-vis emergency preparedness. Mike and Phil Berthiaume the county emergency preparedness coordinator were speaking in lieu of the tragic severe weather that hit the Oklahoma City area. Mike was identified as an Amateur Radio operator and he spoke briefly on the subject of Emcomm.

The above noted article was on the CBC news this evening at 6pm and can be found on-line at the link shown below. Mike’s interview (and a shot of an attempt at comms on the VE3III repeater) starts at 7:52 minutes into the news.

http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/Canada/Windsor/ID/2386676793/

Thanks to VE3UCY and VE3VOG for alerting me of the CBC interview.”

as always,
VA3URO

Ham course interest is picking up

As the title says we are starting to gather some interest on our ham course. To all that consider taking the course and the subsequent exam to get their ticket please let us know that you are interested by sending an email to club@thesparc.ca. Everyone that has already sent an email was registered on the list and we will notify everyone once we have reached a desired class size and have decided on when and where the course will take place.

73′
VA3URO

TheSPARC Ham Course

The club is considering organizing a new course for those interested in obtaining their HAM ticket. Our local HAMs will provide the training and all the materials. Our esteemed examinator Bill – VE2ES will administer the tests. We do need to get a number of interested folks in order to make this happen so if you are interested in taking the course or would like more information please email us at club@thesparc.ca.

VA3URO

VA3URO – SDR Project

After numerous trials, test and failures I finally finished my SDR project. The project is multiband RX-only circuit that is connected to a Lexicon Alpha sound card and with the help of the HDSDR software allows one to listen in on 20/40/80m bands. I’ve posted a short YouTube video and a picture below.

73s

VA3URO

Windsor & Essex County Repeater List

Following is a list of local repeaters and other frequencies I have collected. It is incomplete for sure but may still be helpful. If there is something missing in here please let me know and I can add it to the list. I am also missing some of the callsigns for the repeaters as well as other notes such as IRLP and/or Echolink capabilities. Please feel free to contact me va3uro@thesparc.ca if you can help fill in this list.

 

Channel Number Receive Frequency Transmit Frequency Offset Frequency Offset Direction Operating Mode Name Tone Mode CTCSS Comment
0 144.39 144.39 Simplex FM APRS None 100.0 Hz APRS NA
1 53.05 52.05 1.00 MHz Minus AM VE3-RRR None 100.0 Hz Amateur
2 145.29 144.69 600 kHz Minus FM Windosr Rep1 Tone 118.8 Hz Amateur
3 145.33 144.73 600 kHz Minus FM Tone 100.0 Hz Amateur
4 145.41 144.81 600 kHz Minus FM VE3-EOW Tone 118.8 Hz Amateur
5 145.47 144.87 600 kHz Minus FM Windsor Rep2 Tone 118.8 Hz Amateur
6 145.51 145.51 Simplex FM None 100.0 Hz Amateur
7 146.5 146.5 Simplex FM ARES None 100.0 Hz Amateur
8 146.525 146.525 Simplex FM IWTER-Simplex None 100.0 Hz Amateur
9 146.76 146.16 600 kHz Minus FM Tone 100.0 Hz Amateur
10 146.88 146.28 600 kHz Minus FM Border City RC Tone 118.8 Hz Amateur
11 146.97 146.37 600 kHz Minus FM VE3LLL Tone 118.8 Hz Amateur
12 147 147.6 600 kHz Plus FM VE3-WIN Tone 118.8 Hz Amateur
13 147.06 147.66 600 kHz Plus FM VE3-III Tone 118.8 Hz Amateur
14 147.1 147.7 600 kHz Plus FM VE3-ZZZ Tone 118.8 Hz Amateur
15 147.12 147.72 600 kHz Plus FM Tone 118.8 Hz Amateur
16 147.3 147.9 600 kHz Plus FM VE3-TOM Tone 118.8 Hz Amateur
17 147.39 147.99 600 kHz Plus FM VE3-BBB Tone 118.8 Hz Amateur
18 442.05 442.65 600 kHz Plus FM VE3-LLLU Tone 118.8 Hz Amateur
19 443.075 448.075 5.00 MHz Plus FM Tone 123.0 Hz Amateur
20 443.475 448.475 5.00 MHz Plus FM Tone 88.5 Hz Amateur
21 443.925 448.925 5.00 MHz Plus FM VE3SOT Tone 123.0 Hz Amateur
22 444 449 5.00 MHz Plus FM Tone 100.0 Hz Amateur
23 444.1125 449.1125 5.00 MHz Plus FM VE3XT Tone 118.8 Hz Amateur
24 444.225 449.225 5.00 MHz Plus FM Tone 107.2 Hz Amateur
25 444.4 449.4 5.00 MHz Plus FM VE3-UUU Tone 118.8 Hz Amateur
26 444.5 445.1 600 kHz Plus FM VE3-III Tone 118.8 Hz Amateur
27 444.6 449.6 5.00 MHz Plus FM VE3-WIWU Tone 118.8 Hz Amateur
28 121.7 121.7 Simplex AM YQG Ground None 100.0 Hz Air
29 122.95 122.95 Simplex AM Great Lakes Op None 100.0 Hz Air
30 123.375 123.375 Simplex AM London Control None 100.0 Hz Air
31 124.7 124.7 Simplex AM YQG Tower None 100.0 Hz Air
32 131.775 131.775 Simplex AM YQG Air Canada None 100.0 Hz Air
33 236.6 236.6 Simplex FM YQG Tower None 100.0 Hz Air
34 410.6125 410.6125 Simplex FM YQG Security None 100.0 Hz Air
35 464.0875 464.0875 Simplex FM YQG Groun Handl None 100.0 Hz Air
36 139.68 139.68 Simplex FM Lasalle Pol Simp None 100.0 Hz Police
37 142.47 142.47 Simplex FM Lasalle Pol PS3 None 100.0 Hz Police
38 410.4375 410.4375 Plus FM AmhstB Pol Tone 131.8 Hz Police
39 412.8875 412.8875 Plus FM OPP Broadcast Tone 107.2 Hz Police
40 153.77 154.37 600 kHz Plus FM Essex Cty FS1 Tone 123.0 Hz Fire
41 154.01 154.01 Simplex FM Leami Fire Disp Tone 156.7 Hz Fire
42 154.635 154.635 Simplex FM Kings Fire Tac None 100.0 Hz Fire
43 159.27 159.87 600 kHz Plus FM Kings Fire Disp Tone 156.7 Hz Fire
44 159.27 159.87 600 kHz Plus FM Lasalle Fire Dis Tone 123.0 Hz Fire
45 164.48 164.48 Simplex FM Lasalle Fire Op None 100.0 Hz Fire
46 469.9375 472.9375 3.00 MHz Plus FM Essex Cty FS2 Tone 136.5 Hz Fire
47 866.25 866.25 Simplex FM Windsor Fire 1 None 100.0 Hz Fire
48 866.375 866.375 Simplex FM Windsor Fire 2 None 100.0 Hz Fire
49 453.4125 456.4125 3.00 MHz Plus FM Hotel Dieu Ops Tone 100.0 Hz Hospital

 

73s VA3URO

The SPARC Net Script

Following is the net script I have redacted and used. Remarks for the net controller are noted in ( ). If you have any comments or suggestions please email me.

73

VA3URO.


At 9:00 PM ET:

This is <YOUR CALLSIGN> – <YOUR NAME> welcoming all to the Tuesday night net for the Sun Parlour Amateur Radio Club.

This net meets each Tuesday at 9:00 PM Eastern Time on 147.300 Mhz the VE3TOM repeater, and IRLP node 2803 as well as the Windsor UHF repeater link on 444.600 Mhz.

For anyone who wishes to participate from outside our transmission area we are also connected to the 9038 IRLP public reflector link VE3ZHR-L.

All amateurs are welcome to use these open repeaters when they are not occupied by a scheduled net.

Brief pause ( release mike button at each pause to avoid timing out the repeater )

This is a directed net with the purpose of providing communications during emergencies.

This net also serves to provide training in procedures that would apply in actual emergencies and test communications.

Brief pause

All Radio Amateurs are invited to participate in this net and visit us online for up-to-date news and information at our website thesparc.ca .
I spell

Tango – Hotel – Echo – Sierra – Papa – Alpha – Romeo – Charlie – DOT – Charlie – Alpha

Brief pause

Please allow a 1 sec gap after keyup and a 3 second gap between transmissions to allow all connected systems to key up and avoid interrupted transmissions.

Brief pause

Any stations having emergency, priority or time-valued traffic, please call <YOUR CALLSIGN> -net control now.

Brief pause ( Begin the net )

Any mobile stations please call now.

Brief pause ( Acknowledge the number of checkins and go though list )

Any handheld or portable stations please come now.

Brief pause ( Acknowledge the number of checkins and go though list )

Any base stations please come now.

Brief pause ( Acknowledge the number of checkins and go though list )

Any remaining stations please come now.

( Acknowledge the number of checkins and go though list )

Any stations wishing to recheck please come now.

( Acknowledge the number of checkins and go though list )

( If no additional checkins/recheks heard announce date and time of next net, announce number of checkins and call one more time for any late check-in stations.)

This is <YOUR CALLSIGN> thanking all of the stations that checked in to the Tuesday night net for the Sun Parlour Amateur Radio Club.

73,s to all.

The repeater will now return it’s normal use.


 

New website … new beginnings

Our trusted web server which was running our club site has decided to loose a harddrive. And, as we all know Murphy never sleeps and Yes ! You guessed it ! The one harddrive with the important website data died. After a long battle with the dead harddrive I have decided to start a new club site. This time with a cloud hosting setup ! They tell me 1,000,000 elfs are working behind the scene to keep the server up and running. I’m confident we’ll be up for a while ! So as the title states “New website … new beginnings”. Now if I could only get all our newsletters back !

VA3URO