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Leaky EOC Trailer

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On Monday 2/12/24 I went to the EOC Trailer in the south lot of A6 in order to retrieve the bracket for the A3 Antenna Tower. I discovered that the trailer had leaked extensively during the recent storms. The carpet is wet, there is visible drips in the ceiling and some mold. See the below pictures:

Ceiling inside the trailer with drips visible on the support bar.
I believe the white spots on the wall are mold
State of the roof on Monday. Needs repair.

On Tuesday 2/13/24 KN6OJH and I (KK6KC) were able to install a tarp with bungees that I purchased the night before with club funds. We removed all of the antennas before we put up the tarp. We will have to plan on fixing the roof once the winter is over. But this tarp should hold us till then. See the installed tarp below.

KK6KC and KN6OJH with the now tarped trailer.
Field Day, Meeting

May 2022 Meeting

The May Meeting occurred on Thursday May 26 at 11:30 AM Pacific time.

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Attendees

  • Kirk Crawford -KK6KC
  • Sophia Trissell -KN4RST
  • Sean Michel
  • Sarah Seguin – KE0WHI
  • Tom Fagan – K7DF
  • Kyle Logue – K6OF
  • David Cole
  • Ching Kong – KJ6QBI
  • Sherree Buckland
  • Stephanie Wong – KN6RNB
  • Bob Oberto
  • Bob Lanahan – KK6WYW

Meeting Slides

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Recording of the Meeting

Recording is here. Note this will only work inside the Aerospace network.

Field Day, Meeting

April 2022 Meeting – Field Day Planning

Meeting started at 11:30 AM on April 28, 2022 in A3/1607A and on Teams.

Attendees were:

  • Kirk B Crawford KK6KC
  • Stephanie Wong KN6RNB
  • Thomas J Fagan K7DF
  • Brian Aris
  • Andrew Lin KM6TWS
  • Patrick Riley
  • Shane M Bruski
  • Daniel C Plaster KN6OJH
  • Lauren C Johnson
  • Sean Nichol
  • Jim Nokes KN6QQV
  • David Ping WB6DP

Presentation Slides

2022-04-Field-Day-PlanningDownload

Recording of the meeting

(Only works inside Aerospace Network)

Meeting

August Meeting Minutes

Audio

August 25 11:30 AM A3/2009F

Audio from the meeting:

In Attendance:

  • Kirk Crawford KK6KC
  • Tom Esenpreis KB9ENS
  • Ryan Noguchi AI6DO
  • Jason Bayonne
  • Don Hall KK6DCX

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See the slides here

Kirk Showed pictures and discussed a recent business trip to Maui where he brought his amateur radio and the club’s buddipole antenna system.

 

We will have a trailer cleanup day on October 6 at 11:30 AM at the EOC trailer in the West Parking area of A6.

 

October 26 from 9AM to 11AM there will be a CERT exercise that needs Amateur Radio volunteers.  It looks like we need 5 people.   We need to select a simplex frequency to use.  147.510 on 2m, but we are thinking of picking one on 70cm to avoid interference with the security radios.

 

We discussed budget items, and it was put forth to get new VHF radios before next year’s field day.

 

We also discussed ways to get more people to come to the meetings, and we may have a raffle at the meetings in the future.

Listen to the audio for the full information.

 

-73,

 

Kirk Crawford

KK6KC

Field Day, Meeting

June 2016 Meeting Minutes

AEA Radio Club Meeting 6/30/16

Audio of the meeting:

Slides from the meeting

 

6 people in attendance

  • Kirk Crawford KK6KC
  • Don Hall KK6DCX
  • Phil Martzen KK6PSA
  • Teresa Moore AG6OD
  • Tom Essenpreis KB9ENS
  • Ching Kong KJ6QBI

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Field Day Report:

Kirk, Don, Phil, Teresa, Emily Conroy, and Korede Oladimeji participated in our club Field Day event, which was held on the top two floors of the parking structure.  We made 25 HF contacts on the 20m and 40 m bands.  No VHF/UHF contacts were made.  We started around 12-1 pm and started shutting down around 4-5 pm.  We made HF contacts in 13 sections, from California to Canada to Oklahoma.

 

Lessons Learned:

  • The fiberglass masts are too floppy for the heavy VHF antennas. Next year replace them with 10’ aluminum masts
  • The 440 VHF antenna should be vertical rather than horizontal
  • Next year replace the three VHF/UHF setups with one multiband setup
  • Next year try 20m, 40m, and 80m dipole antennas as inverted Vs, one over each light pole
  • Need to be able to use the headset microphones and push-to-talk button (did not work)
  • Buy what we need for digital modes and try having a digital setup next year
  • Need to replace the mike stand for the Kenwood
  • Next year have a Field Day “practice” where we set up and try out our systems, especially the VHF/UHF setup, coordinating communications with someone in a shack or on a handheld.
  • Make a list of VHF/UHF simplex frequencies for next year

 

Trailer Cleanup:

A meeting was scheduled for July 6 at 11:30 to work on putting the radios back in the trailer and organize our equipment in the trailer. [OOPS I forgot about this! – KK6KC]

 

Budget:

The budget is due July 15.  Some ideas for budget items were:

  • Labeled plastic bins to organize supplies in the trailer
  • Field day equipment mentioned above
  • Better power strips
  • Line filters/power conditioners
  • Equipment for the A6 shack
  • D8 shack SDR
  • VHF/UHF antenna analyzer
  • Pan adapter for KX3
  • HRD software
  • Whatever we need for the APRS emergency communication plan (Ryan is supposed to spec this out; we can use a Buddipole antenna set for 30 m)

 

The library has radio club books that belong to us that they need us to store during the library remodel.  Kirk will let us know what we’ve got when he finds out and may need additional storage space depending on how many books there are. [EDIT It was only a single book, General Class learning guide from 2007.  Out of date so I had it recycled.]

 

Meeting Ideas

We discussed ideas for future meetings.  These ideas included:

  • Antennas for condominiums
  • DXpedition videos
  • Field Day videos (what do other clubs do?)
  • Digital modes (Teresa’s husband Dustin has been doing a lot of digital stuff lately and could give a presentation.)

If you have other ideas or would be willing to present something to the club, please comment below or email Kirk

Field Day, Meeting, Shack

May 26, 2016 Meeting Notes

Audio of the meeting:

Members in attendance:

  • Ryan Noguchi AI6DO
  • Kirk Crawford KK6KC
  • Don Hall KK6DCX
  • Teresa Moore AG6OD
  • Joe Barger N6KK

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We had some discussion about the upcoming Field Day. We considered what we could do for a 20 or 40 meter wire beam antenna on top of the parking structure and how we would keep the driven element and the reflector parallel to each other. However, given that we expect very few people to be available to do Field Day with the club, we decided to just stick with the antennas we already have: the CrankIR and Buddipole for HF and the verticals attached to the fiberglass masts for UHF/VHF. We will probably run a 20 m station and either 40 or 15, depending on conditions that day.

On the Wednesday before Field Day, we will put up signs advising people to not park in the travel parking on the 4th floor and the North-East section of the 3rd floor. Cones and tape will be put out Thursday afternoon to block off parking spaces, and tables and chairs will be delivered to the 3rd floor Friday afternoon. All equipment will be moved Saturday morning. Kirk will bring 5 gallons of gas for the generator. We won’t invite any external visitors (like city council, press, etc.)

For general emergency use, we discussed having a 30 m APRS system that can send an email out in case of emergency. Ryan will spec out a system and report back. We will also want to be able to communicate with COS/Chantilly on voice, which can be set up over email via APRS.

Kirk brought up the point that during the A6 evacuation a couple months back, the security radios caused a lot of interference on our standard go-to 2 meter simplex frequency (147.51 MHz). He suggested trying a 440 simplex frequency. We would have to test to see how far we can get with 440 simplex. If there is someone with access to a real antenna, we might be able to relay messages.

It was recommended that we purchase the Yamaha CM500 headsets for the rigs in the trailer and for Field Day use.

Kirk reported that he had asked about putting an A6 shack in an electrical room on the second floor of A6. Maintenance people got upset about us using the electrical rooms in general. We will be cleaning to be sure that we are not blocking any electrical panels in any of our shacks in electrical rooms, especially in A2. Kirk is waiting for approval on the A6 shack but will put together a preliminary list including costs for budgeting purposes.

Joe wants to buy a good Software Defined Radio for the D8 shack.

Budgets are due in July so we should allocate/spend money now.

Field Day, Meeting

June 25, 2015 Meeting Minutes

See attached audio file for a recording of the meeting.

In attendance were:

  • Archie Buchanan KD6OLH
  • Ryan Noguchi AI6DO
  • Don Hall KK6DCX
  • Kirk Crawford KG6MTE

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We discussed many aspects of the field day preparations.  It is this Saturday!  Come join us.  We are setting up at 8:00 AM at Visitor Center 1 (on El Segundo Blvd)

Listen to the audio for more information about the meeting.  We are planning to make do with what we have for field day.  Pull stuff from the A3 shack on Saturday morning.   Ill bring some fuel for the generator and Ill check with Jason on the movement of the trailer.

 

73,

 

Kirk Crawford

Field Day, Meeting

May 21, 2015 Meeting Minutes

Five members in attendance: Kirk Crawford KG6MTE, Donald Hall KK6DCX, Ryan Noguchi AI6DO, Phil Martzen KK6PSA, and Teresa Moore AG6OD

Discussed putting a current club inventory and a list of things that can be checked out by members on the web site. Ryan will work with Joe to categorize the D8 shack, including creating a block diagram of how everything is connected and directions on how to use various equipment.

Field Day: 1800 UTC Saturday to 2059 UTC Sunday = 11 am Saturday through 3 pm Sunday

We will use the trailer as a base again this year, and park it at VC1. This year’s goal is to stay longer and make more contacts than we did last year. Don will be our publicity chair and contact the Orbiter and or Aerospace photographer to cover the event, as well as consider external media and inviting distinguished guests. Ryan will bring over equipment from the D8 shack. Kirk and Teresa will work on logistics, including loading the trailer, bringing over equipment from the A2 shack (easy up, banner, antennas, etc.), moving the radios in the trailer so that they are far enough apart that a different person could work each station, coordinating signups, and getting folding tables and chairs for the event. Kirk will coordinate getting the trailer moved after 11 am on Friday.

  • Things that need to be done in preparation for Field Day:
  • load trailer
  • space out radios
  • install circuit board in KX3 (Kirk)
  • buy headphones
  • get permission from Security
  • buy tower
  • look into off-center fed multi-band dipole antenna
  • move solar system over to trailer
  • make sure batteries are charged
  • make sure we have enough extension cables/feed lines
  • order table/chairs to set up under easy up
  • masts for 3 VHF/UHF antennas and one HF antenna
  • guy lines for masts
  • check out mics
  • gasoline for generator

Plan for stations: 2m, 220, 440 in trailer, Kenwood HF rig in trailer, KX3 HF rig, Teresa’s Yaesu FT920

Kirk will bring laptop and logging software

Do we want to try a laptop for digital modes?

Everyone should bring snacks/drinks

Other upcoming events: HamCon in Torrance September 11-13

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Meeting

Minutes from April 30 Meeting

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Radio club meeting 4-30-15

5 members in attendance:  Kirk Crawford, Don Hall, Ryan Noguchi, Jason Bayonne, and Teresa Moore

Antenna Test report:  Last week we set up the Crank IR and Buddipole antennas and got some experience with tuning them.  The Crank IR is pretty easy; the Buddipole has to be adjusted manually.  It took a while to figure out how to use the SWR meter in the trailer as it is not a design anyone was familiar with.  We heard a couple people on 20 and 15 meters, but the bands were not very active.  We did not make any contacts.  We plan to do another test on Wednesday, May 6.  Ryan volunteered to go to the D8 shack to see if he could hear us.

On May 19, the club will be manning a booth at the Aerospace Career Development Day.  Our plan is to set up the KX3 and the Buddipole and just see what we can hear, and talk to people about the club.  We have to be there between 11:30 and 1:30, and will probably have to be there early to set up.  We need volunteers to help with the booth.  You don’t have to stay the whole time.

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Don gave a report on the cross-band repeater project.  He has identified the Kenwood TMV71A 144/440 dual band radio as the best candidate.  The plan would be to mount it on a cart so it is portable and not necessarily tied to the trailer.  He will be doing more research on an antenna, portable mast, cart, and battery that can last at least 8 hours.  Next month he will have a list of parts/prices for us to consider.

Our ultimate goal is to be able to contact Colorado Springs and Chantilly from the trailer.  However, we’re not there yet.  As an interim measure, after Field Day we would like to set up a regular sched with the radio clubs at COS and Chantilly from the D8 shack.  If anyone wants to volunteer to lead that project, please contact Kirk.

Teresa

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HF Radio Test

Last week, we had an HF Radio test of the newly refurbished HF Radio in the Emergency Communications Trailer.  We used the whip antenna that is attached to the trailer.  We were not able to get the whip straight up and down and it was inside the fabric tent.  We were able to hear stations as far away as Texas on 20 meters, but we were not able to make contact with anyone.

We are planning another Test of the HF rig on Wednesday the 22nd of April at 11:30 AM.  If you want to help out please join us at the trailer. (West of A6.)  We will test it with the buddipole and Crack IR antennas to see if they help out.

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-Kirk