ARRL Kansas Section (KS) Section Manager Ron D. Cowan, KB0DTI PO Box 36 Lacygne, KS 66040 913-757-4455 kb0dti@arrl.org Section Links Hamfests Affiliated Clubs Ham Radio Classes Other sections Midwest Division

Assistant Section Manager Orlan Q Cook, W0OYH 12110 W 71st St Shawnee, KS 66216-2912 (913) 631-0423 orlan@everestkc.net Official Observer Coordinator Robert M Summers, K0BXF 3045 N 72nd Kansas City, KS 66109 (913) 299-1128 rsummbxf@aol.com Public Information Coordinator Laurance S Staples Jr, W0AIB 7862 Howe Cir Shawnee Msn, KS 66208-4260 (913) 341-3067, (913) 341-3068 lstaples@kc.rr.com Section Emergency Coordinator Robert M Summers, K0BXF 3045 N 72nd Kansas City, KS 66109 (913) 299-1128 rsummbxf@aol.com Section Traffic Manager Ron D Cowan, KB0DTI PO Box 36 Lacygne, KS 66040 (913) 757-4455, (913) 757-3758 kb0dti@peoplestelecom.net Technical Coordinator William R Brinker, WA0CBW 6428 Mullen Rd Shawnee, KS 66216-2141 (816) 985-0960, (913) 268-8819 william474@aol.com

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News last updated: Mon, February 8, 2010 at 12:22 AM ET

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Silent Keys: KØYTA- Bob Ross, Desoto KBØWNC - Roger Carter, Smith Center --------------------------------------------------------------- Mine Creek Hamfest is February 6th, in LaCygne. Opens up at 9:00. Door prizes and Fun ! K-152 Hwy between US 69 and K7, turn North at the tracks Contact KB0DTI 913-757-3758 Lawrence .76 repeater will require sub-audible tone beginning January 2010. DCARC president Rob-KA2RZO says intermod from co-located transmitters opens up the squelch on the 146.76 repeater causing interference. This along with the spring and summer band openings has lead the club to go with CTCSS to access the repeater. You will need to set your radio to a tone of 88.5 Hz to work thru the station. KDØFRP- Dean Speaks is this years recipient of the Joe Addison WØPKD Award. Central Kansas ARC bestows this honor upon a club member that exemplifies the public service aspect of our hobby. WAØOQA's contest shack has a new 4 element tri-band beam. Chad NØYK and Dale NØKQX assisted Dick with installing the M2 antenna. Neosho Valley Chapter 211 QCWA has a net on Saturday mornings at 9am on 3907 open to anyone licensed for that band. Net control rotates and is generally located in Chanute. No net on the fourth Saturday which is meeting day. Thanks to WA5FLV for the info SHARC has 4 members on Packet now. Sam WØOQG is now on that mode and looking for a place to install a node in the land of Sand Hills. Wheat State Wireless Assn. held their election at the November meeting. New officers are President: Greg-KCØYMH, VP: Phil-KCØZNI, Treasurer: Curtis-WØYW. Returning as Secretary is Karri-KDØFBE. Club meetings are the 2nd Wed in Paola. Public Service Honor Roll certificates were presented to ABØUY-Debbie and NØZIZ- Dan at the Johnson County A.R.E.S. meeting last month. Both Debbie and Dan had surpassed the requirements a long time ago. Congratulations to both. Johnson County RAC held their annual club auction at the Ensor Farm and Museum later than usual. The event included the Marshall Ensor Special Event station operated by Santa Fe Trail club members; KCØBS helping with APRS set ups and since this was Halloween the day wrapped up with a scary picture show. A couple of the features were familiar and for copy right reasons we'll call them The Gray Zone. Brian-KCØBS filled in as auctioneer at the last minute when the professional had to cancel for medical reasons. There was a cornocopia of stuff to bid on. Much of it was what might be seen under a table at a hamfest but there were some things virtually given away. The caller had to encourage bidding on a Heath scope. Some outboard VFOs and tuners went dirt cheap and even a good deal on a dual band HT was there, needed a battery. Builders would have been in paradise with the small parts and array of enclosures available. Let your mind wander. The hottest bidding was over a spool of coax and a Zenith Oceanic series receiver. If you're in need of a dispatch console get ahold of KCØBS. The chicken house, as usual, was the hub of activity. WØDEW brought out his new transceiver for field trial and set up a station in one end of the chicken house. Maybe the best part was the food. KA2FNK's Son smoked up some pulled pork that was served by his Mom for lunch and John-WØBBQ brought out his barbecue contest rig (20 ft outfitted trailer) for breakfast and dinner. This was a great event and both the clubs involved, museum and area hams benefited from this outing. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

October Reports

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Kansas.Nets--------Sessions--Check-in--messages------Managers. ------------------------------------------------------------ Ks.Sideband.Net---------30-------955----68-----N0KFS---Bill Ks.Phone.Net------------21-------223----40-----N0KFS---Bill Ks.AM.Weather.Net-------30-------769---656-----WB0YWZ--Louie Ks.Weather.Net----------30-------976---736-----WB0YWZ--Louie Central.States.Tfc.Net--28------1960----33-----WW5AA---Lindy QKS.CW.NTS.Tfc.Net------54-------174----44-----NB0Z----James QKS-SS.Slow.Speed--------2---------6-----0-----KB0DTI--Ron

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Call------Messages.--Orig---Rec----Sent-----Deliver----Total NB0Z ------------------0-----37------10--------0----------47 W0OYH------------------0------2------21--------2----------25 KB0DTI-----------------0-----15-------3--------2----------20 K0BXF------------------2-----14-------0--------5----------21 N0ZIZ------------------0------1-------5--------1-----------7 AA0OM------------------0----128-----143--------2---------273 ------------------------------- Station Appointee Reports: WAØCBW Technical Coordinator WN8P Technical Specialist Room for your report here!

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Categories>>>> 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Totals ----------------------------------------------------------------------> K0BXF Bob 40 21 30 0 0 0 91 AA0OM Bill 40 40 10 0 0 0 90 KB0DTI Ron 40 20 20 5 0 0 85 70 Points minimum to qualify.

~~~~~~~~~ARES - AMATEUR RADIO EMERGENCY SERVICE REPORT. ~~~~~~~~

1 Dec 1, 2009 from the desk of K0BXF, ARRL SEC KS Today, I think I shall look at the numbers of Kansas ARES District 5. Why should I, you say. My answer is: I have asked our DEC for District 5 to step forward and give a big helping hand to re-construct District 6. In doing so, that asks for a bit more from each of the EC in District 5 to carry the effort needed for a successful ARES system while WG0Q is doing double duty. At last check there were some 1854 Amateurs listed within District 5, give or take a few SK not yet removed from the files. Zone 5A consisting of Harvey and Sedgwick counties account for 1249 of that 1854 total. NO active EC for Zone 5A as of record at this date. No one reporting any activity of any kind, other than that showing up in the newsletters of clubs within the area. Having to pull up each newsletter and extracting bits and pieces of info to make a report for any particular area of the state is a very time consuming job. Surly there is one or two people that can be appointed by the various clubs to help represent their ARES (etc) activity. It would help both in the ARES activities column as well as the reporting of activity that appears in our state newsletter, "KAR". If you are reading this, we need your assistance. Now for the balance of the District (11 counties) (6 ARES Zones) How many active radio clubs? How many radio amateurs of that 605 listed, are actually active ( broken down by VHF vs HF activity within each county? Information we need to have at our finger tips should the need/reason arise. There has to be one amateur that can and will represent each of those ARES zones each month. Don't know what zone you are residing in?? Try the web page at: http://www.cenkares.org/distks.html. Come on Guys and Gals, let us get Kansas back to the top, when it comes to ham radio representation. Volunteer to do even just a little bit and become that rep for your particular area. For more info ask Ron, KB0DTI our Section Manager, Orlan, W0OYH our Asst Section Manager and Editor of "KAR", or myself, Bob K0BXF ARRL Section Emergency Coordinator for Kansas. ARES activity for the month of October (November report to SM) 113 nets in operation with 789 QNI (check ins) and 32 pieces of traffic handled. Kansas RACES net had 12 QNI, 11 counties ( Riley, Linn, Wyandotte, Leavenworth, Mitchell, Miami, Dickinson, Phillips, Lyon, Montgomery and Shawnee counties represented. Army MARS reported 485 man hours of operation and 235 messages originated. No report from SATERN for some time now. Are there others out there that should be mentioned each month? RSUMMBXF@aol.com can assist. Try it !! We will all like it!! 73 for October hope to see each of you in November 2009 report Bob Summers ARRL SEC KS --------------------------------- State RACES Officer: Joseph Plankinton- WDØDMV 314 NE Sumner St Topeka, KS 66616-1338 Kansas RACES/ARES Net is held on the First Thursday of the month at 7PM on 3.940 MHz. SATERN Liaison: June Jeffers-KBØWEQ , Gardner Net Tuesdays 8:30 pm on 3.919+/- 5 Kansas and Missouri Division. PSK32 Tuesdays 9:00pm on 3.5795. http://home.rr.com/saternkansas MARS Liaison: John Halladay -KAØJMO, Lawrence Kansas MARS: Kent Dickinson ARES Map: http://www.cenkares.org ----------------------------------END-----------------------------------

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If you are looking for a down loadable Kansas ARES map or other information, go to http://www.cenkares.org/ KAR newsletters>>> http://ksarrl.org These sites belong to Kent KB0RWI

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ KAR - Kansas Amateur Radio email newsletter ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Kansas Amateur Radio newsletter is available at > http://ksarrl.org < to get on the emailing..... send your request to >>> w0oyh@arrl.net

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NET NAME MGR. DAY TIME. Freq. Ks Sideband Net-------- N0KFS Dy. 6:30 PM* 3920 kHz Ks Phone Net----------- N0KFS MWF 6:45 AM 3920 kHz Ks Phone Net----------- N0KFS S,S 8:00 AM 3920 kHz Ks AM Weather Net------ WB0YWZ Dy 7:00 AM 3920 kHz Ks Weather Net--------- WB0YWZ Dy. 6:00 PM 3920 kHz Central States Tfc Net--N0BFB M-F 12:30 PM 7253.5 kHz QKS CW NTS Tfc Net----- NB0Z Dy 7:00 PM 3547 kHz QKS CW NTS Tfc Net----- NB0Z Dy 10:00 PM 3547 kHz QKS-SS Slow Speed Net-- KB0DTI Mon. 7:32 PM 3547 kHz * 5:30 PM during poor propagation followed by the WX Net.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~TENTH REGIONAL NET REPORT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

61 sessions, (QNI) check-ins ?? (QTC) messages 139 , KS represented 61 % of net sessions with NB0Z Dave W0SS/Mgr. Meets daily at 7:15PM and 9:30PM on 3.562 MHz

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ KANSAS INDEPENDENT NETS~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

NET-NAME---------SESSIONS---CHECK-INS----Msgs.--- REPORTER Chanute Area ARC--------4------------26--------0------WA5FLV Chanute Simplex -------4-----------21---------0------WA5FLV Coffeyville UHF---------4-----------28---------0------NU0B Mine Creek ARC----------5-----------23---------0------KB0DTI Neosho Val. QCWA--------3-----------14---------0------WA5FLV Wheat State Wrls -------4-----------43---------0------KB0DTI Pilot Knob ARC----------4-----------39---------0------KC0JCQ Room for more here.

A full month is allowed for stations, Net Controls and Net Managers
to get their reports in to me to compile and get to HQ.
All other info is current.

73, Ron -- KBØDTI - ARRL KS SM

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Johnson County Auction Technical Coordinator WAØCBW showing a 6 meter ringo
	Ensor Museum and Farm.
Mine Creek Hamfest	WØOYH- Assistant Section Manager and WØAFQ- Assistant MW Director
and Bill-KØCIY	WØHL- Dennis from Nevada
Diana-KB9HCK and Andy-KØIY talking with Mike-NUØO	Charles-KBØMSB and newly licensed Grandson Garrett.
Bill-WØPT looking over Mike-KDØFW's battery selection.	D&L Antennas and Accessories was kept busy all day.
Don-WØDEW was a first time exhibitor.	Greg-KIØKK and Jim-KØNK

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