Joe Fairclough, WB2JKJ

EDUCOM-EDUCATION THRU COMMUNICATION

Amateur Radio:  Vital to Public Service, the greatest hobby known to man but did you also know the most effective way of teaching young people today?  Are you a: teacher, administrator, concerned parent or student?  Come to our forum and discover how to integrate Ham Radio into any curriculum and not only make hams but more importantly educate children in an exciting, effective and productive way.

Palm Rom A 

Sat. 1 PM

Roy Gallagher, KR6RG

K6XI 440 and 220 Repeaters System

Roy Gallagher and John Talbot will be giving a presentation on the K6XI 440 and 220
repeaters located on Mt. Otay. The K6XI repeaters support the Lakeside ARC, SOBARS, San Diego Blood Bank ARC, CERT, ARES, KPARN and the OZO net.

Roy has been active in ham radio since 1990. Participating in RACES and Skywarn. He
is a member of the San Diego Blood Bank ARC (WB1OOD), San Diego Maritime Museum ARC and the Midway ARC.

Theater

Fri. 3 PM

Carl Gardenias WU6D

AMATEUR RADIO FIRST AID KIT

This talk is for all Amateurs no matter what their technical ability is or isn’t. The talk will be on the fun side, but serious of what you can do as an Amateur Radio Communicator to get back on the air if a disaster strikes and you are not close to home? Can you take the resources you have at hand and turn it into an antenna? You would be surprised at the items you might have in your car or purse that can get you on the air.

Bio:
Carl Gardenias WU6D has been the Orange Section Manager for the ARRL since 2003. Carl has been an active ham since 1969 licensed as WN6RMN. He is very active in motivating, encouraging and mentoring the Amateur community through public awareness of our hobby as well as our ability to assist communicators during a disaster or at a public event. Carl is a member of the Salvation Army as a Community Partnership Liaison for the Sierra Del Mar Division.  He also volunteers his time as chair/co-chair for The International DX Convention in Visalia, CA, every other year since 1996. He developed and continues to encourage and support amateurs who volunteered their time with Amateur Radio Expo started in 2005,  Harvest Festival in Rancho Cucamonga, Be Prepared in Oceanside, CA and the recent P4P (Survive a disaster) at the LA Fairgrounds.

Carl is an ARRL Emergency Training Instructor, VE for both ARRL & W5YI. Carl also does presentation on ARES and their importance to serve the community. Please email wu6d@arrl.org or wu6d@scdxc.org if you have questions or interests that you would like to share. Website is: www.orange-arrl.org

Carl enjoys operating DX and talking locally on 2m. He shares a ham shack with his wife Cathy K6VC.

Joe Garza AB6RM

Maritime Museum San Diego

“San Diego Maritime Museum (NS6OI)
(Sailing ship Star of India, Sailing Ship HMS Surprise, Submarine Museum USS Dolphin, and Submarine Museum Soviet B-39)”

“Presenter will be Roy Gallagher KG6RG, alternate presenter Joe Garza, AB6RM”

Palm Room B

Fri. 4 PM

Joe Garza, AB6RM

Aircraft Carrier USS Midway CV41 Museum

USS Midway CV41 Aircraft Carrier Museum
NI6IW Ham Radio Operations
NNN0CQQ MARS Radio Operations
Antenna Systems and Radio Rooms Restoration

Bio: Joe Garza, AB6RM, was originally issued a ham license (W5BRP) in 1953 while attending high school in Alice, TX.

Following graduation from high school, he enlisted in the U. S. Navy and served 9 ½ years as a Radioman before receiving a commission. He served for 26 years on three ships and several Naval Communications Stations in Bermuda, Spain, Brazil, and in the USA.

Since retirement in 1981, he has worked as a contractor for several firms in the defense industry, specializing in communication and Command Control Systems.

His ham activities were interrupted during his Naval Service due to locations and type of work he was involved in. He re-started his ham activities after retiring from the Navy, first as N6KGM.

In 2005 he became a volunteer on USS Midway Museum, first on the Safety Team, then as a Docent, before taking on responsibilities as Volunteer Lead for the restoration of Antenna Systems and Radio Rooms. After restoration of some of the antennas the ship used when on active duty, ham station NI6IW and MARS station NNN0CQQ incrementally evolved as part of the Radio Room restoration projects.
Currently NI6IW has a Special Event on the second Saturday of every month, using three HF stations and two UHF/VHF stations, including D-STAR, operated by over 30 volunteers.

Come aboard and lets go on a ham cruise on Midway Magic !!

Palm Room B

Sat. 12 PM

Joe Garza, AB6RM

Battleship USS IOWA BB61

USS Iowa BB61 Battle Ship Museum

Antenna Systems and Radio Rooms Restoration
NI6BB Ham Radio Operations

Bio:
Joe Garza, AB6RM, was originally issued a ham license (W5BRP) in 1953 while attending high school in Alice, TX.

Following graduation from high school, he enlisted in the U. S. Navy and served 9 ½ years as a Radioman before receiving a commission. He served for 26 years on three ships and several Naval Communications Stations in Bermuda, Spain, Brazil, and in the USA.

Since retirement in 1981, he has worked as a contractor for several firms in the defense industry, specializing in communication and Command Control Systems.

His ham activities were interrupted during his Naval Service due to locations and type of work he was involved in. He re-started his ham activities after retiring from the Navy, first as N6KGM.

In 2012 he became a volunteer on USS Iowa Museum, first as a Tour Guide, then as Volunteer Lead for the restoration of Antenna Systems and Radio Rooms. After restoration of some of the antennas the ship used when on active duty, ham station NI6BB incrementally evolved as part of the Radio Room restoration projects.
 Currently Battleship Iowa Amateur Radio Assn./NI6BB operates several times a year, such as during Museum Ships Weekend, Jamboree on the Air (JOTA), and on frequent Special Events. Over 15 volunteer operators share in the duties.
 Come aboard and lets go on a ham cruise on the Battleship of Presidents and the Big Stick !!

Palm Room B

Sun. 11 AM

Andre Hansen, K6AH

Broadband Hamnet a self-configuring high-speed RF data network.

This presentation will provide an overview of the Broadband Hamnet (BBHN, formerly HSMM-Mesh) project, featured in the July 2013 issue of QST.  Andre will highlight the technology concepts, network designs and implementation, as well as the recent, significant advances local hams have contributed toward this fast-growing emergency communications technology.

Bio:
Andre Hansen, K6AH, has been a ham for forty-five years and is a frequent speaker at many of the Northern San Diego County radio clubs.  A compliance project manager for Abbott Laboratories by day, he holds an Extra Class license and is a member of the ARRL.  He is also a member of the BBHN Core Team, which last year received the International Association of Emergency Managers’ (IAEM) Innovation and Technology Award in both US and International categories.  Andre spends much of his spare time working on this project, but also enjoys VHF & HF mobile as well as contesting.  Last year Andre took first-place overall rover in the ARRL June VHF contest.

Palm Room C

Sat. 11 AM

Grant Hays WB6OTS

National Traffic System Digital Operations

Seminar Description:  Includes a brief discussion of the history of the National Traffic System with emphasis on current operations especially the National Traffic System Digital.

Presenter Bio:  Been active in amateur radio since 1967 and served at STM, ASM, NTS NM , appointed by Southwest Division Director Dick Norton to the Emergency Communications Advisory Committee A(ECAC), served as president of the Cochise Amateur Radio Association and the Berlin-American Radio Club.  Interests are traffic handling, contesting and antennas.   Currently is the 12 Region NTS Digital Hub.

Theater

Sat. 1 PM

Harry Hodges, W6YOO

DX 101

There are 340 DX entities at present ranging from separate countries such as the United States, Germany, and France to tiny islands in the Caribbean, Indian Ocean, and the Pacific. There are a number of awards for having confirmed radio contacts with at least one hundred of them, ranging from a simple certificate, suitable for framing to plaques, and other trophies. Learn the basics from W6YOO who has “worked them all”, and who is on the American Radio Relay League’s Number One DXCC Honor Roll and who is listed in the San Diego DX Club “Hall of Fame”

Harry Hodges was first licensed in 1971 as ZP5HZ in Asuncion, Paraguay. He used his station primarily to run phone patches to his two daughters who were attending college in the United States.  This was similar to the MARS program that he used in Vietnam. After completing the patch he would be deluged with calls seeking a QSO with a rare ZP station. In short order he became eligible for ARRL's DXCC certificate for QSOs with 100 different countries. Returning to the states and retirement in 1974 he was licensed as WA6YOO and, later with the Extra class W6YOO. Over the ensuing years he earned DXCC in various categories and is now at the top of the Honor Roll with 340 confirmed and he is on the ARRL listing of A-1 Operators and has been inducted into the San Diego DX Club's Hall of Fame . To give something back to Amateur Radio he is a Team Leader in the VE program, a past Section Manager and a member of US Army MARS. Harry also participates in the RSGB Islands on the Air program which is similar to DXCC. He is on their Honor Roll as well, having confirmed some 815 eligible islands of the 1200 on the list.  He will be presenting two programs at this convention:  DXing 101 and IOTA.

Palm Rom D  

Sat. 10 AM

Harry Hodges, W6YOO

Islands On The Air (IOTA)

This an operating awards program managed by the Radio Society of Great Britain  (RSGB).  There is a vast difference between IOTA and the ARRL’s DXCC program.  First of all, there are some 1200 islands and/or island groups that qualify for the various awards and a separate DXCC entity might have several IOTA islands  around its coastline. For example, Australia in and of itself is and IOTA with the IOTA number of OC01 and around its coastline there are many IOTA islands and island groups that have Oceana numbers of their own. Some islands will qualify you towards awards outside of IOTA. For example, Catalina Island off the coast of Clalifornia is IOTA  NA066 and in the Worked All States (WAS) program counts as California, in the DXCC program would count as USA. W6YOO is on the IOTA Honor Role with 817 IOTA islands worked and confirmed.

Palm Room D

Sat. 3 PM

Kate Hutton, K6HTN

NTS is Alive!!

The National Traffic System (NTS) has been relaying short text messages, called radiograms, throughout the US and Canada since the 1940s. We have recently been undergoing some major changes. In addition to the "traditional" traffic nets, we now also have some modern tools, including automatic digital message forwarding on Pactor (NTSD) & radio email via WinLink2000 (WL2K). We don't have much "third party greeting" traffic any more in the age of cell phones, but we do have plenty of ham-to-ham traffic. NTS may be very useful someday for tactical and welfare traffic, when "all else fails." In the meantime, it serves to train operators to pass information accurately & efficiently by radio, using voice, CW and digital modes, and to operate in complex directed nets. We are the only emcomm group that I know of that practice 365.25 days per year. Traffic handling is also a lot of fun!

Palm Room B

Sat. 10 AM