T h e A sso c i a ted R a d i o A m a teu rs o f Lo n g B ea ch , I nc .

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The Oscillator
Published monthly by the ARALB, Post Office Box 7493, Long Beach, California 90807 Volume LXXIV, Issue 5 May 2001

ARALB 74 Years of Community Service

The ARALB Net
There has been a good deal of May Meeting discussion lately about the ARALB Friday, May 4, 7:00PM Friday night net. Several issues at the Signal Hill Community Center have been raised. Is the 7:00PM time a good one for most people? 1708 E. Hill Street, Signal Hill Should we move to another night? Should we use a simplex freDino Kitsios, KF6ECO quency? Should our club net use a Field Day 2001 repeater so that more people can participate? Should we be on mulThe program will cover all aspects of Field Day 2001. Dont tiple frequencies? miss it! Were going to have a blast!! These questions were raised at ! Transmitter types, capabilities, modes, and antenna types the April general meeting. Most ! Generators and batteries - the set up and maintenance for attendees agreed that Friday night is "in field" use a good night for the net. Thursday ! Antennas - the set up and proper locations evening already is crowded with ! Site logistics - including site layout for transmitters, nets for ARES and other clubs. The antennas Orange County Hospital Disaster ! Camping, food service, and restrooms Support Communications System ! Preparation logistics - including transportation of transmit holds a net on Wednesdays. There ters, antennas, masts, batteries, generators, tents, tables, seems to be no argument with Frichairs, ladders, food, etc. day. However the 7:00 time seems ! Setup logistics - including transmitters, band allocations, to be awkward for some people. At mode allocations, eating accommodations, testing accom the April meeting it was decided to modations, project accommodations, etc. change the net to 7:30PM. Listen ! Tear down logistics - including safe removal of antennas, for the net on Fridays at 7:30, transmitter, batteries, generators, tents, tables, chairs, trash 145.520 simplex. and transport of same to "owner/lender" locations. A more difficult question concerns which band we should use for our net, and whether to use a repeater. Inside this issue 2001 Southwestern Div. Convention 2 Dino described the history of our current net, exThe Joy of Kit Building 3 plaining that we chose to use simplex 145.520 so we Calendar of Events 5 would not be dependent on a repeater not owned by Field Day 6 the ARALB. In addition there is no expense to the Rig Installation Help 6 club. However, the use of simplex operation for the For Sale 7
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ARALB Board of Directors John Rogers, KF6TTR President John.Rogers28@gte.net 562-626-1755 Ray Rittenhouse, KF6WZN Vice President KF6WZN@arrl.net 562-860-5472 Tom Gibbons, W9EYB Vice President W9EYB@arrl.net 562-529-8644 Lisa Gibbons, KF6QNG Treasurer ltgnov6@yahoo.com 562-529-8644 Kostas Dino Kitsios, KF6ECO KF6ECO@amsat.org Special Projects Chairman and Past President 562-421-7582 Rick Silva, WA6ES WA6ES@dxer.com ARRL Assistant Director 562-423-2663 Carol Apt, KF6THS Director cgapt@aol.com 562-431-7625 Fred Wagner, KQ6Q Director and Resident Technical Wizard KQ6Q@arrl.net 562-570-5226 Hank Burwash, KQ6RG Hburwash@gte.net 562-596-9670 Director Jerry Sulentich, K8ESI Slotman111@aol.com 562-494-8020 Director Dennis Kidder, WA6NIA WA6NIA@arrl.net Director Carina Lister, KF6ZYY Director, and Oscillator Editor KF6ZYY@arrl.net 562-570-6062

ARRL Southwestern Division Convention

By Rick Silva, WA6ES The 2001 Southwestern Division (SWD) Convention will be held Friday through Sunday, September 79, at the Riverside Convention Center. On-site registration will cost $15, but you can get an Early Bird registration until the end of April for just $10. Registration must be postmarked by April 30. Early Birds will be entered in a special drawing for a Yaesu FT-817 Transceiver. Early birds also will receive a free convention logo pin, a $5.00 value. Find more information about the convention at the SWD Convention web site at www.qsl.net/arrl-2001swdc. The Grand Banquet speaker will be Dr. Paul Shuch, N6TX, who will tell us about "Searching for Life Among the Stars." ARRL elected officials will include President Jim Haynie, W5JBP, and the SWD Section Managers Phineas Icenbice, W6BF, Tuck Miller, NZ6T, Joe Brown, W6UBQ, Cliff Hauser, KD6XH, and Robert Griffin, K6YR. The DX Breakfast speaker will be Ned Stearns, AA7A. From ARRL HQ we will have Lab Supervisor Ed Hare, W1RFI, and Field & Education Services Manager, Rosalie White, K1STO. And check out these great topics! Mike Reagan, "Building a Website for an Amateur Radio Group" Robert Syms, KO6ZL, "Charging Various Types of Batteries" Robert Griffin, K6YR, ARRL Santa Barbara Section Manager, "The Future of the National Traffic System" Art Goddard, W6XD, ARRL SW Division Vice Director, "The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence - Why Amateur Radio Operators May be the First to Contact ET" Ed Hare, W1RFI, ARRL Lab Supervisor, "Radio-Frequency Interference -TO- Amateur Radio Equipment" Dr. David Rutledge, KN6EK, Professor of Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, "Teaching College Electronics with an Amateur Transceiver". A great weekend for just $10, if you register soon! #

Save your old stuff for the ARALB garage sale, tentatively scheduled for June 9 at the home of Dino Kitsios, KF6ECO. Carina Lister, KF6ZYY, can store any furniture or large objects until the sale. Especially needed are tools, furniture, and household goods. Save the date, and plan to spend some time at the sale. Proceeds from the sale will help pay our Field Day expenses.

Garage Sale Fundraiser for ARALB!

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The Joy of Kit-Building

There are many amateur radio kits on the market and a lot of them have evolved from QRP deBy Dennis Kidder, WA6NIA signs. Some, like the Elecraft K2, are very sophisHow many times have you thought about ticated, rivaling many thousand-dollar commercial "rolling your own" ham gear? Some of you readradios in terms of performance and capabilities. ing this may have done some homebrewing at one However, because you build it yourself, the costs time or another. I have. There is a certain satisfacare kept at a minimum. tion of having created something from scratch. This is the first in what we hope will be an onMaybe you used a design from a book, maybe even going series of articles on kits. In this and subsemade up your own. No matter, it is the sense of quent articles, I will cover several entry-level accomplishment - that act of creation that is what short-wave receiver kits, a more advanced general its all about. coverage receiver, several QRP transceivers and If you have dreamed about some test equipment. building something yourself, are Ten-Tec (http://www.tentec. interested in giving it a try, but This is the first in what we com) offers a variety of kits don't have the resources to start hope will be an ongoing for the beginner. If you've from scratch, then read on. series of articles on kits. never wielded a soldering iron Kit-building is probably the before, this is the place to start. next best thing. You get the sat- In this and subsequent Their products, in many ways, isfaction of having created articles, I will cover several exceed the quality and craftssomething with your own hands. entry-level short-wave manship of the old Heathkits, But the design part, well, that receiver kits, a more providing exceptionally clear was someone else's challenge. and detailed assembly, checkout Many today will never have the advanced general and operating instructions. This experience of building a Heath- coverage receiver, several was not the first Ten-Tec kit I kit - that venerable group from QRP transceivers and had assembled. I also built one Benton Harbor, Michigan, that some test equipment. of their first, the PM-2, back in turned out some of the finest kit1970! The "Power Mite" 2 was built gear on the market. Those a 2 Watt, 40 meter, direct conwho have will suffer a flash of version CW transceiver. Benostalgia. Heathkit is gone, as lieve it or not, I ran this radio mobile while I was in are others, like Knight-Kit, and World Radio Labs, college. It worked incredibly well, too. but there is a whole new crop out there to take their Ten-Tec 1054 Regenerative Shortwave place. Receiver - a beginners radio. I was feeling a real urge to build something I started this project with the Ten-Tec T-Kit and with some encouragement from Fred Wagner, Model 1054 Regenerative 4-Band SWL Receiver. KQ6Q, I began a project that we hope will lead to The kit can be ordered from their Web site for a some kit-building in the club. mere $24.00. I placed the order for this and anAs I began looking into what was available on other, more advanced kit and sat back to wait for the kit market today for ham radio, I began to wonUPS to deliver the goods. Ten-Tec even offers an der about the different skill levels of those who accessory kit, providing an enclosure and knobs for might be building these kits. After all, as I a few dollars more. I opted to go without it. In the searched, I found that there are many kits out there, true amateur spirit, I will come up with my own ranging from the simple to the complex. And I enclosure and the extra bits. know that we all have very different levels of exI was pleasantly surprised by the speed with perience. Over the past few months I have ordered which Ten-Tec filled my order, barely a week several kits from several manufacturers and I will passed before I received the package. Opening the share my experiences and rewards with you. I package, I took a quick scan through the contents hope you will have the same urge to create some(Please see Dennis Builds Kits on page 4) thing of your own!

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(Dennis Builds Kits, continued from page 3)

to confirm that I had received what I had ordered. Thus ended the second anxious moment, the first being that point where you push the button, sending your precious credit card number across that hostile, scary place called "The Internet." The next step was to read the documentation that accompanied the kits. Yes, I really DID read the manuals first. After all, I was going through this effort to help others get started. What struck me was the quality of Ten-Tec's product. Even at $24.00, it was given the attention to detail that I would expect from a much more complicated (and expensive) kit. The contents of the kit were sorted and inventoried (everything was there!) and arranged in such a manner to help assembly. I like the old Heathkit method of slicing up one of the kits' cartons, using the cut edge to hold the small parts (resistors and capacitors) by their leads. Unfortunately, these new kits use very small components, and they tend to slip right down into the corrugations. Instead, I used small divided plastic bins and Styrofoam. I will caution that Styrofoam should only be used for things like resistors, capacitors, and inductors. Unless the material is static-safe, it will tend to inflict permanent damage on static-sensitive devices such as transistors and integrated circuits. These are best kept with the materials in which they are shipped until it is time to actually install them. The kit requires a minimal amount of tools, just the basic stuff. A good quality, low-wattage soldering iron is a must, along with something to keep the tip clean. I use a small sponge, dampened with tap water. You will have to supply the solder. Good old 60-40 rosin core solder is what you want. A pair of small, flush-cutting wire cutters, and a pair of needle-nose pliers are about all you'll need in the way of hand tools. You can obtain the solder and tools at any Radio Shack store. If you have never used a soldering iron before, spend some time before you begin assembling the kit, and learn the proper techniques. A little bit of practice ahead of time will go a long way to help you solder the PC board in this kit. It also spares a lot of wear and tear on the parts you will be assembling. For tips on how to solder, check out the "Radio Amateurs Handbook" from the ARRL. Refer to the section on construction practices.

Follow the step-by-step instructions in the manual, checking them off as you progress. This kit can be assembled in 4-6 hours. It is a barebones assembly, having no cabinet, or knobs. You may choose to create your own enclosure and provide your own knobs or order the enclosure kit provided by Ten-Tec. The 1054 is a regenerative receiver. A small amount of positive feedback is applied to the detector stage, bringing it to the verge of free-running oscillation. As you approach that point of oscillation, the gain will start to rise, and the signals will come right up out of the noise level along with the screeches and howls if you give it a little bit too much. Use a light touch on the regeneration control and it works just fine. It is a modern version of a very old design. There was pure joy the first time the power was applied to the receiver (it is no longer a kit, but now a completed assembly) when I was greeted with the rush of static in my headphones. Two nine-volt batteries and a ten-foot length of hookup wire rewarded me with Radio Australia on 11550 kHz. Next, tune to WWV on 10 MHz. WWV, the government's time and frequency station, provides known references on many HF and LF frequencies. A little bit more tweaking and I was copying amateur CW on 40 meters. A little bit more tweaking (with a very gentle touch) and I was able to copy a fairly strong sideband station, also on 40 meters. I was amazed at how well this little radio works. I had built a "regen set" as a kid using vacuum tubes (!) and remember what a pain it was to tune in any signal at all with that one. This was a joy. Although the controls were a slight bit touchy, it did indeed work as advertised. It was stable, and I could pull in quite a few foreign broadcasts across the HF short-wave bands. This is a good beginners kit that performs quite well. It is easy to build. Ten-Tec has done a great job with the documentation, being well thought out very clear. This is not a "complete" kit. There are things that will be needed to finish the radio, like knobs and an enclosure, but I found that the radio works satisfactorily if left as-is. And while the performance is pretty good for such a low cost, it cannot be expected to replace a big dollar communications receiver. If you want to get a
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Calendar of Events
4/28 5/4 5/7 5/19 ARALB breakfast, the Best Place Caf (see below for details) ARALB meeting, Signal Hill Commumity Center ARALB BOD meeting ARRL license exams, CSULB

Club Breakfast -- New Location Our monthly, informal ARALB breakfast is an opportunity to gather with members between meetings. You are most welcome and encouraged to attend this 8:30 AM event each 4th Saturday morning. By request, we have a new location starting Saturday, April 28. We will meet at the Best Place Cafe, 2099 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach. It is one traffic signal south of Stearns Ave., on the southwest corner. Best Place Cafe claims to have good food at reduced prices. Come for a meal, for a cup of coffee, or just to visit! # The NetSomething New! Dino Kitsios, KF6ECO The ARALB Friday night net will be broadcast simultaneously on 145.520 simplex and on 449.780, the K6CHE repeater, and the time will be 7:30PM. You can check on either frequency -they will be linked together. Please join the net every Friday at 7:30PM!
(Dennis Builds Kits, continued from page 4)

start on building your own radios, this is a good selection. Next time, I'll describe another kit from Ten-Tec. It's another regenerative design, but with a few more features that make it easier to operate. It is a more complete kit, including a speaker and an enclosure. If you have questions or comments, please feel free to contact me at wa6nia@arrl.net. 73 and keep that soldering iron hot! #

Do Not Wait To Learn The Code By Tom Gibbons, W9EYB The countdown is under way... The Morse code is with us, even after the December 30, 1999 historic and controversial Amateur Radio restructuring order by the FCC. Yes, the U.S. Technician Class license comes without knowing the Morse code. That is good news for many of us, but the lure of the worldwide short wave bands remains strong for many others. The General Class or Amateur Extra Class license is required if you want to work these long distance middle-frequency and high-frequency bands. To obtain these licenses, one must demonstrate proficiency with the Morse code at five words per minute. As your ARALB Testing Committee chairman, I want you to know that Morse code testing will be a greater challenge starting July 1, 2001. Today your Testing Committee uses straight five words per minute tests for five minutes, given at five words per minute character speed. To pass you must show 25 character count solid copy on the test answer sheet, or successfully answer seven out of ten multiple choice questions. The current multiple choice 10-question tests offered by the ARALB team will not continue after June 30, 2001. Starting July 1, there will no longer be a multiple choice test for Morse code testing; you will have to copy code. And the code will be sent using the Farnsworth method. The slower, five words per minute character speed will be administered by the Volunteer Examiner team only as a special accommodation. What is the Farnsworth method? Simple, but different. The characters are sent faster than the overall speed, with additional spaces between characters, words and sentences. Farnsworth character speed will be in the range of 13 to 15 words per minute, while the overall speed (characters plus spaces) will remain at five words per minutes. Wait until July 1, 2001 or later at your own risk. Tom Gibbons, W9EYB Volunteer Examiner-in-Charge The ARALB Testing Committee, using the Greater Los Angeles Amateur Radio Group-VEC Telephone 562-529-8644 #

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More Prizes!
Testing At The Field Day Site By Tom Gibbons, W9EYB Amateur Radio testing, all license classes, continues as a popular ARALB Field Day attraction. Your Testing Committee will offer the American Radio Relay League (ARRL)-Volunteer Examiner Coordinator procedures, including Morse code testing using the Farnsworth method. Pre-registration is recommended through ARALB member Don Boyce, NN6Q, at 562-420-9480. Walk-in candidates will be accepted on a space and time available basis. Handicap accommodation absolutely requires advance arrangement and individual coordination with the VE-in-charge. ARRL-VEC test fees are $10.00 for each applicant, for all desired license class elements. Retests require the payment of another $10.00 fee. # Field Day Captains Ray Rittenhouse, KF6WZN and Rick Silva, WA6ES, are our 2001 Field Day Captains!
Perfect Ham Rig Installation By Joe Maynard, K6JMA

Dino Kitsios, KF6ECO, has come up with some stupendous prizes for the Field Day drawing. The prizes for the drawing will be a mobile ADI 220, two 440 Radio Shack handy talkies, 1 Bencher paddle, and two atomic clocks. Six winners total! You cant beat this, and tickets are just $2.00 each. Buy them at the ARALB meetings, or from any board member. #

I am enjoying amateur radio very much, but I dont have enough time for hands-on work. There may be others like me who do not want to work on the electronics of their car but still want a perfect installation of a ham rig in their vehicle. I found help in the person of Alfredo Lopez, specializing in mobile auto, boat, truck, car, audio, security, and accessories installations. He lives here in Long Beach, has a business in Cerritos that does all of these things, AND he will also come to your home to do an installation. His telephone number is 562-653-9808. Alfredo did a wonderful job installing my Yaesu 7100 in my Chrysler 300M. The installation cannot be seen by looking inside the car or trunk. He used 8-gauge wire to the battery per my recommendation at no extra cost. He has done work for HRO. He is a young man with a family living in Long Beach, and he is very technically proficient. I highly recommend him. #

David Clark, KB6TAM, Is Back On The High Seas From the ARRL News Rebounding from the February 7 disaster that sank his first sailboat, the Mollie Milar, David Clark, KB6TAM, again set sail April 11 from Cape Town, South Africa, in a new boat. His goal is to become the oldest person to sail solo around the world. Clark will turn 77 on May 17. The new boat, the Mickey, is a 34-foot fiberglass hull vessel. Now some 800 miles out of Cape Town, Clark has been keeping a daily ham radio schedule with the Pacific Seafarer's Net on 20 meters, according to Bob Reed, N6HGG. The net has been running phone patches so that Clark can speak with his wife. Reed says Clark has been keeping a daily schedule on 14.245 MHz at around 1400 UTC. He's also keeping in touch with South African hams at 1500 UTC on 14.195 MHz. Clark says he expects to be back to his starting point, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, sometime between the middle of June and the first of July. While Clark has some corporate sponsors, he has funded his trip largely out of his Social Security income and his occasional clarinet gigs. For more information on David Clark's journey, visit http://www.dclark.com and http://www. captainclark.com. #
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The following equipment is from an estate that George Riggins, WA6DZR, is liquidating. Please call him if you are interested in obtaining some items. You may reach him at his work phone, 562-598-7007, or at home, 562-596-6247. 1 MFJ Model 941D Antenna tuner/SWR/ Wattmeter/Antenna SW 1 MFJ Model 941D Versa Tuner II 1 Kenwood PC1A Phone Patch Controller 1 Regency Polaris Receiver 2 Maxcom High Speed Auto Antenna Switchers, 200 W PEP, 0.3-70 MHz 1 J W Miller Low Pass Filter, 50/50 Ohm Z 1 SU*P*MOD TV Interface 1 Kenwood Mike Base and Microphone 2 packages mounting hardware 2 Kenwood TS430S Transceivers with Hand Held Microphone (serial numbers 4040760 & 4060555) 1 Kenwood TR7950 2 Meter Transceiver (serial number 5100691) 1 Swan ADF 100 Auto Direction Finder

(Editors Comments, continued from page 1)

net seriously limits the number of members that can participate in the net. Many people have expressed their frustration at not being able to be heard on the net. Several people have suggested using a repeater for our net. Tom Gibbons suggested that we could reserve a time slot on the new Pryme sponsored Sierra Peak Repeater at 146.610. There would be no cost to ARALB. Our club would get a lot of exposure because our net would be heard throughout the Los Angeles basin. Although it is not clear what benefit the added exposure would bring us, it is clear that using the repeater would allow everyone in ARALB to participate in the net. The question of whether or not to use a repeater is an important issue for our club, and after several months discussion we have not yet reached a consensus. Please give some consideration to this decision. Make your concerns known to the Board. Voice your opinion at the May meeting. We need to reach a decision and put this issue behind us. Ed.

From The Secretary By Tom Gibbons, W9EYB Year 2001 dues are delinquent if not paid before April 1. A current roster will be available at the May 4 meeting. This means that delinquent individuals lose member privileges, including receiving The Oscillator newsletter. Dues are $15 yearly, each additional family/household member $5 yearly, under 18 years of age $5 yearly. Member dues are the main source of revenue for our club. Pay dues directly to Treasurer Lisa Gibbons, KF6QNG, at meetings, or by mail to ARALB, P.O. Box 7493, Long Beach, CA 90807-7493. The new, April 2001 membership roster will include only paid-up members. Meals at field day 2001 (June 22-23-24) will again be provided at ARALB expense. A donation is encouraged at each meal, especially from nonmembers, to reduce the cost of Field Day to our club. Dino Kitsios, KF6ECO, is the 2001 Field Day chairman. The annual banquet 2001 report of income and expenses is available through the treasurer. The directors again thank Dick Boone, KF6HKA, for his management, culinary skills and great effort. Morse code test speed will increase on July 1 from a simple 5-wpm to the Farnsworth Method, 15 wpm characters with greater time between characters to equal 5 wpm total speed. Your last chances for regular ARALB Morse code testing will be on May 19 and June 16. Testing at Field Day 2001 will use the Farnsworth Method. The official minutes of proceedings at recent ARALB membership meetings and at Board of Directors meetings are available through the Secretary at meetings. Past meeting minutes are also available on request. A copy can be mailed to you or sent by e-mail attachment. The contact information for your club directors and director-officers is printed in each Oscillator newsletter issue. #

May ARALB Board of Directors Meeting The BOD meeting will be held Friday, May 7, at the home of Dino Kitsios, 5450 Lanai (at Bellflower Blvd., one block north of Spring). The meeting begins at 7:00 PM.

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Goodbye Jim Young, W7JL By Lisa Gibbons, KF6QNG A small group of ARALB members gathered on short notice at the home of Phillip, KE6MSZ, and Ruth Margaret Peters, AC6SI, on Friday afternoon, April 20. Jim is leaving for a long visit with a daughter, son-in-law, and grandchildren in Florida. We expect Jim to return to the Long Beach area, but probably not any time soon. Jim is a long time ARALB member and former officer-director. We wish him all the happiness and love possible while with his family in Florida! # Elmering and CW! Come early to the ARALB meeting and enjoy an hour of Elmering and CW practice! W6RO, the ARALB Station Has it been awhile since youve worked W6RO on the Queen Mary? The station is owned by the ARALB. Any licensed amateur is eligible, as long as you are willing to operate four hours per month. This is a great way to learn a lot about hamming. To learn about this opportunity and schedule your training tour, call Henry Lulli, W6OLZ, at 714-963-2986. (If your telephone blocks call identification, dial *82 in front of Henrys phone number.) If you already are a W6RO operator and have scheduling questions, call Nate Brightman, K6OSC, at 310-4275123. # W6RO 22d anniversary April 29th marks the 22nd anniversary of the operation of W6RO aboard the Queen Mary.

SAVE MONEY WITH ARALB VE-TESTING By Tom Gibbons, W9EYB The Associated Radio Amateurs of Long Beach, W6RO, Testing Committee offers monthly license testing each 3rd Saturday at 0900 hours. All license classes are available. Pre-registration is recommended. Call Don Boyce, NN6Q, at 562-420-9480. Walk-in candidates are welcome on a space and time available basis. Test fees currently are $4.00 for each applicant, for each desired license class element taken. Re-tests require the payment of another $4.00 fee. Monthly testing is through the Greater Los Angeles Amateur Radio Group-VEC (GLAARG-VEC). Administrative upgrade services are available during test sessions at a $2.00 fee. This includes renewals, name or address changes, and vanity call sign application service fee (in addition to the FCC filing fee). # Why do ships and aircraft in trouble use "mayday" as their call for help? This comes from the French m'aidez - meaning "help me" - and is pronounced more or less "mayday."

Queen Mary QSL Cards, W6RO By Lonnie Bingham, K6CBN Thanks go to Irene Bingham, Co-Chairman, KD6RVU, Don Boyce, NN6Q, Louise Chapman, N6ELK, Art Roberts, W6UPL, Frank Baldwin, K6UVU, Erma Baldwin, XYLK6UVU, and Lonnie Bingham, Chairman, K6CBN. These fine people processed W6RO QSL cards last month. Their output: USA, 63; Canada, 5; England, 1; and Australia, 1. A total of 70 QSL cards were mailed.

Lets Eat!
Dont forget! Hams like to eat. Please note your date, and please bring some goodies to the club meeting! Thank you. May - Vickie Elliot June - Mario and Mariana Rubio July Leilani Jaskobiak

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Associated Radio Amateurs of Long Beach P.O. Box 7493 Long Beach, CA 90807 Membership Application Date________________

Dues are $15.00 annually (Jan. 1 through Dec. 31). Additional family members are $5.00 each annually. You will receive a copy of our monthly newsletter, the Oscillator, with your paid membership. Only one Oscillator will be sent per household. Membership badges are available for $8.50 each. Your first and last name and call sign will be printed on the badge. Badges will be distributed at the meetings. PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY Call Sign _____________________ License Class _________________ ARRL Member Yes_____ No_____ Primary Member: __________________________________________________________________________ Call Sign: ____________________ License Class: ________________ ARRL Member: Yes_____ No_____ Primary Member: __________________________________________________________________________ Call Sign: ____________________ License Class: ________________ ARRL Member: Yes_____ No_____ Primary Member: __________________________________________________________________________ Call Sign: ____________________ License Class: ________________ ARRL Member: Yes_____ No_____ Primary Member: __________________________________________________________________________ Address: _________________________________________________________________________________ City: ___________________________________________ State:_______________ Zip: ______________ Home Phone: _(_____)______________________ Email Address: _________________________________ The information listed above will be printed on the Club Roster. Do you want your email address to appear on the club web page? Yes _____ No _____ Would you like to be an operator on the Queen Mary? Yes _____ No _____ Check the Queen Mary web page for more information: http://www.mpicomputers.com/ham/queen Membership annual dues $15.00 Items that can be purchased at the meeting: Additional family membership, $5.00 Club Badges, $10.00 Jacket, blue, heavy quilted Under 18 Membership, $5.00 Club Hats, $10.00 incl. call sign & club patch ARRL dues: $34.00 Large Club Patch, $5.00 S,M,L,XL $75.00 XXL $80 Embroidery order (Your name, call sign, ARALB logo on YOUR shirt or jacket), $10.00

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The Fine Print The Associated Radio Amateurs of Long Beach publishes the OSCILLATOR monthly. Subscriptions are included with membership. The editorial staff reserves the right to edit all submitted material. Credit to the OSCILLATOR and the writer should be given with any reproduction. The comments and views expressed by individuals or columns are not necessarily the views of the ARALB, its officers, or the editorial staff. The deadline for articles submitted for publication is the 15th of each month. Articles can be sent via email to KF6ZYY@arrl.net, or by mail to the OSCILLATOR editor, Carina Lister, 1021 Amelia Dr., Long Beach, CA 90807. Material can be on paper or any standard digital format. For specific questions, contact Carina Lister at (562) 570-6062 or (562) 595-8881.

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The May 4 meeting will be held at the Signal Hill Community Center, 1708 E. Hill Street, Signal Hill, beginning at 7:00 PM. Dino Kitsios, KF6ECO, will present the Field Day plans and coordinate the volunteer opportunities.