TROJAN ARC HARMONIC

WORK NIGHT MEETING Our May 13 meeting will be held at the Public Works shop on west 2^nd Street in Colby, starting at the normal 7pm CDT hour. We have some maintenance work needed on the club’s tower trailer in preparation for Field Day. We also want to plan for antennas, rigs etc. for the big outing the last weekend of June. A new twist this year is the availability of a nifty commemorative pin for all Field Day participants.

NEWSLETTER WOES Advance notice of meetings recently has been spotty at best, and two culprits are to blame. First publisher Bruce K0BJ has been out of town frequently prior to meeting times. Another problem has been with Bruce’s e-mail package and the backup at Jerry KB0LGX’s. Someone on the Trojan list with a formerly valid Internet Kansas address has made some changes. Internet Explorer searches the ‘home’ server and if any defective addresses are found, the entire message is not uploaded! The guys are hoping to solve that problem with this newsletter……

NEW FACE – DEPARTING FACE C.W. Cheney is the new recreation department director at Colby and is interested in amateur radio (with a name like CW, why not?). He’s studying Now You’re Talking and hopes to sit for testing in the near future. Vet Tech student Shawn KC0CVS walks across the stage May 15 to get his sheepskin (along with David N0TES). Congratulations go to Shawn, but the bad news is he, Christy and harmonic are leaving for Lawrence shortly after graduation. Shawn has a job queued up, and will enjoy the active Douglas Co ARC group. While we’ll miss his activity with our club, it sounds like he may be back here for Field Day madness.

GOODLAND REPEATER The Goodland machine has been acting a little roguish lately, most recently with power supply problems. We believe the machine is currently back up and running. For those not familiar this on eis on 147.03

WEATHER SPOTTING So far it’s been unexciting around here weather-wise, in spite of heavy severe wx within a state or two. The McCook hams have checked with the Goodland NWS and hope to be reporting spotting info via our 22/82 machine if and when the heavy stuff moves in. They have one ham with good access to Colby on 2 most of the time, and some others that can hit us when the band is up. It’ll be interesting to see how this works during storm fronts, rain static, blowing dust etc.

SUNRAYCE The biannual college solar car Sunrayce is coming off the end of June. Unlike the past two events, this one will NOT be in our backyard. In an effort to bag more sponsors, it is being run from Washington DC to EPCOT Center, so we’ll be out of the loop as far as support communications and visuals. The official website is www.sunrayce.com

BANDSCAN Mike K0FJ is the proud owner of a new TS570 DG HF rig. With a TS530 and 830 already on the table Mike is quite a rig baron, but his latest venture called for frequency stability and slow tuning rates, which the 570 excels at. It also has some awesome digital signal processing capabilities. The new venture? Oh yes, he’s deep into PSK31, the new noise-immune digital mode that looks to be replacing RTTY as the ragchew/roundtable mode of choice with the data-pushing folks. Mike is using PC software and Sound Blaster as described in May QST, and reports dozens of enjoyable, near-perfect copy QSOs. BT David N0TES has a copy of the General Class License Manual. Hmmmm, sounds like some upgrading may be in the future. BT Jon KB0MBS is also in the crowd with after-graduation plans. He and a buddy have bought a trailer house in Manhattan and will be attending KSU in computer science, along with Keith KC0CVT. With any luck the guys will find some time between studying and Yls for W0QQQ activities. BT Shawn KC0CVS has enjoyed using the club’s loaner HW-101 while in Colby. It’s now looking for a new home, so anyone who lacks a HF rig, and would like it for QSOing or listening, is invited to contact the club to arrange a loan. BT Tinkerer’s alert…. Dan WD0BRZ has 20 or so Motrac 150 Mhz band receivers available (as the Dish Network ads say) "for the low low price of free". At that price, the only shipping arrangements are f.o.b. Dan’s Norton QTH. Dan has control heads and all; some are NOT in working order. BT Mike K0FJ has a new skill for the resume – remote studio camera operator. He was drafted to help with the Smoky Hills Public TV taping of the Tumbleweed Barbershop Chorus annual show in Colby. The caper involved a director selecting the shots from 3 cameras, and ordering shots via headphones. Mike was the "color" cameraman, grabbing audience and unusual angle shots. One perk of the job was an interesting tour of the well-equipped production van during intermission. BT Larry KC0BNV is wearing a new hat at the city, as street projects manager. If he volunteers to be the fox in our next transmitter hunt, suspect an antenna buried in asphalt somewhere…….. that’d be trickier than the infamous mag mount on the RR tracks caper. BT In addition to KC0CVS graduating to the real world and KB0MBS migrating to KSU, other Trojans and family are on the academic move. David N0TES is graduating from CCC and looking for a way to get a law enforcement badge pinned on his chest. KG0PI’s harmonic Michaela is moving up the highway a bit from Baldwin City to Lawrence for her sophomore year of college. N0XNO’s harmonic Joe, and Dave N0TES were stars in CCC’s spring music program. Joe worked a ‘clean sweep’ – he performed in concert and jazz bands, as well as concert choir and Sunflower Singers. BT KB0VUS KB0MBS and KC0CVT, along with Justin Hurst, have just submitted this year’s CHS entry to Tech Student Assn’s Webpage Pursuit national finals. The 3 hams teamed last year to take 1^st place in Pittsburgh PA. This year’s winner will be prejudged, but announced at the TSA nationals in Tulsa OK in June. The guys’ effort can be seen at http:/hardcore/usd315.k12.ks.us/~tsa BT K0BJ and family (minus KB0MBS) enjoyed a week on the Baja California coast during spring break. Wx was unseasonably cool and since Playboy magazine announced that Rosarito, the town they stayed in, was THE PLACE for college spring-breakers, it was crowded on the weekend. But they had a great time. For once BJ left the HF gear at home and turned down the chance to sign /XE.