Updated Nov 27                                                                                                          Photos Updated Nov 11

Silent Keys

NØTO- Dick Carter, (former WBØIZY) Overland Park

AKØA- Bill Boeckenhaupt, Overland park
WAØIGY- George Suptic, Kansas City                                                                       ACØRF - Gary Cline, Topeka                                                                                       KDØQOS- Michael Kuhn, Saint Mary's
KØMXJ - Lowell Vonada, Lincoln                                                                               WØHJZ- Donald Weimer, Westwood                                                                     KDØBKH - Ed Rust, Kansas City                                                                                 K8PK - Paula Keiser, Topeka                                                                                         NØZIZ - Dan Reed, Gardner                                                                                        WBØRBY - Dick Graham, Leawood                                                                    WØROO- Mac Mc Connell, (Jarbalo) Tonganoxie                                                   KFØWS - Ione Mcbride, South Hutchinson                                                          KBØWEQ- June Jeffers, Olathe

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Fall is here, leaves are turning golden yellow and red. The indoor season is upon us. We still have time to get our antennas ready for the Kansas winter. Do you have something up for 160 ? Western Kansas 160 Net is now in session. Tuesday nites will find 1960 KHz filled with stations from all over the region. Recently there were more than 30 check-ins from 10 states.  The ragchew style net convenes at 9PM Kansas time and NCS-Mgr KD0EZS frequently has a topic to kick things off.

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AROUND THE SECTION

JOCO RAC fall outing and auction at Ensor Park and Museum was a wonderful weekend of friendship and radio.  Nearly 40 members and friends attended the campfire and picnic Friday nite. W0PWJ and N0ENO brought out the SATERN communications truck for the weekend. The special event station operated in the SATERN truck and used the museums antenna.  The Saturday auction was also well attended, as it always is, and there was a wide assortment of equipment once again. You could have gone home with a QRP transceiver, a laptop or any number of small bags filled with receiver modules or boards for your imagination.  It would have been possible for an experienced ham to find everything needed to build a repeater. These are some of the folks that did the heavy lifting making the event run smoothly: KØSLM, KDØOYQ, KDØOBP, WB7FIM, WAØCBWs XYL Rosie, WØDEW and KCØBS.

NØCRD has been putting together a 6 meter repeater in Kansas City. Conceived in the spring it has expanded into a multi-site concept. A key factor of the project is no or low cost. Weather permitting it is expected to be operational around February.

Pilot Knob ARC once again helped Leavenworth on Halloween with Goblin Patrol.

Manhattan Area Amateur Radio society (MAARS ) provided communications for the Yellow Brick Road Bicycle Ride around Pottawatomie County.

Wichita ARC 146.82 repeater received some antenna and controller work.

Curtis-WØYW, Gary-KBØRXW and Bruce-AAØX set up a J.O.T.A. station at Paola as part of that councils fall camporee.

Veterans Day Special Event operated by Emporia ARS on 14.268, 7.262, 3.920. Look for KØV

Wheat State Wireless Assn.  147.360 Paola repeater  now requires a 151.4 Hz sub audible tone. Join them Sundays at 7 for the club net.

Mine Creek Winterfest  hamfest is on the books for February 1, 2014 at LaCygne.

Kaw Valley is offering several levels of licensing classes this fall. Technician will be held November 2nd and 9th,  9am till 5pm.  Extra Class will be on January 4, 11, 18, 25 also from 9am till 5pm. Both will be held at the Topeka Shawnee County Library. General Class will be held on December 7, 14, 21 at the Barlett and West Building.

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Section Technical Coordinator                                                                                                        This has been a busy month so far. I re-tuned a UHF duplexer for a ham repeater. This was especially fun since it gave me a chance to check out my new Rigol spectrum analyzer/tracking generator. This is a fine piece of test equipment that is reasonably priced and rich with features. I was able to get it up and running without referring to the manual. One feature that is really nice (I did have to refer to the manual on this one) is the ability to save the screen display to a thumb drive and then print it. In the case of the duplexer it leaves no doubt of the pass and notch frequencies and the insertion loss. I also picked up the matching return loss bridge. This allows a very precise adjustment of the return loss ( or SWR). If you connect it to your antenna you can also get a better understanding of the frequency response and return loss ( or SWR)

 I also assisted 4 new hams with questions about grounding and lightning protection. They were unaware of the NEC (National Electrical Code) requirements for coaxial cables that enter your house.   Like any other hobby or special interest activity there are some standards and safety rules that should be followed. It is for this very reason that I have developed a "grounding and lightning protection" presentation for our club. I have made this presentation to several clubs in the Kansas City area.

One of my Technical Specialists has been assisting a ham in troubleshooting and repairing a ham radio. This activity has been a great vehicle to teach the methods used to troubleshoot a defective piece of equipment. It has also been a challenge to understand why the circuit designer did what they did and how to determine if the circuit is performing as expected. This exercise has really made it clear why it is easier to fix something that is broke versus one that performs poorly.

Bill - WAØCBW  ARRL Technical Coordinator -Kansas Section                                ETA Certified Master Eectronic Technician

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         ************      WØPWJ is Kansas Amateur Of The Year      ************

WØPWJ - Joe Krout of Kansas City has been named Kansas Amateur Radio Operator of the year. This honor was bestowed upon Mr. Krout  during the annual Kansas State Amateur Radio Convention held in Salina.  

Joe serves as  Wyandotte County Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service officer(RACES) as appointed by the county’s emergency management office and Salvation Army volunteer radio coordinator for Wyandotte Co. He participated in the recovery at Greensburg  and Joplin.  

A member and trustee of the Marshall Ensor Memorial Organization, and having  a desire to preserve history, Joe, along with his Father Harry-WØYQG and several others, restored and successfully brought back to life in 2012 an historic 1937 vintage kilowatt transmitter  as part of the Marshall Ensor Museum and Park collection.  When built 75 years ago this transmitter was used for instructional training at what is now the museum and produced many radio operators for the war effort.  Joe has also been an instrumental part of  Santa Fe Trail Radio Club’s Kansas Day Special Event operation at the Mahaffie Farm and Museum.   Joe is also a member of Jayhawk ARS, Santa Fe Trail ARC and Johnson County RAC.

Sponsored by the Kansas-Nebraska Radio Club, the nomination for this award comes from the Amateur Radio clubs of Kansas and is annually presented during the gathering of Amateur Radio operators from around the state.  Officially known as the Oscar Baker Kansas Amateur of the Year award it was first presented in1964 to recognize superior operating skills in the areas of Radiogram relaying and handling, involvement with Kansas Amateur Radio on a state wide basis and public service.    Congratulations !

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September  2013 Reports

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Kansas.Nets-------Sessions---Check-in--messages------Managers. --------------
 
Ks.Sideband.Net----------30-------749------59-----N0KFS---Bill
 
Ks.Phone.Net--------------22-------257------26-----N0KFS---Bill
 
Ks.AM.Weather.Net------30-------720----670-----WB0YWZ--Louie
 
Ks.Weather.Net-----------30-------873-----715-----WB0YWZ--Louie
 
Central.States.Tfc.Net---25------1927-----24-----KE0DL--Dave
 
QKS.CW.NTS.Tfc.Net---56-------219------35-----NB0Z----James
 
QKS-SS.Slow.Speed------5---------20-------3----WD0ESF--Mike
 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~STATION-ACTIVITY~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
Call-----Messages.--Orig---Rec----Sent-----Deliver----Total
 
NB0Z ------------------0-----30-------15--------0----------45
KB0DTI----------------0-----28------14---------5----------47
 
~~~~~~~~~~~PUBLIC SERVICE HONOR ROLL(PSHR)~~~~~~~~~
 
Categories>>>> 1.   2.    3.    4.   5.   6. Totals                                                              ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ KB0DTI Ron      40   40   20   60   0   0   160

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Emergency Contacts:
 
State RACES Officer: NZØF- Herb Fiddick, Overland Park  Hfiddick@gmail.com
 

SATERN Liaison: Rich Britain-NØENO             Kansas and Western MO Division Net Tuesdays 8:30 pm on 3.820+/- 10   PSK31 Tuesdays 9:00pm on 3.5795U
 
MARS Liaison: John Halladay- KAØJMO, Lawrence

Kansas MARS: Mike Woolverton- WBØZPW, Overland Park
 
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~KANSAS ARRL NTS NETS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
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--KE0DL 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-- WD0ESF Mon. 7:32 PM 3547 kHz
 
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TEN

62  Sessions (QNI)check-ins ?? 200 (QTC)messages, KS represented 42 % of net sessions by KBØDTI and NBØZ
 
Dave W0SS/Mgr. Meets daily at 7:45PM and 9:30PM on 3.562 MHz
 

DAY TEN (SSB)
00  Sessions, ??? (QNI)check-ins,   000 (QTC) messages, KS represented  0   % of net sessions by: 
 
Meets M-F 10:00A on 7280 Jerry KCØVTT/Mgr.

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ KANSAS INDEPENDENT NETS~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
NET-NAME---------SESSIONS---CHECK-INS----Msgs.--- REPORTER

Mine Creek ARC----------4-----------35--------0------KB0DTI
 
WheatState Wrls ---------5-----------45---------0------KB0DTI
 
Pilot Knob ARC-----------0-----------00---------0------KC0JCQ
 
Central Kansas QCWA--5-----------40---------0------N0LL
 
US Center ARC-----------4-----------41---------0------N0LL
 
Wheat Shocker------------0-----------00---------0------Feed Back
 
Wheat Shocker 440-------0-----------00---------0------Feed Back
 
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