Georgian Bay Amateur Radio Net Report
Wednesday October 19:30 EDT
Net Controller: Marvin VE3VCG (replacing Richard VE3OSR on this date)
Topic: Prior Knowledge of VA3YOS

Notes:
The link between our club repeaters VE3OSR and VE3GBT was not functional on this date. The non-functional link caused Marvin to shift the club network to the repeater VA3YOS. VA3YOS is not a club repeater. William (Bill) Walpole is not a GBARC club member. Marvin, in his capacity as net controller, asked Bill for permission to use the repeater for the club net in advance.

VA3YOS is located at a site east of Owen Sound and has an estimated elevation of 440 meters. This height provides the repeater with an excellent coverage and a large footprint. Moving the 2 meter GBARC net to VA3YOS offered a good opportunity to test it has a backup repeater to the club repeaters and note the coverage area. There were good signal reporters from all 2 meter stations. VA3YOS does not have Echolink service and so there were no Echolink participants during the live net. However John VA3KOT monitored and logged participants on the club repeater VE3OSR and reported those stations to net control. Those stations have been included in this report.

Participants in the 2 meter portion of the GBARC net were asked to discuss their prior knowledge or use of the repeater VE3YOS.

2 Meter Net Log:
VA3EAC Janet Paisley
VE3BQM Bernie Owen Sound
VE3RQY Greg Owen Sound
VE3KOT John Owen Sound
VE3DGY Doug Owen Sound
VE3JMD Jim Port Elgin
VE3PCP Rob Inverhuron
VA3MFO Jim Mount Forrest
VA3TS Tom Shallow Lake
VA3FYB Eric Owen Sound

Participants via VE3OSR
Ko4DXQ Bob Tennessee via Echolink on VE3OSR
VA3MIO Maureen Wiarton – via VE3OSR

80 Meter Net Log
VA3MFO Jim Mount Forrest
VE3BQM Bernie Owen Sound
VE3FJN Colin Hamilton
VE3RQY Rob W Owen Sound

For our next meeting on tuesday 25 oct at M'Wikwedong Centre on 3rd ave west, we will use the north lot for parking and enter via the north side doors. 
The door will be open at 630. upon entering please sign in to the GBARC form and sanitize hands and wear a mask. We will be using the Resource room which is in the south hallway past the kitchen on the left (second room). Masks can be taken off during the meeting. 
See you all there.
Greg VE3RQY

HF Net 3783KHz (N.B. VE3OSR was out of service; VE3OZW RIchard ran the VHF portion of the net on VE3GBT Paisley)
Topic: Open mic.

VA3KOT John Owen Sound NCS
VE3BQM Bernie Owen Sound
VA3MFO Jim Mount Forest
VE3RQY Greg Owen Sound
VE3WI Dave Port Elgin
VE3VCG Marvin Paisley
VE3OZW Richard Mildmay
VE3PCP Rob Tiverton
AC8IY Clair SW Michigan

Net Controller — VE3OZW Richard - South Bruce

Topic for discussion -
1. Open mic

VHF/Echolink
KO4DXQ Bob - Soddy Daisy, TN
VE3VCG Marvin - Paisley
VE3WI Dave - Port Elgin
VE3KHQ Fred - Kincardine
VE3RQY Greg - Brooke
VE3PCP Rob - Inverhuron
VA3EAC Janet - Paisley
VA3MFO Jim - Mount Forest

73 to all

Greg VE3RQY has taken the lead in the QNI contest ... but it's early days yet!

   

I'm trying to take advantage of some of my down time to get a new tower up with a 2-element Mosley 40m beam on top.  The beam has been in a box at my front door for a few years now and I have had the tower sections in the back of my yard for almost the same amount of time.

The tower is a light duty Wade but the boom for the Yagi is 15' and the elements are 46'  long.  I am anchoring the tower with guy lines at the 30' and 40' mark.  I needed some headroom for the guy lines so the support for the lines protrude 5' out of the ground.  I used 1.7" Schedule 40 pipe with 1/4" walls and sank this 5' into the ground with lots of contrete.  Inside the 1.7" pipe is another 1-1/2" Schedule 40 pipe with 1/4" walls so the supports are very rigid.




Even though the tower is not free standing, I still used just over 1 cu. yd. of concrete and 8" of stone for drainage.  The concrete had to be hand-bombed from the street to the back of my yard.




This afternoon I started fabricating two torque arms out of 2" x 2" angle iron.  My guy lines will attach at the torque arms and prevent the tower from twisting in on itself.  The upper guy wires will be 40' which would require me to break the guy lines up so they don't couple with the antenna.  



I found I could make neat and precise work of my angle iron cuts using a 10" Dewalt mitre saw, an 80 tooth metal cutting blade and a cheap speed controller to keep the saw around 1800 rpm.

I just received this via email but might little late for anyone who does get a chance to read it in time to join.

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Net Controller — VE3OZW Richard - South Bruce

Topic for discussion -
1. Resources for amateur radio: Where do you look for answers for amateur radio related questions? Do you have a favorite resource, like a book, website, online forum, net, etc?
2. Is there anything that you have had difficulty with related to amateur radio and what did you do?
3. OR OPEN MIC

VHF/Echolink

KO4DXQ Bob - Soddy Daisy, TN
VE3PAV Bobby - Lionshead
VE3BQM Bernie - Owen Sound
VA3GDZ Gary - Haliburton
VE3MIO Maureen - Wiarton
VE3RQY Greg - Brooke
VA3TS Tom - Shallow Lake
VE3PCP Rob - Inverhuron
VA3MFO Jim - Mount Forest
VA3EAC Janet - Paisley
VE3IXR Ron - Walkerton
VE3VCG Marvin - Paisley

HF – 3.783 MHz

VE3IJD Gene - Honey Harbour
VE3XBO Bart - Mobile
VE3DDU Ray - Nottawasaga
VA3MFO Jim - Mount Forest
VE3VCG Marvin - Paisley
VA3TS Tom - Shallow Lake
VE3IXR Ron - Walkerton

We need your help by submitting ideas for topics via this forum.  This is a net for all of us.  Help out your fellow club members and net controllers by getting involved and participating by submitting topics.

Please consider being a GBARC Net Controller.  It is a positive learning experience and great fun.

Thanks to all, 73

Net report for Sept. 21st 2022
Net controller VE3RQY Greg

Subject:
             Tuners: manual vs. Automatic, favorite, etc. or any other subject.

Echo link: VE3GIO Larry, Woodstock.
               KO4DXQ Bob, soggy Daisy, Tenessee.
               VE3IXR. Ron, Walkerton.
               VE3BQM Bernie, Red Bay
VHF

VA3MFO Jim Mount Forest
VA3KOT John Georgian Bluffs
VE3MIO Maureen Wiarton
VE3OZW Richard Otter Creek(Mildmay suburb)

HF:
VE3GIO
VA3MFO
VE3BQM
VE3OZW

Breakfast is getting more complicated.  The restaurant wants a phone call by 0800 Sat at the latest with the number of people coming for breakfast.

If you're attending on 8 Oct, please reply to this post & tell me how many in your party.

I'll call them.

thanks
Dave, VE3WI