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If you are interested in any of the special categories and want to help, please come to the club meeting on Wednesday, June 22^nd or send Jerry an e-mail at jerometurner@peoplepc.com

From North...

Amateur Radio is noted for providing communications in emergency situations. When disaster strikes, it seems as if the amateur radio operators just turn on their equipment and work into a synchronized operation getting information to where it is needed. Most people do not realize that this apparent smooth operation is the result of integrating amateur radio into the services provided by many disaster and relief organizations.

The American Red Cross is a predominant organization providing disaster relief support. It recognized the importance of amateur radio and has established an arm within the organization to coordinate amateur radio communications during support activities. NKARC secretary Horace, K7ORY, is active as American Red Cross liaison and coordinator in Kitsap County. Horace will be the speaker at the presentation meeting on June 8 taking us through the American Red Cross communications network and how we participate in times of disaster relief. Now we can learn how our participation in emergency communications helps in disaster relief

Jun. 8th – Presentation Meeting – 7:30 PM – Viking Park Clubhouse – Emergency Communications in the American Red Cross – Horace Ory, K7ORY

Jun. 18th -- VE testing Community Room, Poulsbo Library, 700 NE Lincoln St., Poulsbo. Doors open at 9am. Picture ID, original and photocopy of current amateur radio license and pending CSCE's needed. Cost of session is $14.00. Cash only – No checks accepted. Questions please call Horace, K7ORY at 360-779-2215

Jun. 22nd – Business Meeting -- 7:30 PM – Viking Park Clubhouse

Jun. 24th – ARRL Field Day – Field Day setup – Location to be announced – 1:00 PM

Jun. 25th to 26th– ARRL Field Day – Annual Event – Location to be announced – 8:00 AM

Jul. 13th -- Presentation meeting -- 7:30 PM– Viking Park Clubhouse – To be announced.

Jul. 16th -- VE testing Community Room, Poulsbo Library, 700 NE Lincoln St., Poulsbo. Doors open at 9am. Picture ID, original and photocopy of current amateur radio license and pending CSCE's needed. Cost of session is $14.00. Cash only – No checks accepted. Questions please call Horace, K7ORY at 360-779-2215.

Jul. 27th – Business Meeting – 7:30 PM – Viking Park Clubhouse

Last month, President Jerry announced that the fees to use the Presidential Hall at the Kitsap County fairgrounds were raised to a point where it would be difficult to run a Hamfest and realize a workable profit from the event. Opinions from the club members indicated that it would be right to cancel the Hamfest.

Jerry went to the fairground to cancel the reservation and get the previously paid deposit returned. He was informed that there was an error and the fees paid last year were still in effect. The NKARC Board of Officers met and agreed to continue the NKARC Hamfest in 2006 and authorized the treasurer to pay the entire deposit.

The ARRL this week said it was encouraged to learn of Motorola's just-announced Powerline LV system--a BPL system that takes radio interference concerns into consideration from the outset. The Powerline LV system avoids using medium-voltage power lines and introduces broadband signals only on the low-voltage side of the power transformer, greatly reducing the system's radio interference potential.

"We know that medium-voltage power lines are no place for broadband energy, since there is overwhelming technical evidence that radio interference from BPL is unavoidable if MV lines are used," said ARRL CEO David Sumner, K1ZZ. "By confining their Access BPL system to low-voltage lines and by adding hardware notch filters for additional protection to Amateur Radio frequency allocations, Motorola has addressed our interference concerns."

Sumner explained this week that until Motorola Powerline LV came along, opposing BPL and opposing BPL interference were essentially one and the same. During product development, Motorola invited ARRL's suggestions and welcomed its input. Sumner said he hopes other BPL system providers now will see the benefit of cooperating with the ARRL that Motorola is now enjoying. "However, we can and should remain critical of the FCC's Report and Order, which makes no effort to distinguish between good and bad ways of pursuing BPL," he added.

Sumner says the League is looking forward to seeing the first Powerline LV system in operation. The ARRL will continue to work with Motorola "to ensure that their new product is indeed the first BPL system that is a solution, not a problem," he said.

There's more information about Motorola's Powerline LV system on the company's Web site:

<http://www.motorola.com/mediacenter/news/detailpf/0,,5519_5509_23,00.html >.

Please notify the club secretary to update the roster if you changed your address, call sign or e-mail address. Include your phone number so that you can be contacted in case of emergency or for assistance. This will insure that you will get the latest news via the club newsletter. Either notify Horace at the meeting or drop a card to NKARC at PO Box 2268, Silverdale, WA 98383-2268. You can also send the changes via e-mail to Horace or Bob Tomas at

bobtomas@sprintmail.com.

The area of most concern to the Amateur Radio Community is Broadband Over Power Lines (BPL) where electric utilities are conducting tests and experiments to transmit data information over the electric power lines. Some of the Congressional members are convinced that this is a fantastic opportunity to extend broadband data transmission capabilities to the masses. Many reports of results on monitoring BPL installations indicate that large RFI fields are generated disrupting HF communications. ARRL has taken a strong stand requesting the FCC to consider the ramifications of the interference generated by BPL in granting test licenses to the power utilities.

Presently, BPL is one of the greatest threats to amateur radio operating and is a controversial subject between ARRL, lawmakers and the FCC. A most knowledgeable person of BPL and its current status is ARRL Section Manager and NKARC member Ed Bruette, N7NVP. He made a presentation about ARRL and BPL at the May 2005 presentation meeting on May 11, 2005. It was a detailed account on what is happening with BPL and what the amateur radio operator can do to protect the amateur radio spectrum from the expected extreme RFI from BPL. We learned the technical as well as the political aspects of BPL to the amateur radio service and to communications in general.

Spring cleaning in the Shack:

President Jerry tells us to prepare for the "swapfest". Keep sorting through those gadgets and help make the XYL happy. The club is responding to the request to assign one meeting as a gadget sell/exchange meeting. This is the chance to pick up those pieces needed but could not be afforded at market price. Remember—one man’s surplus ("garbage") is another man’s treasure

Right now, the meeting is scheduled for August 10th to coincide with the annual club picnic meeting. Will keep you posted if there is a change.

Need a generator to provide power in an emergency? It’s nice to have the capability to turn on the emergency generator and have the power to run the freezer and watch the storm reports. NKARC is offering the 5 KW generator used to provide power during Field Day and special events for sale. The generator has very few hours of operation on it and is very clean. The price for this piece is $300. Contact Jerry, K9CCZ, or any of the club officers

Want your newsletter as soon as it comes out of the word processor? Send your e-mail address to :bobtomas@sprintmail.com ,and it will be mailed out right after the proof reading. It can be sent in Word or .pdf format. Notify Bob of the format you desire.

It costs approximately 70 cents per copy to print a newsletter and postage to mail it. Receiving your newsletter electronically helps keep publishing costs down allowing the funds to be used for other club projects

Icom America lived up to the rumors, unveiling the new IC-7000, the "son of the IC-706", which adds numerous new features in a package slightly smaller than the 706. So new it's not even on the Icom Web site yet, the 7000 has a full-color display, advanced DSP features (including IF filters), a digital voice recorder, band scope, improved function access and control, and the ability to watch VHF TV channels - just the thing for those slow Sunday afternoons! Note that the IC-706 family will remain available.

Russ Swank, KI7PG

Just to inform you about the NKARC domain: http://www.nkarc.org and I hope many of you will take a look at what is there and give me your ideas as to what more you will want.

If you have any items advertised on the site and they have been sold, please let me know so I can remove them. The site is live and there will be lots of new and useful changes in the very near future.

If you have any questions you can email Bill,W7ARC at:: webmaster@nkarc.org. 

NKARC is always looking for interesting topics for the presentation meetings. Many new modes of operation have been introduced into amateur radio. If you have an interest in these modes, let us know so we can schedule it.

Purpose: Kid's Day is intended to encourage young people (licensed or not) to enjoy Amateur Radio. It can give young people on-the-air experience so they might develop an interest in pursuing a license in the future. It is intended to give hams a chance to share their station with children.

Date: Saturday, June 18, 2005.

Time: 1800 to 2400 UTC. No limit on operating time.

Awards: All participants are eligible to receive a colorful certificate (it becomes the child's personalized sales brochure on ham radio). Please visit www.arrl.org/FandES/ead/kids-day-survey.html to complete a short survey and post your comments. You will then have access to download the certificate page or send a 9×12 SASE to: Boring Amateur Radio Club, PO Box 1357, Boring, OR 97009.

Do you remember the memorable NKARC sponsored special event of September 1995 when amateur radio operators from around the Puget Sound area operated on the decks of the USS Missouri to commemorate the end of hostilities in WW2? Since then, the ship has been moved from its moorings at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton to Pearl Harbor and dedicated as a naval museum.

Bob, N7KTP