LARC Supports The Lakeland Warrior Walk

Once again, LARC supported a charitable Lakeland event. This time it was the Lakeland Warrior Walk. LARC members and Amateur Radio proved to be a valuable asset. We helped insure an orderly parking of cars, and were able to assist an injured walker while patrolling the route. Service is one of the three legs of the stool our club rests on.

Wounded Warrior Walk Saturday July 23, 2016

7th Annual Warrior Walk Lakeland

Saturday 23 July  2016 8:00 AM    Saturday 23 July  20163:00 PM 
First Presbyterian Church of Lakeland, Florida
175 Lake Hollingsworth Dr, Lakeland, FL, 33801, United States

7th Annual Warrior Walk Lakeland. The purpose of this event is to honor our U.S. Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines who have been killed in action while serving during Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.

All proceeds this year will be going to the Global War on Terrorism Freedom Memoiral.

July 4, 2016 QRP And More

 Badges
All new members get a name tag. If your wife is a ham, or would occasionally like to attend meetings, and would like a badge, we will have one made for her as well. In the picture below, Rich is handing a badge to new club member, Sam Shaver.

John Leahy On QRP
We had two presenters this evening. The first, John Leahy, spoke on his approach to QRP. John demonstrated his QRP Go Kit, which included radio, tuner, power/swr meter, battery, a rather unique pair of antennas, and an unusual Morse Code key.

The power source for John’s radio is a small emergency battery located at the bottom this innovative adaptation of an ammo case. 

 John uses three different techniques for matching the the impedance of the various antennas he uses, to his radio’s impedance. There is an MFJ tuner inside the case. This is used for a simple dipole and for for some experimental antennas like the loop he demonstrated. The vertical John demoed has a built in adjustable loading coil at its base. I works much like the motorized versions found on many mobile rigs, except it is manual. The third matching device is the matching transformer shown below. This is used in combination with an end-fed long wire antenna. You can find instructions for winding one of these at http://www.zaarc.org/Endfed6_40.pdf
It might be worth you time to give John’s site a visit. It contains lots of interesting information. 

ZAARC

 Don Jeerings On Electromagnitism
Our second speaker of the evening was Don Jeerings. Don needs no introduction. Tonight’s demonstration was the magnetic field generated around a conductor. The thing that made Don’s demonstration unique is that he chose a carbon filament light bulb as his conductor. By placing a strong magnet near the current carrying filament, he was able to demonstrate the interaction between the magnetic field of the filament, and a strong external magnet. Sure enough, when the magnet was brought close to the lit bulb, the filament started to oscillate at 60 cycles per second.  
As will all Don’s presentations, they are great photo ops. Here George is recording for posterity the the effects of electromagnetism in action.

Message From The President July, 2016

Hello to all,

The July meeting of LARC was especially good. We had John Leahy, KK4ITX, give a talk on portable operations to include a great “Go Kit”, and a couple of great antennas for portable use. See more on the equipment on John’s page at: http://zaarc.org/ There is lots of great information there to be had.

Secondly we had Don Jeering, KI4EFL, talk on magnetism with an interesting visual presently. Thanks to both of our speakers for these information presentations. 

The rest of the year is upon us with the months just flying by. 23 July 2016 presents us with a couple of events. First we have the LARC tailgate at The Revolution Church, at the intersection of Kathleen Rd and Duff Rd. Lakeland. It starts at 7am and should be over by 1pm. There will be tailgating and inside tables. Contact Kevin Rought, N4KWR, for information and tables. ALSO, that same day will be the 7th Annual WARRIOR WALK Sat. July 23rd 2016 / Time: 8am* First Presbyterian Church lawn. Volunteers will be needed for the event communications. 

The next few months will feature a picnic, date to be decided. Some great presentations, and then November will arrive with elections for the next group of individuals to lead our club in the coming year. There will be some old faces return and a new President to elect. The past three years have gone by quickly and it is time for a new person to guide this club on its future endeavors. I will be sitting in the audience and taking part in events but listening to the new ideas that will inspire and entertain us. I may even do a presentation or two in the coming years. We will also be looking for a hospitality person to take care of refreshments, coffee, cookies, and the like. Your charge is that of the coffee pot and its accessories, the picnic box with paper plates, fork, spoon, and the like. The coffee pot to each meeting and the picnic box to Field Day and the picnics about 3 a year. There you have it. 

To answer your question: No I am not leaving. I am just passing along the activities of the club to those that may do it better than me. I will be sitting in the audience and taking part in the activities as so many of our past officers do at this time. 

If you desire one of these positions let me know. Now is the time to start thinking about running for an office. You have a whole board to help you on your way. The past officers will always lend a hand.

See you at the tailgate or Warrior Walk or both.

Rich Kennedy – N4ESS

President

Lakeland Amateur Radio Club

I Cant Believe It Is That Time Of Year Again!

Our plans for this year are very similar to the past few years. We plan
on having food available from setup on Saturday to breakfast on Sunday.

As we have in the past, we request that all members bring a dish to share
with everyone for our Saturday dinner at 6pm. In the past few years, we have shared a
wonderful “spread” from salads to cakes, baked beans to cookies! The Club will be
providing the hamburgers and hot dogs and all of the condiments.

Please remember to furnish your own drinks. The Club will provide water
and coffee.

Reminders and updates will be sent out during the week.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact me at
ki4cdy@arrl.net.

Thank you and see you there!

Patrick O’Neil
KI4CDY

For all you new members, the location will be the same as in years past. We will start setting up early Saturday morning at Hunt Fountain Park. Directions

June 2016 Meeting

And we have a new Tech, and a new Extra! Left to right, George, John (our newest VE), Giovanni KM4UOZ a new Tech, Peggy VE Coordinator, Mitchell KM4SHD Extra, and Richard.

Our fearless leader introducing the main speaker for the evening, Bog Siegel.
In spite of the bad weather we had an excellent turnout. 

Can anyone identify these two love birds in the corner?

Bob giving his presentation.

Last but not least,  Fred reminded us that Field Day is coming up. We did well last year, and expect to do even better this year.

Congratulations Andrew

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stevens
are pleased to announce the
 graduation of their son
Andrew Michael Stevens
with Highest Honors
from Cornerstone Christian Academy
Auburndale, Florida
Class of 2016
Congratulations Andrew from all the LARC members. We wish you the best of luck with your future plans.  We have seen you in operation, and have every confidence that you will choose well, and will do well at whatever you choose to do in life.

Lakeland Amateur Radio Club invites you to

attend our “2016 ARRL Field Day” event!

Field Day is an annual event sponsored by the American Radio Relay League (ARRL). Every year, Hams from all over the country set up radios and spend a full 24 hours operating them.   Visitors are encouraged to watch and learn. A special station will be available for “non-HAMS” so they can learn how easy it is to “Get on the Air”.

 This is a great way to see what “Amateur Radio” is all about…

Refreshments will be served provided by our local sponsors and the Lakeland Amateur Radio Club We will be operation round the clock contacting hundreds of stations around the world! Our operators will be using the following types of stations: High Frequency (HF) Radio, Very High Frequency (VHF) Radio, Morse Code, Automatic Position Reporting System (APRS), Echo Link (A digital Mode using the internet and VOIP) and various Digital modes!

Visitors are Welcome – FREE Admission – Door Prizes – Food!

When?Saturday, June 25th 2016 and Sunday, June 26th 2016   Open 2:00PM Sat thru 2:00 PM on Sun.

Setup for the event will begin at day break Saturday June 25th somewhere around 6am.

Where? Hunt Fountain Park, located at Duff and Green Roads in North Lakeland

For More Information visit our Web Site at www.LakelandARC.org