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Coming Events O.A.R.S. GENERAL MEETING Second Friday, of month, 7:00 p.m., at St. Paul’s Church Parrish Hall, 1430 Pine St., Oroville G.A.R.S. Second Thursday of month, 6:30 p.m. Lutheran Church Hall, Artois; G.E.A.R.S General Meeting, third Friday of month, Butte County Search and Rescue Bldg., Chico. Social hour 6:00, meeting at 7:00. Board Meetings: 2nd Saturday of month Butte A.R.E.S. MEET: fourth Friday, at Butte County Search and Rescue Building.

FCC EXAMS - GEARS VEC First Sunday of every even numbered month. At the Butte County Search and Rescue Building,. Written test at 2:00 p.m. For information or pre-registration call Tom Rider -W6JS; 530-893-9211

Club Events: News and items of interest GEARS Calendar...all inside. Website: www. gearsw6rhc.org Www.gearsw6rhc.org

QST de KA6GND Happy New Year all of you! As we enter into this new year we have so many op-portunities before us. We can venture into bands and modes that we have never done, set goals for contests and awards and meet new friends along the way. We have the oppor-tunity to plan and execute the best Field Day event that our club has ever had, which would be hard to beat some of them, but we can do it! Very importantly, we also have the opportunity to bring new operators into our ranks through our club activities, meetings and events. This year I have asked our Vice President, Stephen Wolske and our Secretary Michael Favor to chair the meeting programs, so if there were a meeting program that you would like us to have, please let them know as soon as possible. It is funny how when OARS had their big-ticket item raf-fle, a nice antenna analysis, one of our members won it, and with our big-ticket item raffle, the Buddipole, one of their members won it! It goes to show that anyone can win who buys a ticket. Our next raffle will be a nice an-tenna analyzer that covers both HF and VHF I look forward to serving as your club president this com-ing year again. If you have any ideas or suggestions re-garding our club, please let me know. I hope to talk to you soon, 73, Larry Marcum, KA6GND Ka6gnd@gmail.com 345-5399

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MINUTES OF GENERAL MEETING for Dec 16 2016 Introductions: PROGRAM: None.

ATTENDANCE: All present. ANNOUNCEMENT: Mike Kaliczak N6NIX is bring 60 meter dipoles to to-night’s meeting. Breakfast will be on 31 Dec. Next board meeting is on January 14 at 9am at Blood-source. The next club meeting will be on Jan 20. A gears club coffee mug with your name and call sign on it is being offered for $15. Elected Larry Marcum for president, Steven Wolske for vice-president, Rick Hubbard for treasure, Michael Favor for secretary and Dale Anderson, Gene Wright, Tom Rid-er for board member. Membership chair is Michael Fa-vor, program chair will be Michael Favor and Stephen Wolske, repeater chair is Dale Anderson. Discussed removing the phone line to save on cost and replace it with a different system.

Need Idea’s for coming programs. Garry Clark from Oroville won the buddy pole. The pro-ceeds will go to getting an analyzer to raffle off. VEC: none. MINUTES: Approved minutes for November. TREASURER. Phone bill $43.17. We currently have $2,696.79. Report approved. ADJOURNMENT: 20:24 hr. Dale Anderson, Secretary

Board of Directors Meeting December 10 2016 ATTENDANCE Anna not present. MEMBERSHIP APPLICATIONS: None. OLD BUSINESS: Minute of Nov 12 board meeting ap-proved. Treasurers report: phone bill $43.17. We currently have $2,696.79. Report approved. Committees:

VEC: none. Do to increased cost the fee’s will increase to $10.

Membership: None.

Repeater: No updates.

Discussed removing the phone line to save on cost and replace it with a different system.

Programs: No program in December .

Buddipole drawing in December: Tickets have

been made up and are $5 apices or $20 for 5. You can con-tact Larry KA6GND.

One-day workshop: Will do it again!

Larry has come up with a coffee mug with the club

logo and your call sign and name from a local source to sell for $15.

The new web site is up and running. http://

gearsw6rhc.com/.

ADJOURNMENT: 10:24 am Dale Anderson, Secretary

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HERE ARE THE MAGNIFICANT SEVEN! GEARS 2017 officers, from left to right:

Tom Rider-W6JS Board of Directors; Larry Marcum –KA6GND-President;

Dale Anderson-JJ6EVX-Board of Directors Gene Wright-WA6ZRT-Board of Directors

Rick Hubbard-KI6VOX-Treasurer Michael Favor-N6FAV-Secretary

Stephen Wolske-KF6HSS-Vice President

Well! I must say, this was certainly a hotly contested election! However, it was followed by a great Christmas Dessert party, and even a gift exchange. Golly, I’m a member also, but no one exchanged gifts with me! And they did not even offer me a cookie!!! What kind of treatment is this anyway? Oh, I do love this crowd of Hams…(HAMS...hmmmmm that term makes me hungry!) Nevertheless, I, Brinkley-K9DOG, wish GEARS Club a prosperous 2017, and all GEARS members and their families a Wonderful, Blessed and Happy 2017. (P.S: Larry, I will accept a fine bone as a consolation gift……..you know my ad-dress) HAPPY NEW YEAR Brinkley-K9DOG

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Jackson Fuller-WIFOG with mother Jenny Zimmer-man visited GEARS and joined the Christmas party. Jackson is eleven years of age; obtained his Ham license earlier this year. His call sign, WIFOG was that of his Great Grandfather! He is now learning all about how to interreact with repeaters and antennas. We hope Jackson will continue developing his Ham radio skills and also keep in touch with us. You are always welcome Jackson!

KA6GND-Larry Marcum in the Spirit of Christmas!

Every Ham must experience the miraculous benefits of Duck Tape! Good gift draw Jack-son...

KG6MRK –RAYMOND FOULKS

Kathy Favor N6FAV and Brinkley- K9DOG share a private joke.

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nu6JV 1924 Old Radio I always wanted to construct a "state-of-the-art" amateur radio station of the type that was used in 1924 when the use of "shortwave" was just beginning. The low loss regenerative receiv-er and the "loose coupled" hartley oscillator transmitter were taken from QST magazine arti-cles. The broadcast receiver was one of the most modern designs of the day.

The 1BGF Tuner, as it is called, was developed in 1924 by radio amateur 1BGF and the design was featured in

QST Magazine of that year. The circuit is a "Armstrong"

regenerative design. All components were selected from

those available in 1924. The large coils are wound from

double cotton covered solid copper wire. They are wound

in a basket weave fashion to reduce capacity and allow

the receiver to operate in the "short wave" band. This type

of construction is known as "low loss".

The potentiometer beside the tube is to set the filament

voltage. A grid leak is located in front of the tube. The

large knob is a gear reduction tuning type that drives a

high quality variable capacitor. The center control adjusts

the feedback and the end control adjusts antenna coupling.

Continued page 8 This article from N6JV.com Tube and radio museum

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Snack Sign Up Below are listed the 2017 members who have signed up to be responsible for providing snacks for our Club meetings: My notes show no one has signed for Jan-uary. Please contact me if you have signed for that month, or wish to do so. If your name is missing from any indicated month, or you wish to join with someone, pleases contact Larry Marcum or Michael Favor: January 20 : February 17:Gene Wright &Evelyn Weir March 17: Michael Favor April 21: Ida Marcum May 19: Stephen Wolske June 16: Ida Marcum & Michael Favor July 21: Dorothy Post August 18: Dale Anderson September 15: Ken Jorgensen October 20: Tom Rider & Dale Anderson November17:Dorothy Post & Evelyn Weir December15:Potluck/desserts all members

Old Radio Nu6JV 1924 continued

The transmitter is a hartley oscillator circuit with

a "50 watter" tube. A 211 or 203A may be used. The

coil is made from copper tubing that is supported

by solid glass rods to reduce vibration. The low

loss capacitor is driven by a "velvet vernier" dial. A

single turn link is used to feed the antenna without

de-stablizing the circuit.

The broadcast receiver is a Victoreen Superhet-erodyne. It came as a set of coils and a set of in-structions. The Victoreen company only made the coils. The R.F. coils (4) cost $7.00, the Oscilla-tor coil (1) cost $5.50 and the Antenna Coupler (1) cost $3.50. Not cheap in 1924. You had to make everything else yourself. I found an old set that was made in that period (1924) but it was poorly made and not in good condition. I had an original set of instructions so I rebuilt it with new wood, front panel and some of the square wire. Most of the original components were re-used. Each tube has a rheostat in its filament to set the gain of the stage. The last audio stage was activated when you plugged in the speaker to the upper audio jack. Very hard to tune as all the controls had to be adjusted for a clean signal. Any given station may have several different set-tings of the frequency controls. You had to keep a chart.

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VEC TESTING 2:00 p.m.

February 5, 2017 April 2, 2017 AT BUTTE COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE BUILDING

All Classes Technician, General and Extra. Contact: Tom Rider-W6JS 530-893-9211

Rustyboyrider@aol.com

Caps embroi-dered with your name and your call sign may be ordered by con-tacting WA6ZRT-Gene Telephone #530 –345-3515 Now, also, coffee Mugs!

HERE COMES THE SOLAR WIND AGAIN:

2016 might get one more blast of auroras before the year is over. Another stream of solar wind is head-ing for Earth, and it could arrive before New Year's Eve. The wind is flowing from a coronal hole (CH) in the sun's atmosphere, shown here in an image from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory:

NOAA forecasters estimate a 40% chance of po-lar geomagnetic storms on Dec. 30th when a co-rotating interaction region (CIR) is expected to hit Earth's magnetic field. CIRs are transition zones between slow- and fast-moving solar wind streams. Solar wind plasma piles up in these re-gions, producing density gradients and shock waves that do a good job of sparking auroras.

After the CIR arrives, a stream of fast-moving (600 km/s) solar wind will follow. The combined effect could produce G1-class geomagnetic storms (55% chance, says NOAA) and bright Arctic auroras on Dec. 31st.

Happy New Year!

(Spaceweather.com)

Dec. 29,2016

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The GEARS Newsletter Staff: Editor and Publisher……………...Dorothy Post Printing &Distribution snail mail: Evelyn Weir Website…Michael Favor-N6FAV The Radiator is a monthly publication of the Golden Em-pire Amateur Radio Society (GEARS). It is the policy of the Editor to publish all material submitted by the member-ship provided such material is in good taste, relevant to amateur radio, of interest to GEARS members, and space is available. Please send all submissions to the Editor – Doro-thy Post by the last day of the month through the following medium: E-mail: dj@posthouse.us Club Officers: (Board of Directors) President …………………….....Larry Marcum-ka6gnd Vice President…………….….. Stephen Wolske-kf6hss Secretary …………………….. Michael Favor k6fav Treasurer……………………. ....Rick Hubbard-ki6vos Past President ……………………..Anna Horn Kg6goa Director………………………….... Tom Rider-W6JS Director………………………..…Gene Wright-wa6zrt Director………………….….. Dale Anderson kk6evs Club Meetings General Meeting Third Friday 7:00 PM Board Meeting Second Saturday GEARS Club Net Tuesdays 7:30 PM 146.850 MHz-PL 110.9 GARS Club Net:Monday,7:00 pm 147.105+Mhz PL 110.09 Thursdays Simplex Net 7:30 p.m. 146.52 Sacramento Valley Traffic Net Nightly 9:00 PM 146.850 MHz-PL 110.9 ARES Nets: Butte Mondays 20:00 146.850 MHz-PL 110.9 Yuba Sutter Thursdays 19:00 146.085+MHz PL 127.3 Glenn Thursday 19:30 147.105 MHZ +PL 100.0 Other Nets: Willie Net 8:00 PM Mondays 1930 kHz Sac Valley Section Net—7:00 PM 2nd Wed of the month 146.085 MHz+PL 127.3 440 Wed. Night 8:00 PM Wednesday 440.650 MHz Golden Bear 7:00 PM Daily 3975 kHz Western Public Service System (WPSS) 7:30 PM 3952 kHz ARISS (International Space Station) Uplink 144.490 MHz Downlink 145.800 MHz Hope-1 satellite: all uplinks are in 145Mhz band: All downlinks are in 435Mhz band ...California Traffic Net: 3906 KHz nightly @6:00 pm For traffic listing & @6:30 p.m. for roll call.

Happy New Year Everyone

A treasure from the past!

Courtesy o-f Larry Marcum

Happy New Year!

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Date

Time Event Location Contact party

Sunday, February 5, 2017

2:00 p.m. VEC—Exams

Butte Co. Search & Rescue Building 2591 Morrow Lane, Chico

Tom Rider 530-893-9211

Thursday January 12,2017

6:30 p.m. Board and General Meeting .

GARS-Glenn Glenn Amateur Radio Society \

Lutheran Church Hall: Artois

Mike Ellithorpe 530-518-3730

Friday, January 13

General Meeting OARS Oroville Amateur Radio Society General Meeting

St Paul’s Church Parrish Hall 1430 Pine Street Oroville

Ron Osborne-kd7uhf 530 589 1834 kd7uhf@yahoo.com

Saturday January 14

Board meet: 9:00 a.m.

GEARS Board of Directors Meet Members are Invited!

Blood Source Blood Source Bldg 555 Rio Lindo Ave

Larry Marcum, KA6GND 530 345 5399 ka6gnd@gmail.com

Friday January 20, 2017

General Meeting Social 6:00 p.m. Program: At 7:00 General meeting 8:00 p.m.

GEARS Golden Empire Amateur Radio Society

Butte County Search and Rescue Building 2591 Morrow Lane Chico

Larry Marcum, KA6GND 530 345 5399 ka6gnd@gmail.com

!Donations to GEARS are TAX DEDUCTIBLE! We are a 501 c 3 organization, and as such, donations, cash, or materials, donated to GEARS are Tax deductible. When you donate to GEARS, be sure you receive a letter of acknowledgment from our Secretary as proof of the donation and its value for the State and Federal Tax Authorities. This is a win-win for GEARS and for you, the member or the party donating!

Bring Your Old Eyeglass Wear to GEARS for the LIONS Club Eyeglasses donation Box Prescription glasses, or magnifying eyeglasses, sunglasses, but no loose lens—frames are a necessity. This is a club community effort in which all members may participate with minimal effort.