To
Our Wonderful SCIRA Members, September
21, 2014
The
board would like to take a few minutes to give an update on the happenings of
SCIRA Inc., and to thank you for your support! We truly value the time, effort
and donations you put into making things happen. We also appreciate your use of
the linked repeaters. Your everyday use of the repeaters allows us to keep the
frequencies open for use during emergencies.
As
always we have multiple items going on at the same time. The Lord’s blessings
come in bunches and this past year has been especially bountiful.
Some
of you will recall that early in the year we were being plagued by interference
with another repeater on the 445.160 Mhz frequency. Around mid-year that
interference was resolved when, through the generous donation of a member, we
were able to acquire the Contractors Point repeater that was causing the
interference. That repeater is now part of our linked network.
In
addition to the new repeater, we have installed WinLink Gateway stations at the
BCS and at the homes of Bruce Koyle and Tom Thomas. We have also installed
digipeaters at Eagle Tower, Snow Peak and the Los Angeles and San Diego
storehouses. We are working on additional gateways in Anaheim, Claremont,
Garden Grove, Glendale and Redlands and hope to have them operational in the
near future.
We
have created a "Celly" network to allow quick messaging to the ERC network
through your cell phone. We are using "Celly" as a secondary check in the
second week of each month.
We
have created an ERC Disaster Reporting Form "Live" link on GoogleDocs to allow "live" reporting of incident conditions to Area Authorities and Salt Lake. This
form allows entry of general and specific (not confidential) information
regarding status as well as photos and requests for and offers of assistance
and can be updated and viewed by several persons concurrently.
We
are currently pursuing a repeater installation in the Barstow area at the 6300 foot
level on Mount Ord and a second repeater installation in the vicinity of Mount
Ariel. The addition of these two would provide much needed coverage in the high
desert and Fresno areas. As with all the improvements, these installations will
require time and money.
We
have also been blessed with a source of relatively low-cost, relatively new,
long-life, AGM batteries to replace the aging (deteriorating) batteries at San
Diego, Snow Peak and Los Angeles, but as usual; funding issues are slowing the
acquisition.
All
of the radio gear that was previously located at Colton has been migrated to
the BCS at Mira Loma and we operated from there in October 2013 and again this
year for the ShakeOut.
With
some considerable effort on the part of our president and several others the
links are operating about as smoothly as can be expected. We appreciate your
feedback when the links are operating at less than optimum.
We
continue to hold weekly nets as follows:
•
1st Sunday @ 9:00 PM – Repeater / Voice
•
2nd Sunday @ 9:00 PM – Repeater / Voice & Digital Net via Winlink &
Celly test txt msg.
•
3rd Sunday @ 9:00 PM – Repeater / Voice
•
4th Sunday @ 9:00 PM – 445.160 MHz Simplex Primary 146.910 Secondary Simplex
Frequency
•
5th Sunday @ 9:00 PM – Repeater / Voice
Every
Thursday @ 8 PM - on HF Voice 3.890 MHz LSB
Take
a look at the list of repeaters, WinLink gateways and digipeaters below. We
THANK ALL of YOU, the SCIRA members, who have done so much by your donations.
It is through your memberships and donations that all of this has been made
possible!!! We welcome your help and suggestions to improve our communications
and coverage.
Once
again the SCIRA Inc. board, wishes to thank all of you, the membership, who
make these repeaters possible by your generous donations and support!
With
the Greatest Thanks we are:
• Craig N. Holmes – President (Regional ERC)
• James L. Dowdle – Vice President
• Michael E. McDonald. – Secretary (Asst.
Regional ERC)
• Cliff Hillquist – Treasurer
• Scott Boland – Computer Web Specialist
• Stephen Lang – Membership Chair
• Jared R. Case – Repeater Chair
• Tom Thomas – Member at Large (Term Ending 12/16)
• Bruce Koyle – Member at Large (Term Ending
12/14)
• Dale Hanks – Member at Large (Term Ending
12/15)
Repeaters
Eagle
Tower Repeater (445.700 MHz (-) pl 151.4 (Linked to SP)
Jobs
Peak 146.910 (-) pl 151.4 ) (Linked to SP)
Snow
Peak Repeater (445.160 MHz (-) pl 151.4
(Linked to Jobs Peak)
San
Diego Repeater (445.940 (-) pl 136.5
(Linked to Snow Peak)
Contractors
Point 445.160 - Pl 151.4 (Linked to LA SH)
LA
SH 445.940 - Pl 151.4 (Linked to Snow Peak)
Echolink is running on W6CTR-R.
Winlink Gateways
K6BRK-10
Bruce Koyle on 144.970 - 24/7 with backup power
WB6TT-10
Tom Thomas on 144.970 - 24/7
W6CTR-10
at the BCS 144.970
SCIRA inc. DIGIpeaters
ETDIGI
- Eagle Tower Digipeater 144.970
LADIGI
- Los Angeles Storehouse Digipeater 144.970
SDDIGI
- San Diego Storehouse Digipeater 144.970
SPDIGI
- Snow Peak Digipeater 144.970
Other
Items
2014 SCIRA meetings
November
19 – SCIRA Annual Meeting/elections.
ERC Events for 2015:
August
1 – ERC conference
October
17 – The Great ShakeOut
2015 SCIRA meetings
January
21 – SCIRA Board Meeting
March
18 – SCIRA General Membership &
Board Meeting
May 20
– SCIRA Board Meeting
July
15 – SCIRA General Membership & Board Meeting
September
16 – SCIRA Board Meeting
October
21 – SCIRA Board Pre-elections review
November
18 – SCIRA Annual Meeting/elections.
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