ARLB009 President Bush addresses Florida ARES net

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[JRandomFreeper]

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ARRL Bulletin 9 ARLB009
From ARRL Headquarters
Newington CT January 31, 2002
To all radio amateurs

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ARLB009 President Bush addresses Florida ARES net

President George W. Bush spoke January 31 via Amateur Radio to members of the Northern Florida Amateur Radio Emergency Service Net (NFAN).

The president was in Florida to spotlight five volunteer groups--among them the Volusia County Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES)--for their value to the new Office of Homeland Security.

''I want to thank all the volunteers who help make sure that Florida is prepared for any kind of emergency,'' the president said in part, after checking in around 9:15 AM to a regular ARES net session. ''I want to thank you all for helping your communities be prepared.'' Bush spoke on the net for about 30 seconds.

Northern Florida ARRL Section Manager Rudy Hubbard, WA4PUP, said Bush spoke from a portable station set up at a Daytona Beach fire station. At the request of ARES Volusia County Emergency Coordinator Joette Barnett, KG4HPN, John Schmidt, AF4PU, and Clifford Fraser, KE4HIY, arranged to have the station ready as a demonstration of Amateur Radio's role in emergency preparedness and in the hope that Bush would be willing to address the 75-meter net.

ARRL President Jim Haynie, W5JBP, said he was ''extremely gratified'' that President Bush recognized the valuable service Amateur Radio operators provide in times of emergencies. ''I know that all hams in the United States stand ready to do their part in America's Homeland Security Program,'' Haynie commented. Haynie has said that defining Amateur Radio's role in homeland security would top his list of initiatives for his second term.

Hubbard said a copy of proposed expanded Amateur Radio (PRB-1) antenna legislation was given to the President and to the president's brother, Florida Gov Jeb Bush, for possible introduction in next year's Florida legislative session. ''We Amateur Radio operators will volunteer however we're needed, and maybe it will be seen that we can greatly help the nation if we have the antennas we need,'' Hubbard commented. The proposed bill would seek to extend Florida's PRB-1 law to include private deed covenants, conditions and restrictions.

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[JRandomFreeper]

Big tip of the hat to the hams that volunteer for ARES/RACES.

/john

[TonyInOhio]

Very cool! Wish I'd have been there to hear it.

73,

Tony W8HRO

[JRandomFreeper]

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[JRandomFreeper]

We're just starting a RACES net as I type. Talk about timely.

/john

[JRandomFreeper]

I wish I had heard it too. I've met Jim, W5JBP, at some of our club meetings, back when he was a section manager. Nice guy.

/john

[JRandomFreeper]

ping.

[TonyInOhio]

I've met Jim, W5JBP, at some of our club meetings, back when he was a section manager. Nice guy

I think he's doing a fine job, too.

I'm the Emergency Coordinator/RACES Officer for Putnam County, Ohio. I'm anxious to see if the ARES/RACES role will change as part of Homeland Defense. As for tonight, we're watching the river rise, hi!

73,

Tony W8HRO

[JRandomFreeper]

As for tonight, we're watching the river rise,

Let me first say that I am listening to training with one ear. It's about flash flooding (common in Texas).

9-11 is likely to change ARES/RACES at least a bit. BTW, do you have a process for dealing with the reservists and guardsmen in your RACES organization? We're working through that, because some of our RACES members may have to go away at short notice.

/john

[Miss Marple]

Thanks for the ping. Speaking of emergencies, I am just coming off a 2-hour power outage...and I don't even knoow why, yet. Pretty spooky after all the talk about power plants and stuff earlier this evening.

[ExSES]

First time I recall Ham Radio getting a Presidential boost...

73s de K4ZDZ

[JRandomFreeper]

It's pretty good. Last time I looked, Barry Goldwater and General LeMay were the last national figures that even knew about Ham Radio.

73 de KD5CTS.

[ExSES]

It's pretty good. Last time I looked, Barry Goldwater and General LeMay were the last national figures that even knew about Ham Radio.

My recollections as well! I forget Gen. Lemay's call but I did have a brief QSO with K7UGA (memory?) once upon a time...

[JRandomFreeper]

Sorry to hear about that MM. It can be disconcerting after all the talk this afternoon.

Did you guys do ok with the power outage? Enough flashlights, candles, TP (blame Chair that I brought it up. grin!), etc?

/john

[JRandomFreeper]

Lucky you. I was WN5RSB about the time General LeMay was fading away. But he's a big part of why I went into the AF, and then (much later) the AF Reserves.

/john

[ExSES]

Lucky you. I was WN5RSB about the time General LeMay was fading away. But he's a big part of why I went into the AF, and then (much later) the AF Reserves.

In the long distant past, I operated a number of AF MARS units and was AFA4ZDZ at the home QTH. In 1961-1962 I even operated aeronautical mobile from several C-47s (AM using the Collins ART-13/BC-348 units they had dating from WW II!).

A real trip down memory lane...

[JRandomFreeper]

Yep, it is a trip down memory lane. My very first QSO was CW on a modified (for a crystal) ARC-5 (remember the cats-eye tube) on 40 meters. I think the receiver was a Hallicrafters. I was pretty young then. I remember having to go to downtown Dallas to the FCC office to take the tests.

Big trip for a little boy way back then. Was it a Hartley oscillator? How could you tell. What did the tank circuit look like? Where was the feedback? Triode or pentode? LOL! I still collect tube radios, but don't play with them much anymore.

/john

[Luis Gonzalez]

[Brownie74]

CQ Free Republic.

I'll say one thing for Hams - when all other means of communications are failing, we are on the air. When it gets down to the nitty-gritty, we can load 160 meters into a ten penny nail if we have to.

I never worked Barry Goldwater but I did work Curtis LeMay when he was operating as a DL in Germany. I was on the Island of Crete at the time operating as SV0WT (Sugar Victor Zero Whiskey Tango) That was back in the late 50's. I was running a BC-610 transmitter and a Collins 75A-4 receiver to a terminated rhombic antenna. On 20 meters I could hit the U.S. East coast 20 to 40 db over. Cycle 19 was a great cycle.

I am not RACES or AREC. I hate 2 meters. I do almost all of my operating on HF. Mostly CW - but I do operate a little SSB. I do participate in emergency nets on 80, 40, and 20 meters if required.

I was licensed as a novice in 1955 and had to take my upgrade to General at the FCC field office in Houston in 1956. I upgraded to Extra and was an accredited examiner until I left the program in the mid 80's.

I remember the BC-459/ARC-5's. They made good mobile rigs. They ran a pair of 1625's (military version of the 807's) in the finals. I drove them with a PE-103 dynamotor to a base loaded whip.

Was it a Hartley oscillator? How could you tell. What did the tank circuit look like? Where was the feedback? Triode or pentode?

John, don't forget the Hartley or Colpitts oscillator. You not only had to identify them, you had to draw the schematics. Those were the days. LOL!!

73 es gud DX. ...-.-

[Brownie74]

Correction. I drove my Gonset twins with the PE-103 dynamotor. I forget what I used with the ARC-5's.

[ExSES]

Correction. I drove my Gonset twins with the PE-103 dynamotor. I forget what I used with the ARC-5's.

While I am certain that 99% of Freepers find this "wasted bandwidth"..., I had the Gonset Twins as a base station at one time. As a mobile (for about a year) I had the Collins Navy TCS unit bolted to where the rear seat used to be in a 1953 Aero Willys! Ran the dynamotor power supply from a bank of 6 volt batteries in series!

Gave me a reputation as one "wierd dude" among my High School buddies! Amazingly, the gals didn't mind at all (probably because there was no back seat!).