I sent the following message to AWOL headquarters along with our illustrious
section manager and director... I have yet to receive a message back. I think
it's total BS that they told this club which will remain nameless for the
moment that they could operate from the clubhouse using temporary antennas and
call themselves Class A! That's a slap to every legitimate Club operating in
the field. This isn't the first time the club's done it either. It's full of
people want to sit on their fat tushies and eat barbecue and not get out in the
field. In fact whenever there's a storm like a hurricane they're all out of
town while some of us like myself for in town still working. But they think
they're emergency communicators. What a joke! Gee that means I could operate
from my house and put another antenna up temporarily and operate Class A under
my club call. Isn't that a bunch of BS??
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[email protected] messageNo attachmentJun 19Field Day rulesExplain to me why a
local club, the Jefferson County amateur radio club, W5SSV, claims they can
operate Class A from their Clubhouse using portable antennas? Yeah if you
believe that I've got beachfront property in Arizona to sell you. The rules
specifically State they cannot operate from their licensed location as Class A.
It doesn't matter whether they're using portable antennas or not. Why do I have
to explain this to your department that's supposedly told them on a phone call
it was perfectly okay according to KE5O? Can you not read your own damn rules?
They have done this for the last couple of years and need to be banned because
they're trying to get around the rules. You need to enforce what you have
written.. 4.1. (Class A) Club / non-club portable: Club or a non-club group of
three or more persons set up specifically for Field Day. Such stations must be
located in places that are not regular station locations and must not use
facilities installed for permanent station use, or use any structure installed
permanently for Field Day. A single licensee or trustee for the entry is
responsible for the group entry. All equipment (including antennas) must lie
within a circle whose diameter does not exceed 300 meters (1000 feet). To be
listed as Class A, all contacts must be made with transmitter(s) and
receiver(s) operating independent of commercial power mains. Entrants whom for
any reason operate a transmitter or receiver from a commercial main for one or
more contacts will be listed separately as Class A-Commercial. CHRISTOPHER
BOONE WB5ITT Trustee W5APX WRXZ789 GMRS Society of Broadcast Engineers Vice
Chairman and Frequency Coordinator, SBE134 SE TX and SW LA
Thursday
Joe Wigner2 messages2No attachmentJun 18Re: W5C/D OperationsHey Joe, I've been
extremely busy with work and haven't had time to sit down and look at when I
can operate under the schedule. Ron Franklin AA5HK who set up the special event
is an old high school friend of mine and I helped him coordinate everything
with the FCC on getting started with it.. I also emailed Lee in Houston about
operating under w5c/h but never heard back from him. Houston hams sometimes
suck. 😆.... it looks like I have some off time at the end of this week and
through the weekend so I'll try to log on and set up some time for me to
operate on the bands. Chris WB5ITT Trustee W5APX WRXZ789 GMRS Society of
Broadcast Engineers Vice Chairman and Frequency Coordinator, SBE134 SE TX and
SW LA
Sampie Brown28 messages28No attachmentJun 18Re: Hey....Sampie, The dogs and
myself for doing fine. Yeah it's been an interesting few weeks here as well.
Been extremely busy doing IT work all over the place. Including several jobs at
the federal prison. That kind of place you just don't walk into and do work.
Takes at least an hour to get past security and everything. Going before the
Nederland City Council this coming Monday to propose a change in the ordinance
so I don't have any more problems with their Deputy dog catcher. Posted in a
lost and found pet group of Nederland about my situation and more than 45
people have responded in the positive about it. One of them a lawyer who
brought up the point that the ordinance reads number of dogs in a residence.
Not at. She said just keep four dogs in the backyard and four dogs in the house
and I'm legal. I'm sure the city is going to love that when they find out. But
I'm holding that off until later. The new city mayor is a ham so I probably
have him in my back pocket so to speak. Been commenting on there planned to buy
a generator for the city hall and one of the other councilman read my comments
and gave me a big thumbs up so that's too down. One more and I've got 3/5 of
the Council on my side. Should prove to be interesting. I've been going through
job interviews for full-time work but I never hear back from them. Possibly
because of my age, did have one recently for a job down at the LNG plant in
Sabine Pass which involves two-way radios and one of the guys that were
interviewing me was a former Entergy person, we knew a lot of common people and
I'm hoping that gets me in the door there. But the contract work I've been
doing has been paying 60 to 70 an hour. Last night I was home at 5:00 eating
dinner and I get a call from a company in Fort Worth about an emergency Call at
a store at Parkdale Mall. Time and a half pay and they paid travel time as
well. Turned out a broadband LTE box they use for their internet was down.
They're in a temporary location in the mall and who
Monday
[email protected] messageNo attachmentJun 15Two amateur issues in SETXWA5EOC
expired in August 2025 but is still on the air on a repeater in Montgomery TX
which is operating illegally. The repeater is transmitting on 146.60 with a
input on 146.00, in violation of Part 97.205(b). They have been told in past
but they state they were coordinated there by the TX VHF FM Society, which has
violated its own bylaws by changing coordination standards without a vote of
the membership, as required by its bylaws. Several life members of the Society
have decided to start a new coordination group since the Society has decided
not to follow its own rules, thanks to NA6M who is running it as his own
personal kingdom with total disregard for the bylaws, including coordinating 2M
repeaters on 10kHz splinter channels, something never approved by the
membership vote, which required a poll of all members before such vote could
take place, yet over 2 dozen life members never received such poll
documentation or notice as required by the bylaws and coordination standards.
Less than 10% of repeater trustees in Texas are currently members of the
organization due to their actions. Too many are disgusted with the Society
because of these actions and lack of response to emails, etc. The ARRL and FCC
will soon be notified of the new Texas organization . Also, the KE5RTI 145.23
repeater in Silsbee TX is IDing in violation of 97.119(b)(1). Its CW ID is
currently at 25+wpm . Chris WB5ITT
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repeaterbook.com2 messages2No attachmentJun 11Re: Repeater request
declined.FYI... I cannot read this on my phone. It's too small to even blow up
to read Chris WB5ITT Trustee W5APX WRXZ789 GMRS Society of Broadcast Engineers
Vice Chairman and Frequency Coordinator, SBE134 SE TX and SW LA
dane k8 messages8No attachmentJun 11Re: kenwood tk-890I had to open up the
security access to it. You should be good to go now Chris WB5ITT Trustee W5APX
WRXZ789 GMRS Society of Broadcast Engineers Vice Chairman and Frequency
Coordinator, SBE134 SE TX and SW LA
[email protected] messageNo attachmentJun 106mHearing the WB7PMP and N1NSP
beacons in EL39 now! Chris WB5ITT Trustee W5APX WRXZ789 GMRS Society of
Broadcast Engineers Vice Chairman and Frequency Coordinator, SBE134 SE TX and
SW LA
[email protected] messageMessage has attachmentsJun 8The history of
Kenwood ham gearOnce Upon a Time, and Still Today: KENWOOD The history of
Kenwood in the amateur radio sector stems from a pure obsession with
radiotechnics in the aftermath of World War II Japan. In December 1946,
brothers Jiro and Nakaichi Kasuga founded Kasuga Radio in Nagano, an enterprise
driven by a visceral faith in technology. There is a fundamental detail that
overturns common perception: the founders were not ham radio operators; they
did not hold an official license or a transmitting callsign, not least because
setxswlaham, Chris2 messages2No attachmentJun 7Re: [SETXSWLaHam] 444.5Installed
the duplexer back online this evening so the range now should be equal both
transmit and receive. Might still have some bad spots though due to the pattern
being funky since it is on a db228 VHF antenna. Hopefully soon I will have the
db420 going up which will give the thing handheld coverage all over the area.
Right now UHF and 146.94 are crosslinked... but that will change once the new
UHF antenna is up on the tower... the HF through 6 M all mode remote base will
be installed then, primarily used only from 444.5 but can be used from the
2-meter repeater for emergencies Chris WB5ITT
Earlier in June
[email protected] messageNo attachmentJun 66mIs open this
morning...hearing a W7 along with a K9 beacon this morning in the auto beacon
subband..hearing FT8 signals at 50.313 but noone answering my CQs on 50.125
Chris WB5ITT
Groups.io, Group2 messages2No attachmentJun 5Re: [SETXSWLaHam] Message Approval
Needed - [email protected] posted to [email protected] WB5ITT
Trustee W5APX WRXZ789 GMRS Society of Broadcast Engineers Vice Chairman and
Frequency Coordinator, SBE134 SE TX and SW LA
[email protected] messageNo attachmentJun 4146.94The Astron RM 75 decided
to trip off some time yesterday..batteries took over but ran down by late last
night. .may need to change them out.. luckily the DVR didn't lose any IDs.
Drove to site before sun up and reset the Astron...94 is back online...444.5
has its own power supply and never missed a lick. Plan to put the Astron on the
PDU I have on site in the TV transmitter cabinet so I can remotely reboot the
Astron if it happens again. Fun morning already.. Chris WB5ITT Trustee W5APX
May
[email protected] messages2Message has attachmentsMay 31FYIChris
[email protected] messageNo attachmentMay 31Watch "FCC Goes After Unlicensed
Operator On The Ham Bands!" on YouTube----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Chris
Boone WB5ITT via groups.io <[email protected]> To:
"[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2026 at
09:05:15 AM CDT Subject: [SETXSWLaHam] Watch "FCC Goes After Unlicensed
Operator On The Ham Bands!" on YouTube 146.415 is the input to 147.450 ..like
146.40 is input to the 147.435 Mt Wilson repeater..can't use 600k split there
due to IMD mix FCC Field Chief in LA, Lark Hadley is also KA4A ..I've known
Lark since the late 1990s when we were both Chief Engineers of Broadcast groups
in Dallas, Lark of AMFM and 106.1 KHKS while I was CE of Clear Channel Dallas
including 1190AM, KDMX and KEGL. Lark left before the AMFM , Clear Channel
merger .. https://youtu.be/UYU_W-UeKYI?si=VzL_EzVlVIK9qlxt _._,_._,_ _._,_._,_
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[email protected]& 2 moreJun 19
Jun 19 at 9:14 AMExplain to me why a local club, *************, W****, claims
they can operate Class A from their Clubhouse using portable antennas? Yeah if
you believe that I've got beachfront property in Arizona to sell you. The rules
specifically State they cannot operate from their licensed location as Class A.
It doesn't matter whether they're using portable antennas or not. Why do I
have to explain this to your department that's supposedly told them on a phone
call it was perfectly okay according to a member? Can you not read your own
damn rules? They have done this for the last couple of years and need to be
banned because they're trying to get around the rules. You need to enforce what
you have written..
4.1. (Class A) Club / non-club portable: Club or a non-club group of three or
more persons set up specifically for Field Day. (Emphasis here mine) ****Such
stations must be located in places that are not regular station locations and
must not use facilities installed for permanent station use, or use any
structure installed permanently for Field Day.*** A single licensee or trustee
for the entry is responsible for the group entry. All equipment (including
antennas) must lie within a circle whose diameter does not exceed 300 meters
(1000 feet). To be listed as Class A, all contacts must be made with
transmitter(s) and receiver(s) operating independent of commercial power mains.
Entrants whom for any reason operate a transmitter or receiver from a
commercial main for one or more contacts will be listed separately as Class
A-Commercial.
Chris WB5ITT
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