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North
Coast is an active club interested in supporting amateurs who have
interesting and
helpful
ideas. We would like to share a description of our Club and
repeaters with hopes of
gaining
your support.
The
North Coast Amateur Radio Club is a not-for-profit Ohio corporation
operated for public
service,
emergency communications, charitable, educational and scientific purposes.
Contributions
to the NCARC are allowed as a tax deduction under Section 501(c)(3)
of the
Internal
Revenue Code. Dues are not considered a contribution and are,
therefore, not
deductible.
The
Club is governed by a Board consisting of a President,
Vice-President, Secretary,
Treasurer
and nine other Trustees. All trustee positions are filled by a vote
of the membership.
A
more detailed description of how the Club is organized can be found
in the ARTICLE.INC
and
BYLAWS.BIG files on the North Coast packet bulletin board system
(PBBS): W8IZ on
145.05.
Club
meetings are held at 7:00pm
on the second Thursday of each month. The meetings are
held at
Brook Park Branch of the Cuyahoga County Library.
This is located at 6155 Engle
Road
in Brook Park. Talk-in is on the 145.29 repeater. A Trustee's meeting
is at that same
place
at 6:30pm, prior to the regular meeting. A more detailed description
of how to get to the
meeting
can be found in the GENMEETG.LOC file on our PBBS.
At
2100 hours each Sunday, a club informal information net is held on
our 145.29 repeater
which
normally includes the weekly Amateur Radio Newsline Report.
Field
Day is an exciting annual event with many of our members
participating. It is always
held
on the fourth full weekend of June.
A
Technical Committee oversees the equipment and technical needs of
the Club. Our
Finance
Committee offers recommendations to the Trustees on all financial matters.
Individual
club members look after the remaining Club work.
Our
145.29 machine was put on the air in May 1983 by a group of 18
amateurs who formed
the
North Coast Amateur Radio Club. In November 1988, our 443.15
repeater was put on the
air.
In January 1989, our 224.76 machine was born. January, 1989 also was
the month we
began
our PBBS service.
The
two meter repeater is presently located in Brunswick, Ohio. The
repeater Trustee is Rick
Wells,
K8SCI. Brunswick is about 15 miles south of central Cleveland
on the northern edge
of
Medina County. The 145.29 repeater is an on-site, Spectrum
SCR-1000, controlled by an
ACC
RC-850 controller, running 25 watts out of the duplexer. A pre-amp
is on line at all times.
It
has an autopatch. When band conditions require it, 110.9 Hz
subaudible tone may be used
for
two meter repeater access. The 220 and 440 repeaters are also
Spectrum equipment. They
are
located in the city of North Royalton. The 220 repeater is open
carrier access, while the
440
repeater requires 131.8 Hz. continuous subaudible tone.
Our
145.29 antenna system consists of 7/8 inch heliax feeding the 2
meter part of a Comet
GP-15
omnidirectional vertical antenna at 1400 feet above sea level. The
220 & 440 machines
share
a Comet CX-333 vertical antenna at 1200 feet above sea level. It is
fed with 50 feet of
RG-213
COAX.
Our
original PBBS is on a IBM-type compatible which was built by the
members from spare
parts.
It has since been upgraded to a Pentium-166 with 32 megs of ram for
the MSYS software.
It
is located at the residence of W8IZ in North Olmsted. On 145.05
it uses a Kenwood TM-231A
to
an omnidirectional antenna, a Ringo ARX-2B, at about 65 feet. The
223.7 port is a Kenwood
TM-331A
to an eleven element yagi pointed east/north-east at about forty
five feet. A 440 port
is
experimental. Novices are invited to use the 223.7 forward port for
normal connects.
With
the exception of the repeater codes and newsletter, all North Coast
projects, events and
equipment
are open to all persons at any time regardless of their membership
in the Club.
Although membership is not required to use the NCARC Repeaters,
REGULAR users are
encouraged
to financially support the Cub.
We
at North Coast would appreciate your support. In return, North Coast
will attempt to fulfill
its
commitment to you and to all of amateur radio. If you become a
member, we invite you to
participate
and become active in the Club. Many times things seem to be
under control but in
fact
are coordinated by volunteers spread much too thin. Your input
is solicited and greatly
appreciated!
If you would like to join and have no application, that too is
available on our
PBBS
as APPLICAT.FRM
For
more information, please contact:
North Coast Amateur Radio Club
P.O.
Box 30529
Cleveland,
OH 44130
or call--
Mary Lou Sarama, K8MLS
Ph. (216) 267-5083
E-Mail: k8mls@roadrunner.com
or contact--
Rick Wells, K8SCI
Phone: ( 330 )
225-7373 |
