This page is for the 7290 Traffic Net members who would like to contrubute an article or story of general Amateur Radio interest.

SICK CALL

 The following net members have reported to sick call.

If you know of anyone else that should be added please let us know.

W5MMO	Art	Alzheimer's
W5TUK	Jim	Slight Stroke
K5BMR	George	Leg problem
KE5BXY	Bobby	Parkinson's
WB5PHM	Herb	Throat problems
K5VY	Garland	Aneurysm
KD5NAU	Henry	Throat surgery

FAMILY  SICK CALL

Daughter of	Charlie W5GKH	Crohn's Disease
Ann xyl of	Larry W5FOF	Lung cancer
Sue xyl of	Fred N5XID	Lung problem
Grandson of	Doug N5BST	Blood Disease
XYL of	Bob N5AWQ	Last stages of Alzheimer's

Shack Pictures

We would like to collect pictures of the net members shacks for the Photo page.  If you would like yours included please send digital image file or printed photo to Jo Ann KA5AZK.

7290 NET  ACTIVITY

2011 Totals 

Check Ins      49,378

Traffic             3,677

December 2011

Check Ins       4,546

Traffic               298

See Net Reports for complete details.

Solar Activity Web Site

Check out this site for the latest information on solar activity.

http://www.solarcycle24.com/ 

CONGRATULATIONS

Congratulations to Johnie Perry  who received his father's call sign, W5ZIN, and then upgraded to General at the Austin Sumerfest on August 15

1/30/10  

From:  Mike Manshack AD5OG  

Public Information Officer for Orange Co.  

Assistant Emergency Coordinator Orange Co.  

Assistant Public Information Coordinator  

District 2,5, and 9  

email AD5OG@GT.RR.COM

At 1:15PM, To update the situation at the Coast Guard EOC, In response to the Oil Spill, District 9 ARES radio operators are still assisting with the logging aircraft and personnel who are involved with different agencies.  

The Incident Commander, Rich Russell, was quoted as saying "Comms are Great" with the help of the Ham Radio Operators and "Hams needs to be incorporated in entire program". Tootie Heintschel (KC5HVT) ,the EC forJefferson Co. was pleased to hear that information. The District 9 ARES operators will remain on site at the EOC and the Jefferson Co. Airport as needed directed by Mike Rentel with the Gallagher Group Marine Systems.  

This will be the sixth day work with the Coast Guard and other agencies involved with the clean project. Tootie (KC5HVT) said all is going well with volunteer radio operator. As of today the ARES group has logged in 209 man hours. Rich Russell said that they will use the Hams until the situation is under control.  

Some of the Hams that had a chance to ride in the helicopters to help with comms were Kirt Mahaney (N5WKM), Doug Thomas (N5BST), and Ray Farley (WA5DQW).

A few month's ago I received a

request via email from a Ham in

Yellowknife, Canada for a recording of our net in operation for them to use as training for their  ARES group they were starting.   They saw our web site and contacted me. 

I recorded George K5BMR (he's always loud at this QTH) opening the net and taking checkins.

This is the letter we received thanking us for helping them.

Jo Ann KA5AZK

Net Manager

The Bryan Amateur Radio Club presented Hubert W5ZIN, of Caldwell, Texas, a Special Service Award for his services as Net Control of the local 2 Meter Net and in recognition of being one of the clubs original members who has promoted  Amateur Radio in the Bryan area.

Our thanks to Dale WA5GVE for sending this info and picture.

August 9, 2008

Garland K5VY President of the Bryan Amateur Radio Club and 7290 Traffic Net Member

and

Hubert W5ZIN of Caldwell Texas

The Orange County Chapter of the American Red Cross presented JR Aaron, K5SUB a special award for his many years of service to them.

An Amateur radio operator will be honored each year with an award to be called the "J R Aaron K5SUB Award". Each year a ham's name and call that does outstanding emcomm service will be added to a plaque. This plaque will hang in the main meeting room of the RC.

W5ZIN Honored

An on the air presentation was made to Hubert Perry W5ZIN July 20 electing him Honorary Lifetime Manager of the 7290 Traffic Net.  After over 50 years of service to the net, Hubert is having to resign as Assistant Net Manager due to family commitments.   In a small token of our thanks and appreciation for all he has done, the net presents him with this Honorary position and plaque. The plaque reads as follows:

A Grateful Membership

of the

7290 Traffic Net

Elects

HUBERT L. PERRY W5ZIN

of Caldwell, Texas

to the Lifetime Position of

HONORARY NET MANAGER

In Recognition of

Founding the 7290 Traffic Net

and

Over 50 Years of

Selfless Service and Dedication

to the Net

2007

"You need to know what time it is in Zulu!!!"

 by Gary Tangrady K5GST

You need to know what time it is in Zulu!!!!!! Man, that one used to bug me to no end and in a former military job I had I was responsible for manpower requirements at units located all around the globe. I bought myself a cheap wrist watch that had an analog face on it (primarily because I am old enough to have learned to tell time on a real clock) that also had a digital readout at the bottom of the face. Well that gave me the capability to know the time in some other time zone and since my family only lived one time zone away it was easy enough for me to figure out the time in New York without a watch!

Ah-Ha! Now I could keep track of the Zulu time because military traffic was always in Zulu and I was at the time getting involved in MARS. Voila! I now always had the Zulu time right on my wrist. But when I get home from work I take my watch off and I find myself sitting at the desk in front of a computer and wondering what the Zulu time was again. 

Finally I found a neat little web site: http://nist.time.gov Keep it in your favorites folder and when you need it click on it, it takes you to the main page and through the use of a set of rather small buttons just below the map of the U.S. you can select the Zulu time zone. Then you will see the Zulu time in good sized numbers that most of us Old Timers can read. (Some of us still need our glasses.) And what makes it neat is that it will also display a map of the world showing you dark and light zones so you can tell whether its night or day in Zulu land. 

I like to bring it up and minimize it keeping it active in the background and when I need a quick reference to the current time in Zulu I pop it back up and Voila! When you're trying to prepare a message and you need to know the Zulu time for the DTG (DateTime Group) it's right there with the click of a button. 

If you are not wearing such a fancy timepiece or are not in front of your computer just remember that for us here in the Central Time Zone that Zulu never changes. Zulu remains the same. It does not follow the decisions of the U.S. Congress. During Daylight Savings time like we are in right now add 5 hours to the current time and you will know what time it is in Zulu. When we go back to Standard time add 6 hours. But, also remember that at midnight Zulu the date in Zulu land changes. So if it's 2100 hours local on Jul 4th of 2007, it's 0200 Zulu on the 5th of Jul 2007. 0200 Zulu is still only 5 hours in front of 2100 Local regardless of the date. The date in Zulu land changed because they went past midnight.