BAJA ANTENNA FARM
Now, my life is complete. However, I did not realize that putting an antenna for my radio tranceiver on the terraza where we had a cactus garden would result in a satellite dish growing out of my head.
Anne denies doing this on purpose, but I have doubts.
Ahora, mi vida es completa. Sin embargo, no realicé eso que ponía una antena para mi transceptor de radio en la terraza en donde teníamos un jardín de las miltpas daríamos lugar a una antena de los satélites que crecía fuera de mi cabeza.
Ana niega el hacer de esto en propósito, pero tengo dudas.
The ARRL Amateur Licensing Class Search Page
http://www.arrl.org/FandES/courses/ --lets prospective hams search for a licensing class in their area. It also allows ARRL-registered instructors to list their classes on the Web. Visitors can search for classes by ZIP code, ARRL Section or state.
The August 12, 2005 ARRL newsletter is at URL: http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter/05/0812/, with additional information.
VHF repeaters
Caborca, Sonora 147.390+ (450 K south of Mexicali, linked to Mexicali) [Mexicali radio club]
Mexicali, Mexico 147.270 (+) PL 88.5 (talks into Imperial Valley) [Mexicali radio club]
Contact Alex, XE2BSS, for additional information: XE2BSS@XE2BSS.MXL.UABC.MX
C.R.E.B.C. Frecuencias enlazadas-this is a linked system; pause for a few seconds after keying up to allow all the repeaters to activate.
UHF PL: 100.0 VHF
PL: 186.2 Ciudad
449.925- 146.940- Tijuana
145.680- Rosarito (Dec 10, 2004, The repeater went off the air due to lack of user support. Local Hams are investigating a restart of operation)
447.825 (-) 147.330 (+) Cerro Bola
446.700- 146.700- Ensenada
445.400- 145.400- Tecate
448.725- 145.340- Rumorosa - Mexicali - San Luis Rio Colorado
147.000+ San Pedro Martir - San Quintín
147.030+ Puerto Peñasco, Sonora
147.045+ Sonoyta, Sonora
UPDATE OF THE GERRITSON JAMMING ISSUE-April 16, 2004
Since Gerritsen was released from jail in March, he has jammed the Winsystem almost daily.
His jamming acivities present an issue for the operators in the border region who require access to the Western Intertie System.
Jack Gerritsen, ex KG6IRO - Report on jamming activities and sentencing
October 15, 2003
The FCC wrote Gerritsen that it had set aside his General Mobile Radio Service (GRMS) license. The Wireless Telecommunications Bureau undertook the action because of “continuing unlicensed operation and complaints of deliberate interference from transmitters you operate.” Amateur Radio repeater operators in the Los Angeles area complained to the FCC that Gerritsen had been attempting to access their machines using the ham radio call sign he held for about a week in 2001. Gerritsen also held the GMRS call sign WPYR 527.
Gerritsen's GMRS application has reverted to pending status, the same as his Amateur Radio license application. FCC Special Counsel Riley Hollingsworth told Gerritsen that the FCC will make the GMRS application part of the record when it holds a hearing to determine if Gerritsen is qualified to be a Commission licensee. Hollingsworth reminded Gerritsen that he has no authority to operate radio transmitting equipment and that such operation would be a violation of §301 of the Communications Act of 1934. “We suggest you consult an attorney in this matter.” Hollingsworth concluded. In August, the FCC warned Gerritsen to refrain from contacting Commission personnel regarding the disposition of his Amateur Radio application. In 2001, the FCC set aside Gerritsen's ham license six days after granting it after learning that he'd been convicted the previous year in state court of interfering with Los Angeles Police Department radio transmissions. The FCC also received complaints that Gerritsen had operated without a license and caused malicious interference on amateur frequencies. The FCC alleges that when Gerritsen was paroled after serving one year of a five-year sentence, he resumed operating and caused deliberate interference to numerous amateur repeaters in the Los Angeles area. In May 2002, Gerritsen was sentenced to three years in prison – with credit for good behavior, work time and time already served – but he was released early due to jail overcrowding, Hollingsworth told ARRL. Hollingsworth said the FCC continues to investigate the amateur interference allegations, but he recently expressed frustration that Gerritsen was released from prison with no conditions or restrictions “even regarding radio, which is what he was in there for in the first place.” he said."
cf., URL: http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter/03/1031/ (Feb. 25, 2004)
The Sentencing
Jack Gerritsen’s sentencing hearing for a Federal Trespassing conviction was held at the Federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles on February 24, 2004. The Judge imposed the maximum sentence of 30 days in Federal Prison, and a fine of $2,500.00. In attendance at the Federal Courthouse were about 20 or so ham radio operators, including three Los Angeles Police Officers (one in uniform), three Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriffs in uniform, several WIN System members, including the system owner, Jeff Stouffer, and members of the Catalina Repeater Association.
The Honorable Judge Turchin stated that she had received many un-solicited letters from the amateur radio community, and apologized that she could not take the letters into consideration in the sentencing of Jack Gerritsen. That being said, she still sentenced him to the maximum allowable jail sentence. The Judge said she would forward all the letters to the Federal Probation Department, and hopefully they will be forwarded to the FCC.
The reason Jack Gerritsen was being sentenced was that he was convicted earlier of Trespassing on Federal land charges. It seems that Gerritsen, while in the Federal Courthouse, had failed to obey a sign prohibiting trespassing, and entered a door to the roof of the building.
He had at least one hand-held radio, and a battery pack, wrapped in black electrical tape, with two wires coming out of it. The Judge said it looked to her like it could be a bomb. Gerritsen explained to the Judge that it was a battery pack, saying that his radio could only transmit for about 10 minutes on its own battery, and that the battery pack would enable him to transmit for an hour. He also stated that ham radios were different than cell phones . . . that the repeaters were about 40 miles away, not real close, as in cell phones. (Stouffer, K6JSI, commented with tongue in cheek, “I wonder which repeaters he wanted to transmit into for an hour?????”)
Additionally, the Judge ordered that Gerritsen had until May 15, 2004 to pay the $2,500.00 fine to the Court, or a Federal LIEN will be placed against his house in Bell, CA. The Judge stated that it would be pointless to impose any kind of Probation on him, as there will be no time left on his sentence, as she was imposing the maximum sentence for him in Federal Prison. Four or five Federal Marshals took Gerritsen into immediate custody at the Courthouse.
Additional information regarding Jack Gerritsen can be found by typing his name and KG6IRO into Google or at URL: http://www.435online.com/gerritson.htm
