[W6YRA] Joining the club

Thu Jul 2 14:31:06 PDT 2020

Hi All,

A little bit about me: I'm currently a third-year PhD student in the
Statistics department. I have a bachelor degree in Electronic Engineering
before coming to UCLA. That being said, I haven't been doing many
ham-related things, as my research focuses on other directions (e.g.
computer vision, human-computer interaction, etc.). I live near Culver City
and I think I can use those Baldwin Hill repeaters on 445.6 MHz and 146.925
MHz with my handheld as a starting point. Any suggestions are welcome.

Hope we can find a good way to resolve the issue with the bruinspace club.

Best,
Xiaofeng

On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 1:50 PM Jim Montague <monty9 at msn.com> wrote:

> Correction on where the funds came from to buy the radio equipment and
> antenna. These were not donations they were grants given to the radio club
> from the state. Dr. Paul Wang was our faculty advisor and he was the one
> who was able to obtain the grants. He is now since passed away
>
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> *From:* Jim Montague <monty9 at msn.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 2, 2020 1:09:53 PM
> *To:* Brent Corbin <corbin at physics.ucla.edu>; w6yra at lists.igpp.ucla.edu <
> w6yra at lists.igpp.ucla.edu>; Wong, Harold <HAWong at mednet.ucla.edu>
> *Subject:* Re: [W6YRA] Joining the club
>
> Also when you talk to the building manager advised him that this room is a
> emergency disaster Communications operations center. The repeater in this
> room has a radio system that directly connects to Facilities Management
> disaster Communications room. In the event of an emergency, an operator
> would go to the boelter hall Radio Room and communicate with the disaster
> Communications officer at facilities management. Facilities Management has
> a base station and five handheld radios in order to communicate with the
> operator at boelter Hall. I am the one who set up the emergency
> communications system in both areas and Doug Grody who is administrator at
> facilities management is the one who provided the purchase order to buy
> this equipment.
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> *From:* Jim Montague <monty9 at msn.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 2, 2020 1:04:04 PM
> *To:* Brent Corbin <corbin at physics.ucla.edu>; w6yra at lists.igpp.ucla.edu <
> w6yra at lists.igpp.ucla.edu>; Wong, Harold <HAWong at mednet.ucla.edu>
> *Subject:* Re: [W6YRA] Joining the club
>
> If this group destroyed the Bruin amateur radio club property then you
> must go to UCPD and file a report ASAP. The radio equipment (flex 3000) and
> the computer were purchased new from donated funds as was a new vertical
> antenna. The total cost of these items was somewhere around $3,000. This
> room actually belongs to facilities Management because it is an electrical
> room as you can see from the switch gear in there. If they have blocked any
> of this area, call the fire marshal and advised them that this group has
> created a serious fire hazard and code violation. There comes a time when
> being nice no longer works and you must go the legal route. I spent long
> hard hours getting this room back up to being a fully functional Radio Room
> and to watch it all go down the tube does not make me very happy at all. If
> you need to find the building managers name and phone number contact
> facilities management which is just behind the UC Police Department. Or
> just look up their number in the directory and you can call them directly
> and ask them for the building managers name and phone number.
> Jim
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> *From:* Brent Corbin <corbin at physics.ucla.edu>
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 2, 2020, 12:48 PM
> *To:* Jim Montague; w6yra at lists.igpp.ucla.edu; Wong, Harold
> *Subject:* Re: [W6YRA] Joining the club
>
> Hi Jim -
>
> I was trying to keep Ryan's name out of it, but - yeah - he's the one
> who let Bruin Space borrow and eventually take over the space.  I tried
> to rein-in the situation a couple of years ago (including changing the
> door-code and requiring that BSpace only use the shack under
> supervision), they went behind our back and we received an email from
> Engineering placing the shack under supervision of their advisor.  Rules
> were put in place, but - with the exception of removing the couch - they
> were all ignored.  I asked Ryan to intervene and nothing happened.  Gear
> was tampered with, crap was piled up on our operating positions. The
> last straws for me were when they disassembled the computer we had
> rebuilt to run the flex SDR and scattered the pieces all over the shack
> and disabled the internet connection to the echolink controller on the
> repeater.
>
> I'm in Physics, and the email I received in 2018 made it clear
> engineering saw this as THEIR space.  (They passed a rule the next year
> stating that advisors for engineering clubs need to be in the
> engineering department, so they probably think YRA is an engineering
> club. hi)
>
> Anyway - what are the chances the building manager would be supportive,
> and how likely would engineering be to accede?  This really needs to be
> taken care of once and for all.   (Though, possibly, after the virus
> blows through and we're allowed back on campus 8*) ).  This was once,
> and could be, again, one hell of a resource for faculty, staff and
> students...
>
> Thanks for checking in, good to hear from you again Jim, it's been a
> long time.  Stay well and 73...     //Brent wy6s
>
>
>
> On 2020-07-02 11:47, Jim Montague wrote:
> > My name is Jim Montague and I am a past president of the UCLA amateur
> > radio club. I retired last year but I have not been the president of the
> > club for some time. Ryan Caron took over as president. The last I knew
> > he was still working in the geology building where he has an office. As
> > for the engineering department giving our room away, they don't have the
> > authority to do so. The room is maintained by the boelter hall building
> > manager. This is an equipment room  and not a classroom. We have had
> > this room since the late 1940s or early 1950s. It is my understanding
> > that Ryan allowed a satellite group to share the room with us. When I
> > was up there over a year-and-a-half ago I found they had pretty much
> > taken over the whole room and I advised them that they need to condense
> > their area down. I would suggest somebody get in contact with the
> > Bolterhall building manager and let him know that this group has
> > completely taken over the room and that you want the room back. Best of
> > luck to all of you. 73, Jim NI6J
> >
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> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > *From:* w6yra-bounces at lists.igpp.ucla.edu
> > <w6yra-bounces at lists.igpp.ucla.edu> on behalf of Wong, Harold
> > <HAWong at mednet.ucla.edu>
> > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 1, 2020 11:35:39 PM
> > *To:* Brent Corbin <corbin at physics.ucla.edu>; w6yra at lists.igpp.ucla.edu
> > <w6yra at lists.igpp.ucla.edu>
> > *Subject:* Re: [W6YRA] Joining the club
> >
> > Hi Xiaofeng,
> >
> > This is Harold KM6IVE. Welcome aboard. I hope to get my general sometime
> > this year. I currently work at the hospital but unfortunately, I'm
> > working from home and rarely on W6YRA given how inactive the repeater
> > is. I can get back on for a QSO next week.
> >
> > Harold
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > *From:* w6yra-bounces at lists.igpp.ucla.edu
> > <w6yra-bounces at lists.igpp.ucla.edu> on behalf of Brent Corbin
> > <corbin at physics.ucla.edu>
> > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 1, 2020 10:30 PM
> > *To:* w6yra at lists.igpp.ucla.edu <w6yra at lists.igpp.ucla.edu>
> > *Subject:* Re: [W6YRA] Joining the club
> >
> > Hi Xiaofeng, and congratulations on getting your license!
> >
> > We do have a club, but it's not active at present - short version, the
> > engineering department gave our shack space away to another group and we
> > have not been able to get back in and use the gear we have.  This was
> > supposed to be addressed and fixed a couple of years ago by the
> > gentleman who created the problem in the first place, but he went AWOL
> > and left the club in limbo.  It's been frustrating, to say the least.
> > We've got a full HF station, and at one point I had some of my personal
> > gear up there for 220 MHz, 927 MHz and 440/DMR...  We had some folks
> > lined-up to donate a couple repeaters (927 and 440/DMR) and we lost all
> > that because this individual didn't get their * together... oh well.
> >
> > We do have an analog repeater - it transmits on 448.54 MHz and listens
> > on 443.54 MHz with a PL of 88.5.  At one time we had remote access to
> > the repeater via echolink, but that's been down since the other group
> > pulled the internet access.  I can monitor the repeater from a remote
> > receiver in my office, but - unfortunately - I live too far away to be
> > able to use it from home (where I'm likely to be until we're all back on
> > campus).  When we return to campus, I will be monitoring the repeater
> > whenever I'm in my office and will probably bring gear in for other
> > bands and other modes (though I'm essentially in a ground-floor Faraday
> > cage 8*) ).
> >
> > So what department are you in?  What are your radio interests?  I have
> > done a lot of digital communications - Olivia, Thor, FeldHell, PSK and
> > the various JT modes - though I've been back to doing mostly CW on HF
> > the last year or so.  On VHF and UHF, I'm mostly on 927 and 440 MHz,
> > where I do a little DMR and a lot of P25.  I've also dabbled with
> > satellites, weak-signal modes, and other esoterica...
> >
> > 73 and welcome!    //Brent  wy6s
> >
> >
> > On 2020-07-01 12:22, XIAOFENG GAO wrote:
> >> Hi there,
> >>
> >> I'm a graduate student at UCLA. Just got my general license and found
> >> your website. I'm wondering whether the club is still active and
> >> accepting new members.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Xiaofeng Gao (KN6JQA)
> >>
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