[W6YRA] Joining the club

Thu Jul 2 14:36:19 PDT 2020

If that helps us sway Facilities, I'm not opposed, hi.  But unless there
is something of strategic value on the roof of Boelter (and there *IS* a
lot of industrial-grade something up there), is there much the shack
could offer in an emergency situation?  I understand that cell networks
go down and there's a pretty reasonable chance our outdated trunking
system could drop into permanent fail-safe, and I suspect facilities no
longer has a backup conventional repeater, but... wrapping a manager's
head around all that...   8*)

On 2020-07-02 13:09, Jim Montague wrote:
> 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
>> 
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>> *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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