[W6YRA] Joining the club
Brent Corbin
corbin at physics.ucla.edu
Thu Jul 2 17:09:24 PDT 2020
I have been acting faculty advisor for the last couple of years...
(hence the push back in 2018 to put things right in the shack).
//Brent wy6s
On 2020-07-02 16:40, Jim Montague wrote:
> Sorry Mike, that message was sent before I was able to finish. Anyway, I
> know you were very instrumental in helping us get the internet into that
> room so that we could connect up the EchoLink system. I retired a year
> ago July and I've been out of the loop for some time. Dr. Paul Wang was
> our faculty advisor and now that he has passed away I do not know if a
> new faculty advisor was put in place. Perhaps you would be interested in
> this position and would be a great inspiration to all the new students
> that would like to become amateur radio operators and keep the Radio
> Room operational? I now reside in Arizona and would be of little
> physical help to resolve the issues that are going on right now. I am
> not even aware of who the acting president is of the club at this time.
> Thank you so much for coming in on this conversation and it is great to
> hear from you.
> Take care,
> Jim Montague NI6J
>
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> *From:* Jim Montague <monty9 at msn.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 2, 2020 4:35:49 PM
> *To:* Michael K. Stenstrom <stenstro at seas.ucla.edu>
> *Cc:* 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
>
> Hello Mike,
> Great to hear from you. After Dave timoshuk have passed away I took over
> as Club president and was working in Facilities Management Fire and Life
> Safety department.
>
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> *From:* Michael K. Stenstrom <stenstro at seas.ucla.edu>
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 2, 2020 4:33:27 PM
> *To:* Jim Montague <monty9 at msn.com>
> *Cc:* 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
>
> I was a member of the club for a while. I am K6OIX and I can remember
> working up there in the early 2000s. Dave Timinshioko (I am
> sure I am not spelling it correctly) was the president back then. We
> had an Icom transceiver and a Kenwood 2KW linear, along with
> the 2 M repeater. I recall that we had a lot of hospital staff that were
> members because accreditation at the hospital needed a ham
> club for emergencies.
>
> I think we need to make sure the club exists. I agree the space is not
> Engineering's. It's a switch gear room and the reason the
> ham club had access is that a lot of the members were also employed by
> facilities. I remember I helped them get a hard wire
> connection to SEAS's internet.
>
> mks
>
> Michael K. Stenstrom, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE
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> <http://www.seas.ucla.edu/stenstro/MOD.pdf> (directions to my office).
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 1:04 PM Jim Montague <monty9 at msn.com
> <mailto:monty9 at msn.com>> wrote:
>
> 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
> <mailto:corbin at physics.ucla.edu>>
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 2, 2020, 12:48 PM
> *To:* Jim Montague; w6yra at lists.igpp.ucla.edu
> <mailto: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
> <mailto:w6yra-bounces at lists.igpp.ucla.edu>
> > <w6yra-bounces at lists.igpp.ucla.edu
> <mailto:w6yra-bounces at lists.igpp.ucla.edu>> on behalf of Wong, Harold
> > <HAWong at mednet.ucla.edu <mailto:HAWong at mednet.ucla.edu>>
> > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 1, 2020 11:35:39 PM
> > *To:* Brent Corbin <corbin at physics.ucla.edu <mailto:corbin at physics.ucla.edu>>;
> w6yra at lists.igpp.ucla.edu <mailto:w6yra at lists.igpp.ucla.edu>
> > <w6yra at lists.igpp.ucla.edu <mailto: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
> <mailto:w6yra-bounces at lists.igpp.ucla.edu>
> > <w6yra-bounces at lists.igpp.ucla.edu
> <mailto:w6yra-bounces at lists.igpp.ucla.edu>> on behalf of Brent Corbin
> > <corbin at physics.ucla.edu <mailto:corbin at physics.ucla.edu>>
> > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 1, 2020 10:30 PM
> > *To:* w6yra at lists.igpp.ucla.edu <mailto:w6yra at lists.igpp.ucla.edu>
> <w6yra at lists.igpp.ucla.edu <mailto: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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