Boca Raton Amateur Radio Association Community - Communication - Leadership
ANNOUNCEMENTS as of 22-January-2022
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Stations 1,3,4 working normally
Next BOD meeting 29-JAN 10.00am
NBEMS TRAINING
DATE: WED 26-JAN-2022 TIME: 7.00 PM ET LOCATION: ZOOM
This training session is open to anyone who wants to learn about NBEMS, FLDIGI, FLMSG, or SlowScan. There will be a very brief overview followed by Q and A.
No registration is required
See the below ZOOM LINK to join us. Bring your questions, technical issues and we'll do our best to help you.
Please note: we may need to spin off some topics as 1 on 1 or a small groups, date and time TBA.
Picture of George, WA2VNV and Rick, K1DS at operating position during the contest. Radios and computers behind them. Operated 22 hours in the chair for George over the weekend of 36 hour contest time.
Good results with Es on 6 meters and the upper 5 bands thru 1296. No radio equipment failures, just usual computer quirks and port conflicts. No Murphy surprises. Thanks to some of the club members who worked us for a few more points. Storm cold front created some enhancement Sunday afternoon. Now recovering from the grind. They have still to merge log files, check for dupes, figure raw score and submit results to the ARRL.
MOSFET - The Most significant invention
Great history video how IC's came to be.
Its very general and many aspects of IC left on the fringes.
Mask Required at Shack
Please be advised the County is returning to a mandatory mask requirement beginning Monday, January 3, 2022 at 12:01 a m.
If you have paid your dues and have NOT received an email confirming payment, or if you have paid your dues and are having trouble logging on to the website, please contact Henry Seidner WA2ROA by email hseidner@me.com
Thanks to the Board of Directors, our new AED has arrived and installed at the shack. We are hoping Jeff.S K4BH will give us all a brief overview.
STATION-4: FT-1000
Station-4 is in the VHF/UHF room on the north facing desk. It has a FT-1000 setup sitting to the left of the secured AMARS station (CLICK FMI). A B-Square Terminated Folded Dipole (CLICK FMI) is available. It remains disconnected and requires no tuner.
If any operator wants to use the FT-1000, they may connect the B-Square TFD to the FT-1000 jumper coax and operate. Please no AMPS and only run 100 watt limit. When done, please disconnect the B-Square TFD.
The B-Square TFD is 124ft located at approx. 45 feet on the VHF/UHF tower with legs going east-west about 15ft off the ground.
A new year with new challenges. If you ever considered becoming a certified MARS operator, this may be the opportunity for you. Please contact John.C N1QFH email wirehead52@gmail.com.
Every so often a member may need to have their password reset. Please email Henry Seidner WA2ROA via hseidner@me.comand he will work with you to handle your request.
HAVE A QUESTION???
If you have a technical question why not ask the experts, your fellow BRARA members? The best way to do this is to post it on our groups.io distribution list BRARA@groups.io.
Please remember that you need to send your post using the email account you used when signing up for groups.io. If you are not signed up, then see details below.
If you know of an amateur or their family dealing with health issues or may have lost someone, please let us know. Robert K K3SUH is our go to person to send a communication in the form of a card to the person or family.
From inception, here are statistics from what Robert has sent:
Why should phase-shifting of a PSK signal be done at the zero crossing of the RF signal? A. To minimize bandwidth
B. To simplify modulation
C. To improve carrier suppression
D. All these choices are correct
E7A04
How many flip-flops are required to divide a signal frequency by 4?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 4
D. 8
TRIVIA ANSWER
Answer: Marlon Brando
Jimmy Stewart, Richard Burton and John Wayne were all great actors, but none of them were hams.
Good Health to All