ANNOUNCEMENTS
as of 22-January-2022
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- Signed up for WFD?
- Have you Renewed Membership?
- Stations 1,3,4 working normally
- Next BOD meeting 29-JAN 10.00am
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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.
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2022 Winter Field Day Details
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BRARA Shack will be open for 2022 WFD. Please make your reservation with John.C N1QFH. Click the below button for details.
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2022 Annual ARRL Jan VHF Sweepstakes Report
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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.
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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.
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MOSFET - The Most significant invention
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Great history video how IC's came to be.
Its very general and many aspects of IC left on the fringes.
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Please be advised the County is returning to a mandatory mask requirement beginning Monday, January 3, 2022 at 12:01 a m.
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Sunspot Counts: Predicted vs Actual
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TRIVIA QUESTION
SCROLL DOWN FOR ANSWER
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This late actor held the call-sign KE6PZH and once used his Oscar as a doorstop. Who is it?
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NEXT EXERCISE: FEB 5TH 11.00AM ET
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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
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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.
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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.
Questions: John.C N1QFH Good luck.
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Want to be Army MARS trained?
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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.
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FRYING PAN TOWER DXPEDITION
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January
W2SI Ed Janeczek
KB4JOG Dennis Reilly
W6MGV Marc Verdi
KB4QWM Paul Edhlund
December
N2QFT Joanne Cummings
KD2DXQ Dick Cummings
KO4VGC Nancie Serphos
K4RED Steven Serphos
KA2HTV David Borenstein
W6HDG Howard Groveman
ASSOC Robert Brozost
November
N2WS Wally Shapiro
KY4AMP Anthony Potts
WB2MKX Jay Nearnberg
October
KO4TZK Andrew Auster
ASSOC Carolina Auster
KM4DWC Steven Kilburn
WB2MJH Len Crispino
KA2VRU Rita Russo
KM4UJP Jonathan Goodson
KJ4QVS Shawn Major
W4SBH Shawn Hoffman
KO4FBU Barry Gardner
KO4TEQ Elise Gotay
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Member Logon Password Reset
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Every so often a member may need to have their password reset. Please email Henry Seidner WA2ROA via hseidner@me.com and he will work with you to handle your request.
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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.
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GROUPS. IO SUBSCRIPTION REQUEST
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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:
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16 |
| Get well cards: |
16 |
| Total cards Sent: |
32 |
CLICK HERE to email your details.
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E8C03 (A)
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
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Answer: Marlon Brando
Jimmy Stewart, Richard Burton and John Wayne were all great actors, but none of them were hams.
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Be well 73
de N4BRF from The Shack
 Good Health to All |
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