Boca Raton Amateur Radio Association
Community - Communication - Leadership
    
ANNOUNCEMENTS
as of 29-January-2022
  • Have you Renewed Membership?
  • Stations 1,3,4 working normally
  • Next BOD meeting 29-JAN 10.00am
SIMPLEX EXERCISE
NEXT EXERCISE: FEB 5TH 11.00AM ET
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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. 
FEB 2022
1st 7PM
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Meeting ID
865 5255 5294
Passcode 
123456
February
Presenter
Morgan Bailey NJ8M
"End fed antennas"
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Renewals
Oct 1st to March 31
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Sunspot Counts: Predicted vs Actual
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TRIVIA QUESTION
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Used mostly when communicating with Morse code, what is the name for a group of abbreviations for such things as location or to tell the other ham to move to another frequency?
Membership Renewals
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.

Questions: John.C N1QFH Good luck.
Want to be Army MARS trained?
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.

FRYING PAN TOWER DXPEDITION

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WELCOME NEW MEMBERS
January
N2EAR Daniel Riley
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
Member Logon Password Reset
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.
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.
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For full information on BRARA's groups.io
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GOOD AND WELFARE
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:

 
Condolence cards: 16
Get well cards: 16
Total cards Sent: 32

CLICK HERE to email your details.
AMATEUR EXTRA QUESTION
E7A04 (B)
How many flip-flops are required to divide a signal frequency by 4?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 4
D. 8

E0A08
What does SAR measure?
A. Synthetic Aperture Ratio of the human body
B. Signal Amplification Rating
C. The rate at which RF energy is absorbed by the body
D. The rate of RF energy reflected from stationary terrain
TRIVIA ANSWER
Answer: Q Signals

Q Signals are used to abbreviate a conversation, particularly when sending Morse code. For example instead of sending or saying "my location is in Miami Florida" a ham would transmit "QTH Miami FL".
A BIT OF HUMOR

 
Be well 73 
de N4BRF from The Shack
  Good Health to All
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