When the Voice Com and Breakfast Net are active, the DMR TG-311037 will also be used to check in stations. This will help stations who are having difficulty hitting the 145.29 analog machine. The following are the details for these two nets.
USE ANALOG AND DMR TO CHECK IN
BRARA 145.29- PL110.9 BRARA DMR TG-311037
BRARA 442.875+ CC-1 TS-2
GCARA 443.350+ CC-11 TS-1
Wellington ARA 145.19- CC-2 TS-1
2022 SUMMER FIELD DAY
The BRARA Board asked for volunteers to coordinate the 2022 Summer Field Day.
Since there were none, and the event has different rules than WFD, the board decided to look into how the event could be handled from the shack. Please watch for updates. If you would like to step in and be the coordinator, please let any board member know.
The Gold Coast Amateur Radio Association holds a test session on May 14, 2022. The session will start promptly at 10:30 am. If you would like to participate, RSVP using the above "Testing Details" button, it allows us to prepare the necessary paperwork in advance. Walk-ins are also welcome.
The April exercise was well attended. Please view the AAR and the next exercise on June 4th 2022 at 11am.
TRIVIA QUESTION
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What is Dr. Owen K. Garriott (Amateur Callsign: W5LFL) famous for?
1. He lost his life while monitoring Mount St. Helens during its eruption.
2. He was the first Amateur Operator (HAM) to operate from space.
3. He used Amateur Radio (HAM) to organize disaster relief following the Earthquake in Haiti.
4. He made the first trans-pacific contact using Amateur (HAM) radio.
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.
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 are a BRARA member and 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.
GROUPS. IO SUBSCRIPTION REQUEST
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To send a message to the group, send an email to brara@groups.io
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:
What is one reason for using powdered-iron cores rather than ferrite cores in an inductor?
A. Powdered-iron cores generally have greater initial permeability B. Powdered-iron cores generally maintain their characteristics at higher currents
C. Powdered-iron cores generally require fewer turns to produce a given inductance
D. Powdered-iron cores use smaller diameter wire for the same inductance
E6A08
What term indicates the frequency at which the grounded-base current gain of a transistor has decreased to 0.7 of the gain obtainable at 1 kHz?
A. Corner frequency
B. Alpha rejection frequency
C. Beta cutoff frequency
D. Alpha cutoff frequency
TRIVIA ANSWER
Answer: He was the first Amateur Operator (HAM) to operate from space.
Dr. Owen Garriott (PhD) has flown on Skylab-3, spending 60 days (a record at the time, doubling the previous record) in space in 1973. His next space mission was aboard Spacelab-1 for 10 days in 1983. During this mission (STS-9) Dr. Garriott, an amateur radio operator for over 40 years, was the first astronaut to take a ham radio into space.
Garriott said. "In my spare time only, I managed to hold up an antenna to the window and to talk to amateurs on Earth."
Since that time, Amateur radio has been included on almost every American spaceflight, and is currently in use on the International Space Station.
Good Health to All