The April exercise was well attended. Please view the AAR and the next exercise on June 4th 2022 at 11am.
VINTAGE
From Columbus, Georgia, around 1960 comes this News Archive photo of an amateur radio operator and his assistant, "Shortwave" Sally.
NET NEWS
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
TRIVIA QUESTION
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Amateur radio operators are credited with the first documented observations of which unusual phenomenon?
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.
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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:
Why should core saturation of an impedance matching transformer be avoided? A. Harmonics and distortion could result
B. Magnetic flux would increase with frequency
C. RF susceptance would increase
D. Temporary changes of the core permeability could result
E7A03
Which of the following can divide the frequency of a pulse train by 2?
A. An XOR gate
B. A flip-flop
C. An OR gate
D. A multiplexer
TRIVIA ANSWER
Answer:Long-delayed echoes. LDEs are spooky phenomena that are not completely understood, even today
Good Health to All