2021-08-10 Net Minutes

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Tropical weather brewing in the … well … tropics
- weather watch nets: 14.325 and 7.268
- don’t talk unless you have active hurricanes to report! :-P
Next meeting 2021-08-23 09:30
- American Legion Post 159
- Auxiliary room
- Be aware of rising COVID cases
Presentation on Winlink by Ron Hambric (N5SBN) and Jim Hanks Jr. (W5CYN)
Get on the air:
- MD and DC area CW QSO contest
- KY State Parks on the Air
- Special events coming up:
  - World’s largest teapot in WV
  - Ham Nation’s 500th online video show
  - NU5DE… I’ll let you look that one up yourself
  - W5INS
  - Navajo Code Talkers: N7C
  - Hedy Lamarr: K5H
  - USS Midway: NI6IW

Question for conversation: Do you have any ham radio equipment in a vehicle?

If you have a license plate that has your callsign on it, you have to have a radio in the vehicle.
- A Baofeng HT does the trick…
keep in mind: easy to look up your name and address, so drive friendly and safely! :-)

It always makes me smile when I see other people with radio operator plates
Ran into Craig Lang at ISP Supplies (off Hwy 30) earlier today
- Got to shake his hand and thank him for his work on the W5BCS repeater antenna
- Small world!

Reason you’re required to have a working radio is because if you are summoned for emergency communications, you need to be able to contact.
Your name has to be on the title for the vehicle, not someone else’s
Perseid meteor shower this weekend
- Best results 00:00/03:00
- 150 meteors per hour
- If you’re willing to try meteor scatter propagation, wait for “ping” on 2m, 6m, and 10m bands… Should give you a few seconds of propagation

Monitor calling frequency(-ies) if someone sees you rolling down the road and wants to talk with you :-)

calling frequencies?
N5ZKF:
- 2m: 144.2 SSB, 146.520 FM
- 6m: 50.125 SSB, 52.525 FM
- 70cm: 432.1 SSB, 446.0 FM