2022-11-15 Net Minutes

Check-ins (18)

Hope y’all are keeping warm in the cooler weather lately
Tracy Pfeil, wife of Rick Pfeil (W4RDP), passed away last Friday
- Visitation Friday Evening
  - 2022-11-18 17:00/20:00
  - Hillier Funeral Home, 2301 E 29th St, Bryan, TX 77802
- Funeral Mass Saturday
  - 2022-11-19 14:00
  - St. Anthony Catholic Church, 401 S Parker Ave, Bryan, TX 77803
  - Lunch at Parish Hall after burial
November Club meeting this weekend
- 2022-11-19 09:30
- American Legion Post 159
- Nominations for next year’s officers
Special events this week
- ARRL SSB Sweepstakes Contest

proxy Phil Gates (N5ZKF) and Matthew Barry (KG5LYE)

Please send any ideas for after-meeting presentations
- Something you’d like to present —OR— would like to see presented

Tracy was my preschool teacher at St. Anthony’s “Mother’s Day Out”
Will send out minutes after net as usual
Thanks to Dick Zimmer (W5DZ) and David Bailey (K5DKB) for helping me diagnose my radio last week!

Question #103 for conversation: Do you use any software to calculate impedance, resistence, SWR, or other antenna modeling?

Reminder: NASA is planning to launch tonight
- scheduled 2022-11-16 01:04 EST (06:04Z)
- sending Orion spacecraft to the moon on Artemis SLS
- this will be the third time trying to launch
- https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/#public

EZNEC is available for free now that it’s not being actively maintained
I like to use Python in a Jupyter Notebook for doing “mathy things”
- Ham radio antenna design is one of those