2022-11-29 Net Minutes

Check-ins (17)

We’d welcome anyone interested in calling the nets
- don’t let us hog all the fun
- we can get you the script
Events
- 2022-12-17 Next meeting / “Election day”
- 2023-01-21 January Luncheon
  - C&J is not looking so great, but will get you location details shortly
- 2023-01-28/29 Winter Field Day
  - American Legion Post 159
  - Presentations, chili contest, contacts, lots of fun!
Special events this week
- ARRL 160 m Contest
- Pearl Harbor Day Commemorations
- Civil Air Patrol Birthday
- 2022-12-04 Skywarn Recognition Day
Officer Nominations
- Thanks to Mike Wisby (KA5HIA) and Paul Bilke (KF5WGJ) for helping with nominations
  - contact either or both of them if interested in running for a position
- Current state of the ballot:
  - President: David Bailey (K5DKB)
  - Vice President: Paul Bilke (KF5WGJ)
  - Treasurer: Lorna Flansburg (KI5FIZ)
  - Secretary: Matthew Barry (KG5LYE)
On-the-Air
- VHF is opening up as weather has changed
- made SSB contact on 40 m all the way to South Africa

proxy Phil Gates (N5ZKF)

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

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Winter Field Day: “Dust off your chili cauldron, fine-tune that recipe, and prepare to compete to be #1 prime chili cook-off winner!”

Question #105 for conversation via John Walpole (K5ZY): What radio do you use when mobile/portable?

Baofeng UV-5R handheld
- 2 m / 70 cm FM simplex and repeater
Icom ID-5100A in my Prius
- 2 m / 70 cm FM, D-STAR
- can listen on air band
- dual simultaneous receiver

Yaesu FT-350AR and TDR-6100
No HF mobile operations
- Took entire home radio station to do a Parks on the Air activation

“I get by with a little (maybe a lotta) help from my friends”
Antarctica has been on the air:
- 14.130 MHz a few days ago
- 7.049 MHz on CW
“When in doubt, change it out” (in reference to old vacuum tubes)
- same goes for coax cables these days…
- might look fine from the outside, BUT:
  - conductor or dielectric can crack
  - it can get water in it
- replaced a 25 ft section of coax with 100 ft and got a 300% increase in signal at the other end
Matthew Barry (KG5LYE):
- same goes for Internet/TV/Cable coax feeds
- just had ours replaced today: Internet got a lot faster and seems to be more reliable now