2024-03-26 Net Minutes

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David Bailey (K5DKB)

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Next Ham license exam will be 2024-04-20 11:00 after the monthly club meeting. You’ll need the following:
- $15 exam fee
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Question #170 for conversation, courtesy of Kevin Walton (N4RMF): How many of you will be going to see the solar eclipse on 2024-04-08?

(If interested in submitting a weekly question, email n5zkf@arrl.net)

Will be going to Garner State Park for the eclipse
- Was there in October for the previous eclipse
- So rare to have two back-to-back and in the same location
Been working with hardware development lately
- I typically develop software at a higher level, but right now I’m developing some firmware for a project at work
- Directly interfacing with GPIO pins
- UART, SPI, and I²C comms
- reading analog and digital sensors

Planning to go to Killeen to see the eclipse!
- 8 in Newtonian telescope with a camera
- N5ZKF: they’ve declared a state of emergency because they’re expecting so many people
Saw the last total eclipse in 2017 when I was living in Nebraska