January 6, 2022 Club Meeting
Thursday, January 6, 2022 at 7:00 PM Via Zoom. Login sent via email or upon request.
Program: Winter Field Day
There will be a discussion of a possible Winter Field Day operation by club members. Join the discussion to find out what folks are planning.
Winter Field Day will be held January 29 and 30, 2022. It is sponsored by the Winter Field Day Association. More information can be obtained from the WFDA web page: https://www.winterfieldday.com/
Announced in the January 2022 issue of The Repeater.
Meeting Notes
From the February 2022 issue of The Repeater.
2022-01-06 RVARC Meeting Minutes
7pm meeting over Zoom called to order. 15 attendees online
Treasurer’s report: Bank balance is $4638.29 after $50 donation to the ARRL Spectum Defense Fund, and 3 dues submissions.
Allen, K7GT, mentioned he started making some SSB phone contacts. Congrats, Allen, for stepping out of your comfort zone! Some good reminiscences on QSL cards ensued.
Scott, NA7OM, reported that, due to Federal COVID regulations, the Table Mountain Snow Park warming shelter will not be available for winter field day.
This year Winter Field Day is from 11am PST (1900UTC) Sat, Jan 29 thru 11am PST Sun, Jan 30 and Winter field day rules are available at: https://www.winterfieldday.com/_files/ugd/1c7085_0ef813621655469ca73adfb5427dcc35.pdf
Special rules apply this year, due to covid, for club participation from several remote (or home) locations.
Scott, NA7OM, mentioned that the Del Norte club got tired of endless procedural discussions and finally gave that up.
Pat, KD7MPA, will be sending out a poll for 2022 presentation topics.
John, AC7S, mentioned there will be an ARRL RTTY Roundup this weekend (January 8-9, 2022). His new amp is working, and will be running at 200 watts on RTTY for this roundup.
Pat, KD7MPA, did a project processing the ULS database to provide a lookup service at his site: hamcall.dev
Tom, N5EG, reported delays in the receiver project due to lack of hardware to test, but he has been working on the newer local AREDN mesh, CPMESH, to provide a wiki, ARES info, a connectivity map, and other diagnostic info to the mesh users. For more CPMESH info, contact Arlen or Kirby at [email protected]
John, KI7ZOA, and Ryan, KD7RQ, had questions about the Anytone 578 DMR setup.
Scott, NA7OM, and Mike, WB7FF discussed replacing AB577 antenna tube rollers with custom machined UHMW rollers made from raw stock obtained from Munnell&Sherrill.
A discussion of connector protection materials followed. Items that were mentioned included self-vulcanizing tape, high-vacuum grease, flooded heat-shrink tubing, and Glyptal 1201.
Luke, KJ7BKH, will give a DMR presentation at the QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo, March 12-13, 2022 (see www.qsotodayhamexpo.com )
Meeting adjourned around 8:37pm
