October 6, 2022 Club Meeting
Thursday, October 6, 2022 at 7:00 PM Medford Police Department Community Room, 219 S. Ivy St., Medford, OR
Program: Tips for programming your mobile HT, Fred Townsend, AE7IM
There was no October 2022 issue of The Repeater. The editor wishes to apologize for the lack of an October newsletter, web update, and email. I lost Internet for 3 weeks at the time the newsletter, web update, and emails occur.
Meeting Notes
From the November 2022 issue of The Repeater.
RVARC meeting minutes Oct 6, 2022
Meeting begins at 7pm, President Pat Cunningham, KD7MPA, calls meeting to order. 15 Attendees.
Tonight’s program is “Tips for programming your mobile HT by Fred Townsend, AE7IM.
Treasurer’s report: bank balance is $4934.98 plus two dues pending deposit, and club insurance of $200 is due.
Elections for club officers will be held at the November meeting, and an appeal for willing nominees is made.
Also, there will be a license exam session starting at 5:15pm, before the meeting. See more info at k7mfr.org/license-exams/ or contact Don Bennett, KG7BP (note: if the website still shows a Sep 1 date, it should be changed to Nov 3)
Amy will be in Modoc county as K6G for the upcoming 7QP. Scott, NA7OM, mentioned that we should get Amy an award and see if she would give a presentation on her activities.
Greetings to attendees Tom Hartkop, N8BKJ, and Dennis Stevens, WL7AQ.
The swap meet is set for Saturday, Oct 29, starting 9am at the Kathrein Broadcast parking lot on Ave. G at 11th St. in White City. Pat, KD7MPA, will contact the CARE club and the Grants Pass club for additional participation.
Lud Sibley, KB2EVN, showed us the Bell Labs Picture Phone (s/n 12) which had debuted at the 1964 Worlds Fair. It had a black & white display and was all analog, constructed of germanium transistors. It communicated over 2 pair of wires, using 500kHz bandwidth. The long distance link was over microwave, which had a capacity for 3 PicturePhone circuits. The comms cost $150/month in 1970 dollars.
Fred Townsend, AE7IM, gave tonight’s presentation on “Tips for programming your mobile HT” He also gave this talk at Pacificon on 2021-10-16. You can reach him at [email protected]
Fred gave us the history of the progression of amateur radio transceivers from discrete analog through to integrated circuit frequency synthesizers. He went over the PC connection to current handie-talkies and the programming software for easier setup of the select-able frequency channels and modes. He also provided the attendees each a thumb drive with the talk and other info contained therein.
8:30pm break for refreshments and discussion.
Submitted, John, KF7UMF, Secretary.
