December 1, 2022 Club Meeting
Thursday, December 1, 2022 at 7:00 PM Medford Police Department Community Room, 219 S. Ivy St., Medford, OR
Program: 3D Printing with Ham Radio Applications, Larry Clark, N7LJC
The program will be on 3-dimensional printing. Larry will discuss some Ham Radio project parts that he has printed.
Pat has an interesting program lined up for us this month. Larry has fabricates some useful ham-radio related parts on his 3d printer. It should be fun to see what is possible.
Announced in the December 2022 issue of The Repeater.
Meeting Notes
From the January 2023 issue of The Repeater.
Meeting minutes, RVARC general member meeting of December 1, 2022.
7:03 PM. The meeting was brought to order by president Pat Cunningham, KD7MPA.
It was reported that the January meeting will be Summits-on-the-Air (SOTA) by Amy Haptonstall. The February meeting will be on 3D printing with amateur radio applications by Larry Clark, K7LJC.
Field Day 2022 results were printed in the December issue of QST. Our club scored 2784 points in the 2A OR category. This was good enough to place us #1 in Oregon 2A, and #4 in Oregon overall.
Visitors:
- Karl Metzger N6HYD + Sheri
- William (Bill) Wiest W6BIL
- Cedric Bowers—studying for the test.
7:24 PM—Lud Sibley, KB2EVN presented some comments about the December QST article about hot-chassis classic radios. He showed that many of those radios in fact were not hot-chassis (i.e. National, Hallicrafters) based on the schematics he found. Lud sent a letter to the QST editor about this.
7:30 PM Break, reconvened at 7:50 PM.
Larry Clark was not able to attend or present on 3D printing, so that program was rescheduled to February.
Instead, Tom, N5EG gave his 2022 DCC presentation on AREDN, Starlink, and Networking.
The program discussed the requirements for internet tunnels for AREDN nodes, and some of the issues brought about by Starlink which uses CG-NAT (Carrier Grade Network Address Translation). Several work arounds were presented, involving VPN (Virtual Private Networks) and Cloud hosted proxies.
CG-NAT shares a single IP address among multiple users so that services, ports, and addresses are not available a priori.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:50 PM with a lot of after-meeting discussion on Starlink
Submitted by Tom, N5EG
