[CTSARA] SARA Meeting - Thurs Night March 5

[Jon Perelstein]

The March SARA Meeting will take place Thursday night March 5 at 8pm at
Stamford Government Center, 6th Floor Safety Training Room

Paul Danzer N1II will give a presentation on oscilloscopes.  Topics will
include


   - Scope Intro
   - Application – Measuring PEP
   - Little History
   - Old Scopes vs Digital Scopes
   - Digital Scope Info
   - Software Scopes –No hardware
   - More Applications (maybe, if time permits)

For those of you who have worked with scopes in the past, there's been a
lot of change in oscilloscopes from what you may have used 10, 20, 30 years
ago.   Paul is going to talk about the major developments such as digital
scopes and software scopes (for example using your computer as a scope).

For those of you who are new to the subject, oscilloscopes are a major
piece of test gear that can be used to observe your waveforms to see if
your gear is producing what it should be producing, and are the go-to piece
of test equipment for debugging problems with radio and other electronic
gear.

Having used an oscilloscope to debug an RF feedback problem a few years
ago, I can tell you that learning about scopes can make a big difference in
dealing with problems.  I know that I never would have been able to solve
my problem without an oscilloscope.

Pizza at John the Baker, 30 Long Ridge Road in the Bulls Head section of
Stamford at 6:15.

73,
Jon, WB2RYV


P.S.  Mark your calendars now for our April 2nd meeting - we have a couple
of exciting things planned including:


   - Crowdsourcing CW Reading in Contests - a new concept that we've been
   testing that delivers high speed CW reading using low-to-mid speed CW
   operators.
   - Modeling a new category of environmentally friendly antennas.  While
   primarily intended for stealth operations (e.g., HOA limited situations),
   some of these new antennas have some impressive numbers.
   - Something really exciting - announcement of the first-ever SARA
   sponsored DXpedition.  We can't tell you where yet because we haven't
   gotten all the permits approved - but basically it's one of the more
   difficult places on earth to get a QSO.