[DARARepeater] Thursday Night Group

Tue Apr 16 22:45:57 EDT 2019

YAGI Antenna workshop part 3 - This Thursday!!

Home Brew Projects DARA Home Brew night May 3rd

** License Exam Questions of the week

The Thursday Night Group will meet

Thursday, April 18 at 7:00 pm at the DARA Clubhouse.

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Things this week:  

1.        YAGI Antenna workshop part 3 

This Thursday - April 18 - Driven Element Options

Join us for a Build-It: Yagi Antenna Workshop. This multi-session series
will focus on yagi antennas the vhf/uhf frequency bands, including designs
for ATV and EME. But HFers will also gain by attending.

This series will start with a good overview on antennas. The next session
will look at the function of a balun, the different types, and actually do
some testing of baluns. We'll look at how to select your build-it yagi, and
present some easy-to-assemble options for the driven element. For the
hands-on building, you can build your own, build with a group, or be an
observer.

The final sessions will include tuning and testing the yagi antennas, and if
there is interest, could include an antenna gain measurement event to verify
how well the antennas perform.

This 7 session course is planned to run every other week and will run for 7
sessions.  

Here is the proposed schedule:

Build-It: Yagi Workshop Series

.             Antenna Overview (Joe, WA8OGS)
March 21 - completed

.             Balun Overview, and testing baluns (Mike, W8RKO)
April 4        - completed

.             Driven Element Options (Joe, WA8OGS)
April 18

.             Selecting Your Build-It Yagi (Joe, WA8OGS)
May 2

.             Antenna Modeling (Mike, W8RKO)
June 6

.             Start Building - Hands On (group)
June 20

.             Tuning & Testing Your Yagi (Tom, N8ZM, & group)
June 24 or

maybe on a Saturday

.             Antenna Gain Measurements [maybe on a Saturday, 10am-2pm;
include

lunch?] (Tom, N8ZM, & group) 

Many thanks to Joe Burke, WA8OGS, and Mike Suhar, W8RKO, who have put this
together.

2.        Home Brew Projects

Bring something to work on.   What you building?

DARA Home Brew night May 3rd. so get busy!!

3.        License Exam Questions of the week

One question is drawn from each of the three question pools. Steve, AE8AT,
is providing these questions.  Thanks Steve

Answers are at the end of this email.

We received a question regarding the strange mix of letters and numbers that
begin each question.  Every exam question has a unique combination of
letter-number-letter-number.  The first letter is a T, G, or E to identify
the question pool: Technician, General, or Extra.  Next is a single number
representing the category, for example, category zero is safety in all three
exam pools.  The first letter-number pair is called the "sub-element".   The
second letter is a "group" containing related questions.  Example,
sub-element G8 is Signals and Emissions, with group C of that sub-element
being Digital Emission Modes.  The questions are numbered sequentially:
G8C01, G8C02, and so forth always with a 2-digit number at the end.  The
question identity is included in case of a typo or some "help" from
autocorrect obscures either the question or the answer.  

This quiz should reach you about a month before HamventionR opens.  The
event is volunteer run by your fellow Dayton Association club members.  If
you would like to lend support to the club, volunteers at hamvention.org  or
the www.Hamvention.org  webpage has a special page for volunteers.
Following the theme, this quiz this week is questions having to do with the
volunteers.  This hobby depends people giving their time and resources to
maintain club houses, maintain repeaters, elmer, administer the tests to
create new licensees, run the club, and many other things.including
HamventionR!  

T1A08 Which of the following entities recommends transmit/receive channels
and other parameters for auxiliary and repeater stations?

A. Frequency Spectrum Manager appointed by the FCC

B. Volunteer Frequency Coordinator recognized by local amateurs

C. FCC Regional Field Office

D. International Telecommunications Union

G1D08  Which of the following criteria must be met for a non-U.S. citizen to
be an accredited Volunteer Examiner?

A. The person must be a resident of the U.S. for a minimum of 5 years

B. The person must hold an FCC granted Amateur Radio license of General
Class or above

C. The person's home citizenship must be in ITU region 2

D. None of these choices is correct; a non-U.S. citizen cannot be a
Volunteer Examiner

E1E03 What is a Volunteer Examiner Coordinator?

A. A person who has volunteered to administer amateur operator license
examinations

B. A person who has volunteered to prepare amateur operator license
examinations

C. An organization that has entered into an agreement with the FCC to
coordinate amateur operator license examinations

D. The person who has entered into an agreement with the FCC to be the VE
session manager 

For more information about B-Road Thursday Evening Group Projects.

Go to W8BI homepage ( <http://www.w8bi.org> http://www.w8bi.org) under
Education, Thursday Group.

Or

Go to ( <https://sites.google.com/site/darathursdaynite/>
https://sites.google.com/site/darathursdaynite)

There is a lot of information on this web site with additional content.

Hope to see you on Thursday evening's.

Everyone is invited!!! 

Answers:

T1A08 = B.

G1D08 = B. 

E1E03 = C.

 Quiz 36

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