[DARARepeater] Thursday Night Group

[George]

Clean-up and rearrange

OCT  10 - Raspberry Pi 4 deep dive - NOT THIS WEEK

Upcoming Hamfest

Projects

** License Exam Questions of the week

 

The Thursday Night Group will meet

Thursday, October 3 at 7:00 pm at the DARA Clubhouse.

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Things this week:  

1. Clean-up and rearrange

The TNG has been discussing how to re-organize the Tech room.  Now is the
time to start moving things and while we are at it we will be doing a
cleaning for next week's, Oct 11, DARA Fall Harvest Party. We will trying
out a new workbench arrangement as part of long term plan for improving
presentation facilities and storage. 

 Please come help.

2. OCT  10 - Raspberry Pi 4 deep dive - NOT THIS WEEK

Dave Schwab, KE8DOC, will be talking about several of the Raspberry Pi 4
projects he has built

3. Upcoming Hamfest 

10/05/2019 | Scioto Valley Amateur Radio Hamfest

Location: Chillicothe, OH

Sponsor: Scioto Valley Amateur Radio Club

 

10/12/2019 | NWOARC Fall Hamfest

Location: Lima, OH

Sponsor: Northwest Ohio Amateur Radio Club 

Website: http://www.nwoarc.com

 

11/02/2019 | GARC Hamfest

Location: Georgetown, OH

Sponsor: Grant Amateur Radio Club

Website:
https://www.facebook.com/Grant-Amateur-Radio-Club-1775764122477536/?modal=ad
min_todo_tour

 

11/16-17/2019  Fort Wayne Hamfest

http://www.acarts.com/hfmain.htm

 

4. Projects

Bring something to work on.   What are you building?

5. 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.

 

 

Sputnik was launched 4 October 1957.  As that date is just ahead, the theme
turns once again to satellites.

 

T8B12 Which of the following is a good way to judge whether your uplink
power is neither too low nor too high?

A. Check your signal strength report in the telemetry data

B. Listen for distortion on your downlink signal

C. Your signal strength on the downlink should be about the same as the
beacon

D. All of these choices are correct

 

G3A11 How long does it take charged particles from coronal mass ejections to
affect radio propagation on the Earth?

A. 28 days

B. 14 days

C. 4 to 8 minutes

D. 20 to 40 hours

 

E2D05 Which of the following techniques is normally used by low Earth
orbiting digital satellites to relay messages around the world?

A. Digipeating

B. Store-and-forward

C. Multi-satellite relaying

D. Node hopping

        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:

T8B12 = C.

G3A11 = D.

E2D05 = B.

 

Quiz 60



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