[DARARepeater] Thursday Night Group

[George]

New Faces at TNG

DEFCON 937   This Thursday at 6 pm

Upcoming Hamfest

Projects

** License Exam Questions of the week

 

The Thursday Night Group will meet

Thursday, January 23 at 7:00 pm at the DARA Clubhouse.

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Things this week:  

1.   New Faces at TNG

 

If you have attended a TNG Thursday the last few months, you might have
noticed a lot of new and young faces.  We currently have 2 groups of young
people attending.  They are the DEFCON 937 a local hacking group that our
Jeremy Hong, KD8TUO, has introduced to us and a group of Civil Air Patrol
that are working on the Motorola radios they use.

 

2.   DEFCON 937

 

This Thursday at 6 pm Jeremy Hong, KD8TUO, will host the DC937 (short for
DEFCON 937) groups first meeting at the clubhouse.

This group used to meet at Proto BuildBar (closed in December), on the 4th
Thursday of the month @6:00 PM. I have mentioned this situation to a few of
the TNG regulars already, and so far everyone has been receptive and
welcoming to the idea of integrating this group with TNG.  The DARA board
also gave it a thumbs up.

I believe that integrating the hackers with TNG it is a natural fit, because
hackers, cybersecurity professionals, and information security professionals
(Prime example is our own Jack G. WB8SCT) have a lot in common with Hams as
far as technical interests and skills. A lot of the attendees of DC937 have
used and are interested in SDR (Software Defined Radio) also! I have also
seen this as an opportunity to bring down the average age of the TNG and get
more of my friends and their friends to get into ham radio. Also, a reminder
that the record for most licenses issued/upgraded in a single day was set at
DEFCON 22 in 2014! 

 

This upcoming Thursday (1/23/2020), will be the first DC937 meeting at the
DARA clubhouse, we are scheduling to meet at 6:00 PM, there aren't any
presentations currently planned, but it will most likely be some discussion
about current hacking/cybersecurity news and tools in the past month. We are
also planning several "conference" type events later this year.

 

3. Upcoming Hamfest 


01/26/2020 | Tusco Amateur Radio Club's 30th Annual Hamfest, Electronics and
Computer Show
Location: Strasburg,, OH
Sponsor: Tusco Amateur Radio Club
Website: http://www.tuscoarc.org 

 

02/01/2020 | HARA Annual Swap-N-Shop
<http://www.arrl.org/hamfests/hara-annual-swap-n-shop>  

Location: Negaunee, MI
Type: ARRL Hamfest
Sponsor: Hiawatha Amateur Radio Association
Website: http://www.qsl.net/k8lodmichigan

 

02/16/2020 | Mansfield Mid-Winter Hamfest
Location: Mansfield , OH
Sponsor: Intercity Amateur Radio Club
Website: http://WWW.IARC.CLUB 

 

02/22/2020 | La Porte County Amateur Radio Hamfest
<http://www.arrl.org/hamfests/la-porte-county-amateur-radio-hamfest-2>  

Location: La Porte, IN
Type: ARRL Hamfest
Sponsor: La Porte County Amateur Radio Club
Website: http://lpcarc.org

 

03/01/2020 | WinterHamFest
Location: Elyria, OH
Sponsor: Northern Ohio Amateur Radio Society
Website: http://noars.net 

 

03/07/2020 | Cave City Hamfest
<http://www.arrl.org/hamfests/cave-city-hamfest-9>  

Location: Cave City , KY
Type: ARRL Hamfest
Sponsor: Mammoth Cave Amateur Radio Club
Website: http://ky4x.org

 

03/14-15/2020 | Toledo Hamfest, 

ARRL Great Lakes Division Convention
Location: Perrysburg, OH
Sponsor: Toledo Mobile Radio Association
Website: http://www.tmrahamradio.org 

 

03/15/2020 | WVARA 2020 Hamfest
<http://www.arrl.org/hamfests/wvara-2020-hamfest>  

Location: BRAZIL, IN
Type: ARRL Hamfest
Sponsor: Wabash Valley Amateur Radio Association Inc 
Website: http://w9uuu.org

 

03/21/2020 | Mid-Ohio Valley ARC Hamfest
Location: Gallipolis, OH
Sponsor: Mid-Ohio Valley Amateur Radio Club, Inc.
Website: http://sites.google.com/site/midohiovalleyarc/

 

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.

 

This week the quiz draws questions from the least used sections of each
question pool, so they will not appear to have much in common.

 

T5A11 What is the unit of electromotive force?

A. The volt

B. The watt

C. The ampere

D. The ohm

 

G5C16 Why is the conductor of the primary winding of many voltage step-up
transformers larger in diameter than the conductor of the secondary winding?

A. To improve the coupling between the primary and secondary

B. To accommodate the higher current of the primary

C. To prevent parasitic oscillations due to resistive losses in the primary

D. To ensure that the volume of the primary winding is equal to the volume
of the secondary winding

 

E5D16 What is the power factor of an R-L circuit having a 30 degree phase
angle between the voltage and the current?

A. 1.73

B. 0.5

C. 0.866

D. 0.577

 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:

T5A11 = A.

G5C16 = B.

E5D16 = C.

Quiz 76

 

 

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