[DARARepeater] Thursday Night Group

Thu Jun 11 02:44:24 EDT 2020

ARRL VHF/UHF Contest 

June DARA RF Carrier

Projects 

** License Exam Questions of the week #95

Details for THIS week's TNG ZOOM meeting (at the bottom of this email)

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The Thursday Night Group will meet ON-LINE

Thursday, June 11 at 7:00 pm 

Speakers will start about 7:30.

Details on this week's TNG ZOOM login 

at the bottom of this email

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Things this week:  

1.   ARRL VHF/UHF Contest

Hopefully Tom, N8ZM, or some of the other 'hill gang', will talk a little
bit about this event. The ARRL VHF/UHF Contest is this weekend, June 13-15.
This contest is huge in the VHF/UHF end of the hobby.  The June contest
allows 6m and higher bands, way into the GHz.  All legal modes are allowed,
voice, CW, and digital modes, but no repeater contacts are allowed. For more
info read Steve, AE8AT, info in the Quiz section of this email.  

2. June DARA RF Carrier

The DARA board has decided to change from a printed newsletter to an emailed
one.  If you are a DARA member you should have gotten an email last week.
If not, check your SPAM folder.

If you did not get it and it is not in your spam folder please send an email
to  membership at w8bi.org  to make sure they have your correct email address.

3. Projects 

Keep working on your projects at home.  

4. 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.

The ARRL VHF/UHF Contest is this weekend, June 13-15.  This contest is huge
in the VHF/UHF end of the hobby.  The June contest allows 6m and higher
bands, way into the GHz.  All legal modes are allowed, voice, CW, and
digital modes, but no repeater contacts are allowed.  This one contest can
really exercise your skill in different modes, in addition to the band
options!  Maidenhead grid squares are the multiplier and part of the
exchange.  The Dayton region is at the intersection of 4 grid squares.  EM79
is the Maidenhead grid that includes Dayton and the DARA clubhouse, and west
into Indiana, and south past Cincinnati.  North of us is EN70, which you
enter right around Troy at the dealership with the large flag along I-75.
To our East, EM89 includes Xenia and I-675 where it connects to I-70 over to
Zanesville.  EN80 is the grid North and East, including Urbana and
Bellefontaine.  So if you are tooling around with 6m or higher frequencies,
consider getting on the air that weekend to see how many grid squares or how
distant a contact you can make!  The quiz, now that we are finally getting
to it, is on the VHF and UHF bands.

T2B12 Why are simplex channels designated in the VHF/UHF band plans?

A. So that stations within mutual communications range can communicate
without tying up a repeater

B. For contest operation

C. For working DX only

D. So that stations with simple transmitters can access the repeater without
automated offset

G2B08 What is the voluntary band plan restriction for U.S. station
transmitting within the 48 contiguous states in the 50.1 to 50.125 MHz band
segment?

A. Only contacts with stations not within the 48 contiguous states

B. Only contacts with other stations within the 48 contiguous states

C. Only digital contacts

D. Only SSTV contacts

E9E11 What is an effective way of matching a feed line to a VHF or UHF
antenna when the impedances of both the antenna and feed line are unknown?

A. Use a 50 ohm 1:1 balun between the antenna and feed line

B. Use the universal stub matching technique

C. Connect a series-resonant LC network across the antenna feed terminals

D. Connect a parallel-resonant LC network across the antenna feed terminals

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!!! 

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Answers:

T2B12 = A.

G2B08 = A.

E9E11 = B.

Quiz 95

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