[DARARepeater] Thursday Night Group

[George]

The Raspberry Pi for Ham Radio

Upcoming Hamfest

Projects

** License Exam Questions of the week

 

The Thursday Night Group will meet

Thursday, March 12 at 7:00 pm at the DARA Clubhouse.

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Things this week:  

1.   The Raspberry Pi for Ham Radio

Come be amazed what a $35 computer cam do in the shack.  

 

Chuck Gelm, NC8Q, will discuss PAT (a Winlink email clone) using Telnet and
ARDOP, with the Icom IC-7300.  He will be covering obtaining, installing,
and configuring the individual software items.  He is hoping to demonstrate
remote access to his WJSTX and FLdigi/FLrig.
on my RPi4-2GB



Dave, KE8DOC, time permitting will do a presentation about installing
WSJT-X, GridTracker, and JS8Call on a Raspberry Pi 4. Also some information
about a new way to flash a SD card for your Raspberry Pi.

 

2. Upcoming Hamfest 


03/14-15/2020 | Toledo Hamfest, 

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

 

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/

 

04/11/2020 | 66th Annual Cuyahoga Falls Amateur Radio Club Hamfest
Location: Cuyahoga Falls, OH
Sponsor: Cuyahoga Falls Amateur Radio Club, Inc.
Website: http://www.cfarc.org/hamfest.php

 

04/18/2020 | Portsmouth Radio Club Hamfest
Location: Portsmouth , OH
Sponsor: Portsmouth Radio Club
Website: http://portsmouthradioclub.com <http://portsmouthradioclub.com/>  

 

04/26/2020 | Athens Hamfest
Location: Athens, OH
Sponsor: Athens County Amateur Radio Association
Website: http://www.ac-ara.org/

 

05/17/2020 - 05/19/2020   Dayton Hamvention       

Location: Xenia, OH

Sponsor: Dayton Amateur Radio Association

Website: https://hamvention.org/ 

 

07/10/2020 - 07/11/2020 Indianapolis Hamfest, ARRL Indiana Section
Convention

Location: Indianapolis, IN

Type: ARRL Convention

Sponsor: Indianapolis Amateur Radio Assoc., Inc.

Website: http://indyhamfest.com 

3. Projects

Bring something to work on.   What are you building?

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 quiz this week is on radiation.  No lead (Pb) bricks required, it's not
that type of radiation.

T0C08 Which of the following actions might amateur operators take to prevent
exposure to RF radiation in excess of FCC-supplied limits?

A. Relocate antennas

B. Relocate the transmitter

C. Increase the duty cycle

D. All of these choices are correct

G9B03 Which of the following best describes the radiation pattern of a
quarter-wave, ground-plane vertical antenna?

A. Bi-directional in azimuth

B. Isotropic

C. Hemispherical

D. Omnidirectional in azimuth

E9C01 What is the radiation pattern of two 1/4-wavelength vertical antennas
spaced 1/2-wavelength apart and fed 180 degrees out of phase?

A. Cardioid

B. Omni-directional

C. A figure-8 broadside to the axis of the array

D. A figure-8 oriented along the axis of the array

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:

T0C08 = A.

G9B03 = D.

E9C01 = D.

 

Quiz 83



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