[DARARepeater] Thursday Night Group

[George]

TNG - Building a FIREWALL using an old pc 

Upcoming DARA meetings

HAMFEST - Orlando HamCation

Projects 

** License Exam Questions of the week #127 

 

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The Thursday Night Group will meet ON-LINE

Thursday, January, 28, 2021 

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:  

TNG - Building a FIREWALL using an old pc

Brian, N8UDQ, will be demonstrating the setup of hardware and software for a
simple open source firewall. He will install pfSense 2.4.5 on some old
hardware with 2 nics. Then demonstrate a few simple firewall rules, a simple
port forward and if there is time, setup OpenVPN to access your home network
on the go.

 

Upcoming DARA meetings

 

Feb - Jim Breakall WA3FET is a professor in Pennsylvania and is a well know
antenna designer. He designed one of the arrays used at Arecibo prior to the
collapse and contributed heavily to the technical aspects of the station He
and a few others have the "Magic Mountain" station in PA.

 

March - Homebrew via zoom.  There may be prizes.

 

April - Anthony Luscre K8ZT is a well know presenter and will be speaking on
Youth and Amateur Radio.

 

HAMFEST

 

NO Local Hamfest in the for seeable future.  Hamvention 2021 cancelled. 

 

Orlando HamCation 2021 February 13 and 14, 2021.

            https://www.hamcation.com/forums-speakers 

ON-LINE ONLY.  These webinars will be split up into four (4) categories:
Vendor, Youth, Technology, and Contesting.

 

Anyone who registers and attends at least one webinar will receive one free
entry into the prize drawings.  https://www.hamcation.com/hamcation-prizes 

 

Projects 

Keep working on your projects at home.   HOME BREW NIGHT - MARCH 2021

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.    week #127

 

The quiz this week is composed of the least used sections of each question
pool. 

 

T7D01 Which instrument would you use to measure electric potential or
electromotive force?

A. An ammeter

B. A voltmeter

C. A wavemeter

D. An ohmmeter

 

G1A11 When General class licensees are not permitted to use the entire voice
portion of a band, which portion of the voice segment is generally available
to them?

A. The lower frequency end

B. The upper frequency end

C. The lower frequency end on frequencies below 7.3 MHz, and the upper end
on frequencies above 14.150 MHz

D. The upper frequency end on frequencies below 7.3 MHz, and the lower end
on frequencies above 14.150 MHz

 

E5C01 Which of the following represents capacitive reactance in rectangular
notation?

A. -jX

B. +jX

C. Delta

D. Omega

 

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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Details for TNG ZOOM meeting 

The Web link, Meeting ID and Password is now the SAME through June 2021!!

Topic: TNG Recurring

Time: Aug 13, 2020 06:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

        Every week on Thu, until June, 2021

Please download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your
calendar system.

Weekly:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/tZcvfuyqrzIoHtd7qGlnMRq9Hg9c6f-gEc9r/ics?ics
Token=98tyKuGrrDIvGNWcsh2ERpwqAIr4Z-rzmFhBgrdZyw7CDy5-UBKvHuUbMeR5Xd_1 

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83295219243?pwd=MEpyMmtWTVB0dThKK2V2d0w1S1BxUT09

Meeting ID: 832 9521 9243

Passcode: 023704

One tap mobile

+13017158592,,83295219243#,,,,,,0#,,023704# US (Germantown)

+13126266799,,83295219243#,,,,,,0#,,023704# US (Chicago)

Dial by your location

        +1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)

        +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)

        +1 646 558 8656 US (New York)

        +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)

        +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)

        +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)

Meeting ID: 832 9521 9243

Passcode: 023704

Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kpFFuLj3o 

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Answers:

T7D01 = B.

G1A11 = B. [FCC Part 97.301]

E5C01 = A.

Quiz #127



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