[DARARepeater] Thursday Night Group

[George]

TNG – getting young people into ham radio 

 HAMFEST 

Projects 

** License Exam Questions – 210

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The Thursday Night Group will meet IN PERSON

Thursday, Oct 27, 2022 

Speakers will start about 7:30.

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Things this week:  

TNG – getting young people into ham radio

Tom, N8Zm, will talk about Ideas for getting more young people into ham radio? Like 8 - 14-year-olds, before they get distracted by high school social life.

 

<note> this was a topic at the September DARA board meeting.  

This might be a great time for TNG to help solve this problem.  George WD8NHI

 

Even though masks are not required feel free to wear a mask if you feel more comfortable.  There will be some wearing mask so you will not be the only one.

 

PLEASE if you are having any of the COVID symptoms DO NOT come to the clubhouse. 

 

HAMFEST 

 

Most of these are from The Ohio Section Journal http://arrl-ohio.org/ 

 

10/30/2022 - Massillon Hamfest (OH)

Location: Green, OH
Sponsor: Massillon Amateur Radio Club
Website: http://w8np.org <http://w8np.org/> 

 

11/19 & 20/2021 - Fort Wayne Hamfest    

Location: Allen County War Memorial Coliseum and Exposition Center
Sponsor: Fort Wayne Hamfest
Website: https://fortwaynehamfest.com/  

12/03/2022 – FCARC WinterFest

Location: Archbold, OH
Sponsor: Fulton County Amateur Radio Club
Website: https://k8bxq.org/hamfest

 

Projects 

Keep working on your projects at home OR bring them with you to TNG and do them there.   

** License Exam Questions – 210

The quiz topic this week is FM.

 

T7B10 What might be a problem if you receive a report that your audio signal through an FM repeater is distorted or unintelligible?

A. Your transmitter is slightly off frequency

B. Your batteries are running low

C. You are in a bad location

D. All these choices are correct

 

G8B07 What is the frequency deviation for a 12.21 MHz reactance modulated oscillator in a 5 kHz deviation, 146.52 MHz FM phone transmitter?

A. 101.75 Hz

B. 416.7 Hz

C. 5 kHz

D. 60 kHz

 

E8B04 What is the modulation index of an FM-phone signal having a maximum carrier deviation of plus or minus 6 kHz when modulated with a 2 kHz modulating frequency?

A. 6000

B. 3

C. 2000

D. 1/3

 

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 evenings.

Everyone is invited!!! 

 

 

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Answers:

T7B10 = D.

G8B07 = B.

E8B04 = B.

Quiz 210

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