TNG – contest, TNG budget & TNG-Fest

DARA General Membership Meeting THIS FRIDAY Sept 9

Small Computer SIG * NOTICE *

HAMFEST

Projects

** License Exam Questions – 203

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The Thursday Night Group will meet IN PERSON

Thursday, Sept 8, 2022

Speakers will start about 7:30.

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Things this week:

TNG – contest, TNG budget & TNG-Fest

This week Tom, N8ZM, will talk about this weekend’s 2022 ARRL September VHF Contest. The DARA Planning Council need to know what dollar amount TNG is wanting the next year. So, we need to talk about what we need.

TNG-Fest – when do we want to have our next one?

As always you can work on your projects, radios or just chat with friends. There are a lot of different groups all doing their thing with different radios. Come see what’s happening. Just good talk amongst friends.

Even though mask 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.

DARA General Membership Meeting THIS FRIDAY Sept 9

DARA Membership Meeting September 9, 2022

Our first DARA Membership Meeting will takeplace Friday September 9, 2022, at the Greene County Fairgrounds in the Mercantile Building at 7:00pm. The meeting will be in-person and on Zoom for those unable to attend.

We are all interested in the weather, every day we check the weather before we plan our day. Many of our members are Storm Spotters and since we all have an interest in the weather and how it effects our lives, our speaker, this month, will be Matthew Campbell, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Wilmington, Ohio. Matthew will be focusing his talk on how weather forecasts are made.

DARA Membership Meeting September 9, 2022

Look forward to seeing everyone again as the new season of meetings begins,

Topic: DARA Membership Meeting

Time: Sep 9, 202207:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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Small Computer SIG * NOTICE *

The Single Board Computer SIG WILL NOT have a meeting on September 10th. September 10th is Ohio State Parks On the Air. I hope all the hams will have a chance to take part. The Huber Heights ARC will be at Sycamore State Park. You are welcome to join us or just stop by to see Ham Radio in action.

We now have a groups.io message area for the Single Board Computer SIG. The message is currently set up for limited access. Just send a message asking for access to the message system. The Message system is named “SBC-SIG”. You can search groups.io for “SBC-SIG” or go to the message system with the full address https://groups.io/g/sbc-sig

Dave KE8DOC

HAMFEST

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

09/11/2022 - Findlay Hamfest

Location: Findlay, OH

Sponsor: Findlay Radio Club

Website: https://www.findlayradioclub.org/

09/17/2022 - Mound Amateur Radio Assoc. Swap Meet

Location: Miamisburg, OH

Sponsor: MARA

Website: http://W8DYY.ORG

09/25/2022 - Cleveland Hamfest

Location: Berea, OH

Sponsor: Hamfest Association of Cleveland

Website: http://www.hac.org

10/15/2022 - Portsmouth Radio Club Hamfest

Location: New Boston, OH
Sponsor: Portsmouth Rado Club, Jett Fire, Shawnee
Website: http://www.portsmouthradioclub.org

10/30/2022 - Massillon Hamfest (OH)

Location: Green, OH
Sponsor: Massillon Amateur Radio Club
Website: 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 – 203

The CQ WW RTTY contest runs September 23-25 (local time). There are few RTTY-specific questions in the question pools, so the quiz topic this week is digital modes.

T8D10 Which of the following operating activities is supported by digital mode software in the WSJT-X software suite?

A. Earth-Moon-Earth

B. Weak signal propagation beacons

C. Meteor scatter

D. All these choices are correct

G2E14 What could be wrong if you cannot decode an RTTY or other FSK signal even though it is apparently tuned in properly?

A. The mark and space frequencies may be reversed

B. You may have selected the wrong baud rate

C. You may be listening on the wrong sideband

D. All these choices are correct

E8D07 What is a common cause of overmodulation of AFSK signals?

A. Excessive numbers of retries

B. Ground loops

C. Bit errors in the modem

D. Excessive transmit audio levels

For more information about B-Road Thursday Evening Group Projects…

Go to W8BI homepage (http://www.w8bi.org) under Education, Thursday Group.

Go to (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:

T8D10 = D.

G2E14 = D.

E8D07 = D.

Quiz 203