[K3pzn-board] Re: February Meeting

[Bill Mellema]

Steve & Gang:

I will be on vacation the week of Feb 9th, so I won't be able to attend the 
Feb club meeting.....I will be at the BOD meeting this   Wednesday evening 
however.

Have a good weekend...

73's

Bill N3WM




At 07:45 PM 1/16/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Steve,
>
>I mentioned to Bill the idea of testing HT's at the February meeting.  While
>neither one of us is 100% sure that we can make it, I'll try to fill in for
>Bill if he is unavailable.  I have my IFR-1200S which I will check against
>the IFR COM-120C that we have on loan from the factory to ensure its
>accuracy.
>
>To save time, I would suggest that we hold testing in the club station room
>will the meeting is in progress.  If Bill can make it, we could run two test
>stations.  I can also setup a user test station with a Bird 43 into a dummy
>load so that the members can simply plug in and test their output power
>levels.  I'll have a BNC cable and BNC-to-SMA adapter.
>
>What tests are we doing?  Output power, modulation, deviation, frequency
>error, receiver sensitivity, CTCSS, DTMF?  In order to test the Yaesu VX-5
>and VX-7, an adapter cable is needed.  This cable splits off the 4 conductor
>1/8" phone plug to seperate 2 conductor 1/8" female mic/earphone jackets.  I
>need to purchase one of these cables and will do so if I can get by HRO in
>DE by then.
>
>Anyway, I'll do whatever I can to help out with this.
>
>73 al k3ze