[K3pzn-board] Happy New Year (and it's here !)

Wed Jan 7 12:29:59 EST 2009

Andy

great to hear from you.  given shortness of time, let's see if Steve bites on presenting what he learned and how it may apply to further building our club.  if so, its a great topic to launch our year.  

wireless networking at home sounds like an interesting topic - but maybe its best to give you until Feb to prepare ?  yes the info is out there but real-world experience would be great help to mortals like myself who stumble a lot in digital hardware/software integration.  

in more primitive efforts - i did get my USB-to-K2 interface successfully working with a USB/serial adaptor.  then i tried to send CW via a parallel port with mixed results.  i guess i would like to understand what a modestly equipped 'Writelog' station does for sending CW without a serial port.  surprisingly, at least when using my lower-end contesting program GenLog, sending CW benefits from having more RAM to my surprise!  (maybe i'll borrow our other PC that has more RAM and a serial port for the ARRL CW DX contest!  i have explored N1MM, but it's not so easy to use nor integrate.  i also wish to integrate for RTTY).  

73, curt

--- On Wed, 1/7/09, wo3l at comcast.net <wo3l at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: wo3l at comcast.net <wo3l at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [K3pzn-board] Happy New Year (and it's here !)
> To: "Board of Directors of the Carroll County Amateur Radio Club" <k3pzn-board at mailman.qth.net>, wb8yyy at yahoo.com, "Board of Directors of the Carroll County Amateur Radio Club" <k3pzn-board at mailman.qth.net>
> Cc: n3sb at qis.net
> Date: Wednesday, January 7, 2009, 6:39 AM
> I  was planning to catch that but ended up repairing my
> internet connection last nite instead, almost made it in
> time but not quite. 
> 
> So do we have a presentation for the Jan meeting? If
> nothing is lined up I am (hopefully) completing a wireless
> networking project at home this weekend, linking 2
> buildings. I can share my success (or failure) with the
> group on Monday.
> 
> Andy
> 
> -------------- Original message -------------- 
> From: n3sb at qis.net 
> 
> > Gentlemen; 
> > 
> > For those of you who were not aware, or were unable to
> attend -- 
> > 
> > There was a very good ARRL Atlantic Division webinar
> last night on building 
> > clubs. A good portion of it was devoted to meetings
> & presentations. 
> > 
> > An electronic copy of the presentation should be
> available shortly; I will 
> > forward a copy to you all when it is. 
> > 
> > Curt's email has ideas that are very similar to
> what I heard last night. 
> > 
> > 73; Steve, N3SB 
> > 
> > Quoting Curt Milton : 
> > 
> > > Honestly I hadn't thought any of club matters
> for the past couple weeks (nor 
> > > work either!). I am re-engaged FWIW. 
> > > 
> > > Inquiry - do we have anything planned for the Jan
> meeting (one week from 
> > > today I think ...) ? 
> > > 
> > > We have had some casual discussion on small
> mod's to our meeting format, 
> > > maybe its time to start making some small
> adjustments ? 
> > > 
> > > My thoughts: 
> > > a) we kinda agreed we don't want business to
> be an overwhelming presence 
> > > 
> > > b) maybe we need to bound our
> presentation/technical portion to some 
> > > reasonable bounds ? note detailed
> questions/dialog can be invited to spill 
> > > into the after-meeting time, to not tie up the
> less-interested .... 
> > > 
> > > c) new thought for me -- perhaps include some
> public/emergency service 
> > > communications focus every meeting - awareness
> and training are key thoughts. 
> > > is ~ 15 minutes of informal training in something
> worth considering ? i 
> > > admit to not knowing many of the acronyms in use
> - we ought at least prepare 
> > > the club to be engaged in anything happening in
> the upcoming month ? this 
> > > may be worth some fresh/modulated thinking of you
> all in the know 
> > > 
> > > i am kinda interested in what unique/useful
> beyond voice communications 
> > > capability we can further integrate into our
> operations, and hopefully 
> > > demonstrate in exercises 
> > > 
> > > d) engaging those who don't regularly attend
> -- we ought to think thru how we 
> > > can be involved with those hams busy raising
> family, etc who don't come to 
> > > meetings or are rare birds. let me work on this
> some more! i related since 
> > > i was once a rare bird 
> > > 
> > > e) how about a YL net on the repeater ? maybe we
> can recruit a team of YL's 
> > > to get something going? (someday when we have
> youth, perhaps another net 
> > > ...). 
> > > 
> > > f) other - i did get invited to the Washington Co
> area club Xmas party (based 
> > > on my MD QSO party involvement). nice group of
> folk, well until ARES is 
> > > mentioned as it doesn't exist there perhaps
> for multiple reasons! i sense 
> > > WI3N has some additional fence mending to do, of
> course it helps to have 
> > > KZ3AB as his more-than-able assistant. WI3N by
> the way is an excellent 
> > > singer! 
> > > 
> > > they do have the 'challenge' that many of
> their members live in PA, and a few 
> > > in WV - so state boundaries are less evident
> there than say in Carroll 
> > > County! 
> > > 
> > > g) technical - toward encouraging member
> interest, and more for my own 
> > > interest: 
> > > 
> > > - i essentially completed my research on regens,
> and i can almost describe 
> > > one, and my prototype of a solid state regen is
> about 80% assembled 
> > > 
> > > - a smaller project being considered, i wish to
> build a simple digital mode 
> > > interface that operates without RS-232 or USB,
> but uses transmit audio to key 
> > > the transmitter -- anyway its in the ARRL
> handbook and my current shack PC 
> > > has no serial port 
> > > 
> > > I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday
> celebration, time with family/friends 
> > > and maybe a little ham radio. I operated a little
> in the RTTY contest with 
> > > very little station automation, but managed to
> have fun. MMTTY is nifty at 
> > > receiving signals that my S-meter doesn't
> see, and most of the time I could 
> > > contact those I heard. 
> > > 
> > > 73, curt 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >
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> > > 
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