[SFDXA] July 1 Meeting

[Keith Garner]

I think a virtual meeting is a great idea. I haven't been able to attend a meeting in a long time, because I was out of town on meeting night. I think it's great Mickey is allowing the club use of the Zoom account.

Keith, K4ROX

-----Original Message-----
From: sfdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:sfdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Mickey Baker
Sent: Friday, June 26, 2020 3:22 PM
To: Bill
Cc: sfdxa at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [SFDXA] July 1 Meeting

I’m old enough to remember AM and all the folks complaining about SSB audio
quality and the “Donald Duck” complaints, so I’d encourage you not to
resemble those “crotchety old men.”

The media we are using now is Internet based. We could correspond via NTS
radiograms, but this conversation would run into next year.

It’s all about bandwidth. Bandwidth on normal amateur nodes is limited, so
data transfer rates are low, thus coherence is limited.

In the here and now, Internet communication is the gold standard. Your home
phone, mobile phone and almost all communication in the world uses Internet
protocol.

Zoom is the next best thing to being there.

Stay tuned for announcements of the first Virtual Hamfest coming soon,
sponsored by Icom, FlexRadio and others, sanctioned by the ARRL.

73,

Mickey N4MB

On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 12:04 PM Bill <bmarx at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Mickey,
> Well, using that same thinking the Dayton Hamvention should be online as
> well as the ARRL Convention, now scheduled for Orlando.
>
> My thinking  is the spirit of the Ham Radio club is not internet based.
> I'd say less than 10% of active members cannot reach the 2 meter
> repeater so I suggested HF as the alternative.
>
> Asking for our thoughts and ideas is what Randy asked for...and I added
> mine.
> 73,
> Bill Marx W2CQ
>
>
> On 6/26/2020 11:40 AM, Kai wrote:
> > Hi Bill,
> > We are also not a hospital group either, but that was how we met prior
> > to the pandemic. Many of us are out of range of the K4FK repeater, and
> > HF is not practical (except for some people, after sundown using NVIS
> > techniques on 160 m or 80 m and perhaps as high as 40 m depending on
> > foF2), but again, for several of us without home stations, our primary
> > station is the currently unavailable K4FK station. That's why I joined
> > the club! Also, on-air meetings lack video presentation capability!
> > *We don't have to buy or subscribe to anything to use zoom
> > professional edition:* our ARRL director said in a previous mail that:
> >
> > If the group would like to try Zoom on July 1, I would be happy to
> > host the
> > meeting with my ARRL Zoom Account.
> > Let me know.
> > 73,
> > Mickey Baker, N4MB
> > Director, Southeastern Division
> > ARRL
> >
> >
> > Please, let's try zoom.
> > With kindest regards,
> > Kai, KE4PT
> >
> > On 6/24/2020 13:18, Bill wrote:
> >> We are an Amateur Radio DX Club formed in 1974. We have one of the
> >> best repeaters in South Florida. We are not an Internet Club. To have
> >> to buy or subscribe to something to use the internet to hold a
> >> meeting seems very odd to me. I never found the need myself for a
> >> microphone or camera on the PC. The SFDXA held weekly nets and
> >> various round tables on the repeater for over 20 years.
> >>
> >> The repeater has a wide range, but if we want to include those out of
> >> range, then maybe hold the Meeting on perhaps 10 Meters or 75 or 40.
> >> We all have radios and Antennas if we are interested in DXing, don't we?
> >>
> >> Bill W2CQ
> >>
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