[TMRA] TMRA Announcements 021019

Sun Feb 10 10:23:58 EST 2019

Hello All,

The Tech Committee has been hard at work performing updates to the Repeaters. There may be intermediate disruptions in Repeater availability from time to time until this work is completed. Thanks to the entire crew of the Committee for their efforts.

The February General Meeting Presentation will be presented by TMRAs own Rob Hall KV8P and will be an Introduction to SDRs. It will include info on its advantages and will include a demonstration.

The March General Meeting will include a remote Presentation from Randy/WU2S and will be about using the AREDN NET Mesh Network. The Presentation will focus on needed Equipment and common applications  and use of a MESH Network.

AN UPDATED VERSION OF FLDIGI IS  AVAILABLE ( 01/29/19 )

In the event that a Snow Emergency is declared on the day of any TMRA Event, that event will be cancelled. Please monitor the 147.270 repeater on the day of any event or Meeting. 

The Education Committee is in the process of Planning the Spring Technicians Class.

***NEW THIS WEEK***

The February Newsletter is on-line at the website  

Hamfest Updates

***COMING SOON***
Info on the TMRA 2019 Event Schedule
Info on the C.W. Training Sessions
Things to know about 
Info on Hamfest 
INFO ON THE HAMVENTION BUS

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The following information is for the good of the T.M.R.A. and its Members.

 EVENTS

Here is a list of events for 2019.

C.W. TRAINING SESSIONS
TMRA 2019 HAMFEST
TMRA SPRING TECH CLASS
HAMVENTION BUS
LCARES GLASS CITY MARATHON
LCARES MUDDY MINI
MONTHLY TMRA MEETINGS
MONTHLY ARES MEETINGS
TMRA V.E.SESSIONS
NVIS ANTENNA DAY
OHIO QSO PARTY
MUSEUM SHIPS ON THE AIR
FIELD DAY
OHIO STATE PARKS ON THE AIR
AND MUCH MUCH MORE

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TMRA HAMFEST 

Final planning is occurring and we are getting the final details locked down. Once again the TMRA Hamfest is shaping up to be an AWESOME Event.

TMRA Hamfest 2019
Owens Community College
Student Activity Center
30335 Oregon Road
Perrysburg Ohio 43551
Sunday March 17th 2019 from 08:00 am through 14:00 pm

As in Past years there will be a V.E. Session, Forums, excellent Vendors as well as Door and Cash Prizes. This Year there will be six $50.00 dollar, and one $100.00 cash prizes and the Grand Prize drawing is for $200.00. There will also be many door prizes. 

The Tickets are just $8.00 and as always Parking is FREE.

Members are reminded that the Hamfest is the primary source of Income for the Club. Please be sure to Volunteer some time at the Hamfest. We often are short handed at critical Times and even just an hour of your time can go a long, long way.

The Silent Auction will be returning to Hamfest in 2019. The Auction Organizer has already begun to gather donations for the Auction. This year, the Money Raised will go to the completion of the Yaesu FT450D Station. This will include a Power Supply and Antenna Tuner.  We were able to purchase this Station with the proceeds of last years auction. Keep an eye on this section for future News, including Items that will be offered. If you have Items that you would like to donate for the Auction, please contact Toby / KE8CZO. All Proceeds from this Auction go to purchasing Equipment for Club Member use.
You can contact Toby at ke8czo at gmail.com 

TO DOWNLOAD A PRINTABLE VERSION OF THIS YEARS HAMFEST FLYER PLEASE FOLLOW THIS LINK TO TMRAs WEBSITE.

http://www.tmrahamradio.org/Hamfest/hamfest-flyer.pdf

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO POST ONE ON YOUR FAVORITE BULLETIN BOARD!!!
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TMRA APPAREL.

The TMRA apparel store can be found at www.goldmedalideas.com/tmra .  Gold Medal Ideas can now process orders directly from you via their website, with the specific apparel selection, color and additional callsign/name options (as you choose).  Please check back, however, as TMRA does expect to be adding some new logo options to the site very soon.  

This online store is handled entirely by Gold Medal Ideas, the same group that attends our TMRA Hamfest each year.  In fact, if you order something now, you will see the countdown to our Hamfest on the store website indicating that they could deliver it to you at the Hamfest without any shipping.  

Please let us know if you have a preference for any specific kind of clothing or colors that you don't see available so that we can consider future additions.  

Rob Hall - KV8P
Toledo Mobile Radio Association - President
kv8p at kv8p.com

THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT

The TMRA Website has a file section with helpful info for all Hams. Just go to www.tmrahamradio.org and click on the Picture Gallery/Docs tab. After you look at all the archived Photos scroll to the Bottom of the Page for helpful Documents and Information.

Have you attended a Committee Meeting? You should. There is a whole lot of Club Business that is handled in the Committee Meetings. If you want to be a pert of the clubs Operation be sure to participate at the Tech Committee and the Executive Committee. Information on their Schedules is listed below.

The TMRA Tech Committee has done some work up at the Repeater site. The Downtown link is once again operating and is available for use.

The 6 Meter Repeater is back up and Running. The Weekly Net on this Repeater has returned. See info in the NET section below for this Net.

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LUCAS COUNTY A.R.E.S

The next ARES meeting will be SATURDAY FEBRUARY 23RD  AT 09:00 

The meeting will be held at 
St.Lukes Hospital in the private Basement Dining Room.
Come out early and join us for Breakfast in the Cafeteria.

ARES EDUCATION FEB 2019 
At the February meeting the Education program will feature a Mock NTS Traffic Net. Members will pass traffic in a real world/ off the air Net. If you would like to participate please create a short RadioGram and bring it to the Meeting. We will also be hoping to have an update on the Traffic that was created at the January Meeting.

All are welcome.

Want or need more info about Lucas County ARES? Contact Lucas County ARES E.C, Tim/KD8IZU you can email him at boxcar at toast.net

Be sure to visit the ARES website.
lucasares.org 

LUCAS COUNTY ARES INC
There will be a meeting of the Board of Trustees prior to the February Meeting. This meeting will start at 0800 in the main Basement Dining Room at St. Luke’s prior to the General ARES Meeting. 

LUCAS COUNTY ARES WILL CANCEL ANY MEETING IF THERE IS A LEVEL 2 OR 3 SNOW EMERGENCY THE DAY OF SAID MEETING!!!

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SKYWARN

The monthly Lucas County Skywarn Meetings have been cancelled until further notice!!!!

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 ****TMRA MEETINGS****

TMRA Tech Committee
When: Mon, Feb. 11th  2019 7PM-9PM
Where: Maumee Fire Station #2 Maumee Ohio
Description: Technical committee Meeting. This meeting is open to TMRA Members and Invited Guests only.

TMRA General Meeting
When: Wed, Feb 13th 2019 at 7:00 pm Doors will open at 6  
Where: Electrical Industries Building 727 LIME CITY ROAD, ROSSFORD, OH 43460 
Description: General Business Meeting, This Meeting is open to the public.

The February General Meeting Presentation will be presented by TMRAs own Rob Hall KV8P and will be an Introduction to SDRs. It will include info on its advantages and will include a demonstration.

The March General Meeting will include a remote Presentation from Randy/WU2S and will be about using the AREDN NET Mesh Network. The Presentation will focus on needed Equipment and common applications  and use of a MESH Network.

TMRA Executive Committee
When: Wednesday Feb. 27th from 7 till 9pm 
Where: Maumee Fire Station #2 Maumee Ohio
Description: Executive board members meet to discuss Club Business. This meeting is open to TMRA Members and invited guests only.
EXECUTIVE MEETING ARE CALLED ON A AS NEEDED BASIS BY ROB/KV8P

TMRA V.E.Session 
WHEN: SATURDAY March 09th  2019 0815-1015 AM
WHERE: MAUMEE FIRE STATION #2 MAUMEE OHIO
Get or Upgrade your license with the TMRA V.E Team. 
NO WALK-INS PLEASE !!!
Contact Steve/KC8TVW at kc8tvw at arrl.net

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TMRA NETS

 ARES IN BRIEF NET  on Sunday Nights at 1930 on the 147.270 Repeater. All are welcome to check in.

NEWCOMERS AND ELMERS NET (see note #1 below)

Are you new to Ham Radio, or so you just feel inexperienced, perhaps  you just have a question that you need answered?
Be sure to tune into the TMRA Newcomers and Elmers net each Sunday night at 8pm. This Net follows the ARES in brief Net on the 147.270 Repeater. 
 Net Control Stations for the Newcomers and Elmers Net are needed. If you would like to take the Net and try your hand at Net Control, or if you have a topic to suggest for the Net, get ahold of Dave / KD8EVN 
 kd8evn at arrl.net

DIGITAL SOUNDCARD NET
Are you interested in learning more about Digital Modes? Well then be sure to check into the FLDIGI Net every Tuesday Night at 1930 on the 147.270 repeater. All are welcome and New Operators are encouraged to check in and get up to speed on FLDIGI and MMSSTV. Its informative and a lot of fun.
For more info contact Steve / W8TER.
  w8ter at arrl.net

 6 METER NETS
DAN / KE8UE

Dan KE8UE, has asked me to list his weekly 6 Meter Nets. Dan runs 2 informal roundtable nets every week on the 6 Meter Band.
The first is  a repeater based net on Monday Nights on the TMRA 6 Meter Repeater. 
The Second is an  SSB based net on Thursday Nights on 6 meter SSB. 
Everyone is welcomed to check into these social Nets.

Mondays at 9pm. Roundtable Net on  53.110 with a negative 1 Mhz offset (W8HHF Repeater)

Thursday at 9pm. Roundtable Net on 50.255 USB 

Dan also advises that on the Second Monday of every Month he needs a Net Control Operator for this net.

ALL RADIO AMATEURS ARE WELCOMED TO CHECK INTO ANY TMRA NET.

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TMRA SOCIAL MEDIA AND INFORMATION SOURCES

TMRA FACEBOOK

The TMRA FACEBOOK  page is a very active source of information on both Club as well as General Ham Radio Information. The Media Managers for this account keep the page updated and full of great content, be sure to stop by and check it out.

Do a Facebook search for TMRA. Don't forget to give us a like so you can be sure to get notified of updates. 

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 INSTAGRAM 
The TMRA Instagram account is www.instagram.com/tmrahamradio
Bruce/AA8HS is the Social Media Manager for this account has the account up and running and is putting our Clubs Pictures and other fun Ham Radio related Pictures on the page already.
Be sure to stop by and check out the page.
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TMRA WEBSITE

www.tmrahamradio.org the clubs Webpage, has lots of great info about our club and the hobby. 
Webpage Manager Zack/N8ZAK is doing an excellent job with our Site. 
Included are the Calendar where you will see a full list of events.
The websites also has the clubs current and Archived News Letter(s).

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TMRA NEWSLETTER

The FEBRUARY 2019  Newsletter has been posted.

http://www.tmrahamradio.org/Newsletters/2019/Feb2019.pdf

Thanks to Glen / W8MUK and staff for all the great work he does on the newsletter. If you have a suggestion, or would like to add content, to the TMRA Newsletter, please contact Glen. He is always happy to have the added help.

Glen / W8MUK
w8muk at arrl.net

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FUND RAISING 

Don't forget to sign the TMRA up as your Organization of choice at  Kroger Community rewards and Amazon Smile.  This results in a donation to the club as a portion of your purchase. 

Smile.amazon.com

https://www.kroger.com/topic/columbus---community-rewards

For those of you that donate through Amazon or Kroger Community Rewards, please remember to update your accounts to direct your donations annually.

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My Final

The TMRA Information Officer is here to help you stay in touch with club activities. I am also here to help you promote activities.

If you have an activity, a question, or just some information that you want help distributing to the club, please feel free to email me. I'm happy to help. 

NOTE FROM WB8RG
It takes me some time every week to put together this email. I do the best I can to proof this entire list every week. If you  see a mistake, please feel free to notify me and I will correct it asap. 

Brad / WB8RG
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TMRA Repeaters

147.270 + 103.5pl
147.270 + 250.3pl
224.140 – no pl at this time
442.850 + 103.5pl
927.025 – 131.8PL
442.750 + DSTAR
146.835 – C4FM/WIRES X
144.390 APRS DIGIPETER
53.110 – (1MHZ) NO PL

LIVE STREAM 147.270 AT
https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/25392

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  www.tmrahamradio.org

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NOTE #1

****Newcomers and Elmers Net****

If you want to try your hand at being Net Control please contact Dave. You do not need to be an expert to run the net. Remember Net Controls job is to control the Net, not to necessarily  be the Star Role or the primary voice of information. Dave / KD8EVN can be contacted at kd8evn at arrl.net

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 BRADLEY F. RUHBERG / WB8RG
TMRA INFORMATION OFFICER
 tmrainformation at gmail.com
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