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September Club Meeting and License Testing Moved From 9/20 to 9/21
Due to the EOC needing their conference room on the evening of the 20th of September, we've rescheduled our club meeting and the preceding license exam session to the 21st (Wednesday).
The exam session will begin at 5:30 PM MDT and the club meeting at 7:00 PM MDT.
We expect to return to our normal schedule of the third Tuesday of each month beginning in October.
73,
Rick Fletcher, W7YP
Celebration of Life For Gary Roberts (KF7VQO) SK
A Celebration of Life for Gary Roberts, KF7VQO, will be held at the Crossroads Christian Fellowship in Bigfork on Saturday, 9/17, from 2-5 PM.
The local ham community meant a lot to Gary and his wife Sheri (KF7VQP) would be honored to have his ham friends attend. There will be a time during the celebration when those who wish can share their own fond memories of Gary.
Refreshments will be provided after the service.
Location
146.760(-) REPEATER IS BACK ON THE AIR
After Spectrum abandoned their Blacktail Mt site, forcing us to remove our repeater as well, we bought a new Hytera "mixed-mode" DMR/Analog FM repeater to replace the old GE Master II.
The Hytera is located on Buffalo Hill in Kalispell (hosted by KA5HKT, who owns RadioActive) and is now operational. To use it in analog mode, you need to reconfigure your radios to use CDCSS (DCS) instead of CTCSS (Tone). The DCS code you'll want to use in your radios' encode and decode programming is 152N. The "N" stands for "Normal"; that is, noninverted, which is represented by an "I" instead of "N".
DCS is more robust than simple tone squelch and, if your analog programming for this repeater channel uses it in your radio's RX configuration, you won't be bothered by the otherwise annoying buzz that you'll hear when the channel is being used by a DMR conversation.
This repeater is linked to the Brandmeister DMR global network, meaning that, through it while in DMR mode, you can converse around the world with other hams in any one of hundreds of "Talk Groups (TG)" (Think "chat room").
Unlike analog FM repeaters, DMR repeaters can support two simultaneous conversations, with one on Time Slot 1 (TS1) and the other on TS2. Talk Groups NW7RG and MPRG1 are statically assigned to TS1 and the Montana TG is statically assigned to TS2. TS2 can also be used for dynamic assignments which last for 15 minutes at a time.
Both Time Slots used Color Code 1 (CC1).
More information about the Brandmeister global repeater and hot spot network and its long list of Talk Groups can be found here: www.brandmeister.network.
Please show your appreciation to KA5HKT (Mark) by visiting his store at 35 Heritage Way in Kalispell, or online at: http://radioactiveinc.com/.
Club Meeting - March 21, 2023
We will meet at our usual time of 7 PM.
Since the recent shooting down of a Chinese high altitude balloon off the coast of South Carolina, there's been much discussion within the media and elsewhere regarding the possible use of such balloons to deliver nuclear EMP devices over the U.S.
Some media reports have predicted that such devices would wipe out 95% of the nation's power grid and, over the course of the following year, lead to the death of roughly 90% of our country's population.
Other experts claim that such apocalyptic scenarios are highly unlikely and that those promoting such doomsday scenarios are engaging in fear-mongering for political reasons.
So, the topic of our next club meeting presentation will be "Nuclear EMP Weapons: Facts, Myths, Unknowns and Speculation".
Hope to see you there!
Location
Ham & Eggs
Every Saturday morning at 9am at the 4B's Restaurant, 660 E Idaho St, Kalispell.
This is an informal get-together for an "eyeball QSO".
EVERYONE is invited, especially NEW hams! This is an excellent forum for new hams to be able to sit down with seasoned hams and absorb the hobby! Come on down and enjoy some GREAT Amateur Radio talk over coffee, ham and eggs!
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