What’s happening at SBARC? Here you will find the latest club news, events, projects, net activities, and news from our special interest groups (SIGS).
Be sure to check in frequently so you don’t miss out on any of the interesting things going on with the club and its members!
We have moved content for the Technical Mentoring and Elmering Net here, and content for the Digital Modes Net here.
0:00 Pre-meeting chatter
26:30 Meeting Start and Intros
53:30 Tracking Transpacific Airliners Presentation Start
1:27:10 Questions & Answers
Meeting Presentation Slides (pdf)
Our November Club Meeting was host to our Board of Directors election as well as a presentation by Levi C. Maaia – K6LCM on using your ham equipment and/or computer or smartphone to listen in on transpacific airline traffic on the VHF and HF bands.
Hams aren’t the only ones using HF on a daily basis for reliable, long-distance communications. Airline pilots use HF frequencies from 2800 kHz to 22 MHz as their primary means of communication with shore stations during oceanic flights. These comms can be received by anyone with an HF SSB tuner and provide interesting data points for HF propagation. Aircraft are even sending PSK over HF! Levi showed us a tracking demonstration of a flight from Los Angeles (LAX) to Sydney (SYD) as well as pointed us toward some resources for tracking and listening in on our own, with or without a radio!
Last month we tried to have a demonstration on FT8 but had difficulties with the amount of computer horsepower necessary to run both Zoom and the radio software. So this month, we are going to do a Power Point presentation instead. This is probably a good approach in that explaining how it works will help it make more sense when actually used in practice.
Also, it is almost election time again. So next month we will have our very first Zoom election! We’ll talk about this and the modified procedures we will use.
Here are the Zoom details below:
SBARC K6TZ is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: SBARC General Meeting October 16, 2020
Time: Oct 16, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82955222894
Meeting ID: 829 5522 2894
Or watch on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwuros6JJto
Post expires at 11:00pm on Friday October 16th, 2020 but will still be available in the archives.
Featured in the October 2020 QST magazine, Ham Bootcamp is a series of demonstrations and tutorials sponsored by the Nashua (N.H.) Area Radio Society designed to help newly licensed Technician, General, and Extra class license holders get on the air and use their amateur radio license. Bootcamp is also a great opportunity for prospective Hams who are interested in seeing what the hobby has to offer.
Despite the limitations imposed in light of covid-19, Ham Bootcamp continues in an online format. The Ham Bootcamp online program is available to all licensed and prospective Hams in North America.
Visit the Nashua Area Radio Society website to register!
The audio archive of this net can best be followed by downloading the .mp3 file for the appropriate date here and listening with the media player of your choice. You can move the progress slider forward or backward to the subject of interest to you.
We had another interesting net tonight with 13 check-ins plus net control Ken, KA6KEN. Tonight’s topics included:
Tune in to the SBARC TM&E Net every Thursday at 8:00 PM local (2000 Hrs) and see what interesting ham radio questions might arise or ask some of your own! All club members and visitors are encouraged to check in to the net each week.
We are still ZOOMing for club meetings. It seems likely we’ll still be meeting this way for the foreseeable future. On the one hand ZOOM meetings don’t allow the personal interaction we enjoy at “real” meetings, but on the other hand, a lot of members who cannot attend regular meetings ARE able to participate in the ZOOM meetings. When we return to having in-person meetings again, I think we will also integrate ZOOM into the picture so more members can join in on the fun.
This month we have some club business to talk about. There are some changes, new projects, and we have an election coming up in November. We’ll talk about the latest club news, and I’ll explain how we are going to conduct the election.
I am also going to do a presentation on using the HF digital mode, FT8. This an extremely popular mode and is packed with users all day and night. It is very similar to JT65 but much faster. You can really rack up contacts quickly.
Please check back on this website around 7pm on meeting night. As we have done in the past, we’ll post the ZOOM and YouTube links.
See you then and 73!
Brian – K6BPM
Post expires at 9:30pm on Friday September 18th, 2020 but will still be available in the archives.
This month we had a presentation by Denny N6HV from Ventura on EME (Earth-Moon-Earth) operation.
If you are interested in downloading the PowerPoint presentation, click here.
The audio archive of this net can best be followed by downloading the .mp3 file for the appropriate date here and listening with the media player of your choice. You can move the progress slider forward or backward to the subject of interest to you.
We had another interesting net tonight with 5 check-ins plus net control Brian, K6BPM. Tonight’s topics included:
Tune in to the SBARC TM&E Net every Thursday at 8:00 PM local (2000 Hrs) and see what interesting ham radio questions might arise or ask some of your own! All club members and visitors are encouraged to check in to the net each week.
