A report on the Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club Board of Directors meeting will occur at 0700 to 0800 during the Cuckoo Net on the normal repeaters on the Thursday following the second Wednesday of the month. At this time, messages, suggestions, and comments will be transcribed , and these will be presented to the board at the next board meeting. [AnythingPopup id=”7″]
Dave K6HWN conducted a great discussion on station grounding. Steve KI6HGH provided a lot of technical information as did Theo KK6YYZ who is a licensed electrician. You can read more about the Technical Mentoring and Elmering Net here. Listen in next week on Thursday at 8:00pm for another great discussion.
Last nights net was very active with a lot of good discussion about antennas and lead lines. Two of the participants have recently installed new end fed antennas that have impressive all band, 6m to 160m coverage. The particular models we discussed are the DXtreme from UTILMAX Antennas. We also operated JT65 with several of the checkins participating. Jt65 is a fun mode that works especially well with very weak signals. There are several JT65 programs available for Windows and Mac. The image below was captured last month using a JT65 variant called JT65-HF-HB9HQX Edition. Click on the image below to view it full size. We will be going on the air next week and learn more about this mode, so try to check in!
