There is now a new how to area on the website, on the right under RARC.
Currently there are 3 sets of instructions
The May newsletter is available here
President John DeMajo, K5HTZ, convened the meeting at 7pm April 10, 2020 on the Chesterfield repeater, 137.60. At the same time over 20 members also signed on to Skype for the visual part of the meeting. All the audio was through the repeater. Minutes of the meeting will appear in the next newsletter.
After the formal meeting ended, Tom Flippin, KD4CMK, served as net control to take the roll of all present.
It was different.
Thanks to Robert Vest, KA4CBB, trustee for the Chesterfield repeater, for permission to use it.
After the meeting the question of why Skype and not Zoom. Some club members are current or retired computer professionals who follow software development. They saw the growing security, privacy, and intrusion issues happening with Zoom. Skype had a better reputation on those issues, so the choice. One example from Tech Republic:
The April Newsletter is now available. Here
The United Methodist Bishop responsible for the local churches – like other area church leaders – has closed all local UM churches until March 30 to minimize the passing of the Corvid-19 virus. Therefore RARC school classes, FCC exams, and other activities will not be held.
With proper “social distancing” the RARC met on 13 March. Because many could not be there, the presentation was recorded. Find it at:
The March Newsletter is now available. Here
Fifteen folk signed up to become new hams by taking the Technician class taught by George Starke. We did not have enough students for any of the other classes or seminars. That usually doesn’t happen in the spring. Maybe it was the not-really-winter season we had.
Two presentations, one by John DeMajo, K5HTZ, and a second by Ken Zutavern, K4ZUT, at the 10 January 2020 RARC club meeting are outlined here.
John DeMajo Mag Loop presentation
John‘s presentation is available by clicking this link: loop-antenna-project
John’s spreadsheet calculator is at mag_loop_calculator.
Ken showed another design that used a hand-wound toroid transformer instead of a small loop to feed the large loop.
K4ZUT toroid transformer and motor-driven capacitor tuning
Ken’s loop also used a motor to turn the tuning capacitor. This allows him to locate the loop away from his operating position.
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After years of Chris Walker, N4CBW, generously hosting our website rarclub.net on his site, we’ve moved it to another server. It’s taken almost a month longer than than expected but the webmaster (W4BRU) is pretty rusty not having done this since 2009.