date

2021-08-10

opened

20:00

closed

20:37

Check-ins (18)

• Matthew Barry (KG5LYE)
• Lorna Flansburg (KI5FIZ)
• Rich Rychetsky (KI5QNR)
• Bill Rose (K5WTR)
• Travis Scott (KI5TMS)
• Ralph Cobb (W5RYC)
• Ron Hambric (N5SBN)
• Lee Lance (KK5QO)
• Garrett Martin (W5HVS)
• Joe Napoli (KG5SDF)
• Robert Carter (NC5R)
• Don Ling (WB5CKO)
• Rick Pfeil (W4RDP)
• Jeff McDowell (KI5CES)
• Phil Gates (N5ZKF)
• Chris MacCannell (W5FN)
• Harold Turbyfill (KG5SDG)
• Bennie Naiser (KA5TWB)

Officer Reports

President Phil Gates (N5ZKF)

• Tropical weather brewing in the … well … tropics
  • weather watch nets: 14.325 and 7.268
  • don’t talk unless you have active hurricanes to report! 😛
• Next meeting 2021-08-23 09:30
  • American Legion Post 159
  • Auxiliary room
  • Be aware of rising COVID cases
• Presentation on Winlink by Ron Hambric (N5SBN) and Jim Hanks Jr. (W5CYN)
• Get on the air:
  • MD and DC area CW QSO contest
  • KY State Parks on the Air
  • Special events coming up:
    • World’s largest teapot in WV
    • Ham Nation’s 500th online video show
    • NU5DE… I’ll let you look that one up yourself
    • W5INS
    • Navajo Code Talkers: N7C
    • Hedy Lamarr: K5H
    • USS Midway: NI6IW

Vice-President Rick Pfeil (W4RDP)

• Things have been quiet lately
  • Get on the air and exercise your privileges

Secretary Matthew Barry (KG5LYE)

• Net minutes will be sent out as usual
• Getting decorations up in the house and just got Internet equipment in!

Treasurer Lorna Flansburg (KI5FIZ)

• Current bank balance: $6,817.30

Announcements / Comments

Question for conversation: Do you have any ham radio equipment in a vehicle?

Bill Rose (K5WTR)

• If you have a license plate that has your callsign on it, you have to have a radio in the vehicle.
  • A Baofeng HT does the trick…
• keep in mind: easy to look up your name and address, so drive friendly and safely! 🙂

Rick Pfeil (W4RDP)

• In process of getting my own radio operator license plates!
• can get up to 3 copies for your vehicles

Matthew Barry (KG5LYE)

• It always makes me smile when I see other people with radio operator plates
• Ran into Craig Lang at ISP Supplies (off Hwy 30) earlier today
  • Got to shake his hand and thank him for his work on the W5BCS repeater antenna
  • Small world!

Don Ling (WB5CKO)

• Reason you’re required to have a working radio is because if you are summoned for emergency communications, you need to be able to contact.
• Your name has to be on the title for the vehicle, not someone else’s
• Perseid meteor shower this weekend
  • Best results 00:00/03:00
  • 150 meteors per hour
  • If you’re willing to try meteor scatter propagation, wait for “ping” on 2m, 6m, and 10m bands… Should give you a few seconds of propagation

Phil Gates (N5ZKF)

• Monitor calling frequency(-ies) if someone sees you rolling down the road and wants to talk with you 🙂

Joe Napoli (KG5SDF)

• calling frequencies?
• N5ZKF:
  • 2m: 144.2 SSB, 146.520 FM
  • 6m: 50.125 SSB, 52.525 FM
  • 70cm: 432.1 SSB, 446.0 FM

Information Exchange

Rich Rychetsky (KI5QNR)

• Thanks to everyone at Field Day, where I got my license
• Elevation hurdles… hard to work simplex without using repeaters… Anyone with advice?
  • N5ZKF:
    • 146.490 MHz FM “rag chew” every night
    • Mobile rigs
  • KG5LYE:
    • Need to get a higher power rig (50 W)
    • put your antenna on a pole or tower)
  • N5ZKF:
    • high-gain antennas
    • sometimes conditions really open up (tropospheric ducting)
  • W5RYC:
    • good advice so far!
    • VHF simplex is line-of-sight, so the higher you can get your antenna, the better