Welcome to another day with caution notices about the air quality. Maybe I should have said week. One thing about the smoke, a farmer friend said that the potash that is coming down is actually good for the crops.. sort of like when Mom said that Cod Liver Oil was good for us... well we are still here, so but it did not help my hair growth. Have you taken the opportunity during this "lock down" to check out any new things on the radio bands? Or study for the next level license?
I went back to some of my older software like FLdigi and WXJT-X and turned them on.. but it has been a while, so the rig control needed to be reset... As you or some of you may know, that time has a way of erasing some of the brains pathways. After some time of scratching the surface, I re introduced my self to Omni-rig.. This program has all the necessary data about almost every radio out there.. Insert the radio model and up pops the data.. you can put in two rigs at once... Then when the program - , asks for the rig model, lets say the IC 7300 -- as I said before it fills in all the right stuff. The program sees the frequency you are on and should key the radio at the proper time... It even worked on my G90... Maybe this might be a good Tech Talk and you can see it on the big screen.. or on Zoom..
Back to the real world... Remember the new Club Net on Monday the 20th... the 147.360 repeater at 7:15PM .. Last week Bill KB3KYH lead us and each week a Club Board member will be Net Control. Covering Ham Radio in general and some Club related subjects.. All Hams are invited and if you have questions, this might be a good time to ask them.. IF the NC doesn't have the information you seek, another person on the Net might.
This Tuesday will be the Third Tuesday of the month.. Yep, CQ Tuesday.. Has nothing to do with Tacos or Pizza.. but a lunch with other Hams at the Bay Family Restaurant 1301 S. Military Ave., Green Bay.. !!:30 AM ...
A big thanks to those that came to the "hot wash" discussion of what went well and what changes could be considered for the next Ham Fest (Swap) on July 15th .. there was good verbal participation on the various portions of the workings of the swap. .Good to see the effort to make the next one even better..
The Brat Barns are done for us for the season.. thanks to all that came out and endured the summer heat and smoke to make this another great year for the fund drive...
For those that read the East Reflector.. Here is the link to Volume 30. . https://link.eastcoastreflector.com/click/udm56757AJcf.a4aOTllMUAlO.PQhseQdIFtN/AbsIG1Vt/3s/eastcoastreflector.com/magazine_vol30
Remember to keep working on those Kits or Homebrew items for the August Tech Talk show and tell.. What is a Kit vs homebrew... Kit is when you get your directions and parts as a kit.. homebrew.. could be taking a schematic/directions , procuring the parts and putting them together ,,,
Oh.. to those that were at Field Day and remembered that when I pulled the Comm Trailer, the lights on the trailer did not work... Found that the trailer lights all worked.. could not get a good reading from the car.. even replaced the plug.. hoped that it was not the after market device between the plug and the car lights... I had to call in the big guns... Thanks to Larry, K9IQ, who found the break in the powerline from the battery.. I checked the fuse and it was not blown. I had imagined that if the insulation wore down and shorted possibly burned the wire in half.. but no .. the insulation just was gone and the salt from the winter rotted the wire away.. so when Larry gave the wire a tug, it gave way.. Ta Da... All is good in Tree City..
Hope to hear you on one of our Repeaters ...
73... GB