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Not a newbie question at all; my mistake for neglecting to include it.
Yes, it will be at the normal monthly club meeting venue (Nauss Hall) at 7pm.
Thanks for checking.
Sorry for the newbee questions but is the time 7:00 and is the place at the monthly meeting venue?
Ernie Swersky KC1GIR
Monday 10/10 and nobody checked in on the air or on the webex phone line. Fred had contacted me to let me know he was not going to be able to join this evening. I decided after calling CQ for 20 minutes to pull the plug for today.
Hopefully, some of our group will have a chance to join us again on Thursday evening.
Mike
Thanks Fred and Mike for the input. Since I have the long weekend, I’ll try playing around with it to see how well it works. So much to learn!! And I mean that in a good way.
Mike,
Fred – AB1OC has setup a conference call that you can call into… this was posted on this forum about two weeks back and you can find it under the topic:
CW Slow Net Webex Information-
We have dropped the Webex ONLINE feature and just use the voice call-in line.
We meet on Monday and Thursday at 8PM Local time… Presently using 14.052 Mhz for the on the air practice QSOs.
Please call in on the phone line using the dial in credentials provided in the Webex message. We’re flexible and hope to help folks learn and improve their skills.
I also have some CDs with the K7QO code material we used as a study guide. Please contact me and I can get a copy of one to you. Just send me an email at [email protected] and let me know how to reach you.
Welcome aboard the slow CW net.
Mike
This is my first posting so hopefully I did it OK…
Would it be possible to let other club members know on the website that a particular ham radio operator is listening to a particular frequency? Lets say that you have the option of contacting that individual online prior to a CW QSO you could then talk about WPM spacing etc. and then try to have a QSO without the adrenaline freak out moment? I don’t always know when I can get on the air so it would be nice as a newbie to talk to other newbies or experienced operators that have the patience to work with my lack of skill.
Thanks,
Mike AB1YK
Hi Mike,
I had a little time here at work this morning to look into this a bit before my day starts. I called ARRL to find out how to handle the paperwork, so please let me know if this process sounds like what you experienced.
1) New or Renewal ARRL Member fills out the first page or “Membership Application” of the attached form… [attachment file=5776] , member remits form and payment to our Club. The person at HQ I talked to mentioned something about renewal notices that a person gets might be used to submit to Club too (?). I can’t remember what a renewal notice looks like in the mail, I’ve been a Life member for quite some time.
2) The Club gathers up New or Renewals, fill out the Reconciliation Form, and retain the benefit amount, when mailing in the “package” of applications.If all the above sounds good, then I can see the process internal to the Club working like this:
– Member to remit form and full amount, as shown on form to the Club (cash or check made to “Nashua ARC”); Club cuts a check to ARRL, minus what it gets to retain, when sending in the package. Apps/package to be processed monthly.
I do see a place on the Membership App, where a member can submit credit card info to pay the ARRL dues (minus retention fee), and member giving the Club the retention amount separately. I can understand the hesitancy to put credit card info out on forms, so I am not expecting this to be the way to pay.
Remitting payment to the Club via PayPal hasn’t been worked out yet. So, cash and check are the only options right now.
Hi Joe,
I want to try to accelerate this option to join thru Nashua ARC. Looking into it by this weekend.
You may still want to SAMPLE one of these files if you can pick out a few characters from the fray, then stop and retry listening to one of the much slower sessions such as 040.mp3 thru 046.mp3. The higher speed sample may sharpen your listening acuity making the slower speed easier to deal with.
You can also use the G4FON software to play any of the CD’s .TXT files at a wode ramge of different speeds, or make up your own audio quizzes.
Lastly, don’t forget to practice numbers, punctuation and prosigns. These are easy to overlook, which may explain why many folks feel less comfortable when they encounter them.
Also, don’t panic when you hear someting you don’t recognize as our alphabet is not the only one out there, and new prosigns can be added sometimes… Example: if you wanted to send an email address on the air such as: my email is [email protected] how would you send the “@” symbol? The new prosign consists of the letters A C sent together (sort of looks like an “a” with the tail of the “C” going around it.
Well: Practice, Practice, Practice.
The attached link on “Impedance Matching 101” by Ward Silver N0AX is somewhat long, but will provide some good explanations about various antenna matching solutions. Ward has worked with the ARRL to produce a monthly series of “Hands On Radio” articles for QST magazine.
Ward also provides a chart that explains the boundary limits for various L-Network configurations and shows how reordering the L-C components can find a workable solution (Ying-Yang diagrams). Note: the Ying-Yang image reveals the L-Network boundaries on a Smith Chart.