Jan (KD7ZWV) talks about network design issues specific to AREDN, reviews some coverage maps for the Murray area, and demos accessing services via the mesh using his travel node.

Slides:  AREDN Network Design

Dan (N7XDL) talks about repeaters at the beginner's level.  Slides will be available here eventually.

Dan (N7XDL) talks about what to do when disaster strikes.  I'll add the slides when I get them from Dan, but I wanted to get this on the site.

Slides:  Electronics Intro

Dan (N7XDL) briefs us on the standard operating guidelines document, available on the club web site here:  https://www.murrayarc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/MARC_SoG_March2024.pdf, which can also be found on the Radio and Other Resources page.

(I'll publish the slides when I get them from Dan.)

Also mentioned in this presentation:  Monthly Meeting - 16 March 2022 - Tactical Call Signs

Jan (KD7ZWV) brings up his node's console and walks through the UI, digging into various areas and exploring advanced options as well as typical configuration choices.  Unfortunately, we didn't get as far through the UI as planned and we will continue this next month.  There are no slides for this presentation as it was a "live demo" (gasp).  As usual, some things failed to work as expected in the live demo, particularly opening a tunnel from Jan's laptop to the node itself so we could look at some other configurations and follow links in the UI.  Since this didn't work, we were confined to operations directly on Jan's node.  Hopefully by next month he will have his tunnel working and will be able to demo more effectively what can be done with the UI.

Jan (KD7ZWV) covers things you're likely to hear on the radio, Q-codes and Prosigns, and how to talk to other people.  Find the video and slides below, and a list of links from the presentation for ease of clicking.

Slides:  Language, Jargon, and How to Talk on the Radio

Two items this evening... first, Dan (N7XDL) presented a collection of old radio gear, including a number of Heathkit items, that were donated to MARC by a local amateur radio operator.  Second, we watched a RATPAC presentation by Kevin (N7RXE) of the Bridgerland ARC in Logan, UT on Six Amateur Radio Activities You can do With Youth.

First, here's the presentation on the donation:

Slides:  coming soon

And here's the RATPAC presentation:

Slides:  https://www.murrayarc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Six-Amateur-Radio-Activities-you-can-do-with-youth.pdf

Slides:  Flashing AREDN Firmware

Links from this presentation:

• Supported Hardware List:​  https://www.arednmesh.org/content/supported-devices-0
• Installation procedures are documented here:​  https://arednmesh.readthedocs.io/en/latest/arednGettingStarted/installing_firmware.html
• Download firmware files here:  https://downloads.arednmesh.org/afs/www/

Jan (KD7ZWV) introduces some common VHF and UHF bands, talks about programming your radio(s), and about making contacts on the air.

Slides:  Basic VHF/UHF Operations

Links from this presentation:

• https://www.repeaterbook.com/index.php/en-us/
• https://utahvhfs.org/rptr.html
• https://www.murrayarc.org/the-standard-load/
• https://www.murrayarc.org/2023/02/03/basic-topics-class-2-february-2023-using-your-ht/
• http://www.utaharc.org/rptr/62rpt.html
• https://utahvhfs.org/snowlink.html
• https://www.murrayarc.org/2023/03/03/slinging-the-lingo-understanding-the-old-men-marc-basic-topics-2-march-2023/
• https://www.murrayarc.org/2023/03/20/slinging-the-lingo-understanding-the-old-men-marc-general-meeting-16-march-2023/
• https://www.murrayarc.org/2021/01/14/marc-advanced-topics-14-january-2021-q-codes-and-prosigns/