Dan (N7XDL) talked with us about emergency communications, a topic near and dear to all of our hearts.  Part of the presentation included a couple of videos from Josh Nass (KI6NAZ) from his Ham Radio Crash Course youtube channel.  Josh has a playlist of videos related to emergency communications, and the we were treated to the first two videos with Dan's commentary and our own comments along the way.

The first two videos are embedded here, but you should still check out the whole playlist as there is a lot of good information there:

Other things we discussed included CERT training here in Murray, maintaining a good communications plan, and being prepared.  Dan also has some additional resources that I will be adding to this post over the next few days, including the Salt Lake County ARES communication plan and recommended radio channel load.  Stay tuned for more details!

Here is N7XDL's codeplug in 7z format, you can unarchive this file and then import the individual files into your own codeplug.  MARC_Presentation_CodePlug

Here is the slide deck in PDF format:  DMR Overview

Here is the slide deck in PDF format:  PREPARING FOR FIELD DAY

Here is the slide deck in PDF format:  APRS Overview

At our recent club meeting and potluck dinner, Gary Duhaine presented a short slideshow of some old radios he has collected over the years.  He also brought several of these old radio receivers in so we could look at them up close.  Please enjoy this slideshow featuring some of Gary's radios.

old_radios_slideshow

(Note, there were two versions of this slideshow, one of which had an audio component, but the audio component was extremely limited and also increased the size of the video by about fourteen times.  If we are able to get the correct audio component added to the video and get it sufficiently compressed, we will update this post with the new version.)

Jan presented on Electricity and Electronics for General class licensees at our club meeting on October 10th.  See the presentation on our Radio and Other Resources page.  Also new on that page is an expanded list of schematic components for your reference.

N7XDL (Dan)'s presentation at the October 2nd club meeting has been posted to the site... find it here:

Electricity, Components and Circuits

The presentation for the 12 September 2019 meeting is now available:  HF (General) Bands