Dan (N7XDL) lets us know what we can do to protect our equipment in the event of an EMP or CME. Doomsday averted! Dan's presentation was based on J. T. Smith's paper EMP Faraday Cages That Work.
Category Archives: Training
Posts related to training classes given by the club. We do at least two trainings per month.
MARC General Meeting 20 August 2020 – EMP and CME
Dan (N7XDL) gave a great presentation on the dangers and principles behind Electro Magnetic Pulse and Coronal Mass Ejection events.
I will add a link to the slides when I get them.
This presentation sets us up for next month's presentation on what we can do about EMP and CME events.
MARC Advanced Topics Training 13 August 2020 – Packet Radio
Jan (KD7ZWV) gave a presentation on Packet Radio.
Slides for the presentation are here: MARC 2020.08.13 - Packet Radio
Please note that this presentation will be extended and improved and will be represented some time next year.
MARC Basic Topics Training 6 August 2020 – Grounding
Dan (N7XDL) gives his presentation on Grounding at the 6 August 2020 MARC Basic Topics meeting.
This post will be edited to include a link to the slides when they are available.
MARC Advanced Training 9 July 2020 – What’s Next?
We had a rousing discussion via Zoom for the Advanced Training session. The meeting was broken up into two parts. In part one, we discussed a variety of topics regarding what kinds of things we want to cover in future Advanced Training classes. In part two, we talked about the pending Salt Lake County ARES "basic load" of radio frequencies, particularly what frequencies MARC wants to put into the "club specific" portion of the load.
Upcoming Class Topics
- backup/emergency power
- Solar panels (portable and permanent mount, charge controllers, etc)
- Batteries and charging/maintenance
- Cabling, power loss and heat
- go kits (vhf/uhf, hf, “shack in a box”, ultra-portable, etc.)
- Security of equipment
- antenna modeling with software
- packet radio
- running a traffic net
- Procedures, forms, etc.
- SOTA/POTA
- Equipment, using your go kit, portable antennas, power, etc.
- Shelter
- HF operations/procedures
- Mobile radio installation, don’t break your car or your radio
- HF, VHF/UHF
- Grounding, cabling, antennas
- Mobile CW?
- Grounding and bonding, electrical/lightning (not the same)
- Practical/advanced DMR
- Demos, experimentation
- Other digital voice modes
- System Fusion
- D-Star
- HF Digital Modes
- Packet
- PSK31
- FT8
- FT4
- Radio over Internet
- IRLP
- Echolink
- Field day/Contesting
- Techniques for handling pileups, etc.
- Controlling your audio
- Speakers, mics, parametric equalization, etc.
- How to get more participation in the advanced class
- Logging
- Paper logs vs. Software
- LOTW
- QRZ
- QSL cards
- Antennas
- Stealth
- Building various antenna types
- Pringles can yagi
- Dipoles
- Beam antennas
- Safety (tower, electrical, etc.)
SLCo ARES Basic Load - MARC Frequencies
These are the frequencies that have been suggested for the "club specific" section of the SLCo ARES basic load.Memory Location | Receive Frequency | Transmit Frequency | Offset | Short Name | Tone Mode | Tone Value | Description |
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16 | 147.16 | 147.76 | Plus | MARC-PRI2m | TONE | 127.3 Hz | Murray Amateur Radio Club 2m Primary |
17 | 224.64 | 223.04 | Minus | MARC-220 | TONE | 156.7 | Sammie's 220 Repeater |
18 | 146.44 | 146.44 | Simplex | MARC-2mS | None | MARC-2m Simplex | |
19 | 223.44 | 223.44 | Simplex | MARC-22S | None | MARC-220 Simplex | |
20 | 224.9 | 223.3 | Minus | MARC-FD | TONE | 156.7 | MARC - 220 RPTR MURRAY FD |
21 | 147.6 | 147.6 | Simplex | MRC-CITY | None | MARC - MURRAY CITY SIMPLEX | |
22 | 146.62 | 146.02 | Minus | Farnsworth | None | Farnsworth Peak Repeater | |
23 | 147.12 | 147.72 | Plus | Intertie | TONE | 100 | Farnsworth Peak Repeater Intertie |
24 | 440.??? | 445.??? | Plus | MARC-440 | TONE | 100 | MARC 440 REPEATER |
25 | 447.9 | 442.9 | Minus | Curry Pk | TONE | 114.8 | Curry Peak |
26 | 147.14 | 147.74 | Plus | Butterfield Pk | TONE | 127.3 | Butterfield Peak |
27 | 449.425 | 444.425 | Minus | Nelson Pk | TONE | 100 | Nelson Peak - IRLP Linked to Western Reflector |
28 | 146.74 | 146.14 | Minus | Huntsman | TONE | 114.8 | Huntsman Cancer Inst (Linked to 448.100), Taylorsville ARC |
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If you have suggestions for changes to this section, additional repeaters or frequencies, or anything else about the SLCo ARES basic load, please send them to Dan (N7XDL).
MARC Basic Topics Training 2 July 2020 – Emergency Communications
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!
Monthly Meeting – DMR CodePlugs
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
Training Class – DMR
Here is the slide deck in PDF format: DMR Overview
Monthly Meeting – Preparing for Deployment
Here is the slide deck in PDF format: PREPARING FOR FIELD DAY
Training Class – APRS
Here is the slide deck in PDF format: APRS Overview