Golden Triangle Amateur Radio Club

Our EmComm GTARC Net on March 26th had more than 30 check-ins.  Paul KI6ZZC was net control.  Paul went through our entire membership list and called out for each club member.  Once contact was made, each ham responded with their name, general location, type of radio being used, signal report and any traffic for the net.  We learned a lot on this net.  The first being the need for a Net Roster that is large enough for the average person to be able to read easily.   We also learned that some of our members  had difficulty checking in due to technical issues including poor reception and repeater set up.  In response Ray Addington AJ6NY has volunteered to moderate an online “Elmering Session” on March 31.  See below.

 Our March 24 General Meeting on Zoom was a huge success with as many as  28 people online participating!  Paul Miller KI6ZZC outlined his EmComm Net
Check-in Part 1 event scheduled for March 26 at 7:30pm replacing our regular 2M Net.  David Bever N6ZND prepared an  interactive presentation on EmComm and presented an outline of how we could proceed as a club to become EmComm ready.  We recorded David’s  presentation  and  that video is now posted under the EmComm tab.

HarryPollak KJ6PCW’S  February presentation GTARC RADIO ETIQUETTE is also available under the EmComm tab.

Check the GTARC Calendar under the Calendar tab above.  All our Nets, Events and Meeting Information is updated regularly.  If you’d like an event posted send a request to gtarcw6gtr@gmail.com

 Upcoming Events By Date:

1. We’ve scheduled an online training session called “Getting the most out of your HT & Repeater Basics” next Tuesday evening, March 31 at 7pm.  Ray AJ6NY will be the moderator.

If you are having trouble checking into our GTARC Nets or want to improve your signal strength while using your HT this is definitely a meeting you won’t want to miss!  If you are using a Chinese HT and programming is driving you crazy then join this meeting. We’ve all been there. This from Ray AJ6NY, our moderator for the meeting:

“This will be an online Elmer session for our club.  We will go over best practices for radio nets, how to get the most out of your handheld radio, how to program your radio, and finish up with a general Q&A.  With a lot of members in our club using handhelds we can teach you how to utilize external antennas that will give you a huge improvement in signal strength and give you a far wider reach on UHF/VHF.

I’d like to invite everyone who could use or offer a little extra help to participate, and if you have programming questions to please let me know in advance which model radio you are using so that we can do a little pre-work to get you able to program your radio that night.  If we see success in this meeting, we can perhaps move forward with a regular online Elmer session for GTARC and sharpen the skills of the entire club. We all have much to learn in ham radio and many of us who’ve been in it for a while have our specialties that we can share”.

Ray can be reached at:  rla325@gmail.com

The meeting info is below:

Topic: “Getting the most out of your HT & Repeater Basics”

Time: Mar 31, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting:      https://us04web.zoom.us/j/846940305

Meeting ID: 846 940 305

4.  The online EmComm Planning Meeting on Thursday the 19th was a huge success!. The next EmComm Meeting is scheduled for:

Time:   April 16, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting:  https://us04web.zoom.us/j/804948812

Meeting ID: 804 948 812

5  Next Month’s General Meeting will be April 28. Online via ZOOM only.