Re: [BVARC] extra exam.

[Rod Lewis via BVARC]

At least there is no longer a CW component to the test. I would have never 
gotten to general much less AE.

73
Lewis 
KC5RJL 

> On Mar 20, 2023, at 3:21 PM, M Reiter via BVARC  wrote:
> 
> 
> so maybe this is for the VEC, maybe I am just venting,  It took me 22 tries 
> to pass the Extra Exam,  I passed the tech on my first try and maybe third 
> for general.  
> If I had wanted to be an electrical engineer and design antennas for NASA I 
> would have gone to college for that. all I want to do is shoot the junk with 
> someone in Australia and ask him or her how the weather is down there.   for 
> a small increase in frequencies I am having to learn a huge amount of 
> electronic circuit theory.I feel this is just a bunch of old dudes 
> sitting in a room saying to each other " Ya that question will baffle them"  
> and not considering what questions might actually represent what is needed to 
> operate a radio.   seriously many operators do not know the phonetic alphabet 
> or at least not the reason to use it.  why do I need to know the reactance of 
> a pi-l circuit for 7.3 Mhz at 1800 somethings on the surface of the moon in 
> September in an odd solar year standing on one foot holding an antenna two 
> wavelengths from the surface if there are beetles moving underneath and I am 
> left handed.
> 
> Marc KI5ZHO
> 
> 
> 
> Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club
> 
> BVARC mailing list
> BVARC@bvarc.org
> http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org
> Publicly available archives are available here: 
> https://www.mail-archive.com/bvarc@bvarc.org/ 



Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club

BVARC mailing list
BVARC@bvarc.org
http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org
Publicly available archives are available here: 
https://www.mail-archive.com/bvarc@bvarc.org/ 

Re: [BVARC] BLT-109 N5EKO/B

[David F. Reed via BVARC]

Terry,

I would love to, but I will be in Spain at the time… Thanks for the link to 
your presentation!

73 de W5SV, Dave



> On Mar 20, 2023, at 14:02, terry leatherland via BVARC  
> wrote:
> 
> Hi. I am speaking on HOA stealth antennas on April 13 in the in person 
> meeting. Would you like to chime in on your Attic Folded dipole. ?  I can 
> give you some air time. 
> here is my presentation.   I had 62 people in the room at the hamfest.  so Im 
> doing it again.
> 
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/14p-gafwkrX-qe2_Kr0QAVtgDlt1xR2b6/view?usp=share_link
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Terry Leatherland, K5PGF
> 281-455-8090
> Sugar Land, Tx
> 
> 
> 
> On Sunday, March 19, 2023 at 11:04:09 PM CDT, David F. Reed via BVARC 
>  wrote:
> 
> 
> Excellent; good job; please let us know before the next one is launched; 
> maybe some of us could come for it, and who knows, you might end up with more 
> helpers in the long run!
> 
> 73 de W5SV, Dave
> 
> 
> 
>> On Mar 19, 2023, at 22:10, Walter Holmes via BVARC  wrote:
>> 
> 
> Just an update, that this balloon launched 2 weeks ago from the GHH is just 
> making its second pass over China right now.
>  
> 
> https://aprs.fi/#!mt=roadmap=4=a%2FN5EKO-109=604800=604800
>  
>  
>  
> Walter/K5WH
>  
> 
> Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club
> 
> BVARC mailing list
> BVARC@bvarc.org 
> http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org
> Publicly available archives are available here: 
> https://www.mail-archive.com/bvarc@bvarc.org/
> 
> Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club
> 
> BVARC mailing list
> BVARC@bvarc.org 
> http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org
> Publicly available archives are available here: 
> https://www.mail-archive.com/bvarc@bvarc.org/ 
> 
> Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club
> 
> BVARC mailing list
> BVARC@bvarc.org
> http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org
> Publicly available archives are available here: 
> https://www.mail-archive.com/bvarc@bvarc.org/ 


Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club

BVARC mailing list
BVARC@bvarc.org
http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org
Publicly available archives are available here: 
https://www.mail-archive.com/bvarc@bvarc.org/ 

Re: [BVARC] extra exam.

[Christopher Boone via BVARC]

I still love my Advanced Class license...been there since Aug 1974 

Thought about upgrading to Extra a few times but I wouldn't gain that
much...and  a 1x2 call with my initials would not look good on my license
plates  (N, K or W 5CB?? Nope maybe my three  W5CWB but I can get that
now..and I'm trustee of W5APX s)

Chris

On Mon, Mar 20, 2023, 8:31 PM Chris Medlin via BVARC 
wrote:

> Good evening Marc.
> Back in the day, there was novice, technician, general, advanced, and
> extra. Advanced was the hardest test. It was a very hard test. Because
> Advanced was, well, advanced, you didnt need to pass more code. You had the
> 13 wpm for the general and since extra was 20wpm code, the extra written
> was a little easier.
> When they dropped the code requirement, they combined the advanced and
> extra, so the extra test got much harder.
> In the scheme of things, its always been understood that your electronics
> knowledge would have to increase as you progress through the license
> classes.
> If youve taken the extra test 22 times, your approach is flawed.
> Licensing isnt a race. Ive got two friends who were licensed as Novices
> (back during the code requirement) and are still hams today and have no
> desire to upgrade to Tech. They have plenty of enjoyment hanging out doing
> cw.
> And if you are a general class and you aren’t continuing to increase your
> electronics knowledge or cant master the concepts required for the extra,
> you can still have plenty of enjoyment on hf. Theres plenty of spectrum
> alotted for the general class. Ham radio offers many things to everyone.
> The race to Extra shouldnt feel like a requirement.
>
> Hope this helps.
> Welcome to the hobby!
> 73
> Chris
> AC5CM
>
> Typos brought to you by iPhone
>
> > On Mar 20, 2023, at 15:21, M Reiter via BVARC  wrote:
> >
> > 
> > so maybe this is for the VEC, maybe I am just venting,  It took me 22
> tries to pass the Extra Exam,  I passed the tech on my first try and maybe
> third for general.
> > If I had wanted to be an electrical engineer and design antennas for
> NASA I would have gone to college for that. all I want to do is shoot the
> junk with someone in Australia and ask him or her how the weather is down
> there.   for a small increase in frequencies I am having to learn a huge
> amount of electronic circuit theory.I feel this is just a bunch of old
> dudes sitting in a room saying to each other " Ya that question will baffle
> them"  and not considering what questions might actually represent what is
> needed to operate a radio.   seriously many operators do not know the
> phonetic alphabet or at least not the reason to use it.  why do I need to
> know the reactance of a pi-l circuit for 7.3 Mhz at 1800 somethings on the
> surface of the moon in September in an odd solar year standing on one foot
> holding an antenna two wavelengths from the surface if there are beetles
> moving underneath and I am left handed.
> >
> > Marc KI5ZHO
> >
> >
> > 
> > Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club
> >
> > BVARC mailing list
> > BVARC@bvarc.org
> > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org
> > Publicly available archives are available here:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/bvarc@bvarc.org/
> 
> Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club
>
> BVARC mailing list
> BVARC@bvarc.org
> http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org
> Publicly available archives are available here:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/bvarc@bvarc.org/
>

Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club

BVARC mailing list
BVARC@bvarc.org
http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org
Publicly available archives are available here: 
https://www.mail-archive.com/bvarc@bvarc.org/ 

Re: [BVARC] extra exam.

[Chris Medlin via BVARC]

Good evening Marc. 
Back in the day, there was novice, technician, general, advanced, and extra. 
Advanced was the hardest test. It was a very hard test. Because Advanced was, 
well, advanced, you didnt need to pass more code. You had the 13 wpm for the 
general and since extra was 20wpm code, the extra written was a little easier. 
When they dropped the code requirement, they combined the advanced and extra, 
so the extra test got much harder. 
In the scheme of things, its always been understood that your electronics 
knowledge would have to increase as you progress through the license classes. 
If youve taken the extra test 22 times, your approach is flawed. 
Licensing isnt a race. Ive got two friends who were licensed as Novices (back 
during the code requirement) and are still hams today and have no desire to 
upgrade to Tech. They have plenty of enjoyment hanging out doing cw. 
And if you are a general class and you aren’t continuing to increase your 
electronics knowledge or cant master the concepts required for the extra, you 
can still have plenty of enjoyment on hf. Theres plenty of spectrum alotted for 
the general class. Ham radio offers many things to everyone. The race to Extra 
shouldnt feel like a requirement. 

Hope this helps. 
Welcome to the hobby!
73
Chris
AC5CM

Typos brought to you by iPhone

> On Mar 20, 2023, at 15:21, M Reiter via BVARC  wrote:
> 
> 
> so maybe this is for the VEC, maybe I am just venting,  It took me 22 tries 
> to pass the Extra Exam,  I passed the tech on my first try and maybe third 
> for general.  
> If I had wanted to be an electrical engineer and design antennas for NASA I 
> would have gone to college for that. all I want to do is shoot the junk with 
> someone in Australia and ask him or her how the weather is down there.   for 
> a small increase in frequencies I am having to learn a huge amount of 
> electronic circuit theory.I feel this is just a bunch of old dudes 
> sitting in a room saying to each other " Ya that question will baffle them"  
> and not considering what questions might actually represent what is needed to 
> operate a radio.   seriously many operators do not know the phonetic alphabet 
> or at least not the reason to use it.  why do I need to know the reactance of 
> a pi-l circuit for 7.3 Mhz at 1800 somethings on the surface of the moon in 
> September in an odd solar year standing on one foot holding an antenna two 
> wavelengths from the surface if there are beetles moving underneath and I am 
> left handed.
> 
> Marc KI5ZHO
> 
> 
> 
> Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club
> 
> BVARC mailing list
> BVARC@bvarc.org
> http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org
> Publicly available archives are available here: 
> https://www.mail-archive.com/bvarc@bvarc.org/ 

Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club

BVARC mailing list
BVARC@bvarc.org
http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org
Publicly available archives are available here: 
https://www.mail-archive.com/bvarc@bvarc.org/ 

Re: [BVARC] extra exam.

[Rick Hiller via BVARC]

Hey, Marc,

You stated. why do I need to know the reactance of a pi-l
> circuit for 7.3 Mhz at 1800 somethings on the surface of the moon in
> September in an odd solar year standing on one foot holding an antenna
> two wavelengths from the surface if there are beetles moving
> underneath and I am left handed

I just read thru a couple of practice Extra exams and didn't find any
questions that didn't apply to knowledge that an Extra class ham should not
know.   Fortunately, our hobby is not all about "phone" mode or HF, hence
the variety of subjects.   Can you be specific as to the questions you are
finding validity for?  I'd be interested in what you suggest.  Seriously.

If you have had a Tech license you've had access to USB phone on 10 meters
which can reach VK and other HF bands with other modes which can reach VK.
Not sure what your specific gripe is, but I'm pleased that you were
successful in getting your Extra.   Congrats!..

If you wish to talk to VK with no effort, try your iPhone or move down to
the Free Bander portion of 10/11 meters.  Both provide unlicensed shortwave
or common carrier based communications for long distance.   But now that
you have your Extra, try 40 meters LSB early morning or in the afternoon
long path on 20 meters USB.  Various VK's, most times, are booming in.  It
is Equinox time so trans-equatorial prop is quite favorable.

GL ES 73...Rick -- W5RH

On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 5:10 PM Michael Monsour via BVARC 
wrote:

> I was a trained Electronic Technician . Yes the Extra exam is really
> something else. I crawled into the brain of the people that wrote that
> thing. In the case of formulas I just had to get the digits right and
> ignore the decimal point. I only had to really study stuff that I never was
> exposed to, plus now there are question pools. In the early 70s there were
> no question pools for the RadioTelephone and Radar licenses. one had to
> study the complete knowledge. You are lucky now as in the old days , one
> had to draw out a schematic or two. OH yes I passed the first try up in
> Stevenville..
> In Cuba one has to make a transmitter [parts came from junked out TV sets
> in order to be licensed.
> Michael Monsour
> AC0TX.
>
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 4:28 PM John Denison via BVARC 
> wrote:
>
>> When I decided to get my first ham license, I took the online sample
>> tests repeatedly until I was confident that I would pass at the testing
>> session. I used the same method for my General class license, but both
>> times I had read ARRL books on the respective licenses so that I would
>> know what the material is and what the questions were referring to.
>>
>> You can do what you stated you wanted to do with a General class
>> license, but an Extra class license gives you not only more spectrum to
>> use, but spectrum that the other classes can't use. Being a ham isn't
>> only about communicating or making contacts across the globe, but among
>> other things, we advance the art and contribute to developing new ideas
>> in the communications field. We have to be technically minded in order
>> to do that. I have yet to attempt the Extra class license test, but it
>> is a goal of mine for the future.
>>
>> 73
>> John Denison
>> KD5YOU
>>
>> On 3/20/2023 3:20 PM, M Reiter via BVARC wrote:
>> > so maybe this is for the VEC, maybe I am just venting,  It took me 22
>> > tries to pass the Extra Exam,  I passed the tech on my first try and
>> > maybe third for general.
>> > If I had wanted to be an electrical engineer and design antennas for
>> > NASA I would have gone to college for that. all I want to do is shoot
>> > the junk with someone in Australia and ask him or her how the weather
>> > is down there.   for a small increase in frequencies I am having to
>> > learn a huge amount of electronic circuit theory.I feel this is
>> > just a bunch of old dudes sitting in a room saying to each other " Ya
>> > that question will baffle them"  and not considering what questions
>> > might actually represent what is needed to operate a radio. seriously
>> > many operators do not know the phonetic alphabet or at least not the
>> > reason to use it.  why do I need to know the reactance of a pi-l
>> > circuit for 7.3 Mhz at 1800 somethings on the surface of the moon in
>> > September in an odd solar year standing on one foot holding an antenna
>> > two wavelengths from the surface if there are beetles moving
>> > underneath and I am left handed.
>> >
>> > Marc KI5ZHO
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 
>> > Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club
>> >
>> > BVARC mailing list
>> > BVARC@bvarc.org
>> > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org
>> > Publicly available archives are available here:
>> https://www.mail-archive.com/bvarc@bvarc.org/
>>
>>
>> 
>> Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club
>>
>> BVARC mailing list
>> BVARC@bvarc.org
>> 

Re: [BVARC] extra exam.

[Michael Monsour via BVARC]

I was a trained Electronic Technician . Yes the Extra exam is really
something else. I crawled into the brain of the people that wrote that
thing. In the case of formulas I just had to get the digits right and
ignore the decimal point. I only had to really study stuff that I never was
exposed to, plus now there are question pools. In the early 70s there were
no question pools for the RadioTelephone and Radar licenses. one had to
study the complete knowledge. You are lucky now as in the old days , one
had to draw out a schematic or two. OH yes I passed the first try up in
Stevenville..
In Cuba one has to make a transmitter [parts came from junked out TV sets
in order to be licensed.
Michael Monsour
AC0TX.

On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 4:28 PM John Denison via BVARC 
wrote:

> When I decided to get my first ham license, I took the online sample
> tests repeatedly until I was confident that I would pass at the testing
> session. I used the same method for my General class license, but both
> times I had read ARRL books on the respective licenses so that I would
> know what the material is and what the questions were referring to.
>
> You can do what you stated you wanted to do with a General class
> license, but an Extra class license gives you not only more spectrum to
> use, but spectrum that the other classes can't use. Being a ham isn't
> only about communicating or making contacts across the globe, but among
> other things, we advance the art and contribute to developing new ideas
> in the communications field. We have to be technically minded in order
> to do that. I have yet to attempt the Extra class license test, but it
> is a goal of mine for the future.
>
> 73
> John Denison
> KD5YOU
>
> On 3/20/2023 3:20 PM, M Reiter via BVARC wrote:
> > so maybe this is for the VEC, maybe I am just venting,  It took me 22
> > tries to pass the Extra Exam,  I passed the tech on my first try and
> > maybe third for general.
> > If I had wanted to be an electrical engineer and design antennas for
> > NASA I would have gone to college for that. all I want to do is shoot
> > the junk with someone in Australia and ask him or her how the weather
> > is down there.   for a small increase in frequencies I am having to
> > learn a huge amount of electronic circuit theory.I feel this is
> > just a bunch of old dudes sitting in a room saying to each other " Ya
> > that question will baffle them"  and not considering what questions
> > might actually represent what is needed to operate a radio. seriously
> > many operators do not know the phonetic alphabet or at least not the
> > reason to use it.  why do I need to know the reactance of a pi-l
> > circuit for 7.3 Mhz at 1800 somethings on the surface of the moon in
> > September in an odd solar year standing on one foot holding an antenna
> > two wavelengths from the surface if there are beetles moving
> > underneath and I am left handed.
> >
> > Marc KI5ZHO
> >
> >
> >
> > 
> > Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club
> >
> > BVARC mailing list
> > BVARC@bvarc.org
> > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org
> > Publicly available archives are available here:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/bvarc@bvarc.org/
>
>
> 
> Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club
>
> BVARC mailing list
> BVARC@bvarc.org
> http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org
> Publicly available archives are available here:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/bvarc@bvarc.org/
>

Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club

BVARC mailing list
BVARC@bvarc.org
http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org
Publicly available archives are available here: 
https://www.mail-archive.com/bvarc@bvarc.org/ 

Re: [BVARC] extra exam.

[David Hold via BVARC]

Look at exam questions from 20 years ago … their was much less electronics
on the extra exam in 2000

Hate to say it but questions are published so just learn the answers ….  I
learned a few that way ….  If questions had this set of numbers it was
C-3200

Maybe I was just practiced enough online to pass tech, general and extra on
1 try.

On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 3:21 PM M Reiter via BVARC  wrote:

> so maybe this is for the VEC, maybe I am just venting,  It took me 22
> tries to pass the Extra Exam,  I passed the tech on my first try and maybe
> third for general.
> If I had wanted to be an electrical engineer and design antennas for NASA
> I would have gone to college for that. all I want to do is shoot the junk
> with someone in Australia and ask him or her how the weather is down there.
>   for a small increase in frequencies I am having to learn a huge amount of
> electronic circuit theory.I feel this is just a bunch of old dudes
> sitting in a room saying to each other " Ya that question will baffle
> them"  and not considering what questions might actually represent what is
> needed to operate a radio.   seriously many operators do not know the
> phonetic alphabet or at least not the reason to use it.  why do I need to
> know the reactance of a pi-l circuit for 7.3 Mhz at 1800 somethings on the
> surface of the moon in September in an odd solar year standing on one foot
> holding an antenna two wavelengths from the surface if there are beetles
> moving underneath and I am left handed.
>
> Marc KI5ZHO
>
>
> 
> Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club
>
> BVARC mailing list
> BVARC@bvarc.org
> http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org
> Publicly available archives are available here:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/bvarc@bvarc.org/
>
-- 
David Hold david.h...@gmail.com

Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club

BVARC mailing list
BVARC@bvarc.org
http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org
Publicly available archives are available here: 
https://www.mail-archive.com/bvarc@bvarc.org/ 

Re: [BVARC] extra exam.

[David Holden via BVARC]

Marc,

Very funny! Nice write-up. Also, don’t take this the wrong way but you are not 
good at taking tests. 

- David WJ9O 

> On Mar 20, 2023, at 3:21 PM, M Reiter via BVARC  wrote:
> 
> 
> so maybe this is for the VEC, maybe I am just venting,  It took me 22 tries 
> to pass the Extra Exam,  I passed the tech on my first try and maybe third 
> for general.  
> If I had wanted to be an electrical engineer and design antennas for NASA I 
> would have gone to college for that. all I want to do is shoot the junk with 
> someone in Australia and ask him or her how the weather is down there.   for 
> a small increase in frequencies I am having to learn a huge amount of 
> electronic circuit theory.I feel this is just a bunch of old dudes 
> sitting in a room saying to each other " Ya that question will baffle them"  
> and not considering what questions might actually represent what is needed to 
> operate a radio.   seriously many operators do not know the phonetic alphabet 
> or at least not the reason to use it.  why do I need to know the reactance of 
> a pi-l circuit for 7.3 Mhz at 1800 somethings on the surface of the moon in 
> September in an odd solar year standing on one foot holding an antenna two 
> wavelengths from the surface if there are beetles moving underneath and I am 
> left handed.
> 
> Marc KI5ZHO
> 
> 
> 
> Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club
> 
> BVARC mailing list
> BVARC@bvarc.org
> http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org
> Publicly available archives are available here: 
> https://www.mail-archive.com/bvarc@bvarc.org/ 



Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club

BVARC mailing list
BVARC@bvarc.org
http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org
Publicly available archives are available here: 
https://www.mail-archive.com/bvarc@bvarc.org/ 

Re: [BVARC] extra exam.

[Mike Knerr via BVARC]

But you passed. You kept at it and kept trying until you passed.
Good job, you might need some of the stuff you studied some day.
73

On Mon, Mar 20, 2023, 3:21 PM M Reiter via BVARC  wrote:

> so maybe this is for the VEC, maybe I am just venting,  It took me 22
> tries to pass the Extra Exam,  I passed the tech on my first try and maybe
> third for general.
> If I had wanted to be an electrical engineer and design antennas for NASA
> I would have gone to college for that. all I want to do is shoot the junk
> with someone in Australia and ask him or her how the weather is down there.
>   for a small increase in frequencies I am having to learn a huge amount of
> electronic circuit theory.I feel this is just a bunch of old dudes
> sitting in a room saying to each other " Ya that question will baffle
> them"  and not considering what questions might actually represent what is
> needed to operate a radio.   seriously many operators do not know the
> phonetic alphabet or at least not the reason to use it.  why do I need to
> know the reactance of a pi-l circuit for 7.3 Mhz at 1800 somethings on the
> surface of the moon in September in an odd solar year standing on one foot
> holding an antenna two wavelengths from the surface if there are beetles
> moving underneath and I am left handed.
>
> Marc KI5ZHO
>
>
> 
> Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club
>
> BVARC mailing list
> BVARC@bvarc.org
> http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org
> Publicly available archives are available here:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/bvarc@bvarc.org/
>

Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club

BVARC mailing list
BVARC@bvarc.org
http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org
Publicly available archives are available here: 
https://www.mail-archive.com/bvarc@bvarc.org/ 

[BVARC] extra exam.

[M Reiter via BVARC]

so maybe this is for the VEC, maybe I am just venting,  It took me 22 tries
to pass the Extra Exam,  I passed the tech on my first try and maybe third
for general.
If I had wanted to be an electrical engineer and design antennas for NASA I
would have gone to college for that. all I want to do is shoot the junk
with someone in Australia and ask him or her how the weather is down there.
  for a small increase in frequencies I am having to learn a huge amount of
electronic circuit theory.I feel this is just a bunch of old dudes
sitting in a room saying to each other " Ya that question will baffle
them"  and not considering what questions might actually represent what is
needed to operate a radio.   seriously many operators do not know the
phonetic alphabet or at least not the reason to use it.  why do I need to
know the reactance of a pi-l circuit for 7.3 Mhz at 1800 somethings on the
surface of the moon in September in an odd solar year standing on one foot
holding an antenna two wavelengths from the surface if there are beetles
moving underneath and I am left handed.

Marc KI5ZHO

Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club

BVARC mailing list
BVARC@bvarc.org
http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org
Publicly available archives are available here: 
https://www.mail-archive.com/bvarc@bvarc.org/ 

Re: [BVARC] BLT-109 N5EKO/B

[terry leatherland via BVARC]

Hi. I am speaking on HOA stealth antennas on April 13 in the in person meeting. 
Would you like to chime in on your Attic Folded dipole. ?  I can give you some 
air time. here is my presentation.   I had 62 people in the room at the 
hamfest.  so Im doing it again.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14p-gafwkrX-qe2_Kr0QAVtgDlt1xR2b6/view?usp=share_link




Terry Leatherland, K5PGF281-455-8090Sugar Land, Tx
 

On Sunday, March 19, 2023 at 11:04:09 PM CDT, David F. Reed via BVARC 
 wrote:  
 
 Excellent; good job; please let us know before the next one is launched; maybe 
some of us could come for it, and who knows, you might end up with more helpers 
in the long run!
73 de W5SV, Dave



On Mar 19, 2023, at 22:10, Walter Holmes via BVARC  wrote:

Just an update, that this balloon launched 2 weeks ago from the GHH is just 
making its second pass over China right now.  
https://aprs.fi/#!mt=roadmap=4=a%2FN5EKO-109=604800=604800
      Walter/K5WH  
Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club

BVARC mailing list
BVARC@bvarc.org
http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org
Publicly available archives are available here: 
https://www.mail-archive.com/bvarc@bvarc.org/

Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club

BVARC mailing list
BVARC@bvarc.org
http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org
Publicly available archives are available here: 
https://www.mail-archive.com/bvarc@bvarc.org/ 
  
Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club

BVARC mailing list
BVARC@bvarc.org
http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org
Publicly available archives are available here: 
https://www.mail-archive.com/bvarc@bvarc.org/ 

[BVARC] Bike MS - MS 150 Bike Ride

[Mike Hardwick via BVARC]

Looking for a few good hams for NET control for the MS 150 Bike Ride. NET 
control is responsible for coordinating communications for event support that 
includes:
Medical incidentsSuppliesTraffic issuesRider support (broken down, shuttling 
forward on course, lost, etc.)Tracking Vehicles (SAGS, Medical Vehicles, 
Supplies, Staff, etc.)Any other communications requirements that the event needs
NET control is on the air starting at 5 am on Saturday and Sunday and ending at 
approximately 7 pm. 

NET control should have two to three operators per 7 hour shift.  
If you are interested or need more information, please give me a call. 
Thanks,
Mike Hardwick, N5VCXCommunications ChairBike Texas MS 150 Bike Ride713-826-6917

Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club

BVARC mailing list
BVARC@bvarc.org
http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org
Publicly available archives are available here: 
https://www.mail-archive.com/bvarc@bvarc.org/