Hi folks, A reminder that the Tech-10 for the January General Meeting will be a "Show and Tell", being organized by Jim WA8MPA. Bring your new-to-you "gifts" from Santa and a short story about the ite

Hi Brian. A presentation is on my list, but I'm in need of a presenter. Any ideas? Greg. KO6TH

Wow. I thought it was a great deal at $41. To those with a puzzled look on their faces, consider this to be like the $300 antenna analyzer that the club has, but far more capable, and for a lot less m

Wow. I thought it was a great deal at $41. To those with a puzzled look on their faces, consider this to be like the $300 antenna analyzer that the club has, but far more capable, and for a lot less m

Jef - N5JEF wrote: Hi Jef, As we learned during the first of the outages a few months ago, "no cell coverage" is hard to define. It depends on carrier, service (2G, 4G, LTE, et al), and even the "you'

My pleasure. Good to know at least someone watches them once in a while. This upload was Brian's idea, so credit goes to him. Greg KO6TH carl.wf6j@gmail.com wrote:

Hi folks, If you were too distracted by playing Bingo to catch the entirety of this year's epic slide show, we've uploaded it to the club's YouTube channel for viewing. There's no annoying audio chann

Hi folks, As I noted last night at the Christmas Party, the "Tech 10" segment for January's meeting will be a short "Show and Tell" for what folks got for Christmas from Santa. In order to plan the me

Hi folks, The video of Don Whitaker's presentation on his experiences, and the history of Ceronix, is live on the club's YouTube channel: If you missed the meeting, or just want to review, here's your

Well, there is that... But, agree that if we need Windows, and you've already got a system with that O/S running and patched as far as they went, then we should probably start there. Greg KO6TH AI6US

Really? I thought the new O/S was 64 bit only. If you have an install disk, we could try it (after I make a backup of the current one). The PC has 4 gig of RAM, which is the max. But your PC will have

Mmmm, I'd prefer not to part it out. The PC box, minus the rest, is pretty much useless, but together they make a system usable for lots of things. Plan is to bring it to the Ham Swap next year if the

Well, the system certainly qualifies for Social Security, if not Medicare. But it's in good shape for what it is. What software would need to be running on it? The system is not a candidate for Window

Hi Clyde, Yes it is, but where would it go? Not sure it's really ideal for putting in an unconditioned space vault. The spinning fans and hard drive are really intended to be indoors. Greg KO6TH Clyde

Hi Dennis, I also noticed an update to the Elmer net was sent out. The calendar entry appears to be correct, but the description text says it's on Thursdays. Greg KO6TH Dennis - WU6X wrote:

#cal-cancelled

Hi Carl, What are you suggesting they do? Not to defend PG&E's history, but they did note that the surveys performed as part of the process of turning power back on after these events did discover a n

Right, that's what I was referring to. We're in one of those "secondary allocations" that hasn't worked out so well, at least around here. Greg KO6TH Jim Piper wrote:

Jef, good point about PAVE/PAWS. I presume they escape by being on a different part of the 70cm band. Greg KO6TH Jef - N5JEF wrote:

That looks, um, vaguely medical. Nice work by whoever built it. What I'm intrigued by is the descriptive text on the Amazon site, talking about the film cans' use in making Canister Rockets. Rockets?

I gotta stop reading email when I'm hungry. The image that first flashed through my head when I read "microwave dishes" was a line of kids playing hop-scotch with a pattern of frozen TV Dinners. Didn'