My thanks to all the hams who participated! Antennas mentioned tonight included:
The homebrew Buddipole was mentioned by Tony, NT5TM. He presented this at the July, 2017 DARC meeting.
Bill, N5BB, mentioned using a bedspring for QRP contacts at a past IARC Field Day, as well as using a balloon to hoist a wire antenna into the air.
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The “NETS” for Sat Mar 24, 2018 will be held on the W5DCR Repeater on 146.960 Pl 110.9 This includes: Tech-Net, Sky-Net and After Glow Net
If you are on EchoLink – then come in as you would normally to the W5FC node 37247 – with permission we mapped that over to the W5DCR for the nets only.
Updated: Calvin’s list of recommended frequencies is here! A surprise net is planned for tonight at 7:00pm CST. Be sure to have a pen or pencil and paper ready. You may want to copy along while net control is taking check-ins, and you’ll need something to write on during the first part of the net. Good luck!
Have you ever heard a numbers station? Did you ever hear the Russian Woodpecker? I can recognize the sound of an ionosonde, but I don’t know much more than that…and I’d like to learn more. This Monday, I plan to talk about odd things we’ve heard on the radio. Bring your news of the weird. Bring you wild shortwave stories. Bring your secret key to understanding Swedish Rhapsody, and join us on the 146.88 repeater this Monday, August 22nd, at 7:00 PM.
Some of the resources I mentioned on the air are listed below.
I’d like to ask you to put your thinking cap on and ponder what sort of classes or activities you’d like to be involved in at Tech Net on the Hill this October. Would you like to learn more about stealth antennas or kit building? Would you like to learn how to trim a dipole, or would you just like to get on the air using the club’s HF rigs? Come to tomorrow’s (8/2/2016) meeting and share, or send us a message with the form below. I’ll have my notes from past years, and I suspect Randy will, too…but if you don’t speak up for what you want, you might not get it.
SKYNET!!!! 9PM CT – 10:30PM CT
Saturday’s Topic: “Summer Solstice: Native American Site Alignment” and “Tour of the Constellation Libra”
Net Control: Carolyn KC5OZT
Afterglow Movie at 10:30: “2010: The Year We Make Contact”
2-Meter Repeater W5FC: 146.880MHz, PL 110.9, –
Echolink: W5FC-R, node 37247.
** Live Stream **
Audio Stream: http://pokeys.doomdns.com:8000
Yahoo Groups: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skynet
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/306498286059167/
Saturday’s DARC SkyNet is at 9PM CT.
Links to tonight’s Sky Net:
Discussion topic of the evening.
“Summer Solstice: Native American Site Alignments”
Photo #1 Bighorn Medicine Wheel
https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/…/13307200_14174821182…
Photo #2 Fajada Butte
https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/…/13342998_14174821082…
Photo #3 Fajada Butte Diagram of Spirals
https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/…/13343004_14174821116…
Photo #4 Monks Mound in Cahokia
https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/…/13336051_14174821449…
In the sky this evening
Big Dipper and Polaris
http://en.es-static.us/…/Big_Dipper_to_Polaris_Abhijit_Juve…
A featured constellation or object(s) or topic.
Skymap – Constellation Libra
https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/…/13335583_14174799949…
Photo #1 Methuselah HD 140283
https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/…/13393904_14174799982…
Photo #2 Barred Spiral Galaxy (NGC 5792)
https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/…/13339567_14174800049…
Recent Astronomical discoveries
How Comets Break Up, Make Up
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releas…/2016/…/160601141522.htm
A New Einstein Ring: Distant Galaxy Lensed by Gravity
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releas…/2016/…/160602083727.htm
Space Exploration and Space History
Pluto: https://www.nasa.gov/…/nh-mckinnon_etal_nature_cover_trimme…
Surveyor 1: https://www.nasa.gov/…/files/thumbnails/image/pia02976_0.jpg
Visible satellite passages over the next couple of days.
ISS
http://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx…
June 13
http://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx…
Tiangong 1
http://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx…
SkyNet is a weekly net called every Saturday night at 9PM concerning the subject of Astronomy. Our purpose is to help amateurs become more familiar with the night time and daytime sky, astronomy, and space, in general.
This net is open to all amateurs interested in this topic and we encourage your participation, comments, and suggestions for this net.
In case you missed last weeks live event you can watch the recorded event at:
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