Thursday, November 12th

Please join the GOTAhams for our monthly club Meeting. We will be at El Ranchero Restaurant at: 984 West Foothill Blvd, Claremont. The restaurant will expect you to order food or drinks, so be there by 6pm so you can order and eat before the meeting. The meeting starts at 7pm.

If you cannot attend in person you can attend on Zoom. Club members will get the Zoom link in the weekly email at the beginning of the week. Non-members may send an e-mail to Tim N6DLC at: tim@wnbnet.net to get the Zoom link.

We will learn about C.E.R.T. (Community Emergency Response Team).

We will also hear from Bruce K6GH about ARES (Amateur Radio Emergency Service)

Wednesday, November 25th, at 6:15PM – 146.580MHz

The GOTAhams monthly Simplex Net will be on 146.580MHz starting at 6:15pm. A great way to explore the reach of your 2 meter equipment without benefit of repeater, both receiving and transmitting.

Have a pad of paper and a pen to record signal reports for each station you hear as they check-in. After everyone is checked in we will collect the signal reports.  Be sure to turn down or off your squelch, to hear weak signals.

Use this scale for your reports:

1=Nothing at all heard, not even noise or hiss suggesting a specific signal is present.

2=It was apparent that a signal was present but communication is impossible even with reasonable re-tries.

3=Communication possible with noise and possibly some re-tries to cover drop outs.

4=Good communication though with some noise or other artifacts, but generally solid copy.

5=Solid copy, little or no noise, full or nearly full quieting.

Be patient during silences as there will probably be participants you cannot hear and net control is likely communicating with those stations during silences.