2023-04-11 Weekly This & That Newsletter

Items of interest

Portable Digipeater Build with a Pi Zero 2

How times have changed for portable ops
In the 60s, you wouldn’t operate for long off a battery with the amperage needed to warm all those tubes.

Humor

Just in time for tax day — what 45 MB of data looked like in 1955

Meetings and activities

Next luncheon will be a cookout at Lake Somerset on 12 April. Donation of $5 per person will be requested (cash preferred, and no CAM charges).

The next meeting will be on May 4th at 7 PM at the Lakehouse.

More information to follow.

The Sun City Hilton Head Amateur Radio Club is offering its members a one-time opportunity to upgrade their license at the reduced cost of $10 for the exam fee. This reduced fee is available to members only but applies to any license upgrade exam at a special VE session.

In addition to the reduced fee, this exam session will be the first conducted with the ExamTools electronic testing environment. Because of this, walk in candidates cannot be accommodated.

This special exam session will be held on May 3, 2023, at the Bayside Room at the Lakehouse at 1 pm. To schedule your exam contact Dennis, AC4DH, at 207-350-1350 or AC4DH@arrl.net

Club website

The URL is https://www.ke4ham.org. If you notice any errors or have site-related questions, email: webmaster@ke4ham.org.

Nets:

Sunday NET (8 PM) operates on 147.550 MHz simplex and Echolink node: KE4HAM – L

Wednesday Nets (8 PM) operates from KK4ONF/Jasper repeater, 147.060+ and Echolink node: KE4HAM-R

Other operating:

Daily — DX spotting and open chat 24/7 on 147.550 MHz simplex and the Jasper Repeater, 147.060+ (no Echolink).

AD5EN – SCHH Past President