News from the Sterling Park Amateur Radio Club (SPARC)

 Hi,

We had an interesting meeting.  My radio-associated computer was not working so I had to move to a different computer to enable Zoom, thus lost the 2M feed.  I know that at least one member was trying to connect, Evan, KI4AD, and I apologize.  We had seven member on the zoom meeting. 

We pretty much filled up the hour.

Conrad, N4ZQA, talked about his antennas and mentioned a new one he was looking at. The TAK-tenna. 

We also decided to start the meeting earlier.  So we now start the 2M / Zoom Net Meeting at 7:30 PM instead of 8:00 PM

Jokes.

Why did they separate the turkeys from the chickens?
There was foul play.

Why was the turkey put into detention at school?
The turkey used foul language.

What instrument did the turkey play in the band?
The drums because the turkey could bring its own drumsticks.

73 Gordon, NQ4K

 Hi,

Seven attendees. All on zoom.  Interestingly, no matter how many folks we have, we always takes an hour.

The jokes:

Why don't matches play baseball?
One strike and they are out.

Why is it a good idea for frogs to be on a baseball team?
They are good at catching pop flys.

I almost talked myself out of a traffic ticket,
until I said is was not the alcohol talking.

Some aquatic mammals escaped from the zoo.
It was otter chaos.

How much room does it take for a fungus to grow?
As mushroom as possible.

73, Gordon, NQ4K

 

 Hi,

we had an excellent meeting  Eleven attendees in total.  Nine in the room in-person, and 2 on Zoom.

The speaker was excellent!  Very good summary of SWR  followed by a lengthy Q&A session. 

We updated all on the status of the Virginia QSO Party.  All committee members from last year have agreed to work on it again this year.  The only proposed rule change, to which was have agreed, is the self-spotting is allowed.  We effectively do that already with APRS and the VaQP spot reporting web site.  In addition we will verify that the two major logging programs allow DC as a multiplier/QTH. 

One other observation.  Parks-on-the-Air appears to be a up and coming favorite activity of our club members.  Ify ou have not been involved in this, maybe you visit their web site and consider it.

73, Gordon, NQ4K