CMSARA

Central Mississippi Amateur Radio Association

Club Activities

July 2020 Online Meeting on Digital Operation

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Digital Field Day Instructions Download

Please come join us for a zoom meeting where Eddie Pettis N5JGK & Carolyn Irons KC5DOC will be presenting about Digital Mode Operation on HF.

Topic: CMSARA July Meeting. Digital Mode Operation
Time: Jul 14, 2020 07:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82147531622?pwd=R1lqclVBWUVPOG9lS0twT1dGR1BIdz09

Meeting ID: 821 4753 1622
Password: 925504
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June Meeting – Field Day Discussions!

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The next meeting of CMSARA will be on June 9th at 7 pm on the 147.345 repeater. The repeater has a + offset and a .100 tone.

The discussion will be center on field day and how it will impact CMSARA members and the best way to go about participating. Everyone is invited to join in with questions.

Immediately following the net there will be a Zoom presentation about the N3FJP Software that will be good for use during field day. This is very easy to use and intuitive software.

Instructions on how to join the Zoom meeting will be given on the net. Hope to hear you on the net and see you on Zoom.

CMSARA Programs for 2020

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Date Speaker Topic Presence
January 14 George Thomas W5JDX DIY Projects using Arduino & Raspberry Pi In-person
February 11 Don Keith N4KC Ham Radio Lingo Skype
March 3 Mike Duke K5XU Six Meter Operation In-person
April 14 J.D. Toony K5HH WSPR Operation Online Facebook
May 12 Mike McKay N5DU APRS Operation in Central Mississippi In-person
June 9 Field Day Field Day Planning In-person
July 14 Eddie Pettis N5JGK
Carolyn Irons KC5DOC		 Digital Mode Operation on HF In-person
August 10 Tom Brown AE5I Basic Test Equipment In-person
September 8 John Struemph K1JHS Preparation for Contest Operation In-person
October 13 TBA Shack Night! Shacks of CMSARA Members In-person
November 10 Rob Sherwood NC0B How to Use My Tables Skype
December 8 Fellowship Christmas Party In-person

PARDON OUR DUST!

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As is probably obvious lately, we’ve had some … technical difficulties.

However, we have a brand new URL!

CentralMSHam.club

It’s going to take a little bit of time to get everything transferred and working properly, so pardon our dust as we finish the site.

Impromptu Workshop building fox hunt antennas.

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Ok, y’all. I’m going to host a workshop for anyone interested in building a fox hunt antenna. We’re going to do it out of my garage this coming Saturday, Feb 2 (groundhog day) from 10am till about 2pm. I should have all the tools necessary including a solder iron. You supply your materials.

If you’re interested, email me at
CentralMSARA@gmail.com or direct message me on Facebook, and I’ll give you the address.

I’m going to use the following plans…

Build it: 2 meter Tape Measure Yagi Beam Antenna

He’s got an attached youtube video on his build. Looks to be an effective and easy one to make.

His follow-up video is below.

The follow up to the plans I’m following

Eugene Wallace (N5CMA) did a fantastic amount of research and found some addittional plans for y’all to choose from! One of which, I think he’s planning on building. Thanks Eugene!

So, feel free to join me this Saturday in my garage for a few hours to tinker with hand-held directional antennas.

2019 Capital City Hamfest

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What a great turn-out this year! There seemed to be quite a few more attendees this go-round. Maybe it’s because I actually knew some people this year!

CMSARA signed up 9 new members this weekend, and one of them, Kathleen Kable (K5KKD), was the winner of the Baofeng give-away! Congratulations Kathleen, and a warm welcome to all new members!

Eugene Wallace (N5CMA) grew a possum tree especially for the event and placed his coffee-can 2M antenna at the top of it. We were all quite surprised how well that antenna did inside the near faraday cage that we were sitting in.
I tried using my magnetic loop and go-box inside to hit the 40M band. Alas, no luck there. Coffee can wins on 2 meters.

Our booth-neighbors were the Vicksburg Amateur Radio Club folks, and it was great spending time chatting with them. What a great bunch they are! I, for one, can’t wait for field day with them this year.

Many thanks to all who came out and made this a very fun and successful hamfest for CMSARA!

January 2019 Meeting

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Welcome back! We hope you had a fantastic holiday season. This month, we had a great presentation by Frank Howell K4FMH on RF Propagation: Ionization and Prediction. He scratched the surface on a complex and deep subject in a way that made me feel like a genius… until I got home and tried to contact Europe forgetting I had lowered my antenna earlier that week. Apparently, even a guy as smart as Frank can’t help my particular “RF” issues… You can find his slide presentation following and I highly recommend giving it a look through.

Some of the folks from the Vicksburg Amateur Radio Club came to invite us to their Field Day set up this year. It promises to be a great weekend with an even greater group of folks, and we can’t thank the VARC enough for the invite!

We have the Capital City Hamfest coming up on the 25th. CMSARA will have a booth there and could use some members to come man it. So, if you have the time, we’ll have a chair for you!

Or, just come anyway and say hello, the Hamfest is always an interesting event for hams each year.

Christmas Party

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We would like to thank everybody to helped and attended this year’s Christmas party. It went very well and we had a nice turnout. It was a fun and wonderful way to close out 2018.

As with these things, we had more food than we could eat.

Quinton arranged a great spread of prizes for us to win, including the table decorations that he and his wife Melissa handmade with beeswax candles from their own hives. MFJ enterprises was very generous and gave us even more prizes.

Thanks again to MFJ enterprises!
Quinton’s daughter Holly helped with the drawing.

So, Thanks to all our members for a wonderful year. We wish you the warmest Merry Christmas, and a very Happy New Year.

See y’all in 2019!

Election Results for 2018-19 Board Members

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[dropcap]A[/dropcap]t the general meeting on October 9 2018, it was voted in that the Board Meeting shall now be held at 6pm on the same day as the general association meeting, which is currently the second Tuesday of each month. All members are welcome, and greatly encouraged, to attend both meetings.

After that, the annual elections were held where, for various reasons, the entire board was up for re-election. Outgoing President Richard Lawrence (W5EZX) conducted the elections and warmly welcomed the new board into their roles.

The new board would like to thank the outgoing for their service to the association. President Richard Lawrence (W5EZX), VP Programming Bill Stanfill (K4YCD), VP Special Events William Ray (KG5IIS), Treasurer Tommy Alewine (K5TMA), Secretary Richard Bohlman (KG5QLS), and Board Directors Brady Aldrich (KA7KWJ) & Brooke Ridge (KG5JAW), your work on the association’s behalf is greatly appreciated.

The new board consists of the following.

President Quinton Frasier KW5TON
Vice President – Special Events
& Webmaster/Social Media		 JD Toony K5HH
Vice President – Programming Mike McKay N5DU
Secretary/Treasurer
(pending vote)		 Bob Burt KG5ZDZ
Board Directors Bob Bullock K5RWB
Mike Hampton

KG5SJD