{"id":1358,"date":"2018-04-12T16:57:36","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T20:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2018-09-30T15:15:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T19:15:54","slug":"ocra-membership-meeting-april-9-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/2018\/04\/12\/ocra-membership-meeting-april-9-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"OCRA Club Meeting April 9, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Introductions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Treasurer Report:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We have a strong financial balance.\u00a0 Current membership listing is located under the Membership tab.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Repeater Update:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dan (KR4UB) explained that installing the repeater at UNC is not cost effective at this time.\u00a0 The club is seeking a cost sharing arrangement with UNC.\u00a0 More information will be known later this Spring.<\/p>\n<p><strong>General Reports:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rars.org\/rarsfest\/\">Raleigh (RARS) Fest<\/a> \u2013 The Club sold a few items totaling $40 dollars. Thanks to Steve\u2019s (KZIX) $67 donation at the meeting, we added a total of $107 to our savings account.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dfma.org\/dfmaDHF.html\">Durham Fest<\/a> is Saturday, May 26, 2018. Tickets are now available.\u00a0 \u00a0\u2013 Tickets available.\u00a0 Link to site with Dates.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motivrunning.com\/tar-heel-10-miler\/\">Tar Heel 10 Miler<\/a> is April 21<sup>st<\/sup>. The Tar Heel 10 Miler and Fleet Feet 4 Mile run both start at the UNC Chapel Hill Bell Tower running you through the heart of downtown Chapel Hill, the historic Rosemary district, the UNC Campus and the beautiful Gimghoul neighborhood. Steve (W3HAL) has inquired with race management regarding amateur radio support.\u00a0 We should have an update in the next week or two.<\/li>\n<li>A VE Session is scheduled for Saturday, April 14<sup>th<\/sup> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orangecountync.gov\/departments\/emergency_services\/index.php\">Orange County Emergency Services Center<\/a>. Thanks to Paul (N2XZF), Nick (KA1HPM), Andy (W4KIL) and Dave (NA4VY) for their assistance.<\/li>\n<li>OCRA has experience difficulties managing our emails distribution with Yahoo. As such, earlier this month Dave (W4SAR) transitioned our Yahoo account to Groups.io, which provides a more mature platform providing more features and easier group management.<\/li>\n<li>Field Day is approaching\u2026June 23 and 24. We are planning to retain the same band captions, but will move Digital to field, which will make the barn available for more easily accessible stations. We plan to leverage the NCOCRA blog calendar to manage station coverage throughout the event.\u00a0 Still looking for a \u201cfew good hams\u201d to manage the food committee. \u00a0If interested, please let Dave (W4SAR) know.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Program: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vertical T-Wire Top Antenna 80 and 160 Meter Vertical and 80 Meter Dipole<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1359 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/20180409_200304-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/20180409_200304-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/20180409_200304-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/20180409_200304-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/20180409_200304-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Wilson was inspired by the\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bouvetdx.org\/\">Bouvet expedition<\/a> to build a \u201cT\u201d Top Antenna for 80 and 160 Meter.\u00a0 While the Bouvet expedition was not successful (Inclement Weather) the \u201cT\u201d antenna was successful.\u00a0 For more information on the Antenna, please reference Dan&#8217;s (KR4UB) blog article, \u201c<a href=\"The%20Lurid%20Details%20of%20a%20W4BOH%20antenna%20for%20Bouvet\">The Lurid Details of a W4BOH antenna for Bouvet<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For more information on Low-Band DXing, Wilson recommends <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&amp;text=John+Devoldere+ON4UN&amp;search-alias=books&amp;field-author=John+Devoldere+ON4UN&amp;sort=relevancerank\">John Devoldere (ON4UN<\/a>)\u00a0book, \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/ON4UNs-Band-DXing-Devoldere-ON4UN\/dp\/087259856X\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1523557770&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=low+band+dxing\">Low-Band Dxing: Antennas, Equipment and Techniques for DXcitement on 160, 80, and 40 Meters.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An overview of the EZNEC design and analyzer measurements of W4BOH&#8217;s 160\/80M vertical\/dipole antenna, as of mid-March is located at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/groups.io\/g\/OCRADFMA\/files\/Antenna%20Designs\/W4BOH%20160M%20&amp;%2080M%20Vertical%20T-Wire%20Elevated%20Radials%20L-Netwk%20&amp;%2080M%20Dipole%20Project%20031218.pdf\">https:\/\/groups.io\/g\/OCRADFMA\/files\/Antenna%20Designs\/W4BOH%20160M%20&amp;%2080M%20Vertical%20T-Wire%20Elevated%20Radials%20L-Netwk%20&amp;%2080M%20Dipole%20Project%20031218.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1360 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/20180409_201859-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/20180409_201859-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/20180409_201859-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/20180409_201859-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/20180409_201859-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Andy (W4KIL) presented a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qrp-labs.com\/qcx.html\">5W CW Transceiver kit by QRP Labs<\/a>.\u00a0 The transceiver is a feature rich, high performing, single-band 5W CW transceiver kit, with WSPR beacon and built-in alignment\/test equipment for only $49.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introductions: Treasurer Report:\u00a0 We have a strong financial balance.\u00a0 Current membership listing is located under the Membership tab. Repeater Update: Dan (KR4UB) explained that installing the repeater at UNC is not cost effective at this time.\u00a0 The club is seeking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/2018\/04\/12\/ocra-membership-meeting-april-9-2018\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-meetings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1364,"href":"https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions\/1364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncocra.org\/WordPress_v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}