Bryan Amateur Radio Club – Page 2 – W5BCS Brazos County, Texas

Mar 21

Bryan MidTown Park Program Statement

By Philip Gates in Press Release
March 21, 2020

https://docs.bryantx.gov/projects/regional-park/ProgramStatement.pdf

Permanent link to this article: https://www.bryanarc.org/bryan-midtown-park-program-statement/

Mar 21

Presentation about Amateur Radio Nets

By Philip Gates in Press Release
March 21, 2020

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UvIzzFpvKlZYZIJShmgZv7gIu3RQvS0D/view?usp=sharing

Permanent link to this article: https://www.bryanarc.org/presentation-about-amateur-radio-nets/

Mar 20

March Club Meeting tomorrow — On-Air

By Philip Gates in Calendar Events, Press Release
March 20, 2020

Our regular March meeting will be at the same time, 09:30 tomorrow, 21 March. We meet on-the-air using the W5BCS repeater, 146.680. Their is a tone required on input, 88.5Hz but, no tone is transmitted. This is the same repeater we use for our Tuesday evening nets.

I’ll look forward to hearing you on the air!

–Phil, N5ZKF

Permanent link to this article: https://www.bryanarc.org/march-club-meeting-tomorrow-on-air/

Jan 31

Remembering Mark Hnatiuk, KG5EYV

By Philip Gates in Press Release
January 31, 2020

Permanent link to this article: https://www.bryanarc.org/remembering-mark-hnatiuk-kg5eyv/

Jan 17

Club meeting 18 January at C&J BBQ

By Philip Gates in Press Release
January 17, 2020

Join us at C&J BBQ on the bend in Texas Avenue, Bryan, TX at 11:30. Go through the line and purchase some food and join us in their meeting room. We’ll have time to eat, fellowship and a brief business meeting. We’ll also make some time to talk a bit about the year to come.

Permanent link to this article: https://www.bryanarc.org/club-meeting-18-january-at-cj-bbq/

Dec 10

Club Meeting Saturday, 21 December

By Philip Gates in Press Release
December 10, 2019

4244 Boonville RD, Bryan, TX

https://goo.gl/maps/Qd43EjjZCk4CTF8j7

Permanent link to this article: https://www.bryanarc.org/club-meeting-saturday-21-december/

Oct 16

BARC Club meeting this Saturday.

By Philip Gates in Press Release, Uncategorized
October 16, 2019

https://goo.gl/maps/B7keq1AB4GYmLp3G7

4244 Boonville RD, Bryan, Texas.

Permanent link to this article: https://www.bryanarc.org/barc-club-meeting-this-saturday/

Oct 01

Paul’s notes about Raspberry Pi Applications

By Philip Gates in Press Release
October 1, 2019

Pi-Hole: A small computer to block web advertisements on your home network.
APRS I-Gate: Program your Raspberry Pi to transfer APRS packets from your to/from your radio and the Internet.
GQRX: A small computer host for your USB software-defined receiver.
Requirements
- Pi
  - Pi-ZEROW: A single-core machine for simple things like Pi-Hole. Often available for $5 on sale.
  - PI-3B+ A multi-core, fully-featured Pi, usually $35.
  - PI-4 This is the latest realease. Not all features are complete and it might require cooling to be reliable.
  - MicroSD card (32GB)
  - Power supply. Don’t cheap-out here and try to use your old cellphone charger. Get a higher-current model that has the correct connector for your Pi.
- Operating system
  - Start at http://www.raspberrypi.org and look in the downloads section.
  - Raspbian is good. NOOBS is simpler but doesn’t expose all the features. Others exist, for example, Buster.
  - You’ll need a software tool to put the operating system on your SD memory card. If you are running Windows, Win32diskimager is a popular application.
Pi-Hole: Utilizes a Rapberry Pi to pull advertising out of your web browsing! Read the documentation here
- Get the software from github, here.
- Paul recommends using these commands on your Raspberry Pi to install:
  - git clone –depth 1 https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole.git Pi-hole
  - cd “P1-hole/automated install/”
  - sudo bash basic-install.sh
APRS IGATE
- Another good use for the Raspberry PiZero-W
- Prebuilt images can be found here.
- Paul has additional experience with this if you have questions.
GQRX
- You probably need to be running this on a Raspberry Pi 4 because it is processor intensive.
- The software is actually available through the normal raspbian installer. Click on Preferences–>Add/Remove software and search for GQRX.
- Paul recommends the Nooelec tuners, such as the NESDR SMArt4 v4 because of their shielded aluminum cases and temperature-stabilized oscillators. Look around the site and check their specifications for a tuning range, etc. that meets your needs.
Questions? paul@conspiracy.net
Thanks again to Paul Bilke for giving us some ideas.