Heart of Texas Red Cross 4244 Boonville RD, Bryan, TX
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Apr 29
April, 2019 Radio-in-the-Park
If you weren’t able to attend our recent Radio-in-the-Park event, we missed you! Lots of fun and good attendance. Several brought HF radios and I had a DMR mobile radio there. There were two hidden transmitters on two meters that provided a modest challenge to those interest in a “fox hunt.” We saw some unique direction-finding equipment.
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Apr 26
Radio In The Park is this Sat plus a Fox Hunt
RITP is a “go” for this Sat the 27th starting at 10am. See prior post below for more info. Also we have decided to add in a fox hunt as well around 12-1230 so bring your DF gear for that. Hope to see you out there.
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Apr 12
Radio In The Park Rescheduled
Looks like weather is still going to be a bit nasty for Saturday April 13th so it is best to reschedule the RITP event. Was holding out to see if the foul weather was going to be bumped up or back but its still holding on to being a problem on Sat. So we’ll try again on Sat April 27th starting at 10am or so.
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Apr 03
Meeting location
Please note the location of this month’s meeting: The Salvation Army, Bryan/College Station, 2506 Cavitt AVE, Bryan, TX 77801
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Apr 01
Radio In The Park – April 13th Tanglewood Park
The club will be having its Spring time Radio In The Park event April 13th (Sat). Start time is at approx 10:00am and event runs until approx 2-3pm or when everyone is ready to pack it in. Bring your portable radio gear & antennas and come out and operate and have some fun doing so. Power (120v ac) will be made available. Bring your own food & drink if desired. You may wish to bring a chair. Everyone is are invited to come out, members, non members, guests, families and those just curious about amateur radio and want to learn more or see communications in action and/or portable radio setups.
We tend to setup on the south east end of park closest to East 29th but table availability may vary.
See map in event calendar section on right side of webpage for location of park (if working).
If weather is not favorable for this outdoor event then we’ll try for Sat the 27th instead..
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Feb 17
Digital Mobile Radio references
After a productive club meeting on Saturday, we learned a lot from Andrew Byorth, KG5JDJ, about digital radio “hot spots.” These small Linux computers (Raspberry Pi) and their radio HATs can act as your gateway to Internet-routed amateur radio such as Digital Mobile Radio (DMR or MotoTrbo), Yaesu Fusion, D-Star and NXDN. For more information about DMR and amateur radio hot spots, here are a few Web links for you.
Amateur Radio Guide to Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) by John S. Burningham, W2XAB is a nice pamphlet that explains some of the concepts of DMR.
In addition to your FCC license, you will need a DMR-Marc ID number, which you can get by registering on the radioid.net page.
Rob Robinette has a great web page about amateur radio digital modes and hot spots
Digital Hotspots for Amateur Radio is a presentation from the Richardson Amateur Radio Club and has a lot of information including quite a few more Web links regarding this topic.
Some notes from Andrew:
For those that might be interested in a plug and play hotspot please contact K4WZV. His email is good on QRZ.com. He has a couple different hot spots that he will set up with the customers configuration so when it arrives they are ready to go. The prices vary from around $110 to $189.
The raspberry pi’s can be sourced on amazon, ebay, etc. I always look for the best price. As for the MMDVM boards, you can search for mmdvm hs_hat or zumspot and find sources. I have bought a few on ebay with good luck. The ZUMspot is a little higher end and will cost more, the Chinese copies can be purchased for around 20 dollars. I have had good results with both. Nextion screens can found found easily on ebay. Make sure that the model number starts with a NX#. If is starts with a TJC avoid it.
- Needed for full build:
- RPI of your choice, pi-zero, pi 3 B or B+
- MMDVM, zumspot, mmdvm hs_hat aka.
- power supply, recommend 2.5 amp
- OLED screen or Nextion screen if desired.
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Feb 13
Reminder of meeting/test session location change for this Sat
This Saturday’s monthly meeting and test session will be at the CS Fire Station 6. This is the one located at 610 University Dr East at Tarrow St, next to Golden Corral. Test session starts at 8am and meeting at 9:30. We will also have a presentation on dmr/dv hotspots by Andrew KG5JDJ. Club fees are also due. If you have not renewed please stop by and pay them. If you can’t attend print the form off of the website and mail in. We are also planning at being able for you to join/renew your ARRL membership through the club. By doing so the club gets a kickback. So it is encouraged to go thru us, it is appreciated. Forms for this will be avail at the meetings.
See you there.
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Jan 08
Annual BBQ Lunch & Membership Renewals Due
We are having our annual BBQ club meeting at C&J BBQ in Bryan on Saturday January 19th 2019 beginning at 11am. Lunch begins at 11 and meeting to follow about 11:45-12 See “next meeting” info to right for location. We will be meeting the large party room and will be welcoming the new officers and cover past year’s events as well as this year’s events & plans. All is welcome to attend.
Also 2019 membership fees are due now. Please renew or join at this time. Please attend the bbq meeting and pay your dues then. If you cannot attend then please mail in your form with appropriate fee. You can find the membership form under the “About Us” tab above and then click on “Join Barc” and then “Club Application” for the pdf form. You can also pay at any of the monthly club meetings. Membership fee is due by March 1st.
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Nov 18
Electronic parts sources
During our most recent meeting, a question arose: where can I buy the resistors and capacitors that I need for what I am building? Well, with no local electronics stores anymore, that’s a challenge. Here are a number of options you might consider:
Online/telephone/mail order:
- Digikey Huge selection, reliable, long business history.
- Radio Shack They seem to still be doing business online and, some HobbyTown stores (like the one in Waco) sell a limited selection of Radio Shack merchandise.
- Mouser Electronics Huge selection, reliable, long business history.
- Altex Computers and Electronics Mainly cabling and IT products, some audio, some electronics. They have a store in Austin.
- Electronic Goldmine Interesting items, surplus, odds and ends.
- MPJA Marlin P. Jones. Lots of inexpensive items including microncontrollers, power supplies, components and kits.
- Parts Express Lots of audio components, tools, speakers, vacuum tubes, etc.
- Newwark/Element 14 Huge selection, long business history.
- Antique Electronic Supply Lots of tube electronics parts, musical instrument tools, speakers, etc.
- Sparkfun Large selection of microcontroller/microprocessor project parts.
- Adafruit Large selection of microcontroller/microprocessor/electronic project parts.
- Seeed Studio Large selection of microcontroller/microprocessor project parts.
Brick and mortar stores:
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