Friends Teaching Friends
Submitted by K0BR on Fri, 09/19/2008 - 14:40
If you were at the last meeting, then you heard me talk about that the Friends Teaching Friends or Helping Hams program. We have a list of requests or ideas about some mini class that members would like to see. Now I need those of you that want to participate to contact me or the other SARA officers and let us know which class would be interested in attending or leading. The intent was to have these on Thursday evening but if that does now work for the class then we can have them scheduled to be at a more convenient time. We also need people willing to lead the class. To teach the seminar you don’t have to now everything about the subject. You just have to have an interest in it and want to teach and/or learn. The mini seminars will consist of about six people that are interested in the subject. Here is the list.
1. What is a “Software Defined Radio” (SDR).
2. APRS kits, programming, uses.
3. Packet, what is it, how does it work, and why use it.
4. CW practice sessions (possibly a CW low speed net).
5. Contesting, how to get started.
6. Contest for SARA members with prizes.
7. Echolink getting started.
8. Get on HF at CSC (Thursday).
9. Hidden Transmitter (Fox hunting) – getting started.
10. New ham (or old ham) – ask an Elmer.
11. How to use an antenna analyzer.
12. How to and uses for oscilloscopes / spectrum analyzers.
13. Single band SDR Kits.
14. 6m antennas, yagis’, quads, and halos.
15. 160m inverted “L”
16. Elevated ground radials.
17. 2m copper pipe J-Pole building
18. High altitude balloon experiment.
19. How to use a sling shot to put up a wire antenna.
20. HF digital voice FDMDV and WinDRM.
21. Getting started on Digital modes – PSK31, RTTY, SSTV.
22. How to QSL.
23. How to use an antenna tuner. Care and maintenance.
24. QSO parties such as MNQP.
25. N1MM software.
26. Logger32 software.
27. LoTW and DXCC, it looks like Roman to me (L=50, oTW=??? and DXCC=690).
28. SKYPE – VIOP.
29. D-Star
30. Other_______________
Please contact me at President (at) radioham.org or one of the other SARA officers if you have questions or are interested in class.
Thanks and 73
RicKØBRennan
SARA President
