North Bay 2-Meter Critical Mass colleagues—
The North Bay 2-Meter Critical Mass ham radio practice sessions are held on the third Sunday of every month—so our next Critical Mass is this coming Sunday, October 18, at 1030 hours. We are carrying on the tradition started at Spreckels Lake by our friend and colleague Peter McElmury AA6SF SK.
Milt Hyams KM6ASI will be our host and discussion leader for this session of the North Bay 2-Meter Critical Mass. (There are four of us who rotate this NB2MCM: Doug KF6AKU, Milt KM6ASI, Rob NZ6J and Michael K6MLF.) You will see one of us in the lead each quarter.
Once again we will meet on Zoom; Marin County is still one of the Bay Area’s COVID-19 hotspots, and there’s no need for us to take chances during this ongoing pandemic. We look forward to the day when we can again meet in person at the Civic Center lagoon.
The MARS Sunday-morning net check-in will be at its usual time of 1015 on 146.700. As long as we meet on Zoom, we will start at 1030. We’ve found that trying to check into the Marin Amateur Radio Society’s Sunday morning net at the same time that we’re attending a Zoom session simply doesn’t work. We DO encourage you to check into the net before 1030! Steve KB6HOH will call on Critical Mass members at the beginning of the 1015 roll call.
Our agenda for this month will be:
How to operate on Zoom – Brian Cooley K6EZX, presenter
ACP125: What is it and why is it important to us – Milt Hyams, presenter
Use of the Repeater Reverse feature and programming it – Steve Toquinto KB6HOH, presenter
Elmer Time: Question and Answer (Questions raised by attendees and answered by our experts) – All
There are some attachments: an abbreviated version of ACP 125 and out working list of phonetic alphabet and prowords. These are your homework assignments before class. There will be a test.
Please plan to attend this Zoom session—and pass the word to currently-licensed radio ops, or to those who are seeking their licenses!
Here’s the link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83991335528
Meeting ID: 839 9133 5528
Thanks,
milt
