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Archives for November 2022

General Meeting Monday November 21, 2022 at 7:00PM

November 15, 2022 by John Comanzo

This SARA meeting will be Hybrid: in-person at Alplaus Fire House and via Zoom

7:00—8:30 PM ………….Speaker Presentation

(Zoom link to be sent out separately prior to the meeting)

Digital Mobile Radio

Speaker: Skip Evans, W2YJL

Abstract:

This talk will cover the following questions:

  • What is DMR?
  • How does it work?
  • What radios are used?
  • How do you connect to a repeater or the Internet?
  • What is a hotspot?
  • How do you program a radio and hotspot?
  • How do you connect to different DMR radios?
  • What is the price range of equipment?
  • How do you get follow-up help for systems operation?

About our speaker:

Skip graduated from RPI with an EE degree, and trained at KAPL as a nuclear engineer. He has traveled all over the US and Canada to nuclear site installations. Eventually, he transferred to GE Medical Systems. He retired as a specialist in nuclear medicine. Skip has lived in Glenville for 35 years, and has held an amateur radio license for 74 years. Currently, Skip holds an advanced class ticket.

Note: The meeting location is 309 Alplaus Ave, Alplaus, NY, and the building is at the corner of Alplaus Avenue and Bruce Drive. Please park in the paved lot adjacent to this building. Do not park in the restricted area in front of the building that houses the fire trucks. We will meet in the Multi- purpose Room (entrance is on the North side of this building).

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About SARA

The Schenectady Amateur Radio Association (SARA) was established in 1930. The club station, K2AE, is the Henry Primm Broughton Memorial Station. SARA operates repeaters on  2 meters (147.06 MHz.), and on 70 centimeters (444.200 MHz.) which are located at the top of Crawford Hill in Schenectady County near New York State Thruway exit 26.

The club is an American Radio Relay League (ARRL) affiliate and has about 100 members from all over New York State’s Capital District (Albany, Schenectady, Troy), and beyond.

For additional information about the ARRL see https://arrl.org

Last updated: 31-August-22