Nets
Weekly Club Net
Submitted by kd7yko on Sat, 2007-11-17 14:15Calling the Bridgerland Net, Calling the Bridgerland Net.
The Bridgerland Amateur Radio Club holds a weekly net Tuesday nights at 9:00 PM on the 146.72, the 147.26, the 145.31, the 147.20 and the 449.625 BARC Repeater System with a PL tone of 103.5.
It is a directed net and we invite all licensed Amateur Radio Operators to check in and participate.
During the weekly net we have announcements for upcomming events including HF contests.
One of the ways you can participate is to be the Net Control Station. If you have agreed to be the Net Control Station, or if no one else has started calling net, the attached BARC Net Preamble may be of use to you.
If you do not have a copy of the roll, calling by geographical areas such as outside of Cache Valley, North of Logan, West of Logan, South of Logan and Logan is a useful way to break the check-ins into smaller groups.
We hope to hear you on the Net.
Other Area Nets
Submitted by kd7yko on Sat, 2007-11-17 14:10The following sites publish information on other area nets:
* Ogden Amateur Radio Club - OARC
* Davis County Amateur Radio Club - DCARC
* Utah Amateur Radio Club - UARC
We have a forum topic, The Listening Post, for nets and other times when you are likely to hear fellow Cache Valley hams on the air. Please share what you hear. We will draw on this information for a column of the same title in our monthly newsletter.
BARC NET December 18, 2007
Submitted by AD7OV on Tue, 2007-12-18 22:51Thank you everyone who participated tonight in net. The topic tonight was the sunspot cycle, and how this article on Nasa's web site sseems to think we may be beginning the new cycle. I found it an interesting read, and shared it with the net tonight. I'd like to thank Kevin Reeve for showing to me on the board mailing list, as it made an interesting topic tonight.
Passing Traffic
Submitted by kd7yko on Tue, 2006-11-28 23:09The training topic for tonight was mainly derived from the Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Course Level 1 3rd Edition sections Eight and Nine, Basic Message Handling parts one and two.
Knowing how to handle traffic (which indicates formal traffic which is written and follows the ARRL Radiogram format) is a good skill to have. The weekly BARC Net is listed in the ARRL Online Net Directory and we ask that check-ins note if they have traffic.
Have you ever wondered what this traffic thing was?
Did you know, and wondered what it would be like to send traffic, what you might send and how it would go about getting there?
QTH on VHF and above
Submitted by kd7yko on Tue, 2006-07-25 22:06When I started using XLog on my Debian system to log radio contacts or stations I had listented to, I noticed a field "Locator" and a preference "QTH Locator" so I did some looking to find out what they may be.
In my searching I learned that for VHF and higher frequencies a few location exchange schemes were developed to help contesters quickly communicate their locations.
The first ideas were developed for contesters in Europe and were adapted to other regions of the world, but the values would repeat themselves. A couple of names for these drafts were the QRA Locator and QTH Locator systems.
In 1980 a group of European VHF managers met in Maidenhead, UK to discuss a new locator system that would have globally uniquie values. The system has been termed the Maidenhead Locator System and was adopted by IARU Region 1 at the first of 1985.
