ANNOUNCEMENTS
THIS MONDAY!! October 21st monthly meeting with great topic and guest speaker...
Doors Will Open for Connect Time: 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM This gives you an opportunity to meet other members, socialize and expand your friendships with other hams. This is also a great time to meet with ELMERS, our ham radio mentors, to assist you with your challenges in the hobby.
Club Business meeting 7:00-7:30 pm. In-person and Zoom for remote attendees.
Presentation (via Zoom): 7:30-9:00
Dual band Antenna Talk - Ed Fong (WB6IQN)
Our guest speaker for the October meeting will be Ed Fong (WB6IQN). As many of you know, he is the inventor of the DBJ-1 and DBJ-2 antenna that was featured in the February 2003 and March 2007 QST. His most recent antenna was the TBJ-1 – a triband base antenna that was published in March 2017 QST. The DBJ-1 is a highly effective dual band VHF/UHF base station antenna and the DBJ-2 is the portable roll up version. The DBJ-2 won the QST Plaque of the Month Award. Both of these antennas are featured in the ARRL VHF antenna Handbook and also in the ARRL Antenna Classic Handbook. There are over 40,000 of these antennas in use today. About half are used by hams and the other half by government and commercial agencies.
Ed will give a history on how these antennas were developed and the theory on how and why they work so well. There is no “black magic” to antennas. He will explain in a non-mathematical manner to convince you for overall performance and simplicity. His approach is one of the most practical.
Biography: Ed Fong was first licensed in 1968 as WN6IQN. He later upgraded to Extra Class (when 20 WPM was required) with his present call of WB6IQN. He obtained the BSEE and MSEE degrees from the Univ. of California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. from the Univ. of San Francisco. A Life Senior Member of the IEEE, he has 12 patents and over 40 published papers and books in the area of communications and integrated circuit design. Presently, he is employed by the University of California, Santa Cruz (previously with Berkeley from 1997-2010) as an instructor teaching graduate classes in Antenna Design, RF design and high-speed interface.
Net Controls Needed
Please make time to volunteer for one session as net control to support your club!
To act as the net control station during our weekly net...Please volunteer at this link.
If EACH member of the club would take ONE net per YEAR, we would have every net
October 21- No Net...Monthly meeting!!
October 28- Need a Net Control
November 4- Need a Net Control
November 11- Need a Net Control
November 25- Need a Net Control
Our thanks to those who are volunteering to serve as Net Control Operators. We always need Net Control Operators, so please volunteer. This is a wonderful opportunity to improve your on-the-air skills. It is easy to sign up, just go to the Net Control signup page at the Club's website and follow the instructions. There is a simple script on the same page , bottom of the page, that is easy to follow. Info on the NØXLF and WØTLM repeater can be found on that page as well. If you are into HF nets check this out: NetScraper.
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Learning opportunities from RMHAM ...line-up for new classes through Spring 2025
--From RMHAM
We are about to kick off a new season of RMHAM University.
Our first RMHAM-U DMR programming workshop presented by Mike K0NGA is only two weeks away on Sat Oct 19 from 8:30-noon.
This class is an introduction to programming your DMR radio covering concepts, CPS differences and practical examples with special attention to the popular Anytone brand of radios Bring your radio, programming cable and radio and learn how to create and modify your code plug.
The class will be in person at Cherry Creek Schools ESC 4700 S. Yosemite Street Greenwood Village, CO 80111 and also by Zoom.
Sign up at
https://www.rmham.org/cgi-bin/rmham-u/signup
to attend in person or obtain the Zoom link.
While there, review our classes for the upcoming season and mark your calendars for the rest of our academic year
11/16/2024 Direction Finding Workshop by Chris K0SWE and Dan N0PUF 8:30 a.m. About two hours of class instruction on
direction finding at field as well as at regional scales followed by a field exercise. Covers everything from a simple HT and a yagi to
sophisticated direction-finding equipment.
12/21/2024 Solar Power: Planning and Design 830am by Doug K2AD and John W0VG Design and planning for solar power,
power requirement planning, storage, sizing panels, deciding on
mono/poly panels, mounts, sizing, etc.
01/15/2025 Designing Objects for 3D Printing by Jim Dixon KA6ETE
02/15/2025 Nerdfest
03/15/2025 Antenna Workshop by Doug K2AD and Willem AC0KQ
04/26/2025 Grounding and lightning protection by Mike K7AIH
We hope to see you there!
73 Willem AC0KQ
And in case you haven't visited their website, check out past presentations here...an abundance of information shared amongst the ham community!
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REMINDERS
Upcoming Technician Licensing Class...Tell your friends, family and anyone who might be interested.
When: October 19 thru November 16
Where: combination online, zoom and in person
More info here!
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Fall line-up into the holiday season...
October 21: Monthly meeting guest speaker Ed Fong, WB6IQN, (https://edsantennas.weebly.com/). Ed will present a talk on antennas. He is well known for his affordable J-Pole.
November 18: ... will be our final meeting of the year. More importantly, this meeting is the annual meeting of the Club. We will hold elections for officers, so please consider attending. This is the month of our annual elections. Please consider ways in which you may want to contribute your talents to the success of our club, either as an officer or assisting in one of our committees. Additionally, we will discuss topics for Tech Day to be held in January and potential programs for 2025. LAST MEETING OF THE YEAR!!
December: No meeting, enjoy your holidays!
Next WØTLM VE test session
When: November 9, 2024, 10:30 AM exam start time
Where: Monument Library
Info: Pre-registration is required. Sign-up here
The November 9th VE session at the Monument Library is restricted to students enrolled in the current Technician class. We can accept a limit of 20 applicants at our VE session. There is a PPRAA VE session on the same day who will be accommodating those who want to test once we have reached capacity or who are closer to that test location. Stu Turner will discuss testing during the class. We will schedule another session soon to accommodate anyone who isn’t able to find a seat at either session
LOCAL EDUCATION EVENTS
For anyone who is not familiar with DLARC... you really should check it out: Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive
The Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications is a library of materials and collections related to amateur radio and early communications. The DLARC is funded by a significant grant from Amateur Radio Digital Communications, a private foundation, to create a digital library that documents, preserves, and provides open access to the history of this community.
This free resource combines archived digitized print materials, born-digital content, websites, oral histories, personal collections, and other related records and publications. The goals of DLARC are both to document the history of amateur radio and to provide freely available educational resources for researchers, students, and the general public.
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73 Bill WT0DX
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ARRL Learning center has TWO NEW EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION TRAINING COURSES . ARRL has released two new courses to train emergency (EMCOMM) operators for volunteering within AMATEUR RADIO EMERGENCY SERVICE® (ARES®).
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Elmering (the best way for local Educational help) . We have a team of volunteers providing help to those who request assistance. If you need help with anything, please reach out - w0tlm-elmer@w0tlm.org. . Our Google Groups email system is also great for this purpose. If you have a question, please feel free to ask it - and remember: There are no stupid questions. If you have more than a question or two or would like to be paired with an Elmer, please let us know and we'll do our best to connect you with someone who can help you. Contact w0tlm-elmer@w0tlm.org.
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Check out our own website club presentations - WØTLM Presentations. We have a tremendous array of presentations on numerous subjects. If you find one that you need more info on just contact the Elmering crew below.
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RM HAM University - check out the offerings and sign up.
Sign up for classes here
11/16/2024 Direction Finding Workshop by Chris K0SWE and Dan N0PUF
12/21/2024 Solar Power: Planning and Design by Doug K2AD and John W0VG
01/15/2025 Designing Objects for 3D Printing by Jim Dixon KA6ETE
02/15/2025 Nerdfest
03/15/2025 Antenna Workshop by Doug K2AD and Willem AC0KQ
04/26/2025 Grounding and lightning protection by Mike K7AIH
UPCOMING EVENTS and HAM FESTS
If you attend any of these events please send pics, links, reports--either real-time or post wrap up-- for inclusion in newsletter! Also if you know of an event that you think other members would enjoy, please submit. kf0plu@gmail.com
10/21/24 WØTLM Monthly Meeting Guest Speaker --Ed Fong, WB6IQN, (https://edsantennas.weebly.com/)
Time: 7:30-9:00PM
Location: Tri-Lakes Chamber of Commerce - 166 2nd St Monument
Info: Here
Contact: Here
11/18/24 WØTLM Monthly Meeting ELECTIONS!! And Forum Discussion on 2025 Planning....
Time: 7:30-9:00PM
Location: Tri-Lakes Chamber of Commerce - 166 2nd St Monument
Info: Here
Contact: Here
SOLAR ACTIVITY
Solar Flare Alerts: Sign up for Space Weather Alerts and get instant text notifications when solar flares are underway. There are numerous sites and ways to check and see where and what the chances are of that great contact. One to check is W5MMW solar site info Check it out. Also this site provides solar data NØNBH.
TIP, TRICKS, & PROJECTS If you have pictures of a new product, hack, install, please share for this section! kf0plu@gmail.com
SPOTLIGHT CORNER If you attend an event and have pictures of want to submit an article or blurb about an activation or event, please share for this section!
Pics from the DSES (Deep Space Exploration Society) open house...
Still looking for another editor for the newsletter to spread the load. Please volunteer. We have also thought that someone with a more professional eye could make it more appealing. Also, Reporters are encouraged to send in pics of field events, builds, etc... If you have an interest in such a worthy function let us know; we are also willing to help train!
Please check the club website for clothing, calendar, Equipment Cache, Presentations, and other important links at: https://w0tlm.org
Club Support we take no dues but depend on donations and other means of building and keeping our operating budget so check out the website at WØTLM - About Us on how you can help.
Sign up to receive this Newsletter. We use Google Groups for our email list, which is the best way to stay in touch with the radio club activities: WØTLM mailing list and Google group. Please pass this along to anyone who might be interested in ham radio in general or our Club specifically. Each Week, we are posting the most recent version of the Update on the Club's website. For security reasons, some of the links have been removed. If you want the links you will need to sign up to be on our mailing list.
Zoom Invitation/Link for the Next Monthly Club Meeting. The link for the next monthly Club meeting and presentation (but not for Connect Time) is: https://w0tlm.org/w0tlm-club-meeting. Connecting should be as easy as clicking the link. If you have your Zoom account set up you should be prompted to open your Zoom app. If you don't have a Zoom account, you will be prompted to permit Zoom to download. Once it has been downloaded, you will click the prompt to join the meeting. ZOOM HAS UPDATED ITS SETTINGS AND YOU MAY NOW BE PLACED IN A "WAITING ROOM" BEFORE JOINING THE CALL. PLEASE BE PATIENT, WE WILL BE WORKING TO MINIMIZE THE WAITING. Please check the lower left hand corner of the display to confirm that the video does NOT have a red line through it. Please also confirm that the microphone does have a red line through it. If you do not have a camera and microphone on your computer, you may still observe and listen in. The steps are the same, except you do not need to adjust your microphone and camera. Finally, please change your "screen name to reflect your first and last name and call sign. We use this to determine who is attending.
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