The club net meets every Thursday at 8:00PM on the 146.76 repeater.
K2WJS - Bill | KC8FQV - Mark | N8AUC - Eric |
K8ARP - Arp | KC8MRC - Bob | N8QMK - Mike |
K8EHP - Mike | KD8FTS - Eddie | N8UPZ - Bill |
KA8JOY - Robert | KF8BKNF - Mike | W8IE - Ed |
KA8WQL - Bob | KM8V - Jon | WA8ZHN - Jim |
KB8VBR - Leone | N8ACP - Chris | |
KB8VXE - Carl | N8AHS - Fred |
11/07/24 | Eric | N8AUC |
11/14/24 | Carl | KB8VXE |
11/21/24 | Ed | W8IE |
11/28/24 | NO | NET |
12/5/24 | Jim | WA8ZHN |
12/12/24 | Carl | KB8VXE |
12/19/24 | Eric | N8AUC |
12/26/24 |
KB8VXE - Carl | N8AUC - Eric |
W8IE - Ed | WA8ZHN -Jim |
KM8V - Jon |
Trivia questions are multiple-choice. If unsure, it's okay to guess! If you know the answer, no explanation is needed - it makes things less fun for those after you.
After the correct answer is revealed, sharing related facts or personal stories is encouraged, but save detailed discussions for the end of the session. Let the Net Control know if you have extra information to share afterwards.
0en in use for a few generations, and the new 6 GHz band is only available on Wi-Fi 6E and 7.
09/19/24 Question: Center-fed half-wave dipoles in free space have an input impedance of approximately:
(A true half-wave dipole is one half of the wavelength ? in length, where ? = c/f in free space. Such a dipole has a feed point impedance consisting of 73 ? resistance and +43 ? reactance, thus presenting a slightly inductive reactance.) From QRZ Quiz 09/19/24
09/26/24 : Hurricane Helene is in the Gulf of Mexico heading north to Florida and Georgia. Hurricane nets are scheduled Thursday morning thru Friday morning.
Question: taken from History facts.
Before the 20th century IN THE US, hurricanes were named after”
Answer: E- No uniform method for naming hurricanes.
Before the 20th century, there was no uniform method for naming hurricanes in the U.S., though some other parts of the world saw creative naming conventions. Residents of the West Indies, for example, named hurricanes after patron saints. And 19th-century British meteorologist Clement Wragge used characters from Greek and Roman mythology, as well as the last names of his political enemies, for typhoons in the Pacific Ocean. He also began a tradition that eventually made its way across the Atlantic: using women’s names for hurricanes.
Until the 1940s, hurricanes in the U.S. were generally referred to simply by the year and/or place they occurred, such as the “Great Miami Hurricane of 1926.” That changed during World War II, when Navy and Air Force meteorologists began to name the tropical storms they tracked after their girlfriends and wives for easier reference. For a time, the U.S. military also experimented with naming storms after its phonetic alphabet — Able, Baker, Charlie, and so on — but this was replaced with a system thought to be less confusing and easier for the public to remember. In 1954, the National Weather Bureau chose to use women’s names as the standard for hurricanes; that year saw Alice, Barbara, Carol, and others.
But why women’s names, specifically? The decision was partially inspired by the trend that began during the war, though it was also rooted in sexist stereotypes about the temperamental nature of women. The practice continued in the U.S. until the 1970s, when members of the women’s movement spoke out against the negative characterization of women that pervaded every facet of society, including storm-naming. In 1979, the National Weather Service and the World Meteorological Association changed the naming convention to include an even split of women’s and men’s names, using six groups of 26 names that rotate annually. https://historyfacts.com/science-industry/fact/hurricanes-used-to-only-be-named-after-women/
10/03/24 Question: WHICH COMMUNICATIONS WAS NOT A BUREAU OF THE FCC WHICH IS CELEBRATING ITS 90TH BIRTHDAY/CONS ACT?
Choices:
Answer: B) International Bureau does not belong.
10/10/24 Question-1: The original purpose and design for usage of the German 'cryptographic' Enigma Machine was to....?
Answer-1: Communicate Stock Market Information
(The basic Enigma cryptographic machine was of Slavic origin and designed to communicate secrets of Stock Market Traders: Prior to WW Two Nazi Germany acquired the device and used it deceptively and successfully for years in the military)
Question-2: Can a for profit business have an employee/employer hold a club station license in the company's name, only using it for non-pecuniery interests in the amateur service?
Yes or No
Answer-2: Yes
(AS long as the business does not advertise or benefit from use of a club station license, it may be issued to them.)
10/17/24 Question: The Mississippi River begins and ends in what FCC call districts?
Answer: A. Begins in 0 and ends in 5
Question from today’s QRZ Trivia Quiz.
10/24/24 Question: WHAT IS A COMMON COMPONENT OF RESISTORS?
CHOICES: A-ALUMINUM POWDER ,B-CARBON,C-XERCONIUM,D-LEAD
Answer: B- Carbon
10/31/24 Question: Icelandic television was not broadcast on Thursdays until what year?
Choices: A)1930, B)1966, C)1983, D)1986, E)1987
Answer: D= 1987 it wasn’t until 1987 that Icelanders could watch TV every day of the week.
11/07/24 Question: The HQ-120X was made by what company?
Choices: A) Hammarlund, B) Howard, C) Hallicrafter, D) Hewlett Packard
Answer: A) Hammarlund.
11/14/24 Question: Faraday Rotation applies to what area of radio communications?
More information can be found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_effect#:~:text=In%20particular%2C%20Faraday%20rotation%20measurements,field%20in%20the%20coronal%20plasma.
11/21/24 Question: What is a Lecher Wire?
Answer: B. An instrument for measuring wavelength
The Lecher Wire was one of the earliest instruments invented by Ernst Lecher to measure the Voltage Standing Wave Ratio (VSWR) in an antenna.
Source: QRZ.com daily quiz
More information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Lecher
11/28/24 - No Net tonight, Wishing all a Happy Thanksgiving !