Puget Sound Repeater Group

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Coming Events:

The QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo–March 13-14, 2021. This first of its kind Ham Expo was held in August 2020. A second Expo will be held in March 2021. Details can be found at: QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo.

Comm Academy—An emergency communications & amateur radio conference to be held online April 10-11, 2021. Information will be available at the updated  website Comm Academy.

Board Policy on Gatherings: In light of the uncertainty about when large group gatherings will be safe again, it is not a good use of volunteer time to plan for our normal events. Board Meetings and Educational Meetings will be held online until further notice. The Annual Dinner will be replaced by an online social gathering (potluck?) and the Annual Meeting will also be conducted online.

Meeting Minutes for the October Board Meeting were approved at the December meeting and are available under the News and Information menu tab at the top of the page.

January Educational Meeting Recording. The Zoom meeting for the January Educational Meeting, Wireless Sensing at Insect-Scale, was recorded and is now available: January 2021 Educational Meeting.

Volunteers Wanted for 6m Repeater. Details below.

Got photos of PSRG events? Contact K7RCH@PSRG.ORG.

Update: Unfortunately, we cannot plan an in-person social event for the Annual Dinner, but plans are in the works for an online event Saturday, January 9, 2020 at 6 PM. . The gathering will be held on Zoom and hopefully will include the ability to move to separate rooms to simulate mingling.

Got recipes? It would be fun to share the same meals at the dinner even though we’re remote! Tim WT1IM (WT1IM@psrg.org) will collect any recipes submitted and make them available for members to try. Meanwhile, here are some recipes provided by Tim: Recipes

Here is the Zoom link for the dinner: PSRG Dinner

PSRG is adding a 6m repeater to the stable! Are you interested in helping out with some technical projects ? This is a call for volunteers looking to get into some repeater building work! We provide parts and mentoring.

1. We need an air-cooling system for the new 6m repeater, that will trigger when the transmitter’s PTT is pushed and stops maybe 30s after the PTT is dropped. Great project for an Arduino or similar.
2. The 6m repeater will be set up much like our 2m system, so we need someone interested in setting up the Raspberry Pis that will act as the Allstar nodes.
3. Finally, we need to be able to remotely control the repeater — power cycling, shutting down the transmitter, etc.. This is also an RPi project.

If you’re interested in helping out and learning a little about repeater systems, contact Quenton Caudron and he’ll connect you to the right person.

UPDATE  The PSRG Annual Picnic Social will take place on Sunday September 27th, at noon, via Zoom. Join us for some social fun! At 12:30, Doug KD7DK will be giving us all a review of the past year with the PSRG. The picnic is potluck and you are guaranteed to have food and beverages that you like! Zoom Link

Update: The September PSRG Educational Meeting, Build that rig ! An exploration of home-built radios through the ages, with speakers Tim, WT1IM, and Quentin, K7DRQ was recorded. The session can be viewed here: September Educational Meeting

Updated: The next PSRG Board Meeting is on Saturday, October 10, 2020 at 1:30 PM. The Board Meeting will be online-only at the following link:  http://zoom.us/join.