Red River Radio Amateurs

• Meeting took place on the W0ILO Repeater system instead of in-person in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
• Meeting called to order by President Jarod W0JPJ at 19:00
• 22 stations checked in

“The White House and US Department of Defense (DOD) have revealed that the 3.45-3.55 GHz band will be made available for 5G, a move that has been welcomed by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai.” ¹ This reallocation is a 25% loss of 9cm band spectrum to our hobby.

On Wednesday, August 5, 2020, the Red River Regional Dispatch Center notified current CodeRED subscribers about an important upcoming change to the emergency notification system for Cass County, North Dakota, and Clay County, Minnesota:

Compare your signal strength, voice quality, and PTT technique to your fellow operators with this recording from the June 21, 2020, On-Air Club Meeting

Check-ins missing an inital portion of the transmission indicate that insufficient time was allowed between the operator pressing their PTT button and starting to speak.

In this episode of ARRL’s biweekly Eclectic Tech podcast: “Hellschreiber; charging electric cars on the fly; the state of ALE - Automatic Link Establishment”¹