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NCRC June 8 Meeting on ZOOM again

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Last months meeting was conducted on ZOOM and was a resounding success, with more people online than at our usual physical meetings.  As we are still under gathering restrictions, Monday’s meeting will be online as well.

This is the last chance we have to discuss our summer Field Day plans (June 27 & 28).  There have been some interesting developments that will be discussed.  There will be a Round Table discussion on “Stepping down from 10 meters” covering HF topics of interest to new General license holders.

Please be on the lookout for your invitation email and join us at 7 PM on Monday June 8th.

Classes Wrap Up Next Week

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Paul K1YBE and Bob WB4SON have been busy holding online Tech/General/Extra classes using Zoom.  It looks like we will have 27 people taking the Technician exam and 14 taking a General or Extra upgrade during the week of June 1st.  This will likely be a record for most exams given by the club.  We wish all the students the best of luck!

We are also engaged in learning the process to offer individual exams online, which will serve the Amateur Radio community well going forward.

Thanks to the sixteen VEs who have volunteered to help with the exams, and a special shout out to Mary KC1NEB and Kelly K1GKW who heard that we needed help and took their VE Exams by the next day!

Meeting Monday May 11 @ 7 PM via ZOOM

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In keeping with our goal to continue to provide fun for our members while remaining safe, our next club meeting will be on Monday May 11th at 7 PM via Zoom.  We will have our usual business meeting along with an extended discussion of our Field Day plans.  Following the meeting, Bob WB4SON will give a brief presentation on Learning Morse Code.

Invitations to join the Zoom meeting will be sent out via eMail.  Usually it is no more complicated than clicking on the link within the email to join.  We will have the meeting opened up around 6:30 PM in case you need some time to get things adjusted before the meeting begins at 7 PM.

To avoid chaos, everyone will be muted when they join.  During the meeting, you can unmute yourself to ask a question or use the Chat feature of Zoom — sort of like sending a text message.  If you do use Chat, please send it to everyone (the default “to” choice).

For those of you new to Zoom, here is a link to a short one minute video explaining how you can join a meeting:  https://www.youtube.com/embed/hIkCmbvAHQQ?rel=0&autoplay=1&cc_load_policy=1

While you do NOT need an account with Zoom to participate in our meetings, you may want to setup a free account anyway by going to this link: https://zoom.us/

If you don’t receive an email with the meeting details, please reach out to WB4SON at GMAIL dot COM

Tech Class Starts Tonight, General/Extra on Thursday

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There has been an overwhelming response to NCRC’s offering of a Technician Class and the General/Extra Study Group.  Over 50 students have signed up.

Classes are being offered over Zoom, which is the same conference tool the Board has been using to manage the club business during this time of social distancing.  Our regular club meetings will be using Zoom in the future as well.  Stay tuned!

Successful NCRC Meeting via VHF and Zoom

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NCRC Conducted its regular club meeting via VHF (initially NB1RI network, then moved to W1SYE repeater).  While the initial roll-call took about 15 minutes, the meeting went very smoothly.  Thank you to all who participated on both the radio and Zoom (listen only).

We had a total of 27 members check in via VHF, with 3 guests joining us there.  The Zoom link, intended to be listen only this time, had 14 additional folks attending.  So a total of 44 members participated.

The official meeting began at 19:15 and was closed at 19:39.

Two of the three guests decided to put in member applications!

Thanks to all that participated, to the NB1RI network, and to those that helped with the Zoom audio (Paul K1YBE and Bob WB4SON)