All, the 4th Wednesday Net is 7/28/2021, PM.
We will be on the ever dependable Picuris repeater at 147.120+, 67.0. Please attend, make sure your equipment works, catch-up with your operator friends and our new members. Same as always for the regular analog net.
The DMR Net is very optional, as there are only about 8 DMR users at the club, there will be a 2nd net (DMR) immediately following on the Picuris DMR. It is Picuris DMR 442.175 (+5 MHZ0 CC5 TS2 TG 715 local). It will be a time to test any new DMR programming and experiment, with one goal of not getting on other talk groups, like 719, CO NM or 700 Rocky Mountain wide. But if we never start, we never get there. So making an error is okay.
The next regular club meeting will be 2nd Wednesday, 6PM, August 11, 2021. The club meeting will be in person at the Taos County EOC. We also restarted out pot luck at 5:30.
Volunteer(s) Needed: 1) We need an outreach coordinator to get us back in the Taos News Tempo announcements. TH has done this pre-covid, I have simple scripts to share. You need to setup an account for the Tempo source, then 2 weeks before the meeting, Friday Noon is the cutoff to validate for a meeting listing the week of the meeting. You need to be available for last minute print cutoff around the Friday noon. For example for an August 18 meeting to be in the correct Tempo, you need to submit about Aug 2, then confirm with email, with a press deadline Aug 6, noon (last minute questions that day are fast).
2)Public Service Announcements (PSAs). The club has reaped rewards for membership from commercial broadcast announcements. I have put PSAs in for FCC testing. The radio stations are picky, so you must limit the cause and announcements. I have scripts for this too. I put PSAs on KTAO, KRZA and KNCE. Each will have a form to complete and auto email. This is a click and walk away. The next test is Aug 14, so it is time for a “FCC License PSA”.
Contact Tim s20thkbs@aol.com 575-770-1916 for details.
Discussion is we have many members taking advantage of the ½ percent Smith’s and Smile.Amazon donations. Thanks!