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Recap 🔁

• 04/05 Wed 19:00 Cowlitz ACS Meeting at LCARA Clubhouse

Upcoming Events 🗓

04/12 Wed 19:00 LCARA Presentation Night with Brian KJ7OX

• “Antenna Modeling” using MMANA-GAL modeling software.
• We’ll build a dipole in software to see and understand its pattern as well as a multi-band short doublet with DX performance in mind.

Next Week

• 04/19 Wed 19:00 LCARA Business Meeting at LCARA Clubhouse

04/29 WSDOT Communication Exercise

Next 5th Saturday exercise is April 29. Cowlitz County ACS is currently planning where and how to participate in the exercise, which will involve scripted observations, message passing, and Winlink HF operations across EoCs in the state.

Nets ✅

• 04/10 Mon 2000: Cowlitz County ACS Net - Open to all Amateurs
  • W7DG 147.260 MHz T114 +060
  • Also, check in via APRS message to N7DEM-5: CHECKIN Name Location
• 04/11 Tue 0900: CEMNET Region IV Net - Winlink, V-Tac 12, 224.660 MHz (EOC)
  • Email kf7hvm@0x26.net to be added to the weekly Winlink test
• 04/11 Tue 1900: Columbia Amateur Radio Assoc. Weekly Net
  • N7EI 146.880 MHz T114 -060
• 04/11 Tue 2000: Rainier GMRS Net - Open to all licensed GMRS operators
  • WRNM663 462.650 MHz T114.8 +500
• 04/16 Sun 2000: W7MSH Mercury Mt. St. Helens ERC Net - Open to all Amateurs
  • 2000 Woodland Checkin W7DG 147.300 MHz T114 +060
  • 2015 Roundtable W7DG 147.260 MHz T114 +060

Apr 2023 QST

Stu K7WF graciously provided this edition of QST Magazine which can be found at the front table of the clubhouse.

A notable submission to “Letters From Our Members” (pg 24) labeled “Suggesting a New Form of Public Service” discusses long-term memory association of sounds and goes on to suggest Morse Code as a scientific study aid for long/medium/short term memory and human memory buffering/association.

Having a hard time picking up the code? Check out “Morse Code Rhythm Patterns from A to Z” (pg 58) for a musical approach to learning Morse Code.

Thanks to Brian KJ7OX for providing these pointers.

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