[Mike, KJ6VCP (president)]

Our next general meeting is Saturday, September 19th at 10AM. This will be a virtual meeting on Zoom – I will post the details later.

Here’s the agenda:

– Announcements
– 2020 San Mateo County Simplex test
– 2020 SC4ARC Simplex Test
– Nominating Committee for 2020 Board elections
– CZU August Complex ARES debrief
Our ARES Emergency Coordinator (Angelo) will lead a debrief session
– October Simulated Emergency Test (SET) plans
Angelo will fill us in on plans for the Great Shakeout
– Tech Session – Connectors and Coax (Mike)

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[Mike, KJ6VCP (president)]

Here are the Zoom Meeting Details

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[Mike, KJ6VCP (president)]

I uploaded the slides from the tech presentation to the library:
http://www.sc4arc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/ham_connectors_coax_notes.pdf

The first 20 pages are the slides, the next 20 are slides + notes.

[Mike, KJ6VCP (president)]

When I mentioned using an NMO adapter for an outside antenna to stay out of the rain, I really meant that for anyone that already has an NMO mount. David and Mary pointed out a couple of better options if you _dont_ hanve an NMO mount.

The MFJ-310, HT Window Mount Clip lets you stick an HT antenna on a car window – there are BNC and SMA versions.
MFJ-310, HT WINDOW MOUNT CLIP, BNC

There are also some antenna mounts that use a short, thin piece of coax that can go through a closed car door, and still not leak. One example: https://www.gigaparts.com/diamond-antenna-k515s.html

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