Hey, Doug,
I think we have it worked out with the Taylorsville club to do the 2nd
Thursday for our combined Echolink class. This will be October 14th
with the meeting starting at 6:30 PM at the Murray Fire Station #81
(located at 4848 S Box Elder St... Box Elder is 35 W). The meeting room
is on the South side of the station.
If you want to combine IRLP with this, I have no objection to that.
If you would like to do it again the next month with a more advanced
class on setting up and running your own node, that would be awesome,
too! That would be November 11th, I believe, but will look at
coordinating that with the Taylorsville club as well.
Now, for the technical details, we generally try to Zoom and record our
meetings. If you have the Zoom client on the computer you will be using
for the presentation, that would work best. I can provide access to the
fire department's WiFi and I'll take care of the recording from my own
computer on the Zoom. The room has two large monitors available and the
hook up is HDMI, so if your machine doesn't have HDMI, let me know and
we'll work something out.
73 de KD7ZWV
-jan-
On 9/13/21 14:29, Doug Davis wrote:
Thank you, Jan. I can do a presentation on Echolink and IRLP (or either topic alone). I've done this before, a few years ago, and I can update that.
Yes, Taylorsville still meets via Zoom, because of unavailability of City Council chambers, our usual meeting place. Troy, N4HAM, is the President, and Gary, AG7PY, coordinates in-person training. They are included in the cc: addressees above. I have already committed to present Echolink and IRLP to TARC in October. Apparently plans are coming together!
TARC's usual meeting day is the second Wednesday evening of the month. Can you work with Gary to agree on a convenient day and time?
This is at a basic familiarization level, for an individual user. Not for a sysop who might want his or her own node serving other operators.
I'm looking forward to presenting to MARC and TARC--together if possible, but separately if necessary. Most Thursdays work for me. I'm familiar with MFD Stations 81 and 83, through ARES. I can bring my own Windows laptop for a PowerPoint, and even my own HDMI cable. I'll dust off my presentation for you. About 25-30 minutes, plus Q&A.
Doug, AD7LO
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*From: *Jan Peterson
*Date: *Mon, Sep 13, 2021 1:20 PM
*To: *dougcdavis@xxxxxxx <mailto:dougcdavis@xxxxxxx>;
*Cc: *Murray Amateur Radio;marc-education-committee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:;marc-education-committee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
*Subject:*Echolink Class for MARC and Taylorsville
Hi, Doug,
I was given your contact info by Dave Carr (KI7IHU) who mentioned that you were interested in doing a combined training on Echolink for both the Murray ARC and the Taylorsville ARC. If this is in error, I am sorry to have bothered you.
We are certainly happy to have a combined meeting with our Taylorsville friends… we have already participated in their fox hunts and have visited their monthly meeting before. We would love to return the favor by having them come to our meeting for some Echolink training.
We usually meet on the first three Thursdays of the month. Our first Thursday is usually for basic topics, second for advanced topics, and third is pretty much up for grabs for any topic of interest. I think this would make an ideal third Thursday meeting topic.
Our next available meeting would be October 21^st . If this is too soon for you, we could target the November meeting instead. While we have resumed in-person meetings, it looks like the Taylorsville club has not. We have been simulcasting our meetings via Zoom, so maybe we can work something out with them to get them on our Zoom session, or they might be interested in attending in-person.
We generally meet at the Murray Fire Department Station 81 (4848 S Box Elder St) in their training room. This room can probably accommodate at least 25 people with social distancing (we usually have about 12-15 people). If we need more space we can have the meeting at station 83 (484 W 5900 S) in the EOC.
I will contact someone at the Taylorsville club and see what they are interested in doing and will get back to you. Then we can work out the logistics. If you have any preferred dates that work better for you, please let me know.
73 de KD7ZWV
-jan-
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Jan L. Peterson
VP, Murray ARC
