Ham Radio Club Meeting




Do You Arduino?  That may seem like a foreign language question about a new kind of dance, but it has great bearing on our life in the United States.  You see, Arduino is a tiny type of computer that can do very big things.  It has more computing power than the Apollo capsule that took astronauts to the moon.

And the price?  That’s an even bigger point:  $20 or less.  With this kind of computing power so cheap and portable, programmers around the world have designed programs on it to do hundreds of tasks.  And that is the topic of the next meeting of the Cedar Creek Amateur (ham) Radio Club.

A self-taught expert, Greg Grant will answer questions and detail some of the Arduino’s uses.  Greg is ham radio operator and uses the microcomputer in his hamshack.  His appearance is a continuation of our series of Skype interviews with experts around the world at our radio club.

The meeting will be held Saturday September 10th at the Mabank Café on Hwy 198 in Mabank.  The club meets the second Saturday of each month there. The meeting starts at 9 AM, but many come early for the breakfast buffet.  Anyone interested in technology is welcome.

The ham radio exam no longer requires a code test.  So if you’ve ever wanted to talk to the world or be a first responder, this is the time to act.  The Cedar Creek Radio Club offers free one-day classes to study and pass the exam.

 Formed in 1981, the Cedar Creek ARC has over thirty members from the tri-county area. It maintains a VHF and UHF repeater system that provide hand-held radio coverage to hams in the lake area, and mobile and base coverage throughout the three counties. CCARC participates in the National Weather Service SKYWARN program and the Amateur Radio Emergency Service. The club also provides classes to those wishing to join the ranks of Amateur "ham" Radio. For more information, visit www.k5ccl.org.

 

 




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Fishing Report from TPWD (Dec. 11)

GOOD. stained; 55 degrees; 3.70 feet below pool. 55-57 degrees; 3.71 feet below pool. The hybrid and white bass winter deadsticking bite has started! Use 1/2 ounce to 1.5 ounce jigs with 4-5 inch plastic flukes and drift long lengths of the lake in the deepest water 35-50 feet. Drift at speeds of .2-.6 mph using your drift mode on your trolling motor or using drift socks. If the winds are not too bad you can just drift with the wind. Thumping on the bottom of your boat will attract fish and group them up underneath as you drift. Utilizing a splasher also works well with thumping. Fish stacked up in schools in 22 feet of water as the day warms up. Look for schooling fish on cloudier and colder days. Use spinnerbaits or drop a slab down to the bottom and work it fast up and down and the fish will hit it immediately. Also throwing out a slab and reeling it back with a slow retrieve is also working well. Cast rattle traps, Spoons, Umbrella Rigs, slabs or sassy shads to get the hybrids to bite. The crappie bite has been getting better. Target crappie with small jigs and minnows in 7-15 feet under bridge pylons, hidden brush piles throughout the lake or under docks. Crappie fisherman have been moving spot to spot finding limits. Lots of crappies in the 7-9 inch range. Limits of crappie will happen but you may catch a lot of small ones getting to your limit. Report by Brent Herbeck, Herbeck’s Lonestar Fishing Guide Service. The shallow bite continues to be good for catfish along wind blown banks and points near the mouths of major creeks where the actual creek runs into the lake. Due to the low water you can only get a few hundred yards away. Fish in 2-6 feet with fresh shad anchored on bottom. The deep bite is also good dragging bigger cut shad or rough fish in 15-30 feet drifting main lake flats. Report by Jason Barber, Kings Creek Adventures.

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