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 (Jul. 17)

GOOD. Water slightly stained; 85 degrees; 0.25 feet above pool. Water level is 3 inches low. Big numbers of white bass and several trophy-class hybrid stripers have hit the deck. There is consistent action in 15-22 feet of water. A good go-to setup include a variety of slabs, spinnerbaits and the always-reliable yellow bladed Bo Blade spinner using the proven saw tooth retrieve technique. Trolling spoons with a hellbender set up at 3 mph in 13–17 feet of water is absolutely crushing the white bass. Water temperatures are currently holding around 83-86 degrees and will continue to rise as summer heats up over the next couple of weeks. Report by Brent Herbeck, Herbeck’s Lonestar Fishing Guide Service. Catfish are good anchoring on main lake humps and points in 13-24 feet, or drifting flat areas in 10-20 feet. Report by Jason Barber, Kings Creek Adventures.

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