May 2023 Club Meeting

NEXT MEETING: FRIDAY May 5, 2023
6:00 PM Board Meeting (all are welcome to attend and observe)
7:00 PM Refreshments and Socializing
7:30 PM Membership Meeting Followed by Program
Entrance to CDH for our meeting
Meetings are held at Cretin-Derham Hall High School located at the intersection of
Hamline and Randolph in St. Paul. Park in the lot off Hamline near the athletic field.
Enter door 21 at the Ryan STEM Center addition. The meeting room is down the hallway
on the right (the Commons). Door 21 will lock at 7:45 so if you arrive after that, please
call me at 612-201-0818 to be let in. Br. Bob.

The May program is scheduled to be presented by Daniel Petsinger KDØTGF. He is going
to be talking about Basic DMR (Digital Mobile Radio) operations and usage. Come to the
talk to learn why DMR is so fun to use and to demythify the complicated appearance of
using DMR. This talk will give you enough to get started in the world of DMR.
Dan has a long background in RF going back to 1995. He served in the US Air Force for
6 years working on Radio and Navigation equipment on board the E-4B (the DoomsDay
Plane). With this experience he has worked all RF from VLF to EHF and most digital
modes known even encryption modes. Dan owns and operate a wireless business that
allows him to work everyday with microwave systems in both the unlicensed and
licensed bands. He also started a DMR repeater network in Southern Minnesota called
South Central Minnesota Repeater Network (SCMNRN TG 312734) with three repeaters
up now, and plans to have seven up by the end of the year.