2006 02 27 IMARS MEETING NOTES
Please visit the IMARS web site at http://www.imarsflorida.com/ where Joey N9LQ has put a lot of effort into making this one of the best club sites in the area. Show him you appreciate his effort by visiting the site. Contribute your BIO and whatever else you have of interest.
SEE THE PHOTOS OF TODAYS MEETING AT THE FOLLOWING LINK:
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We had 20 present at today's meeting at the DeBary EOC. Thank you all for coming out to show Jean and Walt Maxwell (W2DU) how much we appreciate their devotion to each other and to the IMARS group. They seldom miss a meeting while they are in the area. Today they provided two cakes. One was sugar free (for we fat folks ;-) and the other was full sugar for the more healthy troops.
We missed Barbara KD4RAV who, thankfully, is on the mend, and Frank KK4RW. Barbara is at home but Frank is still in the hospital (Rm 133 at Fish Memorial.) We hope they will both be back in the pink soon and back with us on a Monday morning.
We were very happy to see Grant N3CJJ back again and Clarence KD4SQT showed up for the first time at our new venue, thanks to Don KC4UUM who brought him part way.
We had a lively discussion on various topics and then Tom KB2JZX made a presentation about his great new Garmin GPS. Unfortunately I didn't get the model number but the little box speaks to you in a loud clear voice, unlike many of the synthesized voices I've heard. It would be a great thing to have. We should all be so lucky as to have a son-in-law (son?) with deep pockets ;-)
Don't miss next week. Russ W4ZIP has promised to bring his new ICOM 7000 HF/VHF transceiver in and give us a demonstration of this beautiful little rice box. It should be very informative.
Hank N4TJO will talk the following week about Einstein's Theory of Relatively. Hank has been taking a course and so should be “relatively” sharp on the subject. (sorry ;-)
Keith Mattison SØCIAL brought some tickets for a pancake breakfast at the First United Methodist Church. The tickets are only $4 each for the breakfast which will be on March 11th so plan to pick some up at the meeting on the 7th.
We didn't sing but wished Carlos WA4ZKV Happy Birthday and remembered Wally KE4LIV who wasn't present but was not forgotten.
Our 'Donut Fund' stood at $400.74 not counting the contributions we received today.
I forgot to mention the 'HOEDOWN IN DEBARY” for which I had a brochure. There will be a celebration at the DeBary House on 29 April from 6 until 11 p.m. Mark your calendar, bring a chair, listen to some music and have a little food. Support the city that has provided us a place to meet.
We discussed the new digital television coming in three years. Here are some additional items, there are many if you GOOGLE the subject.
[SOURCE: Reuters]
http://www.benton.org/index.php?q=node/952
The House of Representatives on Monday approved legislation to complete the country's transition to new, higher-quality digital television by February 17, 2009. Under a deal negotiated by Republicans in the Senate and House, a .5 billion fund would be created to help some consumers buy converter boxes so existing analog television signals do not go dark when the transition is finished...
See House vote on S. 1932 (passed 212-206) at:
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll670.xml
REPUBLICAN SENATORS PUSH THEIR DTV BILL
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
Five Senate Republicans, four on the Senate Commerce Committee, have written committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) to urge him to stick with that committee's version of the DTV transition bill when he conferences with the House Commerce Committee leadership on a reconciled bill. Due to Senate rules preventing legislating on appropriations bills, the Senate version is a stripped-down bill that deals only with the setting of a hard date and the setting up of a funding mechanism to pay for digital converter boxes for viewers with analog sets that would otherwise not work after the transition. Sens George Allen (R-VA), Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), Gordon Smith (R-OR) and Norm Coleman (R-MN) don't want the bill that returns from conference to include "extraneous" DTV-related provisions, including one that would allow cable to convert its signal from HDTV to standard DTV or digital to analog. "Complicated policy issues such as these merit extensive review in committee. We urge you to oppose additional digital television provisions beyond the hard date," they wrote.
And at http://www.komando.com see a discussion of another new wrinkle called SED in her free weekly newsletter.
KILLER TIP--THE WEEKLY QUESTION SENT IN FROM PEOPLE LIKE YOU!
Q. Do you have any opinions regarding a new flat panel television called SED being introduced by Canon/Toshiba? It apparently has a picture three times as good as any current HD product on the
market. Know anything about it? When might it be available? (see Kim's answer in the newsletter.)
Here is the lowdown on the technical aspects. A 2004 article but quite informative and interesting:
http://www.hdtvexpert.com/pages/answers.htm Many links at the end for further reading if you are interested.
SEE YA MONDAY
73
Jerry KØJH
(for Keith)
DIDIDIDAHDIDAH
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