Fwd: Presentation - Mert W0UFO

[Chuck Stroud]

OK - Gonna try this again.  Evidently the file that was attached was too large, so you will have to wait until Mert's slides are uploaded to the club website.  See email below for the rest of the story.

chuck

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From: Chuck Stroud <cjstr...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, May 4, 2024 at 7:02 AM
Subject: Presentation - Mert W0UFO
To: MN-ARTS <mn-...@googlegroups.com>

Hi all,

I know a lot of you have been patiently waiting for the uploading of Mert's (W0UFO) presentation from last month.  Thank you for your patience.  The recording is now available at the link below on the MN-ARTS YouTube channel (Thank you Cena!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBT_uTN9RUo

Special thanks to Cena KY1V, Steve NW0C, and Jeremy KC0LDI who all met together the other night to get this taken care of.  I tried a number of times and kept failing, which was a reminder that I'm an accountant, not an IT specialist 😁.  I do apologize in advance for the lighter audio, but hopefully you have amplified speakers - that should be adequate.  This was my first time recording a presentation and trying to learn how the video recorder works, so any complaints should be directed to me.  However, if anyone wants to volunteer to be the videographer going forward, we would love the help!

Also attached are Mert's slides he has graciously provided.  I wasn't able to figure out how to embed it into the presentation yet, but Mert's art work is too good not to share.  You should be able to follow along easily. Cena and/or Steve will get them uploaded to the website soon as well.

Cena and Steve will be taking over the day-to-day management of our website and YouTube Channel from Jeremy (but he is not going away!)  We just don't want all of the burden to fall on him anymore.  Jeremy has single-handedly managed this since the beginning in 2012 and has done a phenomenal job - even with all of Google's shenanigans and limitations.  We have a lot of great content out there that many of you have provided via presentations.  I know I appreciate Jeremy's willingness to do this over the past decade with mostly his own resources. So please thank him for all he's done, and thank Cena and Steve for the work going forward.  We know this isn't perfect, but volunteers do the best they can.

Anyhow, enjoy this awesome presentation by Mert and hope to see you at today's meeting.  And a final special thank you to Mert for sharing his ham radio journey with us.

73 de chuck ka8hde