Check-ins (27)

• KG5LYE
• KG5EYV
• KM5TW
• K5ZY
• WB5CKO
• KG5JDJ
• N7ALM
• KG5MCN
• N5GQB
• W5EWS
• W5GC
• KE5FIV
• WW5OBA
• WA5PMO
• KG5OOE
• NC5R
• KG5PDS
• AC5NB
• W5RYC
• KF5WGJ
• KD5TEF
• N5ZKF
• KA8WEP
• K5DNC
• N5BLW
• KA5HIA
• KG5LYQ

Officer Reports

President KF5WGJ

• Last field day prep meeting this saturday at C&J Barbecue
  • 2017-06-17 11:00
  • Little room
• Field Day
  • 2017-06-24 9:00 to 2017-06-25 13:00
  • Swap tables and silent auction: call for items
  • Raffle and Meal Tickets for sale at meeting

Vice-President KG5EYV

• Field Day
  • Will be a great time
  • lots of effort put in already, still work to do
• Presentation
  • KG5EYV tower guidelines and construction
  • hand calculations (wind loads, supports)

Secretary KG5LYE

• Expect Net minutes as usual after net

Treasurer N5GQB

• Couple checks written for field day prizes
  • Bank statement to be presented at next meeting

Field Day

• Brian Bachmann Park in College Station
• if you want to help and/or participate, please come to next meeting
  • 2017-06-17 11:00
  • C&J Barbecue in Bryan, small room
  • duties and positions assigned
• Day-of set-up 2017-06-24 08:00
  • start keying mic at 13:00
• 6m has been open, hopefully HF will be
• Raffle and Meal Tickets ($10)
  • available for purchase at next meeting
  • also available day-of
  • Prizes on display
• VE Test session at 2017-06-24 15:30
  • Sly has study materials for sale
• Door Prizes (must be present to win, drawn between test session and dinner)
• Dinner around 18:00
• Grand Prizes (drawn after dinner)
  • $50 Texas Road House
  • $50 Academy (new store opening on 2017-06-23)
  • TYT MD-380 UHF FM/DMR Handy-Talkie
  • TYT TH-8600 Compact 25W VHF/UHF mobile transceiver (waterproof!)
  • SDR Play v2 receiver 1kHz to 2 GHz
  • Rig Experts AA30 HF antenna analyzer
  • Escape Room BCS up to 8 people donated by KG5IAD
  • Yaesu FT-891 mobile HF transceiver
• Full details at http://www.bryanarc.org or officers@bryanarc.org
• massive email invitation for field day about to go out

Field Day

Announcements / Comments

K5DNC

• Thanks, Sly for sending email net reminder

N5ZKF

• Field Day
  • won’t be at meeting
  • Continued outreach: notices to press and elected officials
  • Reaching out to W5AC

KG5LYQ

• sent email announcement to W5AC members
  • 8 responses, not sure if will do W5AC field day or join W5BCS
• Will be at meeting on Saturday

N5GQB

• Governor Abbott declared next week as Amateur Radio Week!
  • Not sure if once or recurring event

Buy / Sell

N5GQB

• Kenwood TS-590S HF radio ($900)
  • about 6 years old, but clean and well maintained
  • built-in tuner
  • box, manual, original accessories
  • contact N5GQB if interested
• Picked up brochures and catalogs at HamCom
  • Cool new toys coming out

Information Exchange

KG5EYV

• Ground plane antenna doing very well
  • Hawaii easy every morning
• Next project: Buddipole 6m
• Available to test after net if anyone wants help

KG5OOE

• ARES Net tonight?
  • N5GQB – actually held last week despite Ron’s absence

Closed

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