2017-06-13 Net Minutes

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

20:38

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