date

2018-10-23

opened

20:00

closed

20:18

Check-ins (20)

• Matthew Barry (KG5LYE)
• Don Ling (WB5CKO)
• Jeff French (KM5TW)
• Avery McIntosh (N7ALM)
• Mark Hnatiuk (KG5EYV)
• David Barry (KG5UZA)
• Joshua Cook (KF5TYX)
• Ralph Cobb (W5RYC)
• John "Pocat" Walpole (K5ZY)
• Rick Swaims (W5RTF)
• Brad Snyder (KG5SDE)
• Taylor Becken (KI5BOP)
• Bob Henglein (W5GC)
• Dick Zimmer (W5DZ)
• Connor Farrell (WG1GEM)
• Brent Anderson (WW5OBA)
• Jim Snell (WA5PMO)
• Harold Turbyfill (KG5SDG)
• Phil Gates (N5ZKF)
• Karsten Pearce (KG5YRX)

Switch to 146.820 MHz FM (W5AC) repeater due to noise on 146.680 MHz FM (W5BCS) repeater.

Officer Reports

President KG5EYV

• Good meeting this weekend
  • No quorum, but still got some stuff done
  • Breakfast Social 2018-11-10 at IHOP in Bryan
  • Discuss elections
  • Open Forum: What would we like to do as a club?
    • 70 members on Roster
    • 30 “active” members

Vice-President N5ZKF

• Thanks, W5VUI for VE presentation
  • No more presentations scheduled due to impending club business
  • Pick it up next year.

Secretary KG5LYE

• N5BRZ SET Exercise this weekend
  • check into 443.425 MHz FM repeater
  • activate hospitals, Red Cross, and DDC
  • anyone willing to check in is welcome!
  • Sending and receiving Winlink messages
  • Operating simplex on repeater input frequency (no PL tone)

Treasurer N5GQB

Did not check in.

Announcements / Comments

KG5EYV

• Thanks, N5ZKF for organizing all of the presentations this year! Great job!

WG1GEM

• Connor, W5AC Vice President
• Ongoing status updates
  • Have been trying to reconnect Echolink to UHF
  • ID morse going very slowly; investigating
  • 2m repeater has some suffixes being added
    • Might need to be re-tuned
    • High SWR on antenna