date

2022-03-01

opened

20:00

closed

20:27

Check-ins (18)

• Matthew Barry (KG5LYE)
• Bill Rose (K5WTR)
• David Bailey (K5DKB)
• Avery McIntosh (N7ALM)
• Ron Hambric (N5SBN)
• Jeff McDowell (KI5CES)
• Ralph Cobb (W5RYC)
• Phil Gates (N5ZKF)
• Lorna Flansburg (KI5FIZ)
• Doug Kingman (K5FTA)
• Rick Pfeil (W4RDP)
• Don Ling (WB5CKO)
• Kevin Walton (N4RMF)
• Travis Scott (KI5TMS)
• Bennie Naiser (KA5TWB)
• Dick Zimmer (W5DZ)
• Mike Wisby (KA5HIA)
• Harold Turbyfill (KG5SDG)

Officer Reports

President Phil Gates (N5ZKF)

• Hope you got a chance to get out and vote today (or earlier)
• Special events this week
  • W5T – Battleship Texas
  • ARRL Int’l SSB DX Contest
  • Novice Rig Round-Up
• W5AC has made changes to their repeaters
  • Now split-tone: CTCSS is different for input and output
  • IN: (code that you transmit to get in) still 88.5
  • OUT: (if you configure your receiver for tone-squelch) 110.9 Hz

Vice-President Rick Pfeil (W4RDP)

• Sorry for missing the meeting and net last week
  • emergency at deer lease: flooded travel trailer
  • son being deployed to Korea
• As always, let us know if you have ideas for additional after-meeting presentations!

Secretary Matthew Barry (KG5LYE)

• Expect net Minutes will be sent out as usual

Treasurer Lorna Flansburg (KI5FIZ)

• Current balance: $7,446.29
• 38 members so far

Announcements / Comments

Question for conversation: Have you pursued any Amateur Radio Specialties? (Islands/Parks/Lighthouses On-the-Air)?

Ron Hambric (N5SBN)

• Reminder: ARES net on KD5DLW repeater
  • after this net or 20:30, whichever happens later
  • all are invited to join in!

Don Ling (WB5CKO)

• Islands on-the-air: Lake Somerville and Lake Bryan
• Camp Hearne WW2 POW camp on the air
• Annual military cross-band exercise
• A few satellites, but not the ISS

Dick Zimmer (W5DZ)

• Heard a funny noise on repeater output if you don’t have tone-squelch enabled?
  • W5AC is putting out some spurious radiation

Michael Narcowich (KI5BPO)

• HF utility stations
• Bands are active (and being jammed) due to conflict in Ukraine

Bill Rose (K5WTR)

• South America and a lot of other countries in that direction are coming in strong earlier this afternoon!
• 20 m and 15 m

Mike Wisby (KA5HIA)

• Brazos County Emergency Management is hosting a Basic Skywarn training
  • Brazos Center
  • 2022-03-10 13:00/15:00 or 18:00/20:00 (identical sessions)
• Belton Ham Expo 2022-03-26
• ARES net on KD5DLW repeater after this net
• Pray for peace the world!