December 2014 Christmas Party

December 11, 2014 AEA Amateur Radio Club Meeting Minutes

Merry Christmas!

We held our annual Christmas party at the Proud Bird at 11:30 AM. Nine club members were in attendance:

  • Kirk Crawford KG6MTE
  • Ed Warren K8RD
  • Don Taylor K6DA
  • Don Hall KK6DCX
  • Joseph Pham AB6TK
  • Bernard Yoo KI6NVD
  • Archie Buchanan KD6GWH
  • Joe Barger N6KK
  • Teresa Moore AG6OD


One Non-Club member was there as well.

  • Dustin Laurence KA7FI4 (Spouse of Teresa)

We had a great luncheon at the Proud Bird. We had the buffet this year and we had good food and service in my opinion.

Treasurers report: We got $3000 for the coming fiscal year. We now have $8000 in the bank. Kirk Crawford proposed to purchase antennas and mounting hardware to mount two antennas on the A6 Roof. Cables would run the signals down to the Emergency Operations Trailer. This with a permanent power source could turn the trailer into another viable shack.

The HF radio was removed from it’s rack in the Emergency Operations Trailer during the November meeting. Jason has since brought this radio to the HAM Radio shop to be repaired.

An election for officers was held. No new volunteers were found, and all the existing officers agreed to stay in there posts.

We again discussed the repeater project and confirmed that we will be pursuing a portable cross-band repeater solution for the Emergency Operations Trailer, and we will let David Ping continue with the permanent repeater solution.

We held the raffle and had the following results:

  • $300 Wayne Fenner
  • $200 Kirk Crawford
  • $100 Joe Barger
  • $50 Don Taylor
  • $50 Teresa Moore
  • $50 Archie Buchanan
  • $50 Joe Pham

The winners will get gift cards to the amateur radio supply store of their choice.

EDIT:

K0DI says there is high SWR from the Step IR Antenna in D8.