2/26/16
AEA Amateur Radio Club Meeting
In attendance:
- Teresa Moore AG6OD
- Archie Buchanan KD6OLH
- Don Putnick NA6Z
- Ching Kong KJ6QBI
- Gerrit Sorenson
- Don Hall KK6DCX
- Kirk Crawford KK6KC
Kirk gave a repeater report; repeater is fixed and will be installed once the backup battery is purchased.
The club has more Ham It Forward licenses to give out, so if you know anyone at Aerospace that might be interested in getting an amateur radio license then let them know about this free resource.
The D8 shack is being used for contesting, Ryan Noguchi March 19-20 for various contests. The shack is available to any member who would like to participate.
The HF net to COS occurred in January, but the February net was canceled. We will try to check in to the March net on March 2 at 9 am in the D8 shack.
Kirk gave a report on the upgrades to the Buddipole.
We are starting preparation for Field Day. We need volunteers for the following positions:
PR coordinator (Don Hall)
HF Rig 1 (Kenwood) coordinator
HF Rig 2 (KX3) coordinator
VHF Rigs coordinator
Location and Trailer Movement coordinator (Kirk Crawford)
Please let Kirk know if you are interested in volunteering for one of these positions. We will most likely use VC 1 again as our Field Day location. We need to figure out what antennas we plan to use.
Tuesday March 15 we will plan to set up the Buddipole antenna and one of the HF radios in the VC1 parking lot and try to make some contacts.
The D8 remote operations plan is still not functional. There were various problems which were never overcome.