We had our April HAM Club meeting on April 25, 2024 at 11:30 AM on Teams and in A3/2226 MMC
Note: Some of the slides have been edited since the meeting with the decisions we made or things we talked about.
You can find the recording here. Note: this link will only work for Aerospace Employees.
On March 28th, 11:30 AM PDT we had our monthly meeting. At this meeting Thomas Fagan – K7DF presented on ARRL, Why you should join. Kirk Crawford -KK6KC had some slides about club activities prior to the presentation.
We recorded the meeting. See it here. Note, this may not work outside of the Aerospace network.
On February 28 2024 11:30 AM PDT we had a meeting. Our presentation was on VarAC a new HF Chat mode. Doug McNulty (KM4GC) and Bob Lanahan (KK6WYW) gave the talk. I presented a few slides at the beginning about our A3 Antenna status and the EOC trailer status.
Recording is here available to Aerospace Employees
At 8:30 AM PST 2/14/2024 we had our HF Net.
| RX/TX | Bob | Doug | Tom | Kirk |
| Bob | 5-5 | 5-0 | 5-0 | |
| Doug | 5-8 | – | – | |
| Tom | 5-5 | 5-5 | 5-9 | |
| Kirk | – | – | 5-9 |
| Rx/TX | Doug | Tom | Kirk | Bob |
| Doug | 5-1 | 5-8 | ||
| Tom | 5-8 | 5-5 | 5-7 | |
| Kirk | 5-7 | |||
| Bob | 5-6 | 5-0 |
| Rx/Tx | Kirk | Doug | Tom | Bob |
| Kirk | 5-9 | |||
| Doug | 5-9 | |||
| Tom | ||||
| Bob |
On Monday 2/12/24 I went to the EOC Trailer in the south lot of A6 in order to retrieve the bracket for the A3 Antenna Tower. I discovered that the trailer had leaked extensively during the recent storms. The carpet is wet, there is visible drips in the ceiling and some mold. See the below pictures:
On Tuesday 2/13/24 KN6OJH and I (KK6KC) were able to install a tarp with bungees that I purchased the night before with club funds. We removed all of the antennas before we put up the tarp. We will have to plan on fixing the roof once the winter is over. But this tarp should hold us till then. See the installed tarp below.
On January 25, 2024 at 11:30 AM PST we had a meeting. Our presentation was on Stealth Antennas given by Thomas Fagan K7DF.
Recording is here available to Aerospace employees
We had our first HF Net of 2024 on January 3 at 8:30 AM.
We started at 28.940 Mhz
| RX/TX | Kirk | Tom | Doug |
| Kirk | – | 2-2 | |
| Tom | – | 4-4 | |
| Doug | – | – |
On 15 (21.3 Mhz) Only Kirk could hear Doug at 2-2
18.149 Mhz
| RX/TX | Kirk | Tom | Doug |
| Kirk | – | 3-2 | |
| Tom | – | 5-5 | |
| Doug | 5-5 | 5-5 |
We used 14.266 MHz
| RX/TX | Kirk | Tom | Doug |
| Kirk | – | – | |
| Tom | – | 5-3 | |
| Doug | – | – |
It seemed 17 meters was our best band for this day.
At 11:30 AM PST on December 14, 2023 we had our annual Holiday Party in A3/2226 MMC and on Teams. We had a catered luncheon of Prime Rib from the Aerospace Cafeteria and fantastic desserts shared by members of the club. We looked at pictures from the last year and had a good discussion. No one volunteered to run for the open secretary spot. We also had our raffle draw. See you next year!
Recording is here. Note this only works inside of Aerospace
We had our December HF Net at 8:30 AM PST to 9:00 AM on Wednesday December 6, 2023.
Started at 14.280 and then went to 14.240 to retest Doug’s Link. We used USB Phone.
| RX\TX | Kirk | Doug | Tom | Jeff |
| Kirk | 11 | 57 | 45 | |
| Doug | – | – | – | – |
| Tom | 57 | 55 | 57 | |
| Jeff | 57 | 22 | 57 |
We used 28.393 USB Phone
| RX\TX | Kirk | Doug | Tom | Jeff |
| Kirk | 11 | – | – | |
| Doug | – | – | 52 | |
| Tom | – | 23 | – | |
| Jeff | – | 55 | – |
We had our annual show and tell meeting at 11:30 AM PST on 11/30/2023 in A3/1607A and on Teams. We had several presentations from members showing what they did in HAM radio over the past year.
Here is the Link. Note: it will only work inside the Aerospace Network.
