July 31, 2014 AEA Amateur Radio Club Meeting Minutes

Sorry, there was no recording this month.

The club meeting was held in building A3/1607B (Dining Room B) at 11:30 hours.

Four amateur operators were in attendance:

• Kirk Crawford KG6MTE
• Donald Hall KK6DCX
• Teresa Moore AG6OD
• Judy Kerner KK6GCB

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Three Non-members attended as well:

• Jon Osborn
• Ching Kong
• Adis Gharibian

The APRS presentation was postponed until the next meeting as Bernie was unable to come to the meeting this month.

Kirk presented a report on Field Day. The slides will can be found here. We had a very successful Field Day, given that it the first Field Day the club has participated in for a long time. The presentation included a lot of photos of the trailer and our setup, a breakdown of our points, and a list of things we would like to improve for next year’s Field Day.

The Field Day presentation led to a discussion about the trailer. The trailer would need updated equipment and antennas in order to reach Chantilly (say, in the event of a major earthquake). As a club, we need to make more use of the trailer to make it a credible emergency resource. It would be useful if the RV and trailer could operate at the same time; currently we have to unplug the RV in order to plug in the trailer as both use the same outlet. We should try to find out if there is a way we can plug the trailer in to the RV in case of an emergency if power is available.

We also talked about what it takes to get a Technician level amateur radio license and encouraged interested people to pursue getting licensed. It is likely that there are quite a few Aerospace personnel, especially in labs, who could get a Technician level license with very little effort. There was some discussion about some of the interesting things one can do with an amateur radio license, including talking to CubeSats, amateur television, digital modes, and APRS.

We briefly discussed the California QSO Party contest coming up in October, with the idea that we may be able to participate from the D8 shack.

Don Hall agreed to coordinate with The Proud Bird to schedule our Christmas party.

April 24, 2014 AEA Amateur Radio Club Meeting Minutes

MP3 Audio recording of the meeting.
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The club meeting was held in building A1 room 2906 at 11:30 hours.

Three amateur operators were in attendance:

• Kirk Crawford KG6MTE
• Archie Buchanan KD60LH
• Bob Simoneau N4RAS

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Kirk shared that he found the proper repeater pair to use for our portable/emergency repeater project. According to the TASMA (Two Meter Aera Spectrum Management Association for Southern California) bandplan, we should use 147.585 for the input and 144.930 for the output.

We talked a lot about the ARRL Field Day in June (28-29). We would like to do something as a club for this event. We thought that we might be able to do something simple by pulling the EMCC trailer to the A6 Parking Lot and set it up there for the event. Hopefully we will have the portable tower purchased by that time and can use that. Otherwise we can make sure the built in antennas work. We will need lots of volunteers to run the stations and help with the logistics of the event. I (Kirk) am willing to coordinate things, but I can’t do it all. If we have it on Aerospace property, will we be able to have retirees on site overnight? We should see if there is toilet access, maybe the porta-potties for the construction site will be accessible. Volunteers needed. Please go to the ARRL site and read the documentation and rules for the event.

Bob Simoneau N4RAS joined the meeting and had several questions about setting up a quad band mobile rig. He is interested in the FT-9800R but also wants to have 10 meter sideband to be able to talk to the big rigs. Does anyone have any ideas for him?

We need more presentation ideas and more presenters. Does anyone use WIN system much and can present on that? Any other ideas or areas of the hobby you want to know about?