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Meeting

February 2015 HAM Club Meeting

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The meeting began at 11:30 AM on February 26, 2015 in D8 1006A.  Five members were in attendance:

  • Teresa Moore (AG6OD)
  • Victor Lin (KK6RZO)
  • Don Hall (KK6DCX)
  • Kirk Crawford (KG6MTE)
  • Ryan Noguchi (AI6DO)


The radio equipment that was purchased for the D1 shack has arrived and has been installed.  The Radio has been tested and can reach the El Segundo Repeater.  The simplex portion of the system will be tested after this meeting.  Teresa will try out here new roll as the NCO tomorrow.  If club members would like to try out the radio setup, contact Teresa Moore for access. 

We discussed possible meeting topics for future meetings.  I will research a tree mounted dipole system I plan to use for  my home, and will present that at some point.

Teresa’s husband knows about digital modes may come in and present.

We also agree we should check  out the field day equipment we have to make sure we know how to set it up and use it before field day comes along. Hopefully we can do this in either March or April.

I also took an action item to contact Jason to inquire about the  HF Radio Status for the trailer.

Teresa will study the cross-band repeater mode of her new radio, and we plan to try it out in order to test it’s use for a possible future CERT exercise.

We gave recommendations to Victor Lin on possible VHF radios to buy as his first radio. The conclusion was to try the inexpensive Baofeng radio available on Amazon for ~$30.

The meeting was adjourned at about 12:20 and we went up to the D8 Shack for a little tour.

 

Shack

Ordering New Components of D1 Shack

The club is now ordering new components to make up a D1 Shack.  Here is what we are getting:

  • Kenwood TMV71A
    Kenwood TV71A
    Kenwood TV71A

     

  • Astron RS 20M Power Supply 
  • Comet GP-6 Antenna 


This should be installed soon and then Teresa in D1 can help conduct the morning net.

Meeting

January 2015 Meeting Notes

Aerospace Ham Radio Club

Meeting Notes – January 29, 2015

 

Present at meeting:

Name Call Sign
Donald Hall KK6DCX
Joe Barger N6KK
Teresa Moore AG60D
Phil Martzen KK6PSA
Joseph Pham AB6TK
Victor Lin (studying for license)


 

Discussions:

  • Victor talked with Joe about membership, dues, etc.
  • Portable Ham antennas
  • Need for morning NCO (control operator)
    • Group discussed need for NCO
    • Discussed possibility of having next meeting in D8, to make attendance by employees working in D8 more convenient, hopefully to identify future NCO
    • Teresa mentioned she could do morning NCO, but lacks a ham shack at her location (D1)
      • Group discussed feasibility of purchasing needed equipment to set up in D1
        • Joe stated he thought we could easily afford equipment to set up in D1 for morning net operations
        • Teresa will check on opportunities for installing an antenna at D1
      • Phil mentioned he needs to acquire a handheld
        • Group discussed some inexpensive handhelds that are available

 

Meeting

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.

Meeting

August 2014 Meeting Minutes

August 28, 2014 AEA Amateur Radio Club Meeting Minutes

Five people were in attendance:

  • Kirk Crawford KG6MTE
  • Ed Warren
  • Teresa Moore AG6OD
  • David Ping
  • Han Lin


The club budget was discussed. For FY15 we made a $4K request, including $3500 for equipment-related expenses. Other expenses include the Christmas party and raffle prizes. We spent $9783.77 on the D8 shack and emergency equipment in FY14. In the budget is money for 80/160 antennas for the D8 shack, an emergency generator, and an HF antenna for the A2 shack.

The California QSO party is the first weekend in October.

David Ping made a report on the state of the repeater project. He stated that it is a full rack of equipment weighing several hundred pounds and is not easily portable. Repeater is 220/440/2m and is crystal controlled (NOT frequency agile.) The triband Comet high-gain antenna is installed on the roof of A8. A controller can activate any of the three radios. About eight hours of work remain to get this repeater to full operation, including re-tuning cavities and doing some wiring. This repeater is set for the test pair (446.86 or .88?). David was hoping to get the repeater operational for demonstration at the September meeting. We will have to coordinate with facilities to get roof access.

Dave has been working on the antennas for the engineering models for AMSAT’s Fox-1 cubesat. A talk about this project would be welcome as a presentation at a future meeting.