AEA Radio Club Meeting 6/30/16

Audio of the meeting:

Slides from the meeting

6 people in attendance

• Kirk Crawford KK6KC
• Don Hall KK6DCX
• Phil Martzen KK6PSA
• Teresa Moore AG6OD
• Tom Essenpreis KB9ENS
• Ching Kong KJ6QBI

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Field Day Report:

Kirk, Don, Phil, Teresa, Emily Conroy, and Korede Oladimeji participated in our club Field Day event, which was held on the top two floors of the parking structure.  We made 25 HF contacts on the 20m and 40 m bands.  No VHF/UHF contacts were made.  We started around 12-1 pm and started shutting down around 4-5 pm.  We made HF contacts in 13 sections, from California to Canada to Oklahoma.

Lessons Learned:

• The fiberglass masts are too floppy for the heavy VHF antennas. Next year replace them with 10’ aluminum masts
• The 440 VHF antenna should be vertical rather than horizontal
• Next year replace the three VHF/UHF setups with one multiband setup
• Next year try 20m, 40m, and 80m dipole antennas as inverted Vs, one over each light pole
• Need to be able to use the headset microphones and push-to-talk button (did not work)
• Buy what we need for digital modes and try having a digital setup next year
• Need to replace the mike stand for the Kenwood
• Next year have a Field Day “practice” where we set up and try out our systems, especially the VHF/UHF setup, coordinating communications with someone in a shack or on a handheld.
• Make a list of VHF/UHF simplex frequencies for next year

Trailer Cleanup:

A meeting was scheduled for July 6 at 11:30 to work on putting the radios back in the trailer and organize our equipment in the trailer. [OOPS I forgot about this! – KK6KC]

Budget:

The budget is due July 15.  Some ideas for budget items were:

• Labeled plastic bins to organize supplies in the trailer
• Field day equipment mentioned above
• Better power strips
• Line filters/power conditioners
• Equipment for the A6 shack
• D8 shack SDR
• VHF/UHF antenna analyzer
• Pan adapter for KX3
• HRD software
• Whatever we need for the APRS emergency communication plan (Ryan is supposed to spec this out; we can use a Buddipole antenna set for 30 m)

The library has radio club books that belong to us that they need us to store during the library remodel.  Kirk will let us know what we’ve got when he finds out and may need additional storage space depending on how many books there are. [EDIT It was only a single book, General Class learning guide from 2007.  Out of date so I had it recycled.]

Meeting Ideas

We discussed ideas for future meetings.  These ideas included:

• Antennas for condominiums
• DXpedition videos
• Field Day videos (what do other clubs do?)
• Digital modes (Teresa’s husband Dustin has been doing a lot of digital stuff lately and could give a presentation.)

If you have other ideas or would be willing to present something to the club, please comment below or email Kirk