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Meeting, Shack

Sep 2018 CLUB MEETING

At 11:45 AM on 27 Sep we had our meeting of the AEA Amateur Radio Club. We met in building A3, conference room 1607B. We had Skype up via the laptop, we shared our presentation charts, audio was fair, with drop-outs. We did not have an audio recording of the meeting.

Our topics included:

    1. Chantilly Ham Shack briefing – Tom
    2. Slides: Octoberfest, Upcoming events, club banner – Kirk
    3. Additional topics:
      • RF shack assessment, why does all our radio equipment have new stickers?
      • Safety & Facility Office is working to give us permission to install replacement HF antenna on the A2 building roof

    4. Future meeting topics are as follows:
      • Oct – Bob – Directional Antenna Fox Hunt
      • Nov – Ryan – Satellite Contact
      • Dec – Club Holiday Party on 13 Dec at the Proud Bird
      • Jan – Bob – VHF Winlink Demo

Slides for September Meeting

Attendees were:

  • Kirk Crawford KK6KC
  • Tom Essenpreis KB9ENS
  • Bob Lanahan KK6WYW
  • Ryan Noguchi (Skype)
  • Jeff Light (Skype)
  • Michael Stanitis (Skype)

73, Bob Lanahan

Check In Net

September HF Net Report

This morning, we had our monthly HF Net.  I can report that it was a success.  We  had successful voice contact between W6AGO (El Segundo), AE0RO (Colorado Springs) and KK4GEG (Chantilly).  The band was busy on 14.275 MHz, so we moved up to 14.287 MHz.  At AGO, COS signal was between S7 and S8.  Chantilly signal was around S6.   It is noted that Chantilly does not have an amplifier and was only putting out 100 watts.

After the main net, W6AGO and Chantilly tried PSK31 digital communications on 14.075 MHz.  Chantilly was able to easily read W6AGO at 50 watts, but W6AGO was NOT able to read anything from Chantilly.   We will work on this new mode for next month.

73,

Kirk Crawford
President AEA Amateur Radio Club (W6AGO)
KK6KC