Amateur Radio Club of the National Electronics Museum | K3NEM

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ARCNEM
K3NEM -- W3HEM -- W3GR
Amateur Radio Club of the National Electronics Museum
MINUTES
of the
10 September 2009
Monthly Meeting

Meeting was called to order at 6:05 p.m. by club President John Paul Howell.

1. ATTENDEES

AA3FB Chuck Angel
AA3WI John Paul Howell
AB3CA Jim Smith
AI3Z Fred Heath
K3FQP Bob Gardenghi
K3LU Ulis Fleming
K3NY Nick Yokanovich
K3RA Rol Anders
K3YH Tom Christovich
KA3KQM Alan Kealey
KB3NHQ Tom Dalton
KB3ORF Laurie Knaack
N3GOO Jim Nowotarski
NG3O Bill Corley
W1TRT Tim Titus
W3WVV Heru Walmsley
W4PBG Chip Weems
WA2DRY Zack Goldstein
WT3B Bill Thompson

2. MINUTES
The minutes from the August 2009 meeting were approved.

3. REPORTS
(a) Treasurer's Report -- Fred Heath, AI3Z
Bank balance: $1309.25.
(b) Station Equipment and Operation Reports
i. Northrop Grumman Family Net, Weds 3pm – Chip W4PBG / Bob K3FQP
Nets have been pretty good. Last week the noise was less.

ii. Monthly Power Line Noise Report – Rol K3RA
Public Service Commission set up a meeting for Rol to talk with BGE about our noise problems Sept 14. BGE did do work in the past week.

iii. Antenna Issues
Fred has a crossover switch. We wouldn't have to put it up on roof - it would go down here. It would allow more switching between antennas.

iv. Radio Issues
Yaesu FT-920 had an intermittent problem (losing sensitivity) but Bob & Chip have used it for nets and not noticed this problem occurring since the Yaesu has been back at the station.
New radio (Icom) seems good from tests done so far – hasn’t been used for regular nets.

(c) QSL Report – Nick K3NY
Received another batch from bureau but no exciting news yet.

(d) FISTS Report - Nick K3NY
No news.

(e) Training Report -- Rol Anders, K3RA
General class will start the 22nd of September with tentative exam date of 2nd Tuesday in December.

(f) VE Testing Report – Jim N3GOO
Issue with fraudulent exams being given in TN has been resolved.

(g) FAR Report
We still need a FAR Representative.

4. OLD BUSINESS
(a) Rules and Regulations update
Enough (35) members voted by proxy or in person either at the August or September meetings, so the updated Rules and Regulations as posted http://k3nem.org/node/63 have been passed.

5. NEW BUSINESS
(a) IEEE event Thu Oct 22 at NEM, 80 attendees expected
Contact person Shawn Henry asked for someone to demo station 6:30-8pm. Nick Yokanovich K3NY, Tom Christovich K3YH, Jim Nowotarski N3GOO, Heru Walmsley W3WVV (tentative) volunteered.

(b) JOTA (Jamboree on the Air) – 3rd Saturday in October, the 17th
Gary Mauler needs volunteers.

(c) Brochure about our club for station
Tim Titus W1TRT will take on initial revision of brochure for the station - Chip has the original brochure about our club. Jim N3GOO will take on reordering the ARRL brochures for station.

6. NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Contest October 19-23 1300-2400Z Mon-Thu – Tom K3YH suggests club participation; Tom would be willing to do log submittal and could work evenings. Class would be going on and would overlap with the other event so 2 evenings covered. Tom will send info on mailing list.

Technical presentations - Suggest or volunteer by contacting John Paul!
Next presentation will be Bruce MacPherson of ARRL presenting on 802.11.

Next regular meeting: Thursday 8 October 2009 at 6:00 p.m. local time.

Respectfully submitted, Laurie Knaack, KB3ORF

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