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
14 January 2010
Monthly Meeting

Meeting was called to order at 6:00 p.m. by club President John Paul Howell.

1. ATTENDEES
AA3FB Chuck Angel
AA3WI John Paul Howell
AB3CA Jim Smith
AI3Z Fred Heath
K3DB David Bollinger
K3FQP Bob Gardenghi
K3NY Nick Yokanovich
K3RA Rol Anders
K3YH Tom Christovich
KA3MPH Robert Horner
KB3GSA Jim Dressler
KB3NHQ Thomas Dalton
KB3ORF Laurie Knaack
N3BYN Gary Johney
N3GOO Jim Nowotarski
NG3O Bill Corley
W1TRT Tim Titus
W3DTN Gary Hendrickson
W3MPN George Asaki
W3WVV Heru Walmsley
W4EE Jim Laughter
W4PBG Chip Weems
WA2DRY Zack Goldstein
WA2EUJ Jim Veatch
WA3AER Ted Bauer
WA3ZWC Steven Stitzer

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

3. REPORTS
(a) Treasurer's Report -- Fred Heath, AI3Z
Ended December 2009 with $1447.35.
(b) Station Equipment and Operation Reports
i. Northrop Grumman Family Net, Weds 3pm ET – Chip W4PBG / Bob K3FQP
Powerline noise was less. More participation. Maybe some sunspots appearing.

ii. TV net, Tues lunch (11:45am-12:15pm ET) – Heru W3WVV
Heru asked members to watch out for museum visitors moving things or changing
the settings on the ATV equipment.

iii. Monthly Power Line Noise Report – Rol K3RA
Power line noise persists. BGE to schedule another power outage. At present,
might have noise caused by a bad batch of lightning arrestors. Not much
change from last month.

(c) QSL Report – Nick K3NY
Nick and Tim Titus are cleaning up the databases and have found 2 more
countries for DXCC. We also have over 45,000 QSOs in total.

(d) FISTS Report - Nick K3NY
No report.
 
(e) Training Report -- Rol Anders, K3RA
Extra class has started with 17 participants. Will run about 12 weeks; exam
tentatively in April.

(f) FAR Report
No report. We still need a FAR Representative.

4. OLD BUSINESS
(a) Exhibit space for new rotating exhibit of our equipment
Members further discussed plans for a club exhibit.

(b) Station appearance cleanup
Tom Christovich, Jim Nowotarski, and Ted Bauer will develop ideas to improve
layout/appearance of station, price them, and present back to club.

(c) Gary Mauler's trailer
The club further discussed ideas for converting an old, approximately 20ft
trailer owned by Gary Mauler into a mobile communications vehicle.

5. NEW BUSINESS

(a) Storage area moved
Our club storage area is expected to be moved within a month and all items
must be tagged to be moved correctly. A work party was scheduled for Tuesday,
January 19, 6 pm.

(b) Promotional brochure
A new club promotional brochure was produced and is available online at:
http://k3nem.org/node/86

Images of the club logo in color and black-and-white are also available at:
http://k3nem.org/node/82

6. NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

W3VPR is sponsoring the MD QSO Party this year.

Technical presentations - Suggest or volunteer by contacting John Paul!

Next regular meeting: (February 2010 meeting
canceled due to snow) Thursday 11 March 2010 at 6:00 p.m. local time.

Respectfully submitted, Laurie Knaack, KB3ORF

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