Grande Ronde Radio Association: Minutes of 7/26/2016
Meeting called to order by Steve at 19:02PST.
Michael Read the minutes from last Meeting, Minutes approved as read
Treasurer’s Report: Current Balance is $2446.20
Paid Members and families: 22
Old Business:
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Fox Hunt
- Discussion of club paying for the meal
- To not pay for it for lunch, or to
- Maybe 1st 2nd and 3rd prize
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Next one scheduled for August 20th 10 am
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No host lunch after foxhunt. Concurred.
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Checkin 9:45 am on the 98 repeater operate on 55 simplex
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Ted to be a fox
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New members to get ahold of Mike Orcut
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Rain or Shine
- Discussion of club paying for the meal
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Antenna Party
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Ted has been experimenting with kits
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End fed antenna designed for 40m to 6m
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Tabled until next meeting
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Steve has supplies for making 6m beams
New Business
- Club repeater not being used much Tim proposed starting a weekly net
- Saturday or Sunday
- Sunday evening
- Possibly 7 pm and work around the spout springs meetings
- Don is on a net at 6 and 6:45
- Need a new topic of the evening for each net
- Tabled until next meeting
- Also member numbers for this meeting are too low to gauge participation counts
- Schedules will be slowing down for winter after next meeting, possibly will be able to drum up more participants due to the fall/winter schedules
- KE7LXY Brent Linville and his family: this was their last meeting before moving! Wish them well on their next set of endeavors.
Show and Tell
- Steve Brought in an N type connector
- Silver plated
- For VHF and UHF
- Steve brought in an oldie but goodie antenna bridge
- Steve also brought in a Webster wire Recorder!
- We are into the Delta Acra ridge Meteor showers 20 Meteors per hour
- Perseid meteor showers by the end of this week 100 meteors per hour
- Special event stations were discussed, Steve talked about some of his experiences with impromptu special event stations
- Steve to be speaking at Valley Fellowship by Pioneer park
- Ted explained baluns for offset dipoles, and unums for end fed wires
meeting Adjourned at 20:12 PST
Attendees:
KD7CEM Don Magee
KE7LXY Brent Linville
KG7UAV Mike Abernathy
KF7STP Mike Orcutt
N7NSL Ted Ivester
BH1CVG Tim Wong
KI7FXJ Tyson Brooks
+1 kg7uav Ashley Schlenker
KA0DEK Steve Hendrix
+1 KE7LXY David Reed