Meeting:2014/09/18

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Meeting (to be) held from 18:00-20:00 on 2014/09/18 in Zepler CLS Lecture Room

 

Amateur Radio

Licence Exams

• • Next exam dates: List of full exam dates here

Chilbolton Atmospheric Radio Observatory

• Mentioned by Quintin - could probably get a free visit/tour as a uni club.
  • Maybe a good activity for 2014-15 newbies?

Outings/Events

• Bunfight - Who, What, When, (Where?!)
• Any upcoming events (rallies etc.)
• Any plans for outings for newbies?

Termly Spring End of academic year 2014 Newsletter Finalisation

• Newsletter
  • [1] [2]
  • A few tweaks/finalisations required
    • Add VHF NFD, make it and end of academic year newsletter.
      • Collect VHF NFD pictures.
  • We need a list of people to whom to send it.

QSL Cards

• QSL card design competition
  • Photos taken at VHF NFD
  • Please design/submit designs ASAP.
  • Closing date TBD (but probably once we have funding for them)
  • Funding - see joint agenda

• Received QSL cards
  • Tyler has them
  • We need to figure out what to do with them - scan them? Put them in an album?

Shack in SUSU

• Our old shack (office) is being turned into a meeting room, maybe
• Plan to try to get a corner in it for use as a shack when there's no meeting (or remote control when there is a meeting)
• Meeting re this will probably happen soon.
  • Still hasn't happened. Now potentially Monday 29th (when Tyler gets back).

Antennas

• SUSU Antenna Array

Joint Agenda

Bunfights

• SUSU - Wednesday 24th September (09:00-16:00?)
• FPSE - Thursday 25th September (12:00 and 17:00)
• Dave N can help set up and maybe Graeme, Henry and Murray can attend. Maybe Tim, Darren)? Also, try to contact Russell Frost and Chris Oakes.
• Intro meetings (just on Thursday nights?)
• Ideas for bunfights
  • SSTV (from Murray/Henry's house)
  • Static displays of cool-looking radios/antennas
  • Working HF rig listening to real people? (If we have antenna)
  • Static display of SOWN nodes/wifi dish
  • Certainly need to get into Cage 9 (antennas/banner)
  • Also 32 for the FT-920
  • Decide to do an outing (European or RSGB SSB club sprint?) so we can advertise it at existing licensees

SUSU

• General discussion about matters SUSU
• Finding a more suitable zone, e.g. Creative Industries

Mailing List

• Merged mailing list requested for suws-members@ecs.soton.ac.uk (by daveruss at 01:26 18/09/2014)

SOWN

See SOWN Agenda