Meeting:2015/12/03

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Meeting (to be) held from 18:00-20:00 on 2015/12/03 in Zepler CLS Lecture Room

 

Amateur Radio

Stock of people who need to pay for club kit used

Murray: Tyler: 0.6ish m of ladder line Club 1 BNC connector 3m ish of RG58

Freddie: Tyler 1.6ish m of ladder line Club 1 BNC connector Tyler 3m ish of RG58

Unknown: Tyler 10m antenna Kit

Unknown Tyler 1.6ish m of ladder line Tyler 1 BNC connector Club 1 BNC connector Tyler 3m ish of RG58

Raphael: Tyler 1.6ish m of ladder line Club 1 BNC connector Tyler 3m ish of RG58

Josh: Club 1.6ish m of ladder line Club 1 BNC connector Tyler 3m ish of RG58

Laurie: Club 1.6ish m of ladder line Club 1 PL259 connector Tyler 3m ish of RG58

Andy: Club 1.6ish m of ladder line Club 1 PL259 connector Tyler 3m ish of RG58

Tom Kelly: Club 1.6ish m of ladder line Club 1 BNC connector Tyler 3m ish of RG58

VFO kits: Apparently everyone doing intermediate: Andy Freddie Josh Hector Raphael Laurie Arihant

Licence examinations (nsefan)

• Next date: Mon 7th Dec 19:00; deadline now PASSED.
• Practical Training Sessions.

Mast

• E&F have assigned someone to look into the antenna array
• have contacted Tony to organise a meeting
  • Tony has not yet responded. Tyler contacted VP DCI to inquire, also no response yet.

Christmas Meal Attendance

• Who is coming?

RSGB Survey

• Survey here

Can people who have taken photos at recent events please upload them?

• Within the past two years

GB3IW

• GB3IW (70cm repeater on the Isle of Wight, you can relatively easily get into it from Southampton, including some parts of campus on a handheld) is currently off-air, apparently due to mechanical problems
• I was told by John (the one taking his advanced) on air that the guys in charge of it are looking for donations of time or money to help get it up and running again
• I don't know if the club, or anyone in the club, is interested in helping with this in some way.

Joint Agenda

Funding round 2

• Applications still open (close on 29th)
• What do we want to apply for
  • More Foundation and Intermediate books (two foundation, two intermediate, two advanced, two revision)
    • Confirm - we should apply for 50% funding
      • Now submitted, thanks Darren!
  • Storage bags for antennas (eg HF beam)
    • Confirmed assuming we can find ones big enough for a decent price.
• Update groups hub members list

Communications

• Facebook group
  • [1]
• IRC
  • irc.ecs.soton.ac.uk or irc.zepler.net
    • #G3KMI
    • #SOWN
• Mailing list
  • You can sign up to the SUWS mailing list by sending an email to suws-members-join@ecs.soton.ac.uk. Although it should not be necessary, please add the word subscribe to both the subject and message body to lessen the chances of email being treated as spam by our mail servers.

Storage update

• Cupboard
  • A wild cupboard appears in Mountbatten Coffee Room
  • We don't yet have a key for it though, assuming it's ours.
  • Henry awaiting response re this.
• Cage 9
  • Arihant says it seems to alternate between being in a tip/being tidy, which is better than it was before.
• Building 32 Cupboard
  • No changes here. Could do with tidying up.

SUSU Funding issues

• we have the funding round 1 monies
• only paid £50 for the two opendays
• Attempt to contact SUSU; Darren couldn't find the right person.
  • It has now been resolved according to SUSU's finance page. We have not yet verified it's in our account but we have no reason to suspect it isn't.

SOWN

See SOWN Agenda

• Tim Chown has provided funding for new nodes. They look very promising both for standard nodes (replacement for Merakis) and SOWN[at]Anywhere aka SOWN[at]The Crown.