Meeting:2016/05/05

<< Meeting 21 April 2016 18:00:00 | Current Event: 5 May 2016 18:00:00 | Workshop 12 May 2016 18:00:00 >>

[[|]] | Current Meeting:

 | 

[[|]]

Meeting (to be) held from 18:00-20:00 on 2016/05/05 in Zepler CLS Lecture Room

 

Amateur Radio

Licence exams

• All practical work should have been completed at last weeks revision session or due to be signed off.
  • Soldering Coaxial Connections
• Next exams: Fri 6th May
  • Applicants: ADVANCED: Arihant Kuba, Frederick Nash, Laurie Kirkcaldy, Josh Curry, Mark Bumstead. INTERMEDIATE: Thomas Kelly, David Young, Cori Haws. FOUNDATION: Mohit Gupta.
  • People should be doing practice papers that can be found linked to on the exam syllabus pages on the wiki.
  • Any questions for Henry?
• Building 54 10th floor, classroom 10B. Due to start at 19:00 BUT turn up at 18:30. Advanced must start at 19:00. Can turn up as early as 18:00.

SUSU fundings

• Antenna Bags
  • Purchased and money claimed
• End fed zep (250 W)
  • purchased
  • Thanks to Gwhip for the discount
• Tripod mast
  • Arrived 28/04/16. First used at outing.
• HF Beam Balun
  • Purchased
• QSL Cards (deferred)
  • Unknown

Future Planning

• Goals for next year
• Kit wishlist
• Club Stock

Power pole distribution kits

• • First of the kits completed
• Rest of the parts arrived
• Need to laser cut cases

Stock of people who need to pay for club kit used

• Should be a book with the money tin to see what is outstanding
  • Otherwise refer to Stock of people who need to pay for club kit (legacy list)
• Stock items with purchaser unknown (according to last meeting minutes):
  • 1.6ish m of ladder line (pay Tyler)
  • 1 BNC connector (pay Tyler)
  • 1 BNC connector (pay Club)
  • 3m ish of RG58 (pay Tyler)
• Remove section after exams, but some people have not turned up for a while.

Mast

• Workshop progress
• Update from SUSU / Estates and Facilities
  • Large setback, E&F have suddenly said no.
  • Tyler is talking to Kerry.
    • No response so far

Basingstoke ARC Activities

• Phil has received an email from Mark 2E0ECN, their chairman, asking if we're interested in the following:

• • 14 May - Radio Fun Day at 2015 VHF NFD Site
    • Chance to play with whatever, away from RF noise, other hams will be onsite.
  • 1 - 3 July - VHF Field Day, after the end of term.
    • 24h Contest on several bands - great fun! Can do joint entry as before if we commit early.
  • 13 August - Radio Fun Day
    • Chance to play with whatever, away from RF noise, other hams will be onsite.
  • 2 - 4 Sept - HF Field Day
    • Similar to VHF NFD, but on HF. Not one that the Uni club has entered before.
• Move to the next meeting.
• Phil has forwarded the email to the committee.

SUWS WordPress site

• Can people upload any club photos taken within the past two years to the WordPress site
  • Ask David Newman if you need an account.
• Can we make another blog post? One post per-term idea?
  • Murray will start writing

Callsign list update

• Anyone not added new callsign after December exams?

Amateur Radio AOB

• IC7000, two PL259 RF connectors on back. Modify the VHF connector to an N-type connection.
  • Attempted to print out labels but they fall off. Performance upgrade benefit, and will tell difference between VHF and HF connection. Take a club vote. Is it worth the risk?

Joint Agenda

Storage shenanigans

• Correct locations of kit on wiki.
• Discuss storage location of new items.
  • End-fed Zepp in cupboard
  • Tripod mast in cage
  • Lock for the cage (split up to £17 three ways)

Club funds

• None of our own un-ringfenced money to be reserved for mast any more
• Mast money should be spent on things on the mast funding application, but would also be useful for the club in the meantime (even if the mast doesn't go ahead)

Updating Email Aliases

• committee (at) sown.org.uk
• webmaster (at) suws.org.uk and (at) sown.org.uk
• exams (at) suws.org.uk
• contact (at) suws.org.uk
  • Can we get people's email addresses who are on the committee.
• Exam secretary and a few others to be added to the exams address, which is an account but will be turned into an alias.
• Murray, Russell, Colin to be removed from the committee
• People who need to be added: Cori, Tom, Freddie.

AOB (Joint)

• Any talks for after exams?
  • Will there be enough people here for this to be worth while?

SOWN

See SOWN Agenda