Meeting:2016/06/30

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Meeting (to be) held from 18:00-20:00 on 2016/06/30 in Zepler CLS Lecture Room

 

Amateur Radio

suws.org.uk Email Aliases

• Add the following accounts and set up forwarding to appropriate people:
  • president - Arihant
  • treasurer - Tyler and Darren
  • secretary - Thomas Kelly
  • licensing - Henry
  • committee - To supersede @sown.org.uk alias?
• Already existing:
  • g3kmi - main account for domain
  • exams - Henry, Tyler and Phil
  • webmaster - David Newman and Cori
  • contact - forwards to sown committee alias but could have a list of people most likely to be able to deal with general external queries if we setup suws committee alias.

VHF Field Day

• Main Article

• Transport
  • Phil can take 2 passengers from Soton on Saturday morning (~9am?)
  • ...

• Food
  • Christian has got some - see irc.

• Mast pole
  • Phil is picking up the base and guys, need a pole to go in (<49mm diameter)

• Generator
  • To be picked up from Graeme

Finance things

SUSU purchases

• QSL Cards
  • Cards have arrived
• what do we want in funding round 1

Future Planning

• Goals for next year
• Kit wishlist
• Club Stock

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
• Speak to person replacing Kerry (handover)

Basingstoke ARC Activities

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

• 1 - 3 July - VHF Field Day, after the end of term.
  • Basingstoke club not able to attend.
  • 24h Contest on several bands - great fun! Can do joint entry as before if we commit early.
  • Land Rover with pump-up mast 2m and up. Use IC7000 as the 2m rig. We could put up an extra 6m mast but club does not have a 6m Yagi.
  • A mast can be put together.
  • Maximum of two stations
  • Numbers? How many attending? Create a doodle poll to see what parts of the weekend people can attend.
  • Power, vehicle has a large marine battery in the back however not happy with engine left to idle. Graham may have a generator or we could get some money to hire one.
  • Hannington - https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.2876305,-1.2068114,8554m/data=!3m1!1e3
    • Nice to have a regulated supply. Use Henry's DC power supply.
  • 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 May 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

Next month's events

VHF field day

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)
• Still no padlock on cage with key.

Anyone need to be added to the mailing list?

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

SOWN

See SOWN Agenda