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
George
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
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.
QSL Card Competition
A message from the secretary: I have had no entries yet. Please remember that the deadline is Monday!
AOB (radio)
Joint Agenda
Funding round 2
- Applications now closed
- What did we 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!
- Confirm - we should apply for 50% funding
- Storage bags for antennas (eg HF beam)
- Did this go in? I don't know
- More Foundation and Intermediate books (two foundation, two intermediate, two advanced, two revision)
- Update groups hub members list
Who wants accounts on things?
Communications
- Facebook group
- IRC
- irc.ecs.soton.ac.uk or irc.zepler.net
- #G3KMI
- #SOWN
- irc.ecs.soton.ac.uk or irc.zepler.net
- Flickr
- 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
- Mountbatten 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.
