Meeting:2015/09/24

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Meeting (to be) held from 18:00-20:00 on 2015/09/24 in Zepler CLS Lecture Room

 

Catch up of summer news

• Mast
  • We do not have a mast yet
  • Situation with b40's demolition, the office situation and the meeting with Director of Union Services explained.
• Storage
  • Caught up with our stuff being moved from cupboard to cage 9, and etc.
• Outings
  • Caught up on outing on the common, open days and VHF NFD
• Anything else
  • Not that any of us can think of.

New year Prep

• Things to purchase
  • Kit_wishlist
    • Deferred until later/Darren is here
  • End fed zepp
    • Murray to contact G-Whip guy, talk to Graeme first, we could invite him to do a talk on antenna design.

• Bunfights Report
  • Bunfights went well
  • 141 sign-ups (give or take)
  • PiSSTV demo
  • HF radio demo w/end-fed Zepp strung to tree/traffic cone, some operation on the FPSE day including possible contact with Ukraine.
  • IC-7000 demo with morse sounding.
  • Static demos: nodes, dish, books
  • Lots of interest!

• Emails for freshers
  • Murray will send this out later in the meeting
  • Will contain:
    • Welcome hello
    • List of upcoming events (intro meetings, newbie outing, Henry's licence conditions talk for already licensed people)
    • Mention of pub existing (so people don't eat)
    • Brief notes about what we do (in case people forget what the Wireless Society is)
    • Instructions on how to join the mailing list (sent in every email)

Initial Events

• HF vertical on common to test set-up for freshers
  • Tentatively Sat 26th Sept.
  • Event page
  • Murray to send out email about it and update event page.
  • Meet Gower (Zepler) car park at 1pm
  • HF operation
  • FT-920, large battery, Graeme's end-fed Zepp, Morse's table, red box, Murray's folding chairs, assortment of food things for BBQ. Murray to bring portable BBQ.

• Introductory sessions.
  • 1st of October and 8th of October
  • Murray and Henry/Russell/any other volunteers on the day to give presentation, Murray to find presentation
  • PiSSTV explanation
  • General Q&A/topics people would like to know about
  • SOWN presentation by Daveruss
  • Event Page
  • Event Page

• Freshers outing
  • 15th of October
  • Intercourse (SUSU grass)
  • Later than usual pubbing
  • Arrive early (17:30) to help with setup if you can, newbies to arrive 18:00
  • Subject to weather
  • Light setup, FT-920, large battery, Graeme's end-fed Zepp, Morse's table, red box, Murray's folding chairs.
  • Goal is just to make contacts and do greeting message for non-licensees.
  • Event Page

• Licence update presentation.
  • 22nd of October
  • Licence conditions have changed slightly over summer, UGs may not be aware fully.
  • Henry to give presentation to explain changes in licence conditions
  • Followed by cut-down meeting
  • Specifically invite already licenced newbies.
  • Obviously existing club members should come too.
  • No reminder email for newbie list, but a mention in the previous emails. Obviously reminder on mailing list as usual.
  • Event Page

• Construction evening/weekend workshop
  • Murray to send out doodle poll.
  • Saturday/Sunday preferred, but perhaps a couple of Thursday doings. Why not both?
  • projects to consider
    • Slimjims
    • 10m antennas
    • designing the morse sounder
    • VFOs for intermediate applicants
  • date?

Mast

• Director of union services discussing with E&F

Exam things

• Next dates: Sun 11th Oct 10:00; Mon 7th Dec 19:00; deadlines 18th Sep and 16th Nov respectively.
  • Arthur and Jo{h,}n Fisher would like to Full (either date)

EMF 2016

• 5th-7th August 2016
  • SUWS attendance?
• Guildford!

Kit at M0NSA_QTH

• pole and other bits should be catalogued and relocated
• Diplexer, many missing bits to HF beam, 40m Softrock SDR, SOWN node
• A load more poles at Dave's house.
• They forgot the HF power amp, I suspect that will come back later

AOB (radio)

• FCC are being literally Satan. They're potentially going to prevent people from using custom firmware on WiFi chipsets.
  • Moaning time over!

• 146-147 Mhz NoV renewal
  • http://rsgb.org/main/operating/licensing-novs-visitors/online-nov-application/146mhz-147mhz-nov/
  • Club would like to apply.
  • If you have a full licence, please apply as it should be interesting to experiment with.

• QSL card competition
  • Should be officially started after freshers arrive
  • Winner gets 25 QSL cards of own design (club gets 75 of winning design)
  • Only paid members can {be eligible for prize,vote} (delete as appropriate)
  • Rear design in competition as well.

Joint Agenda

Storage

• Where / what has happened to our Zepler cupboard.
• Second key for B32 cupboard.
• cage 9 issues
  • CU and livesoc contacted

Social

• Artemis
  • In a month where we have five Thursdays.
  • Now with working lights
  • suggested date: 29th

SOWN

See SOWN Agenda