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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.

Initial Events

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
- These happened, they went well, I think.

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?

SOWN workshop
- Some Saturday towards the end of the month
- Dave to Doodle poll

Mast

Director of union services discussing with E&F

Exam things

Next dates: Mon 7th Dec 19:00 deadline 16th Nov.
- Arthur and Jo{h,}n Fisher would like to Full (either date).
- Hector and Freddie would like intermediate

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
- That hasn't happened yet

AOB (radio)

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.
- It's gone missing
- There wasn't that much stuff in it but it would be a pain to lose (manuals/original boxes/mounting hardware).
- Bill Swanton who is on leave possibly knows.
- Cupboard has been claimed by someone. We will be getting a new one. Joyce is on it/etc.
Second key for B32 cupboard.
cage 9 issues
- CU and livesoc contacted
- There's a leak in the roof.

Social

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

AOB

H&S training

Let's send Arihant, as he handles equipment, and he hasn't already been.
- He couldn't make any of them.
Freddie volunteered, but he's not on the committee.

SOWN

See SOWN Agenda

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 *** 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.
-** [[Outing:2015/09/26|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.
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 ** [[Meeting:2015/10/01|Event Page]]
 ** [[Meeting:2015/10/08|Event Page]]
+** These happened, they went well, I think.
 * Freshers outing
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 *** VFOs for intermediate applicants
 ** date?
+* SOWN workshop
+** Some Saturday towards the end of the month
+** Dave to Doodle poll
 === [[SUSU_Antenna_Array|Mast]] ===
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 === Exam things ===
-* Next dates: Sun 11th Oct 10:00; Mon 7th Dec 19:00; deadlines 18th Sep and 16th Nov respectively.
+* Next dates: Mon 7th Dec 19:00 deadline 16th Nov.
-** Arthur and Jo{h,}n Fisher would like to Full (either date)
+** Arthur and Jo{h,}n Fisher would like to Full (either date).
+** Hector and Freddie would like intermediate
 === EMF 2016 ===
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 * A load more poles at Dave's house.
 * They forgot the HF power amp, I suspect that will come back later
+** That hasn't happened yet
 === 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 ==
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 === Storage ===
 * Where / what has happened to our Zepler cupboard.
+** It's gone missing
+** There wasn't that much stuff in it but it would be a pain to lose (manuals/original boxes/mounting hardware).
+** Bill Swanton who is on leave possibly knows.
+** Cupboard has been claimed by someone. We will be getting a new one. Joyce is on it/etc.
 * Second key for B32 cupboard.
 * [[42/Cage9|cage 9]] issues
 ** CU and livesoc contacted
+** There's a leak in the roof.
 === Social ===
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 ** Now with working lights
 ** suggested date: 29th
+=== AOB ===
+==== H&S training ====
+* Let's send Arihant, as he handles equipment, and he hasn't already been.
+** He couldn't make any of them.
+* Freddie volunteered, but he's not on the committee.
 == SOWN ==
 See [[sown:Meetings|SOWN Agenda]]