Meeting:2016/05/05

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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?

Comments on 28/04/16 outing

• Didn't happen on common. Happened on the SUSU grass.
• Didn't get two way contact.
  • However did receive some very "interesting" SSTV.
• Tested new kit
  • New end-fed zepp. Could do with some tuning as SWR was high. Works well.
  • New tripod mast using two support ropes connected as we did not have a mallet.
  • Used tape to connect end-fed zepp to mast. This worked well. Could do with clamp to connect rope to.
• Used IC7000 rig. Manual in outing box, will not fit in radio case.
  • Outing box contains everything (other than large items) needed for an outing.
• Tree climbing experience.

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

This month's events

• Exams going on...
• Projects evening on the 12th for power pole distribution box.
  • Other club projects and web-master handover.
• Think about doing on the 19th.
• 26th meeting for those doing exams
• Beer festival 2nd June. Traditional social for society. No meeting this week.

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.

Updating Email Aliases

• committee (at) sown.org.uk, should be updated.
• webmaster (at) suws.org.uk and (at) sown.org.uk, just David and Cori
• exams (at) suws.org.uk, just Phil.
• 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