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Meeting (to be) held from 18:00-20:00 on 2014/07/17 in Zepler CLS Lecture Room

Amateur Radio

Licence Exams

List of full exam dates here
Kirk Martinez doing foundation exam on 23rd July. Henry can't be there.

Chilbolton Atmospheric Radio Observatory

Mentioned by Quintin - could probably get a free visit/tour as a uni club.
- Maybe a good activity for 2014-15 newbies?

Outings/Events

VHF Field day 05/07/2014 -> 06/07/2014 - it happened. It went well. We don't know how well we did yet.
We need a new site for next year - what do we need to tell land owners?
- We have third-party liability insurance, it's regulated by the RSGB
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combe_Gibbet ? (field nearby belongs to the hang-gliding club)
Can we collate the good photos on the photos page?

Kit Discussion

What radio should we buy and discussion on SUSU funding.
- Second-hand IC7000 from LAMCO (Disable cookies)
- + Power Supply?
- SUSU has been asked to release the funding.
Let's order some stuff (or at least plan it)
- Can't do any yet because of bank things, Darren needs to get access to online banking

Spring End of academic year 2014 Newsletter Finalisation

Newsletter
- [1] [2]
  - A few tweaks/finalisations required
    - Add VHF NFD, make it and end of academic year newsletter.
      - Henry will write the VHF NFD section and finalise the newsletter as a whole.
  - We need a list of people to whom to send it.

QSL Cards

Design required
- Existing Design by Graeme
  - Front
  - Back
- QSL card design competition - deadline when we get the funding
  - Take photos at VHF NFD
Funding - see joint agenda
Received ones
- Tyler has them
- We need to figure out what to do with them - scan them? Put them in an album?

Shack in SUSU

Our old shack (office) is being turned into a meeting room, maybe
Plan to try to get a corner in it for use as a shack when there's no meeting (or remote control when there is a meeting)
Would require us spending time/money putting our antennas back on our mast - funding application next year
Ideas: 23cm at bottom, SURGE FM broadcast above that (we'd help them get back on the air), HF antenna of some sort, 70cm+2cm with dual-band rotator, triband 2m/70cm/other vertical antenna on top of that.
Silly idea: large SUWS flag on top concealing a loop antenna

We have: Rotator, triband vertical, poles To build: 2m Yagi, 70cm Yagi, remote control computer To fix: HF antenna We might not have enough: coax

Joint Agenda

AOB

SOWN

See SOWN Agenda

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 * List of full exam dates [http://rsgb.org/main/clubs-training/advanced-examination-dates/ here]
+* Kirk Martinez doing foundation exam on 23rd July. Henry can't be there.
 === [http://www.stfc.ac.uk/chilbolton/default.aspx Chilbolton Atmospheric Radio Observatory] ===
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 === Outings/Events ===
-* VHF Field day 05/07/2014 -> 06/07/2014 - retrospective.
+* VHF Field day 05/07/2014 -> 06/07/2014 - it happened. It went well. We don't know how well we did yet.
 * We need a new site for next year - what do we need to tell land owners?
+** We have third-party liability insurance, it's regulated by the RSGB
+** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combe_Gibbet ? (field nearby belongs to the hang-gliding club)
+* Can we collate the good photos on the photos page?
 === Kit Discussion ===
 * What radio should we buy and discussion on SUSU funding.
-** Probably the newer radio (IC-7100)
+** Second-hand IC7000 from [http://www.lamcommunications.net/product_info.php?products_id=2786 LAMCO] (Disable cookies)
-** Probably try the thing with the finance committee
+** + Power Supply?
+** SUSU has been asked to release the funding.
 * Let's order some stuff (or at least plan it)
 ** Can't do any yet because of bank things, Darren needs to get access to online banking
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 * Newsletter
-** [http://www.suws.org.uk/Newsletter/2014-02]
+** [http://www.suws.org.uk/Newsletter/2014-02] [https://docs.google.com/a/scorpia.co.uk/document/d/1mOOoQCueribZdbM_m7FVsjZFx7bzTlCGlqK7Twtnq24/edit?pli=1#]
 *** A few tweaks/finalisations required
 **** Add VHF NFD, make it and end of academic year newsletter.
+***** Henry will write the VHF NFD section and finalise the newsletter as a whole.
+*** We need a list of people to whom to send it.
 === QSL Cards ===
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 ** Tyler has them
 ** We need to figure out what to do with them - scan them? Put them in an album?
+=== Shack in SUSU ===
+* Our old shack (office) is being turned into a meeting room, maybe
+* Plan to try to get a corner in it for use as a shack when there's no meeting (or remote control when there is a meeting)
+* Would require us spending time/money putting our antennas back on our mast - funding application next year
+* Ideas: 23cm at bottom, SURGE FM broadcast above that (we'd help them get back on the air), HF antenna of some sort, 70cm+2cm with dual-band rotator, triband 2m/70cm/other vertical antenna on top of that.
+* Silly idea: large SUWS flag on top concealing a loop antenna
+We have: Rotator, triband vertical, poles
+To build: 2m Yagi, 70cm Yagi, remote control computer
+To fix: HF antenna
+We might not have enough: coax
 == Joint Agenda ==