Meeting:2014/08/14

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Meeting (to be) held from 18:00-20:00 on 2014/08/14 in Zepler CLS Lecture Room

 

Amateur Radio

New UHF/VHF transceiver

• Testing new UHF/VHF transceiver
  • It works
• Dave Newman needs to get the money back for it

Licence Exams

• List of full exam dates here
• Kirk Martinez passed foundation exam on 23rd July.
• Morse invigilating an exam Tuesday 19th (or maybe Wednesday 20th) August. Can someone let him in?

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 still don't know how well we did yet.
• 6m station was not logging in UTC. Fix this for next time.
• 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?

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
    • Please design/submit designs now.
    • Closing date TBD.
• 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)

Antennas

• 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
• Ask SUSU TV if they're interested (short-range camera links)
• SOWN WiFi by coordinates
• Space Flight Society ARE interested in helping us.

• 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

• Darren recommends finding a more suitable zone, eg Creative Industries (since that's where everyone else is).
• We probably shouldn't change zone until Dave has his money.
• Maybe go to SUSU and encourage them so that it will be voted on by the council as a joint thing.

• We should start talking to other societies, to see if they are interested.
• We should tell someone in SUSU that we're doing this.
• Tyler and Murray will start talking soon.

Joint Agenda

SUSU

• General discussion about matters SUSU
• Funding round 1 has started. Deadline: 23:59 31st August
  • See Funding Application 1 2014-2015

Other

• Plans for Freshers / new members
  • Deferred
• AOB
  • Daveruss to investigate booking of SR1 over the summer and beyond.

SOWN

See SOWN Agenda