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Meeting (to be) held from 18:00-20:00 on 2016/03/03 in Zepler CLS Lecture Room

Amateur Radio

Licence exams

Number of entrants --- 1
Scheduling for practical work --- N/A
Next exams: Fri 6th May, deadline: 22nd April.
- Applicants: Arihant for Advanced, David Young for Intermediate, Freddie for Advanced, Mohit for Foundation

SUSU funding round 3?

Antenna bags
- HF beam
- HF vertical
- 2M yagi
Padlock for cage 9
Portable mast.
Any other sugestions

SUSU funding round 2

Licensing book orders
- Those have arrived.

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)

Mast

Workshop progress
Update from SUSU / Estates and Facilities

Deferred due to lack of time

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.

QSL Card Order

Confirm layout for back of card and dimensions
Darren will the place order with VistaPrint

Callsign list update

Anyone not added new callsign after December exams?

Outing report

Batteries were depleted. Oops.
It was cold. Good.
Biscuits and digestive biscuit sandwiches are delicious.
Only made a couple of contacts. We should have entered the contest...
Tried to use Morse's table, but they couldn't figure out how to assemble it.
Used the end-fed Zepp. Tried to use Henry's Pro whip, it didn't work. Would work quite well to set up a wire HF dipole between two trees. That would be cool.
Didn't have enough chairs, but had a bench.
We could do with a weight for throwing things into trees, or a drone ;)
NEED MALLET!!!!!!!!

Amateur Radio AOB

Anything?

Joint Agenda

This month's events

Two weeks' time is the AGM
Then it's easter, so people still here can just meet and not do much
Software hacking session.

Storage shenanigans

54 Cupboard
32 Cupboard
Cage 9
- Arihant went down and the cage was a tip, moreso than usual. He posted it to group.
- LiveSoc blamed unauthorised users using their kit
- Tyler has changed code and told Cage 9 Facebook group
- We want to change back to a padlock + key, as if LiveSoc's accusations are accurate, the code system simply isn't working.

Anyone need to be added to the mailing list?

AGM reminder

17th March 2016 at 18:45
PLEASE consider being a committee member, because we will be losing a few next year.

AOB (Joint)

Science and engineering family day! 12th March
PiSSTV, HF station with end-fed Zepp or Vertical if we're feeling good and good weather
Lots of static displays
- SOWN nodes
- Dish
- Books
- Signs/banners
- Cool antennas
VHF radios (one on KMINet, one on PiSSTV)
WebSDR laptop

SOWN

See SOWN Agenda

@@ Line 9: / Line 9: @@
 === Licence exams ===
-* Number of entrants
+* Number of entrants --- 1
-* Scheduling for practical work
+* Scheduling for practical work --- N/A
+* Next exams: Fri 6th May, deadline: 22nd April.
+** Applicants: Arihant for Advanced, David Young for Intermediate, Freddie for Advanced, Mohit for Foundation
 === SUSU funding round 3? ===
@@ Line 23: / Line 25: @@
 === SUSU funding round 2 ===
 * Licensing book orders
+** Those have arrived.
 === Stock of people who need to pay for club kit used ===
@@ Line 39: / Line 41: @@
 * Update from SUSU / Estates and Facilities
+* Deferred due to lack of time
 === SUWS WordPress site ===
-* Add events widget to homepage
-** [[User:David Newman|David Newman]] has done this
 * Can people upload any club photos taken within the past two years to the [http://www.suws.org.uk/wp/ WordPress site]
 ** Ask [[User:DavidNewman|David Newman]] if you need an account.
 === QSL Card Order ===
@@ Line 55: / Line 55: @@
 * Anyone not added new [[Callsigns|callsign]] after December exams?
+=== Outing report ===
+* Batteries were depleted. Oops.
+* It was cold. Good.
+* Biscuits and digestive biscuit sandwiches are delicious.
+* Only made a couple of contacts. We should have entered the contest...
+* Tried to use Morse's table, but they couldn't figure out how to assemble it.
+* Used the end-fed Zepp. Tried to use Henry's Pro whip, it didn't work. Would work quite well to set up a wire HF dipole between two trees. That would be cool.
+* Didn't have enough chairs, but had a bench.
+* We could do with a weight for throwing things into trees, or a drone ;)
+* NEED MALLET!!!!!!!!
 === Amateur Radio AOB ===
 * Anything?
 == Joint Agenda ==
 === This month's events ===
+* Two weeks' time is the AGM
+* Then it's easter, so people still here can just meet and not do much
+* Software hacking session.
 === Storage shenanigans ===
 * 54 Cupboard
-** There is now a sign up with Henry and Arihant's names with SUWS on it.
 * 32 Cupboard
 * Cage 9
+** Arihant went down and the cage was a tip, moreso than usual. He posted it to group.
+** LiveSoc blamed unauthorised users using their kit
+** Tyler has changed code and told Cage 9 Facebook group
+** We want to change back to a padlock + key, as if LiveSoc's accusations are accurate, the code system simply isn't working.
 === Anyone need to be added to the mailing list? ===
@@ Line 77: / Line 92: @@
 === AOB (Joint) ===
+* Science and engineering family day! 12th March
+* PiSSTV, HF station with end-fed Zepp or Vertical if we're feeling good and good weather
+* Lots of static displays
+** SOWN nodes
+** Dish
+** Books
+** Signs/banners
+** Cool antennas
+* VHF radios (one on KMINet, one on PiSSTV)
+* WebSDR laptop
 == SOWN ==
 See [[sown:Meeting:2016/03/03|SOWN Agenda]]
-== Talk ==
-* Phil Crump on ARISS (Amateur Radio to the International Space Station)