Meeting:2019/05/23

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Meeting (to be) held from 18:00-20:00 on 2019/05/23 in Zepler CLS Lecture Room

 

Joint Agenda

• Discussion on how to improve engagement next year
  • Amateur Radio
    • More outings
  • SOWN
    • Easy to get involved
    • Less of a learning curve before you can contribute
    • Make material, (documentation, source code, etc.) and hardware (servers, nodes, etc.) for SOWN more accessible both literally and from an understanding point of view.

Problems Identified

• Lack of structured meetings
• Lack of people
• Lack of engagement by people
• Lack of things wherewith to engage
• Cage/Storage
• No people for talks
• SOWN is ultra monolithic

Planned Actions

• Buy TCP trolley to transport Battery, thereby facilitating minimal outings
  • need a volunteer to buy ASDA folding trolley
  • Tyler/Freddie
• Arrange D-Day event (Thursday the 6th of June)
  • use it also to train newer persons in radio operation
  • need access to kit (Freddie can provide)
  • coordinate with some other people
• New books for the new syllabus
• Get out all the mini-batteries in the cage, and test/dispose them
• Plan entire first semester of 19/20 before the end of 18/19
• Train newer members in radio operation (so they can run outings)
• Identify things that may clash with our events, and avoid them as appropriate
  • Future worlds

Meetings in the coming weeks

• Plan D-Day outing on 2019-05-30
  • D-Day outing is on 2019-06-06
• ARDF Meeting on 2019-06-06 (after D-Day)
  • Discuss how to build and finance kit, so that we can have a Fox Hunt at the start of the year and throughout the year

Possible activities for the new year

• Introductory meetings
  • practical stuff?
• Outings
  • pick dates, can cancel if the weather is bad... but we have a Gazebo now...
• Antenna building
  • slim-jims
• Talk about exams
  • strongly encourage new members to take exams
  • arrange a date for exams early

Other Disorderly Minutes of Ideas Discussed

Good Ideas

• Minimal outing template:
  • at least one competent person
    • if 2 people can spontaneously/not-spontaneously go out to the common and talk to people, then the cost of outings will be much lower
  • No car
  • (People)
  • Radio
    • IC7000
  • Battery
    • LIPOs?
  • Power distribution
  • String
  • Antenna
  • Coax
• Battery transport device thing ideally on wheels and with a pulling device or something maybe
  • £7.50 ASDA trolley???
• More easy-to-join-and-start (small) projects
  • Software stuff should be easy
    • RTTY/Morse encoders/decoders (just for fun)
    • IP over radio?
  • Not all with a dependence on Tyler
• Get out ALL mini-batteries for testing and disposal (as appropriate)
• Repeater?!?!? Why did you die??
• Have many things going on at the start of the year to kick-start it

Kit Ideas

• A more compact HF radio?
• 6m antenna
• Compact non-portable Shack

Other Ideas

• Birdwatching/radio combined outings
• Change meeting day
• SOWN GDPs and TYPs?
  • high time requirement by someone?

Lunchtime Ideas

• Change meeting structure:
  • start at 18:30
  • talk at 19:00 if available
  • have definitive objectives during Workshops