Meeting:2015/10/22

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Meeting (to be) held from 18:00-20:00 on 2015/10/22 in Zepler CLS Lecture Room

 

Changes to licence conditions

A talk on the changes to the amateur radio license.

Amateur Radio Agenda

Licence examinations (nsefan)

• Next date: Mon 7th Dec 19:00; deadlines 16th Nov respectively.
• Practical Training Sessions.
  • 2015/10/29
  • 2015/11/12

Mast

• Have messaged VPDCI for an update (last update was 2 months ago)
  • VP DCI says meeting has either just happened or is about to happen; she is chasing up results.

EMF 2016

• 5th-7th August 2016
  • SUWS attendance?
• Guildford!

Kit at M0NSA_QTH

• pole and other bits should be catalogued and relocated
• Diplexer, many missing bits to HF beam, 40m Softrock SDR, SOWN node
• A load more poles at Dave's house.
• They forgot the HF power amp, I suspect that will come back later

AOB (radio)

• FCC are being literally Satan. They're potentially going to prevent people from using custom firmware on WiFi chipsets.
  • Moaning time over!

• 146-147 Mhz NoV renewal
  • http://rsgb.org/main/operating/licensing-novs-visitors/online-nov-application/146mhz-147mhz-nov/
  • Club would like to apply.
  • If you have a full licence, please apply as it should be interesting to experiment with.

• QSL card competition
  • Should be officially started after freshers arrive
  • Winner gets 25 QSL cards of own design (club gets 75 of winning design)
  • Only paid members can {be eligible for prize,vote} (delete as appropriate)
  • Rear design in competition as well.

Joint Agenda

• Communications
  • Facebook group
    • [1]
  • IRC
    • irc.ecs.soton.ac.uk or irc.zepler.net
      • #G3KMI
      • #SOWN
  • Mailing list
    • You can sign up to the SUWS mailing list by sending an email to suws-members-join@ecs.soton.ac.uk. Although it should not be necessary, please add the word subscribe to both the subject and message body to lessen the chances of email being treated as spam by our mail servers.

• Storadge update
  • Zepler cupbaord
  • Cage 9
    • Meeting Monday 6pm
• SUSU Funding issues
  • we have the funding round 1 monies
  • only paid £50 for the two opendays
  • Schmendrick went to investigate, and this is his carefully worded statement of events:

Originally, each society should have been paid £50 per weekend. 
This is the amount the University has paid SUSU.

We considered the original email to be ambiguous and asked for 
clarification as to whether the £50 was per weekend or per day.

On the 1st April a member of SUSU staff emailed back and said 
very clearly and unambiguously that it was £50 per day.

We only did one weekend (2 days), and SUSU consequently paid 
us only £50, as per the original plan. We, naturally, were 
expecting £100, having done two days.

SUSU is investigating. The member of staff I spoke to was unsure 
as to what could be done, but will email me when they know more.

My recommendation is to be patient and wait until we hear back. 
If we don't like the response, then it would be appropriate for 
us to approach either the Student Groups Officer, or a 
Sabbatical Officer. It would be inappropriate for a student to
get into an argument directly with SUSU staff, as per the SUSU
Staff-Student Partnership Agreement.

SOWN

• Agenda on SOWN wiki