Meeting:2015/02/05

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Meeting (to be) held from 18:00-20:00 on 2015/02/05 in Zepler CLS Lecture Room

Amateur Radio

Upcoming exams
- David Henley will let Henry know shortly wrt candidates for an exam in May from IVARC.
- Two people wanting to do an exam. May as well run them at the same time as IVARC's (so in May).

Transport
- Probably Members' cars and possibly also ferries if not enough spaces.
- If kit is a problem - cars carrying kit, people by ferry, a car-based shuttle from the nearest station.

Harwell in Didcot this Sunday. Who wants to come?
- Murray, Phil, Chris O, Tyler, Tom, Raphael (maybe).
- Two cars' worth (Phil and Murray).

14th March
We've been invited
Who can go?
- Chris O, Tyler (in some form), Henry (probably), Arthur (maybe), probably not Chris M but maybe, Phil if need be, Russell probably.
Respond on the mailing list if you are also interested.

Things to do
- Usual radio operations
- PiFM/SSTV DEMO IN A DALEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Graeme inquiring about IVARC mast.
- Getting people to send greeting messages (to other society members)

Progress
SUWS repaying members for items they have bought for the array
- Invoices received from members (Henry, Tyler, Graeme?)
- Invoices paid: Tyler
What do we still need?
- Antennas
- Masts?
We need to start planning the construction
Contact with E&F
- Tyler, Daveruss and Murray have met with E&F
- They would need to put up scaffolding around the building
- POSSIBLY cherry picker, based on weights of antennas AND H&S rules that they couldn't recall offhand
- As long as they provided the safe working platform and they supervised or performed safety critical work (eg mounting of the actual mast), they would be happy for us to perform the work.
- SUSU H&S should be kept in the loop
SUSU facilities
- SUSU Facilities email gone out (to facilities@susu.org )
- No reply yet
Speaking/meeting with other societies/SUSU
- No development yet
Potential Shack in SUSU may cease to be bookable again and become an office.
- Any further update beyond this is not happening yet and the fact we may be able to use it out of office hours anyway.
Things to do:
- Email E&F with regards to the weights of the parts, organise follow-up meeting wrt cost
- Email SUSU H&S guy (Murray has address)
- Add facebook group message about E&F meeting; general progress update
- General meeting with societies who are interested

Wiki page | Google Doc
A few tweaks/finalisations required
- Add VHF NFD, make it and end of 2014 newsletter.
- Collate VHF NFD pictures.
We need a list of people to whom to send it.
- Phil has sent to committee the list he had.

QSL card design competition
- Is this every going to close?
- Have we applied for any funding for this?
Received QSL cards
- Scan so can be uploaded to the website
- Also put in a physical album

Mentioned by Quentin - could probably get a free visit/tour as a uni club.
- Ping them an email to determine their attitude

Getting direct port 80 at last :) (java support, global list entry, Pieter stops hating Phil, etc)
Find out if repurposing have newer PCs available, USB bus is struggling on the current one.
Current PC: Dell Optiplex, Core 2 Duo E8500 3.2GHz

Funding round 3
- When is the deadline for this so we can make sure we are ready

See Callsigns/Alumni page
- We have quite a few people now mostly from the '90s
- Dave has subtly hinted to Nigel that we would like the G8KMI callsign back despite not having a shack

Henry now has additional key?
- Yes
Do we now have a signout book for books/kit (Henry)
- No
- But we do have a piece of paper, temporarily
Additional books order (Henry/Darren)
- Darren has approved of the concept, but expects an email with a list of books to be bought
Do we now have stickers for the books? (Darren)
- No

For SUSU to change the 25 members limit would be easier as it's a bylaw compared to if it were a rule
But they don't apparently destroy societies when they drop below 25, otherwise most socs would be gone, so we're totally fine.