Meeting:2015/03/19

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Meeting (to be) held from 18:00-20:00 on 2015/03/19 in Zepler CLS Lecture Room

Amateur Radio

Upcoming exams, 1st May
- 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 do foundation and intermediate. May as well run them at the same time as IVARC's (so in May).

14th March
We've been invited
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)

It went well
- We actually entered an HF contest at the same time
- The Pi wasn't in a Dalek...
- But it did work

Progress
- WE HAVE FUNDING
- £692.70 (Out of £693)
- This covers all external parts, including assembly. Our monies were deliberately put towards the internal stuff, because it can take longer.
  - There is a rounding error there...
SUWS repaying members for items they have bought for the array
- Invoices received from members (Graeme?)
- Invoices paid: Tyler, Henry
We need to order the parts, Darren needs to start approving things.
- We can do this next doing
We need to start planning the construction
- Detailed assembly plan.
- Do it in CAD?
Contact with E&F
- Tyler, Daveruss and Murray have met with E&F
- Cherry picker
- SUSU H&S should be kept in the loop
- SUSU H&S have been spoken to, he doesn't have any objections, though he would indeed like to be kept informed.
SUSU facilities
- We've spoken in person and he has no objections
SURGE's antenna, or cable, or both, appear to be damaged
- PA was reading high reflected power.
- We should investigate more, possibly replace it
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.
- This is not happening any more
Need to consider lightning
Things to do:
- Add facebook group message about E&F meeting; general progress update
- General meeting with societies who are interested

Newsletter indefinitely put on hold because nobody can be arsed to finish it
WE SHOULD START A BLOG!
- Daveruss looking at doing this on Marconi
Facebook (EUGH!!!!!!!)
- That is literally Daveruss's job
  - He says it's not
Would anyone cover an outing (Wessex Scene, etc.)?
- Probably not, but maybe as a whole for large events or the mast.

QSL card design submissions
- Close date when we get funding
- Apparently Graeme has a few stacks of 200, some of which contain typos, in location unknown.
- On hold due to the mast
Received QSL cards
- Scan so can be uploaded to the website
  - Murray has volunteered, needs to get the cards off Tyler
- Also put in a physical album
  - We can buy this in the doing next week?

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

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
Being upgraded to an ex-ECS PC courtesy of Henry
- That's happening this weekend
  - I don't think it happened

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

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

Murray has been. Now we know not to jump off a building onto some rocks next to the sea.

Cage 9 has been tidied.