Meeting:2014/09/04

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Meeting (to be) held from 18:00-20:00 on 2014/09/04 in Zepler CLS Lecture Room

Amateur Radio

The Amateur Radio exam that never was on the 20th August
- Should we have a general rule not do exams in August as invigilator / room availability is always a bit patchy.
- Next exam dates: List of full exam dates here

Mentioned by Quintin - could probably get a free visit/tour as a uni club.
- Maybe a good activity for 2014-15 newbies?

VHF Field day (05/07/2014 -> 06/07/2014) - results?
- Yes results! We came 6th out of 10th in Mix and Match, 13th out of 21st in 50MHz, 9th out of 17th in 144MHz, 5th out of 6th in 432MHz.
- Possible for next year sites - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combe_Gibbet ? (field nearby belongs to the hang-gliding club)
- Can we collate the good photos on the photos page?

Newsletter
- [1] [2]
- A few tweaks/finalisations required
  - Add VHF NFD, make it and end of academic year newsletter.
- We need a list of people to whom to send it.

QSL card design competition
- Photos taken at VHF NFD
- Please design/submit designs ASAP.
- Closing date TBD (but probably once we have funding for them)
- Funding - see joint agenda

Received QSL cards
- Tyler has them
- We need to figure out what to do with them - scan them? Put them in an album?

Our old shack (office) is being turned into a meeting room, maybe
Plan to try to get a corner in it for use as a shack when there's no meeting (or remote control when there is a meeting)

Would require us spending time/money putting our antennas back on our mast - funding application next year
Ideas (sensible):
- 23cm at bottom
- SURGE FM broadcast above 23cm antenna (we'd help them get back on the air)
- HF antenna of some sort
- 70cm+2cm with dual-band rotator
- triband 2m/70cm/other vertical antenna on top of dual-band rotator
Ideas (silly):
- Large SUWS flag on top concealing a loop antenna
- Ask SUSU TV if they're interested (short-range camera links)
- SOWN WiFi by coordinates
Current status
- We have: Rotator, triband vertical, poles
- To build: 2m Yagi, 70cm Yagi, remote control computer
- To fix: HF antenna
- We might not have enough: coax
Space Flight Society ARE interested in helping us.
We should start talking to other societies, to see if they are interested.
We should tell someone in SUSU that we're doing this.

General discussion about matters SUSU
Finding a more suitable zone, e.g. Creative Industries
Funding round 1 has started. Deadline: 23:59 31st August
- See Funding Application 1 2014-2015#

There is general support for merging the two mailing lists. Someone should talk to Jules.

Plans for Freshers / new members
Room booking
- Dave Newman has received an email confirming we have Thursday 18:00-20:00 booking from week before Freshers' week until the end of June 2015 for Zepler CLS room 59/1257. This has been forwarded to committee.
- We should see if there is some way of checking this on-line or waiting until the first booked week and check the timetable outside the room, if they are still putting those up.
Updating committee list.
- Is all the committee currently on the list at sown:Developers:MailingLists/Committee
- At very least Murray needs to be added.
- Maybe Phil can setup a committee [at] suws.org.uk, then we have control over it rather than having to ask ECS postmaster.
  - However, it would be worth maintaining both, in case people accidentally continue to use the @sown.org.uk one.
AOB

No SOWN agenda this week.