Meeting:2015/05/07

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Meeting (to be) held from 18:00-20:00 on 2015/05/07 in Zepler CLS Lecture Room

 

Amateur Radio

Licence Exams

• Upcoming exams, 1st May
  • Room booking
  • Outstanding practical work

SUSU Antenna Array

• OVERVIEW - general state, updates, etc.
  • Have explained

• Equipment orders

• SUWS repaying members for items they have bought for the array
  • Any outstanding items still needing to be claimed?

• Assembly plan
  • Lightning protector?
  • Plan of equipment needed in the shack
    • Rack diagram exists, apparently.
    • We've contacted SUSU re the final cabinet size

• Working with E&F / SUSU facilities
  • Cherry picker hire

• Working with other societies and SUSU
  • SURGE's antenna status
    • Seems OK, I seem to recall?
  • Organise meeting with other societies and SUSU

Publicity

• SUWS now has a WordPress site
  • Accessible from http://www.suws.org.uk/
  • Wiki moved to http://www.suws.org.uk/wiki/ all existing wiki pages should redirect to their new URLs.
  • We need everyone to help add content to this new site:
    • Convert current G3KMI history wiki page into a WordPress page.
    • Add page describing Amateur Radio activities
    • Add page describing SOWN activities
    • Write the occasional post on something interesting SUWS has been doing.
  • Currently iSolutions usernames of the FORMER committee with random passwords that they were emailed.

QSL Cards

• QSL card design submissions
  • On hold due to the mast
• Received QSL cards
  • Murray has volunteered to scan these in but needs to get the cards off Tyler - any progress?
  • Also buy and put in a physical album - any progress?

WebSDR

• Any significant updates

How to unbreak the members page

• daveruss is still loking into this

Outings

• Any plan for outings
  • Maybe something post-exams before people disappear for the Summer.
  • Chilbolton Atmospheric Radio Observatory

Joint Agenda

Stuff we can buy with education monies

• All spent?

Outstanding membership fees (Darren)

• £10 for students
• £15 for staff/society alumni

Mailing List and Wiki

• Mailing list additions (Dave N)
• New wiki accounts (Dave N)

Polo shirt and fleeces

• Have arrived. Collect from Dave N and pay outstanding balance (£6 polo shirts, £10 fleeces)

Cupboard

• Any new information?

AGM

• 23rd April
• Nominations, you must be nominated by a full (student) member of the club
  • Exams secretary
    • Henry
  • Social secretary
    • Daveruss
    • Malton
  • Node Deployment Officer
    • Daveruss
  • President
    • Tyler
  • Webmaster
    • Colin
  • Treasurer
    • Darren
  • Secretary
    • Murray
  • Licensing Officer
    • Henry

Joint Agenda

• AOB

SOWN

See SOWN Agenda