Mar 2021 Club Meeting Minutes

Officers

We’ve had a couple of different noise problems
Most recent and persistent seems to be coming from lights
Input from:
- W5DZ, been maintaining since 1985
- KD5DLW, hosting on tower for no cost
- AD5RN, one of KG5LYE’s friends
Not solved yet, but ruled some things out

N5GQB:
- Let’s do it!
- Tanglewood Park
- Saturday mid-morning; operate until mid-afternoon
- Plan around the weather: choose main day and alternate
KI5FIZ:
- 2021-04-17 is club meeting; do combined meeting with Radio in the Park?
KI5DUJ:
- City of Bryan is not reserving pavilions, parks, or anything
KK5QO:
- Combining meeting with Radio in the Park sounds like a great idea
N5GQB:
- Sounds like a good, interesting idea since meetings have been in-person
- Usually lets out late, so having Radio in the Park is sometimes infeasible
- Get net control out there and set up a control station, take check-ins
- Anyone else who wants to come out can do so… at their own risk :-)
- Pavilion would be first-come, first-served
- If weather doesn’t cooperate, we can have just our meeting on the air as usual
KG5LYE:
- 2021-04-03 is Easter Weekend
- 2021-04-24 would be a good alternate weekend
KI5DUJ:
- No restroom facilities on-site
N5ZKF:
- We’ll continue discussion offline
- n5zkf@arrl.net
- officers@bryanarc.org

KI5CES mentioned the Museum of the American GI is having an event
- Perhaps W5BCS could set up a table?
- Unfortunately, probably won’t work out
150th Anniversary of City Chartering
- Bryan became a city on 1871-11-13
- City is looking for artifacts, history, photos, etc.
- We could set up a special event station
  - We did something similar with Camp Hearne a few years ago
- KI5FIZ:
  - Special event station sounds like an excellent idea
  - Could do it the whole event weekend (November 12th through 14th)
- W5RYC:
  - Certainly worth pursuing!
  - Could do something at a location like Field Day
  - Can also get people to operate from home station
- KI5GDX
  - Club has been around for a long time; perhaps almost as old as the city itself!
  - We found some historical club artifacts a while ago (original draft of by-laws)

Keep the date open: 2021-06-26 and 2021-06-27
Had a last-minute good idea for a presentation
- will push that back to the next meeting

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Lee Lance (KK5QO)

If anyone needs help with anything please reach out to the club. You can contact any of the officers at:
- officers@bryanarc.org
- Phil Gates directly: n5zkf@arrl.net

Since lifting the mask mandate, is there any idea of when we might be able to meet in person?
N5ZKF:
- don’t know when we’ll start up normal operations again
- Next meeting at the park
N5SBN:
- Red Cross still closed down
- When it opens back up, masks will still be required

Next Meeting: 2021-04-17 09:30 (in Tanglewood Park and on the air: 146.680 MHz FM repeater)