Apr 2022 Club Meeting Minutes

Officers

Quorum attained!

raffle tickets are available
- $10 ea.
  - buying $100-worth gives you next year’s membership
- Buy them for yourself and take some to sell to your friends and family
- Prizes
  - Stoeger M3000 12-gauge Shotgun
  - $500 VISA gift card
  - Yaesu FT-70D HT Radio
  - Nano VNA analyzer
  - Custom knife by Richard Epting (KG5WIV)
- Need not be present to win
  - Be sure you have a legible name and phone number!
Dinner
- Meat, beans, and potato salad will be provided
- bring your own sides
Especially need help for:
- Setup & Teardown
- Running radios through the night
- If interested, let me know; we’ll let you know where you can help out
W5AC should be there to help out

Stickers and window clings with club logo available for $2 ea.
If you have not renewed your membership or would like to become a member
- Can accept cash/check today; credit cards via PayPal

Minutes from March and January sent out
- I have made one amendment to add the February starting balance
- FCC fees… but those have apparently changed again
motion by N5KZF to approve January minutes as sent out
- seconded by Kevin Walton (N4RMF)
- passes unanimously
motion by Clark Pennington (KC5BHM) to approve March minutes as sent out
- seconded by David Bailey (K5DKB)
- passes unanimously

From last meeting (Paul Bilke (KF5WGJ)):
- Not an emergency, but keep it in mind
- Need a place to park the antenna trailer
  - hasn’t been covered, but would be better if it was
- Might need maintenance at some point in the near future
  - Anyone have a sandblaster? workshop? lifter (if we need to remove the antenna)?
Ralph Cobb (W5RYC) has offered to store the trailer on his property in East Brazos County

Parks on the Air
Host a Spring or Fall Swapfest w/ W5AC
- some interest from people in DFW, Austin, Houston area
- Houston Hamfest has been permanently moved to summer
Another bulid project
Fox hunt
- Build project could be a fox-hunt antenna
Car show?
Anything to get us in the public
- Farmer’s Market
- Participate in 4th of July event with Heritage Society at Heratige Park
- First Friday in Downtown Bryan
- Apply to talk to ISS (need equipment and local interest)
  - Camp Hearne Pump House?
  - Local schools
- South Pole
MARS / Armed Forces cross-band test
- Coming up 2022-05-14
Radio know-how
- How to solder coax terminators
- Working with tubes

Bill Preston (KZ3G)

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

motion by Clark Pennington (KC5BHM) to adjourn
- seconded by Jim Laird (KF5YY)
- passes unanimously

Next Meeting: 2022-05-14 09:30, American Legion Post 159