Oct 2022 Club Meeting Minutes

Officers

Quorum not attained.

Radio in the Park at Tanglewood after this meeting
Visitor Intro: Tony Restivo
- former Air Force
- TAMU nuclear science
- interested in Ham Radio
“We need a sign or something…” for meetings
Make sure you’re ready to talk about your Ham Radio hobby
- People ask, “what’s that walkie-talkie for?” “What are those antennas on your car?”
- Have an “elevator speech” ready
- Carry ham radio “business cards” ready to hand out
- Rich Rychetsky (KI5QNR): having someone to walk with you through the process is very helpful

Wife has been in hospital for 2 weeks
- with MRSA infection in blood
Any ideas for after-meeting presentations, let me know…
- DMR has been getting busier lately
- Might work with Andrew Byorth (KG5JDJ) to get a presentation
- Antenna-building presentation
- Have an “umbrella” antenna club build event

Please set the Bryan Amateur Radio Club as your charity of choice on Amazon Smile
- We usually get around $20 per quarter
Stickers, clings, and patches for sale
- Patches are $5

starting: $8,539.99
income: $29.67, including:
- Amazon Smile: $20.66
- stickers: $8
- donation: $1.01
available: $8,569.66
disbursements: $339.73
- new Alpha-Delta antenna from GigaParts: $139.73
- gift to American Legion Post: $200
ending: $8,229.93

Lorna Flansburg (KI5FIZ)

2023-01-28/29
Lost a club and committee member in Ernie Laney (K5ENL) /SK
- If anyone would like to help on the committee, please let me know
We’ll be here at the American Legion
- Unless something else comes up, we will have the whole facility to ourselves
Presentations/Workshops throughout the day
- Ron Hambric (N5SBN)
- Dick Zimmer (W5DZ) - soldering coax connectors
- Matthew Barry (KG5LYE) - Antenna theory
- Kevin Walton (K5BTX) & Lorna Flansburg (KI5FIZ) - Facebook Group and Ham Club Online
Chili contest dinner
It’ll be nice to operate inside
- might look into having an indoor ARRL Field Day here
Need someone to be well-versed in rules and take care of logs and points

Ron Hambric (N5SBN)

Any news from Ernie’s (K5ENL) family?
- maybe we could assist with inventorying radio equipment
- friend Ernie Pyle (KI5WG)
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

Next Meeting: 2022-11-19 09:30, American Legion Post 159