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20:00

closed

20:23

Check-ins (20)

• Matthew Barry (KG5LYE)
• Wyatt Stevens (KG5OOE)
• Jeff French (KM5TW)
• Mark Hnatiuk (KG5EYV)
• Sly Kapchinski (N5GQB)
• Scott Rodkey (N5WKY)
• Don Ling (WB5CKO)
• John Walpole (K5ZY)
• Mike Wisby (KA5HIA)
• Avery McIntosh (N7ALM)
• Bob Henglein (W5GC)
• Ralph Cobb (W5RYC)
• Jim Snell (W0PMO)
• Robert Carter (NC5R)
• Brad Snyder (KG5SDE)
• Paul Bilke (KF5WGJ)
• Joe Cucuzza (KA8WEP)
• Brent Anderson (WW5OBA)
• Dick Zimmer (W5DZ)
• Joshua Shaffer (AG5JH)

Officer Reports

President KF5WGJ

• ARES net 443.450 20:30
• ARES meeting 2017-05-08 18:30 red cross
• Club meeting 2017-05-20
  • field day prep

Vice-President KG5EYV

• Next meeting 2017-05-20
  • W5XTT is presenting follow-up antenna talk

Secretary KG5LYE

• Sorry couldn’t make it last week
  • Thanks KG5EYV and K5ZY for covering
  • Flew to David Wayne Hooks Memorial Airport (KDWH) in Spring, TX
  • Read back takeoff clearance for runway 37 (not a valid number)
  • “Only Chuck Norris can take off on that runway”

Treasurer N5GQB

• busy time of year
• PO box empty
• email from IRS
  • Need to get with KG5EYV
• April meeting (2017-04-08)
  • Came out ahead in donut/kolache fund!
  • for first time ever

Announcements / Comments

K5ZY

• this morning replaced antenna on 147.160 repeater
  • back on the air

KG5EYV

• also got email from IRS
  • old tax id; will look into it

N5GQB

• Skyline communications tower (KD5DLW) is being replaced
  • Hosts this repeater 146.480 and 445.450
  • unanimously approved despite moratorium on tower building

Information Exchange

KG5EYV

• ARRL has new book with 35 projects for Arduino ($35)
  • any idea with what might be in it?
  • W5DZ
    • arduino ($35) and pickaxe ($3) programmable controllers
    • some projects:
      • APRS data logger
      • Transmitter board
      • receive-only APRS gateway
      • Solar tracker
  • KF5WGJ
    • Get 10 of them