2017-06-13 Net Minutes

Check-ins (27)

Last field day prep meeting this saturday at C&J Barbecue
- 2017-06-17 11:00
- Little room
Field Day
- 2017-06-24 9:00 to 2017-06-25 13:00
- Swap tables and silent auction: call for items
- Raffle and Meal Tickets for sale at meeting

Field Day
- Will be a great time
- lots of effort put in already, still work to do
Presentation
- KG5EYV tower guidelines and construction
- hand calculations (wind loads, supports)

Couple checks written for field day prizes
- Bank statement to be presented at next meeting

Brian Bachmann Park in College Station
if you want to help and/or participate, please come to next meeting
- 2017-06-17 11:00
- C&J Barbecue in Bryan, small room
- duties and positions assigned
Day-of set-up 2017-06-24 08:00
- start keying mic at 13:00
6m has been open, hopefully HF will be
Raffle and Meal Tickets ($10)
- available for purchase at next meeting
- also available day-of
- Prizes on display
VE Test session at 2017-06-24 15:30
- Sly has study materials for sale
Door Prizes (must be present to win, drawn between test session and dinner)
Dinner around 18:00
Grand Prizes (drawn after dinner)
- $50 Texas Road House
- $50 Academy (new store opening on 2017-06-23)
- TYT MD-380 UHF FM/DMR Handy-Talkie
- TYT TH-8600 Compact 25W VHF/UHF mobile transceiver (waterproof!)
- SDR Play v2 receiver 1kHz to 2 GHz
- Rig Experts AA30 HF antenna analyzer
- Escape Room BCS up to 8 people donated by KG5IAD
- Yaesu FT-891 mobile HF transceiver
Full details at http://www.bryanarc.org or officers@bryanarc.org
massive email invitation for field day about to go out

Field Day
- won’t be at meeting
- Continued outreach: notices to press and elected officials
- Reaching out to W5AC

sent email announcement to W5AC members
- 8 responses, not sure if will do W5AC field day or join W5BCS
Will be at meeting on Saturday

Governor Abbott declared next week as Amateur Radio Week!
- Not sure if once or recurring event

Kenwood TS-590S HF radio ($900)
- about 6 years old, but clean and well maintained
- built-in tuner
- box, manual, original accessories
- contact N5GQB if interested
Picked up brochures and catalogs at HamCom
- Cool new toys coming out