opened

20:00

closed

20:25

Check-ins (18)

• Matthew Barry (KG5LYE)
• Don Ling (WB5CKO)
• Sly Kapchinski (N5GQB)
• John Walpole (K5ZY)
• Mark Hnatiuk (KG5EYV)
• Brad Snyder (KG5SDE)
• Richard Epting (KG5WIV)
• Dick Zimmer (W5DZ)
• Bob Henglein (W5GC)
• Mike Wisby (KA5HIA)
• Ralph Cobb (W5RYC)
• Tom Small (N1TOV)
• Harold Turbyfill (KG5SDG)
• Joe Napoli (KG5SDF)
• Jim Laird (KF5YY)
• Doug Cummings (KG5UDT)
• Phil Gates (N5ZKF)
• Avery McIntosh (N7ALM)

Happy New Year! (first net of the year)

Officer Reports

President KF5WGJ

• (did not check in)

Vice-President KG5EYV

• Schertz Hamfest (San Antonio Radio Fiesta) 2018-01-13
• Next meeting 2018-01-20 11:00
  • C&J Barbeque in Bryan
  • New officer installation

Secretary KG5LYE

• Nothing to report

Treasurer N5GQB

• Membership Renewals
  • Those turned in at December meeting have not yet been processed
  • 2018 forms have not yet been uploaded
  • Substitute 2017 for 2018 on the existing form
  • renewals also accepted at next meeting

Announcements / Comments

W5DZ

• ARES Net 20:30 (or following this net, whichever is later) on 443.425 MHz repeater

N5ZKF

• Happy New Year!
• DMR hangout on local talk group after net
• Another update for Ty Weaver’s (KG5RKI) Tytera MD380 firmware: audio volume leveling
• info from Rod (K5BGB): CW Academy

KG5EYV

• Visited ARRL

  • ARRL grants available for Ham Radio Clubs that support a school club

• Stumbled into Vintage Radio Communications Museum

  • Hands-on telegraph keys
  • 115 Pierson Ln, Windsor, CT

• Would like to see if we could set up a 6m net sometime