opened

20:00

closed

20:25

Check-ins (22)

• Matthew Barry (KG5LYE)
• Don Ling (WB5CKO)
• John Walpole (K5ZY)
• Jeff French (KM5TW)
• Mark Hnatiuk (KG5EYV)
• Jonathan Graham (KD5TEF)
• Dick Zimmer (W5DZ)
• Sly Kapchinski (N5GQB)
• Bob Henglein (W5GC)
• Brian Walpole (N5BLW)
• Jim Snell (W0PMO)
• Harold Turbyfill (KG5SDG)
• Tom Small (N1TOV)
• Vic Pears (KX8V)
• Phil Gates (N5ZKF)
• Richard Epting (KG5WIV)
• David Barry (KG5UZA)
• John Walker (W1JCW)
• Doug Cummings (KG5UDT)
• Anthony Alotto (KG5PDS)
• Ralph Cobb (W5RYC)
• Joe Napoli (KG5SDF)

Officer Reports

newly-elected officers for the 2018 year

President KG5EYV

• Next meeting 2018-02-17 09:30
  • USDA Building (2881 F&B Rd, College Station, TX)
  • VE Test session 08:00

Vice-President N5ZKF

• Giving Presentation after meeting
  • Demoing Mobile radio installation
• Bouvet Island Expo
  • Still have a ways to go
  • Location updates/progress at https://share.garmin.com/bouvet

Secretary KG5LYE

• (nothing to report)

Treasurer N5GQB

• Still looking for renewals
  • Forms available online at https://bryanarc.org/join-barc
  • Mail in with dues
  • Also available at the next meeting
• Current Membership: 42

Announcements / Comments

KX8V

• 10m net on 28.450 MHz

K5ZY

• Nice to meet everyone at the meeting at C&J
  • Looking forward to a great year

N5ZKF

• DMR get-together on local talk group

KG5EYV

• Question for N5ZKF: Bouvet Island expedition frequency?
  • Nothing posted currently, maybe something for future plans.
  • Updates available at http://www.bouvetdx.org

Info Exchange

KG5EYV

• 6m hexbeam is working!
  • Will bring it to next meeting for show-and-tell
  • not hard to tune: just change the space between the driver and reflector