opened

20:00

closed

20:30

Check-ins (22)

• Matthew Barry (KG5LYE)
• Mark Hnatiuk (KG5EYV)
• Don Ling (WB5CKO)
• James Cravey (KG5ZTZ)
• Avery McIntosh (N7ALM)
• Brad Snyder (KG5SDE)
• Joe Napoli (KG5SDF)
• Ralph Cobb (W5RYC)
• Dick Zimmer (W5DZ)
• Michael Narcowich (KI5BPO)
• Bob Henglein (W5GC)
• Sly Kapchinski (N5GQB)
• Jared Hazlett (KI5AUV)
• Connor Farrell (WG1GEM)
• Harold Turbyfill (KG5SDG)
• Mike Mertes (KZ5M)
• John Walpole (K5ZY)
• Richard Epting (KG5WIV)
• Phil Gates (N5ZKF)
• Pierre Catala (WA1UAT)
• Brent Anderson (WW5OBA)
• Jim Laird (KF5YY)

Officer Reports

President KG5EYV

• Next meeting 2019-02-16
  • USDA building on F&B Rd… unless weird things happen
    • Alternate meeting place TBD
  • Bills due
    • Radio in the Park / Field Day park deposit(s)
    • Insurance
    • Field Day Raffle
  • Games
  • Presentation (see report from N5ZKF)
  • VE Session 08:00

Vice-President N5ZKF

• Meeting 2019-02-16
  • Presentation by KG5JDJ: Digital Radio Hotspots
    • Flurry of activity on all the digital modes (DMR, D-STAR, System Fusion)
    • Internet gateway hosted from small device at home

Secretary KG5LYE

• Grandmother in hospital
  • not breathing deeply enough without machine
• Anyone want my job?
  • Secretary doesn’t have to call the net (and vice versa) :-)
  • All notes and materials available upon request
  • I’ll also be happy to teach anyone

Treasurer N5GQB

• Lots of cold weather, but thankful it’s not as cold as up north!
• Membership renewals due (https://bryanarc.org/join-barc)
  • $15 individual
  • $20 family
  • $5 family
  • Mail in or bring to next club meeting
• Attn: ARRL members (incl. wannabe members)
  • W5BCS is ARRL-affiliated
  • Can join/renew through club, and club get perks!
• Will update website with renewed members

Announcements / Comments

KG5EYV

• 20m looked good last weekend
  • Contacted FL, CA, and PA!
  • Check it out when you get a chance

N5ZKF

• Winter Field Day
  • Lots of people on the air!
  • copied stations in Costa Rica and North Japan (with much signal variability)

WG1GEM

• Invite to W5AC net
  • Weekly Net: Mon 20:00
  • Morning Reveille: Tue Thu Sat 07:30

Buy / Sell

Info Exchange

N5ZKF

• Tips for radio equipment programmed via computer software
  • Go ahead and get software with new radio
  • Capture factory configuration (base config to go back to; for base config and if selling)
  • Back up your own configuration (if it gets corrupt)
  • Programming software can be really powerful!
  • Reason: Started having trouble with Whistler Scanner
    • base config really helped to fix fatal error