opened

20:00

closed

20:27

Check-ins (20)

• Don Ling (WB5CKO)
• Dick Zimmer (W5DZ)
• Garrett Martin (W5HVS)
• Lorna Flansburg (KI5FIZ)
• Jim Hanks Jr. (W5CYN)
• Avery McIntosh (N7ALM)
• Ken Reeves (KE5FIV)
• Lee Lance (KK5QO)
• Joe Napoli (KG5SDF)
• Ralph Cobb (W5RYC)
• Matthew Barry (KG5LYE)
• Harold Turbyfill (KG5SDG)
• Rick Pfeil (W4RDP)
• Bill Rose (K5WTR)
• John Walpole (K5ZY)
• Bennie Naiser (KA5TWB)
• Brad Snyder (KG5SDE)
• Phil Gates (N5ZKF)
• Rich Rychetsky (KI5QNR)
• David Bailey (KI5RJG)

Officer Reports

President Phil Gates (N5ZKF)

• Conditions not the greatest, but still signals on the air
• Special Events are on the air, notably:
  • commemorating 9/11
  • Rte 66 On-the-Air
  • OH State parks
  • AL QSO Party
  • ARRL Sept. VHF contest
  • Use ARRL’s search engine

Vice-President Rick Pfeil (W4RDP)

• Keep ideas coming for after-meeting presentations
• Get on the air and exercise your privileges
  • Repeater has been rather quiet recently

Secretary Matthew Barry (KG5LYE)

• Net minutes will be sent out as usual
• Thanks to Phil Gates (N5ZKF) for picking up the check-ins and starting the net while I’m on the road

Treasurer Lorna Flansburg (KI5FIZ)

• Just got our second donation from Amazon Smile!
• Current bank balance: $6,868.19
• 66 members
  • New member: Kevin Walton (N4RMF), newly relocated to B/CS area from Washington DC

Announcements / Comments

Question for conversation: Are you, or have you been, active on the 160m band?

Lee Lance (KK5QO)

• American Legion Hall is available for us to meet this month
• Will check for October

Dick Zimmer (W5DZ)

• ARES net on 443.425 MHz FM repeater (KD5DLW)
• 20:30 or after W5BCS net, whichever is later

Rick Pfeil (W4RDP)

• Don’t talk much on 160m, but listen
• Not a very busy band (need a long antenna), but there are people on there
  • I use a long, end-fed wire

Ron Hambric (N5SBN)

via Phil Gates (N5ZKF)

• Ron Hambric (N5SBN) is currently working a fire at Treehouse Apartments on behalf of Red Cross
• will be at CEOC in Bryan at 09:30
• would love for you to send him a message on Winlink: n5brz@winlink.org
• ARES Meeting next week, 2021-09-13 19:30, at American Red Cross building on Boonville Rd

Buy / Sell

Rich Rychetsky (KI5QNR)

• Looking to buy a power supply for radio that will be coming in by the end of the month
• probably 25-30 A range
• contact me through Matthew Barry (KG5LYE), your pick of:
  • secretary@bryanarc.org
  • komputerwiz.matt@gmail.com
  • reply to net minutes email