2021-11-30 Net Minutes

Check-ins (22)

First net after Thanksgiving
- Thankful for all of your support of amateur radio
- Local (external) interference on repeater is being taken care of
Next Meeting
- 2021-12-18 09:30
- at American Legion Post 159
- need at least 18 people to have quorum for club business; please plan to be there
  - officer nominations need to be approved and elections need to take place
  - amendments to constitution and by-laws for your approval
- Presentation by Don Hutchcraft (KE5ADX) about transmission/feed line behavior
Annual January Meeting / Annual Luncheon
- 2022-01-15
- food at 11:00, meeting at 12:00
- C&J Barbecue in Bryan
- more details to come
Contests this weekend
- Romanian Pro CW
- FT Roundup
W5AC mentioned on Ham Nation podcast
- play-by-play sports broadcasting started 100 years ago

Let us know if you have ideas for after-meeting presentations
Please get involved with our committees
- Field Day
- Web Steering
- By-Laws Revision

Expect net minutes as usual
Looking forward to seeing everyone at the December meeting
If you’re interested in reviewing By-laws revisions and providing input before they get sent out to everyone, let me know
- will be distributing them via

Question for conversation: Do you use any spotting networks?

news from John Bosshard (AD5RN), an electrical engineering professor at Texas A&M:
- extra credit opportunity for students to get their amateur radio license
- help from W5AC club and Connor Farrell (WG1GEM)
- 25 new student ham radio operators!

Enjoying inverted-V after it was fixed
- Thanks to those who got it working again!
- Worked Costa Rica
Retiring at end of December
- Plan to make a DMR hotspot using Raspberry Pi

request for help
- noise floor on HF rig went very high recently
- wideband rhythmic pulsing
- no new electronic devices in the house
- any suggestions?
N5ZKF: I’ve seen lots of noise as well. Solar activity?
- issue with power lines or power transformer?
K5WTR: had similar issue at some point, and realized the gain/squelch setting had been changed
- twist ladder line about once every foot or so
KK5QO: what about christmas lights?
W5DZ: day, night, both? what’s the frequency of the pulsing?
- could be something in the radio itself, try another radio?
- W5CYN:
  - in a rural area, nearest lights are far away and not flashing
  - feedline is twisted already
  - 1 sec interval
  - not as prominent on 30 m and 15 m band
  - seems to be same behavior day and night

Any VE sessions coming up?
N5ZKF: usually test on even-numbered months, so we’re due for one in December
- contact Gerald Golub (W5VUI) w5vui@w5vui.com and let him know you’re interested