opened

20:00

closed

20:24

Check-ins (15)

• Matthew Barry (KG5LYE)
• Don Ling (WB5CKO)
• Avery McIntosh (N7ALM)
• Bill Rose (K5WTR)
• Joe Napoli (KG5SDF)
• Ken Reeves (KE5FIV)
• Jeff McDowell (KI5CES)
• Dick Zimmer (W5DZ)
• Lorna Flansburg (KI5FIZ)
• Joshua Wenger (W5AML)
• Mike Wisby (KA5HIA)
• Bennie Naiser (KA5TWB)
• Phil Gates (N5ZKF)
• Robert Carter (NC5R)
• Travis Scott (KI5TMS)

Officer Reports

President Phil Gates (N5ZKF)

• Club Meeting last weekend
  • guest Tony
  • No quorum, but great discussion
  • Radio in the Park after
    • Pretty quiet, but great weather!
    • About 9-10 members, 2 radios on the air
    • If you couldn’t make it out, we’ll do it again next Spring
• Special events this week
  • School Club round-up is currently ongoing through 2022-10-21
  • FT8 events coming up this week
  • YLRL DX contest

Vice-President Rick Pfeil (W4RDP)

proxy Phil Gates (N5ZKF)

• Please pray for his wife, Tracy
• Please send any ideas for after-meeting presentations

Secretary Matthew Barry (KG5LYE)

• Net minutes will be sent out at conclusion of net as usual
• It was great to see everyone at the meeting and at Radio in the Park!

Treasurer Lorna Flansburg (KI5FIZ)

• 59 members
• Current bank balance: $8,229.93

Announcements / Comments

Question #97 for conversation: Do you use the ARRL Handbook for Radio Communications? (This year’s edition is #100)

Jeff McDowell (KI5CES)

• Have we heard anything about memorial services?
  • N5ZKF: Nothing yet on Ernie Laney (K5ENL)…

Dick Zimmer (W5DZ)

• I learned a lot of what I know from a 1964 edition Handbook
• Highly recommend it for skills and electronics
• Just thumb through it

Phil Gates (N5ZKF)

• 1986 handbook prior to getting license
• lots of plans, projects, and reference material
• get a new edition every so often
• hardcover is going for $80, 6-vol paperback going for $70, single paperback for $50

Don Ling (WB5CKO)

• supposed to get cold tonight
• older manuals used to explain things more simply