opened

20:00

closed

20:28

Check-ins (21)

• Matthew Barry (KG5LYE)
• Avery McIntosh (N7ALM)
• Garrett Martin (W5HVS)
• Travis Scott (KI5TMS)
• Tom Johnson (KI5ZPG)
• Brian Gaskamp (KA5BKG)
• David Bailey (K5DKB)
• Don Ling (WB5CKO)
• Lorna Flansburg (KI5FIZ)
• Mike Wisby (KA5HIA)
• Rick Pfeil (W4RDP)
• Ralph Cobb (W5RYC)
• Harold Turbyfill (KG5SDG)
• Robert Carter (NC5R)
• Bennie Naiser (KA5TWB)
• David Vickers (KI5WEH)
• Bill Rose (K5WTR)
• Phil Gates (N5ZKF)
• Jon Edwards (KI5YZR)
• Shawn Whitley (KI5VTP)
• Kevin Walton (K5BTX)

Officer Reports

President

David Bailey (K5DKB)

• Meeting this weekend
  • 2023-04-15 09:30
  • American Legion Post 159
  • VE Session 08:00
• Tax Day is coming
  • 2023-04-18 since the usual date (2023-04-15) being on the weekend
  • The club has successfully filed our tax paperwork

Vice-President

Paul Bilke (KF5WGJ)

excused

Secretary

Matthew Barry (KG5LYE)

• Minutes will be sent out after the net.
• A bit short on time tonight do to class work
• Name tags are on order, but unsure whether they’ll be ready by the meeting this weekend

Treasurer

Lorna Flansburg (KI5FIZ)

• 57 members
• Bank balance: $8,125.94
• If you’d like to take part in the VE exam this weekend, be sure to bring FRN, photo ID, and $15 exam fee

Announcements / Comments

Question #122 for conversation: Have you ever wound your own inductors, transformers, or chokes?

(If interested in submitting a weekly question, email n5zkf@arrl.net)

David Bailey (K5DKB)

• Hoping to have Radio in the Park this weekend after the meeting
  • Tanglewood Park
  • Still not sure if the weather will cooperate
  • Might get pushed back to next weekend
• Recently built a (tr)uSDX kit, and wrapped a whopping 13 coils!
  • still a bit of black magic, but it works!
  • “If I can do it, you can do it too!”

Matthew Barry (KG5LYE)

• have made a handful of baluns
  • ferrite core and air core
• had some fun with electromagnets

Bill Rose (K5WTR)

• when in security service, worked with core memory plotter
  • ferrite material with 2 or 3 windings
  • magnetized in one direction was a 0, other direction was a 1
  • was awful to debug

Bennie Naiser (KA5TWB)

• Have a laptop that I haven’t accessed in years, and can’t remember the password
• Any help getting some info off of it?
• 979-645-0484
• K5WTR: what model laptop?
  • 5 years old, running Windows 10, Dell
• N5ZKF: check service tag

Phil Gates (N5ZKF)

• Have round some chokes and baluns
• air core transformer
• feed line inductors
• ferrite toroids for noise reduction
• unraveled printer transformer to get desired voltage

Kevin Walton (K5BTX)

• 10m is dead quiet… not sure what’s going on