2025-06-17 Net Minutes
- opened
- 20:00
- closed
- 20:35
Check-ins (28)
- Matthew Barry (KG5LYE)
- Paul Bilke (KF5WGJ)
- Bill Rose (K5WTR)
- Don Ling (WB5CKO)
- Garrett Martin (W5HVS)
- Jeff McDowell (KI5CES)
- Ken Wilson (KE5DFR)
- Brad Snyder (W5BLS)
- Pierre Catala (WA1UAT)
- David Bailey (K5DKB)
- Kevin Walton (N4RMF)
- Ron Estes (KJ5EFO)
- Lorna Flansburg (KI5FIZ)
- Mike Wisby (KA5HIA)
- John Graesser (KC5DWD)
- Matthew Cadman (KJ5IIF)
- Roseanne Cunningham (KC5FGG)
- Elizabeth Shutt (KJ5IDP)
- Jason Shutt (KI5LGO)
- Harold Turbyfill (KG5SDG)
- Ron Hambric (N5SBN)
- Ricardo Pena (WN5RMP)
- Russ McDonald (KL2PB)
- Tom Johnson (KI5ZPG)
- Phil Gates (N5ZKF)
- Avery McIntosh (N7ALM)
- Dick Zimmer (W5DZ)
- Troyce Wilson (KC5CBI)
Officer Reports
President
David Bailey (K5DKB)
- Regular monthly club meeting is this Saturday
- 2025-06-21 09:30
- Also the Summer Solstice!
- Talking about ARRL Field Day, which is the following weekend (2025-06-28/29)
- W5BCS has a lot of things that we’ll be selling at the swap tables
- Here’s a quick list of just a few available things:
- Coax cables
- Begali and Vibroplex keys
- Soldering station
- Crystal radio kit
- Gin pole set
- Buddipole with coils
- MFJ 40-ft mast
- Oscilloscopes (yes, more than one)
- Mag loop antenna
- Yaesu azimuth elevation rotor
- …and much more!
- Swap will open after license exam, around 14:00
- Here’s a quick list of just a few available things:
Vice-President
Tom Johnson (KI5ZPG)
- Plans are coming together very well
- Zoom meeting this Thursday, 2025-06-19 18:30
Secretary
Matthew Barry (KG5LYE)
- Minutes will be sent out after the net.
- This weekend, two weekends after Pentecost, the Catholic Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi)
- Eucharistic procession in downtown Bryan this Saturday, 2025-06-21 09:00
- St. Joseph to St. Anthony: will have to cross Texas Ave at some point
- Traffic will be blocked for a while
Treasurer
Lorna Flansburg (KI5FIZ)
- 75 members
- Bank balance: $9,874.13
- Special thank-you to the 9 members who spent last weekend in my garage pricing things from K5ENL/SK!
- No ham license exam after club meeting this Saturday
- Will be part of ARRL Field Day, 2025-06-28 13:00
- Remember: you must have your FRN in order to take the exam!
Announcements / Comments
Question #228 for conversation: Have you worked with surface-mount electronic components? (the really small ones)
(If interested in submitting a weekly question, email n5zkf@arrl.net)
Ron Hambric (N5SBN)
- Good to be back in town
- CEOC meeting this Friday, 2025-06-20 09:00
- If you’re running late, call (979) 821-1012 or on 443.425 MHz FM (KD5DLW) repeater
Matthew Barry (KG5LYE)
- Surface mounts:
- I’m impressed at how small they’ve gotten!
- Only experience is with removing them
- I can’t imagine holding a soldering iron steady enough to put them on
Paul Bilke (KF5WGJ)
- 0603 size can be done surprisingly easily with electric skillet, heat gun, toaster oven, etc.
- Surface tension from solder and flux aligns components for you
Buy / Sell
Don Ling (WB5CKO)
- 2-element high-gain beam antenna available
- 6-ft boom
- On a Hazer: can crank it down to roof level, but you’ll have to get on the roof to take it off
- asking $100
- Good on QRZ
- …
- N5ZKF:
- DX Engineering catalog
- Software for designing beam antennas
- Insulators
- KF5WGJ: source for aluminum antenna elements is Texas Towers in DFW area
Closing Remarks
- Visit us online at w5bcs.radio.