2025-12-16 Net Minutes

Check-ins (30)

David Bailey (K5DKB)

This coming weekend is our December meeting
- 2025-12-20 09:30
- American Legion Post 159, 101 Waco St, Bryan [Google Maps]
- We’ll need quorum for officer elections
  - Only folks on the ballot are the current incumbent officers running unopposed:
    - President: David Bailey (K5DKB)
    - Vice President: Tom Johnson (KI5ZPG)
    - Secretary: Matthew Barry (KG5LYE)
    - Treasurer: Lorna Flansburg (KI5FIZ)
January meeting will be our traditional luncheon
- 2026-01-17 11:30
- Cooper’s Old Time Pit BBQ, 3055 Earl Rudder Fwy S, College Station [Google Maps]
- Grab a plate of BBQ and join us in the meeting room

Tom Johnson (KI5ZPG)

Echoed importance of quorum for Saturday
- Aggies are playing, but you should be able to make the meeting and get home in time for kickoff

Matthew Barry (KG5LYE)

Minutes will be sent out after the net.
- Some have had issues receiving them
- Paul Bilke (KF5WGJ) has made some adjustments, so hopefully you get them now
- Let me know if not: kg5lye@komputerwiz.net
Special thank-you to Lorna Flansburg (KI5FIZ) for hosting our holiday party this weekend!

Lorna Flansburg (KI5FIZ)

81 members
Bank balance: $11,963.97
Next license exam
- 2025-12-20 11:00 (following club meeting)
- American Legion Post 159, 101 Waco St, Bryan [Google Maps]
It was great to see everyone at the holiday party!

Question #254 for conversation: "How does that work?" What concept or observation puzzles or amazes you?"

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

CEOC Visit this Friday, 2025-12-19 09:00
- If you’re late, call on W5BCS repeater
- Last meeting of the year; we’ll resume in January

Notice from the Veteran’s Administration this weekend:
- Nasal spray recall: microbial contamination in manufacturing facility
- If received before 2025-12-08, throw it out!
- Check with your pharmacist

ARRL 10 m contest this past weekend
Put in about 20 hours
514 contacts (71,960 pts!)
- 39/50 states
- 22 country
- 9/16 Canadian provinces
- 2 stations in Mexico

Always wondered about analog modulation and demodulation of Phase-Shift Keying
Digital circuitry makes sense, but it was done with purely analog circuitry in the early days… how?

Radio has always fascinated me
- Lots of receivers running at all times
HF long echoes (receiving the same signal from different paths)
Heard from Dwayne Walters (W5DPW) the other day on the repeater
- Living on the other side of I-45
- Hit the repeater from his J-Pole antenna