| President: | Jack Reed | WA4FXX |
| Vice President: | Dennis Bodson | W4PWF |
| Secretary: | Adam Hahn | AI4QB |
| Treasurer: | Mike Ingles | KG4RKL |
| Activities Chairman: | Alan Bosch | KO4ALA |
| Editor: | Adam Hahn | AI4QB |
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| Meetings: | Usually Third Tuesday of each month, 7:30 P.M., Red Cross, 4333 Arlington Blvd. (US 50), Arlington,VA. Nonmembers are invited to attend. |
| Net: | Tuesday (except meeting nights) at 7:30 P.M., 145.47- MHz FM |
| WWW: | http://www.w4wvp.org/ |
| Affiliate: | ARRL, FAR |
| Information: | Jack Reed, WA4FXX, wa4fxx@amsat.org (e-mail), (703) 685-7933 (phone). |
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The May 15th meeting of the Arlington Amateur Radio Club will be held at the usual time (1930L) and place (4333 Arlington Blvd).
I will be sending a packet of QSL cards to the outgoing bureau at ARRL shortly after the meeting- if you have cards you want to send out please bring them to the meeting and give them to the acting Secretary. Please remember that we must provide proof of ARRL membership for everyone using a club packet like this, so please bring a copy of your ARRL membership card or QST mailing label. I'll keep these on file once I get them so this should be a one-time thing.
Hope everyone else can make it to the meeting!
73,
--Adam, AI4QB, AARC Secretary
President Jack/WA4FXX called the meeting to order at 1933L and welcomed all attendees. Attending, besides FXX, were:
Adam/AI4QB, Roy/AI4GO, Chuck/KI4DHW, Bob/WB4KLJ, Alan/KO4ALA,
Jim/K9AUC, Aric/KI4THM, Eugene/licensed-but-unknown, George/KR4MU,
Dennis/W4PWF, Ken/WB4AKK, Dan/N8YSZ, Arthur/W4ART,
Prentiss/KI4THI, Mike/NW3V, Paul/WG4M, James/KB1JMV
Minutes- Move to accept as posted- seconded/passed.
No treasurer's report.
Dennis/W4PWF- not a lot of movement on the filings. Not sure what's happening with regulation by bandwidth.
KO4ALA: biggie on the horizon Dulles airport drill on 5/5. Fairfax people who are running it could stil use help. Good exercise to go through- all the bits of a real disaster- burning airplanes, whizzing buses, lots of nets to control it.
NW3V- did volunteer, looked like Loudoun was running it
KO4ALA- right, but Fairfax is doing the recruiting- contact Jeff AI4IO at Fairfax.
WA4FXX- have we heard anything about hurricane exercise?
KO4ALA- no, it's going to be restricted to planning stages, not lots of people running around the county.
W4ART- we seem to be spending a lot of time on jurisdictions- concerned that with this focus instead of regional we're going to hamper any efforts in a real disaster
W4PWF- present KO4ALA his award at 5/11 at Vienna Wireless meeting at the elementary school. Will send email with location, etc. Will try not to forget the plaque
WA4FXX- Vienna Wireless puts on a good meeting, 2nd and 4th fridays
-VAQP- everyone have logs in?
-we should try 10m on a Tuesday net 28.433.3Mhz
Pat Sweeney- ARC disaster chairman stopped by- Said thanks for helping provide emergency communications.
WA4FXX- Prentiss application is in, talk about yourself
KI4THI- Arlington resident for 25 years, south. Retired, long time dream to be a radio amateur, decided to take it- passed Technician and General test. Feel like he's still a beginner, wants to get hands on experience. Wants to be part of nets, with emergency communication bent. XYL is French, he speaks French, thought some DX with Francophone countries could be fun. would like club input on what's a good starter HF rig to buy.
WA4FXX- next major event is Field Day- June 23-24. W4WVP can participate as class F- EOC- Ken/AKK will talk tonight about digital modes, hopefully we'll get a digital station going this year. Nomic works (W4PWF it's always worked!)
WA4FXX- AI4QB- can you send his application around again to the officers list?
AI4QB- sure thing, chief!
WA4FXX- explains about Tuesday Arlington Races nets, explains trying to use 10m on the net. -maybe should also try 80m -speaking of 80m- did check in to ODEN 1st and 3rd Mondays, 6:30pm 3.947 -can get all districts with 100w until 7:15, when we start to lose people. KR4MU can contact the entire state on 40m during the day
-Eugene Pak- lives in Gaithersburg, works in DC. Have heard of ham radio for a while. Passed Technician test, not sure what to do. Sent email, got a response. Don't have any equipment looking for help.
-Jim/K9AUC put together a list of what's in the radio room, put all the manuals into a binder so they're all there.
-WA4FXX- Keith Robertory- RTT manager, National Chapter of Red Cross. he's in charge of lots of communications for us. -field day- classes- goals: everyone makes at least one voice contact (prefer 5) and come in high in our class. We'll have digital stations so we should try to make several contacts on that each. we have lots of equipment, can run on many different bands. Some of out equipment is becoming classic, may require a cheat sheet in order to operate- FD is a good time to practice. Also have snacks, breakfast on Sunday, somebody may be willing to be a chef.
W4PWF- one of the most important things is picking the class. Letter F is easy part, how many stations do you have operating? Determined by how much equipment and how many operators. it's good to have headphones, etc, since there will be lots of people talking at the same time. Tried the Bose noise cancelling headphones, good to have.
W4ART- tried some Heil noise cancelling headphones at HRO, worked great.
WB4AKK- if we have a choice of one band for a spiderbeam, what would it be?
WA4FXX- probably should try 20m. Somebody needs to volunteer to help set this up, also need logging and cooking. also n3fjp- windows networked logger.
WB4AKK- will try to set up digital computer with logging on the same thing
KB1JMV will try to look at logging. Not a python developer.
N8YSZ don't have same laptop resources as last year
AI4QB- can donate an old laptop for the cause
WA4FXX- have an old one with win98 on it, no network card
AI4QB- have a pcmcia network card I could donate
NW3V- have one or maybe two linux machines to bring
KB1JMV- a couple of laptops and a switch. volunteers to do network plan.
NW3V- have usually been control operator, suggest Dan/N8YSZ be this year
N8YSZ- we can work on it together.
WA4FXX- do we want to be in F class?
WA4FXX- will draft usual letter to Red Cross asking.
NW3V- is there a benefit to a GOTA station?
WA4FXX- will lean against it since it ties up a station and antenna
-think of objectives, any changes from last year
K9AUX- objective is breakfast, can we get breakfast money oked?
WA4FXX- when there's a plan we can approve the money
-set up at noon, starts at 2pm, run 'til 7,8,9pm., don't work too late because people aren't into it, plus then we don't have to worry about security
-sunday start at 9am, work through contest end at 2pm
KO4ALA- it looks like we're going towards bfast on Sunday morning, what about saturday night? how about lasagna? (pizza is heartburn city)
WA4FXX- people think about it this month, we need to figure out the management and plans by next month
The meeting was adjourned at 2025L
Respectfully submitted,
--Adam, AI4QB
AARC Secretary
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