Follow up to 10/31 meeting...
- Thank you to the team that did the Fox Hunt presentation.
- Brent (KG6KPD) did a nice presentation on Fox Hunt Basics
- 2021 Garlic festival HF station
- Consensus is this would be a cool "side" event for the club.
- Previous thought, just not executed on
- Likely requires permission of GF?
- Do we have to worry about RF of HF transmissions interfering with local WiFi or comms?
- SBCARA 1st Thursday of the month, HF net on 40 meters.
- We'll keep trying.
- Think about NVIS solutions that may work better.?
- Ray still owes updated frequency list.
- Woody provided financial report. The club still has operating funds. Obviously no festival this year impacts the club balance. But at current balance we are fine for now. Annual expenses are just under $2,000 for NARC fees, POBOX rental, Insurance, UHF site rental, and pitching in for Field Day food, and other misc items.?
- Talked about club t-shirts again. Low count makes for higher cost so will look at options. Costco Business had some options, but only seems to allow one sided print.?
- Foundation of new repeater support team?
- I am sorry, and yet elated, that our own Brent (W6BWJ) will be moving out of the area soon. Brent has been one of the primary repeater support folks for the club for a while now. I have been a bit of an apprentice, and while I know the networking side of the systems, the actual programming of the controllers is a bit archaic and Brent has been the primary keeper of the code as it were. This is going to create a support "hole" that needs to be filled, but as Brent and I have discussed, may also be the catalyst for needed change.?
- Sam (AI6OG), Mike (KJ6GVS) and Elise (KI6PUO) have now joined the repeater maintenance team. We will set a meeting here in the near future to review logistics, and current repeater configuration.?
- Ray has to meet with Brent (soon!) to pass over remaining access info and operating codes, etc.?
- As part of the changes will need to evaluate continuation of utilizing the RLC DSP-404 controllers. Out of production and support, and have been very difficult to program. But replacing with something like an Arcom controller causes new issues with linking the UHF and VHF sites that would need to be resolved.?
Thanks for another great meeting! Thank you to those that came with your Halloween spirit.?
Cheers,
Ray
Ray Dzek