March 3, 2011 Club Meeting

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Thursday, March 3, 2011 at 7:00 PM Red Cross Building, 60 Hawthorne St., Medford, OR (across from Hawthorne Park)

Program: The Care and Feeding of Simple, Broadband HF Antennas, Tom McDermott, N5EG

I hope to see you at the March meeting when Tom, N5EG will present his recent results using a simple doublet fed with 400 ohm parallel line for all-band HF operating. It is ‘almost’ an invisible antenna. See you there!

Announced in the March 2011 issue of The Repeater.

Meeting Notes

From the April 2011 issue of The Repeater.

The meeting was called to order by President Allan Taylor, K7GT at 1905L in the Red Cross building in Medford, OR.

Guests in attendance where: Karl Sargent, K7KDS, John Dollison, KF7LVJ and Jeff Statchwick, WB7OGP.

The minutes where not read as they are in the newsletter. Lud, KB2EVN reported that the club treasury has $4004.00 in it.

Old Business: After some discussion it was decided that Lud find the best projector and buy it.

Bob Duell, K2GLO made a motion and it passed that we allow $500 for the projector cost.

Scott Cummings, KD7EHB reported that he has been looking around for field day sites and would like some input as to where people would like to go.

New Business: Tom McDermott, N5EG said this years (2011) name tags are on the table and please get yours.

Don Bennett, KG7BP reported that 3 people passed their ham license test last week.

Allan put the meeting on hold for coffee and “eyeball QSOing” at 1945L and called the meeting back into session at 2015.L

Tom presented a very interesting program on his experiences with an almost invisible 70-foot long wire doublet antenna on all HF bands.

Allan adjourned the meeting at 2100L

Submitted by Jacob O. (Jack) Schock, WA7IHU secretary