May 5, 2011 Club Meeting
Thursday, May 5, 2011 at 7:00 PM Red Cross Building, 60 Hawthorne St., Medford, OR (across from Hawthorne Park)
Program: Portable, Field Day, and other Compromise Antennas
The weather is warming up, the sky is occasionally blue, and … the young man’s fancy turns to … ANTENNAS! Antennas on the ground, antennas on the roof, antennas on a car or truck, antennas high in the sky. (It sounds like a Dr Seuss reader!)
Now that I have your attention, please come to the club meeting on May 5th and we will talk of antennas both big and small.
Announced in the May 2011 issue of The Repeater.
Meeting Notes
From the June 2011 issue of The Repeater.
MINUTES OF THE 5 May 11 ROGUE VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB MEETING
The meeting was called to order by President Allan Taylor, K7GT at 1905L in the Red Cross building in Medford, OR.
One guest was present, Jerry K6KSI
Since the minutes are in the news-letter they will not be read.
Treasurer Lud Sibley, KB2EVN’s treasurer report is $4568.56 in the bank.
OLD BUSINESS:
Scott Cummings, KD7ECB gave a report field day report.
Lud reported that the projector has been ordered and will arrive shortly.
NEW BUSINESS:
Dave Aikins, KG7HJ father has died and has left lots of equipment for sale.
John (Jack) Morse, WB7SZM passed away. A list of equipment available is in the newsletter [page 6]. Bill Shrader, W7QMU is handling the selling of the equipment.
Bud, W7LNG reports that WWV will soon remove voice propagation forecasts from its frequency beacon broadcasts. An alternate source is: http://www.spaceweather.com/
At 1930L Allan put the meeting on hold for coffee and “eye ball” QSOing.
At 2000L Allan called the meeting back into session.
Tom, N5EG talked about the KXAT1 & KAT3 antenna tuners, and showed their tuning range using Smith Charts. He also showed some simple and inexpensive wire antenna raising fixtures.
Allan then talked about various antennas he has used at home and on field days.
Allan announced that next month’s meeting will be a half-hour early. He has a guest speaker coming up from California and will talk about and demonstrate foxhunts.
Allan adjourned the meeting at 2100.
Submitted by Jacob O. (Jack) Schock, WA7IHU secretary
