October 3, 2013 Club Meeting
Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 7:00 PM Red Cross Building, 60 Hawthorne St., Medford, OR (across from Hawthorne Park)
Program: Meteor Communications and Ham Radio on 6 Meters, Dennis Recla, WA5KTC
At the October meeting an officer nominating committee will be named. New officers will be elected at the November meeting and installed at the December event.
Our presentation at the October meeting will be delivered by Dennis Recla, WA5KTC, former President of the SOARC. His topic will be “Meteor Communications” and “Ham Radio on 6 Meters”.
Announced in the October 2013 issue of The Repeater.
Meeting Notes
From the November 2013 issue of The Repeater.
October 3, 2013 RVARC meeting
Meeting called to order at 1900 PDT by Jeff W7KNX.
Visitors:
- Jack, N7BWG former RVARC member, returning
- Dennis, WA5KTC from Grants Pass club, presenter for this evening
- Diane, XYL of WA5KTC, no call
Todd, K7TFC, briefly announced and described the club web page W7DTA.ORG
Old business: The attempt to retrieve the call N7NS is on hold and not likely. Reason: over two years have passed since Pete’s death. The call will go into the vanity pool either when it expires (in 2016!) or within 30 days of a death certificate being sent to the FCC.
New business: A nominating committee was formed. It consists of Bill, W7QMU and Scott, NA7OM.
Jeff requested a storage home for the club’s field day generators as Scott, NA7OM, no longer has room. Lud volunteered to store them in ’the schoolhouse'.
A PIO report was given by Curt Hadley, KF7VZV on the recent licensing classes.
- Tech class: 12 completed, all 12 passed
- General class: 4 completed, 2 passed
A combined Tech/General class is currently underway. An Extra-class class (!!) will begin in January. These classes meet at the Smullin Center near RVMC just off of Barnett Road.
Dennis, WA5KTC, gave a great presentation entitled Meteor Scatter Communication. The SNOTEL network was described. This snow survey network of many stations uses a frequency of approximately 40 MHz with the control station in either Boise or Salt Lake City.
Amateur radio use also described. Modes practical are HSCW, SSB, and FSK441. Amateur use is almost all using WSJT software and by schedule. 6 meter band is the best performer.
Allan, K7GT, Secretary
