April 2, 2015 Club Meeting
Thursday, April 2, 2015 at 7:00 PM Red Cross Building, 60 Hawthorne St., Medford, OR (across from Hawthorne Park)
Program: Basic: Decibel, S-Unit, Audio demonstration. Advanced: Global Positioning Satellites (GPS), Allan Taylor, K7GT
Basic Program — “Decibel, S-Unit” This will cover “What’s a Decibel? What’s an S-Unit?” and provide an audio demonstration with voice and CW signals at various signal to noise ratios with increasing 1 S-unit signal improvements so you can hear for yourself.
Advanced Program — “Global Positioning Satellites” Allan Taylor, K7GT The program will provide an overview of the GPS global positioning system, a space-based satellite system location and time information service.
Announced in the April 2015 issue of The Repeater.
Meeting Notes
From the May 2015 issue of The Repeater.
RVARC - Minutes for April 2, 2015
The meeting was called to order in the meeting room of the Red Cross building - Medford, OR .by Allan Taylor, K7GT at 1900 L. Members and guests present introduced themselves, and stated their most memorable QSO. Guests present included:
- Charles Kanavle, KG7VU
- John Caldwell, KF7PTH.
The introductory presentation was given by Tom McDermott, N5EG on “S-Units and Decibels”.
New Business
Allan, K7GT mentioned that the Field Day site was in the Mail Tribune, as part of an article.
Scott Cummings, NA7OM spoke about the upcoming 7QP event. He will be operating at Agate Lake this year. He asked for the operation to be under the RVARC, in order to satisfy insurance requirements; a vote as taken, and passed. Scott also solicited additional operators for the event.
Treasurer’s report
Lud Sibley, KB2EVN reported a balance of $3542.23 in the club treasury.
The meeting was put on hold at 2000 L for “eyeball QSOs” and coffee. The meeting was called back into session at 2015 L.
Presentation
Allan, K7GT gave us a excellent classroom study of GPS fundamentals.
The meeting was adjourned at 2100 L
Submitted by Carl VanOrden, W7BRO Secretary
