June 4, 2015 Club Meeting
Thursday, June 4, 2015 at 7:00 PM Red Cross Building, 60 Hawthorne St., Medford, OR (across from Hawthorne Park)
Program: Field Day 2015, Demonstration
Program — This month we will discuss Field Day 2015 plans, and will have a live demonstration of how to make Field Day contacts on Phone.
Announced in the June 2015 issue of The Repeater.
Meeting Notes
From the September 2015 issue of The Repeater.
Meeting called to order by Allan, president, at 19:00 PDT.
Visitors:
- Paul Johnson, N6VLV
There was a short business meeting. A motion made by Tom, N5EG, seconded by Dan, N6WN to appropriate $200.00 for field day expenses. Approved by voice without opposition.
Treasurer Bob Deuel K2GLO, announced that the club bank balance was $3691.10
Tom gave a presentation on Field Day, a short history, and our club’s plans for 2015. We will be operating 4A. Scott mentioned that he has secured the use of special event call K7M for our Field Day.
There was a break for socializing, then Allan and Tom demonstrated the use of HF equipment for operating Field Day phone, along with some good and bad operating habits.
Good habits include: using proper phonetics (not the ones Tom used: Xylophone, Ptomaine, and Tsunami), and having the ARRL US/Canada section list available on the logging computer screen. Tom recommended working DUPES as it’s faster than trying to tell the other operator about the issue. With modern logging software and computerized logs there’s no penalty for dupes as they will be marked appropriately.
Tom said that he has written a ADIF parser in Python so he could read and convert ADIF logs to either Cabrillo or a format suitable for dupe-checking.
The ARRL requires only a DUPE check listing of unique calls worked per band/mode, which is generated from all the club’s logs after the contest.
The meeting was adjourned at 20:30 PDT.
— Tom, N5EG substituting as secretary for Carl Van Orden.
