October 6, 2016 Club Meeting
Thursday, October 6, 2016 at 7:00 PM Red Cross Building, 60 Hawthorne St., Medford, OR (across from Hawthorne Park)
Program:
- How-to: The End-Fed Halfwave Antenna, Tom McDermott, N5EG
- FCC Database on a Raspberry-Pi, Dan Curtis, N6WN
The End-Fed Half-Wave (EFHW) antenna is a mysterious, magical antenna that befuddles many hams. The How-To program will discuss it’s peculiarities and give some suggestions on taming it’s many idiosyncrasies.
Dan will show how to download the FCC database onto a Raspberry-PI computer and automatically keep it up to date.
Announced in the October 2016 issue of The Repeater.
Meeting Notes
From the November 2016 issue of The Repeater.
Minutes for the RVARC meeting of October 6 2016
President Scott Cummings called the meeting to order at 6:58 PM.
Two visitors (and possible new members) were introduced:
- Don Haynes (no call yet)
- Brooksby Harmon (tech going for general)
Treasurer’s report: current balance is $4521.11
A motion was made and seconded (Mike Bach and Raoul …) for the club to purchase a new coffee maker. The vote was unanimous. Mike Bach WB6FFC accepted the role of committee head to research and purchase the coffee maker.
Scott Cummings discussed the recent Ca QSO Party participation of several club members. The group was Mike WB6FFC, Scott NA7OM, John W8WOM, Chris Duncan N7CGD, and Allan K7GT. The field expedition multi-multi effort was held at the Tree of Heaven campground (Klamath National Forest) in the Klamath River canyon. Great meals were provided by Mike and a good time was had by all.
It was noted that Carl Van Orden, W7NT has accepted a career position with the forest service in Cottage Grove and will be moving there soon. Carl’s service as secretary was noted. Congrats, Carl!
First presentation was by Tom, N5EG on End-fed Half Wave Antennas.
Tom then conducted a straw poll regarding the RVARC meeting for December. The poll resulted in the club meeting some Saturday in early December for a tour of the radio and other facilities of the Rogue Valley Manor.
The second presentation was by Dan, N6WN on the application of the Raspberry Pi 3 to the radio application of being a callsign server.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:30PM
Submitted by Allan, K7GT in lieu of Carl Van Orden, W7NT.
