September 2, 2021 Club Meeting
Thursday, September 2, 2021 at 7:00 PM Via Zoom. Login sent via email or upon request.
Program: Field Day wrap-up. Open discussion
There will be a wrap-up of our 2021 Field Day outing, hopefully including photos. Afterwards the meeting will open for general discussion.
Just when it seemed that we might be able to start getting back together in person at club meetings, the Delta variant of COVID-19 came roaring back. With the governor’s order requiring masks both indoors and outdoors and social distancing we will continue to meet via zoom.
Announced in the September 2021 issue of The Repeater.
Meeting Notes
From the October 2021 issue of The Repeater.
RVARC Meeting Minutes, September 2, 2021. Venue: online zoom meeting, 11 attendees.
7:10pm club business: John Limb,KI7ZOA, made the motion to reimburse Mike Bach, WB6FFC, $32.50 to cover extra gasoline expenses for the generator for Field Day. Tom McDermott, N5EG, 2nd the motion. Vote yes is unanimous. Motion passed.
John Laybourne, AC7S: No news on using the Medford PD meeting room for RVARC. We will probably need to find a private meeting place for future in-person meetings. Any suggestions are welcome.
Treasurer’s report: $4825.13 in the bank, $200 insurance due soon. Tom, N5EG, made motion to authorize insurance payment. John, AC7S, 2nded the motion. Passed by unanimous yes vote.
Presentation by Pat: June 26 weekend Field day review and pictures.
Operating class 2A About 15 people at Hyatt Lake location. Mike Bach provided food and electricity. Much thanks, Mike!
One setup was for 20m: AB577 mast with Mosley TH tri-band antenna. 40m & 80m dipole antenna used another 40’ military mast. Ran at about 100-150 watts on K7MFR club call. Folks were happy with the site (with adjacent campground and outhouses)
Idea for October meeting topic: Online ARRL Antenna Field Strength Calculator (required at license renewal now, to certify RF FS compliance.)
John, AC7S: His neighbor and new ham Scott, kk7bpl (we think we miscopied this callsign), wanted to get involved and needed emergency frequency information.
Tom,N5EG: club website has updated list of repeaters & nets.
New attendee, Arnold Winters, KD6SG, got to introduce himself. Now in Jacksonville, long time ham (since 1953) & VE. Welcome Arnold! He is looking for info on Yaesu 5200 tone capabilities.
Pat mentioned that some VEC communities are doing online license testing with digital submission of forms to the FCC and can get a test-to-license-grant turnaround of as short as 2 hours!
Pat remarked that his VE card is expired. Fred, AE7IM, mentioned that one’s VE cert is valid as long as your license is valid.
Meeting adjourned around 8:00 pm
