April 2007 Minutes

SDXA MEETING
APRIL 5, 2007

Meeting was called to order by Lamar, WA7LT at 7:00 p.m.

Program was introduced and presented by Gary K7OX. The program was on Field Day and the progress thus far to get things going for 2007. The “stats” from the last several years were put together by Randy and presented. Gary has put together a new menu and program of how the food service will work and be handled. He presented a menu of Spaghetti, Garlic Bread, Salad for dinner on Saturday and a breakfast of Eggs, Sausage, Sweet Rolls, Juice and Coffee for Sunday morning. He is expecting to have a better “head count” than we have had the last few years. Gary also advised that we would be using WriteLog this year and also be introducing RTTY into Field Day. He presented information that he believes the VHF Station has been reasonably unproductive in the past history of Field Day. Corky, NQ7V; and Chris, N7VQH have volunteered to help get the equipment together for the VHF Station for this year. We are still looking for antennas (2 for each band). KARS will not be actively assisting in the Field Day this year, but a couple of their members have advised us that they would like to be included in our head count and participate on their own (but not as KARS club per se’). GOTA will get us an extra 20 points for every 20 contacts by each operator. Rudy, W7FCB has volunteered to see to the Public Relations portion of the preparations for Field Day. Wayne, WA1PMA is handling all the computer preparations. We are also looking for 2 Heil Headsets for Field Day also. The June Meeting will be our final preparation for making sure everything is in order before Field Day.

Our May 2007 Program will be of “Log Book of the World” or “QSLing”. Some suggested reading material if anyone is interested April QST, VHF Column, “The World Above 50 MHz”December 2006, John Dorr, CQ Magazine, Contest “Improving CW Scores”

Meeting Began:

Minutes: Motion to approve the minutes as posted. Approved as published. Treasurer’s Report: Have $1,432.10 in the account and we have also sent in the $400.00 seed money for Hamfest.

Gary now has the rules for the Gota Station for Field Day also.

OLD BUSINESS:
Results of the Survey:Club Growth: tabled.Club Contest Entries: FCC Rules will dictateDXCC for Members: Fundamental purpose of club—programs of some sort directed at DXCCing was requested. Elmering was not real favorably requestedContest Operating: Four people willing to host for entry level assistanceField Day for SDXA: What is needed—we bought one 761 for Field Day or emergency usage. Don Crisp has another 761 available for $565.00. If we want to consider that. we would have matching equipment. Motion was made by Doug to purchase the 761 from Don Crisp, Dale seconded the motion. The motion was carried and passed.

Annual Banquet:
Lamar has Perkins At The River set up as a buffet. They will be able to accommodate up to 50 people. They are willing to provide individual tickets and dinner for approximately $15.00. The guest speaker will be decided upon very soon. The Salmon Run will be coming up soon.

We did our introductions around the room and welcomed our visitors. We had Ron, W7CWR as a visitor this week. Also a reminder that we are obligated to Hamfest for warm bodies to work and assist with the event. Also dates for Field Day are June 23rd and 24th.

Minutes taken by: Marybeth Snyder, Secretary

ATTENDING THE MEETING:
AC7MV David
K6NTZ Linda
K7AWB Steve
K7EFB William
K7EKM Kirk
K7HRT Pat
K7OX Gary
K7TQ Randy
KC7QGV Marybeth
KV7J Harvey
N7VQH Chris Coats
NQ7V Corky
W3AS Doug
W7FCB Rudy
WA0WWW Jay Holcomb
WA1PMA Wayne
WA7LT LaMar
WS7I Jay
WU7X Dale
WV7Y Betsy

Visitors:
W7CWR Ron Cunningham
XYL Andrea Crisp

21 Members and 2 Visitors at this meeting __________________________________________