{"id":9736,"date":"2018-02-02T16:39:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T00:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=9736"},"modified":"2018-02-02T16:39:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T00:39:30","slug":"january-4-2018-meeting-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=9736","title":{"rendered":"JANUARY 4, 2018 MEETING RECAP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Randy Crews, President<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_3360.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_3360-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_3360-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_3360-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sdxa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_3360-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>[<strong>Bouvet<\/strong>] Our chances are excellent with the outstanding operator compliment and duration of the DXpedition. Anticipating band changes at sunrise and sunset times will increase QSOs chances tremendously.<\/li>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<li>[<strong>Low Band Antennas<\/strong>]  Bob W7SX gave us technical and practical tips on low band transmit antennas; receive antennas will be covered at a later date. All of us should take advantage of his impressive inventory of expertise. <\/li>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<li>[<strong>DXpedition Funding<\/strong>]  A Vote was taken the motion PASSING. A funding committee is in place and will make recommendations and prioritize. <\/li>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<li>[<strong>Guest Speaker Funding<\/strong>]  The motion was PASSED, a budget for the year determined, to facilitate Special Guest Speakers through 2018. <\/li>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<li>[<strong>Spokane Hamfest Seed Money<\/strong>]  Seed money was authorized for the SDXA participation in the Spokane September hamfest this year (if there is one). <\/li>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<li>[<strong>Constitutional Amendments<\/strong>] Participation and Attendance Amendments were presented and will be voted upon at the February 1st meeting; wording will soon be posted on this website. <\/li>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<li>[<strong>February Meeting Order<\/strong>]  Program First (VK9 Mellish Reef by one of the Operators)! We Will have Room Around Second (as it was omitted in this meeting) as the last Business. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}