Last Meeting Notes
meeting started at 8:01
CCRA - we had a social net, 3 people checked in. This is approved by the CCRA. We are taking suggestions for topics for the social net.
Osciloscope - we have a manual ! It's on the HF computer.
K-Day -> really means spring fling
Spring Fling - we don't appear to have enough interest to have people present to run a booth
Scope - if anyone is interested in knowing more about the scope let us know, and we will teach you.
Senior Walk - Jack On the 25th at about noon everyone is going to go out and get pickled, everyone else is going to go and park out on the road, if the people cause any problems we report them.
Bridgefest parade - June 15th UP Firemens Parade Commercial Parade Saturday We could also use some people to work this parade
Brockway Trip Did we want to do 2meter, or HF ? We had an idea concerning building a yaghi This is probably going to be the weekend before finals
Party - Going away for James / Ben . We have $36 for pizza hut ~ $30 for subway Some money for social fund Next Thursday we are going to have a party.
There is a boyscout thing on Saturday. We need to get some people involved to help with the badge day.
Michigan QSO party, it's on the 19th from noon until midnight.meeting called to order 8:02 4-3-08
Kyles talk with Brenda Arcadian Tower - they dont' want us to spray internet to the whole county tech has some issues with thier internet provider (merit)
They were cool with it if it will be operating it in the amateur bands.
If we run 2.3 there is a band open in the plan that we could probably use. Why not use comercial equipment on the European band
If we used the HAM band and restricted it they were fine with it.
What are we going to use it for?
Part of this is to setup a dumb gateway and ensure that there is no encrypted traffic. What applications are available for for the application. SARS
Could we use the space on arcadia to link up our repeater?
If we don't connect to it they don't care what we do with it.
What can we do with the hunk of tower?
We aren't sure what IT will think of using this for a pure ham voice applications.
Maybe we could propose this to the list and see what happens. Maybe look into dstar
Local HF NET
Somehow make an HF / VHF net
Kyle thinks it'd be cool to have a social net
The idea of the current net is to ensure people know how to make things work.
There is someone who wants to have something like a chat net on 2Meter
How many people like the webcam?
We like it but we don't want to pay for it.
We talked about ITS messsages
Meeting 3-27-08
We are getting an ociloscope from IEEE
Meeting called to order 8:03PM
We met with Telecom yesterday and they told us to stop telling people we would give them free internet. They are perfectly fine with keeping it among the HARC group. Amateurs only.
Once you become an affiliated club ARRL doesn't take your membership away.
We are unsure how we are going to get funding now that it is just the club. Some of the cards are capable of switching to HAM bands.
How much would one of the boxes cost to run a 900 MHZ system. Fred Anderson in MQ is a motorla dealer he may be able to help us out.
We talked about DSTAR and digital ham radio.
Neeting called to order @ 8:18
Arcadia WE still stand a chance CIO wants to talk with us concerning the arcadia project James appologizes for the spam that was sent out Apparently the twitter software is actually usefull It didn't just steal his email, he accidentally told it to DigiPeater No one knows what's going on Motorola dude said he forwarded it on to some of the people at motorola QSO Cards / Contests Oliver didn't get the certificates out
Maintenance We have a squeeky chair Recomendation - Use some WD-40
FYI There is a difference between MCX and MMCX
meeting called to order 8:22PM
up200 report
- everything went well
- we found out the hard way that antifreeze freezes at -35
- we had a large fire
- oliver had a film camera
- james still shoots black and white and develops them himself, takes about six hours per photo
vote on up200 expense items
- vote passed - members that went will each pay $25 each and the club will *cover the rest
- Arcadian Project
- we have antanaes
- we have lmr
- We talked about amplifier choices and access point choices
WC QSO Status
- Oliver is going to take care of making sure everything is up to date
Tower
- Justin
- We need stuff on carnival
- up200
- Per anonymous vote Oliver can't put a personal Ad in the tower
- U of M had a tower donation thing on thier website
- Shoot to have it out at beggining of March
- Each article should be a paragraph
Elections Nomninations
- Jon - presedent
- EJ - President
- Justin - President
- Justin - VP
- Jon - VP
- James - Chief Alumni
- EJ - Tresureer
- DJ - Secretary
All in favor of voting next week and igoring our constitution
- All were in favor
Echolink
Oliver is the new Chief Op and QSO manager
_________________________________________________________________ meeting started 8:09
- We got a couple Gift cards from Larry Rogers, WD0BCF. Thank you Larry.
- motion to use the gift cards for UP-200
- We got a page of contacts during Winter Carnival
- W8C We got one point on our statue
- We need to replenish our shack food / drinks supply
Logistics on UP200
- We should go to Chatham
- Need to show up to race HQ at 6PM to check in
- Meander wayto Chatham be there at 9:00 PM
- Write down number and radio into hq
- Stay out from 9PM until 8AM the next day
- Hang out in Marquette for the day
- On Sunday morning come in around 3:00 PM
- There will be vehicles leaving at 3:00PM
- We had SAS donate us a computer for use for as an echo link repeater for the .88 repeater
- We can add this to our USG budget
- Other things for our budget
- 1.2 GHZ spectrum antanae
- minutes taken by Brett
- Meeting called to order about 8:20 on 1-31-08
- Budget
- Looking into using Telcom Satellite for ISS was agreed upon unanimously.
- New members were welcomed and all in attendance were introduced.
- Snow Control Central
- Tower
- Discussed the UP-200 - Jon, Justin, Brock, Oliver, Kyle, EJ, James, DJ
- Meeting called to order 8:14 on 1-17-07
- Testing we had to go through the VEC coordinator in order to set the date for the test
- You have to get a hold of the local test coordinator in order to get the date our local coordinator is Glenn E.
- New date is for the 21st
- Winter Carnival
- That porch thingy they have outside of Wads, that would a perfect spot for a station.
- If we moved our location to the northwest corner of Wads we would have some issues
- Who wants to be in charge of the remote station? James was wondering if anyoen would be in charge.
- jack has an old tuner we can use for the outdoor transmitting site
- he also has and old army surplus antanae, it's about 200 Ft. long
- We will probably be broadcasting down to about 40 meter
- We have a one night statue site where we will build our outdoor site
- There is a concern about the AES statue interfering with our transmitting
- Winter carnival starts at 10PM Wednesday
- Our ground goes straig into the hill on the third floor
- The theme is frightfull features of frightfull creatures
- Our winter carnival page is higher on the search page then blue key
- We will make a listing of people to operate the shack during the other times during winter carnival
- SLS has 24 radios that we may be able to use for a foxhunt.
- WC
- outside we'll use our w8yy flag
- we can have QSC cards
- with the really rare QSC make sure we adversite
- We need some chairs and a table
- Jon will check on if SLS can rent a canopy
- Thank you Lawrence for your gift certificate WD0BCF. We forgive you for being a U of M graduate !
- We should be out to our location around 6PM the night before the all nighter
- Meeting called to order : 8:20
- Thanks to Glen Ekdahl for donating the chairs for the shack.
- Holiday Party
- @ quincies on dec 13th
- any extras present,no there aren't
- Motion to return Kyle's IC
- Treasurers report
- we have money
- we spent money
- the buddy pole was whatever USG allotted
- $50 in dues deposited
- Webmaster report
- so far since september we have 352 visits
- website usae has gone up now that we have echo link
- window lights are hooked up
* Submit School Club Round Up Final - DJ, webmaster * Rally volunteer details, (how, what, when) - Someone?, Cool volunteer
There is a rally Friday and Saturday, Kyle will be working Friday and Saturday The place behind walmart will be a good place to be tommarow afternoon
- Space Committee report/brief - Kyle, Chief Op
Nothing changed
* CQ Worldwide - Justin, Public Relations
This weekend is CQ worldwide DX contest Stations all over normal HF bands Voice This month , CW next month
* Lode has a Technology Section, and open columns - Justin, Public Relations
We have space to put stuff in the Lode for HARC someone from the Lode emailed Justin and James concerning this talk about increasing membership Sum up some of the rally
Radio testing- Kyle has tested the clubs TH-d7 for impact, the spring recoil action prevented damage
Last week we talked about
- Brain Storming
- Mt. Brockway Exploration With HF
- Foxhunts
- Tower Space
- Form submitted signed and sent for approval
- Need examples of a setup for planning
HARC is looking at remote data solutions.
- Comming up with ideas for tower planning
- would this be helpfull
- Put in three or four hi power station to feed it to the internet and net control
- use Aprs to track SAR people
- jack has TNC's required , he has a way to connect a TNC to map the coordinates
- Accounting Report
- Went to USG yesterday
- we were rewarded for Buddy pole mobile HF antanae
- we were rewarded the Nova satilite tracking software
- we were not rewarded money for the climbing training
- Echolink
- we are now echolink enabled
- Does HARC want to setup echlink?
- Do we want to allow people to connect in?
- we would have to register to the -r
- we need to find an HD
- DJ will be taking responsibility for setting up the echo link
- we are in need of SCSI 120 Hard Disks
- Do we want to allow people to connect in?
- Are we going to send Kb0VrN a QSL card after six years?
- Yes we are
- LSPR
- Who
- EJ, Kyle, DJ, James, Jon,
- No additional equipment needed
- EJ, Kyle, DJ, James, Jon,
- Who
- newsletter
- publication date - this weekend
- will be sent to list in PDF format
- Report on the wikik
- if you want to edit the page change the template
- or email DJ
Meeting called to order 8:00 PM 9/27/07
* Presentations are going great.
o Pizza Worked Well
o A few new faces at each meeting
* Proposal formed by EJ to request reserve funds for usg
o To Purchase a BuddiPole for mobile HF
o To Purchase NOVA Satellite Software the old software was no longer working with windows2k
o To Send 2 people to tower climbing cert classes
* Repeater was updated with some new tones by DJ
o A Project was mentioned to add internet ability to the repeater
o Costs estimated around $60
o Was put on hold until more was heard about the Long distance wifi project
* Tower space request is being written by Kyle
o Needs to be presented to our advisor
o Needs a ton of signatures to get approved
Meeting called to order 8:00 PM 4/18/07
* Thursday of finals week at noon we will be setting up the long wire
o Need to get access to roof
o need to prework what we can
* Starting next year the dues willbe $25/year and if the member would like to take a HAM exam the club will cover the fee out of that amount.
o passed unanimously
* Apparently there is some way to program the repeater using ASCII code
o We want more catchy phrases!!
* We should get a battery system since our breakers always blow or look into getting better power
o Jon will look into batteries
* We are thinking of a 9600 baud packet node we have all of the equipment but don't' know how much use it would get, so please contact one of us if you are interested.
* We need to find a new home for our rack, if anyone wants it let us know , it would be free.
2/1/07 8:00pm
*Members present: EJ, Ben, James, Jon, Peter
*New People: Mark
*NEW BUSSINESS:
oOffices: No
oPublic Saftey service over winter carnival..... Ben, James, EJ and Jon interested will email if more information
oSaturday, Marquette Trip: Ben will be driving, we will leave around 7:30PM on saturday morning...... Jon, Ben, EJ and possibly carl will be going.
oTHe new computer is mostly here we just need a CPU.
Date:November 9th 2006
*Members Present: Peter, Jon, Ben, James, Edwin
*Ideas for projects:
oGet Long Wire Setup
oKite homeade satilite
oWork with nanosat to do testing of long range equipment
oOur repeater-----> What does it do? Nothing........ Switch
oit to 2 meter, move to lot R, undeclared who will look into possibilities
*Things to do:
oSetup Long Wire
oSetup Scanner antane - Jon and Peter will do sunday afternoon
oGet Jon and Peter added to Key access list for matenance on roof
oTalk with Glenn about setting up long wire on roof - James will try to fit in tomarow
*Also James mentioned getting an actual high quality scanner
*to monitor frequencies..... the current one suffices for now but eventually
*should be changed.
If anyone has anything to add please post it here, at our next meeting I would like to be able to refer to this list for what to cover at the next meeting.