The February meeting is on the 24. This is your invitation!
The meeting was called to order at 7:06 PM. Attending: Jason KF5EJX, Jim AB5JK, Cici AA5EK, Dee KF5UDO, Dave WA6YJW, Richard N5YPJ, Roger K0YY, Gary K5QOW, Mary KU5Z and Erik K5WW.
A lot of time was spent discussing the CARC’s participation in the upcoming Texas State Parks On The Air event. Roger has reserved one camp site, and has prepared a long list of radio and camping items that he has available in his RV (aka. rolling shack); and also a list of items that the club and individual members will have to bring if needed. More planning to be done.
Treasurer Cici reported that we have exactly the same amount in the bank as last month.
Jim AB5JK reported that the Echolink/Allstar work is almost finished. He is preparing to demonstrate how to use those systems at a next meeting.
The meeting was adjourned after 8 PM, after which birthday girl Mary KU5Z was showered (almost) in presents. Happy 40th! 😉
Oh, guess what: the first meeting of the new year is coming up!
And, here’s something else: at that very same meeting one of our members is turning 40. F-O-R-T-Y, woohoo!
Cash price for the first person to guess who the lucky dude is! 🙂
Hurry, hurry! We need operators for the 2015 BARTG Sprint RTTY contest!
If you can operate a computer mouse and/or keyboard then please join the crew this weekend.
He got called Jay a couple of times; but Roger at KN5S got put in other people’s log 132 times this Saturday, even logging 18 states and 1 Canadian province on 80 meters! And he did it all… barefooted.
Thanks, Roger, for graciously letting us use your name in the NAQP SSB contest! Oh, wait, what? What do you mean, we didn’t ask???
Sorry! 😉
Our repeater can now be used through Echolink. Please go here for the details.
Thanks to everyone involved!
More aluminum added to our antenna park: the 6 meter vertical.
KF5EJX and K5WW installed the Diamond 6 meter vertical last week. AB5JK did the final inspection and took the pics:
As always: click the images for a much bigger view. But yeah, I know: it still looks small compared to that big-eff tower 🙂
Come and see it “live”!
I think it’s safe to say that we accomplished quite a bit in 2014; and 2015 can only get better. Start planning!
Our best wishes for a healthy, safe, happy and prosperous year to all of our members, family, and friends.
So a while ago Jason KF5EJX, Roger K0YY and Erik K5WW participated in the 2014 Ten-Meter RTTY Contest, in the Multi Operator category. And yesterday the results rolled in:
KN5S 2014 Ten-Meter RTTY results
We got first place, in this category, in Texas. Woohoo!!
Look closely at the results. No, I said CLOSELY. The top scorer in the USA barely made 100 QSOs more than we did! We’re going to beat that score next year, right???
See all the results here, in their full glory: click me.
Oops – I spoke too late.
Exactly 30 minutes before I posted the December meeting minutes Jim AB5JK emailed me to say that the AllStar link was up and running on the repeater. But I did not see that email until many hours later.
Sorry folks!
More info and instructions to come soon.
