We will be absent today and tomorrow. The reason: Field Day!
The meeting was called to order at 19:15.
Attending: Cici AA5EK, Jim AB5JK, Erik K5WW, Jason KF5EJX, Joe N5LLS, Wanda N5SXT, Mary KU5Z, Erik K5WW, Martin KF5IKN and Richard N5YPJ.
The big news: Joe and Wanda have sold their house and bought a yacht and an RV. They will be touring the world from now on, while they’re still young! 🙂 Good for them; but we will certainly miss them.
The other big news: the CARC is getting a brand new Kenwood TS-590S for the club station! It has been sponsored by the hospital (so much for K5WW’s hard work…), and has been ordered. It may be in town right on time for Field Day. If it’s not we’ll blame it on the club president for ordering it way too late 😉
Jason ordered 1,000 ft of LMR-400 coax, and Jim ordered 50 PL-259s and some barrel connectors. We’re going to need all of those at Field Day; because it sounds like we will have 4 radios on the air! We might have to rent a few more operators, though 😉
Field Day – you’re invited! It’s on June 22 and 23. We will be the ones with the K5T callsign! If you need help finding our Field Day location here’s that map again:
See you there!
Hi all.
Because of Field Day we decided to have the June meeting on June 18th. Be there!
The meeting was called to order at 19:08.
Attending: Cici AA5EK, Jim AB5JK, Erik K5WW, Enrique KE5QIS, Raul KE5QIT and Jason KF5EJX.
Membership dues were taken care of.
After selling some old radio equipment that the club wasn’t using K5WW was able to raise $440 for the new radio fund.
Jason mentioned that the hospital might be willing to pay for a new radio; but the decision is not 100 percent final yet.
We decided to have the next meeting on June 18 instead of June 25; just in case we need to make some last minute changes to or arrangements for Field Day.
The meeting was adjourned at 19:37, after which AB5JK, K5WW and KE5EJX went to inspect the Field Day site. And what a wonderful site it is!
The CARC’s May 2013 meeting will be on Tuesday the 28. Same place, same time.
Bring your dues – it’s that time! 😉
Yeah, yeah, I know: you think I haven’t been doing anything for weeks…
WRONG!!!!
I have been working real hard for the club, among other things on a favicon. What’s a favicon, you ask (or not)? A favicon is a little image that is linked to a website, and shows up in your list when you save that website in your favorites, or bookmarks, or whatever your machine may call it, or save it to your desktop. Favicons are usually tiny versions of logos or other images. I tried to resize the CARC logo to something very small; but that didn’t work. So I decided to go with the abbreviation instead: CARC.
They are really small images; and having done this a few times I can tell you for sure that it’s easier to create a large image than a very small one!
So here’s what the new favicon looks like in a few different browsers:
And it looks mighty sweet on my Android dumbphone too!
If you can do better then please let me know! 😉
Greetings, y’all!
In order to generate a few bucks for the new radio fund I have volunteered to sell the equipment that the club purchased some time ago.
I am going to put all of that on eBay, one item at a time. It’s a huge task measuring, photographing and video’ing all of that stuff – not to mention boxing it up!
As of today I have listed the Kenwood TS-520 and the Shure microphone. See http://www.ebay.com/itm/Kenwood-TS-520-YG-3395C-CW-filter-Shure-microphone-3-new-tubes-/190835528419?ssPageName=ADME:L:LCA:US:1123#ht_1023wt_959
Feel free to bid 🙂 Remember: it’s for a good cause!
The CARC didn’t participate in one, or two, or three contests this weekend. Nope, we did FOUR! The ARI contest, and all of the 7QP, New England and Indiana QSO parties!
Apart from a short visit from Gary K5QOW it was mostly a 2-man effort by Jason KF5EJX and Erik K5WW. We gave the modified Nomic interface a good workout on RTTY and decided that it works great on FSK; but some other (Windows 8?) issues still need to be ironed out.
And no: we didn’t make thousands of QSOs worth a gazillion points; but it was F-U-N! Where were you???
The meeting was called to order at 19:05 PM. It was SO disorderly before that! 😉
Attending: Cici AA5EK, Jim AB5JK, Gary K5QOW, Erik K5WW, Jason KF5EJX and Mary KU5Z.
The March 2013 minutes were read by Jim and approved by everyone. That’s because he always did such a fine job!
Cici AA5EK, our brand new treasurer, reported that the CARC currently has $274 in an undisclosed location. Probably an old mattress.
A motion was made and voted on to have the 2013 Field Day at Jim’s dad’s place – after he graciously gave his permission to do so. That location is about 10 miles NW from Uvalde, right next to highway 55. Here’s a map:
Thank you, Google. And Mr. Klaevemann!!
Also, we will be using the callsign “K5T” for the event. No tongue-twisters there!
The meeting was over at around 8 PM. And then we congregated in the parking lot for another 30 minutes. Fun, fun, fun! 🙂
The April 2013 meeting will be on Tuesday the 23rd. Y’all show up! 🙂
