April 9, 2014 Club Minutes

Maui Amateur Radio Club – Apr 9, 2014 Minutes – Maui EOC Wailuku, HI

President Tom Worthington called the meeting to order at 7:00 PM.  

There was no  treasurer’s  report this month, but the meeting minutes were reviewed and accepted by acclamation.

14 members and guests attended.

Talk Around:

K6GSS-John: Presented some pictures of the club from the 1980s.

KC7ASJ – Dave: ARES Net on Sunday

KH6PO-Diane:  CQ WPX contest on 10M at Tom’s house.

NH7Y-Tom:   Afternoon net difficult, operated WPX-over 500 QSOs, working on Bandit amp, built yagis

N0DQD-Bob :  Still dealing with antennas and covenants.

KH6CJJ-Kent: CQ WPX contest on 10M. Been working afternoon net.

KH6RSV-Sean: Heard Skywarn Net. Hard to get into repeater from home. Working on club website.

KH6H-Mel: Exam session produced 5 new licensees

AH6CU-Joe: Putting up stealth antenna

AH6AH-Anita: What he said.

KH6REO-Ed: Worked Russia on 15M, Elecraft K1 , some CW

KH7FX – Bob: 3 element 10M Yagi working well. WPX contest. Chech Republic

KH6AH - Ron: Has new K3-Has problem with antenna tuner

Cary: Took test last Saturday, waiting for call sign.

New Business: Motion to purchase wifi cards for club laptop computers, approved. Estimated expenditure $20.

This month’s presentation was done by Tom on Field Day antennas and N1MM logging. Tom has built Yagis for Field Day, mono banders for 20, 15, and 10 meters.  A network was setup within the EOC to log contacts as a demonstration using the club’s laptops with an Ethernet connection.

Meeting adjourned at 9:10PM