Maui Amateur Radio Club – Jan 14, 2015 Minutes – Maui EOC Wailuku, HI
President Tom Worthington called the meeting to order at 7:00 PM. 
 
Meeting minutes and treasurer’s report were approved, and accepted by acclamation.
19 members and guests attended.
 
New Business:
New Officers were considered, however, all the old officers were reelected for the new year. Anita-AH6AH has offered to participate as an assistant to the treasurer.
 
Talk Around:
 
K6GSS-John: New TV. Fun operating W1AW portable. Skywarn checkin. Bigger FD score goal.
NH6Y-Tom: W1AW portable activity. 2035Qs SSB/RTTY. Worked all states. Wants contesting & CW skills.
N0DQD-Bob: Went to China. Lots of parts. Interested in getting parts for projects.
KH6H-Mel: Skywarn active during wind storm.147.02-lots of kerchunking. 6M opening in QST
KC7ASJ – Dave: Working helping with taxes. Repeater working in Lahaina.
NH7U- Robin: Not a lot of radio. 10M contest for 6hr. 76 countries confirmed. JT65 favorite. More contesting. Need to update radio firmware.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
AH6AH- Joe:  Listening for RACES activity during the storm.
KH6RG-Jeanie: Interested in emergency communications. Trying to get HF antenna up.
KH6PO-Diane: Had 70MPH wind, antennas ok. Worked W1AW portable. Wants HF power. Cuba, Reunion Island QSOs. Rotor problems
KH6HTV – Jim: Back on island. Has Diamond mobile antenna equipment for sale.   HDTV new mode.DVB-T.  Experimenting with HDTV                                                                                                 
AD6E-(KH6TU-club call) -Alan: 10 Meter contest. SSB contest this weekend. W1AW portable.Future: 70’ crankup tower. Got Steppir antenna.
W1TEC-Jack: Interested in TechSun HF radio.
KH6CJJ-Kent-Interested in contesting for the year. Improving antenna system. NACQ contest.
KH6HTV-Jim: Back from Colorado. Using PSK31. Wants to redesign TV repeater for HD.
KH6AH-Ron: On HF in the afternoon. Using K3 remote system.
KH6RSB-Shawn: Wants to upgrade to General class. Not on radio much. Website activity.
KH6REO-Ed: Some activity, surprised at QRP
WH6EAV-Marvin: Wants to be better prepared for emergencies.
Pete  Thompson- Has Icom 700TY HF antenna on sailboat with SSB capabilities. Wants to get radio working on boat. Asking for help.
 
This month’s discussion: Detecting noise  Tom built a magnetic loop antenna for sensing a noise source.
 
Next month:
 
Meeting adjourned 9:05 PM.

In case you missed the meeting here is the presentation on Digital Modes that Tom NH6Y gave to the club. 

Club member Alan AD6E gave a talk about his participation in the DX Expedition to Kure Atoll. For more information about the expedition please visit their website:
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http://www.cordell.org/KURE/index.html

Maui Amateur Radio Club – Jun 11, 2014 Minutes – Maui EOC Wailuku, HI

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

The  treasurer’s  report and meeting minutes were approved, and accepted by acclamation.

11 members and guests attended.

Talk Around:

K6GSS-John: Tested the IC7000 for Field Day.

NH6Y-Tom:   WPX CW contest, made 72 contacts. Working W1AW stations, multiple modes. Lots of Field Day preparations.

N0DQD-Bob :  No amateur radio this month. Working on airplane.

KH6CJJ-Kent: 40 M morning and afternoon nets. WPX CW contest, 10M not too good. 15 open to Europe. 740 contacts.

KH6H-Mel: Alpha and Tentec are merging.

AH6AH-Anita: Nothing to report this month.

KH6JAY-Jay: Flagpole antenna, has Korean callsign worked PSK31 in South Korea.

WH6DUE- Devin: Setting up a wifi network for his property. Planning on a tower.

AD6E – Alan: Just moved to Maui, thinking about working Field Day. Mostly a CW operator.

WH6EAV-Marvin: Nothing to report this month.

KH6PO-Diane: Some radio, worked with Tom for antenna takedown. Reworked shack, will be putting up a hex beam. Currently only using 100W and a vertical. Looking forward to FD.

KH6RSB-Shawn: Busy with work, excited for Field Day.

KH6H-Mel: Skywarn training, 2 more sessions. Fri July 11 6:30-8:30, Sat July 12 Cert . FCC to grant credit of elements for expired licenses. Outside 2 years of expiration date, need to retest for element 2. Makani Pahili work, HF assumed only thing working. If you’re interested in emergency communication you need to know how to use FLDIGI MT63. HF noise was pretty high. Voice communication very difficult. FLDIGI was working. This year’s exercise was the largest. Next year will include active military.

HF antenna on top of County building isn’t working very well, Suggested to have a spare antenna.

This month’s  discussion is Field Day preparation-

MEO is providing the van. Pacifc Portables  will be available. Site and blockhouse are in good shape.  Antennas are packed up and ready to go. Joe has 30’ push up mast and John is bringing a crank up tower.  Need 5 tables. Bob M has the generator. Need more stakes this year. Need kite string for antennas. Tom has borrowed a generator from a neighbor. Need sign-in sheet. Count for Saturday night dinner – 15. Press release forwarded to Maui News. Need visitor’s log. Those not familiar with the tube amplifiers need to consult. 20M station at Kent’s house Omni VII and Bandit amplifier. Has RTTY and WinKey. Will bring headset and earphones. External speaker will be available. Laptop, mouse, mousepad, and lamp. Chair. Bob will have 15 M station Ten Tec Orion SB220, RTTY, Paddle, Earphones, Need mouse, and mousepad, Dunestar linked to Orion. Need external display. John-IC7000 for 10/40M. AL-80 amp. Will bring L4B amp as spare, 1000W out. Band pass manual operation. Has RTTY interface.  Alan will check to see if he has a WinKey for the 10/40 station. John will bring CW paddle. John has headset and earphones and footswitch. Power strips for all bands. Bob to bring power meter, Tom to bring 2 power meters. Tom to bring extra coax. Desk light needed for all stations. Everyone should bring their water and snacks, sunscreen, work gloves and hats. Devin, Amanda, Diane, and Shawn are planning to spend the weekend there;.

Bring square point shovels.  Bring fan. Our Federal EIN : 990188810 Need to contact Bob Murdock.

Control O to sign in to the log

Need to find out how  to send message to other operators with N1MM.

Meeting adjourned at 9:40 PM

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

The previous month’s treasurer’s  report and minutes was reviewed and accepted by acclamation.

15 members and guests attended.

Talk Around:

KH6XT–Den: Visiting from Olympia Washington

K6GSS-John: Some satellite and 6Meter contacts. On FO29, N2YO website.

KH6PO-Diane:  Last operated W1AW/KH6. Bought hex beam, has low pwr out on Icom 735

NH7Y-Tom:   Made contacts on 10M, 120 Qs per hour. Bands good, Europe on 10M mornings.

N0DQD-Bob :  Still dealing with antennas and covenants.

KH6HTV-Jim: Tested with 70cm ATV beacon. Performed some area testing. Leaving for mainland soon.

KH6CJJ-Kent: Contesting with his new Kenwood 990 on ARRL DX contest. Good conditions.

KH6OA-Robin: Trying to get RTTY setup working.

W1TEC-Jack: Leaving late April. Trying to get slinky antenna working. Selling MFJ Tuner.

WH6EIS-Sean: Trying to get club website authorization.

KH6H-Mel: Exam on April 5th. Makani Pahili coming up. Red Cross needs hams for 4 shelters.

WH6DUE- Devin: Recently bought house in Kapalalua.

AH6CU-Joe: EZNEC

AH6AH-Anita: with Joe

KH6REO-Ed:

New Business: There are about 50 QSL cards, received by the club that need to be handled.

This month’s subject was talking through some of the issues for the upcoming ARRL Field Day. Tom has built Yagis for 10 and 15 meters. Early testing looks good. The current thought is to use mono-band Yagi antennas, on two separate towers for field day contacts.

Maui Electric has donated some older laptop computers that we may be able to use in logging field day contacts.

Meeting adjourned at 9:12PM