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John, W2GW, the LIDXA President, called to order the meeting
of March 14 at 8:10 PM. Members present (per sign-in on the
blackboard) included W2GW and XYL K2MAU, KC2OPX, K2MFY, N2KA, W2FGD, N2FF,
W2VZQ and XYL Marilyn, N2DXJ and XYL Tanis.
John also welcomed new members Mike, N2YBB, Steve, WB2ZHB, and Tom,
KA2D.
A number of guests from the Yankee
Clipper Contest Club (YCCC) were also welcomed to the club: Peter, WB2OQQ,
George N2GA and his XYL, Diane, K2DO.
Also signing in on the YCCC side of the board were LIDXA members, N2FF,
K2MFY, KA2D, N2YBB and WB2ZHB.
Due to the large number of members
and guests at tonight’s meeting, John had all attendees give a brief
introduction to the audience.
In terms of DX, specific activities were highlighted:
·
The current
operation from
·
With the initial activity of YU8/OH2R in the newly declared “country”
of Kosovo, a number of other stations from that area have been signing with
their YU8 prefix; however, it is not certain if they are really in Kosovo, or
Serbia, but most importantly the YU8 entity is not yet recognized by the
DXCC community.
·
In the next week there are to be two DXpeditions
from
·
It was reported that the
last two weeks YL, Babs, signing J8/DL7AFS, has been quite active from St.
Vincent.
Starting
the business portion of tonight’s meeting was the approval of the February
15th meeting minutes. These minutes were accepted as
presented. In addition, the minutes were
prepared in advance by Ed, K2MFY and sent out to the membership with the February
meeting notice. Thanks to the efforts of
KE2LJ, Pat, the minutes appear in the LIDXA web site at: http://www.qsl.net/lidxa.
W2GW gave
the monthly Treasurer’s report. The dues
for the 2008 year are currently due.
About 14 members have already paid up (including the new members joining
tonight). John urged all members to give
him or mail him the $20 yearly dues for the club. The only expenditure John accounted for since
the last meeting was the sponsorship of the ARRL DX Contest plaque (for 21MHz
SSB, DX).
John introduced
three new members joining the LIDXA tonight Steve, WB2ZHB, Tom, KA2D, and Mike,
N2YBB. The membership congratulated
these three active DXers in joining our club.
John mentioned that the LIDXA
will be holding full elections for all officers and Board of Directors for the club (years 2008-2010) in
May. Ed heads the Nominating
Committee. All members were requested to
contact Ed if they were interested in running as a LIDXA Club Officer or on the
Board. A slate would be prepared in
April, with elections at the May 16 meeting; terms would then become
effective at the June 20 meeting. The
current slate of LIDXA officers (2006–2008) are:
·
President: W2GW (acting)
·
Vice President: vacant
·
Secretary: Ed, K2MFY
·
Treasurer: John, W2GW
·
Directors: Lew, W2BIE; (silent key–at writing minutes time), Andy, W2VZQ; vacant.
So presently there are no incumbents for
President, Vice President, and two Directors.
Frank, N2FF, LIDXA member and
also our ARRL Hudson Division Director reported that dues to advances in
technology, a number of firms that were proposing broadband over power line (BPL)
systems may be considering dropping their proposals and test systems. This is certainly welcome news to the radio
amateur community.
W2FGD, reminded the membership to
check-in at the LIDXA weekly nets on Sunday night at 9 PM local time on the
Grumman Hauppauge repeater at 145.330/144.730 MHz (with 136.5 Hz PL), to get
the latest information on club matters and events.
A this point in our meeting Tom, KA2D, NLI Section Manager,
avid DXer/contester, member of YCCC, and new member of LIDXA, spoke about the
common thread between DXers and Contesters. Tom is representing the YCCC and spoke in
length about the advantages of joining this special purpose (contest)
club. He also detailed all the resources
available for members on the YCCC web site (http://www.yccc.org).
This meeting concluded at around 9:45 PM after all the scheduled
business and entertainment had finished.
The next LIDXA meeting will be held as scheduled on the third Friday of
the month at April 18.
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Ed
Whitman, K2MFY
LIDXA
Secretary