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John, W2GW, the LIDXA President, called to order the meeting
of June 20 at 8:10 PM. Members present (per sign-in on the
blackboard) included W2GW and XYL K2MAU, KC2OPX, K2MFY, W2FGD, N2FF, W2PNJ, W2VZQ
and XYL Marilyn, WB2ZHB, WB2QJ and YL KC2NOT.
Attendees were asked to introduce
themselves to those present.
In terms of DX, specific activities were highlighted:
·
The
recent ham activity from a station signing
·
DK7LX
is supposed to be activating Mayotte Island as TX7LX. He should be active on all bands until June
23.
·
A
Spanish team is operational in East Timor and will be in country from June 10th
to 24th. They are using the callsign 4W6R. Their Web page can be found at http://4w6r.ure.es/home.php?lang=en. QSL via EA4URE. Due to poor propagation only a few members
have heard/worked this country.
·
Several
members have reported good signals from JX9JKA in Svalbard Island.
·
Poor
propagation conditions continue for the past month. Noise levels are up and usually 20
meters is the only reliable band, but closing during evening hours. Opening on 17 meters and above is very
limited.
Starting
the business portion of tonight’s meeting was the approval of the May 23rd meeting minutes.
Except for a couple of minor errors the minutes were accepted as
presented. In addition, the minutes were
prepared in advance by Ed, K2MFY and sent out to the membership with the June
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. Members
who have still not paid up may be dropped from the roster and e-mail
announcements in the future.
Ed said he has forwarded the list
of the new club officers to the leading ham radio newsletters for publication. Marv, W2FGD mentioned that Carl Smith, N4AA,
editor of “QRZ DX Weekly Newsletter” and “DX Magazine, still has not listed the
LIDXA club on his web site, although other radio clubs are listed. Marv has repeatedly contacted Carl on this
matter but to no avail. He suggested
that other club member write Carl.
John
mentioned that we do have adequate monies in our treasury to support the
current expenses–the largest expense of which is our annual liability
insurance. After a brief discussion it
was decided that the club should give larger donations to bona fide
DXpeditions.
Steve,
WB2ZHB, indicated that this August he would be taking a vacation in
Indonesia. He said he has contacted some
YB hams and was going to set up a meeting.
In this regard, he picked up an Alpha
multiband antenna package to deliver as a gift.
John
discussed his activities using digital modes, especially PSK and RTTY. Several members indicated that they would
like to get started in digital modes but have limited knowledge of these
modes. John said that perhaps he and
RTTY expert Frank, N2FF, could prepare a demonstration at a future club
meeting.
Marv, 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.
With the business portion of the
membership concluded, a DVD was then shown on the April 2007 DXpedition to
The meeting concluded early at around 10:05 PM after all the scheduled
business and entertainment had finished.
Since tonight’s meeting was the last one before our summer hiatus, John wished the membership a
good summer, and indicated that the next meeting would be held on Friday September
19, 2008.
______________________________________
Ed
Whitman, K2MFY
LIDXA
Secretary