Location:
Briarcliffe College, Bethpage, N.Y.
The LIDXA Vice President, Marty, KE2LJ, called to order the meeting
of October 20 at 8:20 PM. Members present (per sign-in on the
blackboard) included KE2LJ, K2MFY, N2ZN, N2KA, W2FGD, NA2P, AB2NT, N2DXJ and
XYL.
In terms of DX, specific activities were highlighted:
Starting
the business portion of tonight’s meeting was the approval of the October 20th meeting minutes. These minutes were accepted as
presented. In addition, the minutes were
prepared in advance by the club’s secretary, Ed, K2MFY, and sent out to the
membership with the club’s October meeting notice. Thanks to the efforts of KE2LJ, Pat, the
minutes appear in the LIDXA web site at: http://www.qsl.net/lidxa.
Pat opened the meeting
with a discussion on the nomination of a new President of the LIDXA, to replace
Marty, until the June 2008 elections. Last month Pat requested that Ken, N2ZN canvass the
membership and look for candidates to run for the office of President. Unfortunately, per Ken’s summary, some of the
members solicited could not serve in this capacity, or held other positions
within the LIDXA organization. Ken added
that in January he would be leaving the NY area for
Pat
said he would preside over a limited number of future meetings; however, he reminded
the membership that he is leaving the NYC area for a
Pat
mentioned that he would shortly contact Marty’s family to see if the club could
obtain the large collection of videos and DVD that Marty had accumulated over
the years. This was one of the primary
sources of entertainment at club meetings.
In a similar note, Marv, W2FGD, was requested to contact the ARRL to see
if they still had available for loan, VHS tapes from their large media
collection.
Since there
will be no formal LIDXA meeting in December (
The club
has been allotted about 2 hours for our “DX Program” –from 10:00 to 11:50AM.
Based upon our schedule, members modified a few of the topics from last year’s
presentation:
· Overview
of DXing--What’s DX?--KE2LJ, Pat
· DX
Propagation--Using Propagation Information for Better DXing--K2MFY, Ed
· Operating
Techniques--W2FGD, Marv
· QSL
Checking & Criteria--AG2A, Tom & W2GW, John
· Award
Hunting--Pete, NA2P
· DX Aids on
the Computer--AG2A, Tom
· LIDXA/General
DX Information--W2FGD, Marv
It
was felt that 10 to 15 minutes on each topic by the presenter would fill up the
allotted time, and allow for questions at the end of each topic. The club is scheduled for Room E (Great Hall
in the
Ed
discussed the club’s annual
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.
This meeting concluded at around 9:15 PM after all the scheduled
business had finished. Since the
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Ed Whitman, K2MFY
LIDXA Secretary