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John, W2GW, the LIDXA President, called to order the meeting
of November 16th at 8:10 PM. Members
present (per sign-in on the blackboard) included W2GW and XYL K2MAU, W2VZQ, K2MFY,
W2FGD, NC2KY, N2DXJ and XYL Tanis.
The
club welcomed to the LIDXA guests, Phil, N2MUN and Tom KA2D.
In terms of DX, specific activities were highlighted:
·
The station C91KDJ, from
·
A new DXpedition to Revilla Gidedo, is
expected up shortly.
·
Although several stations from
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A group of Greek amateurs had activated
Starting
the business portion of tonight’s meeting was the approval of the October
19th meeting minutes. Except for a minor correction, 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 November 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 will be due early next year.
Ed
indicated that had filed the ARRL Club Annual Report recently with the ARRL
A
few LIDXA members indicated that they had attended the ARRL Hudson Division
Awards Dinner on November 11 hosted by the Bergen Amateur Radio
Association. This year the club
sponsored a ˝-page ad in the Awards Journal.
Marv
mentioned that on December 2 the NJDXA Holiday Party would be held at the Basking Ridge Country Club in NJ, honoring the 50th anniversary of the NJDXA and the W2 QSL
Bureau. NJDXA boasts that no other organization has managed
an incoming QSL Bureau continuously for such a long period of time.
On the subject of dinners, Ed
stated that he had made arrangements for the evening of Thursday December 13 with
the Star Diner on
Members then
discussed the forthcoming 2008 Ham Radio University (HRU). John brought up the club’s participation in
this forum. HRU 2008 is scheduled for
Sunday, January 13, 2008 at the
This year we have been allotted
about 1-1/2 hours for
our “DX Program”–from 10:00 to 11:50AM in Room E (Great Hall in the
Based upon
last year’s schedule, presenters at this meeting modified a few of the topics. The final list was arrived at with areas of
responsibility:
·
Introduction, Overview of DXing–What’s DX?—W2GW
·
DX Propagation–Using Propagation Information for
Better DXing—K2MFY
·
QSL Checking & Criteria—W2GW
·
LIDXA/General DX Information—W2FGD, W2GW, K2MFY
·
Question and Answer Period—W2GW, K2MFY, W2FGD
It was felt that 15 minutes on each topic by the presenter
would fill up the allotted time, and allow time for questions at the end of
each topic. Immediately following the
club’s presentation is keynote speaker Gordon West, WB6NOA–and it
was felt that additional HRU attendees may entering the room towards the end of
our presentations.
Members were urged to come out
and support the club and learn a few things at the Forum.
Guest
Phil, N2MUN, chairman of the 2008 HRU spoke in general about the activities of
the HRU over the years since its inception in 2000. He thanked the club for our past efforts and
indicated that he would readily support our latest activities.
Guest Tom, KA2D, then introduced us to a number of items
local to our area. Tom is presently the
Section Manager for NLI and served as ARRL Section Emergency Coordinator and
Assistant Section Manager for New York City-Long Island, since 1998. He spoke briefly about the “Neighbor Watch”
program. Tom suggested that all members
subscribe to his monthly “NLI Section monthly
e-Happenings.”
A DVD was then shown
on the February 2007 Italian DXpedition to
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 10:10 PM after all the scheduled
business and entertainment had finished.
Since the
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Ed
Whitman, K2MFY
LIDXA
Secretary