Minutes of the Radioklub Nokia Board Meeting
- February 2001
Meeting called to order on 2/14/01 at 9:00
AM at NH4 by our president, Esa Korhonen.
The following board members were present:
Bob Alexander, Mike Sundstrom, Esa Korhonen,
Colin Buckup, and Andrew Kapushoc.
Esa informed that Cary Carender, our station
trustee, received the vanity-call license
for our club station. We received our first
choice from the proposed list. Official call
sign for Radioklub Nokia in Irving is now
NK5A. It's already published on QRZ.com as
well.
Esa updated the Board on the other Nokia
club stations around the world.
There are a total of 5 stations in Finland
and one in San Diego.
In Finland we have: OH2AV in Espoo; OH1N
and OH0N in Salo; OH8AV in Oulu; OH6AAH in
Aanekoski and OH3AV in Tampere. The San Diego
call sign is unknown.
These stations were built over the years
with funds coming from Nokia. To get support
these clubs prepared a budget with action
plans and presented it to the respective
HR-Recreational Activities group within the
company.
In order for our Radioklub to set up a station
with help from Nokia, it was decided that
the following steps need to be taken:
1- Update the list of our members, so that
we can show Nokia how many people are interested
in having a ham station. The point is that
these funds come from the same overall budget
that supports groups like Nokia soccer teams,
runner teams, bikers, chess players, etc.
2- Prepare a budget based on the proposal
presented earlier to the Board. This proposal
will be refined to reflect the essentials,
the would-be-nice-to-have and the dream list.
3- Contact the facilities group to start
the search for a physical space for the station.
This should be much easier now that we officially
exist as a group and have a call sign assigned.
Worst-case scenario (No station on Nokia
Campus allowed) could be addressed with a
remote operated one.
4- Contact HR with the results from the before
mentioned activities and ask for support.
Since the old e-mail reflector was deactivated,
it's been hard for all the members to share
mails and news. Colin Buckup was assigned
to set up a new e-mail reflector, similar
to the old e-groups reflector. Note: e-groups
meanwhile has merged with Yahoo, now the
service runs under Yahoo administration,
this service is still free. Esa will forward
the existing members list so that the new
e-group can be started. Members should expect
an invitation to (re) join the list shortly.
Discussing the station priorities, two topics
came up:
1- What's the real priority for our station,
based on the survey done last year? It appears
to be HF operation, with VHF FM coming second.
One idea is to repeat a short survey using
the new reflector to see if this holds true.
Results will be presented next month.
2- Antennas: What can we use as antenna in
the Irving Campus, since there are severe
City Regulation restrictions in the Las Colinas
area. One idea is using the flagpoles as
tuned verticals. This depends where we will
get our "shack".
Logo for the Radioklub Nokia:
We don't have a logo for our club yet. The
proposal was made to have an internal (member
only) contest to create our logo. All members
are welcome to contribute. Guidelines for
the logo will be addressed shortly.
Invitation:
Bob Alexander invited all members of the
Radioklub Nokia to join the Lone Star DX
Association for their quarterly meeting.
That group is going to have a feature presentation
by K5AB addressing the K5K Kingman Reef 2000
DX-pedition. The meeting will be on March
10th (Saturday) from 11:30 AM until 2:00
PM at the Bodacious BBQ in Arlington (on
Division Street, west of 360).
HamCom:
Bob Alexander informed that this year's HamCom
is going to have an excellent DX presentation.
The LSDXA, together with other DX groups
in the DFW area, is inviting, amongst others,
OH2BH Martti Laine, ON4UN, K5AB, etc. These
people accepted to come to HamCom instead
of Dayton. This is a major victory for the
North Texas hams. Bob is asking all members
to help funding these efforts. He will address
this later with all members.
Financials:
So far the club has had neither income nor
expenses.
Meeting was adjourned at 10:15 AM. Minutes
by Colin Buckup.
Updated by
N5GG on 8/23/01