Historical Electronics
Museum Amateur Radio Club
eMinutes
of the meeting of January 9, 2003
The following list if from
the sign in sheet: Chip W4PBG, Mike KB3CPV, Les WR3X, Gene W3BAB, Heru W3WVV,
Tom KB3GHC, Jim KB3GSA, Ed AA3XY, Sam KB3CYL, Gary W3GMY, Chuck AA3FB, Alan
W1IKI, Jim N3GOO, Bill WT3B, Gary W3DTN, Nick K3NY, Vaugn K3VQ, Paul KD3JF, Joe
K3JIS, Jules K0ZMA, Gary N3BYN, Rol K3RA, Tim W1TRT and Ed N3XVE.
Visitors were: Patrick
Zankowitz, Sr., Alan Solomon KA3QQH and Bruce W3YVV.
The meeting was called to
order shortly after 6:00PM by president Ed Myerson AA3XY.
The minutes of the December meeting were corrected to change Gary Ryan
call from: W3GYM to W3GMY and approved as changed.
The treasurer was not present and there was no treasurer's report.
Note: At the meeting the
following pass outs were available to all present:
Old Business
The 70 CM antenna system is
still to be analyzed and fixed.
Training
The new entry level
Technician class will begin Tuesday night January 14, 2003
at 6:30 PM.
A reasonable number of students have signed up and incl7ude some youths
and gals. Members were encouraged
to spread the word and pass out flyers. A
call for W3GR operators during the class was made and a sign up sheet for the
next 4 class nights was circulated. It
was requested that operators make a strong effort to explain what they were
doing.
QSL Cards
Mike KB3CPV reported good
progress in the QSL card analysis and award filing.
We did receive a card from
the north pole.
FISTS
Nick K3NY reported over 50
CW buddies have been paired worldwide and explained FISTS and the CW buddy
program. The FISTS
web page was referenced.
HEMARC Web Page
Nick reported that he has
now put an activities calendar
on the HEMARC web page and is working on
more pages. Members et al are
encouraged to visit our web site at www.qsl.net/w3gr/
. Other
events of interest are on a separate page.
W2W
118 QSL’s answered thus
far. This is lighter than usual. There
are some bureau cards at Cam’s address. The
costs are negligible to plus thus far.
FAR
There is still considerable
concern about the Auto Call magazine. If
the circulation keeps up it will break even in a few months.
The chairman of the Fall-Fest will be from CARA this year.
Thus far it appears that FAR and CARA each cleared $3300.00 from
Fall-Fest 2002 and with any luck at all will do even better in 2003.
This is much better than FAR did in 2002 and a bit better than CARA did
in 2002. It looks good and we
agreed that HEMARC will commit to provide the test table this year.
The article in Auto Call that announced that it might cease publication
was not condoned by the trustees and should be ignored.
Contributions to the content of the magazine are badly needed however, so
please feel urged to write up something and submit it.
It was pointed that the
Auto Call article on the Riley Hollingsworth talk at HEMARC was written by John
Johnston W3BE. In the article
HEMARC receive some very good publicity. It
was agreed that the secretary would compose a note of appreciation.
The Club Roster
A test email was sent to
all members last week. It was
announced that you need to provide a new email address if you did receive it.
Several new email address were received.
Please send changes to cmweems@ieee.org
or cmweemsj@msn.com.
TBL-13 and BC-610
Gary W3GMY has received a
letter from the Museum Staff indicating that we may use the TBL-13 and BC-610
can be used by HEMARC for such things as the museum related special events.
We must however keep good records and removed parts so they can be
restored to their mechanical pristine shape in the future.
New Business
Cam Marie’ Follow up
Nick K3NY is going to visit
Cam’s son tomorrow and will review the tower etc. It will be necessary for any
interested in it to make a fair offer. He
will list the gear and artifacts and have the museum acquisitions committee
review it.
Jackets
We still are about 3 orders
short of the minimum order quantity required to have a club jacket at a
reasonable price – under $50.00. Let
Sam KB3CYL know:
Notice of Free Hamfest
Wed Jan 22 is the freefest
at Timonium 5PM on and FREE.
The 2003 HEMARC Calendar
of Activities.
Nick K3NY issued the
proposed calendar draft. We are
trying to fine a special event other than D-Day in a month not as crowded as
June. This calendar is posted on
the HEMARC Web. We need to
include kids day in June. Any list
of activities should include our training program.
Joe KB3FIG will try to work out a tentative schedule and course outline
for a fundamentals course. We need
to look
Don’t forget the ARRL etc
require 3 month notice to cover the event.
We have a sign up sheet
from the Greater Baltimore Hamfest and sign up for a table and plan for a good
display.
The business meeting ended
at 6:55PM
The Technical Program
Part 1
Jules Kozma K0ZMA presented
a beautiful working model of a working very early spark transmitter and coherer
receiver and explained both. They
are beautiful and worked very well.
The Technical Program
Part 2
Rol Anders K3RA gave a live
computer working of EZNEC antenna modeling.
He took measurements from several members antennas and showed what they
could expect in power out, SWR impedance and patterns.
Then they played what if with changes to the antennas.
It was quite exciting to see what some relatively modest wire changes on
common antennas could to.
73 Chip W4PBG
for Jim Smith N3ZPS
January 10, 2003