The
meeting was called to order by Jim Nowotarski N3GOO at 6:00PM.
Attending
from the sign in sheet:
Don
Ruokonen K3PRN
Jim
Nowotarski N3GOO
Jim
Smith AB3CA
Uwe Kulms DF2IR
John
Paul Howell AA3WI
Ed
Myerson AA3XY
Steve
Stitzer WA3ZWC
Bob
Gardenghi K3FQP
Les
Jamison WR3X
Tom
Dalton KB3NHQ
Heru
Walmsley W3WVV
Chuck
Angel AA3FB
Gary
Henderson W3DTN
Nick
Yokanovich K3NY
Rick
Bartel W3RCB
Chip
Weems W4PBG
Rol
Anders K3RA
The
minutes of the April meeting had been emailed to the membership and hard copies
were available at the meeting. They were approved as written.
The
Treasurer was away on business. A call
was again made for someone to step forward and assume the role. There are some bills to be paid etc. Jim
will keep any money collected for the time being.
Heru
W3WVV noted that some clubs are yielding some interest by
putting their larger amounts of treasury in
certificates of deposit. With most useful
yields requiring a minimum of $1000.00 and fairly long term
commitments we will have to
wait until our funds are considerably increased from the present rough estimate
of around $800.00/
Nick
K3NY is gearing up for D-Day and circulated copies of previous certificates. The full layout of the SCR-584 AA system was
chosen for this year. (Since an number of these were landed at
The
USS Des Moines (WWII Cruiser) is going off museum hold and will be available
for picking up some of its electronic compliments. Les WR3X
advised that the Carrier USS Forestall could be located in
Training
Les
WR3X reported that the 4 remaining General Class student are only a few weeks
away from their exams.
Saturday
Work Party is required to replace the rotator with a loaner from Warren
Hartman. The replacement rotator need
lubricating and a
checkout for worn parts etc. Rol K3RA will come in
for the replacement on the tower but will need help.
A
few weeks ago over 300 people come through the museum as part of the 'take you
kids to work day.' Les worked the station for a while but couldn't talk to the
people at the same time. It was hoped by
the museum staff that we would have the station manned for this event. Apparently there was a communications
failure.
Last
Saturday there were over 800 people in the museum for Robots day. The station was not operated because it has
interfered with the robots
in the past. (nice
demo for electronic warfare?)
Les
reported on
Over
300 new hams have been yielded from this course.
The
Northrop Grumman Net on 14.270MHz was prematurely terminated on
10
May
because of some very heavy local noise which sounded
like welding arcs which rose to S8/9. (Not power line for a change.)
The
FAR meeting was in VA so the next FAR report will be in June. We are still
committed to the equipment test table for the FARFest this September
9th and 10th.
D-Day
June 3rd & 4th. W2W
Saturday and Sunday. Nick will be
have Museum Ships on the Air the same weekend
NK3ST. We need openers and closers for both
days
as well as operators. On Saturday Nick K3NY
will come in and open and then go to the TORSK, if a closer shows up or call or
emails Nick he will not
have to come back. Sunday is open and needs to be
organized. The W2W call has been reserved until the 11th and operators are invited
to come in and operate the station as W2W.
If you can work on Sunday send an email to Rol, Jim or the
undersigned. If no one else can open Sunday
Rol will open but cannot stay. So
volunteers are needed in any event. Also Nick would appreciate any help on the
TORSK.
The
Museum Key policy of the Museum was discussed.
The
Drake TR-7
Gary
Henderson W3DTN led a discussion on the TR-7 and its fate. It was decided that it will be removed from
the for sale listing and used for new
General
Class hams as a starter loaner.
Field
Day
An
extended discussion of field day was held.
A
special supplement to these minutes will be issued from Jim N3GOO to the membership.
Gary
W3DTN volunteered a brace of Motorola HT s.
The
meeting adjourned at 7:40 PM
The
technical program was a presentation by Les WR3X on: The Global Maritime
Distress & Safety System and some of the units used in the system.
Submitted
by W4PBG 16 May 06
For
Norm Smith WA6ABD Secretary