Meeting Minutes

• Call to Order
• Reading of Last Month's Minutes
• Technical Presentation
  Keith Brewster N0IAW talked about the new Specific Area Message Encoding for NOAA weather radio. The new receivers can be programmed to alert you to only the messages for counties you are in. This is a great improvement over the previous radios which would set off alerts for any event anywhere in the broadcast radius of the station. The new radios are currently sold at radio shack for $80, although this price should drop soon.

• Old Business
  • Club room
    Other people's stuff is almost completely cleared out of our CEC sub-basement room. We may be able to get more keys for the rest of the officers.
  • QSL cards
    The committee is still working on it. They'll go to press real-soon-now.
• New Business
  
  • VHF Spring Sprints This is a series of one day contests, each on a different band and lasting 4 or 5 hours.

         144 MHz: April 13,    7 PM to 11 PM local time
         222 MHz: April 21,    7 PM to 11 PM local time
         432 MHz: April 29,    7 PM to 11 PM local time
         902 MHz:   May 09,    6 AM to  1 PM local time (Pick 5 consecutive hours)
        1296 MHz:   May 09,    6 AM to  1 PM local time (Pick 5 consecutive hours)
        2304 MHz:   May 09,    6 AM to  1 PM local time (Pick 5 consecutive hours)
          50 MHz:   May 16-17, 2300Z Sat to 0300Z Sun.
    

    Interest appears to be high for the 2m contest comming up ths Monday. Contact John KC5VEI for participation plans.
  • Field Day
    Field Day will be June 27th this year. We have decided to hold it on top of the Energy Center like we did in 1996. Some reasons include:
    • Few students in June means a poor opportunity for public exposure. We're better off holding a special event station during a fall football game.
    • The EC site is much easier to secure.
    • Propagation!
    Participants will be encouraged to visit with the SCARS club throughout the event. We'll probably rent a small generator as well as our copious battery supply. Contact Jared KB5PSP for more information.
  • ELECTIONS Since none of the offices were contested, the nominees were approved by consent.

        President:       Jared Bostic    KB5PSP
        Vice-President:  Kate King       KD5BFI
        Treasurer:       Brian McDonald  KD5BFH
        Secretary:       Jeff Taylor     KD5CFO
    

• Annoucement:
  Skywarn is active! Tune in to 147.060 +/- during severe weather.

Ahern, Jud              W5JA       GEO F
Bostic, Jared P.        KB5PSP     CS  U
Brewster, Keith         N0IAW      MET S
Kilmer, Stan            KB5RVT     TEL S
King, Kate              KD5BFI     GEO G
Lamphere, Lan		KC5RUN	   asc
Locket, Bill		KC5DOB	   asc
McDonald, Brian         KD5BFH     ECN S
Narasimma			   CS
Noble, Cindy		KC5RRR	   MET G
Noble, Seth             KC5OPQ     CS  G
Patrick, John           KC5VEI     ECE G
Ramirez, Brett          KD5CQH     MET U
Subremanam, Krishnan	VU2AKQ	   AME