Call meeting to order: Jeremy WG9T, 07:xx pm MT

Officer and Committee Reports

• Secretary: Sebastian NS0W,
• Treasury: Dan W3ETA,
• Technical Committee: Jim N0XDA,
• VE Testing: Jim N0XDA,
• Website: Sebastian NS0W,
• Vice President: Bob – WA2EKU
• President: Jeremy WG9T,

Old Business:

1. Wings of the Rockies request. Jim will do business cards.

2. Repeater programming – will work on that as soon as software install problem is solved.

3. Mass e-mail still has some errors – Dan will investigate.

New Business:

1. Sebastian proposes the following:

That the club allocate an amount of $500 as a prize to be drawn
in Sept 2009 from "credit" tickets. The $500 will be cash but the
winner is advised to spend it to explore a new field of Ham radio that
he / she might be interested in. This proposal is only for the year Oct
2008
till Sept 2009 and have to be re-submitted again in Oct 2009.

Note: The reason why I came up with $500: It is affordable to the club
but still enough for a member to buy a starter HF rig – so I think that
is a happy medium.

The rules are:
1) Competition are open to club members only.
2) The winner will be determined by a "lottery" in Sept 2009 (at the
election meeting) and the winner has to be present to win.
3) The entries going into the hat to be drawn will be tickets with each
ticket being worth 10 credits.
4) Credits are loosely equivalent to number of hours spent on the
various club activities and the number of credits for a specific
activity has to be determined and published before the activity
commences.
5) All members will get the same amount of credits for a specific
activity irrespective of the actual time spent on site e.g. 5 credits
for field day if you spend between 1 and 24 hours at the site.
6) Board members are eligible for credits and the drawing but does not
get credit for board
meetings.

Some suggestions (to be debated) for the credit values would be:

a) New members gets a joining bonus of 5 credits.
b) Each general meeting – 1 credit.
c) Field day 5 credits.
d) Picnic – 3 credits.
e) LarcFest duties – 5 credits

2. Storage locker for the club.

3. Tour De Cure – is the club going to support it?

Meeting adjourned: Jeremy WG9T, 08:35 pm MT

Attendance:

1. President: Jeremy WG9T
2. Treasurer: Dan Campbell W3ETA
3. Secretary: Sebastian NS0W
4. Technical: Jim Walker N0XDA
5. VE Testing: Jim Walker N0XDA
6. Website: Sebastian NS0W
7. Ray Warren – W9LQM

Call meeting to order: Jeremy WG9T, 07:xx pm MT

Officer and Committee Reports

• Secretary: Sebastian NS0W,
• Treasury: Dan W3ETA,
• Technical Committee: Jim N0XDA,
• VE Testing: Jim N0XDA,
• Website: Sebastian NS0W,
• Vice President: Bob – WA2EKU
• President: Jeremy WG9T,

Old Business:

1. Wings of the Rockies request. Jim will do business cards.

2. Repeater programming – will work on that as soon as software install problem is solved.

3. Mass e-mail still has some errors – Dan will investigate.

New Business:

1. Sebastian proposes the following:

That the club allocate an amount of $500 as a prize to be drawn
in Sept 2009 from "credit" tickets. The $500 will be cash but the
winner is advised to spend it to explore a new field of Ham radio that
he / she might be interested in. This proposal is only for the year Oct
2008
till Sept 2009 and have to be re-submitted again in Oct 2009.

Note: The reason why I came up with $500: It is affordable to the club
but still enough for a member to buy a starter HF rig – so I think that
is a happy medium.

The rules are:
1) Competition are open to club members only.
2) The winner will be determined by a "lottery" in Sept 2009 (at the
election meeting) and the winner has to be present to win.
3) The entries going into the hat to be drawn will be tickets with each
ticket being worth 10 credits.
4) Credits are loosely equivalent to number of hours spent on the
various club activities and the number of credits for a specific
activity has to be determined and published before the activity
commences.
5) All members will get the same amount of credits for a specific
activity irrespective of the actual time spent on site e.g. 5 credits
for field day if you spend between 1 and 24 hours at the site.
6) Board members are eligible for credits and the drawing but does not
get credit for board
meetings.

Some suggestions (to be debated) for the credit values would be:

a) New members gets a joining bonus of 5 credits.
b) Each general meeting – 1 credit.
c) Field day 5 credits.
d) Picnic – 3 credits.
e) LarcFest duties – 5 credits

2. Storage locker for the club.

3. Tour De Cure – is the club going to support it?

Meeting adjourned: Jeremy WG9T, 08:35 pm MT

Attendance:

1. President: Jeremy WG9T
2. Treasurer: Dan Campbell W3ETA
3. Secretary: Sebastian NS0W
4. Technical: Jim Walker N0XDA
5. VE Testing: Jim Walker N0XDA
6. Website: Sebastian NS0W
7. Ray Warren – W9LQM

Call meeting to order: Jeremy WG9T, 07:10 pm MT

Officer and Committee Reports

• Secretary: Sebastian NS0W,
• Treasury: Dan W3ETA,
• Technical Committee: Jim N0XDA,
• VE Testing: Jim N0XDA,
• Website: Sebastian NS0W,
• Vice President: Not present – next meeting – presentation on DxLab software.
• President: Jeremy WG9T,

Old Business:

1. Bob attended Fairgrounds meeting – nothing remarkable.

2. John West declined net control.

3. Wings of the Rockies request. Jim will do business cards.

4. Repeater programming – will work on that as soon as software install problem is solved.

5. Field day was a success – Thanks to Doug – KE0SI. Ray was waitress.

6. Mass e-mail still has some errors – Dan will investigate.

New Business:

1. Discussion to improve membership.

2. Storage locker for the club.

3. Tour De Cure – is the club going to support it?

Meeting adjourned: Jeremy WG9T, 08:35 pm MT

Attendance:

1. President: Jeremy WG9T
2. Treasurer: Dan Campbell W3ETA
3. Secretary: Sebastian NS0W
4. Technical: Jim Walker N0XDA
5. VE Testing: Jim Walker N0XDA
6. Website: Sebastian NS0W
7. Ray Warren – W9LQM

Call meeting to order: Jeremy WG9T, 07:03 pm MT

Officer and Committee Reports

• Secretary: Sebastian NS0W, nothing new.
• Treasury: Dan W3ETA, No report.
• Membership Committee: Dean W6RFM,
• Technical Committee: Jim N0XDA, will be testing 70cm rptr coverage.
• VE Testing: Jim N0XDA, None.
• Website: Sebastian NS0W, None.
• Publicity: None.
• BCARES: None.
• Vice President: Bob WA2EKU, covered until July.
• President: Jeremy WG9T,

Presentation (usually general meeting only): Bob Dornan, WA2EKU: HD TV <hh:mm>pm MT

Meeting adjourned: Jeremy WG9T, <hh:mm>pm MT

Attendance:

1. President: Jeremy – WG9T
2. Vice President: Bob Dornan – WA2EKU
3. Secretary: Sebastian – NS0W
4. Membership: Dean Haney – W6RFM
5. Technical: Jim Walker – N0XDA
6. Ray Warren, – W9LQM
7. Jacob Bertroud – KI6FCW
8. Millard Fairchild – K5ZNF
9. Jim Pellochoud – N0IRK
10. Rick Hess – KC0NZW
11. Wayne Smith – N0LEA
12. Doug Altman – KE0SI
13. Dan Campbell – W3ETA.
14. Dean Rupert – W7HDR.

 

Call meeting to order: Jeremy WG9T, 07:00 pm MT

Officer and Committee Reports

• Secretary: Sebastian NS0W.
• Treasury: Dan W3ETA.
• Membership Committee: Dean W6RFM,
• Technical Committee: Jim N0XDA.
• VE Testing: Jim N0XDA, Session this Sat, 22
• Website: Sebastian NS0W,
• Vice President: Bob WA2EKU,
• President: Jeremy WG9T,

Presentation :John Stransky, DX from Cambodia

Meeting adjourned: Jeremy WG9T, 08:35pm MT

Attendance:

1. President: Jeremy WG9T
2. Vice President: Bob Dornan WA2EKU
3. Treasurer: Dan Campbell W3ETA
4. Secretary: Sebastian NS0W
5. Membership:
6. Technical: Jim Walker N0XDA
7. VE Testing: Jim Walker N0XDA
8. Website: Sebastian NS0W
9. Wayne Smith – N0LEA
10. Millard Fairchild – K5ZNF
11. Bob Dornan – WA2EKU

 

Call meeting to order: Jeremy WG9T, 07:03 pm MT

Officer and Committee Reports

• Secretary: Sebastian NS0W,
• Treasury: Dan W3ETA,
• Technical Committee: Jim N0XDA,
• VE Testing: Jim N0XDA,
• Website: Sebastian NS0W,
• Vice President: Bob WA2EKU,
• President: Jeremy WG9T,

Old Business:

1. Consolidation of CD’s – still in progress.

2. Renewal reminders – still in progress.

3. LarcFest – Discussion of final tasks.

4. Discussion on catering at Larcfest – tentative. Correspondence – table
inquiries, Sebastian will follow up on Table / book deal. Ellie /
BarcJr to get usual corner.

5. The club will cover Brian’s N5ZGT’s dinner. Brian’s will be invited to join the set-up on Friday any time after 5:30PM and we will go to dinner after that.

6. Still soliciting for Net Control. Brian Steege.

New Business:

Jim brought up some suggestions to improve membership.

e-mail distribution list to be set up to replace reflector.

Field Day – Jim volunteered – sort of.

Meeting adjourned: Jeremy WG9T, 08:03 pm MT

Attendance:

1. President: Jeremy WG9T
2. Treasurer: Dan Campbell W3ETA
3. Secretary: Sebastian NS0W
4. Technical: Jim Walker N0XDA
5. VE Testing: Jim Walker N0XDA
6. Website: Sebastian NS0W

 

Call meeting to order: Jeremy WG9T, 07:00 pm MT

Officer and Committee Reports

• Secretary: Sebastian NS0W, Got doorprises etc. from Ray.
• Treasury: Dan W3ETA, Continue to migrate CD’s.
• Membership Committee: Dean W6RFM,
• Technical Committee: Jim N0XDA.
• VE Testing: Jim N0XDA, Session this Sat, 22
• Website: Sebastian NS0W,
• Vice President: Bob WA2EKU,
• President: Jeremy WG9T,

Presentation : Jake : Organic electronics 07:35 pm MT

Larcfest assignments – per sign-up sheet.

Meeting adjourned: Jeremy WG9T, 08:35pm MT

Attendance:

1. President: Jeremy WG9T
2. Vice President: Bob Dornan WA2EKU
3. Treasurer: Dan Campbell W3ETA
4. Secretary: Sebastian NS0W
5. Membership: Dean Haney W6RFM
6. Technical: Jim Walker N0XDA
7. VE Testing: Jim Walker N0XDA
8. Website: Sebastian NS0W
9. Wayne Smith – N0LEA
10. Dean Rupert – W7HDR.
11. Jacob Bertroud – KI6FCW
12. Millard Fairchild – K5ZNF
13. Bob Dornan – WA2EKU

 

Call meeting to order: Jeremy WG9T, 07:03 pm MT

Officer and Committee Reports

• Secretary: Sebastian NS0W,
• Treasury: Dan W3ETA,
• Membership Committee: Dean W6RFM,
• Technical Committee: Jim N0XDA,
• VE Testing: Jim N0XDA,
• Website: Sebastian NS0W,
• Publicity: Mary KC9APG,
• BCARES: Scott KC9APF,
• Vice President: Bob WA2EKU,
• President: Jeremy WG9T,

Old Business:

1. Consolidation of CD’s – still in progress.

2. Renewal reminders – still in progress.

New Business:

Discussion on catering at Larcfest – tentative. Correspondence – table inquiries, Sebastian will follow up on Table / book deal. Ellie / BarcJr to get usual corner.

Jake will present on Organic Electronics in March.

Net control: Dean – W7HDR, Doug – KE0SI – Jeremy will contact.

e-mail distribution list to be set up to replace reflector.

e-mail address for VE testing to be set up – Dan W0ETA

Meeting adjourned: Jeremy WG9T, 08:03 pm MT

Attendance:

1. President: Jeremy WG9T
2. Treasurer: Dan Campbell W3ETA
3. Secretary: Sebastian NS0W
4. Technical: Jim Walker N0XDA
5. VE Testing: Jim Walker N0XDA
6. Website: Sebastian NS0W

 

Call meeting to order: Jeremy WG9T, 07:02 pm MT

Officer and Committee Reports

• Secretary: Sebastian NS0W,
• Treasury: Dan W3ETA – see old business – consolidation in progress.
• Membership Committee: Dean W6RFM.
• Technical Committee: Jim N0XDA. Jim contacted Ron on autopatch – no resolution as yet.
• VE Testing: Jim N0XDA.
• Website: Sebastian NS0W, Request permission to add a "for sale / trade / swap" page to the website. Also did some cleaning up. LarcFest volunteer sign up document should not be in Word format.
• Publicity: Mary KC9APG.
• BCARES: Scott KC9APF.
• Vice President: Bob WA2EKU. Presentations through April ready.
• President: Jeremy WG9T, Discuss LARC job worksheet. Online membership renewal – prorate problem – motion to update website and will not deal with automatic pro-rating. Motion: New members that sign up on-line can request pro-rate from treasurer in person. Current members are all considered to renew in arrears.

Old Business (avoided in general meeting):

1. Motion to consolidate CD’s – in progress.
2. Jim completed LarcFest flyer – will work on getting stuff on the web.
3. List to remind folks – in progress.

New Business :

1. New ARRL section manager to speak at Larcfest. Brian, N5ZGT. Ray, W9LQM will set this up. Motion passed.
2. LarcFest assignments.
3. Ray, W9LQM. Looking for new net control.
4. Safety deposit box at St. Vrain – need to deal with that.
5. Field day discussion.

Meeting adjourned: Jeremy WG9T, 08:15pm MT

Attendance:

1. President: Jeremy WG9T
2. Vice President: Bob Dornan WA2EKU
3. Treasurer: Dan Campbell W3ETA
4. Secretary: Sebastian NS0W
5. Membership: None
6. Technical: Jim Walker N0XDA
7. VE Testing: Jim Walker N0XDA
8. Website: Sebastian NS0W
9. Publicity:
10. BCARES:
11. Ray Warren.

2008 Archives

We hope you join us to enjoy the meetings, but if you’ve missed one, please see the description below.

DATE	PRESENTER	TOPIC
January	Paul Berge, K0DJV	Amateur Radio at Microwave Frequencies: Hands-on equipment and concepts demonstration of getting on the air at UHF and above. "You will be surpised at how little it takes to get into microwaves. You can build a rig for less than $200." Example components: discarded satellite TV dish mixer (~$50) stable frequency source module (~$50?) power supply for freq. source module (requires -20V @ 1.5 amp) Your existing VHF/UHF SSB transceiver for use as an IF section, or even a 10m rig could be used. Concepts discussed and demonstrated: rectangular waveguides vs. coaxial cables or twin-lead t-lines polarization near-field and far-field regions in the vicinity of an antenna or aperture power units Watts, milliwatts, dBm, dB, orders of magnitude, signal levels standing waves reflective materials, lossy dielectric materials cut-off freq. in waveguides microwaves behaving like light rays parabolic dish antennas with very high gain and small beam-width interesting propagation effects/unexpected communication paths
February	Jeremy Haley, WG9T	"RF IMPEDANCE AND THE SMITH CHART" Resistance & Reactance (capacitance/inductance) >>> Impedance Reflection coefficient and SWR Relation between impedance and reflection coefficient Impedance mapped onto a polar graph Constant resistance circles, constant reactance arcs (circles) SWR circles, rotation along a 50-ohm transmission line Open-source, cross-platform RF/Microwave software for learning/experimenting: QUCS http://qucs.sourceforge.net Example impedance calculations at either end of the feedline Impedances of an approximate 40 m dipole at 20 m and 17 m Simple matching circuit calculation for the non-resonant 40 m dipole that could allow 17 m operation.
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