Meeting Minutes, February 2025

Note: January meeting was holiday party! No notes.

Meeting started 6:30pm with Program: N0MGY on RF in the shack

https://palomar-engineers.com/ferrite-products

http://k9yc.com/publish.htm http://audiosystemsgroup.com/RFI-Ham.pdf

Local supplier: WPS Antennas

Type 43: 10MHZ and above, Mix 43 is great for choking 10MHz-300MHz, not good for transformer cores though.

Type 31: Below 10MHz. Good for a general choke. Bad for transformer at any frequency.

Meeting Started 7:35PM

Coffee Chat Wednesdays 9AM

Multiple nets every week, see website!

ARES meeting this Saturday 9AM; dealing with Hams coming out of the woodwork to help during disasters,

Onalaska Spring Fever swap meet, March 1st 8AM-Noon at Onalaska VFW. Steve W0STV will be getting table for club stuff, need help!

Committee and other reports:

Looking for presentation topics! Let Dan know! Mel wants to talk about propagation issues, forecasting, etc.
Two other topics, looking for presenters! Any experience with remote antennas? Digital OTHER THAN FT8.

Treasurer’s report:

Checking:
Opening Balance: $10,408.99
Credits:
Dues: $60.00
PayPal Dues: $400.00
Equipment Sold: $294.00
Raffle:
Donation:
Misc:

Debits:
RPU $42.62
Meeting Food
Paypal Charges $14.37
Field Day:
Pic-nic
Equipment
Tower Lease
Insurance
Web domain
Postage
Misc.
Total: $11,106.00
Saveings:
Opening Balance $1,825.70
Credits:
Intrest: $0.08
Closing Balance: $1,825.78

Total: $12,931.78

Drawing: El Presidente won, dontated money back!

Technical Committee, KF0S:
Mayo site discussion. Contact/License info sheets.
Computer replacements underway!
Olmsted EOC HF radio is back and installed. Digital stuff upcoming in March.
W0MXW License needs to be renewed by April, discussion started.
Gil W0MN resigning as Trustee, will need a new one (next 10 years).

Contesting: MN QSO party finished up. CW CQWW coming up. PSK Contest this weekend. January VHF contest results are out!

Education: Maple Grove has technician class going on.

John Marshal Radio club president, Brian: Working on antenna (4-band)

ARES, W0STV:
ARES meeting at 9AM; How to handle volunteers. maximize resources. Collin/John to be working on fixing printer, etc. in Radio Room
Onalaska, will need help moving stuff/selling stuff.

125Live!
Pretty active, echolink discussed. Meetings on the following Tuesday (

VE Test this Thursday at 305 Alliance Drive NE, 6:30pm, pre-register with FRN via FCC.

Skywarn; Partial schedule for training. April meeting conflicts with Skywarn. Planning to move RARC meeting to that Wednesday the 8th, check following Tuesday.

Business:
Need to discuss Field Day. No volunteers to help coordinate. June 27th-28th. K0VH looking for co-coordinator, or to split it up.

New Business:
DIY CW Key construction contest! Looking for judges. Plan is for May!

Eric is tech committee chair, voted in 2/11/2025.
Gil is resigning as trustee.
Steve W0STV as trustee, majority approved, 1 ARES EC opposed.
Control Operator Committee: Bob Hart interfaces to MN Repeater Council. John Dalin and Eric on committee. Need physical access to Mayo (onsite/offsite control), seeking others.

Introductions (done previously)