Cal Poly Amateur Radio Club Meeting Minutes
21 October 1999

Meeting started 7:42pm

In attendance: KQ6ZQ, KE6OMS, KF6PKU, KD6CVS, Teddy, KF6UXC, KE6MQQ, KD6VEX,
KF6DMH, WA4JPG

I.   Officer Reports
     A.    President - KE6MQQ
           Barely has pulse.
           We now have official approval to get through the "gate"
           on the Dexter Lawn side of the EE/CSC walkway.  Combination
           available upon request.
           Also, Facilities is willing to pour the cement pad for the
           generator, but not at the same time as they pour the cement
           for the new elevator.
           *** Still trying to get a hold of Tim, KQ6XL, for help ***

     B.    Vice President - KQ6ZQ
           Been breaking his campaign promise: he's been DOING stuff!
           Tower Party is still on for this weekend (to be discussed
           more in Old Business).  Dean wants to donate cable for the
           tower.  Dean ROCKS!

     C.    Secretary - KF6UZI
           MIA

     D.    Treasurer - KF6UZD
           Late; no info, left almost immediately for fencing (like he
           couldn't skip one night every two weeks...sheesh... ;-)


     E.    Council Rep - KF6UXC
           Tenaya Club Fair: 02 November 1999, 6-9 pm
              Volunteering are KE6OMS, KQ6ZQ, and KF6UXC
           Nat'l Engineer's Week--Week of Feb 22--will plan later
           Another First Aid/CPR class will be taught in November
              by Pauline ?

     F.    Station Manager - KE6OMS
           We have official non-vehicle access to the shack.  Tower party
           this weekend.  Be there.

     G.    Computer Manager - KF6DMI
           MIA

     H.    Coke^H^H^H^HVending Manager - KQ6BX
           MIA


     I.    ARES Rep - KF6UXN
           MIA

II.  Old Business
     A.    Tower Party
           The plan: Remove cable, re-string, make it neat, and put it back
           up.  Some new cables (for things we can actually get cable).  We
           are having some minor problems with the bubble.  We also need to
           fix the cable arms on the tower.  Find the 80m antenna and put
           it up.  We would also like to run conduit from the shack to the
           place where the generator pad will be poured--we need Tim for
           this!  It was decided that the conduit would have to wait until 
           we got more info from Tim.
           We also need to get the transformer hooked up so that we can
           use our own, isolated ground.  IN RELATED NEWS: in order to be
           able to use the HF amp, we will need an additional 1:1 2kw
           transformer.

           The schedule: Friday night at 7pm: clean up a lot of the stuff
           in the shack.  Probably a lot of the stuff will go outside, 
           either into the cage or onto our "lawn."  Saturday at 10am:
           the Party begins!  Lunch will be provided (BBQables); direct
           requests to KQ6ZQ.  Dinner will be done, but it will not be
           provided.  If more work is necessary at the end of the work
           day, a meeting time on Sunday will be determined.

           Additional info: KD6CVS will be climbing the tower, but other
           experienced climbers are encouraged to show up and help with
           the climbing duties (especially if you're light!).

     B.    Repeater Projects update - KE6OMS
           We want to put up a WALA machine on Tass and link it to Lompoc
           (rather than Williams).  Use the RLC2 from Admin for this

           repeater.  Put the RLC3 at Admin.  This allows us to add a voting
           receiver and some other neat stuff.  If we do this, we need a
           new Autopatch.  KQ6ZQ makes a motion to approve $125 for a new 
           autopatch, KE6UXC seconds; unanimous approval - KE6OMS in charge 
           of getting it.
           Also, N6NL says that he thinks the UHF interference problem has
           been identified: the duplexers aren't quite good enough.  So,
           perhaps we will be adding some more filtering.

     C.    Satellite Project - WA3JPG
           There's apparently a satellite project that got dumped on Cal
           Poly.  There was an unspecified request for radio people to
           get involved.  Contact WA3JPG for more info or to help.

Move to adjourn 8:29pm.

Minutes kept by KF6UXC.
Minutes entered by KE6OMS.

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