Table of Contents
1. Meeting Minutes
- Meeting Recorder: KO6HNW
1.1. Attendants
- AK6KZ
- KO6HNH
- KO6CNT
- KO6HNW
- KO6HNG
- AC6P
1.2. Agenda
[ ]Determine next club net membership
1.3. Notes
- Amateur radio batteries are dangerous and need to be stored
- They need to be stored; and tested
- Capstone students do want to the HAM radio projectslp
- Peterson is teaching 129A and proposed 3 projects for the EEs in the capstone sequence
- “Can we propose a new repeater project?”
- Old engineering notes for the EchoLink
- UHF antenna repeater needs more details: analog RF repeater; follows the same architecture from the 2m repeater
- Needs duplexers, power supply, and antenna system
- 70cm antenna may get less use than a 6m antenna for the area because the reduced amount of HAMs
- He has the design of the PCB board for the 2m antenna
- 20m portable design; mobile antenna design; a vertical antenna for Parks on the Air (“CQ POTA”); easy to build
- 20m seems to be good? based on the FT8 contacts for HF based
- FT8 is only useful for checking propagation; very low signal to bandwidth to keep the SNR high; otherwise worthless
- New HAMs love it because they can make a contact but no QSO
- Using FT8 on 20m; VoIP is better than FT8;
- 20m is the band to choose for VoIP in day it has short-skip propagation to the East Coast
- They are government websites; maybe still functioning during the the government shutdown
- Link in the blogging program that pulls-up propagation sites.
- They will be useful.
- 20m and 10m
- CSCE: Callsign / (something); HAM gatekeeping keeps HF noise to a minimum
- Junk band frequencies are being used from 50MHz up is used. There is a lot of noisy signals on 2m.
- Peterson has the repeater notes at home
- Sarah and Natalie are were building antennas that people were working on
- Peterson has a lot of animals that mess with his HF antennas; (fat owls and stupid turkey)
- 2m antenna and helix antenna need surgey: we need satallite antennas
- Can one demonstrate Satellite station
- IN 2018/2019, the university reroofed the BE building; they took down the antennas so they need be placed up there by
- Drupal site years ago, and then used WordPress; MK put up a wordpress site
- Announcement are for community and not the club.
- Logging system
- One can use a server and host a club website;
- Club have remote control of HF antennas and interference
- Peterson can get hard IP addresses for Echolink and other server
- strict about what security goes on there;
- Amateur Radio Club and Peterson are stakeholders for the capstone project
- Backup battery project is not sufficiently complex for the capstone project
- iCOM radios are FRS radios; they do not require a license to operate on the UHF frequencies
- radios are PMR446; SDR; Radio-mode helix for the antenna; check RT systems for the software
- IC4O2F iCOM radio
- Have to look into the FCC rules because the radios are UK and have to be checked
- radios are PMR446; SDR; Radio-mode helix for the antenna; check RT systems for the software
- Today picking up motorola radios
- Repeater in the BELs basement; Peterson will go to down and ask about it; making it narrow band can be used in the room
- All officers except KO6HNW and KO6HNH stayed behind in BE308s
- Meeting adjourned with officers helping move old items from BELs in the BE308 room.
Created: 2025-11-09 Sun 23:06