date

2018-10-02

opened

20:00

closed

20:14

Check-ins (20)

• Matthew Barry (KG5LYE)
• Avery McIntosh (N7ALM)
• Don Ling (WB5CKO)
• Marvin Lowman (KG5MCN)
• Nicholas Lowman (KG5UDO)
• Rick Swaims (W5RTF)
• Bob Henglein (W5GC)
• Thomas Miller (WA5OMD)
• Dick Zimmer (W5DZ)
• Brent Anderson (WW5OBA)
• Ralph Cobb (W5RYC)
• Jim Snell (WA5PMO)
• Harold Turbyfill (KG5SDG)
• John "Pocat" Walpole (K5ZY)
• Trent Owens (AG1TX)
• Richard Epting (KG5WIV)
• Joe Napoli (KG5SDF)
• Richard Condie (KG5ZUA)
• Bill Rose (K5WTR)
• Mike Wisby (KA5HIA)

Officer Reports

President KG5EYV

• Upcoming Events
  • 2018-10-06 – Belton Hamfest
  • 2018-10-13 10:30 – Radio in the park (Tanglewood park, concrete bench)
  • 2018-10-20 09:30 – Club Meeting (USDA building)

Vice-President N5ZKF

• (not available)

Secretary KG5LYE

• ARES net this evening
  • 443.425 MHz FM repeater
  • after W5BCS net or 20:30, whichever is later
• Apologies for missing last week’s net
  • Working on IFR currency
  • Thanks, KG5EYV for running the net!
• In Austin this weekend for a drone hackathon
  • 17 teams vying for three $15K prizes
  • Texas A&M sent two teams, and both were selected as winners
    • Cybersecurity team (“GigEmBytes”; my team): hack into adversary drone to take it over, intercept/extract data, and nullify/eliminate; protect US drones from same exploits
    • Aerospace team (“The ‘A’ Team”): locate and identify drones using computer vision and artificial intelligence / deep learning
  • Pre-Event Coverage
  • Post-Event Coverage

Treasurer N5GQB

• (not available)

Buy / Sell

KG5MCN

• looking to by CB radio … hopefully for cheap 🙂