date

2021-05-18

opened

20:00

closed

20:33

Check-ins (24)

• Matthew Barry (KG5LYE)
• Jeff McDowell (KI5CES)
• Don Ling (WB5CKO)
• Lorna Flansburg (KI5FIZ)
• Ken Reeves (KE5FIV)
• Dominick Adamo, Jr. (KG5JRA)
• Rick Pfeil (KI5DUJ)
• Mike Wisby (KA5HIA)
• Vic Pears (KX8V)
• Bill Rose (K5WTR)
• Randy Field (K5RLF)
• Garrett Martin (W5HVS)
• Dick Zimmer (W5DZ)
• Lance Smith (KI5ETF)
• Ron Hambric (N5SBN)
• Harold Turbyfill (KG5SDG)
• Mark Coppock (KG5PDT)
• Carl Kinerd (WN4Y)
• Brad Snyder (KG5SDE)
• Bennie Naiser (KA5TWB)
• Gerald Golub (W5VUI)
• Phil Gates (N5ZKF)
• Jeff French (KM5TW)
• Chris MacCannell (KI5POS)

Officer Reports

President Phil Gates (N5ZKF)

• Rainy week
  • 1/2 in. already
  • flash flood watch through Thursday
  • tornado watch for next hour
• Thanks to all who attended the virtual meeting this Saturday
• Field Day is a go!
  • 2021-06-26/27
  • Brian Bachmann Park
  • Help needed, especially overnight! Please email vice-president@w5bcs.org if you’d like to help
• Special Events
  • K2CAM – this weekend commemorating Charles Lindbergh’s trans-Atlantic flight
• Repeater noise has been pretty bad
  • Hopefully will be fixed soon
  • New antenna has been ordered
  • Thanks to all who have volunteered their time and expertise to diagnose the problem

Vice-President Rick Pfeil (KI5DUJ)

• Field Day Preparations
  • Need to sell Raffle Tickets
    • Let me know if you want to buy any or get any to sell to friends
    • $100 worth of tickets includes next year’s membership
  • Prizes:
    • $500 HRO gift certificate
    • Benelli Nova 12 GA Shotgun
    • Yaesu FT-60R
    • Custom-made wallet from Richard Epting (KG5WIV)
  • Hope to have 4 stations operating all night
  • Need help for setup, operating radios, and tearing down
  • Dinner will be available (recommended $10 donations)
  • Hourly door prize drawings

Secretary Matthew Barry (KG5LYE)

• Expect minutes at the conclusion of the net as usual
• New battery for HT
• Getting ready for Field Day
  • fldigi remote control for my ICOM IC-7300

Treasurer Lorna Flansburg (KI5FIZ)

• current balance: $4,734.66
• 58 members
  • not too late to renew (can also turn in at Field Day)
• Thanks to all who have helped us raise funds through Amazon Smile

Announcements / Comments

Question for conversation: Do you own a Raspberry Pi? If so, what do you use it for?

Bill Rose (K5WTR)

• 3 Raspberry Pis
  • DMR hotspot
  • (former) web server
  • still in the packaging… have big plans
• http://k5wtr.com will be going down for good at the end of the month
  • Get anything you want before it’s gone!
  • Too much trouble to keep up

Carl Kinerd (WN4Y)

• Antique shops? Looking for parts for ICOM 2400A dual-band mobile receiver
  • N5ZKF: K5ZY and Sammy come to mind

Matthew Barry (KG5LYE)

• A few Raspberry Pis:
  • Mostly for network infrastructure
  • Pi-Hole DNS filter and network-wide ad-blocker
  • VPN entrypoint

Phil Gates (N5ZKF)

• Use Raspberry Pi 3b+ for Digital voice gateway: DMR, C4FM, etc.

Buy / Sell

Phil Gates (N5ZKF)

• Vintage Westinghouse Radio Receiver (ca. 1930s)
  • AM band receiver
  • Could use some more work (missing some components like pointers, speaker, etc.)
  • Might also be turned into a vintage-looking Bluetooth speaker
  • Contact n5zkf@arrl.net if interested