date

2022-11-15

opened

20:00

closed

20:23

Check-ins (18)

• Matthew Barry (KG5LYE)
• David Bailey (K5DKB)
• Ken Reeves (KE5FIV)
• Jeff McDowell (KI5CES)
• Don Ling (WB5CKO)
• Zachary Cox (W5FEF)
• Dick Zimmer (W5DZ)
• Lorna Flansburg (KI5FIZ)
• Christian Hurst (W5FCH)
• Ralph Cobb (W5RYC)
• Harold Turbyfill (KG5SDG)
• Brad Snyder (KG5SDE)
• Pierre Catala (WA1UAT)
• Travis Scott (KI5TMS)
• Phil Gates (N5ZKF)
• Bennie Naiser (KA5TWB)
• Bill Rose (K5WTR)
• Matthew Daugherty (KF5RHG)

Officer Reports

President Phil Gates (N5ZKF)

• Hope y’all are keeping warm in the cooler weather lately
• Tracy Pfeil, wife of Rick Pfeil (W4RDP), passed away last Friday
  • Visitation Friday Evening
    • 2022-11-18 17:00/20:00
    • Hillier Funeral Home, 2301 E 29th St, Bryan, TX 77802
  • Funeral Mass Saturday
    • 2022-11-19 14:00
    • St. Anthony Catholic Church, 401 S Parker Ave, Bryan, TX 77803
    • Lunch at Parish Hall after burial
• November Club meeting this weekend
  • 2022-11-19 09:30
  • American Legion Post 159
  • Nominations for next year’s officers
• Special events this week
  • ARRL SSB Sweepstakes Contest

Vice-President Rick Pfeil (W4RDP)

proxy Phil Gates (N5ZKF) and Matthew Barry (KG5LYE)

• Please send any ideas for after-meeting presentations
  • Something you’d like to present —OR— would like to see presented

Secretary Matthew Barry (KG5LYE)

• Tracy was my preschool teacher at St. Anthony’s “Mother’s Day Out”
• Will send out minutes after net as usual
• Thanks to Dick Zimmer (W5DZ) and David Bailey (K5DKB) for helping me diagnose my radio last week!

Treasurer Lorna Flansburg (KI5FIZ)

• Current bank balance: $8,261.93
• 59 members

Announcements / Comments

Question #103 for conversation: Do you use any software to calculate impedance, resistence, SWR, or other antenna modeling?

Dick Zimmer (W5DZ)

• Reminder: NASA is planning to launch tonight
  • scheduled 2022-11-16 01:04 EST (06:04Z)
  • sending Orion spacecraft to the moon on Artemis SLS
  • this will be the third time trying to launch
  • https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/#public

Phil Gates (N5ZKF)

• EZNEC by W7EL … (no longer maintained)
• there are other software packages available

Matthew Barry (KG5LYE)

• EZNEC is available for free now that it’s not being actively maintained
• I like to use Python in a Jupyter Notebook for doing “mathy things”
  • Ham radio antenna design is one of those