[KCDXC] Fw: KCDXC Club meeting - February 23

[Alex, KU1CW]

Meeting reminder.
Today at 6.30pm


--- On Mon, 2/16/09, Alex, KU1CW <ku1cw at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Alex, KU1CW <ku1cw at yahoo.com>
> Subject: KCDXC Club meeting - February 23
> To: "kcdxc" <kcdxc at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Monday, February 16, 2009, 7:29 PM
> KCDXC Members,
> 
> Another exiting KCDXC club meeting will be held on Feb.23
> at the JoCo library. Starting 18.30 at the Carmack Meeting
> Room.
> Followed by pie at Perkins! 
> 
> -We will vote on KCDXC club insurance, proposed by the
> Finance Committee.
> 
> -Please take a look at the proposed KCDXC constitution at:
> http://www.kcdxclub.com/constitutionproposed.html 
> and send any comments to Tom, N0AG. 
> Latest version will be on the WEB by tomorrow AM. 
> 
> -Also, it is time to pay dues. Please contact Mike, AB0X
> with any questions.  
> 
> Now about the meeting agenda. We will have three
> interesting presentations:
> -----------------------------------------------------
> #1-TO5DX 2008 DX/contest pedition presentation. We will
> have guest speaker K0RH, Jim from Wichita. Jim first
> licensed in 1959 and have been active all those years
> chasing DX & contesting. In 2007 went to Grenada and
> operated J3A multi-multi ssb. Have held the calls K0WUI,
> KK0SS, J3/K0RH, and now K0RH. Midwest Div member of ARRL
> Contest Advisory Committee. 20-30min
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------
> #2-Tom, N0AG, will present Part 2 of the tower installation
> and safety program. We will hear about 100ft tilt over Rohn
> 45's and everything you will need to know about the
> tower installations.
> Here's Tom's short BIO:
> 
> "I was first licensed in 1980 as KAØDEG. My first
> store bought rig was a Ten-Tec Century 21.  CW only, 50
> watts out but she was a beauty.
> Work and kids intervened.  I let my license lapse.  Time
> goes by.  In 1992 my wife and I decided to build a house in
> Miami County, Kansas.  In 1993 the house was completed.  I
> got the itch again.  I decided to pour some tower footings
> "just in Case".
> I found a class and was introduced to the Santa Fe Amateur
> Radio Club in the winter of 1994.  I was licensed a few
> months later as KBØMZG.
> I enjoy "casual contesting" and DXing.  I am a
> closet paper chaser.  My real love is still antennas I never
> have tired of observing the magic when a good antenna is
> hooked up to the radio and signals pour forth.
> My current projects include fabricating and installing a
> three tower antenna system to be completed in 2009.  I am
> also trying to become familiar with the digital modes."
> 30-40min
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> #3-Jeff, AC0C will have short intro into his future full
> presentation-converting SB200 into legal power amplifier.
> Two GI7B, a lot of  thinking, some work and ...some smoke.
> Well let Jeff tell us about it.
> 
> Jeff's presentation this time will be attic
> antennas-3el 40M-10m and loaded dipoles for 160/80M.
> 
> About Jeff: "Likes: Running CW, PSK and RTTY.
> Rag-chewing and tinkering with amps, antennas/modeling.
> Working on DXCC and PSK-WAS. Improving my CW fist after
> about 27 years QRT. Thanks to everyone I've worked and
> had the patience to put up with my many CW sending errors.
> Rig: Yaesu FT-2000, DMU-2000 & Heathkit SB-200 amp.
> 200-500w
> Antenna: Attic-mounted 3-element trapped inverted-v wire
> beam for 20/30/40m using traps at 40' (11m) apex.
> Switchable east/west. Traps on the driven element for 80m
> also. MFJ-998 automatic ATU mounted near the antenna feed
> point provides full 10-160m all band coverage." 45min
> 
> CU at the meeting!
> 73. Alex KU1CW KCDXC President.