We held an in person club meeting at TRANSTAR this morning, but had problems with ZOOM.

I have a suspicion of what happened, but wont’ know for sure until I talk with Jeremy.

There were 7 people (2 guests ) plus one for testing (A new EXTRA; With a perfect score!!) and our ARES/TRANSTAR host.

My goal for the coming year is to get YOUR input on what the club wants to be doing and then DO IT.

MY notes from today are below.

Feed back and corrections are welcome.

Ralph KE5HDF

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We talked about Field Day:

• June 25 & 26 2022
• Those present prefer to do it as a group (instead of everyone working from home)
• 4 possible locations were mentioned
• My HOA building (they have added a $300 cleaning fee, even is we set up outside and just use the toilets)
• Bayland Park
• Fried Park (near Silber and Shady Villa)  (Barry will see if there are toilet facilities available)
• George Observatory in Brazos Bend State Park  (Ralph will investigate)
• Of these 4, the George Observatory seemed to be preferred.
• We watched 2 videos
• Research on a possible link between low pressure weather systems and 6M Sporadic Es (from Dayton hamvention, presented by HAMSCI)
• Listening to radio chatter from the Ukraine-Russian war  (by M0SZT on YouTube)
• Mark showed us nice web sites
• SDR listening (kiwisdr.com and websdr.org)
• Radiation monitoring stations (uradmonitor.com)
• Ralph Discussed possible activities we can do as individuals or as a group.  Please think about them and give me an idea of what you want the club to do t his year.

Collected Activity Ideas

• Field Day (YES)
• Winter Field Day
• POTA as a group
• Portable operation at parks around Houston… each person can sponsor a day in their part of town
• Work a contest as a club
• Participate in a HamSci project
• Do a contest within the club (most contacts, furthest contact, most miles per watt, etc??)
• Create a simplex net in your neighborhood
• Outreach to school or museum
• Demonstration at the science museum (the Sugar Land campus seems interested)
• Portable event at George Observatory  (they seem quite interested)
• Build a kit (radio or test meter or antenna)
• Reserve a club meeting to program radios
• Mentor new operators or someone who is  “housebound”
• Have members report out on something new they tried
• Operate from Elissa
• Demo of code at Dickens on the Strand
• Sponsor JOTA
• Sponsor Radio Merit Badge
• Learn Morse Code as a group

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