[SMCARA] SMCARA meeting

[Clarke, Tom VX-20 OPS]

Saint Mary's County Amateur Radio Association

22 April 2004 Meeting

The April meeting of SMCARA was held at the Naval Air Museum at 1930 on =
22 April 2004.  Attending were:

	Bill Merritt,  KB4QAA
	A.J. Farmer, AJ3U
	John Johnson, WA3ZGD
	Eric Brown, KB9ERX
	Grant Graessle, KE4RTJ
	Tom Clarke, W4OKW
	Walt Rupp, W3GYT

Tom opened the meeting and welcomed Eric, KB9ERX.  The treasurer and =
secretary were not available to present reports.  The secretary was =
attending the TPS reunion that was also being held in the museum, and =
allowed that the food and drink were better at the reunion and chose =
that venue!!

The main topic of discussion was Field Day.  We discussed the choice of =
3A or 4A and decided to make the choice on FD based on participation =
expected.  The following issues were discussed and volunteer/assignments =
were made:

	*	Press release- Bill, KB4QAA showed us the proposed release and will =
get it to the local media.  He will also provide literature for a =
display table.
	*	Family Picnic- 6 PM on Saturday.  Garner has previously volunteered =
to coordinate club-supplied food.  Tom and Grant will coordinate "pot =
luck" items.
	*	Pete has previously volunteered to provide power conditioning and =
cables, coax, ice water, grills, etc.  Tent needs to be confirmed.
	*	Laptops, APRS, PSK31, and HF rigs from Mars station.
	*	Beam and tower- Garner
	*	Wire antennas - Tom Kunkel K3DSP and Fred Stovall
	*	Generator/Bazooka antenna - Tom Kunkel
	*	Antron 10 M antenna - Dave N3YZU
	*	NTS message - Ren
	*	Extra credit/scoring/submission - Grant

Items remaining:

	*	CW station- we need volunteers to operate a CW position.  If we have =
a fully manned CW position, we plan to operate 4A ( a CW station, a =
PSK/RTTY/VHF station and two voice stations).
	*	Logging program training (to be conducted at May meeting)
	*	Rules briefing- Grant will provide info and brief at May or June =
meeting).





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