The meeting was called to order by President Ron AD7FV at 7:00 pm.
Gary Ebbesen KC0ZVN was introduced as a new member. Ron AA7RP brought his son as did Roberto KE7TXU.
The Robotics section has already started led by Ken van Horn KE7VTU.
The radio controlled planes and electronics sections will start shortly.
Nobody registered for the Tech class to be given through GVR. There will be a test given at a later date if there is any interest.
Clark K0FCM and Ken KE7VTW have been wiring a Habitat for Humanity house after Lloyd made an announcement that help was needed. They are nearly done with the project.
Jon AD7GS said that there had been 375 visits last month and 307 different people. About ˝ gets past the 1st page with the discone antenna being the most visited page with links and technical following. 29 countries were represented with US, Canada, and France having the most visitors.
The GVARC booth at the White Elephant Country Fair is probably not going to happen—nobody stepped up to organize it.
Fall picnic at the Whitehouse Canyon site in Madera Canyon will take place on 29 October at 11:30am. Ron AA7RP will do the grilling. Meat and drinks will be furnished by the club. All participants are asked to bring a salad, desert, or snacks to share.
There will be a Pacific War Museum special event the the Titan Missile Museum on 7 December 2009. Call Ray Soifer W2RS for information. The call sign is N5T.
The Christmas Banquet will be held Wed. 9 December at the Grill on the Greens at Canoa Ranch Golf Club. It will be in lieu of our regular meeting and elections will be held. The cost this year will be $27.50 with the club picking up an additional $6 to cover the total cost of $33. The menu is steak and fried shrimp with no other choice. There will be a cash bar from 5:00pm until 6:00pm at which time dinner will be served.
Three people offered to be on the nominating committee. They are Gene W0KAD, Clark K0FCM, and Bill K6WWH.
Ron Gross will most likely will be doing the presentation next month on Net Operations.
Ron AA7RP gave an interesting and entertaining presentation in two parts. The first part was on Low Cost HT radios. There was a lot of interest as many members either don't have an HT or the one they have will not put the tone in to reach our repeaters.
The second part was about Ham Radio Deluxe and how to make connection with our Icom 707 HF radio in our shack from your home with the aid of a high speed internet connection and a couple of free download programs.
The meeting was ended by Gene W0KAD auctioning off a number of items that had been donated to the benefit of the club.
Adjournment at 8:25pm
A total of 20 licensed amateurs gave communication support to the SAV during the parade. The command post was in the SAV bus that lead the parade and also acted as sweep at the end of the parade. There was a momentary panic when the command post operator realized the PL tone had not been programmed in the command post transceiver
After some scurrying to find the manual, the PL tones were entered and normal operation began.
We had two incidents near the end of the parade. An elderly lady became dehydrated and was transported to the hospital. The second was exactly the same except it was a Sahuarita ROTC student. Dehydration does not respect age. From the time the command post received the call until the medical team was on the scene was 6 minutes.
Thanks to all who participated. This was the highest number of amateur participants we have ever had for a parade. A special thanks to Bob Call, KE7SBQ, who organized the event and did the coordination with SAV.
The first meeting was Thursday, October 29th. We normally expect about 20 new students to enroll. Much to our surprise we had 32 new students show up for the first session. In addition we had the returning students, 9 in the radio controlled airplane group, 5 in the robotics group, and 3 in advanced electronics making a total of 49 for the first day. Fortunately we had good response from our volunteers with a total of 17 at the first session. We are making a few adjustments and we know there will be dropouts, still this will be the largest school radio club we have ever had.