W5SFA
The
Stephen F. Austin Radio Club, Inc.
An Association of Amateur Radio
Operators in the Austin, Fayette and Waller County Areas
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 73
Carmine TX 78932
Meetings: Last Wednesday of each month
Repeaters: 145.410 (KC5YMJ)
444.875 (W5SFA)
2000
-01 Officers:
President, Wade Eilers, W5TEN
Vice President, Brian Gaskamp, KA5BKG
Secretary/Treasurer, Dan White, W5AOV
Newsletter Editor, Dave Jenkins, K5KX
Newsletter Publisher, Dave Jenkins, K5KX
The
SFARC Newsletter is published monthly for members and those interested in
becoming members.
June, 2000
June Meeting
The next SFARC meeting will be held on Wednesday, June 28 at Sillivan’s
Restaurant (Highway 36 between Bellville and Kenney) If, for some strange and inexplicable
reason, the retaurant should be closed, the fallback location will be Manuel’s
Mexican Restaurant, in Bellville.
Dinner will be at 6:30 PM,
with business meeting to follow.
The May meeting was called to order at 1950 CDT by President
Carl Hickman, K5OWC.
The minutes for the last meeting were read and approved.
Old Business:
Members present discussed meeting and constitutional
changes. Dan White’s recent meeting
proposal (see May Newsletter) was dropped in favor of modifying the
constitution to be able to conduct simple club business with those present at
the meetings. Dave Jenkins, K5KX, was
appointed to be chairman of the Constitution re-write committee and Dan White,
W5AOV, is to assist.
Field Day will be held in Dan's barn, 12172 FM-949, Cat
Spring. Carl Hickman is in charge of
Field Day. Dave will be in charge of
getting the logging software setup.
Please attend and help with setup starting at 0900 on Saturday the
24th. The event starts at 1200 hours.
New Business:
Wade presented the nominations for next year’s
officers. They were:
President: Wade Eilers, W5TEN
Vice-president: Bryan Gaskamp, KA5BKG
Secretary/Treasurer: Dan White, W5AOV
Dave Jenkins, K5KX volunteered to remain the newsletter editor. As there were no other candidates that would accept a nomination from the floor, a unanimous vote was cast to accept the slate as presented.
Wade made a motion to adjourn and Carl Pleasant, W5MPX,
seconded. The meeting was adjourned.
Dues received: Dave
Jenkins and Brian Gaskamp. We have
seven paid members and two life members for this year. Please send your check for $12 for single
and $13 for dual membership to Dan White.
Members present:
Carl and Linda Pleasant, Dave Jenkins, Wade Eilers, Brian Gaskamp, Carl
Hickman and Dan White. This constitutes
a quorum of paid voters to conduct business.
Field Day
Field Day 2000 was held at Dan White’s house this past weekend and was successful on many levels. First, Dan got his new beam built and installed (temporarily) and it was instrumental in our HF efforts. Carl managed to relocate his entire shack to the Field Day site, and this effort allowed us to operate class 2A. Dave even managed to brush up his [minimal] CW skills. The following participated:
Cameron Mitchell K5CAM
Dave Jenkins K5KX
Dan White & XYL W5AOV
Carl Hickman & XYL K5OWC
The final scores
haven’t been totted up yet, but I’m sure we won’t be at the bottom of the pile…
For those of you with
Internet access, the following site has some pictures of this activity:
http://users.argolink.net/danwhite/w5sfa
Coming Events
·
Austin
Summerfest 2000 – July 28-29, Hilton Austin North, 6000 Middle Fiskville Road