Minutes - October 5, 1999


The club met in Rathbone Hall 274, at 7:00 P.M.

The minutes from the previous meeting were not read.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS - OPEN HOUSE

Bill Kuhn, KO4MH reported that he had replaced a failed electrolytic capacitor on the COR board for the 2m repeater. This capacitor was part of an R-C circuit that is meant to make the repeater stop transmitting after 3 minutes of uninterrupted carrier. The defective capacitor created a different time constant (a very short one) that was causing the repeater's annoying new pattern of dropping out after a few seconds. The club thanks Bill for rescuing the repeater.

NEW BUSINESS

There was show and tell with the club's 0.5 Kenwood VC-H1 slow scan TV unit. We're not sure which half of the device we own, but we were able to look at all of it. This combination camera/modem can take an SSTV picture and send it to a radio for transmission. It can also display SSTV pictures received.

Norm Dillman, NØJCC reported that the club's Hy-Gain TH6DXX Super Thunderbird tri-band beam has unacceptably high SWR readings on 10m and 15m. It has been in service 20 + years, and it is likely that something has gotten into some of the traps. No action is planned at this time.

The club members enjoyed visiting with a prospective amateur for most of the meeting time.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:14 P.M.

David Yoder, KAØJPM
secretary-treasurer


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