W9YB Repeater Outtage
Current Repeater Status: ONLINE
Purdue University will be performing roof work on Hawkins Hall, where W9YB’s repeater equipment is located. For the safety of the crews working on the roof in close proximity to the antennas, beginning this Monday and until the roofing work completes, all four of W9YB’s repeaters, as well as other equipment housed at Hawkins Hall (IRLP Node, DX Cluster, etc) will be powered down and out of service while the work progresses. The exact finish date is unknown as weather and other outside influences can affect the roof work, but we do not expect them to be offline for long and the repeaters will be reactivated as soon as we receive word the roofing crews are finished.
The club shack in the Purdue Memorial Union will not be affected.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Update 6/1 - Roof work has been postponed due to weather. The roof work and repeater shutdown is now scheduled to occur on the morning of Thursday, June 4th.
Update 6/4 - Roof work has begun this morning. The repeaters have been turned off as of 7:30am. Work will be finished and it is anticipated they will be reactivated around 5:00pm Friday 6/5. This is tentative and may change again due to weather or some other circumstance.
Update 6/5 - Roof work did not finish by 5pm today. The repeaters will remain offline so crews may work on Saturday. Continued work through Monday may be possible as well.
Update 6/7 - Repeaters are back online for the time being. Roof work needs to continue but probably will not until later in the week due to rain in the weather forecasts.
Update 6/12 - Repeaters are disabled again this morning so work may continue. Work will continue at least through Saturday.
Update 6/14 - Repeaters are back on. Will be going down again around Wednesday.
Update 6/17 - Repeaters back down for what will hopefully be the last day of roof work. Stay tuned…
Update 6/18 - Repeaters back online for the time being.
W9YB Minutes - 2009/04/06
Posted by kc9cyk in Uncategorized on April 10th, 2009
W9YB Meeting Minutes
2009-04-06
Meeting was called to order at 19:30 by Matt King.
Members in attendance: Alex Younts, David Estes, Matt King, John Bombard, Caitlin Kincaid, and Tim Miller.
Old Business
Since the last meeting, Tim led a small group onto to the roof to survey and check out the status of the antennas. Tim fixed the 20m rotator and it is now functional. He also noted that the feed line on the stack was mostly gone.
Tim reports that a suitable interface for the 440 repeater is easy enough to make, so this IRLP node will be directly connected to the repeater without using a separate radio, hopefully eliminating some of the problems we are seeing on the 2m repeater.
New Business
Elections were held, the outcomes were:
President - John Bombard
Vice President - Matt King
Treasurer - Alex Younts
Secretary - David Estes
The meeting was adjourned at 20:00.
General Meeting + OFFICER ELECTIONS Tonight, April 6th 2009, 7:30pm
Our last meeting of the semester is tonight at 7:30pm in the W9YB Shack, PMU 370.
Old Business:
- TARA Plans
- Antenna/Rooftop Status
- Spring Fox Hunt (Grand Alternative Event?)
New Business:
- 2009-2010 Officer Election
- Field Day Planning
- Summer Planning
W9YB On Facebook!
Join the W9YB Facebook group to get meeting and event reminders for YB and other Lafayette area ham radio events, meetings, and other things.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2201533731
You must be a member of the Purdue Facebook network to join (You have to list an @purdue.edu email address to your profile).
Big Ten Reflector University Net
This evening a small group of us connected the 146.760 repeater to IRLP node 9440 to listen in on the Big Ten IRLP net as well as participate. We had a very good turn out and look forward to future participation in the NET. This is an excellent way to promote ham activity on our repeaters as well as get more involved with other ham radio clubs.
2009-02-17 Officer’s Meeting
The officers met on the 17th to discuss up coming events for the club. Planning for the Science Olympiad is coming along as planned and a schedule will be sent out to the mailing list shortly after it has been finalized by John Bombard.
Parts for the 70cm University IRLP system have started to be ordered and will start to roll in during the coming weeks. Look for updates on meetings to prep the new hardware for deployment.
If you have any problems or concerns or ideas, please contact Matt King any time.
W9YB February Meeting Minutes
W9YB Meeting Minutes
2009-02-02
Meeting was called to order at 1930 by Matt King.
Members in attendance: Alex Younts, David Estes, Matt King, John Bombard, Caitlin Kincaid, Benjamin Hacker, Ben Cotton, Stephen Parker, Bruce Stewart, Tim Miller, Michael Caruso, and Greg Dean.
No treasurer’s report given.
Old Business
A call for volunteers at the Science Olympiad was made by John Bombard. Multiple people signed up; the event will be held on February 21st.
New Business
This meeting was dedicated to the Spring Callout, no new business introduced.
The ARES group extended an invitation to every member of W9YB to come to their monthly meetings, check the website for ongoing details.
The meeting was adjourned at 1950.
Original minutes: w9yb-2009-02-02
Cleanup the Shack Meeting! A Success!!
Yesterday a group of us met up in the PMU West Tower to do some general organizing and cleaning…
During this get-together we appointed a new archivist (KC9FYX)(Ben) ;).
It is looking a lot cleaner, and we have gotten an idea of our inventory as well as whats needed to improve the day to day operations of the club room. It was a good time and we all hope to see you at the Callout next Monday. (Please check the events page for more info)
W9YB Callout, Spring 09 Semester
It’s that time of the year again. W9YB is planning on organizing a multitude of activities this semester. While last fall was not as an eventful semester as we all hoped for, the new administration sincerely desires to change that. We hope that you will attend our callout on February 2nd, 2009 in the Purdue Memorial Union room 370. (This information as well as all other information pertaining to events can be found on the events section of our new web site). Join us to find out what W9YB is all about and if you like what you see, consider renewing your membership with the club. Hope to see you there!
