W9YB Callout
Welcome to another fall semester! Our callout will be in Monday, August 30th at 7:30PM in the club office, PMU370. Come for the food and drinks and learn what our organization is all about!
If you have any questions send them to w9yb@w9yb.org.
First Meeting
Greetings all and welcome back from summer!
Tomorrow evening, Monday August 23rd, at 7:30PM will be our first meeting of the new semester. It’ll be an informal gathering to discuss the changes that happened over the summer, gathering ideas for the upcoming semester, and to plan the callout.
If you can’t make it, the callout will be the next meeting of the semester and it will be coming up quickly. Stay tuned for the final date and time!
Summer Antenna Maintenance Completed
The summer antenna maintenance day finished up around 1pm today and was a great success. Thanks to several volunteers and club members, we were able to take down a mostly non-functional vertical antenna and put up in its place a 40m dipole pointed north-south. As well, some missing bits and pieces will be ordered for a another dipole antenna and a discone antenna to be installed in the fall. Stay tune for that antenna day announcement.
Thanks to the following people for coming out, braving the heat, and helping to get yet another functional antenna up on the roof!
Tim Miller, N9DKI
Steve Parker, WR9A
Jeremiah Dole, KB9MYM
Tak Ryuzoji, KC9AMT
TJ Houck
Summer Antenna Maintenance
The Purdue Amateur Radio Club has finalized the day of its summer antenna maintenance on August 7th starting at 9am. Currently, the forecast from Weather.com shows no rain and a high of 81 degrees. We’ll be replacing an antenna and doing some other maintenance tasks.
If you are interested in helping out or have any other questions, feel free to mail w9yb@w9yb.org.
Repeater Update
At the latest officer’s meeting, Tim reported that he completed work in Hawkins on the 6m and 220 repeaters. The PL board in the 220 repeater is malfunctioning and has been removed, bringing the repeater back on the air. Tim noticed some interference coming through on the 6m repeater and has re-enabled the PL tone.
The 440 repeater is still offline.
Officers Meeting Notes
After getting strange reports about the 440 repeater, Tim went to Hawkins to have a look. It appears the repeater will be off the air until at least July. More updates will be posted when we know more.
The AC in the shack is going now and the shack is still very habitable, despite the hot Indiana weather we’re experiencing. Currently reading 70 degrees fahrenheit.
April/May Meeting
Greetings, the wrap-up from the April/May business meeting includes the election of new officers:
President: Alex Younts, KC9CYK
Treasurer: Jeremiah Dole, KB9MYM
We’ve still got a few things to tie up for this year, so stay turned.
March Events
W9YB will hold its March general meeting on Monday, March 1st, 2010 at 7:30pm in the West Tower of the Purdue Memorial Union.
Also, The Purdue Amateur Radio Club, will be hosting a VE Session for area amateurs interested in upgrading their licenses, or for new operators to become licensed.
Date: Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Time: 1:00pm
Location:
Purdue Memorial Union, Room 256
101 N. Grant Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907
Free parking is available on evenings and weekends in Purdue University’s Grant Street Parking Garage across the street from the union.
Meeting Updates
Are you working towards your Technician license? Do you have questions? There will be two Technician Question and Answer sessions in February for you! Come thirty minutes before the callout (Monday, February 1st) or on February 20th at 1:00PM.
Also, don’t forget about the callout at 7:30PM in PMU370 on the 1st!
The Robert and Florence Bookwalter Memorial Scholarship
The Robert and Florence Bookwalter Memorial Scholarship is a need based scholarship for engineering full time, undergraduate students with a GPA of 2.65 or above and must hold a current amateur radio operator license. Applications for this scholarship are currently being accepted until February 15, 2010 for the 2010-11 academic year.
