Erik Shirokoff, KO6OL, Pres.
Fritz Sommer, K6EE, Sta. Trustee
Jut Shanahan, KB3OJP, Sec.

Jack Burris, K6JEB
Will Coulter KG6SCW
Madeleine Leulllier
Bill Mallard, KF6YHX
Elliott Medrich, N6PF
Mal Raff WA2UNP
William Wells, WB6NLL

Minutes:

1. Introductions

2. Old Business:
a. Evans Hall Station:
(1) Fritz N6UK reported that we have a small room on 5th Floor of Evans Hall reserved for use by the club.
(2) Bill WB6NLL reported that he had testing receiving AM and SSB on amateur radio bands (10 - 80 m) at Evans Hall and found no significant local noise that would interfere with HF communications.
(3) Next steps were discussed. Jack K6JEB recommended contacting Evans Hall building/facilities manager. Fritz N6UK said he would do that. Bill WB6NLL will follow up with the IST radio technician.

3. New Business
a. Mal WA2UNP stated that the club was welcome to use the NALCO repeaters (QTH: Alta Bates Hospital): 224.900 MHz (-), 440.900 MHz (+) and 1285.550 Mhz (-).
NALCO web site is http://www.pdarrl.org/ebsec/nalco/
b. The club agreed to reestablish the W6BB Bears Net on campus: Thursdays 7pm 146.43 simplex.

4. Announcements:
a. Members may get an account password on www.w6bb.org by contacting Jack K6JEB.
b. For East Bay ARC information see: http://eastbayarc.org/
c. Pacificon 2008 Ham Radio Convention will be Oct 17-19 at the San Ramon Marriott Hotel, San Ramon, CA. For more see: http://pacificon.org. For information about BSA Jamboree on the Air at Pacificon 2008 (in the Pleasanton Room) see: http://www.pacificon.org/Scouts_On_The_Air.html There will be a Ham License class and exam at the convention.

5. The club agreed to have the next W6BB general meeting in 6 weeks at 5:15pm on Monday. (27 Oct 2008).

William Wells, WB6NLL
Elliott Medrich, N6PF
Jack Burris, K6JEB
Fritz Sommer, N6UK
Erik Shirokoff, KO6OL
Jut Shanahan, KB3OJP

The following have been elected to the W6BB Board:

• President - Erik Shirokoff, KO6OL
• Trustee - Fritz Sommer, N6UK
• Secretary - Jut Shanahan, KB3OJP

Congratulations!

We’ve got a possible lead on a station space which we are now pursuing in earnest. The club would greatly appreciate a donation of low-loss COAX which needs to run about 160 feet.

Welcome Aboard Fred!!!

The California QSO Party (CQP) is the premier state QSO party held every year on the first weekend of October. The Northern California Contest Club (NCCC) has sponsored CQP since 1974. CQP has traditionally opened the annual contest season by providing an opportunity for contesters to prepare for the ARRL November Sweepstakes since the format is similar.

Stations outside of California , worldwide, work stations in California only. The 58 counties of CA are the multipliers. California stations work all stations in or out of CA, The 50 US states and 8 Canadian areas are the multipliers. Stations outside of Canada and the US add to one’s QSO total but do not count as multipliers. See the full set of CQP Rules for more details.

Make your hotel reservations by October 1st and ask for the special PACIFICON 2006 room rate of $84 per night. Call 1-800-228-9290 for resevations. To insure availability reserve early. (more…)

If you cannot make this meeting, and would like to be a candidate club officer (President, W6BB Trustee, Secretary), please send a bio/blurb about your ham ‘career’ to K6JEB or to the club list.

If you have agenda items, please send them to the list before the meeting.

OFFICIAL BUSINESS
Club Officer Elections - eligible members (you have to be a current student/staff/faculty to hold office in an OSL organization) will be tapped/elected, per our charter, for the next twelve months at our October meeting. THIS meeting we will have a chance to meet one another and anyone wishing to step-up or any nominations will be taken during the meeting tomorrow.

Club Program - until we have club officers elected, we won’t have a full meeting program hammered out. However, we have some prospects lined-up and we can discuss these and others during the meeting.

Shack Committee - the minute we get OSL recognition, we should start a search in earnest for an actual club Ham Shack. We already know of a few antennas up around campus, but we need leads on actual rooms where we can keep our equipment. As well, this (hopefully voluntary) committee should start discussing a workable policy with regard to recovering the equipment that might still be lingering for W6BB as well as laying out a plan to equip the shack. Remember, until we have an actual space, we won’t know whether we need things like chairs and desks and that sort of thing. We have already had a couple kind offers for equipment donations. The committee should be made aware of these and follow-up on the leads.

Club Dues - we shouldn’t collect any money until we have full OSL status. However, we should hammer-out and come to a CONSENSUS (for us country boys, that means when all the cows drink out of the same trough) on how much and for how long. Keep in mind if we had a few bucks, we could print up fliers and perhaps even subscribe to some of the ham radio magazines (or whatever the club decides to do with the money).

MEETING PROGRAM
NALCO ARES - Mal WA2UNP, will briefly discuss the W6BB relationship with NALCO (Northern Alameda County Amateur Radio Emergency Service). Part of our charter is to provide public service on campus as well as in the community during emergencies. NALCO membership is free to W6BB members.

This meeting will be mostly social and informal. Bring a pice of gear, or kit, or that old stack of QST, or even old W6BB trinkets or stories to share and amuse. And if you bring something to share/give away, you can take something. Future meetings might be spiced-up with a small raffle/drawing.