THE UPLINK - THE NEWSLETTER OF THE JOHNSON SPACE CENTER AMATEUR RADIO CLUB
Vol. 11 No. 2 December 2005

The next club meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, December 8, 2005 at “Sweet Mesquite – A South Texas Grill”, 2412 Bay Area Boulevard in the back meeting room of the restaurant. A scheme is to arrive at 6 PM and have dinner before the meeting. Our normal meeting schedule is the last Thursday of each month.

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JSCARC September Meeting – Cancelled due to events associated with Hurricane Rita.

JSCARC October Meeting Minutes

The meeting on October 27, 2005 was held at the Sweet Mesquite Restaurant. The meeting was called to order at 6:35 p.m. by President Leslie Eaton, KD5DYY. There were 8 members and 2 guests in attendance.

Secretary/Treasurer Ken, K5RG, reported that there were14 paid members for GFY 2006. For GFY 2005 the club’s membership stood at 43 paid members. The combined JSC Federal Credit Union accounts have a balance of $1,016.58 The annual officer liability policy is due in November which will be an expenditure of $325.

COMMITTEES:

Repeater – Larry, WD8KUJ reported no changes, normal operation. The club’s spare repeater antenna is being stored in Building 16.

ARISS – School contact made with the Tomioka Elementary School in Urayasu City, Japan on October 24th. The International Space Station commander, Bill McArthur, KC5ACR is making many contacts, even calling CQ at times.

Skywarn – The Skywarn net is conducted on the JSCARC repeater, Thursday at 8 PM and will be in operation this evening.

OLD BUSINESS:

New Shack – Nick, KC5KBO reported that there was nothing new to report. The new jogging track at Gilruth is in place. Nick indicated that it took an effort to prepare the shack equipment for Hurricane Rita (covered with plastic and ‘safed’ as much as possible). He felt that an advance plan for future preparations should be put in place to avoid problems at the last minute.

NEW BUSINESS:

GFY ’06 Officers – Discussion centered on finding volunteers for the officer slots. Ken, K5RG sent out a general appeal and received an offer for QSL Manager currently staffed by Vince, KA8UDO. This is an appointed position. Larry, WD8KUJ stated his willingness to serve as President and Kyle, KG4YUQ indicated his willingness to serve as Vice President and Program Chair. The Secretary-Treasurer position is still open. Formal elections will be held in December at the next club meeting.

Shack Familiarization – A number of new members indicated that they would like to have a tour of W5RRR’s equipment and resources. It was decided to have a shack tour at 11:30 AM right after the Saturday, December 12th VEC session at Gilruth. Nick (KC5KBO), David (KB5PGY) and Ken (K5RG) stated that they would conduct the W5RRR tour.

The business meeting was adjoined at 7:00 PM.

Agenda Items for the December 8, 2005 meeting at Sweet Mesquite:

Officer Nominations/Elections for GFY 2006.
Holiday Celebrations

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CLUB OFFICERS, APPOINTEES & INFORMATION
President Leslie Eaton, KD5DYY (w) 281-283-6155
      Email: leaton(at)meitechinc(dot)com
Vice-President Matt Bordelon, KC5BTL (w) 281-483-7096
      Email: matthew(dot)g(dot)bordelon(at)nasa(dot)gov
Secretary/Treasurer Ken Goodwin, K5RG (h) 281-333-2636
      Email: kgoodwin(at)houston(dot)rr(dot)com
Station Mgr John Maca, AB5SS (w) 281-483-8802
      Email: john(dot)j(dot)maca(at)nasa(dot)gov
Property Custodian Larry Dietrich, WD8KUJ (w) 281-483-9198
      Email: wd8kuj(at)orbitworld(dot)net
W5RRR Trustee John Maca, AB5SS (w) 281-483-8802
      Email: john(dot)j(dot)maca(at)nasa(dot)gov
Repeater Trustee Nick Lance, KC5KBO (w) 281-483-0386
      Email: nicholas(dot)lance-1(at)nasa(dot)gov
QSL Mgr Vince LePar, KA8UDO (w) 281-244-7755
      Email: vlepar(at)houston(dot)rr(dot)com
Webmaster Dale Martin, KG5U (h) 281-484-4465
      Email:kg5u@hal-pc.org
VEC Coordinator David Fanalli, KB5PGY (w) 281-483-4833
      Email: kb5pgy(at)clarc(dot)org

Club mailing address for both business and QSLs:
      NASA Johnson Space Center
      Attn: AW7 / JSC Amateur Radio Club
      2101 NASA Parkway
      Houston, TX 77058-3696

Repeaters:
      Voice : 146.64(r)/146.04(t) MHz and 1294.3(r)/1274.3(t) W5RRR
      APRS 144.39 MHz

Website: http://www.w5rrr.org

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DE Ken, K5RG, Secretary/Treasurer JSCARC    AR