The January 2014 meeting of the Madison DX Club was held on Tuesday the 14th at Fitzgerald’s in Middleton, WI.
The meeting was called to order by President Ted – K9IMM at 7:00 PM.
Seven members and five guests: Frieda –KC9YTA, Bonnie – W9BJB, Gary – K9AY, Dan – K9IBM, and Dave – WB9EGZ all braved the snowstorm to attended.
Secretary’s Report: Minutes of the December meeting were read and approved.
Treasurer’s Report: Financial Statement of Account for the general fund as of December 17, 2013 was read and approved.
Committee Reports:
– DX Report… Doug – W9PN: OG0A – Aland Island on now, FT5ZM – Amsterdam Island coming up on January 24th.
– Repeater… Ed – N9MW: Repeater operating well.
– Packet Cluster… Ed – N9MW: W9BG is working.
– Website… Ed – N9MW: Website is working.
– Email… Ted – K9IMM: e-mail reflector is working, working to increase the allowed # of cc’s on our email reflector.
– Scholarship… Ed – N9MW: Scholarship letters have been sent, this year he added 8 or 9 southern Wisconsin ARRL Affiliated Clubs to the mailing list.
– Scholarship… Ed – N9MW:Also looking for donations of equipment that will then be sold at the MARA Hamfest in April for scholarship fundraising.
General and Member Information:
Doug – W9PN has earned QRP DXCC with his new Elecraft KX3.
Ted – K9IMM received his 7-Band DXCC award.
Lloyd – N9LB received his DXCC Honor Roll “wood” plaque, it only took 44 years.
Ted – K9IMM now has a new Expert 2K-FA Solid State Amplifier interfaced into his station, says it works well.
Ed – N9MW reported that Bill – N9CHN and Sharon – KA9GPY have a new vertical antenna at their AZ QTH.
Lloyd – N9LB reported that five MDXC members, who are also contesters, have been selected to operate as W1AW/9.
This is for the W1AW/9 – Wisconsin for the ARRL Centennial On Air Celebration. This event will run from February 12 to 18th.
This will be a contest style operation with high national and international QSO rates expected. Overall there are a total of 18 WI based operators QRV for this event.
Old Business: None
New Business:
Ed – N9MW motioned to make a donation of $50 to the BARS – W9YT radio club to help offset the costs of hosting our packet cluster equipment.
That was seconded, a discussion took place and it was voted to make that donation.
Ed – N9MW motioned to make a donation of $25 to the software writer who produces AR-Cluster DX Packet Cluster software – AB5K.
That was seconded, a discussion took place and it was voted to make that donation.
Ted – K9IMM presented a request for sponsorship by the organizers of a proposed FT/T – Tromelin Island DXpedition later this year.
The request was tabled until a future meeting in the hope that they will have better defined plans and a firm schedule before we consider this request.
Ted announced that the February MDXC meeting will be at the Green Lantern in McFarland.
The business portion of meeting was adjourned at 7:42 PM.
A very interesting program about building small low-band receiving antennas was presented by Gary Breed – K9AY.
Submitted by Lloyd Berg – N9LB – MDXC Secretary/Treasurer
