HARC PROGRAMS as of 03/24/2018 February Station Construction, K7JGM February Annual budget & Nominations for 2017 March WSPR Demo Nelson Spohneimer April Emergency Shack Power Larry Shirk May FD Logging and Radio Operation June FD 2017 July 4th of July and FD Review August Solar Eclipse September dBs what they are and how they are used October Auction & video What is WinLink November Video – Winlink Digital Mode December Christmas Party January Auction February Station Construction, K7JGM March First Net Introduction (Video)

Agenda Outline General Admin Acknowledgements Updates for Ongoing Topics Elections On-the-Air Volunteer/Leadership Opportunities Near-Term Events Good of the Order Program – FIRST NET (Video Introduction)

General Admin Introductions & Pledge Minutes Treasurers’ Report Treasury Audit 2018-2019 HARC Budget

Begin Bal 1243. 32 Receipts 1201. 06 Expenses 1222. 00 Transfer 1000 Begin Bal 1243.32 Receipts 1201.06 Expenses 1222.00 Transfer 1000.00 End Bal 1222.38 Begin Bal 4962.39 Receipts 0.36 Transfer 1000.00 End Bal 4962.75 Total Funds 7185.13 Jan. Treasures Report

HARC Treasury Audit From Bylaws…. AUDIT AND FILINGS. The HARC’s financial records for the current fiscal year are to be submitted by the outgoing treasurer for an audit to be completed by April 30th. The audit team shall consist of at least two non-officer members appointed by the President. The Treasurer shall facilitate the filing of all appropriate financial records and required reports to the State of Washington and Internal Revenue Service on or before the respective filing deadlines. Results:

FY 2018-2019 HARC Budget Draft (continued

Acknowledgements Jim K7JGM – for Feb program Randy Neals W3RWN – volunteering for Net Control in March and to serve as Trustee Joe KI7LTQ FD food chair; Bill W7KXB & Mark KA7OVQ to assist George W7POE and Mark KA7OVQ for audit Puyallup Swapfest crew – Larry, Brian, Duane, Bruce, Tony, LNS Search for FD Locations - Bruce K7BAB & Tony KA7CYY– Des Moines, Kathleen KF7TTG – Normandy Park Jim K7JGM, Ken KE7GOW, Nelson W7KVI – initial meeting with PSRFA and SeaTac re: Emcomm assets

Update for Ongoing Topics UHF Repeater ownership – Not finalized, but initial meeting 3/14 (Ken, Jim, Nelson) with PSRFA & SeaTac suggests they will transfer all assets related to repeaters to HARC; also, any older radios, power supplies, antennas, Signalinks not purchased with federal grant funds (TBD) W7KVI drafted 2nd version of MOU re: assets 2nd meeting scheduled for 4/24 New Repeaters Controller Interfacing – on/about late April Fusion testing – May? (≥2 members now have Fusion rigs – any others?)

Update for Ongoing Topics 2 Puyallup Ham Fair Club table netted $991 (including tower) Substantial volume moved! Remaining unsold items offered during meetings Volunteers – Bruce, Larry, Tony, Duane, Brian, Nelson HARC_Announcements Email List – Everyone getting announcements? Send issues to Nelson, W7KVI@Comcast.net Use care with this HARC address – over 100 persons on the distribution, send email of limited interest using individual addressees

HARC Elections Elections This Meeting Final Ballot Submittal Vice-President – Larry Shirk, AA7UA Treasurer – Duane Gibb, KF7ZMZ One Trustee Position – Ken Higgins, KE7GOW Randy Neals W3RWN volunteered his interest at the end of February, and is appointed to complete Al Mannings’ term – Randy’s bio next slide Final Ballot Submittal Count Announce Winners

Randy Neals, W3RWN Bio Randy has been involved with amateur radio license since 1990 and holds a General license as W3RWN. He was first licensed in Canada as VE3RWN. He moved to California in 2007 where he held the call KI6TWT, later changing that to W3RWN, his initials. Randy has been active in repeaters and links systems and took up microwave contesting while in California. (10 GHz and 24 GHz) He moved to Seattle in 2013 and is a volunteer and Communications Tech with Seattle ACS, as well as a member of PSRG and the West Seattle radio clubs. When he's not doing Ham Radio, his day job is President of Business Development for a Submarine Cable that connects Oregon, Hawaii, New Zealand and Australia.

On The Air - Outline Propagation Forecast Operating Events Soon Recent Contests – Member input Solicited! HARC Net – Tuesdays, 7 pm local, VHF Repeater

Propagation 2 – Sunspot Numbers

Propagation 3 – Daily Sunspot Numbers

Propagation 4 NOAA’s 27 Day Forecast

Propagation 1 – No Sunspots NO SUNSPOTS!—DO NOT DESPAIR ENTERING SOLAR CYCLE 24 MINIMUM—NOT END OF WORLD COMPARING “NOW” TO 2008-2010 SOLAR MINIMUM—SOME W7POE LOGGED OBSERVATIONS: FIELD DAY 2008: 404 QSO’S (295 ON 40 METERS) FIELD DAY 2009: 371 QSO’S (213 ON 40 METERS) FIELD DAY 2010: 439 QSO’S (277 ON 40 METERS) THE MESSAGE: OPTIMIZE YOUR 40 METER ANTENNAS!! DX CONTACTS DURING THE THREE YEAR PERIOD: EUROPE EG: GERMANY, FRANCE, BELGIUM, ITALY, SLOVENIA, FINLAND, SWEDEN, BOSNIA, CROATIA, PORTUGAL AND MORE

Propagation 1 – No Sunspots continued OCEANA: EG: NEW ZEALAND, FRENCH POLYNESIA, SAMOA, FIJI, MARQUESAS AND MANY MORE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS ASIA: EG: JAPAN, KOREA, ASIATIC RUSSIA SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA: EG: BRAZIL, PERU, BELIZE, COSTA RICA CARIBBEAN: MOST OF THE ISLANDS AFRICA: A COUPLE OF CONTACTS MOST ON 20 METERS, MANY ON 40 METERS AND A FEW ON 15

Standard Winlink Test Suite Files (last four characters identifies the message):   90D2  Time 1:47  123 bytes/min (221 bytes) FC8D  Time 00:58  411 bytes/min (403 bytes) Z7N4  Time 1:55   382 bytes/min (736 bytes) L7YK  Time 2:55  266 bytes/min (780 bytes) H3O5  Time 1:17  614 bytes/min (789 bytes) HV2L  Time 00:41  1173 bytes/min (810 bytes) 5RIH  Time 1:04 1019 bytes/min (1102 bytes)--could not play the attached video (my media player may not support the CODEC used??) W61S  Time 6:15  1084 bytes/min (6775 bytes)--why would this one be so much longer than 90D2--both are 26K .doc attachments? 

Standard Winlink Test Suite Files (continued) The above were received via KC7COL  I had to leave radio for a bit and the next (last) one was received via N7MO   5FTP  Time 1:34 1931 bytes/min (3046 bytes) Obviously I had a better connection via N7MO but went there because I could not connect with KC7COL (on first try at least so went to N7MO). So that is more than I know except as you can see, the throughput really varies.  George H, W7POE

Operating Events Calendar -1 MAR 24-25 CQ WW WPX CONTEST, SSB EXCHANGE: RS PLUS SERIAL NR. (EG: 59 01) APR 15 ROOKIE ROUNDUP, SSB ROOKIE: LICENSED IN 2016, 2017, 2018 NON ROOKIES WORK ONLY ROOKIES: EXCH: NAME, 2 DIGIT NUMBER WHEN LICENSED, STATE ON-GOING—ARRL INT’L GRID CHASE CURRENT LEADER HAS 1037 UNIQUE GRID SQUARES STATE QSO PARTIES APR 7-8: MISSISSIPPI APR 7-8: MISSOURI APR 14-15: NEW MEXICO APR 14-15: GEORGIA APR 15-16: NORTH DAKOTA APR 21-22: NEBRASKA APR 21-22: MICHIGAN APR 28-29: FLORIDA (AS ALWAYS, SEE WA7BNM WEBSITE FOR ALL CONTEST DETAILS)

Operating Events Calendar 1 (continued) Sasquatch Stomp occurs end of March, a slow speed CW event at <= to 10W sponsored by Puget Sound QRP Group. Micro Hams Conference (today) Pathos Island using State Parks boat for transportation

Tuesday HARC Net Purposes – More frequent community & club awareness Regular use of V/U equipment Broaden # of EMCOMM participants More technical mentoring & discussions (post-net roundtable) Portion of net time devoted to EMCOMM as appropriate Check in Verbally, and by sending Winlink email to WA7ST Net Control Stations – We have new script. Net Controls needed for APRIL and later…..

Volunteer/Lead Opportunities HARC Net – Net Controls needed for April Erect/test antennas at FS28 – (Ken KE7GOW lead)

Opportunities – To-Do List Complete coax and connector installation, FS28, to support VHF/UHF and HF operation on meeting days and for training sessions. Ken KE7GOW lead Obtain locked cabinet to store items in FS28 adjacent room (Doug Hans KC7DBN has a lead) Antenna Analyzers Laptop and Projector Coffee mess

Near-Term Events - 1 EMCOMM -- 5th Saturday Drill – March 31 EMCOMM -- ARRL Simulated Emergency Test, May 5, 0800-1200 local Communications Academy, April 14-15 Registration opened 2/25 www.CommAcademy.org EMCOMM - ARRL Simulated Emergency Test, May 5, 0800-1200L

Near-Term Events - 2 EMCOMM – FAA invite to Participate, June 5-6, solely Winlink, deploy @ FAA sites, more to come Field Day – June 22-24 Assist Event and Food chairs, erect antennas OPERATE July 4 Burien Parade will be worked by George and Brian Zombie Fest in October JOTA – October 19-21

Field Day Dilemma

Field Day Dilemma Board Recommendation Work in real-time

Good Of The Order If we have one

Meeting Closeout Unaddressed topics? Questions? Review open Action Items Close Meeting NOTE: All participants are asked to send proposed topics/discussion items for Board or General Meeting to the Secretary, preferably a week or more in advance of a meeting.

First Net (A Video Introduction ) Program First Net (A Video Introduction )