1. Annual Members Meeting
April 14, 2018
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2. Meeting Agenda Board Member Election Results
New Officers Nominations/Election/Appointment
Treasurer’s Report
Accomplishments
Outreach and Communications
Project List
New Business and Future Plans
Science and Paper Highlights

3. BoD Election Results, 4 of 6 Candidates
Candidate Votes Past year’s position Position
Myron Babcock 21 Treasurer
Dr. Richard Russel 19 President
Gary Agranat 14
Steve Plock 11 Vice President
Bob Sayers 10
Lauren Libby 7
Previous Year’s Elected
Bill Miller Secretary
Floyd Glick
Dave Molter

4. Treasurer’s Report
Beginning 2017 Balance: Checking - $ ; Savings - $
Ending 2017 Balance: Checking - $717.67; Savings - $
Today’s Balance: Checking - $ ; Savings - $
Dues Collected for 2017 Membership: $
Cash Donations in 2017: $37,388 Skip Crilley: $37,000
Estimate Member Donation of Equipment/Parts/Etc: $1500+
DSES Equipment Sold: $150; 40’ Rohn 25 tower & excess test equipment
Annual Expenses: $ ; See Itemized List
Final Cost for AC power installation: $35,104; See Itemized List
Current 2018 Paid membership: 53; Holding 8 additional members on roster awaiting renewal payments.
Major Expenses for 2017 All Categories: $37,898.06; See Itemized List

5. DSES - Very Successful Year’s Accomplishments
Primary Goals:
Complete a number of Haswell site infrastructure projects √
Solve site power issues, Electric grid power at site √
Create a radio astronomy certification program √
Offer a number of public outreach programs √
Move the Mailing address for convenience √
Operational dish pointing systems √
Achieve the basic operational capability of a real radio observatory. √
Meetings
Regular monthly operations and engineer meetings – Second Monday of each month
Regular monthly Science meetings hosted by Dr. Richard Russel – Fourth Monday of each month. These focus on what and how we want to achieve scientific measurements and observations in Radio Astronomy.
1st Joint Haswell and Greenbank collaboration, simultaneous deep space signal acquisition
A Number of Scientific Research Papers Written and Presented at SARA and VHF Conferences
August 2017 Open House and other outreach programs in community
Official mailing address moved from Longmont to Colorado Springs
Improved Website Updated Regularly
New Amateur Radio Club Station KǾPRT
Increased membership from 45 to over 61
Ham Radio Awards

6. Site Power and Joint Operations with NRAO SETI project
Skip Crilley has generously donated $37000 for installation of the site utility power. Steve Plock and Ed Corn worked extensively to complete the utility hookup in January.
Skip has also donated extensive receiver and signal processing equipment to upgrade the 60 ft. DSES dish for improved sensitivity and signal processing in the 1400 MHz band.
This upgrade will allow simultaneous observations with the 40 ft dish Skip is using at the Green Bank, WV, NRAO facility in conjunction with SETI work.
The upgrade will also greatly improve general Neutral Hydrogen Frequency observations at the DSES site.

7. DSES Open House and Science Expedition August 11th thru the 13th , 2017

8. Community Outreach
Gary Agranat provided a local outreach booth at the Haswell Bazaar in September and Gary and Bill Miller did the same at the Eads Bazaar in November. Many community contacts were made and we made our organization and operations known to the community as a matter of education and community goodwill.
Gary Agranat manning table at the November Eads Bazaar

9. Infrastructure Projects
Spiral Staircase
Retaining Wall
Dish Positioning Control

10. Infrastructure Projects Cont.
New 1420 MHz feed
Tumbleweed Mitigation Fence
Commercial Power Installation

11. Plishner work Projects 2018 and beyond
Item
Task/Project
Suggested By
Championed By 1
Fill wiring ditch
Ed C. 2
Complete Az/Ell read out systems
System 1
Dave M. & Glen D.
System 2
Bill M & Ed J 3
Install light fiber from feed point to comm. trailer 4
Complete bunker wiring
Ed C 5
Install HF vertical and adjust dipoles at bunker
Gary A 6
Complete fencing around the perimeter of bunker ramp 7
Change hoses on sump pumps 8
Have sumps mud pumped out 9
Establish out house near comm. trailer 10
Complete door at the top of spiral stair case and
reroof and seal dog house 11
Complete retainer wall build out 12
Install water supply piping for tanks in bunker 13
Complete plumbing in kitchen and bathroom in bunker 14
Build bunk room in East end of work room 15
Complete sewer system in bunker 16
Dispose of generator and seal building 17
clean up, haul scrap to recycle, dispose of surplus material 18
establish RF direction calibration method for the dish with both
Bill M.
pointing systems 19
Install an audible no RF intercom and communication system
between all buildings 20
Install a security camera system 21
Document the dish complete control system

12. New Business and Proposals

13. SARA 2018 Western Conference Briefs at Stanford
SARA Annual Conference Briefs – Greenbank, W.V. June 10, 2018 – 2 papers accepted so far

14. DSES Papers
On March 17 to 19, 2017, Dave Molter, Dr. Richard Russel, Bill Miller, and Steve Plock pictured here from left to right attended and presented papers representing the DSES at the Western Regional Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers (SARA) Conference in Socorro, New Mexico. They also had a VIP tour of the Very Large Array of the National Radio Observatory as seen in the background.
In March Rich Russel did a presentation hosted by Ed Schade in the Colorado Springs Rotary Club on the organization and its STEM educational goals. Rich also presented a paper at the Eastern SARA conference at Green Bank, WV.

15. DSES Papers

16. DSES Papers

17. DSES Papers

18. DSES Papers

19. DSES Papers

20. 60 foot Dish First Measurements Joint with Greenbank 40 foot Dish

21. August 21, 2017 SuperSID Eclipse Measurement

22. SuperSID Eclipse Predicted vs. Actuals Curves

23. More Eclipse Observations

24. September 7, 2017 M & X Flares

25. September 10, 2017 X 8.5 Flare

26. Questions?