1. 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)

2. 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)

3. General Admin Introductions & Pledge Minutes Treasurers’ Report
Treasury Audit
HARC Budget

4. Begin Bal 1243. 32 Receipts 1201. 06 Expenses 1222. 00 Transfer 1000
Begin Bal Receipts Expenses Transfer End Bal Begin Bal Receipts 0.36 Transfer End Bal Total Funds
Jan. Treasures Report

5. 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:

7. FY 2018-2019 HARC Budget Draft (continued

8. 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

9. 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?)

10. 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 List –
Everyone getting announcements?
Send issues to Nelson,
Use care with this HARC address – over 100 persons on the distribution, send of limited interest using individual addressees

11. 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

12. 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.

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

14. Propagation 2 – Sunspot Numbers

15. Propagation 3 – Daily Sunspot Numbers

16. Propagation 4 NOAA’s 27 Day Forecast

17. Propagation 1 – No Sunspots
NO SUNSPOTS!—DO NOT DESPAIR
ENTERING SOLAR CYCLE 24 MINIMUM—NOT END OF WORLD
COMPARING “NOW” TO 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

18. 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

19. 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: 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? 

20. 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: 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

21. Operating Events Calendar -1
MAR CQ WW WPX CONTEST, SSB EXCHANGE: RS PLUS SERIAL NR. (EG: 59 01)
APR 15 ROOKIE ROUNDUP, SSB ROOKIE: LICENSED IN 2016, 2017, 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)

22. 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

23. 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 to WA7ST
Net Control Stations – We have new script.
Net Controls needed for APRIL and later…..

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

25. 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

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

27. Near-Term Events - 2
EMCOMM – FAA invite to Participate, June 5-6, solely Winlink, 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

28. Field Day Dilemma

29. Field Day Dilemma
Board Recommendation
Work in real-time

30. Good Of The Order
If we have one

31. 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.

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