The October 2014 meeting of the Madison DX Club was held on Tuesday the 14th at Fitzgerald’s in Middleton.
The meeting was called to order by President Ted - K9IMM at 7:00 PM. Fifteen members and guest Bonnie - W9BJB attended.
A video of the K5D DXpedition to Desecheo Is was presented during dinner, followed by the business meeting.
Secretary’s Report: Minutes of the September meeting were read and approved.
Treasurer’s Report: Financial Statement of Account for the general fund for September, 2014 was read and approved.
Committee Reports:
– DX Report… Conditions are excellent right now.
– DX Report… Jim - KE9ET reported via email that the Christmas Is - VK9XPS DXpedition is expected to be QRV on October 18,
– DX Report… FT4TA - Tromelin will be QRV on October 30 .
– DX Report… VU4KV - Andaman Is coming in November, many other interesting DX on now or expected soon.
– Repeater… Ed – N9MW: Repeater operating well.
– Packet Cluster… Ed - N9MW: W9BG is working.
– Website… Ed – N9MW: Website is working; a rouge page has been removed.
– Email… Ted – K9IMM: e-mail reflector is working.
– Scholarship… Ed - N9MW: This year’s scholarship recipient, Michael Josiah - AC9FJ, sent a nice thank you note to the club.
– Scholarship… Ed - N9MW:Terry – W9UX made a substantial equipment donation to the scholarship fund.
General and Member Information:
K9ZT - Bud, N9ELF - Jim, N9LB - Lloyd, W9EWZ - Bob, and W9PN - Doug, all attended the recent W9DXCC convention.
K9ZT - Bud, won a FLEX-1500 Software Defined Radio at W9DXCC.
The W9DXCC FT5ZM Amsterdam IS DXpedition presentation by Craig - K9CT detailing the FT5ZM Amsterdam IS
DXpedition included an awesome video showing their 160m contacts, including QSOs with six MDXC club members
K9IMM, N9CK, N9LB, N9MW, W9EWZ, and W9PN
Ted - K9IMM requested that club members contact him about bringing electronic photos and/or videos of their shacks
and antennas for use as virtual shack tours at future meetings.
Old Business: None.
New Business:
Ed - N9MW made a motion to create a new, local, “swap e-mail reflector” for the southern Wisconsin area.
Lloyd - N9LB seconded it, a discussion followed and it was voted on by the membership and approved to finance it.
It is time to renew your MDXC membership for the 2014-2015 year!
If you have not already renewed, please send a check for $20 made out to “MDXC” to Lloyd - N9LB ( QRZ.COM address ).
Notice is given that the club will again be meeting at Fitzgerald’s in November.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:35 PM.
Submitted by Lloyd Berg - N9LB, MDXC Secretary/Treasurer
