HWC Shield Harvard Wireless Club Bulletin
May 11, 1999
Hello HWC:

And yet another FB meeting with lots of issues discussed and debated. Present this evening were K1XQ, N1EXQ, K9HI, N3OQB, & K3UOC. Only two more meetings this year on the 18th & the 25th -- we hope you'll find time to attend, especially on the 25th when Mike Riesback, our NE ARRL Vice-Director will address the HWC. In fact, feel free to bring a guest or two on the 25th and welcome our regional ARRL representative to W1AF. Refreshments and munchies will be served. We'll also let BARC and MIT know in case some of their members would like to attend. Since a number of us will not be around on 6/1, that meeting has been canceled. Now, here's the news:

  1. Our 6 volunteers for this coming Sunday's Flea are hanging tough -- meaning no one has canceled out. I suspect this will be an all-time attendance record for the HWC at the Flea. Everyone signed up should remember to wear your HWC baseball cap. If you don''t have one, let me know and we'll make some arrangements to pick one up.

  2. One big item this evening was a little training on our new everyday logging program, DX4WIN. This is a very slick database that is easy to use and customize. All contacts using W1AF (excepting contests) should now be logged in DX4WIN. Our CT file has been imported into DX4WIN and other logs will follow. The Windows desktop icon opens the program and the extensive log manual is on the operating table. Thanks to K1XQ for seeing us through this project. We keep our fingers crossed that KO1O can find the W1AF backup log files somewhere in his software collection.

  3. Thinking of KO1O (as we were) we hope Bill can find the time to repair the Packet & VHF radio connector and return it to the club soon. We are lost w/o our daily quota of DX spots!

  4. I spent some time up top today tie-wrapping new cables and pondering 160 meters. Tie-wrapping is a breeze. An antenna for 160 is another story. I think the ultimate solution is to run a wire across Linden Street, as there are no aboveground utilities on the street. Plympton, on the other hand, is clogged with electrical and telephone wires. I think it can be done, although it looks like a project for the '99-'00 school year. Shades of the Lowell tower caper of 1990!

  5. And yes, the new QSLs have arrived! Everyone is pleased with them, so I guess the pain of months of revisions and changes has passed. All QSLs have been answered (Bureau, SCR, MAQP) so we are up-to-date and beholding to no ham. I have set up a little box on the outer white table with newly arrived, answered QSLs. Take a look at the batch next time you pass through.

  6. We talked of acquiring some QSL-sized drawers and then doing a definitive alpha-sort of all QSLs. It's a big job but ultimately it will be important for our record keeping, especially for DXCC. Keep your eyes open for some "surplus" drawers, QSL-sized. This is a project long-overdue.

  7. Our web site continues to expand and improve. What makes this site a real winner is that we emphasize content while many other clubs get by with merely links. New items this week include a HWC site search engine, the Antique QSL Gallery, the 1912 HWC Callbook, the Memoirs of W. L. Hampton, '52, our 1999 anniversary QSL and an updates page, among other things. We talked this evening on strategies to promote the page beyond the HWC. All agreed that it would be appropriate to inform other university clubs of our URL, our 90th, and our Special Event in October. We're working on a distribution list of 100 target clubs to get the word out to.

  8. The archive collection of HWC documents, put together by Buzz Jehle (N5UR), HBS '75 has been placed in a new protective binder. After 25 years, the old binder was in poor condition. The new binder, with clear acetate pages, should serve for many years.

  9. We await the transfer of funds in the amount of $350 from the UC. Frank is working to expedite the process.

  10. We received six 8" x 10" reprints of photos taken by Gazette photographers at W1AF. These were from the photo session for the March Gazette article and from the XX tower raising several weeks ago. Phil will have these on the web site shortly under the Modern Era section. I framed several of the best of these and hung them in the clubroom.

  11. We talked this evening about doing a weekend training/licensing session in late September. All agree this has tremendous potential for bolstering our undergraduate membership and also for fulfilling our commitment of licensing Harvard affiliates. With planning, this could be a real winning recruitment strategy. Let's keep talking about this.

  12. We had a spirited discussion of the draft Articles and Bylaws. Although we are into our third draft, there appears to be more work yet to be done. K9HI will undertake a 4th draft and we will do our best to come to consensus on these documents over the course of the two remaining meetings. KC6TAH has also been instrumental in this process. We encourage all of you to become involved in the HWC constitutional convention. You can find a complete set of drafts of these documents in the Members Only section.

    That's it!

    73, Mike
    K3UOC

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