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Golden Spike Amateur Radio Club

Meeting Minutes for Saturday, March 8th, 2025

Dee Dostaler (W7DEE) welcomed everyone in attendance and handed out tickets. Craig gave

the financial report.

Dee wants to get the business part of the meeting over quickly. He read the minutes, but will

post them on the club website, K7UB.org from now on. Motions were made and affirmed.

Field Day: Nothing new. Possible new site is East Garland Park.

ARES: Dee updated the radios at the Brigham City Fire Station. Twelve kits were re-

programmed. There is an antenna on the roof of the station. As part of the city communication

plan they will have a Winlink kit. They have 10 HTs to be used in a disaster.

Greg Moore will be stepping into the VP position. He has also set up a Winlink gateway in

Brigham City.

On April 12th, Garland city will be having an Emergency Preparedness fair at the Garland Fire

Station. The Great Utah Shakeout is on Apr 17th.

Brigham City will be hosting and EP Fair on May 3rd from 9-4. Dave Bay will set up a station at

the BC Fair. It will be held at the church building behind McDonalds.

The Winlink kit TNCs are from MFJ, which has gone out of business. Bret will make some if

enough people (10) want one. He also stated that a test session will be held in Malad on Apr

5th.

Dee posed a question: Do we want to continue with 2 door prizes? The answer was yes.

Door Prizes: Door prizes awarded. Dave Jackson got a head lamp. Ray Manning got a blanket.

Greg Moore, a surge protector. Teresa, N4MBA won the grand prize, a $250 gift certificate to

Ham Radio Outlet.

Next meeting, 10 am April 12th.

The meeting was closed.

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Golden Spike Amateur Radio Club

Meeting Minutes for Saturday, April 12th, 2025

Dee Dostaler (W7DEE) welcomed everyone in attendance and handed out tickets. Craig gave

the financial report. I circulated the roll and copies of the minutes from the last meeting.

Motions were made and affirmed.

Test Session: Bob Anderson (AA7TR) said a test session is planned, but not yet scheduled.

Field Day: East Garland Park. There is plenty of room for parking and trailers. Bret is at the

Garland EP Fair.

ARES: Craig and Dee went to half a dozen cities to work on their radios.

Dave Jackson will teach a Technician class in Willard .

The Great Utah Shakeout is on Apr 17th. Dee will hold a communications exercise. From 12:10

to 12:30, check in on the repeaters. Then switch to simplex and check in again. Everyone who

can should send Dee a message using the new Winlink Gateway in Brigham City.

Brigham City will be hosting and EP Fair on May 3rd from 9-4. It will be held at the church

building behind McDonalds.

Bill, K7WIV talked about some difficulties with a repeater building in Idaho. The BLM was very

helpful.

Door Prizes: Door prizes awarded. Claine (KK7MHO) got wire strippers. Cathy (AJ7CA) got a

tote.

Greg Moore gave a Winlink presentation. The gateway is at his house.

Dee is planning on another Gateway at the Sheriffs building. There are two ways to connect to

the gateway, packet and Vara FM. Wavetalkers.com is a Winlink learning site, with lots of

videos.

There was one correction made to last months minutes.

Next meeting, 10 am May 10th.

The meeting was closed.

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Golden Spike Amateur Radio Club

Meeting Minutes for Saturday, May 10th, 2025

Dee Dostaler (W7DEE) welcomed everyone in attendance and handed out tickets.

Craig (KE7SIJ) gave the financial report. Brad (KE7DJQ) circulated the roll and copies of the

minutes from the last meeting.

Motions were made and affirmed.

Dee proposed suspending meetings in July, August and September. It was affirmed.

Bret (KG7RDR) suggested having an HF activity during the summer to get people interested.

Test Session: Bob Anderson (AA7TR) said eight people took the test. Also, we need more VECs.

We could schedule another test session in Malad.

Field Day: June 28th and 29th. East Garland Park. There is plenty of room for parking and

trailers. There are not as many trees so we will need another set of poles.

Door Prizes: Door prizes awarded. Kathy (AJ7CA) got a Bivi Pack. Bret (KG7RDR) won knee pads.

Presentation: Evan Day (W0GOP) gave a presentation on the Leamington, UT remote station

W7SP in central UT, near Delta. The station is in a concrete building with an 85 ft tower with

UARC antennas. There is a beam for 10-20m, a G5RV for 10-80m and an end-fed half wave

(EFHW) for 40 - 160m.

To use the remote station, join the Utah Amateur Radio Association ($20)

(https://user.xmission.com/~uarc/).

Read the operation manual for the Kenwood TS-480 SAT radio. Get permission to use the

remote. Download the RCForb software. More info can be found here:

https://user.xmission.com/~uarc/HFRemote.html

Evan has 500 QSOs and 45 DX contacts. He transmits on W7SP and uses the Corinne WebSDR

for receive, since it has a better antenna for receiving.

Next meeting, 10 am Jun 14th.

The meeting was closed.

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