over the last week since I sent out first message, about 20 people responded privately or openly.
some couldn't come due to other commitments
definitely interest to set up another radio club, our own
VHS ARC is my suggestion
doing my training, told people at VECTOR that bunch of people have gone through the course
VECTOR would like us to set up our own club and affiliate with them
show up at their field days
work with them at symphony of fire
encourage others to partake in hobby of amatur radio
told them that our goal was to hold workshops and get people qualified
VECTOR: good, if we can help you let us know
if you need qualified examiners, we have members who are willing to do it for no cost
they're realy enthusiatic
Paul (other Paul) manages apartment block (15th and Fir, could put repeater on its roof
people are keen to be involved
first meeting: wanted to see if anyone would show up
next meeting: do on Wed night
time when VECTOR does their net
people bring their radios if they have them
if they don't, that's fine too
can practice calling in to the VECTOR net
Sean: you can still use the radio even without a license
under direct supervision of any one of us
I don't know where else to go from here
other ideas: you may have seen my email regarding lotteries money
not as difficult as people think
put in the proper application
one of the women involved with VHS, Ifny, definitely knows her way around
I am involved in another non-profit that gets $30K a year from lotteries
before I got involved, it was costing them $6000 for audits
figured out you could get a letter from an accountant that said everything was fine for less than $500
that's a way to get seed money
talked to Hackery, they get Ham Radio equipment often
start looking out stuff for us
looked into repeater and what it takes to set one up
doesn't look hard
few radios, buy them from people who have built them
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the easiest way: equipment often gets obsoleted
even tube equipment
reason it gets thrown out, channels keep narrowing
companies to narrow things down just replace the equipment with transistorized stuff
usually find if you go to companies and say you are using it for a ham repeater you can get it for nothing
as long as they know it won't end up sold
often nothing wrong with old equipment, just needs a module to turn down the deviation
I'm really keen
I'm one of the people who made a mobile truck
last year I built a few direction finding for fox hunting
the idea is to hide a little transmitter once a month
take the mobile truck, when everyone gets there, have a barbecue
to get people excited, it's very easy to build a simple receiver
once you get into that, it bites you, you can get you license and build your own
3-4 Watts on shortwave you can go all the way around Vancouver
if you get involved in contesting in Ham, really serious contests, some people almost give up their lives
I've been involved in that, people setting up stations,
try to talk with as many people as possible
nowadays especially with power lines, you've got to get out of the city, there's too much noise
it's sort of died
there's still satellites up, HamSat organizations
really cool to intercept weather satellites
once you start playing with RF stuff, it's really easy, nice and easy, it's just a way of doing things
software radios, I'm amazed. Just a little USB stick and you have a spectrum analyzer
keep in mind repeaters have a built-in time limit
fundamentally, built around emergency response
without emergency, quite limited
intrigued with Farrell's idea around direction finders
cool idea for contest
any organization has trail off
people excited the first time, either they will engage or they won't
big thing: communication strategy
I think VECTOR struggles with it
have trouble contacting people, i.e. mailing list
need an influx of people, and need to engage people currently there
some people will be more technically inclined and want to build a receiver right away
I don't have the skill set for that; I'd like to build on what I have before I make that investment
as far as retaining people or getting people interested,
to me that's just a problem of what project we're going to work on for the next 2 months
figure out instructino
fox hunt thing
or set something on mountain
crowdsource instructions on how to build a radio
for next 2 month, have a goal
get picture from a weather satellite
or contact a ham radio satellite
keep having idea
let's do this, let's do this
we all have enough ideas that can keep us going for next year or two
if we keep doing things, people will bee "that was really cool," I want to be around the next time they do that
VHS has a process in place
no gatekeeper
if people walk away, it won't shut down
looking at Radio Amateurs of Canada, to get insurance, just have to be registered society
under VHS as a registered society we can get this
if we want to apply for gaming moneys
not as onerous as people think
1-2 years down the road before money comes
not a separate organization, as a subgroup of VHS
send an email to announce wed meeting
wed night is a craft night
check with people to ensure craft night is not impacted
send out email, suggested donation of $10 for radio portion of VHS
Farrel: lock down VE7VHS as soon as possible before someone else locks it down
still available
simple process, fill in form
let's hold off on that until we can talk numbers
20-25 people, VHS members
then we can turn around and say and get a table to be able to leave equipment here and secure it
have a locker, lock it up
issue right now, we don't know if we're going to get an extension on our lease
and they've sold the building
once that is sorted, we can make a proposal to get an antenna on the roof, or next to the building
other thing: Paul manages apartment , 15th and Fir apartment.
he'll let us put a repeater on here
have John Oliver school radio station to check out
callsign is gone, some guy in Cranbook or something has it
anything else to add?
put out email to the general list
let everyone know we're meeting on Wednesday
get non-members as members
20 people emailed very interested
keep on building from there
put together a list of licensed versus non-members
sit down and see resources for Advanced qualifictions
lots of people have an interested
[General chatter about the cause of the interference and testing the LED sign.]