Itchen Valley Amateur Radio Club - News

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Well that wasn't a normal Club meeting!

Posted: 09 Jul 2016 02:19 AM PDT
http://www.ivarc.org.uk/news/well-th...l-club-meeting

Discussing things with the Chairman this morning he felt we ought make some
comment about last night's somewhat robust meeting, especially since we had
an ex-member from 5 years ago there who must have wondered, what on earth
had happened.

There has been strong and divided opinion by a couple of members about the
value of the Steppir to the club. Whilst it has been used several times in
the past, over the last couple of years the club has moved more toward
contesting and it has been pretty much unused. One thought had been to sell
it and use the proceeds to fund a dedicated HF contest rig (a Kenwood
TS-590s). Last night the Chairman had the difficult and unpleasant task of
trying to remove the emotion from the discussion and bring the matter to
the club members. He did an excellent job and the club voted to:
Keep the Steppir to allow for the possibility that the club may, in the
future, do more special event and JOTA/TDOTA stations where it would be
useful
Purchase a 2nd hand TS-590S, funding it either completely or partially from
the sale of other unused equipment most of which has been donated via SKs
(and a very big THANK YOU to people who do think of the club in this way)
Unfortunately it is inevitable that the club needs the occasional meeting
to conduct club business but we don't want too many of these - the point of
the club is to learn stuff and hopefully have a bit of fun doing so.

Next meeting will be the Club Junk Sale on 22nd July - bring lots of
change, even more carrier bags and make sure you've emptied your car boot
ready to take all your purchase home.