[Waverley ARS] Tuesdays Working Bee

[Alan Smith]

Tuesday 13/2/2007  - Working Bee Report

Attendees

Grant VK2TU
Eddie VK2BEH
Raffy  VK2RF
Henry VK2RE
Alan VK2TUI
Jim VK2JA
Brad VK2CEC

Good day had by all, usual chin wagging but only two coffee breaks due to tasks on hand.

1. Jim, Eddie & Grant removed shelving in operating room and installed keeper plates on all shelves to ensure that shelves are coupled together and secure. Shelves where then put back into position and items returned to shelves.

2. Jim, Grant & Eddie strung up two temporary 20 meter dipole antennas so that we could test  and compare the difference between a commercial antenna analyser, a noise bridge and the recently constructed kit antenna analyser. Problems experienced with the kit antenna analyser in that it would not work above 10Mhz and it was determined that this has come about but to the incorrect installation of the RF chokes. This has been rectified and antenna analyser will be tested again next Tuesday. 
Test sheet is available from the writer but unfortunately can't include with mail as our mail will not handle HTML or frames.

3. Raffy provided a spare PC so that the we could set up a Linux environment within the club. Unfortunately it was determined the hard discs in the PC where no good so hopefully next week we will be able to rectify this and load the operating system.

4. Henry worked on the FT902DM and determined that the chip that drives the counter display is Kaput and that indeed the purchase of the Pic Solution would fix this problem so over to the committee to purchase.

5. Packed up removed temporary 20 Meter dipoles and generally cleaned up. Departed club at approx 6PM.

Thanks to all 

Alan VK2TUI




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