Minutes: August 29, 2017

President Harold Childress, WBØLFH, called the meeting to order at 1852.

Minutes of the June 27 meeting and the treasurer’s report were approved as printed and e-mailed, upon a motion by Joseph Pajor, and second by Dale Puckett. Attendance: 11 members and 3 guests.

President Childress asked members to check our web site, QCWA79.com and to support webmaster Bryon Cannon with photographs and other content to post on the site.  Bryon’s e-mail address is qcwa79@gmail.com

Old business:  None

New Business: President Childress announced that nominations for officers for 2018 will be taken at the October meeting.  Nominations for all offices in QCWA Chapter 79 will be accepted.  You may nominate yourself.  If you nominate someone else, please be sure that person will accept the office if elected.  Election of officers will be at the December meeting.

Program:
President Childress introduced James Whitfield, N5GUI, who presented an interesting program.  James likes to experiment and tinker, and doing talks and demonstrations.  He enjoys digital modes of ham radio.  He told about his radio equipment and about his newest project, learning about and using a Raspberry Pi computer. The Raspberry Pi is a tiny, versatile, powerful, and low-cost computer.  It was developed in the United Kingdom and was originally used to teach computer science. Millions of hobbyists are enjoying this nifty little computer.

Meeting was adjourned at 2005.  Next meeting is October 24.

Submitted by Larry Cannon, Secretary