Minutes of Virtual meeting of April 26, 2022
Meeting began at 7 PM Central time.
Hosted by Joe Pajor, President KBØKFH
In attendance: KØRCJ Richard Johnson, Secretary
NØKAT David Foster, Treasurer
KØSFV, Larry Cannon, Past Sec/Treas
KAØIIU, Bryon Cannon, Webmaster, agreed to continue.
NE8S, Gar “Doc” Ko
KØBOG, Chuck Skolaut
KC5FM Lloyd Colston
Treasurer’s Report: $1121.63
Discussion: Transition of Power from past Officers to present Officers
Resolution: Eyeball meeting at Village Inn in Hutchinson, Ks., for handing over of archival info and related items.
Discussion: Handling of monies. Transition from Hutchinson to Derby for new Treasurer. Unresolved for now, ideas on table for consideration
Discussion: Ham Club Online. For use by all members. Can be used for reports, files, member info that a member wishes to have published, mailing list, etc. Approved for use.
Discussion: Archiving old records from QCWA Headquarters, to include but not limited to records from the beginning of Sunflower Chapter 79. To be remanded to Secretary for safe keeping, and to be made available whenever needed/requested.
KC5FM, Lloyd, discussed a bus trip to Hamvention in Ohio. Still in planning.
Next virtual meeting planned for May, date and time to be announced. All meetings are open to all for attendance.
Meeting adjourned at 7:58 PM by Joe Pajor with no objections.
Tag: officers
Preview: February 25, 2020
The first QCWA Chapter 79 meeting of 2020 will be at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, February 25, at our usual place, Spear’s Restaurant, 4323 West Maple St., Wichita.
We will not have a program.
We will have an all-member forum to discuss the future of the chapter, its leadership, what members want in future activities and meetings, and how to improve both our membership rolls and meeting attendance.
We are hoping that we can elect three people to assume leadership positions in our chapter at this meeting. We need all three officer positions: president, vice president, and secretary-treasurer.
Will you please nominate yourself to help our chapter? You can nominate someone else who is willing to serve if elected.
All members are encouraged to attend this very important meeting and bring their thoughts and ideas on how to keep our chapter alive.
Preview: December 17, 2019
Please note: We will be meeting one week earlier than usual, due to the Christmas holiday.
Joe Pajor, KBØKFH, has lined up another great program for us for our last meeting of the year. It will be of general interest in connection with the Christmas season.
We need to elect officers for 2020 since we didn’t have time to do that at the October meeting. All offices are open for nominations: President, Vice President, and Secretary-Treasurer.
We hope to see you there. As always, you are welcome to bring your spouse or another friend.
Minutes: December 18, 2018
The meeting started at 19:00 with Troy and Joy Pulver performing familiar Christmas music for our program. Troy played the guitar and harmonica, and Joy played the hammered dulcimer. We enjoyed their music, and they enjoyed playing it for us. They both play in The 37 Mile Band that performed for our December 2017 meeting program.
Chapter President Harold Childress called the business meeting to order at 20:00.
Minutes of the October meeting were approved. Motion by Don Sharp; second by Gary Essells.
Treasurer’s report was approved. Motion by Don Sharp; second by Bryon Cannon.
Harold read an announcement from Sharon Hohlfeld, NØIXB, wife of David Hohlfeld, WØKFS. David is still doing pretty good. He walks to the table three times a day. As of December 10 he had been on hospice for 5 months. He has home health care, too.
Harold asked for someone to serve as vice president for 2019.
Nominations for officers for 2019 were:
President: Harold Childress
Vice President: none
Secretary-Treasurer: Larry Cannon
Joe Pajor moved to accept the officer nominees. Second by Don Sharp. Motion passed.
Joe Pajor asked if the roster of Chapter 79 members could be listed on the club web site, QCWA79.com with name, call sign, and other information such as address, telephone number, e-mail address, year joined QCWA. After discussion, Harold asked Larry to poll members as to what information they are okay with being posted.
Joe Pajor recognized Harold Childress for his years of service as Chapter 79 president and presented him with a Spear’s Restaurant gift card.
Dale and Esther Puckett provided a pretty snow globe for the prize for a drawing. It was won by Charlie Harris, K2CEH.
Attendance: 10 members; 7 guests.
Meeting adjourned at 2015.
The following images, taken at the Christmas meeting, are courtesy of Dale L. Puckett, KØHYD.
Preview: October 30, 2018, meeting
QCWA Chapter 79 will meet at 6:30 p.m. October 30. Our speaker is expected to be someone from the Civil Air Patrol.
At this meeting we will have nominations of officers for next year. Our officers are President, Vice President, and Secretary-Treasurer. We need to nominate a complete slate of officers so we can function efficiently.
We especially need to nominate and elect a Vice President. He chairs the meeting if the President is unable to attend the meeting. He is also the person who secures a program for each of the meetings. Throughout the year he will be happy to hear from members who are willing to present a program or who know of someone who will do a program for a meeting.
Self-nominations are allowed and even encouraged. But if you are a bit shy, ask someone else to nominate you. Please check ahead of time with anyone you wish to nominate to be sure they are willing to serve in an office.
Minutes: August 28, 2018
President Harold Childress called the meeting to order at 1900. Twelve members and three guests were in attendance.
Minutes and financial reports were approved as e-mailed. Motion by Joe Pajor; second by Henry Monton.
Harold said we have two more meetings this year, and asked members to start thinking about chapter officers for next year. We really need to elect a vice president, who is also the program chairman.
Please contact Bryon Cannon, Chapter 79 webmaster, if you have content to post on the chapter’s website. The URL of the web site is QCWA79.com. The secretary was asked to add the website URL to the e-mails of the meeting notice and minutes.
The business meeting was concluded at 1905.
President Childress introduced Coy Terry, WØZWS, who presented a very interesting program about delta loop antennas for 40 meters and how he phases two loops to add some directivity, which helps with the transmit and receive signal strength.
Coy is almost completely blind due to an eye disease he got in 2006, possibly related to his stay in the New Orleans Superdome after Hurricane Katrina. Although it is a condition that moves slowly, it will most likely result in total blindness.
Coy holds an Amateur Extra class operator license. He enjoys operating CW and building and putting up antennas. He has taught himself to solder but says he endured some burned fingers in the process. His wife, Pamela, helps him by reading meters and a few other things, but Coy says the words “can’t do it” aren’t allowed at his house.
Minutes: December 19, 2017
The 37 Mile Band performed Christmas music for us as our program, before and while we ate. The 37 Mile Band is an old-time acoustic string band. The band members are, from right to left, Troy Pulver, banjo and guitar; Joy Pulver, hammered dulcimer; Teresa Bachman, mountain dulcimer; and Marc Bachman, electric string bass. Thanks to Lloyd McCombs, KØLM, for making the arrangements for the band.
President Harold Childress, WBØLFH, called the business meeting to order at 1915. The minutes and treasurer’s report were approved.
An election of officers was held. Officers for 2018 are: President, Harold Childress, WBØLFH; Vice President, Don Sharp, WBØQFR; Secretary-Treasurer, Larry Cannon, KØSFV.
Everyone introduced themselves.
President Childress asked that we try to think of ideas of how to recruit new members. He asked the secretary to make a list of members and past members.
The meeting was adjourned at 1930.