Members in Attendance:

 Gilbert VE3CFS, Stan VA3JSF, Manfred VA3RMF, Bill VE3BXP,  Mike VE3BAE, Les  VA3LGL, Mike VA3TUF,Preston VE3GXA, Perry VA3APS,    George VE3TYZ,  Keith VA3KPP,  Don VA3NC and special guest Chip Chapman VA3KBG .

Opening Remarks

Keith opened the meeting by welcoming all members to the meeting.

Treasurer's Report

          

      GIC    $5000 .           

      Bank   $ 525.24      

 On Hand  $ 176.30

     Total    $5701.54

Secretary's Report

Nothing new to report at this time.

Old Business

Review of Last Minutes

The minutes of the last meeting were accepted as published on a motion by Dave and seconded by Bill BXP .

Repeater Report

VE3IRO The  noise is still on the repeater . When the weather gets warmer and appointments can be

Field Day 2025

On June 28 the Iroquois Amateur Radio Club held its mini field day event. This year the event was held on Peter Brunt’s property near Williamsburg. The members participating were:

Peter VA3PJQ, Leo VA3LC, Jeff VE3MDC, Chris VA3VW, Josh VE3VQR, Alain VA3BZU,

Dave VE3YH, Stan  VA3JSF, Glenn VE3WGD, Tom VA3KD, and Keith VA3BG.

The members began to arrive around 12pm and quickly began setting up the stations. We used Peter’s enclosed cargo trailer as the ham shack. Jeff and his crew setup a long wire antenna that he provided. It was somewhat comical to watch them try to get one end of the wire up into a tree. After several attempts they managed to secure the antenna. Leo and his crew worked on setting up an inverted V antenna using Manfred’s VA3LG, mast attached to Glenn’s truck. Stan installed a 20m antenna to use on FT8.

With the antenna’s all installed the next setup was to setup the radios. Using radios provided by Chris, Jeff and Stan three stations were brought to life. Stan used his QDX and planned to operate QRP on FT8.  Chris and Jeff provide the QRO HF radios. With the radios installed it was time to fire up the generators and begin operation. The generators were provide by Dave and the little Honda units did stellar service..

The club was on the air and began operating 3A at 1800 UTC. The two QRO stations began making contacts immediately and continued operating on 20 and 40m until 2300 UTC. Tom even made a couple of CW contacts. Unfortunately due to some timing issues the FT8 station was not able to operate.

At 2300 UTC we ceased operations for dinner. The club provide the burgers and salads. Peter cooked up the burgers and everyone seemed to enjoy the meal which was washed down with a little of Keith’s home brew. Don, VA3NC was able to join us for dinner thanks to Stan and Tom who took care of transporting him.

All in all the event was successful and was enjoyed by all. We more than tripled the number of contacts from last year. We’ll begin planning for next years event shortly. If you haven’t participated in Field Day before consider joining us even if it’s only for the social aspect.

73 de

VA3BG and VE3YH