At 7:00, Sean AD0GQ started the meeting and announced that the club is returning to the old format where the business meeting happens at the start of the meeting.
Business meeting
At 7:03, Sean AD0GQ called a business meeting to order. The business meeting lasted approximately fifteen minutes. Sean AD0GQ controlled the agenda and flow of the meeting.
Secretary report
Matt N3PAY reported that all minutes are on the fan website AksarbenARC.net/s
Treasurer's report
| Account | Starting Balance | Ending Balance |
|---|---|---|
| Main Checking | $4,725.52 | $4,747.71 |
| Savings | $7,226.85 | $7,226.85 |
| CD Life Member (1) | $13,412.81 | $6,838.67 |
| CD Life Member (2) | — | $6,574.14 |
| Total Assets | $25,365.18 | $25,387.37 |
Monthly Activity:
- Income: Club Dues ($100.00)
- Expenses: Trailer Storage ($50.00) and Envelopes ($27.81)
- Total Expenses: $77.81
Repeater Accounts:
- Repeater Checking: $1,989.82 (no change)
- Repeater CD: $1,139.91 to $1,139.96
President’s report
Experiment last year and some of this year about changing the meeting format. People did not like it. Back to the old way. The tail end of the meeting is the meeting’s presentation & technical discussion.
Vice President's report
Continuing to look for presentation material. K5JKA is willing to talk about an AI system running on a repeater and independent of Internet.
Events -- Pat K0CTU
- Corporate Cup April 19, 2026
- Track meet May 21, 22, 23, & 25, 2026
- Market to Market is in late October
ARES -- Greg KC0VTO
Thanks for checking into the Sunday NETs. And the folks being NCS. 4/28 – more training. Subject is for storm season. Will practice doing radio calls and making reports with each other
5/2/2026 – ARES will go out to various watch points on that Saturday
SATERN -- Mary N0TRK
- Busy getting ready for Dayton. Field day at Irvington. Planning meeting will be in April Saturday 4/18 9:30 at Salvation Army Emergency Disaster Services Building at 10629 Burt Circle in Omaha. We welcome everybody to come.
- Going to South Dakota soon. Lincoln soon too. Reaching out to IOWA too. See N0TRK if you want to talk about it.
VE testing – May 9th at Salvation Army building.
Publications/Web Services Committee: Brian WE0BEP
- I'm always looking for ideas, if not a full article to publish.
- Would like to have eleven pages of material
Courtesy Committee -- Bill
Bill was absent and Norm does not know if there has been any activity in the courtesy committee.
Membership committee: Mary N0TRK
If you didn’t get a HAM HUM, it means that you have lapsed and should pay Adam your membership dues.
Old business:
- TIM AB0S – Wants to know if new members are automatically added to the groups.io Tim suggests that people be given instructions on adding themselves to groups.io
New business
None
Announcements
John WB0CMC@cox.net (or @outlook.net) – Wants help. He has a 2 meter grid dish. Wants it taken to the recyclers. There’s a spot a mile west of John’s house. Wants to get rid of too.
John WB0CMC says repeater is working.
Tim KF0TMZ – May 9th Lincoln HAMFEST at Sandhills global event center (like last year). John mentions BARC HAMFEST
Pat K0CTU has three items in the raffle. Six tickets for $5.
Business Meeting adjourned
Motion to adjourn business meeting at 7:16.
Presentation & Discussion
At 7:30 PM, HamVillage.org members presented about their organization and ham radio outreach.
They were in Omaha for https://kernelcon.org that ended on Friday 10 April 2026.
12 people passed ham radio exams: 11 new technicians and 1 new general. Jake was at the AARC meeting -- he passed the tech exam that morning.
About six HRV folks will be at Dayton to do a panel.
Terry – NV0O shooter. Contest “can it ham” challenge to build antennas out of unconventional materials. There was a dipole creation.
TruSDX
All in one cable – N6AD creates them. Clubs can do group buys. Can use hand held to send SSTV.
HAM radio folks exploit propagations
The tone of SSTV draws people in.
KX1 and a random wire doing CW.
Birth of the CAN it HAM joke. Like the beverage cooling contest.
Realization that hackers are already experimenting with RF. Can it ham works because it removes the identity concept.
Terry wants to show us that hams are doing the same thing that hackers are doing.
$80 HF Radio TruSDX can be controlled over USB.
The box includes all bands 33 cm to 80 meters. Runs off of battery for about an hour.
There’s a bill of materials (BOM) for the box. An amazon shopping list.
Andrew up next
Licensed in the 90s with no code novice. Recently upgraded to extra in 2025.
Andrew is deeply involved in scouting. HAM radio there too. IC 7300 waterfall helps catch people’s eye and get them to stop and look.
“Complexity over curiosity"
HAM radio can be complex to visualize. How to give folks a good experience in three minutes. 15 at most.
Going for guiness world record for most exams. 173 tests in a day from Dayton in the 1980s is the number they hope to best.
How to explain a fox hunt to a hacker? A badge that is a fox is a way to start. Because there’s a badge life culture. Volunteers were tracked by tape measure yagis to track them. This was very popular. Also have some stationary foxes. The people walking with a fox badge is hard mode.
Unit cost is $7 for the fox badge.
One of the villagers teaches RF theory in college.
Kernel con – 606 people attended.
Hand ‘em a radio and show them how to send a meme over the air. Let them hear the SSTV tones.
Phone app: Robot 36 does SSTV
Kernel 10 – annual membership.
One villager is a project lead for ARDEN.
Single band QRP kit that fits in an altoid can.
Tru SDX is all open source. All on github. Or can buy it prebuilt on Amazon.