[NCDXA] Minutes of December 16, 2020 Meeting

[Alfred Laun]

Fellow Members of NCDXA.

Herewith please find the minutes of the regular NCDXA December meeting:

NATIONAL CAPITOL DX ASSOCIATION
MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING, WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 17, 2020

President Fred Laun, K3ZO called the meeting to order at 7:07 PM EST.
This was in effect the Christmas Party meeting of NCDXA, but given
the Covid-19 Pandemic, the meeting was held online via ZOOM.

Present were the following members, who introduced themselves in turn:

Fred Laun, K3ZO
Phil Barsky, K3EW, Treasurer
Ed Kuebert, K5EK
Bud Governale, W3LL
Tom Molyneaux, KE3GK
Jim Locke, W3NRJ

The minutes from the October meeting of NCDXA were not immediately available
so the next item on the agenda was the Treasurer's report, given by K3EW.
Phil reported that given the recent receipt of annual dues by members, the
club treasury had climbed to over $4,000.  There were still nine members
who had not renewed for 2021, and President K3ZO had promised to check
with each one to see whether they wished to continue as members.  K3ZO
reported that he had not yet done so but would take care of the matter.

KE3GK reported that he had sent membership certificates online to all
members who were currently paid up to date, for which he was thanked by
those of us in attendance.   K3EW reported that the remaining stock
of blank traditional oversize
NCDXA paper certificates had been sent to K3ZO by W2GPS, who had been
holding them because he had been in charge of printing them for the past
several years.  The traditional paper certificates had not been sent to
members annually, but only at the time they had initially joined
NCDXA.  K3ZO reported that he had those certificates in hand, including
one already made out to K3RON, which he would take care to mail to him.
KE3GK said that he also had the capability to print these paper certificates
should that be desired.

Treasurer K3EW took the opportunity to announce that beginning on Wednesday,
December 24, 2020 and each Wednesday thereafter, NCDXA would host a ZOOM
session online at 7:00 PM with the latest information on DX related topics.
K3EW reported that Frank Donovan, W3LPL had asked whether non-NCDXA members
could join these sessions, and the consensus of those present was that as
far as outside participants were concerned, "the more the merrier." So
K3EW said that he would make an appropriate announcement on the reflector
of the Potomac Valley Radio Club (PVRC) as well.

K5EK said that he would also announce these sessions to the membership of
the Carolina DX Association.   KE3GK added that he would also announce
the sessions to his local DX group.

A brief discussion followed about recent DX and DX contest happenings,
including
the surprisingly good conditions for the ARRL Ten Meter Contest; the lack
of the
normal number of DX multipliers available in the CQWW CW DX Contest because
contest DXpeditioners were unable to travel to most DX locations due to the
Covid-19 pandemic; the fact that a few contest DXpeditions did nevertheless
take
place including 8Q7ZO and 7Q6M.

K3EW also reported that conditions had been quite good for the Straight Key
Century Club (SKCC) activity the previous weekend.

It was decided that the next regular meeting of NCDXA would take place on
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 7:00 PM EST via ZOOM.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:57 PM.

Respectfully submitted,

Fred Laun, K3ZO
Secretary (Acting)
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