IMARS MEETING 

March 2nd 2015

We met, as usual, on Monday morning.  I got to the DeBary EOC at just after 9 a.m. but Bernie and Carlos were already there, the coffee was ready and we were all waiting on Tony who brings the donuts.  Somebody said when he brings donuts he is Anthony ;-) The donuts were fresh and tasty, we all threw in out $1 donation to the donut fund and lit into them.  Others arrived throughout the hour and Bernie got the meeting started right on time at 10 O'clock.

Bonnie Taylor, WB4FSF and John Watkins, G4VMR remain on the sick list, we wish them both a speedy recovery.  Ken List, KB8NNA  is busy driving motor homes to and from the big shows and can't make meetings like he used to.

Ernest "Ernie" Clough WA4MKF, a new member, came in. He said he had been to a meeting a couple of weeks ago, I must have missed that meeting.  Ernie is a General, he lives in DeBary and his name is pronounced 'CLOUF'.  WELCOME ERNIE!

Old timer Carlos Colón, WA4ZKV  got up and talked about a circuit he was experimenting with and wanted advice about how the voltages he was seeing were being generated.  If you have answers please let Carlos know about them at his eMail address posted on the web site (MEMBER INFO).

After Carlos was finished Roy Peters KNØNI  gave us a very interesting talk about FRACKING and how the process works.  Being a geologist Roy is eminently qualified to explain it and make it interesting to all of us. Roy mentioned that there is a belief among many that oil is still being created. The session ended with a discussion about other fuels that show promise Natural Gas (NG  or LNG), Hydrogen, E-85 etc.  Bob pointed out that E85 yields much less MPG than regular gasoline (with 10% ethanol). [Edmunds ran a test to compare E85 to gasoline, taking into consideration the price difference.  The result:  Gas/E85 difference: The fuel economy of our Tahoe on E85, under these conditions, was 26.5 percent worse than it was when running on gasoline.]  (Click on Edmunds above to see the report.)

Alan Williamson  KI4ZSK the following announcement of our Society appeared in the DeBary Newsletter:

Thank you Alan

We discussed a sandwich type sign board that could be placed near the road on meeting days and used for any other occasion where IMARS could be promoted.  Alan said he would follow up on that idea.

I pointed out that a notice of our meetings could be placed in the Beacon and/or the News Journal but requires someone to take the initiative to send in the requests.  Any volunteers?   I used to do it regularly but haven't done so for a couple of years.

So, we got some social, some electronics and some technical information at this meeting.  It was a pretty good morning in my humble opinion.  What did you think?

Before adjourning the meeting Bernie asked that we volunteer, in a rotating fashion, cleaning up the coffee pot after the meeting.  Bernie said it was unfair to Alan, after he makes the coffee in the morning, to also burden him with cleaning up too.  We agreed and Bob and I took care of the clean up before we left.

That's about it for this week.

Let me know if you have any complaints, corrections or submissions for future BLOG posts.

73

Jerry KØJH
 for
Indian Mound Amateur Radio Society

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