W6SD Board Meeting 
1/5/22	

Attending – Board members:
Alex Auerbach
Bob Bernstein
Dana Custer
Eli Lazarow
Mike Thornberg
Randy Slaten
Fred Zimmerman

Others:
Carlos Acosta
Richard Donner
Dan Moore
Mark Weiss

Bob Bernstein: 2022 holiday dinner will be Dec. 11, luncheon, at Maggiano’s, with a projected price of $45. Their mid-size room holds 40 people, and requires a $1.400 minimum purchase. A bartender is $75 additional, and liquor purchases at the bar are credited to the minimum. Food is served “family style,” at $30 per person, meaning orders placed at table and you serve yourself. Plated service is $55 per person. A connecting room is available that will bring the total to 60, at extra cost.
We have $5,049.84 cash in bank, plus cash in PayPal.
Mike Thornberg – Jack Nilson, inventor of Compac-Tenna and holder of a number of antenna patents, will be our January 21 speaker. He is in Stromberg, Ohio. 
We have ideas for a February speaker – one on emergency communications, another on go-boxes. We also could do the go-box topic as roundtable of members, plus web resources including videos, PowerPoints. 
Dana Custer – We now have 109 members. 
Carlos Acosta, KN6PAQ, our newest member, introduced himself. A new ham with a General license, he is an engineer, interested in circuits and building things. He joined the club because he is looking for people who can provide advice on ham radio. He builds control and power electronics for cameras in the entertainment industry, factory automation, and develops related software. He plans to build his own amplifier, but sees antennas as a new and interesting topic. He has a very large battery system for RV, etc., and for emergency use at home. He designed it. 400 AH at 24 volts, plus 4 solar panels. (Mike suggested Carlos could be a future speaker, talking about his battery system).
Randy Slaten – It’s time to start planning meeting for Field Day, hopefully at Pierce College again. We need to invite people to participate in FD Committee. We can begin with Winter Field Day – in a park, daytime only, or operating from home. We may plan for June FD with two tracks, live and virtual, depending on the COVID situation in June, or we can just explain that you can operate from home if you choose.
Fred Zimmerman – He gave spreadsheet to Dana with membership information.