The primary topic of our March meeting will be a show-and-tell of go-kits. Have your own go-kit? Bring it along! Building your own go-kit? Looking for suggestions? This is the meeting for you!

Agenda items:

• Updates from the leadership team.
• Discuss what is planned for 2013.
• Show-and-tell on go-kits.

UW Space Place
2300 S Park St; Madison, WI (lower level)

Agenda items:

• Fill out and turn in your 2013 membership form. You must do this annually to remain a member. Blank forms will be provided. (If you'd like to get a head start, grab the blank form here.)
• For deployable members (see requirements) we'll distribute new 2013 ID cards. You do not need to have all of these requirements fulfilled just to be on our membership list, but you do if you want to be a deployable member. If you didn't qualify in January 2012 but believe you now qualify, please contact me.
• Updates from the leadership team.
• Discuss plans for 2013.
• Review of the December hospital radio exercise.
• Hands-on radiogram workshop (fulfill that yearly requirement of sending at least one radiogram!).
• Show-and-tell of any (possibly new) equipment anyone brings in.

UW Space Place
2300 S Park St; Madison, WI (lower level)

Rick Vollbrecht, KA7CFM silent key, has a bunch of amateur radio equipment that is up for sale. There are a lot of good items available at excellent prices! Review the inventory list (pdf). This is being handled by Mike Condon, W9MNC. If you have any questions, please contact him at the phone number listed in that document or email his w9mnc email account at arrl.net.

Starting at 6:00 PM, we're going to run a drill involving the radio rooms at each of the Dane County hospitals. If you'd like to volunteer to go to one of the hospitals at 6:00 PM or if you have questions, please contact wa9cbr at his arrl.net email address.

Then, at 7:00 PM we'll kick off an informal holiday party at Rocky Rococo's on the Beltline near Fish Hatchery Rd (1618 West Beltline Hwy). Dutch treat!

The theme of this meeting is outdoor equipment set-up day. Bring and set up your ham radio-related gear that you'd bring to a public service event, field day, or an ARES activation! We suggest limiting it to what you can set up within 30 minutes, but feel free to bring additional equipment even if it won't be set up. Note the special location and starting time.

Talk-in on 146.535 MHz simplex.

If anyone is interested, we can also take some time to have a debrief discussion on this year's Dairyland Dare.

Badger Prairie County Park, Verona
Parking lot near the pavilion shelter
See This Map
Enter from the South (Nesbit Rd).

Rain date will be 9/19/2012.