Meeting called to order at 7:00 PM by Club President Dick Heismann, at the Activities Building of the Henderson Church of Christ. 

In attendance:  Richard and Martha England, Joe and Sue Loucka, Mike and Louise Burkhead, President Dick Heismann,  and Barry Smith. 

The Advanced Weather Spotting Class will be the next club meeting, on October 28, 2010, at 6:00 PM, at the City of Henderson Fire Station #1, located at 505 Sanford St., Henderson, TN.  Refreshments will be available. 

Motion and second, followed by unanimous vote to purchase an 8' X 10' canopy for the club. 

President Dick Heismann attended the Huntsville Hamfest.   

The November meeting project will be to make pine cone Christmas ornaments.  Will paint the pine cones, and individually wire each with 9 volt battery and LED lights, and associated wiring.  All members need to provide their pine cone/s and 9 volt battery.  Joe will provide the LED's and wiring.  These ornaments will be used for decor at the December club meeting, which will our annual Christmas dinner. The Christmas dinner will be pot luck. 

Joe Loucka has been working many hours on the new 147.105 W4FHU repeater.   There needs to be some lightning/surge protection work done to help minimize lightning damage.  Maintaining a repeater is on-going, and takes much skillful attention.  Joe has put many hours making the new repeater useable and functional.  Many thanks, Joe. 

Joe made a presentation on items that he has built over the years, and tonight his topic was the grid dip meter, and in the the solid-state era, it is called the dip meter.  A dip meter has many uses, and can be used as a basic signal generator, and to tune home-brew tuned circuits, and especially useful for tuning antennas to resonance.  A very interesting presentation for both new ham operators as well as for the more seasoned amateur ops. 

Richard England brought his Ten Tec QRP 40 meter transceiver.  The little rig's output is approximately 4 watts, and is very portable.  This little cw transceiver, along with a small antenna tuner, and home-brew power supply pack of 8 D cells, and rolled-up antenna can easily be placed in a tackle box, and carried camping, etc., or about anywhere you would want.  Richard also demonstrated a very compact 40 meter antenna.  Consists of two Hustle mobile antenna resonators on a home-brew center mount.  Very compact for 40 meters! 

Meeting adjourned at 8:10 PM. 

Chester Co. Amateur Radio Club

Mike Burkhead, Secretary