Whirlwinds of Southwest Michigan
Minutes for the Meeting of January 6th. , 2010
The
meeting was called to order after 7:00 by President John Nedoba.
The
minutes from the December meeting were read.
Roll call
was taken. There were 10 members present. There were no guests.
The Treasurer was not here to read his report. John reported that we have paid last years lease. A few more members paid their $75 dues for 2010. John reported that we have a balance of $787.18 which includes those that paid tonight.
OLD
BUSINESS:
A few
members reported that they were not getting current emails, so John said he
would validate the email addresses. If
any other members are not receiving emails, please send your current email
address(s) to John so that he can update his address book.
John sent
out an email to all asking for feedback on membership plans for 2010. He has only received 13 replies so far. If anyone hasn’t replied, please send John an
email stating your intent for 2010. We
need new members, so if you know of anyone who would like to join, let John
know that as well. The more members we
have, the cheaper it will be for each.
NEW
BUSINESS:
We need
to get some volunteers to help mow, dump trash, and other field maintenance
items. One of the items that came up in
discussion was that we needed some sort of a posted schedule so that people who
volunteer do not drive all the way to the field to do their work, only to find
that someone else did it. Dick has made
up a sign up sheet and passed it to the members present to sign up for when
they would like to mow the grass and other such maintenance items. We will post the list on the building this
spring. Anyone else who would like to
volunteer, please contact Dick Klass so he can add you to the list. We will bring the list to the February
meeting and you can sign up then.
Charles
wanted everyone to know that they fly helicopters in the
Charles
brought one of his Instructional DVD’s in and we
watched the section on soldering. The
demonstration was centered around soldering connection
plugs to battery packs, ESC’s and to the electric
motors. He also made a nice presentation
of some battery pack terminology and configurations, and showed some different
chargers and how to properly charge the battery packs. He also showed the method for using the “Blinky” which is an Astroflight
accessory for balancing battery packs. The
presenter in this video did an excellent job.
Following the video we had a small discussion of some salient points in
the video. It was decided that John
would make a presentation in next months meeting on soldering other items together,
such as clevis/control rods, dissimilar materials, sheet stock, etc. and that
we would bring in some materials and do some hands on soldering. Larry said he had some small diameter heat
shrink and he would bring in some to give to members present.
MODEL
OF THE MONTH:
There was
no model of the month.
Meeting was adjourned.