[FCARC] Meeting Notes for June 17th

[Craig Szczublewski]

I need to check my calendar more often, I completely forgot about the meeting on 
Monday, but luckily Angela takes excellent notes. Here is a minutes report from 
Monday's meeting courtesy of KB2AVN:


June 17th, 2013

The meeting was called to order by President Brian Patterson, KB8ELG at 7:35pm.

Field Day invites were sent out to all of the Fulton County Commissioners.

Members in distress - Bill KD8WSL's wife fell over the weekend and broke her 
hip. She is in Fulton County Hospital. KB8ELG will make a courtesy call to see 
if there is anything they need.

Minutes from the previous meeting were read and accepted.

Finance report was read and accepted.

Bills to present - Liability Insurance. We are now covered by Hays Companies 
with an annual cost of $200.00. KB8ELG is putting together a list of the club 
owned equipment to send to Hays Companies. K8LI made the motion to pay the bill. 
It was then seconded by KD8MNG with all in favor.

Income for Hamfest
Door sales - 220.00
50/50 - 59.00, which was donated back to the club by Edgar (N8HB)
Food Sales - 42.30
90.00 was spent for the porta-potty, the bill has not yet been submitted to the 
club for payment.

Attendance was much better than last year despite the early morning rain. KB8ELG 
has been in contact with some vendors. There was some interest by them in 
attending next years hamfest.The hamfest was a success. Some suggestions were 
made concerning the hamfest. We need better publicity, and better parking 
arrangements for vendors. We should also consider designated areas for general 
parking. Informal discussion on holding a winter hamfest at the Delta American 
Legion.

Chicken Festival - We have been contacted by the Chicken festival committee 
about having our equipment setup at the festival again this year. They are going 
to allow us to setup our tower as a demonstration. They have asked us to once 
again assist with the parade on Sunday the 14th.

Repeater Committee report - Dave, KD8KDS made a comment pertaining to the 
purchase of a new repeater. He stated that we had already made the motion some 
time ago to purchase a new backup repeater. We were waiting on the funds to 
become available from the insurance company which we have not received. Further 
discussion was made to look into purchasing a good used repeater.

The new building is now equipped with air conditioning. The repeater duplexers 
have been re-tuned. The amplifier at the Hospital site has been taken off line 
for repair. We are running at about 22 watts of transmit power currently. KB8MDF 
has donated a 150 watt amplifier and power supply for use at the hospital site. 
The repeater controller has been programmed and is ready to go as soon as the 
440 radios are setup for remote base. This will allow IRLP and Echolink to any 
open repeater in the world through K8LI's repeater. KB8ELG is going to contact 
Embarq for pricing on internet access to the hospital repeater site.

Silent Key Report - Thankfully there were no silent keys to report.

Membership Report - We currently have 51 paid members. Which we believe is the 
highest number of paid members since the club was started.

Under new business, the club purchased three handhelds to be raffled off at 
various events throughout the year. Each of the handhelds that the club 
purchased cost around $40. KB8TYN was given one of the handhelds as payment for 
the food and beverages for the hamfest. One will be given away at 5pm on 
Saturday June 22nd at field day. The other handheld will be given away at the 
fulton county fairgrounds. There was an anonymous donation of two FRS radios to 
be given away at the Fulton County Fair as well. Tickets will be sold at the 
Fair and the radios will be given away the last day of the fulton county fair. 
Winner need not be present.

Field Day - Ben KD8JBS, expressed interest in working HF at field day. W8AN, 
Steve Stuart may be out to work for a couple hours.

Good of Amateur Radio - Alan KC8UQU is going to build a money box for the club. 
The neumatic mast trailer is not registered. KB8ELG is going look into having 
the trailer weighed so that it can be registered. He will install a slow moving 
vehicle sign on it for now. KB8ELG will pickup the generator from the Swanton 
Fire Department.

Net Reports -

M-F 10:30pm 147.195
Wed 8pm 147.195
Wed. 9pm 1st 50.400 52.525
Fri 7pm 144.215 Great lakes Sideband
Sat 8pm 50.170
Sat 5:30 Nationwide Military net 3.885
Sun 8am 3.880
Sun 3pm Heathkit Net 14.292

Motion to adjourn was made by Alan KC8UQU. It was then 2nd by Cass KD8MNG. The 
meeting was adjourned at 8:45pm.

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Craig Szczublewski - KD8KBU