[FCARC] June 15 Meeting Notes

[Craig Szczublewski]

Hello everyone, here are notes from the Monday night Club meeting:

The meeting was called to order at 7:30pm with 22 members and guests in 
attendance. The Finance Report was read and accepted, and the annual Liability 
and Equipment Insurance was authorized to be paid.

Membership: The club currently has 53 members

Committee reports follow:

Education: The V.E. team held a special testing session at the Tedrow Hamfest on 
June 6 with 5 participants.  They report 2 new Techs and 1 new General were 
earned.  KB8ELG reports that the next attempt at a Technician Class will 
probably be closer to end of the year.

Hamfest:  The summer hamfest was a great success, KB8ELG is still collating the 
revenue and attendance, and will report that soon.  We had some great door 
prizes to hand out with one of the new Techs wining one of the HTs.  The ARRL 
representative in attendance also complemented us on a efficient and well run 
operation, and looks forward to coming back for the winter hamfest in December.

Field Day: Field Day is almost upon us!  It is June 27-28 this year.  Here is a 
quick breakdown of important times:

	Setup can start anytime after 8:00pm, Thursday, June 25.
	Friday evening is when most of us will be out to setup.
	The contest starts Saturday at 2:00pm
	The Picnic dinner will be at 6:00pm on Saturday
	The contest wraps up at 2:00pm Sunday

I'll be putting together another Field Day update email shortly.

Repeater Committee: The Yaesu DR-1X repeater has been received by KB8ELG, but we 
do not expect to make any significant progress in deploying it until after Field 
Day.  The repeater committee will also be planning a maintenance trip to the 
main site to check the duplexors and other settings.  We have been getting mixed 
reports on the main repeater performance we hope to remedy.

EC Report: Jim McBride has been running the club Emergency Services net Sunday 
evenings at 7:00pm local time, on the 147.195+ repeater.  All club members 
interested in emergency traffic nets should consider checking in to learn proper 
protocol.  They have been practicing message handling and testing simplex and 
mobile operations.  Jim activated an emergency weather net on Wednesday, June 10 
when sirens were sounded due to a funnel cloud siting in Fulton County. 
Everyone involved in the net operated in a very professional manner and 
information was relayed in an efficient manner.

Old Business:

Minutes from the previous meeting were read and accepted.

Members in Distress:

David Pugh (AB8RC) has been making routine trips to visit his mother as she 
recovers from a broken hip.
Edgar Zysset (N8HB) has moved from Swanton to a retirement community in 
Perrysburg.  His new address is:

	Waterford at Levis Commons
	7100 S. Wilkinson Way, Apt 304
	Perrysburg, OH 43551

Upcoming Hamfests:

06/21/2015 Monroe, MI
07/19/2015 Van Wert, OH
08/08/2015 Angola, IN
09/06/2015 Findlay, OH
09/13/2015 Adrian, MI

Next Meeting:  The next regular club meeting will be July 20 at the County 
Administration Building (same as the Drivers License Bureau), 152 S. Fulton St, 
Wauseon.  The club meeting will be at 7:30pm.

Club Nets:

Weeknights at 10:30pm Bud's Midnight Madness Net -- 147.195+
Wed at 8pm Informal Two Meter & ARES Net -- 147.195+
Wed at 9pm 6M Net -- 50.400 AM on the first Wednesday of the month
Wed at 9pm 6M Net -- 52.525 FM Simplex

That's all I have for now.  Please reply back to me with corrections as I am 
quite sure I missed or misquoted something...

Craig Szczublewski - KD8KBU