[K3CAL] February 6, 2020 CARA Meeting Minutes

[Dave]

The minutes will be read for approval at the CARA meeting on March 5th, 2020.  Meeting is at Harriet Brown Community Center on Dares Beach Road at 7:30 PM.  Please attend.  CARA dues are due now.  Please pay at the meeting, by mail or by PayPal on the k3cal.org website. If paying through the website, make a note that it is for 2020 dues.
The next CARA board meeting will be held at IHOP Prince Frederick at 7 PM on March 26th.  All members are welcome to attend.
Dave KB3RANCARA Secretary



February6, 2020 CARA Meeting MinutesThe CARA boardmeeting was held at 1900 at the Harriet Brown Community Center in PrinceFrederick with all board members present and Don KR3A, Chris Kirby KB3CLG andShawn Donley N3AE attending.Yaesu FTM3200DR VHF Analog/Digital radio to be raffled off at tonight’s meeting.Kit Project forfuture meeting:  TNC-X, Morse code keyerProjects andEvents up coming:  Field Day, Nets, NVISDayStationCommittee:All CARAinventory has been removed from Ed and Monica’s and is at station or DickRatcliffe’s house.Generator:Consider selling Kenwood 440 HFradio: mostly dead.  Sell for $300+/- hasnew power supplyMFJ AntennaBridge: not working. Estimate for repair? Cannibalize from other unit to make one good unitStationManager:  Need to clean out station.  Dave H will contact Steve Hempling N3IPN andBob Balint KF3AAOutreach/membership:Dennis Bowlingattended Wednesday lunch; may rejoinReach out toformer/lapsed members and encourage to rejoin (Les Dickey)GoodwillAmbassador Committee: Recommended CARA board to function as goodwillambassadors to let Secretary know when a card or note is to be sent.  Secretary to design a get well and outreachcard for club.  Send one to Ron WA4PRRsoon; he fell again.RepeaterCommittee: Unsure of committee membership. Shawn, Dave W and others. President and Trustee as ex officio members.Tech Class thisyear: Reach out to CAP CadetsNext CARA Boardmeeting Feb 27th at 1900 IHOP Prince FrederickAdd ShawnDonley to website admin privileges.Meetingadjourned at 1945   
 The CARAmeeting was started at 1946 by President Bill with the Pledge of Allegiance.Attended by 9members and one guest   President BillHackett N3XMZ,  Vice President Peter HoltKB3SXB, Treasurer Dick Ratcliffe W3RBR, Secretary David Hardy KB3RAN andDirector Jim Tetlow K3UGA, Chris Kirby KB3CLG, Don Kirby K3RA, Shawn DonleyN3AE and Adrienne Young KG5CIL.  WesLaPre Maryland Wing Commander Civil Air Patrol attended as our guest speaker.Secretary:Janminutes approved as submitted.Treasurer:  $4248.92 in account. Renewed website for 6monthsBoard meetingheld this evening.  See previous report.RepeaterCommittee:  Bill H N3XMZ, Don KirbyTrustee K3RA, Dave Weaver N3PQS, Bob Sheskin N3PPH, Shawn N3AE plus one other.2 meterrepeater in Prince Frederick at SHA. Will be moving to hospital soon.  Ironing out details and acquiring antenna,hardline and hardware.Membership:  We currently have 10 paid up members.  Need to reach out and get new members andencourage renewals to lapsed and former members.Guest speakerlater:  Promoted to Maryland WingCommander today. Calvert County has 23 cadets. Currently no Comms Officer. More laterAudit CommitteeReport sent. Most didn’t get the report. Shawn will resend.  Reports minoraccounting errors but books are in good shape. Missing details were added to books to correct.RACES:  County still waiting for antennae. Nothingnew from Al Jeffreys. Exercises coming up.Website:  Volunteers solicited to upgrade and maintainwebsite.  Bill H, Dave H, Shawn D, Bob S,Jim T, Adrienne Y.Break at 2009for coffee, cookies and raffles (radio and 50/50)Back to orderat 2020.  Yaesu FTM3200DR vhfanalog/digital radio won by Dick Ratcliffe W3RBR.  Proceeds of $65 to CARA.  Radio donated by Jim Tetlow K3UGA.   50/50 pot of $20.Won by DaveHardy KB3RAN $10 donated to club.GuestSpeaker:  Wes LaPre Maryland WingCommander Civil Air Patrol formerly Calvert Commander.Cadets train asGround Team Members and go on missions; real and practice search and rescueops.Cadets getcredentialled after training.Communicationstraining:  Signals from ground to plane,plane to ground, radio ops.  Haverepeaters, command center, vehicles and air mobile transceivers.Command Center:ALE and HF antennae.  Monitor marine,search and rescue, CERT comm channelsEPIRBtracking:  Some real and most falsealarms but good for tracking practice. And they practice with flyovers tossingout transmitters.  (Fox Hunt)A part of USAir Force which pays for STEM, flight training, UAV flight, and simulatortraining$66 Adultmembership and $35 for cadets annually. To join:  Fingerprinted, FBIcheck, pay dues then train as radio operator, ground search and rescue, ride onflights, assist with parades and air shows. Then teach radio skills under their Professional Leadership TrainingprogramLocal unitlooking for experienced radio operators to train cadets for ground team radioprocedures, phonetic alphabet and numbers. Train Command Center Communications Officers on setting up radionetworks, antennae, and operations.Calvert CAPmeets Tuesday 7PM at German Chapel Baptist Church.  1st Tues is development, 2ndis emergency management training.They will havea class aimed toward Command Post Operators Exercise on April 25thin Easton, MD. Discussed possibly fielding an NVIS Antenna Day station atEaston.Lots ofquestions and interest by club members. Thanks to Wes Lapre for the great presentation.  Secretary will send a thank you. NewBusiness:  Don says our by laws are notup to date regarding the meeting date. Secretary will contact past Secretary to get correct wording and updatebylaws and post on website and make printed copies available.Dave H hasinformation on HamCommunity. Com; a web hosting for hams and clubs.  Will present at next meeting.Meetingadjourned at 2120  

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