[K3CAL] July 2, 2020 CARA Meeting Minutes Members Meeting

Dave davehardy0101 at aol.com
Mon Jul 27 13:58:17 EDT 2020


July 2, 2020 CARA Meeting Minutes  Members Meeting

Attending:  Bill Hackett N3XMZ President,  Peter Holt KB3SXB Vice President, Dick Ratcliffe W3RBR Treasurer, Dave Hardy KB3RAN Secretary, Jim Tetlow K3UGA Director,  Miriam Ratcliffe KC3ASQ, Bob Sheskin N3PPH, Danny Flynn WW3N, David Weaver W3PQS,

Called to order at 7:30 by Bill by Zoom due to coronavirus restrictions.

Reminder to use smile.amazon.com for online purchases to benefit CARA.  A reliable fund raiser that costs the club nothing.

Field Day Report:

4 stations made over 600 contacts on Field Day.  K3CAL 95, N3PPH 34, WA4BRX 135, N3AE 300+

Great event with 4 ops onsite at Dick and Miriam Ratcliffe’s home.  Good food, great location and facilities.  Air conditioning a plus.  Weather held off with no storms or rain.


 
County Communications Infrastructure:  Ongoing progress reported.  Equipment purchases in progress.  EBid may have been made.  Unsure if promised antenna has been installed on County Courthouse.   When systems are complete, interlinking of stations should allow complete county communications.

DMR: A repeater swap was accomplished. There still may be a ComCast problem.  Will look at noise floor and commonality with repeater.  Bob reports availability of code plugs for HT’s.

Elmering: Plans to stand up a net for Elmering new hams by VHF and/or HF soon.  May use TAC 2 on 10 meters or donated time on VHF repeater in St Mary’s. 

KB3TGF offline: The Drum Point EOC station is currently offline while new flooring is being installed.  Should be back in service shortly.

Zoom:  Due to success with using Zoom for Board and CARA meetings, it was suggested to supplement the Monday night net with a Zoom component.  Bill will bring up a Zoom meeting at the same time as the net to see how that works.

Contests: Dave H to publicize current 13 Colonies, and 10 meter Spirit of 76 contests.

Meeting adjourned 20:50

Respectfully submitted

David Hardy

KB3RAN

CARA Secretary


 

Next meeting is August 6th.  Details later.
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