[K3PZN-List] CCARC General Meeting Minutes 2016-0508 Draft

Tue May 10 14:42:47 EDT 2016

Draft Meeting Minutes
CARROLL COUNTY AMATEUR RAIO CLUB (CCARC)
CCPSTC ("Training Center"), Room 114 (temp)*
50 Kate Wagner Road, Westminster, Md.*
Monday, May 8, 2016

WELCOME
The meeting was called to order at 7:35 PM EDT by Pres. Andy WO3L with a welcome to the membership present.  Around the room quick individual introductions.  A business meeting is scheduled for today's general club meeting.  Secretary Pat N8PK sent a sheet around for each person to please sign in.  See below.  Fifteen members present plus Andy (who often misses the sign-in sheet for some reason) and no guests today.  Additional note: Seven out of the 15 members present noted on the sign-in sheet that they owned a Raspberry Pi single board computer.  

MEETING MINUTES
The draft minutes of the April meeting (last month's') were sent out to the club e-mail reflector by N8PK on Tue April 12, and can be seen with the member sign-in sheet at http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/k3pzn-list/2016-April/007253.html which was amended at this meeting to correct a typo for the date of this meeting today.  The minutes of the most recent BoD meeting can be found at this link: http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/k3pzn-list/2016-May/007271.html

TREASURER'S REPORT
Presented by Larry.  Everyone was satisfied with the details.  

ARES/RACES REPORT
Provided by Steve.  

QSL REPORT
Mike N3VOP provided brief report.  

REPEATER REPORT
Comments were made about the interference on the repeater during last week's Central Maryland Raspberry Pi Net.  Mike N3VOP offered observations.  

HELP NEEDED
Rohn 25 tower needs to be taken down, along with its antennas, per Bill Garvin, N3GWV.  Pat asked to swap phone numbers after this meeting.  Completed.  

K3PZN 146.475 MHz FM CLUB SIMPLEX FREQUENCY
See last month minutes on this topic as well as others.  Larry WX3F proposes to move to 146.550 as primary ("Simplex 1") and 147.540 MHz as secondary ("Simplex 2").  

ELECTIONS
Andy proposes that we hold our next club elections at our next business meeting at the regular club meeting on the second Monday in September.  

NETS ON K3PZN/R
Pat reports that the weekly Central Maryland Raspberry Pi Net on Tuesday eve 8 PM just before the CARET (ARES/RACES) Net will be advertised in the next two editions of the MDC Section News, courtesy ARRL SM Marty Pittenger, KB3MXM, and ASM Al Brown, KZ3AB.  Scroll down to see the newsletter link at http://www.arrl-mdc.net/

9600 BAUD PACKET BACK UP PRE-PROPOSAL
Tony KF3AK says WN3R is offering a spot on his tall mountaintop tower in Frederick County to be used for a UHF RMS (radio message system) application.  The offer includes space/volume, power, Internet connection, environmental protections and existing antenna through a duplexer.  If there is sufficient club support for set up, maintenance and operation then a proposal will be formed for club membership review and approval for resources of club and member equipment use plus funding of an amount TBD.   

EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER
Steve describes a basic set up is possible with a hamstick (good coverage on 40m and above) at the Carroll County EOC.  Doug Brown asks us where exactly we would want to place the ICOM 46pro there.  Tony and Steve have solid ideas.  

MAIN PROGRAM
None this month.  

COMING ATTRACTIONS
See below for sign in sheet JPG image or go to http://patkilroy.com/k3pzn/2016-0508-CCARCmeetingSignInSheetK3PZN.jpg for a copy.  The next CCARC BoD meeting is schedule for two weeks from tonight, Mon May 23, 7:30 PM (note time change, this time only?), same address.  The next CCARC general club meeting is scheduled for Monday, June 13, 2016, at 7:30 PM, same address.  Prep for Field Day, June 24-26, 2016.  

Meeting called to a close at about 8:44 PM EDT.  

*For future reference, two images of the Training Center were taken today and included below and also available at http://patkilroy.com/k3pzn/TrainingCenterSignAtEntrance-k3pzn-2016-0508.jpg and http://patkilroy.com/k3pzn/TrainingCenterBuilding-k3pzn-2016-0508.jpg

Respectfully submitted, 

Pat Kilroy, N8PK
CCARC secretary

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