[K3VOA] VOARC Minutes, 8/5/14

[Tony Riggs]

Reminder:  We have a meeting this Tuesday, 9/2 in the shack at 11:45.

Thanks,

Tony - W1FHN

 

Draft minutes of the August 2014 meeting of the VOA Amateur Radio Club
(K3VOA)

 

Present were:

 

Gerhard Straub, President K6XH

Kim Elliott, V.P. KD9XB

Tony Riggs, Secretary W1FHN

John Croft, Treasurer K3NJ

Carl Swanson K6CRS

Rick Barns WG3A

Ted Schneider N8HYO

Hugh Katz K3HU (phone)

Rich Firestone WR3F (phone)

 

President Gerhard Straub called the meeting to order at 11:51 AM on August
5, 2014

 

Treasurer's Report: John Croft reported no expenses or income to report in
July. Currently we have 19 members.

 

Station Report: John Croft reported all equipment seems to be working fine.
Carl Swanson had a cautionary note that he found the antennas had not been
disconnected when he came in recently.

 

The shack computer(s) have not been reconnected to the house net, so we are
currently operating without internet hookup. Gerhard said he would follow up
on that situation.

 

Old Business: K3VOA's website (K3VOA.org) has been ported to QSL.net and our
email has been switched to that domain. If you subscribed (via Gerhard's
July email) you should be receiving email through QSL.net and should be able
to send to all members on the K3VOA list using the k3voa at mailman.qth.net
address. The old domain with IBB will be inactive soon.

 

New Business: The SHARES net is open at noon, Wednesdays. All are invited to
join in. Carl Swanson volunteered to program the SHARES frequencies into the
K3.

 

Gerhard has a DSL hookup for his office computer and has been trying to
figure a way to link it to the shack so we would be able to use IRLP,
Winlink, etc. Cables seem impracticable so Carl suggested UBIQUITY nano
stations might work. Still, it might be too long a leap.

 

Rick Barns brought in for perusal, copies of HR-4490 and a document titled
"To Be Where The Audience Is."

 

The meeting was adjourned at12:14 PM.

 

The next VOA ARC meeting is September 2, 2014 in the K3VOA shack. Call the
shack via landline, 202-203-4256, or the repeater, 147.045 if you need an
escort into the building.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Tony Riggs W1FHN

Secretary