[nrv-hams] Tonight’s meeting

[J.C. Hassall]

That's excellent info, thanks for going to the extra trouble of providing
those metrics Ed.  As I recalled the in-person meetings, it seemed to me
that we had a lot more than 16 people / meeting, which was my basis for
concern last night.

Thanks again for going the extra mile.

73

jim W4BEA

On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 8:33 AM Edward Lener <lener at vt.edu> wrote:

> Good morning everyone,
> It was late when the Zoom finally finished up (the officers stayed on to
> discuss some matters) but this morning I went back and dug out all the old
> sign-in sheets from 2019. Aside from the January eatin' meeting, which
> always has lots of family, we averaged about 21 club members per meeting.
> Even if all five of those additional people had voted no, there would have
> been no change in the result. (Of the 16 votes cast, we had 12 in favor, 2
> against, and 2 abstentions).
>
> Even though we are still not meeting in person I for one feel good about
> this decision and hope others do as well. We had all four of the officers
> in agreement. We had the vote publicized beforehand. We had more than
> double the quorum required in the bylaws. We had time for plenty of
> discussion and input from everyone during the meeting, We had a favorable
> assessment of the rig selected from a club member who owns one himself
> along with positive signal reports from others.  And we are still being
> fiscally responsible - while we haven't been able to share full details on
> the club's finances over the air, even after purchasing the new Yaesu
> FT-991A and a manual tuner, we should have a balance remaining that exceeds
> what I found reported at this same point in 2019.
>
> I think it was Bill Turner who pointed out last night that Field Day is
> also a chance for the club to reach out to the public and potentially
> recruit area hams (or make new ones!). This now gives us at least one rig
> with the "wow" factor to help do so.
>
> Ed Lener, AK4IS
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 8:14 PM <dannywylam at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 16 is probably an average number for a meeting. Usually the people on the
> > air tonight. Would be nice to see more
> >      73
> >
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