[SMCARA] Meeting new business discussion

[Larry]

Ren I remember few months ago that it was brought up at one of the meetings to purchase a new controller for the 6 for repeater has that been purchased yet it was voted on and approve and I haven't heard anything about it that it was purchased and ready to be installed maybe you could check on this and then Enlighten some of the members probably at the meeting about whether it was purchased yet or not thank you man bye

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Droid.   Larry Norris
On Jul 18, 2017 1:16 PM, Ren Ramirez <w3bnyren at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Afternoon everyone,
>
> I am going to propose another new item on a club capital purchase 
> Thursday and I wanted to give the group a little time to read and mull 
> on it a bit before then.  The capital purchase is Gene Talley's portable 
> mast system.
>
> Background:  At field day it was brought to Boz and my attention that 
> this would be the last year that Gene would supply the mast for personal 
> reasons and was going to list it for sale.  We talked to him about it 
> and he has agreed to let the club have first chance at it for a reduced 
> sale price of $1,700 dollars.  Trust me, he can get a lot more for it 
> from the open ham community!  With this 1,700 bucks we get the whole 
> setup, instruction manuals, and training for a core team of club members 
> on how to SAFELY set this up/take down.
>
> Discussion:  I feel that this is an awesome opportunity for our club to 
> acquire this item.  Not only for field day but also for SES events, 
> emergency activations, or anywhere else the club would like to set up an 
> HF presence with the beam.  Gene's offer is reasonable and technically, 
> we have the funds to cover this but, it would effectively cut our 
> reserve in half!  An idea Boz brought up is that the club finance 900 
> dollars of the cost and the members of the club make donations to cover 
> the rest.  As of today, we have 74 paid up members on the books.  IF 
> (big key word here)  IF all 74 members put up 11 dollars, the mast is 
> ours!  Realistically, I doubt that but some of our more active and 
> generous members may put in more to achieve the goal of acquiring it.  
> There are other issues with the purchase of this item but they are all 
> logistics and can be worked on after the purchase.
>
> Folks, they don’t make these anymore.  This mast is as rare as hens 
> teeth and if the ham community gets word that this could be up for sale, 
> it will command a MUCH higher price than what is being generously 
> offered to us so as a club, we should not allow this opportunity to pass 
> us by.  Think really hard about this as well as supporting the motion to 
> move on this or at the least, get a discussion group going at our next 
> meeting to seriously consider acquiring it.  Think about it everyone, 
> and think about being generous with your donation to purchase this item.
>
> Thanks for your time and look forward to seeing you all (WITH YOUR 
> DUES...) on Thursday.
>
> 73
>
> Ren W3BNY (Treasurer)
>
> PS.
>
> Im open to start the discussion now via the reflector if everyone is 
> good with that (click the reply all or change the reply to the reflector 
> address)
>
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