[TCARC-NTX] Meeting Minutes, June 2003

[Gerald Buxton]

The meeting was called to order at 1710 hours by President Daryl Pate.

Daryl acknowledged visitors.
Daryl asked if all had signed the sign-in sheet and net control signup sheet.
Daryl will put the net control script on the club reflector.

The minutes of the May meeting were read by Secretary Jerry.  Motion to
accept, seconded by Joel, passed.

The Treasurer's report was read by Treasurer C.J.  Beginning balance was
$2666.85, ending balance $2646.05.  Motion to accept by Cindy, seconded by
Shura, passed.

Daryl talked to Braz to plan on an IRLP presentation for the July meeting.
The club will move the July meeting date to July 12 account it would normally
be on the 5th, the 4th of July weekend.
Daryl announced that the club will discuss Field Day plans at this meeting.
Checking on the club mailouts, all are done except Mark has a few left, and
Daryl is still working on the last zip code.  Daryl gets the return-to-senders
and will cross those off the list.
Daryl mentioned that he has heard people talking on the repeater about
receiving the club mailing.
The ham radio class had a good turnout and the club should think about holding
another class after Field Day.  Roy says he knows of a facility to hold the
classes in Rhome.  Question: should we do other classes than Technician? 
Perhaps have 2 classes at the same site at the same time.  A test session will
be held July 12, perhaps we could have a class prior to this.

Announcements:
Ham Radio Today program is on 9.745 MHz Saturdays at 1900 hours local time.
The Hardin's sidewalk sale is the second Saturday of each month.
Hamcom is June 20.
There is a CW net Tuesdays at 1900 hours local time, on 7.107 MHz and also on
10 meters.
Braz will give a presentation on IRLP next month, and also the Texas repeater
network which is Tuesdays at 2000 hours local on 2 meters and 70 cm (145.23 or
441.50 MHz).  It is also Sundays at noon.
June 27 is Field Day.

Committee Reports:
FIELD DAY
Terry will not be here for Field Day, he is the committee chair.  The park is
reserved.  We need to know what class to operate.  A discussion ensued about
operating as the new EOC category.  We need a volunteer to handle and
coordinate scoring, Mark will take on the task.  We need to do publicity. 
David will ask for the City of Azle to declare Amateur Radio Day.

NCTECH COMMITTEE
No meetings until after Field Day.  We need to distribute publicity at Hamcom,
requesting volunteers.

EOC COMMITTEE
There will be no new EOC building, Paul met with the new Fire Chief.  David is
coordinating with the Fire Chief on the EOC setup.  The radios and power
supply were lost from the old EOC.  The new Fire Chief found the radios but
not the power supply.  The City will buy a new power supply.  We will set up
the new EOC in the Fire Marshal's office in about a month or two.  David
requested to bid $200.00 for the 50 foot tower we purchased for the new EOC
site, Jerry motioned to accept the bid and Glenn seconded, passed.

TRAILER COMMITTEE
Everyone keep an eye out for a new trailer.  We could use a work day to paint
the current trailer.  Specs for a new trailer would be minimum size of 14 feet
by 7 feet, 7 feet tall.

Old Business:
The Azle Lake Run thanked Paul, Paul said the event went well.  He is looking
for comments to make it better next year.
Mark suggested we use public events to practice simulated emergencies.  A
discussion ensued regarding this.
It was suggested that perhaps we have the net control station work from
another location (other than the person's home or mobile), perhaps the EOC.

New Business:
David gets a $10.00 reimbursement for the cost of the club internet domain
names.
David suggested moving the club web host to his web hosting site.  He will
host it for free.  Dan made a motion to move the site and email reflector,
Glenn seconded.  A short discussion ensued.  Mark moved to table the motion
until the August meeting.  Jerry seconded.  Dan withdrew the motion.  Mark
withdrew his motion.  The action is tabled until the August meeting (or when
more information is available).

Next Saturday (June 14) at 0800 hours there will be a tower party at David's,
he will host breakfast.  David volunteered to donate his old TA33 yagi to the
club.  A discussion ensued, the club declined.

Field Day Details:
There was a discussion whether class 3A was right, or 2A.  We will see over
the next week how many operators volunteer and then decide.  Roy made a motion
for the club to host food Saturday night and Sunday morning, Cindy seconded. 
Motion passed.

Door prizes were awarded.
Pass the hat netted $17.00.

Glenn made a motion to adjourn, Kara seconded, meeting adjourned at 2041
hours.

Respectfully submitted,
Jerry Buxton, N0JY
Secretary