RARC
Meeting Minutes for January 13th, 2015
- Meeting called to order by President, Dan N0KZO at
6:33pm
- Minutes from last month's meeting
- Motion to approve minutes was passed
- Treasurer's Report read by Robert
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Financial
Report for December 2014
Checking
Beginning
Balance 12/01/2014
4140.73
Credits
Deposit
(checks)
285.70 Dues,
equipment sale, donation, United Way
Deposit
(PayPal)
39.00 Dues
Deposit
(Square Inc)
24.99 Dues
Total Credits 349.69
Debits
Rochester Public Utilities
36.41
Mercer Consumer 320.00
Liability Insurance
Mercer Consumer
286.00
Equipment Insurance
US Postal Service
80.00
Post Office Box Rental
Total
Debits 722.41
Ending
Balance 12/21/2014
3768.01
Savings
Beginning Balance 12/01/2014 4692.09
Credits
Interest earned
0.03
Debits
(None)
0.00
Ending
Balance 12/31/2014
4692.12
Cash on hand
66.10
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- Reports:
- Technical Committee Report:
- Did not meet this month
- For the time being all committee heads will
remain the same
- However, if any committee heads would like to
change this would be a good sign to do so
- Rob head of technical committee
- Public Service
- John Scott head of public service committee
- Education:
- Bill Ostler head of education committee
- Technician class end of this month, still
looking for more people for this
- Testing session 1st Thursday of February -
coming right up
- Fee for testing has not changed
- Field Day:
- Peter is now Field Day committee head
- Vacancy for public relations/outreach officer
- Old business
- Adopt a highway
- RARC is currently on waiting list, usually
signs are not up until spring
- Club put in for a few different locations
around Rochester
- RPU - possible donation of free power bill?
- $35 per month, equivalent of 16
memberships
- Around 20% of budget
- At minimum see if meter charge can be
removed, ideally whole bill as well
- Possible alternative is ~100 watt solar panel
and batteries to power the repeater instead
- Technical committee can examine this idea
for practicality
- Steve will talk to another resource about
this as well
- 82 repeater discussion - concerns about age and
condition of tower
- Look for new site this year?
- Possible new site would be inside KTTC radar
dome
- Tower cannot be rebuilt at current location
- Turn 82 into mobile repeater?
- 625 repeater has excellent range given
current location
- New fire station repeater?
- Not likely into next year
- Move 82 over to Dodge county to increase
coverage?
- Armor tower system?
- Action in 2016 to move repeater?
- Action keeps getting pushed back, time to
act may be this year
- Patch and logo information
- Looking at patches and jackets with new RARC
logo from Images in Kasson
- 50 piece order minimum
- Jacket is $43.99 for lapel patch or $88 for
back stitched panel and lapel patch
- Hooded jackets
- No order minimum, buy whatever you want
- Water repellent
- Same color polo shirts - $24.30 left chest
embroidery
- Window clinger/static sticker - $7.90 4 inch
- Preliminary information, more details
- A to Z Embroidery may be an option as well
- Steve will give another report at next meeting
- New business
- Contesting: Mel presented info on January VHF
contest - 50Mhz and higher
- January 24th 1pm until January 25th at 10pm
- Frequencies are 146.55 and 446.00 simplex
- Exchange is call sign and grid square you are
in at the time
- Grid squares based on 16th St. S
- North of 16th St S. is EN34, South is EN33
- EN34 good location is Assisi Heights,
EN33 good location is Good Shepard church
- EN34 changes to EN44 4 miles east of St.
Charles
- Grid is 70 miles N/S and 90 miles E/W
- 2 people in different grid squares can make
up to 4 contacts
- Mel will be operating in St. Charles where 4
grid squares meet
- Log sheet was in the newsletter
- Each operator can submit two logs - can do
one operation from your home and one mobile
- Cannot work same people on both logs
- Need people watching the bands at the top of
the hour and 30 minutes after
- Do not use 52 or repeaters
- Different categories - home station, low
power, 3 band radios, FM only, etc.
- Logging programs - RoverLog or submit paper
log
- See Mel for more details on this event
- Minnesota QSO party Saturday, February 7th -
MN Wireless Association
- Primarily HF - 10 through 80 meters
- ARES: March 31st Skywarn event, otherwise April
13th alternative date
- Not making new badges for ARES due to lack of
organizational recognition
- New sheriff - used to be involved in
Skywarn/HSCM
- No big changes with staff and RARC
involvement - SOPs will stay the same
- Fire station #2 - on Silver Lake - will be
moving across from Century High School
- Moving in Early April
- Basement of new station is new City of
Rochester EOC
- Radio room for ARES
- Room for 5 antennas on roof - everything
setup for wireless and wired distribution
- Steve and Rob have reviewed construction
site and building layout
- Tour of facility scheduled for October
2015
- Public Service:
- Frozen Goose event
- May 24th Med City Marathon
- September 19th Diabetes Tour de Cure
- Most other events do not have dates
- Signup sheets available for all events with
dates
- This year, ARES will track public service as
training
- IRLP node is currently down due to hard drive
failure, Bob will notify when replaced
- New hard drive will be purchased/found
- APRS Igate is down due to power supply fan issues
- New power supply will be purchased for this
- Social evening at Wildwood on January 29th
- Formal agreement with RCTC has ended
- $25 a month possible fee in the future per
meeting - minimum
- Look into the Red Cross as a possible
alternative site for meetings?
- $250 a year based on the $25 a month fee
- Possible alternatives to look into:
- Glenn Johnson part of expedition in an island west of
Haiti, DX contest
- K1N website has additional information
- Introductions were performed
- Meeting adjourned by President, Dan
N0KZO at 7:40pm
- Program for this month was looking at desired
programs for the rest of the year
- October 2015 is already scheduled for new fire
station demo
Minutes recorded and reported by Drew, KC0CJP,
Secretary.
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