RARC Meeting Minutes for October 13th, 2015

Checking Opening Balance $4,329.06 Credits Dues $110.30 Debits RPU $42.93 Field Day Food $112.22 Office Supplies $15.06 Closing Balance $4,285.64 Savings Opening Balance $4,692.45 Credits Interest $0.03 Debits Closing Balance $4,692.48 Cash on hand $40.00 Total $9,018.12

• Reports:
• • ARES:
  • • SET will not happen this weekend as scheduled
    • Proposal to make Mayo disaster drill the SET next year
    • Leader of Mayo drill did not have any concerns with expanding drill next year
    • ARES stateswide
    • • State SEC is retiring, no replacement designated yet
  • Technical Committee Report:
  • • Did not meet this month
    • Last word on tower is that we will be allowed to stay there for now
    • Contract does need to be written up, this will be completed too
    • Additional $500 to be raised by the club in order to repair the .82 repeater
    • Power concerns as well - reduce cost of this every month - N0HZN is working on this
    • Additional concerns on equipment/hardline issues found while working on antenna
    • Looking into issues on APRS units and antennas as well
  • Contesting:
  • • Last Wed. 7 to 11p was the Fall Sprint - 432mhz
    • No upcoming VHF contests until January
    • February is Minnesota QSO party
    • CQ Worldwide Sideband contest on the 22nd of October
    • Some club members going to Turks/Caicos?
  • Public Service:
  • • No actions until February
    • Last 2 events went well
    • Bounce Day at Mayo went good as well
  • Education:
  • • Technician class in November
    • Details not yet on website but will be updated to include that
    • Last 3 Saturdays in November
    • General class in January - signup on webpage
  • Social Gatherings:
  • • Next one is October 29th at Wildwood
    • Skip for November and December due to holidays
    • Christmas party in December is scheduled
• Old business:
• • Elections
  • • Please see any of the existing officers if you would like to become an officer of the club
  • IBM/IBM retirees
  • • Time to select charities for IBM
    • Can choose RARC as one of your options
    • Mayo Clinic has a similar option as well
  • Amazon Smile
  • • Some money in this account but not enough for for a check yet
    • Please set this up if you do Amazon shopping
  • Banners
  • • 2 more RARC banners on order to replace the missing one
• New business:
• • National Ham Radio Event in Rochester next year
  • Central States VHF Conference downtown here
  • • Last full weekend in July
  • Field Day
  • • Potential locations
    • • Field Day at Fairgrounds will not happen this year due to insurance reasons
      • • Cattle show the same weekend as Field Day, so not going to happen
        • 2016 may happen at Fairgrounds
      • Gamehaven
      • • Researched contacts for this
        • Still working on communications for this
      • Pat's Farm is always an option as well
  • Club equipment
  • • List of club equipment that needs to be disposed of
    • Bring it to a meeting and have any club members take any equipment they want for donations
    • Any loaned equipment should only go to club members
    • Any loaned equipment that breaks should be repaired
    • Dan will get in contact with Neal about the GOTA station equipment
  • New website
  • • Sample website has been updated
    • Proposal to have old website still available with a flag noting that it is an archive only
• Meeting adjourned at 732pm
  
• Program for this month was on Logbook of the World by John, NZ0S Vice President

Minutes recorded and reported by Drew, KC0CJP, Secretary.