RARC
Meeting Minutes for January 12th, 2016
- Meeting called to order by President, Dan
at 633pm
- Treasurer's Report
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- Read by Robert, available for review
below
- Minutes from last month's meeting
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- Approved from last month, very brief
due to holiday party.
Checking |
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Opening Balance |
$7,068.10 |
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Credits |
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Dues |
$75.00 |
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Debits |
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RPU |
$42.13 |
Liability Insurance |
$320.00 |
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Closing Balance |
$6,780.97 |
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Savings |
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Opening Balance |
$4,692.55 |
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Credits |
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Interest |
$0.04 |
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Debits |
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Closing Balance |
$4,692.59 |
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Cash on hand |
$40.00 |
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Total |
$11,513.56 |
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- Old business:
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- 82 repeater issues
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- Electrical cost - John NZ0S
working with KAAL still, has to go through a committee on their end
- Digipeater renewed for next 5
years
- Waiting on further action until
power and technical issues worked out
- RARC website - moved over in a few
days
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- Mostly working with some glitches
- DNS still needs to be updated
- Some issues with free sites and
web filtering, these may be unavoidable
- Banners to replace missing one
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- Will be here in Rochester this
week
- Next meeting they will be
reviewed and placed in appropriate places
- Sign and sign out sheets will be
created
- Adopt a highway program
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- Officially part of this for the
next 3 years
- Signage still being worked on
- Certificate for participation in
this program as well
- April/May will be first
inspection/cleaning
- Public Service page on RARC
website will be used for signup
- Business cards
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- Developed a design, passed around
for review
- Vistaprint was used for print,
can print more for additional costs
- VHF Conference Central States
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- WA2VOI - Don Baker is chairman of
conference, will come to club for assistance
- Last full weekend in July - 29th
through 31st
- In Rochester, help will be
required from local resources
- Help to put up antennas, tent,
etc.
- Technical conferences all day
Friday and Saturday
- Banquet Saturday night
- Sunday conference on VHF weak
signal operations
- List of club equipment for disposal
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- Bring to meeting to get donations
for members?
- Peter Wollen - contact for this
- Raffle idea for meetings
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- Purchase raffle tickets and win
prize at end of meeting
- Half of proceeds would go to the
club treasury account
- Other half would be raffled off
- Would need to be $99 or less due
to gambling commission rules
- Motion was proposed and passed to
do this
- Steve Webke will be head of
raffles/fundraising
- Field Day restaurants/catering
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- Kelly will talk to restaurants
about getting free food for Field Day
- Survey supports free food from
restaurants
- Lunches are important too, not
just dinner
- Some possibilities for pizzas at
Saturday setups
- Dues
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- Please get in your dues for 2016
if you have not already.
- Cash, check, or credit card
- If you do not get your dues in by
the next month you will be removed from the website directory
- Committees/new business:
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- Education
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- Class coming up soon, sign up on
website
- 3 students so far
- Public Service
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- February 6th is Frozen Goose
- All public service events on
website, sign up if you are interested
- ARES
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- Section leader leaving soon, new
EOC appointed
- Joe K0JCR is new state EOC
- Net control operator
- VE Testing
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- Coming up February 11th at 630p
at Red Cross
- 2 signed up so far
- Tech Committee
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- None this month, will meet next
month before meeting at 6p in the same room
- If anyone is interested in
joining please contact Rob
- Contesting
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- Lots of activities coming up
- Some DX available too
- K5P is DX on an Atoll
- Minnesota QSO party Saturday
February 6th
- VHF contest January 30th and 31st
- 1p Saturday until 10p Sunday
- All contests on WA7BNM website
- Field Day
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- 39 responses to survey
- 26 people answered for Field Day,
10 people skipped question
- Game Haven -15 votes, Pat's Farm
- 11 votes
- Catered only, no club cost was
most votes food wise
- In room vote Game Haven location
received majority of vote as well
- Review meals next month and then
move on to operations
- Mel KC0P giving VHF station to
someone else and working exclusively on satellite contacts
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- Mel showed
www.amsat.org/status which shows available satellites and helps with
contacting
them
- Dstar radio deal on Gigaparts - 9880H
normally $450 now $299
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- May be limited time, also
somewhat difficult
- Rochester 10m net
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- First Tuesday of the month 8 o
clock
- 28.325mhz frequency
- Next one would be February 2nd
- Social evenings remain on the last
Thursday of each month
- Meeting adjourned at 730p
- Program for this month was discussion of
the survey results from SurveyMonkey
Minutes recorded and reported by Drew,
KC0CJP,
Secretary.
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