Southeast Metro Amateur Radio Club
Board Meeting
In attendance: Dick Roberts N0UC (President),
Denny Ackerman KB0OQQ (Treasurer), Pete Sigtermans N0FKC, Skip Jackson KS0J,
Jim Boyd KC0QCO, John Thomas W3FAF (Secretary)
The meeting was called to
order by Dick Roberts N0UC, President, at
Secretary Report (John W3FAF) Written copies were passed out for:
Minutes from June 2008 Board
Meeting…Denny’s name was incorrectly spelled as Danny (corrected).
Minutes from
Treasurer’s Report (Denny KB0OQQ)
Closing balance as of
Fund General VE
Balance $2645.62 $59.21
VE Fund brought in 28.00 and
had ARRL expenses of $16.00. The General
Fund had its $150.00 returned from the Field Day Park Deposit and there were a
few small expenses.
Apparel (Skip KS0J)
Skip contacted and ordered
cloth patches (sew on/hot melt glue).
The art work was incorrect and the background color was corrected to
Columbia Blue (saturated). He paid the
invoice of $176.00 for 50-3.5 by 2.5 inch patches. The logo background color will be so modified
on all forthcoming items.
Programs (Skip KS0J)
John W3FAF suggested N0UR on
QRP Contesting.
Denny KB0OQQ suggested a
K0QB presentation on the Dakota Division and ARRL HQ Info.
Other Items:
JOTA: Are we going to do anything? Dick will check into it. It will be held the 3rd Saturday
in October. This will be brought up at
the General Meeting.
“Woodbury Country Mile” will be held August
24. Volunteers are needed.
Election Committee: This action item will be brought up at the
General Meeting.
ARES Meeting: Steve put out an agenda via e-mail for the
September 18th Meeting.
Jim KC0QCO has a new
telephone number as of Thursday … Take Note.
Membership Dues (restructure)
For new members after the
month of XX, they get the next year. It
was decided that XX should be October 1st. A Full Time student pays $10.00/year [full time
means they are taking a full credit load].
Club Youth Policy
Any person under the age of
18 must have an adult sponsor present at club activities. ARRL has set up a committee to study youth
interactions.
Scholarship Committee (Jim KC0QCO)
They will be meeting shortly
to discuss the Scholarship brochures for this fall.
Program Ideas (All):
Emergency Power Prairie
Island Nuclear plant operation
Natural Power Antennas
High End Transceivers GHz
Talk
Historical Radio from ARRL Archives
Ground Planes for short
verticals (Jerry Sevick
W2FMI a 1977 talk to Western Electric/Bell Labs Radio Club, Columbus OH)
The Meeting was adjourned at
Respectfully
submitted,
John
H. Thomas, III W3FAF
Secretary
Southeast Metro Amateur Radio Club
General Meeting
In attendance: Dick Roberts
N0UC (President), Denny Ackerman KB0OQQ (Treasurer), Pete Sigtermans N0FKC,
Skip Jackson KS0J, Jim Boyd KC0QCO, Roger Kamps
KB0HVZ, Dan Franz WD0GUP, Vern Reiter WA0KRL, Don Nelson KF0UU, Fred Sauer
KD0CO, Pat Story W0MCQ, Steve Howard AB0XE (vice President),John Thomas W3FAF
(Secretary)
The meeting was called to
order by Dick Roberts N0UC, President, at
Secretary Report (John W3FAF) Written copies of the past meeting minutes were passed.
They were MSA.
Treasurer’s Report (Denny KB0OQQ)
Balance from July,
2008: $2586.46 ($2516.02 in the
General Fund and $77.00 in the VE Fund)
Closing Balance August,
2008: $2704.83
The report was accepted.
Scholarship Dick N0UC:
Hubbard
Broadcasting Co., KSTP, donated a check in the amount of $1000.00 for the
scholarship committee. Thanks to Jim
Boyd’s good work. Denny KB0OQQ moved
that we start a separate account for the Scholarship Fund. MSA and a new account will be started.
Patches (Skip KS0J):
The patches haven’t been
received yet but the $176.00 bill was paid for 50 patches.
ARES (Steve AB0XE):
The next Washington County
ARES meeting will be held Thursday ,Sept 18th, at
JOTA (Dan WD0GUP):
JOTA
is scheduled for October 18. The Boy
Scouts have been active in the past at JOTA.
The location of the JOTA stations and activity is being negotiated. Hopefully it will be at the Cottage Grove
Armory. Activities will include but not
limited to: Radio Merit Badge, Satellite
communications, QSL cards, getting on the air, etc. A web site will be available at JOTA-CG dot
org.
Programs (Skip KS0J)
If you have program
suggestions see Skip, Dick N0UC or John W3FAF.
Tonight’s Program is a video
from ARRL entitled “ARRL Headquarters Tour of W1AW.” (from c.2004) by
public demand!
Gary Esler’s Field Day
Final Score (Dick N0UC)
Total QSOs 583 we missed NE, NV and DE this year!
CW QSOs 327
Phone QSOs 256
Points Claimed 3050 including 1250 bonus points.
Darian’s Dash (Dick N0UC)
This event is no longer
being held. Instead, it is replaced by a
Golf Tournament.
Nominations Committee (Dick N0UC)
The
following volunteered to serve on the nominations committee: Skip KS0J (Chair), Dan WD0GUP and John W3FAF.
Storage Cabinet (Denny KB0OQQ)
We
need a storage cabinet to lock up our valuables at the fire station. If you have one to donate, let him or any of
the board know.
Other (Dick N0UC)
147.18
Repeater: This repeater is temporarily down for relocation on the CG 70th
St Water Tower (
Financial
Grants: Most grants go through the state
but with our affiliation with the MN Dept of Health, it is likely that grants
would come through this route. This will
be finalized by September 15. We might
run Tests of the hospital system on the 147.18 repeater when it is up again.
The Meeting was adjourned at
Tonight’s Program:
Skip
KS0J brought a selection of power pole connectors with assembly instructions as
well as some CDs containing the Audacity Program (an audio recorder). We then viewed the CD of the ARRL HQ.
The Meeting was adjourned at
Respectfully submitted,
John H. Thomas, III
W3FAF Secretary