March Meeting Minutes
March 12, 2010
The March meeting of the Miami County Amateur Radio Club was called to order at 7:40pm by Dave/WB8PMG, club trustee after a brief delay involving Dave/KD8GEH getting the clubhouse furnace running.
Those present included: Dave/WB8PMG, Scott/KB8JOY, Josh/KC8OZA, Johnnie/W8JAG, Dave/KD8GEH, Brad/KDLWZ, Gary/WB8ROL, and Joshua-visitor.
There were no minutes to approve.
Treasurer’s report: Expenses included $44 for the post office box and $369 for insurance. The club treasury balance is $3195.56.
Station Committee: The IC706 has shown sporadic boot up issues. Seems to work ok when in consistent heat/environment.
Repeater: KB8JOY volunteered to coordinate the settings on W8FW repeater after procuring the manual for the RC850 from Tom/WD8JPP.
Vehicle: Van needs to be out of the Emergency crew building by the end of April. Jeff/KB8ZAE will be contacted to coordinate this activity.
OLD BUSINESS: Motion by Scott/KB8JOY seconded by Brad/KD8LWZ to spend $100 dollars of club funds for speaker voice coils. Motion passed by acclamation.
NEW BUSINESS: Gary/WB8ROL volunteered to host and educational activity/demonstration for April meeting.
Hamvention: Motion by Gary/WB8ROL, seconded by Dave/KD8GEH to spend a total of $140 for MCARC annual participation at Dayton Hamvention. Sam/WA8GKD and Dave/WB8PMG to coordinate the activity. Per past practice amateurs will be able to send equipment to Hamvention to be sold at club site in fleamarket. Equipment can be checked in Wednesday before (4-6pm). Seller forms, etc. will be available at that time.
MCARC Meeting: A long, long discussion was held involving not needing to have a club business meeting monthly. No action taken but Scott/KB8JOY will make the following motion at the April meeting: That the MCARC conduct business meetings in May, June, July, August, November, January, and March along with announcements/program format in April, September, October, December, and February.
Brad/KD8LWZ was appointed club secretary by acclamation and Gary/WB8ROL was re-appointed club treasurer for 2010.
Josh/KC8OZA volunteered to help manage the club web site. He will coordinate with Gary/WB8ROL.
It was agreed that it was not too soon to start thinking about the 3 service activities involved with the 2010 Strawberry Festival.
Gary/WB8ROL led a brief discussion concerning VHF digital (FL Digi) in the area. Tentatively scheduled, he will lead a demonstration/educational activity at the June club meeting.
Field Day: Will be an agenda item for the April club meeting. Josh/KC8OZA, and Dave/KD8GEH are interested in spearheading this activity.
March minutes to be posted on MCARC club web site by Gary/WB8ROL.
Respectfully submitted,
Scott/KB8JOY
pro-tem