CMRA minutes from 8-Feb-11
Meeting called to order by president Daniel, KC0UTW, at
7:03 PM CST with 21 members present at check-in time.
January 2011 minutes were approved on motion by N0UBC,
and second KC0HSB
Treasurer’s report:
Checking
$1,498.92
Savings
$2,254.93
CD
$2,252.96
Old business:
K0YBN had received a call from some concluding that our
old web site is a disservice displaying .old data and wrong information.
President suggested that this item was on his agenda and referred to KM0R, who
referred to KD0IRU.
Jake, KD0IRU, reported on. progress on the new club
website. It is not yet ready to go
live, but in-progress and maybe ready by next month. After some discussion, the
club is hoping to see the new web site for the next meeting.
Dave, KD0EAG, brought up the place of the forums/board,
and agreed to wait until later in the meeting for update.
Don, KM0R, announced the need for a volunteer to convert
the old data that has been archived on the old web site. These data exist now in
different formats from pdf to whatever. Club agreed that the data should be
converted to the common form of PDF files. N0AXZ volunteered to convert data to
PDF, as KM0R supplies the old files from the old web site.
Mike, AC0G, reminded the club that new license classes
would begin the third Saturday of this month, 2/19/11. Wes, AB0SE, and Nathan,
AC0MZ, are helping AC0G to get it all together. Any one wanting to help out is
welcome to join this group for 8 Saturdays in a row.
Mike is getting club station cleaned up, as these classes
will be held there. Magazines are yet to be disposed of including old QSTs from
30’s. Club agreed these old magazines should go to Max, KC0SRL. Dale, AE0S, also
has old magazines, if anyone wants them. Some space will be freed up as these
magazines get moved out. Station can be opened at request from members. Mike,
AC0G, Dale, AE0S, and Don, KM0R, have keys. Club emergency generator was last
started 2years ago.
There was no discussion of frozen toes.
Don, KM0R, reported that kits are available for the club
for muting a radio, as it monitors repeaters for emergency opportunities. The
mute will be opened by tone from repeater. Muting will open and then go off in
60 seconds, so you can monitor what is going on and take any action you want
after hearing why the net is being called up. The kits can be functioning on 76
and/or 61.
Don, N0UBC, reported that the Wednesday net had QNI of 30
2 weeks ago and 18 last week.
Daniel, KC0UTW, reminded the club of the auction. Bob,
K0YBN, reported that the room is reserved. Pam, KD0GRQ, is one of 2 coordinators
for getting auction organized. There is the need for a second volunteer. Please
get in touch with Pam.
New business:
John, KC0HSB, reported that the newsletter goes on the
forum just a few days before the meeting and that is when the minutes first
appear, as well. This was the procedure John inherited. We could make newsletter
separate from minutes, and publish minutes soon after the meeting to which they
refer. Discussion on timeliness of these processes lead to the
following:
Mike, AC0G, reported that there would be changes to take
advantage of with the new coming web site, earlier referenced. Email is probably
going to be the preferred avenue of dissemination of minutes, and other
information to the club. An Email list-server will be used for information
sharing among members. Archives could be made available in a dynamic real time
connection point for the club. System needs accurate email lists and we could
seed the list server, which could be up and running as reported by Don, KM0R.
Web sites need to be nurtured and kept up to date for public information
sharing. Management of mail in the system is by the user. K0YBN asked about
using gmail account to receive and mchsi account to send to the list. The system
Don has up will accommodate two email accounts.
Motion was approved to have Don and Mike build the list
server and make it live asap. Don will seed this server with the list of emails
that we are capturing in the check-in list now circulating. Don will also send a
message via the forums system to say get moved over to this club list server.
The forums/board system will eventually go away.
Dave, KD0EAG, pointed out the some of the features we
have on the forums system will probably be lost in the list server
application.
Minutes can be emailed via list server soon after the
meeting. Minutes will also be provided to the web master for posting on the web
site.
It was moved and approved to retire the newsletter for
the time being to see if we need a newsletter in the future..
Daniel, KC0UTW, reviewed the club officers who were voted
on last month. Officers are:
President:
Daniel, KC0UTW
Vice-President:
Mike, AC0G
Treasurer:
Don, KM0R
Recording Secretary:
Bill, N0AXZ
Corresponding Secretary: John, KC0HSB
Daniel, KC0UTW, asked if there were anyone interested in
having a Ham fest???? The question was raised about any other clubs joining us
on the ham-fest? It was reported that this had not been successful. It has not made money in the past few
years. The auction makes money for the club, and was initiated to cover the
ham-fests costs. No takers.
It was reported that a weather spotting class would be
held 2/24 @ 6:30 at the training facility, address: 5001 Meyer Industrial Dr. You must RSVP
to zim@.... There is room for only 75 attendees.
Fulton is also holding one on March 3 with two sessions
2:00 and 6:30. Venue will be the
Callaway County Health dept. See Bill, WB0MAF for more info/
Mike, AC0G, reported on upcoming programs for club
meetings:
March: Dewey, WM0H, on MARS
April: Mac, K4CHS, on the MO intertie network
May Don, KM0R to discuss Winlink, etc.
June – field day
July auction
August Hank to discuss psk.
April meeting will not be at Boone Electric. Place will
be announced later.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:20 PM.
Dave, KV0S, presented an enlightening program on
SDR.
Respectively submitted,
Bill, N0AXZ, recording
secretary.
