February 4, 2008 minutes
LPARC Minutes 2008-02-04
--- Bert Bailey called the meeting to order at 7:47 PM in the Burrell Fire Station
--- Attendees: George AE6KE, Bert KG6MBA, Bill KG6VMX and Marc W6ZZZ
--- Guests: L. Fourie (from the ham radio class) and Rich W1WUH (President of the Santa Cruz Co. ARC)
Minutes From Last Month
--- Minutes from the January meeting were approved
--- Minutes for past months are available in MS Word format at http://www.lparc.org/meetingminutes
Treasurer’s Report
--- Income of $205 ($25 from dues, $180 from gift radio sale), monthly expense of $25.34 for the phone in the repeater shack (used for remote control and phone patches), Jan 31 balance of $947.70
--- The repeater replacement fund has received donations of $675, that plus our emergency preparedness grant from the LPCF of $700 should be close to replace our soon to be failing AB6VS repeater controller. George gave a description on where we stood on replacement selection and purchase (real soon now).
LPARC Business
--- Our Ham radio class for CERT members and other interested community members (12 students!) is led by Jennifer N2RDU and meets on Thursday nights January 31 through February 28, 7 PM in Room 11 at C.T. English middle school
ARES Business
--- Our training was a very useful discussion about what everyone carried in their emergency go-bags
--- Bert had attended the Santa Clara OES training last Saturday; the subject was packet usage with Outpost
--- The ARES radio equipment and wall-mounted cabinet will be moved to the LP office (bolted to the wall in the closet), a work party for this needs to be organized
AB6VS LPARC Repeater Equipment Report
--- Nothing to report
Net Control for the local Loma Prieta net every Tuesday at 7:15 PM
--- The latest net script is available at: http://www.lparc.org/lparcares%26clubnetscript
--- 2/5 Marc W6ZZZ --- 2/12 Bill KG6VMX
--- 2/19 Bert KG6MBA --- 2/26 George AE6KE
The meeting was adjourned at 9:00 PM.
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Submitted by Marc W6ZZZ, LPARC Secretary
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