November 3, 2008 minutes
LPARC Minutes 2008-11-03
--- President David N2RDT called the meeting to order in the Burrell Fire Station at 7:37 PM
--- Attendees: Charlie AB6VS, Vic AE6ID, George AE6KE, Bill KG6VMX, Kathi KI6POY, David N2RDT, and Marc W6ZZZ
--- Guests (3 Cal Fire folks who recently got their ham licenses): David Durham KI6TBB, Jill McLaughlin KI6TBN, and Ken Izzo KI6TBI
Treasurer’s Report
--- Balance of $1026.32, phone bill expense of $27.89
--- The LPCF Emergency Preparedness fund holds $675 that was donated by club members for the repeater project. In addition to that, LPCF has (tentatively) budgeted $900 for the repeater.
LPARC Business
--- The previous minutes were approved
--- The election was unanimous for
President: David N2RDT
Vice-President: Kathi KI6POY
Secretary: Marc W6ZZZ
Treasurer: George AE6KE
--- The next meeting of LPARC is Monday, December 1st
ARES Business
--- We participated in the Santa Clara County quarterly drill using our emergency equipment at the Loma Prieta school (radios, power supplies, coax and external antennas)
--- MAC training (mutual aid communicator) happens the first Saturday of most every month; see the Santa Clara County web page for a schedule at http://www.scc-ares-races.org/activities/events.php
--- There is a Santa Clara County “Quick Trainer & Field Resource Guide for the Emergency Communicator” at http://www.scc-ares-races.org/SCCARESquickresourceguideA.pdf
AB6VS LPARC Repeater Equipment Report
--- Our AB6VS remote base unit needs to be fixed so that we can link the repeaters
--- We have formed a Repeater Committee consisting of Austin AB6VU, David N2RDT and George AE6KE
AE6KE ARES Repeater Equipment Report
--- Nothing to report
Net Control for the local Loma Prieta net every Tuesday at 7:15 PM
--- 11/04 George AE6KE --- 11/11 Vic AE6ID
--- 11/18 Alex K8ARK --- 11/25 David N2RDT
The meeting was adjourned at 8:44 PM.
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- Submitted by Marc W6ZZZ, LPARC Secretary
- Loma Prieta Amateur Radio Club ( http://www.lparc.org/ )
- Serving the Los Gatos Mountains community with emphasis on emergency preparedness and response