2016-Feb-04 minutes

February 04, 2016 LPARC Minutes

Attendees:

Austin Lesea, AB6VU, President

Bert Bailey, KG6MBA, Vice President

Bill Rose, KG6VMX, Treasurer

Gary Watson, K6PDL, ARES EC

George Smith, AE6KE, member

John Yontz, KA6HCG, Guest

Introductions

Bert Bailey introduced a guest, John Yontz, KA6HCG. John is a Novice and is working on his Technician license. John has lived in the Santa Cruz Mountains for a long time. He is retired from Varian Corp. He lives up on Adams road Welcome John!

Austin called the meeting to order at 7:00PM.

Approval of the January 07, 2016 minutes

Accepted without change.

Treasurer’s Report

Bill reported that the club current balance is $901.97, having received ~$215 in dues during the last month.

Bill did collect new dues of $25 from the attendees at the meeting

Nets

09FE16 Bill

16FE16 George

23FE16 Bert

01MR16 Austin

Equipment

 Austin reported that he has purchased the Extra solar panel for the AB6VS repeater. His expenses were ~$130.00. Bert made the motion that the club purchases a second solar panel and the motion was seconded and carried. Austin will get a second solar panel. In the spring there will be a work party to put the panel up and take down the windmill.

 The AE6KE repeater is having sensitivity problems. Bert will go to the AE6KE location and try to find out what is causing the sensitivity problem.

 The KC6TYG repeater was shipped back to the vendor. Austin discovered that the repeater had a temperature problem. The repeater doesn’t like cold weather.

 Bert is working on getting a list of equipment losses to county. The county recommended that Bert contact Cap, KE6AFE regarding selection of recommended replacement equipment. There was discussion of whether LPARC should consider HF capability; George recommended that we stay with VHF/UHF radios only. The club agreed.

ARES EC Report

Gary reported that the following events were coming up:

 26th Sea Otter Classic will be held on April 14-17, 2016. Help from amateur radio operators has been a vital resource for communication in the Fort Ord National Monument back country.

 Big Sur International Marathon is coming up on April-24-16

 Superbowl HAM activity will be on the AA6BT repeater (146.115 MHz, PL 100Hz). Gary recommended that between 10:00AM to 10:00PM to monitor the AA6BT repeater.

President’s Report

 N/A

Training

 N/A

New Business

N/A

Old Business

N/A