Date: Wednesday, December 14, 2022 Location: via Zoom
Directors and Officers present: Bruce KO4XL, Ralph W1DAR, George WA2VNV, Mike K8BQ, Bonnie KC2JVS, Lou K4LA, Jay N2ELG
Members present: Walt W4WCD
President Bruce KO4XL, called the meeting to order at 6:12 pm local.
Roundtable
President’s Report, Bruce – Bruce reported he spoke to Jerry Z. He thanked us for making him a Lifetime member. He is happy to continue hosting our website and email, and was planning to cover our domain registration renewal. BRARA had an organizational call for Winter FD. We need to transition our Laurel contact for VE activity.
Jay S – Jay and Ralph cleaned up the last of the auction stuff. They put it in one tub.
George – Asked about the status of the rotator. Art has picked it up to ship for modification and regreasing. Ralph let George know about the issue we had with the new duplexer where it didn’t work well on one antenna.
Vice President’s Report, Ralph – Received a donation in an envelope from Ralph Green. Will pass on to Bonnie.
Secretary’s Report, Mike – Motion to accept Minutes for the Board meeting on 11/9/2022 made by Jay S, seconded by George. The motion carried. Mike explained further that the duplexer seemed to have desense when on the high gain antenna. We didn’t try it on the lower gain antenna. It was left with transmit on one antenna and receive on the other each with half a duplexer. It seems to work better than before. George says there is a Ubiquity application that we can use to find device IP addresses to help troubleshoot the link for DMR.
Treasurer’s Report, Bonnie – December 14, 2022 Available Balance $10236.95 (Includes $3000 cash reserve).
Total cash received: $3371.62. Cash received includes $347.62 in memberships and $3024 for the Auction.
Not included $5 from the auction.
Expenses: $0.
Expenses not cleared. $1500 for duplexer,, $316.01 quarterly electric bill,, and $0.83 for GFI outlet for tower motor. Cost of rotator and tower work not identified yet.
Lou – worked with Henry to put together a list of suggested questions to ask members in a poll or polls. Initial list had 22 questions. He worked with John C and Henry and cut it to 11. They will try to get it to 10.
Walt – Walt was asked to let the park know that we will be there the last weekend in January including overnight.
Old Business
Bruce pointed out that now that he has spoken with Jerry Z, we need to find a replacement for him on the Board. Bruce will set up a Zoom meeting of voting members of the Board to serve as a nominating committee.
Ralph says we have a speaker on APRS for the January 3 meeting.
Motion to Adjourn made by Jay S, seconded by Lou. Meeting adjourned at 7:01. Next BOD meeting December 28 at 6 pm local.
Respectfully submitted
Mike Greenfeld K8BQ/ Secretary