Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2025 Location: Zoom
Directors and Officers present: Jay S N2ELG, Mike K8BQ, Barry KO4FBU Ralph W1DAR, Bonnie KC2JVS, Henry WA2ROA, Benett AC2NI, Bruce KO4XL
Members present: George WA2VNV, Andrew KO4TZK, John Q KE4JQ
President Ralph W1DAR called the meeting to order at 6:00 pm local.
Secretary: Mike K8BQ
Minutes for the May Board meeting have been posted to the BRTARA Blog. Jay made the motion to accept the minutes. Second by Bruce. Motion carried.
President: Ralph W1DAR
Ralph led a list of DMR and other priorities.
- Going to the repeater scheduled for Tuesday.
- Eric Rodriguez set up the DMR repeater. Jerry Z did not
- Need to set repeater to DHCP
- Need to check that hotspot Ethernet is enabled
- Contact Mike’s contacts in NJ to see if we can get software.
Bonnie to send letters to Ron Wilk and Robert Eng acknowledging donations and support
Where does George want the 220 outlet in the VHF room? Near the 7300. John Q and Andrew will work on install when it cools down a bit.
Cross send messages on groups.io and weekly Blog on how to subscribe to each other.
Status of Ethernet in Shack. Hard wire is complete and subnet is working.
Broken camera wire is in. Needs connector added.
Director at Large: Barry KO4FBU
Barry donated a 9:1 balun. He is suggesting replacing the 6 – 40 meter dipole with the balun and a 98 ft wire to cover 80 – 10 meters with a tuner. The AC drain line is plugged. Suggest turning the bucket into a French drain. Mark Crum will help. We also need to go after the weeds. The new amp is hooked up and working.
General Discussion:
Ralph – we have 13 Life Members who cannot be counted on for our annual income. Should we look into eliminating Life Membership?
Andrew – Andrew is proposing to create a Ham Shack Interactive Kiosk as his Eagle project. After some discussion it was decided this was a good idea and BRARA supports it. Barry made a motion seconded by Ralph that BRARA will support Andrew’s project. The motion carried.
Website – if we are going to move the website to a different host, we probably should do a complete redesign. John Q and Andrew offered to help with planning. Mike will reach out to David N2DSL who does web design.
George – BRARA flyer should be updated. Jeff Stahl made the last version. We also need to get BRARA set up in the ARRL club log.
Next Board meeting:
June Board meeting will be Wednesday July 9.
Motion to adjourn by Barry, seconded by Bruce. Meeting adjourned at 7:29 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Mike Greenfeld K8BQ, Secretary