General Member Meeting August 2022

BRARA General Meeting minutes for 02-August-2022

The BRARA monthly association meeting was held via Zoom conference. The meeting was called to order by the Vice President, Ralph W1DAR at  7:20 pm local. Attending: 25 Zoom participants. Each attendee checked in with name, call, and location.  Officers and directors provided an update of their club related activities.

Directors and Officers Present

Ralph W1DAR, Bonnie KC2JVS, George WA2VNV, Jeff K4BH, Jay N2ELG, Lou K4LA

Secretary: Mike K8BQ – Not present

Treasurer: Bonnie KC2JVS

Bonnie provided a financial update for July. Total cash received was $135.24 which included memberships.  July expenses were $489.59 which included $10 for a name badge refund, $55.00 for generator maintenance, $162.82 for Field Day food $139.26 for generator repair, $12..62 for whiteboard markers, $48.60 for badges and other FD miscellaneous items, and $54.29 for gas used in the generator. One expense not included in the available balance is $31.50 for FD food.

Field Day expenses not including the generator repair and markers for year round use were $359.21.

Walt noted we will be getting a quarterly electric bill of $385 which is twice what we’ve been seeing.

Director at Large: Jeff S K4BH

We are in hurricane season. Volunteerism is down at least in Broward County.

Director at Large: Lou K4LA

No updates on club releated business

President: Bruce KO4XL – not present

Director at Large: Jay S N2ELG

Club scheduled to put up satellite tower next Saturday

Director at Large: John C N1QFH – not present

Thanked all who helped with the planning and setup for Field Day. Personally learned a lot from working through the issues. Convert generators to propane. We had a couple of members who helped us get FT8 going. Roughly 2500 points. Thanks to Henry for getting the badges finalized. Let John know if you find a good web site that we could link with ours.

Director at Large: George WA2VNV

Commented on Amazon Smile donations to the club. Posted video on crystals in WWII on groups.io.

Old Business- none

New Business- none

Ralph presented items for general discussion

The board authorized replacing the wire for the 160 meter antenna. It will be reinstalled.

Radiator Grille plan is to hold it on October 22 or 29. Are these the date of an event we should avoid. CQ-WW phone is the weekend of the 29th. Looks like October 22 is the best date. Should hold the spring one earlier, before Passover.

Solicited input for restaurant recommendations for Saturday lunches especially south of where we’ve been so far. Let Ralph or Henry know any suggestions.

Possibility of holding an auction. The club has a lot of surplus equipment. Thinking of January before Hamcation.

Is anyone interested in running the auction or Radiator Grille? Henry offered to do it again. Jay will take pictures of the equipment.

Waller flag antenna. This is a directional receiving antenna for 160 and 80 meters. Walt is going to get the wiring diagram from the person who installed it.

Jan do we know what is needed for fully installing the satellite equipment? This weekend is to stand up the tower to clear up the area. George says the two meter antenna needs a couple of reflector elements. Should be a spare element somewhere. Discussion on rotators cables other equipment.

Ken – when will we get our APRS repeater back up. APRS antenna was taken to be used with the repeater as a work around to the duplexer problem. George commented that we are aware of the problem.