Northeast Iowa Radio Amateur Association (NIRAA/W0MG) Meeting Minutes, December 2017 The October gathering of the Northeast Iowa Radio Amateur's Association (NIRAA) was called to order at 7:01 PM December 9, 2017 by Mark Colby (N8TWO). There were XXXX members (XXXX ARRL) and XXXX guests in attendance this evening, listed below. MINUTES ------- Adjustments to last month's minutes: NONE APPROVED WITH NO ADJUSTMENTS (N0ZYC/N0TKC) Minutes accepted with XXXX adjustments (XXXX/XXXX) TREASURER'S REPORT ------------------ Dave reports we have $1467.86 in the general fund plus $210.18 in the repeater savings fund. +DUES Report accepted (N0TKC/W0GEN) REPEATERS --------- W0GEN DMR REPEATER IN WINNONA WENT UP RECENTLY, REPEATER GETTING TO PRAIRIE DUE CHENE / EL CATER / SUOTH OF LAMONT NEW W0GEN TOWER WITH BETER HEIGHT NK0T 220 UP AND WORKING FINE AE0TB RBK REPEATER FULL SIZE DELL CONTROLLER DIED, MIGRATING TO RASP PIE W0MG 94 REPEATER STARTING TO GET THAT WINTER DESENSE KE0CH CHRIS GOELLER IS BACK FROM IOWA CITY IF YOU WANT TO VISIT, GET A CERT FROM HEALTH DEPT SAYING NOTHING COMMUINICABLE, HIS IMMUME SYSTEM IS IN BAD SHAPE (LEUKEMIA) BELL RINGING SALVATION ARMY MADE MORE THIS YEAR THAN LAST ~$600 WILL TRY TO GET JOTA MOVING EVEN FASTER THIS COMING YEAR PROGRAM IDEAS? LOG BOOK OF THE WORLD? CONTESTING BASIC RECIEVER / TRANSMITTER USE HAVE A TEAM WITH AN ACTUAL ORGANIZE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM? MESSAGE HANDLING / TRAFFIC PASSING USING ARRL AND ICS213 MESSAGE FORMS A DMR REFRESHER CURT'S VECTOR NETWORK ANALYZER REMOTE STATION OPERATION WEBSDR BILL DEDIC WOULD LIKE TO DO THE JAN PRESENTATION ON REMOTE HAMS OLD BUSINESS ------------ XXXX NEW BUSINESS ------------ XXXX Motion to adjourn (N0ZYC/N0TKC) PRESENTATION ------------ Tonight's presentation was by STAN (WOSJ) UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS ---------------------- January's presentation will be by XXXX on XXXX REGULAR EVENTS -------------- - ARES net check-in is at 9pm every Sunday night, on 146.94/34 - hams meet informally at 9am every Monday morning at HyVee on University Ave - hams meet informally at 12pm every Tuesday at Taco Johns on University Ave - Iowa Digital Net runs every Tues night at 7pm on 3572.5 / 3574 ctr USB - DMR checkin 7:30 pm Sunday night on talk group 3119 VE TESTING AND TRAINING ----------------------- - ongoing tech-to-general class XXXX UPCOMING HAMFESTS ----------------- XXXX OTHER EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS ------------------------------ XXXX W0MG/NIRAA LINKS ---------------- - Club Website: http://w0mg.net/ - 2017 NIRAA Membership form: http://www.w0mg.net/contact/membershipform2017.pdf - Cedar Valley area repeaters: http://w0mg.net/repeaters/ - Facebook: XXXX =============================================================================== The NIRAA club meets on the 2nd Saturday of every month at 7pm in the basement of the Red Cross building (2530 University Ave) in Waterloo. Anyone interested in ham radio is welcome to attend. Our primary club repeater is on 146.94 mhz, negative offset, PL tone of 136.5 hz, with coverage centered in Black Hawk County. Many members are also monitoring channel 3119 on DMR. Our club website is at http://www.w0mg.net/ . Primary email contact is Nathan at sec(a)w0mg.net Officers may be contacted over the air or via email: President, Harold Lucas, N4HRL, pres(a)w0mg.net Vice President, Curtis Wilson, NK0T, vp(a)w0mg.net Secretary, Nathan Fisher, N0ZYC, sec(a)w0mg.net Treasurer, Dave Knittel, K0CQH, treas(a)w0mg.net Director 2016, Taryn Colby, N0TKC, dir1(a)w0mg.net Director 2017, Stan Johnson, W0SJ, dir2(a)w0mg.net Director 2018, Dave Kelly, KD0DK, dir3(a)w0mg.net - Nathan Fisher Secretary, W0MG You're receiving these meeting minutes because you have given the NIRAA club your email address for minutes or announcements. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, please reply requesting removal from one or both distribution lists. This month's meeting attendance: Members: XXXX Guests: XXXX Members wishing to pay club dues (or have paid and are not indicated above) please contact Dave Knittel.