Northeast Iowa Radio Amateur Association (NIRAA/W0MG) Meeting Minutes, January 2018 The October gathering of the Northeast Iowa Radio Amateur's Association (NIRAA) was called to order at 7:00 PM January 13, 2017 by Harold Lucas (N4HRL). There were XXXXXXXX members (XXXXXXXX ARRL) and XXXXXXXX guests in attendance this evening, listed below. MINUTES ------- Adjustments to last month's minutes: ADJUST FREQ TO 146.34 Minutes accepted with adjustments (AE0TB/N0TKC) Report accepted AS ADJUSTED (/) TREASURER'S REPORT ------------------ Dave reports we have $1,747.80 in the general fund plus $210.18 in the repeater savings fund, NOT COUNTING DUES RECEIVED TODAY Report accepted (N8TWO/N0TKC) REPEATERS --------- TOM GRUNDY REPEATER IS DOWN TOM IS WORKING ON IT IT'S AT HIS OFFICE CHUCK: ALL REPEATER SRUNNING CURT 220 IS RUNNING GEN: MOST DMR ARE WORKING, MARSHALLTOWN IS DOWN PA IS UNDER REAIR OLD BUSINESS ------------ NONE NEW BUSINESS ------------ HAD A BOARD MEETING HAROLD DISCUSSS RECORDING OF PRESENTATIONS ONE DAY TECH CLASSES COMING UP? TOM REPORTS TIM WANTS AT LEAST 10 PEOPLE TO MAKE HIS TRIP FROM CR WORTH IT CHANGES TO BYLAWS, HAROLD BUILD A COMMITTEE TO REVIEW BYLAWS AND SUGGEST CHANGES TO THE CLUB - CHANGE QUORUM TO MEMBERS PRESENT - RESTORE MEETING IN AUGUST (N8TWO/N0ZYC) N0TKC HEADS, WITH VICKI DISCUSS HAMFEST... NEED TO MAKE A COMMITTEE FOR THAT ALSO JUNK IN THE TRUNK IN CR IS THE WEEK BEFORE DAYTON STAN SUGGESTS WE WAIT AND SEE HOW JITT DOES (MAY 12?) CVARC IS IN AUGUST, IN LYNN COUNTY THIS YEAR IT WILL BE A BIT BIGGER THIS YEAR BECAUSEE MIODEST STATES ARE MEETING MIDEST SECTION OF ARRL MEETING N0ZYC / KZ0MBI / N8TWO WILL HEAD THIS YEAR'S HAMFEST FIELD DAY ADVANCED PLANNING TOM RECAPS - WE MAY WANT TO GO IN WITH THE IWARN GROUP AND HAVE A COMBINED FIELD DAY THEIR SITE IS AT THE MILL HWY 20 & 14 W0GEN / AE0TB VOLUNTEER JAN ALSO BUT NOBODY WANTS TO CHAIR IT W0GEN WILL CHAIR IT HAROLD BELL RINGING REPORT FOR SALVATION ARMY $679.34 THIS YEAR, LAST YEAR IT WAS AROUND $550 TOM GAVE DAVE A WEBSITE BILL $36.34 FOR EVERY 2 YRS PAY IT (N8TWO/N0TKC) SEE DAVE IF YOU HAVE DUES TO PAY CURT CAN DO A PRESENTATION ON FEB ON SWR OR HIGH VOLTAGE HAROLD IS EXPLORING HAM CLUB PARTICIPATION IN STEM VICKI WILL LOOK INTO THAT N8TWO KNOWS STUDENTSS/TEACHER AT EXPO WED MORNINGS 10-11:30 LOOKING FOR RADIO PRESENTATION TARYN WILL LET HAROLD KNOW IF SHE HEARS MORE MARK VOWS THIS YEAR THE SCOUT COUNCIL WILL HELP WITH JOTA AL JONES HAS AN AVAOIAVBLE CEL NUMBER YES WE WILL TAKE IT (N8TWO/N0ZYC) HAROLD ASKING ABOUT MEETING AT THE EOC, GET AHOLD OV MAUREEN HE WILL TRY TO ARRANGE DOING OUR MARCH MEETING AT THE EOC MARCH WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE, GO WITH APRIL STORM SPOTTERS MON MARCH 26 6:30 PM AT HAWKEYE TAMA HALL CHUCK ARES REPORT ARRL GOING TO REVAMP THE WHOLE PROCESS OF ARES ZLL NEW RIULES AND STUDIES ETC, ICS TRAINING. THEY WERE GOING TO REQUIRE ICS CERTS FOR ACTIVATION BUT THAT WAS GOING TO DECIMATE THEIR AVAILABLE MEMBERS A BIG PART OF THIS IS THEY WANT ARES ACTIVITY TO HAVE THEIR HOURS LOGGED SO THEY CAN SHOW THEIR ACTIVITY TO OBTAIN MORE FUNDING AND GRANTS. STORM SPOTTING COMING UP MARHC PROGRAM IDEA BASIC TRANSCIEVER USAGE 94 AND DMR? MAYBE TOM AND CHUCK CAN DO THE PRESENTATION TRANSMITTER ETIQUETTE OUR ETIQUETTE IS ON THE WEB SITE THO IT'S NOT REALLY POINTED OUT TO THE NEW MEMBERS Motion to adjourn (NK0T/W0ALO) PRESENTATION ------------ Tonight's presentation was by XXXXXXXX (XXXXXXXX) on XXXXXXXX UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS ---------------------- February's presentation will be by XXXXXXXX on XXXXXXXX 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 XXXXXXXX UPCOMING HAMFESTS ----------------- XXXXXXXX OTHER EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS ------------------------------ XXXXXXXX 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: XXXXXXXX Guests: XXXXXXXX Members wishing to pay club dues (or have paid and are not indicated above) please contact Dave Knittel.