Northeast Iowa Radio Amateur Association (NIRAA/W0MG) Meeting Minutes, November 2018

The November gathering / Christmas Dinner of the Northeast Iowa Radio Amateur's Association (NIRAA) met at 5:30 pm on November 10, at Nana Rose's in Reinbeck.

The official meeting was limited to the 2019 elections.  Our 2016 director Stan (W0SJ) as well as all other officers offered to continue to serve in their respective positions and ran unopposed.  The club voted to retain all current positions for 2019.


December's presentation will be by Joe Hoepfner (AE5EI), discussing digital


UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS
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January: (no presentation scheduled yet)
Febuary: Jennifer Stroben presents on robotics
March: Lee Garner doing a followup on Joe's digital presentation



REGULAR EVENTS
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- 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 Ansborough Ave
- hams meet informally at 12pm every Tuesday at Taco Johns on University Ave
- Iowa Digital Net runs every Tuesday night at 7pm, 3.5885 MHz USB / 1500 Hz WF
  (Olivia 8-500
- DMR checkin 7:30 pm Sunday night on talk group 3119


VE TESTING AND TRAINING
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- ongoing tech-to-general class
  usually meets at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
  Tuesdays at 6:00 pm
  contact is Al (KB0VGG)
  2ND FLOOR CF LIBRARY 10AM




UPCOMING HAMFESTS
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(none)



OTHER EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
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(none)


W0MG/NIRAA LINKS
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- Club Website: http://w0mg.net/
- 2019 membership form: http://www.w0mg.net/contact/membershipform2019.pdf
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/waterloo.hams/community/
- Cedar Valley area repeaters: http://w0mg.net/repeaters/



Members wishing to pay club dues (or have paid and are not indicated above) please contact Dave Knittel.


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 2017, Dave Kelly, KD0DK, dir3(a)w0mg.net
	Director 2018, Taryn Colby, N0TKC, dir1(a)w0mg.net
	Director 2019, Stan Johnson, W0SJ, dir2(a)w0mg.net


Please join us at Windcove (Western Home Communities) apartments at 5300 South Main St in Cedar Falls.  We are meeting on the 2nd Saturday of the month at 7:30 pm.  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 club secretary Nathan at sec(a)w0mg.net

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- Nathan Fisher (N0ZYC)
	Secretary, W0MG