Northeast Iowa Radio Amateur Association (NIRAA/W0MG) Meeting Minutes, July 2019 The July gathering of the Northeast Iowa Radio Amateur's Association (NIRAA) was called to order at 7:27 PM July 13, 2019 by Harold Lucas (N4HRL). There were XXXXX members (XXXXX ARRL) and XXXXX guests in attendance this evening, listed below. MINUTES ------- Adjustments to last month's minutes: Crrection to the minutes: Dave (K0CQH) will be making reservations for the August picnic - Dave Kelly Minutes accepted with 0 adjustments (N4HRL/NK0T) TREASURER'S REPORT ------------------ Dave (K0CQH) reports we have $ 1090.18 SAVINGS in the general fund and $ SD 2,120.61 in savings / repeater fund. Please contact Dave if you would like to get your dues paid for the year. TWO CHECKS O0UTSTANDING 10.00 AND 8.99 SHELTER RESERVED FOR THE PARK FOR NEXT MONTH SHELTER #1 THE FIRST ONE NOT THE FIELD DAY ONE (THIS ONE IS LARGER) ALL DAY 5:30 - 10:30 $22 Report accepted (N0ZYC/N8TWO) REPEATERS --------- CURT 220 TDOES NOT HAVE PL TONE DECODE TIMED OUT A LTO BY TROPO ON HIS LIST OF THINGS TO DO TO KEEP TIMEOUTS AWAY CHUCK 82 OK DMRS ARE WORKING 94 OTHER REPEATER BACKUP IS JUST ABOUT READY FOR A SWAP CURT WE DOING THAT MONDAY? MOVE IT TO BILL DEDIC MS5000 BILL WILL TEST IT FOR PERFORMANCE THEN WORK WITH NATHAN ETC TO GET IT ON THE WATER TPOWER AND TAKE OUT THE MICOR NEED TO GET MAXTRACS THAT DO LINKING FROM CHRIS AND REINITIALIZE THE LINK WITH THE HOSPITAL COMMITTEES ---------- (none active) OLD BUSINESS ------------ CQH: WE SHOUD CONTACT CHRIS AND GET CUSTODIANSHIP TRANSFERRED ONLY CHRIS CAN INITIATE THE TRANSFER CURT MOTIONS TO CONTACT CHRIS AND INITIATE CHANGE (AE0TB/C0CQH) FIELD DAY POST MORTUM MARK N8TWO : OVER 100 CONTACTS INCLUDING JOTA 20M CW INTERFERED WITH 40M GOOD FOOD NOT MUCH IN THE WAY OF ADDITIONAL COMMENTS, ATTENDANCE WAS RATHER LOW AND IT WAS LARGELY UNEVENTFUL AL JONES DID MEAT FOR LAST CLUB PICNIC, SHOULD CONTACT HIM TO SEE IF HE WANTS TO DO THAT AGAIN, SHOULD REIMBURSE HIM THIS TIME N0TKC: AL MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE, WE NEED TO HAVE ANOTHER PLAN FOR FOOD IN CASE AL CANNOT HELP CQH CAN SUPPLY CONDIMENTS AND TABLE CLOTHS ETC BUT CAN'T COOK THERE'S NO ELECTRICITY AT THE SHELTER WALMART CHICKEN IN CASE AL IS NOT AVAILABLE 2ND WEEKEND OF AUG AUG 1 GET PRELIMINARY COUNT MNATHAN TO RBING WATER CELL LETS GO EAT AT 6 SHOW AT 5>30 MARK TO BUY NATHAN MOTIONS MARK UP TO 150 FOR CHICEN AND POTATO SALAD N4HRL/K0CQH DAVD WILL PUT POTATO SALAD IN COOLER =============================================================================== last month Harold (N4HRL) and Nathan (N0ZYC) went to the club radio room at the AMC to do an inventory. There was quite a lot of equipment there, as well as a lot of other club historic information such as club records, pictures, negatives, old minutes, and a lot of newspaper clippings. The oldest records found were from 1933! There also seems to be a few slight changes in the club's name over the years. Nathan scanned hundreds of film negatives, dozens of photographs, and a load of newspaper clippings and will be gettin them to Tom for incorporation into the club's web page. Does the club have a preference of what we do with the originals? (if they are to be kept, who / where are they going to be kept?) We found the club's antenna analyzer! Everything that wasn't nailed down was removed from the room for photographing. A small amount of junk was removed. (useless old hardwware, blank forms, etc) and things were packed back into the room and tidied up a bit. It could still use a bit of reorganizing, but space is limited. Harold got his case and operating manual for the FT-897 he recently bought from the club, and materials were removed to be turned over for scouting, club secretary, and club treasurer. The only equipment that was tested was the old PC, it boots up fine to Windows XP and is running some really old logging software. Most of the radios in the room are very old AMC units, of questionable usefulness. Many of them are probably on bands or programmed with channels no longer in use. We should probably get a technical person from AMC to come over and evaluate what can be removed or that they would like to upgrade. There are several old power supplies built into the desk, with questionable electrical conditions such as cracked insulation and tangled wiring on both the DC and AC sides. We should probably have someone stop by there and improve the electrical safety of that equipment by repairing, replacing, or removing the hazards. (some of it may not pass the Smoke Test when powered on) =============================================================================== NEW BUSINESS ------------ UPT=COMING HAMFEST CR AUG 3-4 AT FAIRGROUNDS CENTRAL CITY $10 ADM FREE TAILGAITING WITH ADMISSION STAN: CAROL COOPER PASSED AWAY STAN CONTACTED BY ATOURNEY TO FIGURE OUT HAM GERAR STAN WENT IN TO LOOK, BASEMENT REEKED OF CATS UNSELLABLE ON EBAY RECOMMENDED DONATING GEAR TO CLUB SET UP AT BILL'S SEPARATE BUILDING WITH VENITLLATION USE AS A STATION FOR ANY HAM TO USE EXECUTOR AND ATTOURNETY LIKE THAT STAN WILL REPORT NEXT MONTH ICOM 7600, KENWOOD LIKOWATT AMP (CURT WOULD LIKE TO MAKE AN OFFER ON THAT) =============================================================================== Nathan (N0ZYC) has purchased a 1kw pure sine wave inverter for donation to the solar trailer, so we will have reliable powder to keep our data-logging laptops running even if AC power isn't available. It needs to be checked over to make sure it doesn't interfere with the radios on field day before we install it. =============================================================================== Motion to adjourn at N0TKC pm (NK0T/N8TWO) PRESENTATION ------------ Tonight's presentation was by Tom (AE0TB) on American Red Cross (and he brought the ERV (Emergency Respose Vehicle) for us to look at too) UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS ---------------------- AUG: (FAMILY/CLUB PICNIC) SEP: TOWER SAFETY, MARK HAS A 20 MIN VIDEO, NATHAN TO HELP OCT: STEM AND EMERGENCY POWER NOV: (XMAS PARTY) DEC: PATRICK RONIGAN FROM READLYN HAS A PROGRAM ON SUNSPOTS AND SOLAR WEATHER 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 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) << NOTE! FREQENCY HAS CHANGED EFFECTIVE FEB 2018 >> - DMR checkin 7:30 pm Sunday night on talk group 3119 VE TESTING AND TRAINING ----------------------- - 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) 319-243-8819 2ND FLOOR CF LIBRARY 10AM next class: (contact Al) - scheduled club testing for 2019 will be held at the Hudson Library, at 401 5th St in Hudson, from 9:45 am - 1:00 pm on the following dates: -Sept 21 additional testing dates may be added as needed UPCOMING HAMFESTS ----------------- (none noted) OTHER EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS ------------------------------ (none noted) W0MG/NIRAA LINKS ---------------- - 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 list: http://w0mg.net/repeaters/ MEETING ATTENDANCE ------------------ Members: XXXXX Guests: XXXXX Members wishing to pay club dues (or have paid and are not indicated above) please contact Dave Knittel in person at our monthly meeting or by email at treas(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 NIRAA meets most months 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, with a PL tone of 136.5 hz, coverage centered in Black Hawk County. Many members are also monitoring channel 3119 on DMR. Our club website is at http://www.w0mg.net/ and the club's primary email contact is sec(a)w0mg.net You're receiving these meeting minutes because you have given the NIRAA club your email address for minutes and announcements. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, please reply requesting removal from one or both distribution lists. - Nathan Fisher (N0ZYC) Secretary, W0MG