====================== IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ====================== Until January, we will be using .940 or Zoom for our meetings. Doesn't look like the Covid situation is getting any better, for September we will be utilizing Zoom for our meeting. As we get further into the year, this may change. ---------------------------- Next Meeting: URL: XXXXX Saturday November 14 at 7:30 PM Meeting ID: XXXXX Passcode: XXXXX -------------------------- Northeast Iowa Radio Amateur Association (NIRAA/W0MG) Meeting Minutes, Oct 2020 The October gathering of the Northeast Iowa Radio Amateur's Association (NIRAA) was called to order at 7:31 PM, October 10, 2020 on Zoom by Curt Wilson (NK0T). There were XXXXX in attendance this evening, listed below. HAROLD IN HOSPITAL FOR A WEEK NO has developed minor pneumonia MINUTES ------- Adjustments to last month's minutes: W0DT WAS THE ONE WHO OVERPAID NOT W9DRR Report accepted with XXXXX adjustments (N8TWO / KD0DK) TREASURER'S REPORT ------------------ Dave (KD0DK) reports we have $1,90.18 in savings/repeater fund and $1,511.86 in share-draft. NO ACTIVITY XXXXX Report accepted (NT0KC / N8TWO) Please contact Dave if you would like to get your dues paid for the year. Our club membership form is also available on our club website at http://www.w0mg.net/ REPEATERS --------- NK0T: 220 WORKING WELL NOW THAT SQUELCH WAS TURNED UP K0CQH: NOTIED PLAINFIELD JUST BARELY GETTING INTO THE REPEATER (THAT'S TYPICAL FOR NORTH RX) NK0T: 82 SEEMS TO WORKING FINE AE0TB: GRUNDY DOING FINE, DSTAR IS NOT OPERATIONAL SINCE NOBODY'S AROUND TO USE IT, CONTACT AE0TB IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN USING IT N8TWO: IS IT POSSIBLE TO GET DSTAR FOR JOTA? AE0TB: PROBABLY NOT, IT'S TOO LOW COMMITTEES ---------- Repeater Swap Committee (Jan/KE0RKO, John/WB0MAR, Curt/NK0T): XXXXX Presentation Committee (Curt/NK0T, John/WB0MAR): XXXXX OLD BUSINESS ------------ N8TWO: JOTA WE MET TODAY TO DISCUSS, WILL BE AT INGAWANUS, FOXHUNT ETC NOT SURE IF WE'RE GETTING SCOUTS YET. NEW BUSINESS ------------ N8TWO: DAVENPORT RADIO AMATEUR CLUB CANCELLED SUN NOV 1 AT ARMY NAT GUARD DPORT WB0MAR: HAMCATION HAS BEEN CANCELLED (USUALLY 2N WEEK FEB) AE0TB: VICKI GOT A SK: JOHN PALMER AT 6AM TODAY N0TKC: XMAS PARTY? NORMALLY NOV 14 MARK ASKED DOREEN, MIRACLE ON MAIN IS ON THAT WEEKEND AND WE'D HAVE TO GO WITH LIKE SUNDAY. PROBABLY NOT N0ZYC: K0CQH: VOTE BY MAIL MAYBE? N0TKC: USE SURVEY MONKEY FOR ANONYMOUS ONLINE VOTING? ITS FREE. ONLY THE ADMIN WOULD SEE WHO VOTED FOR WHO WB0MAR MOTION TO USE SURVEYMONKEY AE0TB SECOND (APPROVED) W0GEN VOLUNTEERS TO BE ADMIN SINCE HE'S GOING TO BE IN TX AND NOT ELIGIBLE FOR POSTITIONS NOMINATIONS: NK0T PRES KB0VGG VP N0ZYC SEC K0DV TREAS WB0MAR DIR MOTION TO APPROVE NOMINATIONS; N8TWO / W0GEN KD0DK: N0VZE TIM PARKER JUST BOUGHT TMD710 NEEDS HELP PROGRAMMING CAN ANYONE HELP LIVES ON WALLGATE IN WLOO, KNOWS NK0T, HAVE PH IF SOMEONE CAN HELP (W0GEN/NK0T PROBABLY WILL HELP) AE0TB: VE TEST SESSION EARLIER TODAY, 2 SESSOONS, 3 EXTRAS TEST ALL PASS, 4 TECHS ALL SUCCESSFUL. (2 ON SECOND ATTEMPT) W0GEN EXTRA Meeting adjourned at v PM (N0ZYC / N0TKC) TONIGHT'S PRESENTIONTATION IS BY NK0T/W0GEN ON W0MG'S REMOTE ANTENNA UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS ---------------------- (TBD) REGULAR EVENTS -------------- - ARES net check-in is at 9pm every Sunday night, on 146.94/34 - Iowa Digital Net runs every Sunday night at 4pm, 3.5885 MHz USB / 1500 Hz WF (Olivia 8-500) (note new day and time as of Feb 2020) - DMR checkin 7:30 pm Sunday night on talk group 3119 - W0MG Virtual Breakfast, now meeting every Monday morning 8:45am – 12:45pm https://zoom.us/j/94876565904?pwd=RnlhMzBkMWhCaEkzRUc0YW4yaDMxUT09 or open the Zoom app and join with meeting ID 948 7656 5904 passcode 592204 temporarily suspended: - 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 VE TESTING AND TRAINING ----------------------- contact Tom (AE0TB) for current information UPCOMING HAMFESTS ----------------- - OTHER EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS ------------------------------ (NONE) W0MG/NIRAA LINKS ---------------- - Club Website: https://www.w0mg.net/ - Membership form: http://www.w0mg.net/contact/membershipform.pdf - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/waterloo.hams/community/ - Cedar Valley area repeaters list: https://www.w0mg.net/repeaters/ MEETING ATTENDANCE ------------------ XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX Members wishing to pay club dues (or have paid and are not indicated above) please contact our Treasurer 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 Kelly (KD0DK) - treas(a)w0mg.net Director 2018: John Humpal (WB0MAR) - dir1(a)w0mg.net Director 2019: Stan Johnson (W0SJ) - dir2(a)w0mg.net Director 2020: Jan Fitkin (KE0IWP) - dir3(a)w0mg.net NIRAA meets most months at Windcove (Western Home Communities) apartments at 300 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, with coverage centered in Black Hawk County. Many members are also monitoring channel 3119 on DMR. Our club website is at https://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