====================== IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ====================== For the time being, we will be using Zoom for our meetings. The following meeting link is persistent and will be used until we can resume our in-person meetings. This is meetling/link is set to repeat monthly and so will not change every month. It starts early (at 7pm) and closes at 10pm. Zoom monthly meeting: Web URL, includes meeting ID and passcode: https://zoom.us/j/99863201285?pwd=cWUyQWxrRk81OEcwN1Q0dzF1UTBLUT09 On your mobile or with the Zoom app directly: Meeting ID: 998 6320 1285 Passcode: 955710 or call in from any phone: (312) 626-6799 (Chicago) (929) 205-6099 (New York) (301) 715-8592 (Germantown) (346) 248-7799 (Houston) (669) 900-6833 (San Jose) (253) 215-8782 (Tacoma) -------------------------- Northeast Iowa Radio Amateur Association (NIRAA/W0MG) Meeting Minutes, Nov 2020 The November gathering of the Northeast Iowa Radio Amateur's Association (NIRAA) was called to order at 7:42 PM, November 14, 2020 on Zoom by Curt Wilson (. There were XXXXX in attendance this evening, listed below. taryn/bill move to end nominations mark/stan move verbal vote was unanimous MINUTES ------- Adjustments to last month's minutes: K0DV was not the one nominated to treasurer, it was KD0DK (the current treasrer) balance to repaeer fund was 1090.18 not 190.18 Report accepted with 2 adjustments (N0ZYC / N8TWO) TREASURER'S REPORT ------------------ Dave (KD0DK) reports we have $1090.18 in savings/repeater fund and $1501.86 + $20 dues 1531.86 in checking Report accepted (JIM FITKIN / 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 --------- XXXXX COMMITTEES ---------- Repeater Swap Committee (Jan/KE0RKO, John/WB0MAR, Curt/NK0T): XXXXX Presentation Committee (Curt/NK0T, John/WB0MAR): XXXXX OLD BUSINESS ------------ W0SJ: FIELD DAY FILTER, JUST BUILT A 10M FILTER, HI PASS 3.5DB ATTEN READY FOR NEXT FIELD DAY N8TWO JOTA SCOUTS FOR JOTA AL MADE CONRTACT TO AUSTRIA AND SCOTLAND KB0VGG PARKS ON THE AIR LAST SUN MARK AND HIM WENT OUT TO ACTIVATE HERRY WOODS 1 CONTACT MADE WITH EDMUND FITZGERALD UNTIL SOLAR FLARE HIT AND SHUT EVERYTHIGN DOWN THS THURS BRNEDA AND I WNE TO ROCK STATE , FEMALES ATTRACT MORE CONTACTS 17 CONTATS IN 1 HOUR 20, 40, 75 CLOSE TO 3,000 CONTACTS ONLY 2 PARKS LEFT, SOUTHWEST IA TOO FAR TO DRIVE PALACADES AND KEPLER NEW BUSINESS ------------ CURT AND STAN HELPING DON BROWN (SK) WIDOW RADIOS WENT TO HAM IN READLYN THAT WORKS FOR THE LIRBARY FOR THE STATION (PATRICK ) FOUND SOMEONE TO TAKE THE TOWER DOWN, GOT DOWN IN TIME FOR THE SALE GOT EMAIL FROM HAROLOD OR STAN, SOMEONE BOUGHT CAROL COOPER'S HOUSE, ASKING ABOUT ANTENNA REMOVAL ITS GONNA COST TEM TO REMOVE IT (THEY WANT TO SELL IT) N8TWO: SCOUTS RUN FOXHUNTS IN THE SPRING COUNCIL GIVEN GO AHEAD TO HAVE SCOUTS DO THIS SEEING AS THERE'S NO SPRING CAMPOREE CURT HAS RG-58 AL ALSO HAS SOME RG-58 SUGGEST PUTING BNCS ON IN ADVANCE NATE DID A SHORT DEMO OF HIS NEW FOX BOXES AND OFFSET ATTENUATORS KB0VGG BENTON COUNTY REPEATER HARD TO GET PHYSICAL ACCESS BENTON COUNTY EMERGENCY MAANGER COULDN'T EVEN GET IN FOR OVER AN HOUR CHANGED THE CODE APPARENTLY SO ITS OFF THE AIR FOR NOW AND WE CAN'T GET IN REPEATER IS JUST ACTING WEIRD AND LOW POWER, PROBABLY AN ANTENNA OR COAX ISSUE NEED ACCESS TO THE BUILDING W0SJ: 160M BAND HAS BEEN OPEN INTO EUROPE OVERNIGHT RECENTLY (FT8) W0GEN: 20M GOOD TOO W9DRR: 40M OPEN ALSO, USING JS8 CALL, STORE AND FORWARD, RELAYING, WRP, MAGLOOPS Motion to adjourn at 8:28 (N0ZYC / W0GEN) NO PRESENTATION TONIGHT 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 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 Our meeting has been temporarily moved to Zoom due to covid-19, see announcement at the top of these minutes for meeting information. 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