Meeting of Feb 26th, 2008
Called to Order at 7:30 pm on 146.79 MHz by Pres. Jack km6te
Members Present:
Eddy
kg6rhl
Sally kg6fol
Jerry kf6ibp
Nancy W kg6bil
Nancy P kb6lad
Gary k6jxm
Todd kf6kbx
January Meeting Minutes read & adopted.
Treasurer's Report:
Checking
Acct Balance approximate $940.00
( after February utility bills paid )
43 Paid Club Members so far for 2008
Committee Report & Old Business:
Repeaters:
Far West 146.61 MHz link to 146.76 MHz repaired
.... water damaged pinktail coax connector at Pratt Mtn
Shelter Cove site UHF link radio to 146.79 MHz ready to install.
Target install next Saturday (3-1-08) in the
outside cabinet.
CalFire station site has antenna tilted over. Gary k6jxm could help.
Old Business: Shelter Cove Technician
License Class has 2 more meetings.
Next Sat is final instructions & sample
practice exam questions from eham.net documents,
and
the following Sat meeting (3-8-08) is the actual exam. 16 students attending.
New Business:
Current Redwood Times article about OES & HAM radio in SoHum.
April Disaster drill exercise during OES meeting....
..... need volunteers for this training .... pencil in Jerry kf6ibp
Red Cross presentation "Living On the Fault
Line" coming.
3 hours on a Saturday AM in Garberville .
80m dipole antenna at CalFire needs an antenna tuner
&
its physical length shorter for "matching"
Kenwood Commercial mobile radio at Jack's shop.
Possible
command post equipment.
Possible HAM class for the Miranda school transportation
dept. in the future.
Open Forum:
Lamar's AE6LJ UHF simplex testing with club
members has moved to 446.000 MHz
10m band was useable this week.
Technician Class may use part of the 10m spectrum now.
Meeting adjourned around 7:50 pm