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TARC General Business Meeting Minutes

June 6, 2005

 

 

Wes, K4NQ, called the meeting to order at 7:30pm

 

30 members were in attendance

 

The Minutes were not available for the 5/2 meeting.  They will be presented at the next General Meeting.

 

Old Business

 

Treasurer’s Report – Kathy

The Internal account has $795.73

The External account has $1099.75

$78.00 was sent to ARRL

The Treasurers report was approved my vote.

 

ARES/RACES – Gary, KC5QCN

The hurricane exercise was held on 5/17.  Five Clubs participated and all amateur links were validated except 800mhz and CB (do we not have any that work in the Clubhouse?)

 

On 6/16, a HAZMAT exercise will be conducted at the EOC.  This will simulate an ammonia leak at the Port. 

 

The Technician class went well, with 9 participants.  Seven of them sat for the exam, and 6 passed.  Way to go!

 

An ESF-2 meeting will be held next month in Tallahassee to review the 2004 Cyclonic Disturbance season.

A NIMS training cource (ICS100, ICS20, ICS700) will be held at the EOC on 7/16.  You need this training to be a deployable asset in future.  Hillsborough County Fire Rescue is presenting this course.

 

The Section EC meeting was held and the approach the Section EC wants to handle EC management is as follows:

  • Bottom up EC management by county is preferred, vs top-down from the section.
  • Local EC runs the county EC program, and reports to the section
  • The local ECs are requested to be strongly affiliated with the local county EOC organization.
  • All Local ECs MUST be approved by the local Emergency Management team (EOC).

 

 

Field Day – Gary, KC5QCN

  • Field Day is again the 3rd full weekend in June, 6/25-6/26.  Setup will commence at 2:00p on 6/24.
  • Biff will chair the CW operations, and Warren will chair SSB operations.
  • We need cooks.  Please volunteer.
  • The County EOC command post will be here.
  • Dan, KA2TOC will be offering his trailer this year for SSB
  • We have $196 for food so far .. The more you donate, the better you eat!
  • The MAC trailer (or is it MARC?) will not be here this year.  The Brandon Club asked for it this year
  • There was a lively discussion about our classification for FD this year.  Debate revolved around splitting the operation into two calls, and operating 2A and 1E or possibly 2A and 2E.  A motion was made for 2A as N4TP and 1D as W4DUG. NO VOTE MADE.

 

Legacy Project – Wes, K4NQ

The antenna parts we need to complete the project have arrived and are in the Clubhouse.  As soon as the Tower committee can get Ron scheduled, the antennas should be in the air (not likely before FD though).

 

Communications Committee – Pete, KZ1Z

We are reviving the Club newsletter (QRM).  The initial publication cycle will be quarterly.  If you have topics you like to present, please send your articles/ideas to Peter at KZ1Z@arrl.net

 

New Business

 

Club Polo Shirts – Bill, N4WEB

New multi-color polo shirts have been ordered.  They should be arriving in a few weeks.  We have ordered 100 of them in various sizes, in Grey, Tan, and Dark Tan.  The price should be around $15-$20.  Price to be set when they arrive.  Be sure to buy one, or two, or three or …

 

Announcements

 

Club Training – Mike, NI4M

A request was made to determine the need for training to club members (or non-members) for the various license classes, and CW.  Please contact Mike if you are interested at NI4M@hamclub.org.  We can offer it possibly on non-business meeting nights as needed.

 

EmComm Operator List Needed

If you are able  and willing to provide support in the event of an emergency (operator, logistics, etc), we need your names, contact info, and any capabilities you have so we can have a call-out list ready in the case we need to activate.  If you can, please sign up by sending your info to Keating, KC4HSI@hamclub.org.

 

Shelter support operators needed

This year, there are over 50 shelters that will need to be supported in 2005.  For sites we can not get enough operators to support, the EOC is acquiring 800mhz radios for use in those locations, where Ameaturs are not present.  A request was made that TARC receive one of these radios, and a 800mhz beam so we can participate in the this new support mode with the EOC.

 

Club Fox Hunt

It was proposed that club have a Fox Hunt for the membership, and possibly invite other clubs.   Would someone be willing to take this idea and run with it?

 

Board Meeting

The next Board meeting will be at some local dining establishment on 6/2 @ 7:30p.  Listen to the repeater or the TarcList for the location.

 

ARRL Membership Discount offered

If you are not an ARRL member, and join ARRL through the club, there is a discount.  Check with Kathy or Biff for details.

 

 

 

Keating, KC4HSI made a motion to adjourn.  The motion carried.

 

Meeting concluded at 8:45p.

 

 

TARC General Business Meeting Minutes

May 2, 2005

 

 

Keating, KC4HSI, called the meeting to order at 7:30pm

 

20 members were in attendance

 

The Minutes were reviewed and a motion to accept by Barry was made.  Gary seconded and Approved.

 

Old Business

 

TarcFest XIII – Biff, K4LAW

Biff asked all in attendance to help re-arrange the clubhouse for TarcFest XIII after the meeting.

He asked for volunteers to help with the parking, and general clubhouse repairs.   Bill, N4WEB offered to handle parking duties.   Mike, NI4M will help with plumbing repairs.  Kathy, KC4KYJ and Mark, N4SEX will do the cooking again.

 

Treasurer’s Report – Kathy

The Internal account has $843.73

The External account has $1809.75

$405.73 addtions from March were received, and $1100 was sent from the External account to the Facility Account. 

The Treasurers report was approved my vote.

 

Repeater Report – Mike, NI4M

The .025 repeater is back up.  For those hearing echoing on the repeater, it is interference we are receiving from trunking systems.  More on that to follow.  

A general call was made to have more net control operators for the Tuesday NET.  Please sign up.

More repeater news coming as things finalize.

 

ARES/RACES – Gary, KC5QCN

The Govenor’s Hurricance Conference will be 5/9-5/13 at the Tampa Convention Center.  5/11 from 8:30-12:00 will be the Ameatur Forum.

This will be last conference in Tampa for the next 3 years.  Ft. Lauderdale out-bid for the next three, so come out!

Armed Forces Day is 5/14 on the air!

A table top hurricane preparedness exercise will be held at the EOC from 8-12 on 5/17.  The Clubhouse will be spinning up for these exercise.

An West Central Florida ARES meeting will be held 5/28 at the DeSoto EOC

 

 

Field Day – Gary, KC5QCN

Field Day is again the 3rd full weekend in June, this time on 6/23 – 6/24.  We need lots of help to make this the most enjoyable Field Day in a while. 

Biff will chair the CW operations, and Warren will chair SSB operations.

Cooks have been lined up.

The generators for FD are arranged.

A meeting of the FD committee will be held at the Clubhouse in the next few weeks.  It will be announced on the TARClist.  Please come out if you are interested in helping out.

 

New Business

 

None brought up

 

Announcements

 

FAQP – Bill, N4WEB

We had 13 people come out, and 5 operate.  We logged just under 1000 QSOs and 71 mulitpliers.  Our submitted score was  almost 169,000 points in the Multi-Multi category.  Thanks for all who came out, and Keating for cooking.  

Ops included, Bill, Jim, Bart, Blake, and Warren.  Thanks to all who helped out to make this a success and help us get a warm-up for FD.

 

Technician Class

June 4 and 5 at the EOC will be a Technician class at the EOC   The only cost is the book and the exam fee.

 

FADCA Conference

6 operators for Tampa participated.  They toured the Seminole County EOC and talked about Digital communications support for events.  The discussion centered on Winlink and Airmail

 

EchoLink Presentation

Biff and Lu are in Lakeland tonight at the LARC club meeting giving a presentation on EchoLink.  A report should be coming next month.

 

Cub Scout Day – Warren

The annual Cub Scout day is planned as usual at Plant Park, next to the University of Tampa.  Lunch will be served and a t-shirt for all who help out.

We will be doing morse code, 2m, and SSB for the boys.  Come out and help spark the interest of our future hams!

 

EmComm Operator List Needed

If you are able  and willing to provide support in the event of an emergency (operator, logistics, etc), we need your names, contact info, and any capabilities you have so we can have a call-out list ready in the case we need to activate.  If you can, please sign up by sending your info to Keating, KC4HSI@hamclub.org.

 

Shelter support operators needed

This year, there are over 50 shelters that will need to be supported in 2005.  For sites we can not get enough operators to support, the EOC is acquiring 800mhz radios for use in those locations, where Ameaturs are not present.  A request was made that TARC receive one of these radios, and a 800mhz beam so we can participate in the this new support mode with the EOC.

 

 

Board Meeting

The next Board meeting will be at some dining establishment on 5/5 @ 7:30p.  Listen to the repeater or the TarcList for the location.

 

ARRL Membership Discount offered

If you are not an ARRL member, and join ARRL through the club, there is a discount.  Check with Kathy or Biff for details.

 

 

 

Barry, made a motion to adjourn.  The motion carried.

 

Meeting concluded at 8:00p.

 

 

TARC General Business Meeting Minutes

April 4, 2005

 

 

Wes, K4NQ, called the meeting to order at 7:35pm

 

26 members were in attendance

 

Wes handed out the March minutes for review. 

The new Board of Directors were announced

 

Old Business

 

TarcFest XIII – Biff, K4LAW

Biff asked all in attendance to help re-arrange the clubhouse for TarcFest XIII after the meeting.

He asked for volunteers to help with the parking, and general clubhouse repairs.   Bill, N4WEB offered to handle parking duties.   Mike, NI4M will help with plumbing repairs.  Kathy, KC4KYJ and Mark, N4SEX will do the cooking again.

 

Treasurer’s Report – Kathy

She was unable to attend due to a funeral, but sends her regrets.  

DUES are DUE. Please pay ASAP to keep you membership in good standing.

 

Repeater Report – Mike, NI4M

The .025 repeater is back up.  For those hearing echoing on the repeater, it is interference we are receiving from trunking systems.  More on that to follow.  

A general call was made to have more net control operators for the Tuesday NET.  Please sign up.

More repeater news coming as things finalize.

 

ARES/RACES – Gary, KC5QCN

The Hillsborough County Mass Causality Drill will be held on Wednesday, 4/6.  Please all who can attend volunteer and help out.  Contact Gary for further details.

The 2nd week of May will be the Governor’s Hurricane Conference.  An ESF-2 meeting will be held.  This day is open to Amateurs to participate.

A Technician class is being help for 50 scouts at the EOC.  Come out if interested.

 

Field Day – Gary, KC5QCN

Field Day is again the 3rd full weekend in June, this time on 6/23 – 6/24.  We need lots of help to make this the most enjoyable Field Day in a while.  Currently all operating plans are open for discussion, so bring your ideas. 

Gary solicited CW ops, and needs a GOTA station chair.   We also need someone to operate the satellite station (Doc?), and a chair for the VHF station.   Don’t for the food!  If there is anything TARC does well on FD, is eat, so plan on coming out!

The new rules are on the ARRL website.  Please be sure to download a copy.  There are a few new rule changes.

 

Announcements

 

Board Meeting

The next Board meeting will be at the clubhouse on 4/14 @ 7:30p.  Please come out.

 

ARRL Membership Discount offered

If you are not an ARRL member, and join ARRL through the club, there is a discount.  Check with Kathy or Biff for details.

 

Club ARRL Anniversary in May

Next month is the 70th anniversary of the club as an affiliated ARRL Club.  

 

 

Warren, W1GUD, made a motion to adjourn.  The motion carried.

 

Meeting concluded at 8:05p.

 

 

TARC General Business Meeting Minutes

March 7, 2005

 

 

Wes, K4NQ, called the meeting to order at 7:30pm

 

37 members were in attendance

 

Old Business

 

Elections – Biff, K4LAW

Biff started the meeting with a brief discussion of the election procedures, and provided a hand-out to all in attendance documenting them.

 

Biff stated we were electing 9 Directors this evening.  Of the 9 slots to be filled, three were contested, the balance were un-contested.   The contested slots are as follows:

 

Slot B – 2 year seat

            Bruce, N4ZXI

            Robert, AG4ZG

            Ian, W4RIR

 

Slot D – 1 year seat

            Jim, WA3DIT

            Brian, AF4SR

 

Slot E – 1 year seat

            Bart, AF4TK

            Gary, KC5QCN

 

Biff re-iterated that all voting members who vote MUST be in good standing (have paid their 2004-2005 dues by the beginning of the meeting).

 

Those present at the meeting were:

 

KG4KYJ         K4WFM          W7LGD          AG4ZG           KZ1Z

KF4TWB        NI4M               W3EEK          WA3DIT         K4LVR

WU4WB         N2XF              W4CPH          W4RIR            W1GUD

AG4JK           W4HY             KC5QCN       KG4ORS        AG4TO

N4SEX           KV4LBO        N4WVN          AC4UR           N4ZXI

N4WEB          WA4UQL       N8HSU           W4NQV          AF4SR

AF4TK            K4NQ             AI4GU

KA2TOC        KC4HSI

KE3MVT        K4LAW

 

Robert, AG4ZG asked that the minutes from the February, 2005 General Club Meeting be read into the record.   Wes, K4NQ read the minutes from the meeting.

 

Corrections to the minutes were requested.     Biff explained why the minutes from the February, 2005 General meeting, listing the slate of directors had been changed with respect to term.  The term limits for the initial slate presented in February was incorrect as per the Bylaws, and was changed to reflect the correct format.  This change was discussed and approved at the February 2005 Board Meeting to bring the slate in compliance with the club Bylaws. No contested slots were changed to be fair to the candidates.

 

WA4UQL made a motion to approve the minutes.  The motion was seconded and approved.

 

 

Biff made a request that each of the candidates speak to the membership for no more than three minutes.  

Bruce, N4ZXI, withdrew and deferred to Ian, W4RIR

Robert, AG4ZG left the meeting prior to speaking

The remaining candidates spoke regarding why they were uniquely qualified.

 

Biff noted that Joe and David were seasonal members and would  not receive  ballots. 

 

 

Kathy, AI4GU distributed ballots to all of the regular members in good standing that were present.  All voting members were asked to fold their ballots and place them in the raffle bin.

 

The appointed canvas committee was announced to be:  Mike, NI4M, Warren, W1GUD, and Kathy, AI4GU.  Counting commenced in the Radio Room while the remainder of the meeting was conducted.

 

The newly elected Board of Directors is:

 

Biff            K4LAW                   3 yr term

Keating      KC4HSI                  3 yr term

Bill            N4WEB                  2 yr term

Ian            W4RIR                    2 yr term

Kathy        AI4GU                     1 yr term

Lu             K4LVR                    1 yr term

Bart           AF4TK                    1 yr term

Jim            WA3DIT                  1 yr term

Wes           K4NQ                    1 yr term

Mike           NI4M                    VHF Trustee

Warren       W1GUD                HF Trustee

 

Repeater Report – Lu, K4LVR

Lu reported we have 3 CW/Serial cables to control the ICOM radios. but only one can be located.   If you are aware where they are, please contact Lu.

Echolink is being upgraded on the .025 repeater.  More updates as they become available.

 

ARES/RACES – Gary, KC5QCN

Gary noted there will be Hybrid ARRL ECC Level 1 course the last Saturday in March.  The course cost is $45.00, but will be refunded upon completion of the course via the ARRL Grant program.

 

 

Announcements

 

Group Cruise – Jim, WA3DIT

Jim noted there is a cruise trip on the Inspirations being organized by Dan, KA2TOC.  The trip is going to the Grand Cayman and Cozumel.   They plan to do Satellite from the fantail and open some new grid squares.  If you are interested, please contact Dan.

 

Dayton

The big one is for 5/20 through 5/22. 

 

TarcFest

TARCFest is coming up on 4/16.  Be sure to attend and help out.

 

New Hams – Keating, KC4HSI

Keating noted there was a large class of new hams who were licensed as a result of the latest CERT training course.  Their calls will be KI4xxx.  If you hear them on the repeaters, be sure to welcome to the hobby and make them feel welcome.

 

Brandon Club Picnic

The Club plans to have another joint picnic with the Brandon Club sometime this year.  More to come as details are worked out.

 

 

 

Barry, made a motion to adjourn, and Warren, W1GUD seconded.  The motion carried.

 

Meeting concluded at 8:30p

 

 

TARC General Business Meeting Minutes

February 7, 2005

 

 

Wes, K4NQ, called the meeting to order at 7:30pm

 

27 members were in attendance

 

Old Business

 

Treasurer’s Report – Kathy

The Internal account has a balance of $315.73

The External account has a balance of $1719.75

 

Field Day – Warren, W1GUD

The new Field Day rules have been published and are on the ARRL website.  This year’s focus will be to make Field Day a fun event. 

 

New Club Meeting Schedule – Wes, K4NQ

First Monday              -           Club Business Meeting

Second Monday        -           Whatever you want/info sharing

Third Monday -           Program Night

Fourth Monday          -           Elmer Night

Fifth Monday              -           Cleanup (good thing this doesn’t happen very often!)

 

New Business:

 

Elections Committee – Keating, KC4HSI

Keating presented the slate of initial Board of Directors candidates.  

A request for nominations from the floor was made, and four other candidates were nominated.  The slate for the March elections are as follows:

 

Slot     Candidate(s)             Call                 Term

1.         Biff                              K4LAW          3 years

2.         Keating                       KC4HSI          3 years

3.         Bill                               N4WEB          2 years

4.         Ian                               W4RIR            2 years

            Robert                        AG4ZG          

            Bruce                          N4ZXI            

5.         Lu                                K4LVR           1 years

6.         Kathy                          AI4GU 1 year

7.         Brian                           AF4SR           1 year

            Jim                              WA3DIT        

8.         Wes                            K4NQ             1 year

9.         Bart                             AF4TK            1 year

Gary                            KC5QCN      

 

Voting is by slot.  The general election will be at the Business Meeting the first Monday in March, with terms starting in April.

 

Club officers (President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, etc) are selected by the 11 Board Members after the March election.  You are NOT voting for a Club officer, but a Board member who will select your new Club officers.

 

Trustees for the Club’s radios are not elected, but appointed by the Board, and sit on the Board.  Mike, NI4M, and Warren, W1GUD.are VHF and HF trustees, respectively.

 

Mike, NI4M made a motion to approve the slate of candidates for the Board, Brian, AF4SR seconded.  Approved.

 

Robert, AG4ZQ raised the question of Proxy Ballots.  The Board will discuss and present a position on proxy balloting at the March meeting.

 

Announcements

 

Miami Hamfest

They were down to 1 ½ buildings, from 3 in years past.  There were only 20 tailgate spaces sold.  Not a good sign.

 

Orland HamCation

The date is 2/12.  Everyone come out and buy lots of stuff.  The Club frequency at the event will be 147.105 simplex.  Mr. Bunny will be there to check that you spent all your money.  Visit him at Dan’s RV in the camper area.

 

Volunteer Examiner Team

There were 12 members of CERT who passed their Technician License test on 2/5.  More potential members!  Let’s be sure to welcome them when we hear them on the repeater.

 

Disaster Conference, Orlando

The annual Disaster Conference was held and a lot of good things were said about TARC’s involvement in last year’s hurricane response.  

 

Cold Heat Soldering Tool

There was some discussion about how the tool does not function as promised when working with electronic components or large soldering tasks.  If it’s too good to be true, it usually is.  Buyer beware!

 

 

Mike, NI4M, made a motion to adjourn, and Warren, W1GUD seconded.  The motion carried.

 

Meeting concluded at 8:35p