June2018

Welcome New Folks - Len WB2MJH

VP - Thanks to all at FD

Treasurer - $294.42 for FD, $1716 balance, 3 people needed for club account, motion for 4-Pres, VP, Treas, 1 board member - PASSED, treasurer report passed

Secretary - no new business

License Trustee - Burch needs 4-bay folded dipole antenna, DMR repeater needs feedline, Gore 100%, Prospect 100%. Research till next meeting. Update nets to acknowledge Warren County Repeater Association, as club hasn't supported county repeaters

Radio Officer - log time, FD, prep, tear-down, etc.

BoD - paperwork signed and sent in, We are incorporated via state, 501c3 is next

Picnic announcement

New Business - Iron Man needs radio operators for SAG wagons, contact Bob Cook.

Museum Ships Weekend presentation from Mickey

Test session 2nd weekend june, 2 upgraded 1 new tech

Tour de Cure

Kids Day Crandal Park, Gabby kd2gab, 20 contacts, fox hunt, make a QSL card table, K2ICQ - Youth Amateur Radio Development with ARRL Division Youth Coordinator (Mickey NY2MC) suggestions to get word out,

Field Day - Stats - 1348 contacts (1815 last year), 505 cw (459 last year), 637 phone (1189 last year), 206 digital (167 last year). 94% in US, 71 to canada, 3 to PR, 2 to Hawaii, 1 to Japan, Mexico, and Virgin Islands. 1 station down for half FD, 63 contacts with GOTA. Thanks to Tony for feeding us. 45 burgers, 96 hot dogs, 11 pots of coffee, 2 pots of tea, 48 years of corn, 74 little pizzas, and lots more chips, doughnuts, baked beans, 4 cases of soda 4 cases of water. Thanks to everyone who helped setup and tear down, thanks to Bernie for coordinating the whole thing and geting us on the mountain again this year.

Field Day - what went right - tents and antennas fri nite,

Bus down all night, was locked-up, nobody available.to monitor, we did have stations without operators overnite. No HF antenna for bus till late (there is one in the bus)

Communicate on simplex when stations need operators, communicate in advance for county bus access, have backup plan when a station goes down. Have 2 people to monitor bus instead of 1. Question re operating other people's radios. Better monitoring of repeater and simplex (food tent?)  No volunteers for night shift (unused sign-up sheet) - more stations than people. Have someone not operating go around managing stuff...use ICS structure so Field Day is practice for ARES/RACES people.

Club is at juncture...we could take things to another level, takes organization structure. We can stay at current level and have fun.

Horn at food tent to let everyone know food is ready, operators should eat first

Next meeting: location may change. Hudson Division Director 2 hr talk about ARRL. Watch for email.