January 2005 Meeting Minutes
January 18, 05 by Iroquois County Amateur Radio ClubIroquois County Ama Radio Meeting Feb 2, 2005
The meeting was called to order by Sec-Tres at 7:00pm. The meeting was held at the Red Cross office in Watseka.
Old Business
Sam read the minutes of the Dec 1, 2004 meeting and members present agreed that they were correct.
Dues were collected from 1 member—Justin KC9GNH
Jerry WB9Z has stepped down as Pres therefore Benny made a motion to fill with our current Vice-Pres Steve. Carl made a second and the group unanimously voted for the motion to have Steve be new Pres.
New Business
Benny reported that the site for the 440 repeater has been approved and Cinglar will donate a outside cabinet, a roll of 1 ¼ in cable, and connectors. We have to pick up this gear at warehouse in Chicago suburbs. We are waiting for good weather and when Jerry and his crew will be able to get the tower work done. None of this would be possible without the push of Benny KC9GWD.
Justin KC9GNH reported that he is working on new PSA’s both from the league and some of his own. They will be on WGFA in near future.
Carl K9CS reported a new testing secession will be next month in KKK. Carl also brought a ad from CQ magazine for 6 videos for $70 for programs. Sam W9QKF also saw a group of 10 videos from ARRL for $120. Sam was instructed to check with public library to see about free tech films for programs.
Pres Steve show how IRLP worked by connecting to W4LNQ in NC and talking over the 03 repeater.
Not to be outdone a guest (Mike Marcier) hauled in a bunch of commercial gear that will interconnect radios of all freqs over the voip. He will bring in another demo later with radios
connected. Mike is studying to become a ham once again. As if this would not be enough for one night Sam brought a Marconi service monitor to check out radios that people brought in. We also checked a couple of the Red Cross radios and they put out about 60 watts.
We discussed the four repeaters and agreeded that we would like to do something to the 2 meter repeater to get better coverage to the east–Maybe a second antenna on the east side of the tower. That would be a big job. GMRS repeater is working very well. Red Cross simplex is also up and running. 440 repeater is back to factory to be worked on to jump up power to 25 watts.
Many people agreed that this was a very informative meeting and will be looking forward to new demo from Mike.
At 9:00 pm Sam brought out a dozen maple frosted cookies and and many stayed until after 10:00 pm
Members present
Sam W9QKF
Carl K9CS
Steve K9TA
Justin KC9GNH
Tim KC9FON
Benny KC9GWD
Mike Marcier (WN9PVH)
