March 2006 Meeting Minutes
March 17, 06 by Iroquois County Amateur Radio ClubIroquois County Amateur Radio Club
Minutes for Month of March 1, 2006
President Steve Called Meeting to Order at 7:00pm at Red Cross office in Watseka.
Old Business
Report of Minutes of Last Meeting were read and approved.
Report of Financial Condition of Club was read and approved.
Mike reported on the Glenn Raymond school project. Date will be on March 23. This part of the projects is the program by the National Weather Service and will not require many of the members. Keep your ears open for a demo skywarn net. Our other project could extend over April 3 that one day and evening. Will need 40 and 20 meter antennas. Mike will keep us up to date with e-mail and repeater.
NWS will have a Weather spotting school on March 23 at the Fair grounds in Crescent City 7:00pm.
Report by Sam on the Cingular site paperwork has been prepared and ready for signing by Cingular managers.
WGFA site seems to be in the works—waiting on Howard to forward the paperwork and for us to sweep the lines to see which antenna is right for us on 440.
New Business
Carl provided us with a interesting report, with pictures, on his
trip to the island of Montserrat and report on the number of contacts and stories of the island.
All members present got to see the video on Into to Disasters—
Janet took group pictures and ID photos for Red Cross. Thank you Janet!
Ted Horner and Carl Gerdivitch were guests along with several members of the Red Cross board.
Red Cross purchased a new FT-8800 dual band radio and astron ss30 25 amp power supply. The radio is installed and seems to work well.
Mike displayed a very well done Skywarn pamphlet. Our first frequency to try for any sever weather is 147.03 then 444.625 then 146.52 simplex. Net control will forward our info to NWS on the KKK 94 repeater.
Mike provided us cookies for refreshments.
Steve dismissed us around 9:00pm.
Sam — Sec Tres
Members present
Steve K9TA
Carl K9CS
Sam W9QKF
Roy KA9MZJ
Justin KC9GNH
Mike KC9HHT
Tim KC9FON
Chris W9LIZ
Benny KC9GWD
