ICARC Meeting Minutes – March 2009

Iroquois County Amateur Radio Club– Minutes of the March 12, 2009 Meeting

Vice-President Roy opened the meeting at 7:10 pm at the Glenn Raymond School in Watseka.  The February minutes were read and approved. The treasure’s report was read and approved.

Committee Reports

Incorporation and Non-Profit Committee—None

Technical Committee— None

Program Committee— The meeting for next April will be at Glenn Raymond
School. Carl and others will build some field day antennas as a learning project.

Publicity Committee—No report

ARES Liaison—Roy had a very good report on the state exercise held
on March 10, 09. Six Iroquois county hams reported into the net.

Red Cross Liaison—Antenna supports were mistakenly removed from
roof and destroyed by landlord. Reported to police. CD-1 called landlord
and complained that critical communications were disrupted during a flood emergency.

ESDA Liaison—Drills planned with public health dept and hospital. This is to be a full scale in June of this year.

VE Liaison—Carl reported that at the VE testing on March 5 two hams upgraded to general from tech. Jake and Chris M. are new generals and Billy passed his tech test. Testing will also be done at the Kankakee hamfest in the month of July.

OLD Business

Dues for 2009 were collected from a total of 19 members and we hope that a few more will pay dues next month.

ESDA is planning to have a weather spotting school on April 14, 2009 and we are to encourage hams and other public safety groups to attend. The meeting place will be in Crescent City grade school at 6:30 pm.

The Kankakee club will not be needing our old Motrac cabinet.

Scott is still going to bring us info on the bouncy house children’s ride planned for July Firefest.

NEW Business

March 13 and 14 is an advanced weather school at the College of Dupage.

Our Micor is still in Kankakee and we hope to get time to look at it in the coming days.

Field Day is planned for Glenn Raymond again this year. Chris M. is to talk to Sherry at the park district to see if they would be able to offer us a place to meet if we could not use GRS for some reason.

Carl made motion, Steve second to have Sam email Jerry to accept his offer of a new DB-224E with the club picking up the $150 shipping costs.

Chris M offered to help Justin with the ICARC web site.

Snacks for this month were by Steve. April snacks are to be brought by Tim.

Net control for 3/16 Jake, 3/23 Scott, 3/30 Roy, 4/6 Brian,

Members present for the Feb meeting were Carl, Chris S, Troy, Steve, Jake, Tim, Keith, Chris M, Roy, Gery, new member Rollie KC9OZZ and Sam.

Guest was Daniel Focken.

Meeting was adjourned at 8:38.

The program was a demo by Troy and Carl on Logbook of the World and Chris M brought his new Icom radio for show and tell. Troy and Carl’s program was done on the overhead computer projection screen.

Sam Ripple W9QKF Sec.

Sam Ripple W9QKF KAE7607

National Weather Service National Test

On Thursday, March 19, the National Weather Service (NWS) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will be conducting a nationwide EAS test via NOAA Weather Radio (NWR).

This test will use the Event Code ADR (Administrative Message).

NWS and DHS ran a similar test in November of 2008, and at that time most stations and cable operators in Wisconsin elected to carry the message.

In addition to NOAA Weather Radio, this test will be sent on NOAA Weather Wire, and all other NWS dissemination means.

This is to be a one-time test. No other similar tests are planned at this time.