Contoocook Valley Radio Club

Club Meeting

February 12th, 2002

The meeting was called to order at 7:30 p.m. by Shawn Upton, KB1CKT

Officer’s present were president Shawn Upton KB1CKT secretary Donald Curtis our treasurer Skip Doughty N1PHZ is in the hospital. Our thoughts and prayers are with him

The programs were a wave length demonstration By Steve Jones N1JHJ,Dale Clement AF1T did a presentation on yagi antennas. Lee Scott AA1YN passed around a DSP-10 that he built.

After a ten minute break the meeting reconvened.

Al Shuman N1FIK attended our meeting and presented Jason Greene N1IIC with an ARES public service award for his assistance to a family member of another ham after her vehicle became disabled on I-89. Congrats Jason.

The january minutes which are available on the cvrc website were accepted.

The treasurer’s report was read and accepted. Dave Connor informs us that 38 members have not paid their 2002 dues yet. Jerry, K1BBQ gave us the latest report on CAARES. The monday night net is doing really well with 17 check-ins 0n the 2-11-02 net. Thanks to all the stations that are checking in.

Tom N1SKZ updated us on the repeater. It is working well, although it is experiencing some intermittent inter- ference from other towers on the mountain

Hamfest

CAARES will be providing talk-in services. After a short discussion on raffle prizes, a motion was made seconded and voted on to put a spending cap of $100.00 on the item[s] we will be raffling.

Shawn, KB1CKT will be contacting HRO to see what they can do for us. The consensus of opinion was that we will be raffling gift certificates.

We are still looking for volunteers to assist with setting up, ticket sales,etc.

Dave Connor N1KTP will be providing food hot dogs,coffee, soda,etc.

Anybody that wants to bring baked goods for sale at the food table is welcome to do so.

A discussion was held on selling Ten-Tec kits was held. We really did well with that last year, so it was decided that Dave will contact them and place the same order we placed last year. Any members wishing to place individual orders for themselves will have to give them to Dave no later than our business meeting in two weeks.

It was also suggested tha we inventory all of the club equipment.

John Moore KB1CSI brought up the idea of setting up an informational table at America’s night out against crime which will take place in august. Tom N1SKZ will be attending an upcoming informational meeting.

Due to the time factor no other business was discussed. The business meeting will be held on 2-28-02

At AA1YN,Lee Scott’s home 51 Pleasant street, Hooksett at 7:00 pm

Thanks to Don N1ZIH and Jerry K1BBQ for providing the refreshments this month.

Next months refreshments will be provided by Jason N1IIC food and Allen NS10

The meeting was adjourned at 10:30 pm.

Respectfully submitted

Don Curtis N1ZIH secretary