March 2004 regular meeting minutes

Officers present were President John Moore N1FOJ,VP Dale Clement AF1T,Secretary Don Curtis N1ZIH, Treasurer Scott Clay N1ZGO

1. After a round of introductions, John Seney WD1V gave an interesting presentation on oscilliscopes.

2. John Moore recieved an email from Lindsay re; dropping the phone line control of the repeater. He proposed a uhf link to the repeater for less than $100.00 and purchasing a master 2 repeater for $300.00.

3. Scott Clay reports a balance in the treasury of $754.89.

4. The patch raffle winners were Ken Wilkins and Micki Bergh.

5. Lee Scott suggested we spend the funds for the uhf control to the repeater and drop the phone line and table purchasing the master 2 until after the flea market. A motion was made and passed.

6. Flea market. Jim McElroy reports table sales are going well. He has the Ten-Tec kits. The hot dog machine is still missing. We have the ht for the raffle. ARRL is sending four items for door prizes. Members are asked to bring baked goods. Scott reports that the insurance is in order. The audio-visual equipment will be needed the night before. Jim also advised that Dave Connor has no info on the 501c3 status.Al Bardwell is still waiting to hear from volunteers for the ve session.

7. QSL bureau. Anyone with cards that need to go out need to contact John Moore and get them to him. One card came to the po box dated 6-28-03 PSK 31 KF4VRB John will contact Al Marin re; QSL cards.

8. Ken Wilkins reports the library will not be available in May. The April meeting will be a birthday party for Ray Minichiello at the Marconi museum. Several alternate locations for the May meeting were discussed. The library will be available in June.

9. Al Bardwell mentioned the possibility of getting the Red Cross to cook at field day.

10. Business meeting 7:00 pm March 23^rd at Lee Scott’s home.

The meeting was adjourned at 9:48 pm.

Respectfully submitted Donald Curtis, Secretary