CVRC REGULAR MEETING MINUTES APRIL 4^TH,2002

The meeting was called to order by the president Shawn Upton KB1CKT at 7:15 pm

Officers present were President Shawn Upton Secretary Don Curtis and Treasurer Skip Doughty

Following the introductions Jason N1IIC gave a brief presentation on pagers that he will be setting up

to be used for CAARES activations.

Jerry K1BBQ gave a presentation on plans for field day. A committee is being formed. There will be further discussion at our business meeting in two weeks. A sign up sheet was passed around.

Al,K1CYJ recruited volunteers for CAARES talk-in for hosstraders.

Al also reported on the two CAARES activations for apartment building fires on Concord heights and in Penacook. Communications support was provided to the ARC for these events.

Tom N1SKZ ran down some of the upcoming CAARES training and events including providing communications support for the ARC fire wardens drill at the end of May.

Tom also updated us on the repeater which is still experiencing intermittent problems probably caused by rainfall or other agencies pager units being pushed against the repeater.

Don N1ZIH mentioned the possibility of getting more members to get the key emailed to them.

Dave N1KXT gave the treasurer’s report including the report on our flea market.

A motion was made and approved to give the school an extra $50.00 in appreciation of letting us use their

facilities.

Dave also had some Ten-Tec equipment left over which was offered for sale to the club membership.

Whatever doesn’t sell will be returned to Ten-Tec.

We also held a discussion on field day T shirts and pins. A motion was approved to order CVRC field day shirts. A signup sheet was passed around. The money has to be turned in no later than our regular meeting in May.

We also discussed the availibility of tents for field day.

John N1FOJ also reminded everyone about turning in qsl cards for the qsl bureau.

The next business meeting will be held on Tuesday,April 23^rd,2002 at AA1YN Lee Scott’s residence in Hooksett.

Jason will be in charge of refreshments for the next meeting.

The library will be unavailable for the June meeting. Jason is going to look in to the possibility of having the meeting at the Bow fire station.

The meeting was adjourned at 9:34 pm.

Respectfully submitted,

Donald Curtis,secretary