Cal Poly Amateur Radio Club Meeting Minutes
05 March 1998

Meeting started: 7:58pm

I. OFFICER REPORTS

        A. President - Josh KF6DMI
           -How many people want to help with Wildflower Century?
            It's April 25.

            Committments from: Tami, Paul, Gary, Josh, Russ,
            Speed(maybe), Mark, Dave Spencer, OMS will try.

        B. Vice President - Mark KD6JTS was late

        C. Treasurer - Tami KE6SYA
           -We got the following dontations:
                $300 from Brad N6BDE
                $25 from John Flowers

                Thanks to both of them!

                Also got the $500 check from ASI.

        D. Secretary - Dean N6DE
           -Lots of work done on shack since last meeting.
            We are now active on 6m and RTTY!  The 6m antenna is
            now on the roof.  Thanks to Speed and Rick for
            helping me with these projects.


           -I am graduating at the end of the winter quarter,
            so we need the following positions filled:

            Secretary, Open House Rep, and QSL Manager

            New Open House Rep: Dave KE6OMS
                Dave will attend the April 9 and April 16
                Open House meetings, and will take care of
                any other related business.

            New QSL Manager: Speed KD6CVS

            Secretary: No one wanted to fill this position.
            The club officers will rotate in taking the
            meeting minutes and completing the work from
            this officer position.


           -International DX Contest is this weekend from
            Friday 4pm to Sunday 4pm.

        E. Shack Manager - Paul KE6MQQ
           -The bubble and Diamond dualband 2m/70cm vertical
            are now on the tower thanks to Speed.

           -Redecoration of patio area - Kent helped to move
            our tower pieces on top of the roof so this will
            never happen again.

        F. Repeater Manager - Dave KE6OMS / Rick N6NL
           -440 cut out.
           
           -Autodial 911 numbers still not working.  Need
            to put another 9 in the dialing sequence for
            these codes on the repeater controller.

           -Reverse patch forwards to ?

        G. Vending Manager - Gary KQ6BX
           -No report.

        H. Council Reps - Gary and Mark
           -No report.

        I. Computer Manager - Josh KF6DMI
           -No installation requests on queue.

           -Any requests?  E-mail them and they will
            be promptly ignored. :)

        J. ARES Rep - Kent KE6OJR
           -Previous ARES meeting was about RF safety.

           -Compiled new vim, GUI vim on dot.

           -RTTY: Dean and Kent have already made DX RTTY
            contacts at the shack with the Falklands and
            Chatham Islands.


II. OLD BUSINESS

        A. Officer Positions
           -Secretary replacements covered under Dean's report.

           -Need a new ARES rep since Kent is also graduating.

                New ARES Rep: Dave Spencer KF6PKU
           -Quote of the quarter from Mark KD6JTS:
                "I am worthless in any position!"

        B. 50th Anniversary
           -T-shirts:

                Will sell them for $15.  $17 for XXL.
                $2 extra if shipping is required.

           -Tami and Rick will work on the mailing.

        C. Wildflower
           -Rick has been going to Wildflower planning
            meetings, and will keep going to them with
            John KK6DJ.
           -Extras for this year's Wildflower: pair of
            cross band repeaters to at least allow
            communication between Start-Finish and front gate,
            and 450W paging TX with satellite downlink.

           -Rick and John plan to be at Lake San Antonio on the
            Wed or Thu before Wildflower.


III. NEW BUSINESS

        A. New Purchases- Dean N6DE
           -We need a general purpose logging program for the
            special event station, as well as everyday logging
            for the shack.  I have evaluated demos of several
            programs and it comes down to two programs:
            DX4WIN and LOGic.

           -LOGic is the best program, and will do everything we 
            need and more.  I suggest we buy this program.

           -Rick suggested we also buy a copy of CT.  Could get
            the latest version at Dayton.

           **Motion**
            Allocate up to $225 to purchase LOGic and CT.
           *Motion passes*
           -Dean will take care of purchasing LOGic.  Dean
            and Rick will talk about when to purchase CT.

           -We need a multimeter for the shack.  The one we
            have is useless.  Dean and Speed have had to 
            bring their own multimeters to work on shack
            projects.

           -Fluke makes good meters, Rick mentioned some
            other possibilities.

           -Kent and others talked about purchasing antennas.
            Possibly a KLM log periodic, or a GAP vertical.

           -Discussion tabled until next meeting so that some
            specific products and prices can be presented.


IV. MEETING ADJOURNED: 9:12pm
Next Meeting: Thursday, April 2, 20-128, 7:30pm

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