January 2014
Amateur Radio Society of Dryden
January 8, 2014 Meeting Minutes
Dryden Fire Service Training Centre
Attendance:
Bob, VA3GUN
Jim, VE3JLN
Gary, VA3GPW
Neil, VE3VNM
Scott, VA3EXT
Bob, VE3YDN
Dave, VE3LMU
Vice
President Bob, VA3GUN, called meeting to order.
M.S.—Neil,
VE3VNM; Jim, VE3JLN—the minutes of the November 14, 2013 meeting be adopted as
read. Carried.
Old
Business:
The
Christmas Dinner—28 members and families attended.
A good time was enjoyed by all.
Santa Claus
Parade—5 amateurs and 2 SWL’s helped with communications:
Bob, VE3YDN; Arnie, VA3NOL; Jim, VE3JLN; Scott, VA3EXT; Bryan, VA3BRY;
and SWL’s Will and Ben Moody.
Multi-601
Simulated Emergency meeting with Fire Chief Ken Kurz has not been scheduled yet.
Ken also asked for a list of needed items to include in his 2014 budget.
The club asked for a new climbing harness.
New
Business:
Scott is
working on a new computer for the E.O.C.
The previous computer had a Hard Drive failure, so Scott has to manually
rebuild the files. He will clone
the new hard drive in case of future failure.
Five
students in the ham class will write their Basic Exam Jan 28th.
(A 6th student is away, but hopes to finish his course on
returning to Dryden.) Jim, VE3JLN,
has updated his V.E. status with Industry Canada.
Steve
Wright, VE7CT, wrote a letter to the club asking for financial assistance for a
DX-pedition to Amsterdam Island in the Southern Indian Ocean.
Due to club finances, we were unable to assist him.
M.S.—Scott,
V3EXT; Neil, VE3VNM—the club donate $100.00 to the Defence of Amateur Radio
Fund. Carried.
M.S.—Neil,
VE3VNM; Jim, VE3JLN—the club release our mailing list to RAC to assist them in
recruiting new members to the national amateur radio organisation.
Carried.
Scott,
VA3EXT, advised the members that the Sioux Lookout Repeater was Identifying in
CW steadily, so was not useable.
There are also problems with the links through Sioux Narrows.
Andy, VE3JJX may have found a source of Master 3 UHF repeaters.
If available, he will procure a couple for us.
These will be used to replace the UHF linking radios when they expire.
Scott,
VA3EXT, volunteered as a club examiner.
He will apply to Industry Canada.
Moved by
Neil, VE3VNM, the meeting adjourn.
Jim, VE3JLN
won the 50/50 draw.