Second Amendment Approved April Ø3, 2ØØ4 written by KØRWU
Third Amendment Approved December 18, 2ØØ4 written by KØRWU
Fourth Amendment Approved March 11, 2ØØ6 written by KØRWU
It shall be our purpose to so conduct club programs, and activities, as to advance, and spark the general interest in amateur radio equipment, and operating modes of yester year.
It shall also be our purpose to further exchange information, and cooperation, between members, and to promote radio knowledge, fraternalism, and individual operating efficiency.
Last, but not least, to maintain amateur radio repeater systems that will be of benefit to the general amateur radio community, and as well, that can be used for emergency, and weather warning, radio communications, in and for the community.
NOTE: The term "He" is gender neutral.
KCØEOC Robert M. Fach 1248 Crooked Creek, St. Charles, MO 633Ø4
KGØDG John Berchin 1Ø2Ø Claterri Drive, Ballwin, MO 63Ø11
K9IDB Clark A. Johnson, Jr. 937 Barbara Ann Ln, Ellisville, MO 63Ø21
KC9LFM Scott B. Zerban 2613 Elmwood Ct, Columbia, IL 62236
NØJNC Arthur H, Bode, Jr. 1Ø23 Rose Hill Ln, Ellisville, MO 63Ø21
NØLDA Cecil F. Wesp 294 Brightfield Dr, Ballwin, MO 63Ø21
NØMPD Adrian A. Roybal 3954 Summer Forest, Saint Charles, MO 633Ø4
NØWC Andrew Ritter, Jr. 3Ø8 Adayah Dr, Arnold, MO 63Ø1Ø9
NVØH Robert R. Suerig 1173 Fairview Dr, Ellisville, MO 63Ø11
WAØQQD John J. Reed, Jr. 1Ø5 Clear Creek Dr, O'Fallon, MO 63366
WAØZPD Richard Riley 5217 Roberta Dr, High Ridge, MO 63Ø49
KØRWW Richard Fitzmaurice 15Ø Brook Hill Lane, Troy, MO 63379-3465
KBØQJX Janis Miller 315 Meadow Ridge Ln, Pacific, MO 63Ø69
NØPKX David A. Miller 315 Meadow Ridge Ln, Pacific, MO 63Ø69
WØBDR Bernie Reese 1111 Robindale Dr, Fenton, MO 63Ø26
NDØW Sam Delia 6601 Fyler, St. Louis, MO 63139
VICE-PRESIDENT NØMPD Adrian A. Roybal
SECRETARY KCØEOC Robert M. Fach
TREASURER KCØEOC Robert M. Fach
NET CONTROL NØWC Andrew Ritter, Jr.
STATION TRUSTEE KØRWU Paul A. Schlipp
B. Membership shall be by application, and election.
C. All applicants should have some interest in FM, and AM, simplex and repeater modes of operation.
D. An interest in operating, as well as restoration of, older AM radio equipment would be good, but not necessary.
E. All applications for membership shall be submitted to the Club Treasurer at least one week before the next club meeting.
F. All applications for membership will only be accepted by a total approval of all club members, at any meeting, consisting of at least six club members.
G. All applicants and members are required to maintain a valid amateur radio operator license of any class.
H. Any club member may resign from membership.
1B. He has all club privileges.
1C. He is required to pay dues.
1D. Any Charter club member could become a Charter Honorary member, at any time, by notification in writing to the Club Secretary.
1E. He may never be dismissed.
1F. He could resign from membership.
2B. He has all club privileges.
2C. He is required to pay dues.
2D. If the club so deems by election, he could become an Honorary member.
2E. If the club so deems by election, he could be dismissed.
2F. He could resign from membership.
3B. He has all club privileges, except he has no voting, or office holding, privileges.
3C. He pays no dues.
3D. He may never be dismissed.
3E. No application is required
3F. Any Charter Honorary club member could become a Charter member, at any time, by notification in writing to the Club Secretary.
3G. He could resign from membership.
4B. He has all club privileges, except he has no voting, or office holding, privileges.
4C. He pays no dues.
4D. If the club so deems by election, he could be dismissed.
4E. Any Honorary club member could become a Regular member by election at any meeting.
4F. He could resign from membership.
1B. Not paying dues or assessments.
1C. Not using proper procedures, or language, when using the repeaters.
1D. Not following the FCC rules and regulations.
1E. Not abiding by the Constitution, or it's By-Laws.
1F. Any action by a member, the club officers, or members, concider to be inappropriate.
2B. Step 2 - All club members are notified by e-mail, of the intent and reason to dismiss a member.
2C. Step 3 - The Vice-President, or committee will give a report to the membership, at the next meeting, or by e-mail.
2D. Step 4 - A vote of 60% of the membership is required for the dismissal.
B. At all meetings, a minimum of 60% of the membership shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of club business.
C. At all meetings, a minimum of six club members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of membership applications.
D. All club meetings will be governed by the President's discretion.
1B. A formal regular meeting is to be held at least once a year for the purpose of electing officers for the up coming term, and informing the membership of general business, treasury, club radio system, and club web site reports.
1C. Other business may also be conducted.
1D. A regular meeting could be held at a club picnic.
2B. At the present time, these meetings are held on the 146.925 repeater, at 2Ø:ØØ CST, on the first Sunday of each month.
2C. The Net Control Officer will conduct the meeting, but the President, if present, will preside over the meeting.
2D. This meeting will be to conduct minor business, and to vote on new membership.
2E. After all business is completed, an informal swap net may be conducted, as well as a round table chat.
2F. Any, and all, membership problems, will not be discussed "On the air". If you have a problem, contact the club Vice-President for advice, or wait until the next regular meeting.
3B. A special meeting may be called by the President, or if he so deems necessary, upon the request of any club member.
B. Members should be notified as to what food and drinks will be available, what activities will be taking place, and any items they may need to bring along.
C. A regular meeting may be combined with a club picnic.
A. Non-payment of such dues or assessments shall be cause for expulsion from the club, within the discretion of the members.
B. All club adopted rules and regulations will be entered into the By-Laws.
B. Proposals for amendments shall be voted on at the next following meeting, provided all members have been notified of the intent to amend the Constitution.
C. Those club members, or club officers not able to attend the meeting, must mail, or email their proxy vote to one of the club officers.
B. The officers of this club shall be elected to office for a term of one year, by ballot of the members present, provided there is a quorum, with the exception of the Station Trustee(s) and Internet Webmaster office, which may be held indefinitely, depending on the clubs needs. There may be additional Net Control Officers, Station Trustees, and Internet Webmaster(s) elected during a given term, depending on the club needs.
C. First term officers will be elected for a term to include the remainder of the year 2ØØ4, and the following year 2ØØ5, to set the term period from January 1 to December 31 of each following year.
D. Vacancies occurring between elections must be filled by election at the next regular meeting following the officers withdrawal, or resignation.
E. A club member may hold up to two offices for a given term. He may be re-elected to any office for a second term. An Honorary, or Charter Honorary member, may not hold office.
F. Officers may be removed by a 60% vote of the membership.
PRESIDENT, VICE-PRESIDENT, SECRETARY, TREASURER, NET CONTROL(S), STATION TRUSTEE(S) and INTERNET WEBMASTER(S).
1B. He shall assure observance of this constitution, and it's by-laws. He shall decide all questions of order; sign all official documents adopted by the club, and perform all other duties pertaining to the office of the President.
1C. At the time of his election to office, he shall designate a monthly meeting time and place.
1D. He shall work with the other officers in assuring that at least one club picnic time and place is scheduled for that year.
1E. He shall be responsible to form committees, when needed.
1F. He shall at the expiration of his term, turn over all items, belonging to the club, to his successor.
2B. He shall be responsible for observing that all club officers, and committees are completing their assigned jobs.
2C. He shall assist the President as much as possible.
2D. He shall receive any and all complaints from members, and take action on same.
2E. He shall at the expiration of his term, turn over all items, belonging to the club, to his successor.
3B. He shall carry on all correspondence, and read communications at all meetings.
3C. He shall maintain the club roster, and membership applications.
3D. He is to keep the original club Constitution, and By-Laws, for safe keeping.
3E. He is to have a copy of the latest, amended Constitution with him at every meeting.
3F. He shall cause all club adopted Constitution amendments, changes, and additions to be noted thereon.
3G. He shall at the expiration of his term, turn over all items, belonging to the club, to his successor.
4B. He shall receive, and administer receipts, for all monies paid to the club.
4C. He shall be responsible to keep an accurate, and separate account of all monies received, and expended.
4D. He shall pay no bills without proper authorization from the club officers, constituting of a business committee, except for any pre-club-approved timely bills.
4E. Upon request of the club officers, he shall submit an itemized statement of all disbursements, and receipts.
4F. He shall issue and receive membership applications, deposit, and record initial application fees.
4G. He shall forward all completed, and paid, applications to the Secretary for voting, and safe keeping.
4H. He shall submit dues, and assessment statements to the membership as required in the by-laws.
4I. He shall notify the Secretary of club members failing to maintain their dues.
4J. He shall at the expiration of his term, turn over all items and monies, belonging to the club, to his successor.
5B. At the time of his election to office, he shall affirm that the club repeaters, and equipment, are in satisfactory operating condition, and comply with current FCC rules and regulations.
5C. He shall affirm that all repeater systems are coordinated with the Missouri Repeater Council, Inc., and submit all changes at least once a year.
5D. He is responsible for all communication protocol used on these systems.
5E. Without approval from the membership, he may, at his discretion, make changes to the following club CONSTUTION BY-LAWS:
Section 1Ø Club Repeater and Remote Base System Information
5F. Notice of these changes should be submitted to the Club Membership, and posted in this Constitution and By-Laws on the club web site.
5G. Any club member not in agreement with the Station Trustee changes, may discuss them with the Club Vice-President, and/or Station Trustee for possible corrections.
Section 11 Club Simplex Radio Frequency List
Section 12 Club Adopted Repeater Rules
Section 13 Club Adopted Echolink Rules
6B. All check in members should be informed of any new club business, and or radio system updates, and that any member complaints will not be discussed on the air, but to submit them in writing, to the vice-president.
6C. All members should be asked for any commits, and/or suggestions for modifications, or improvements.
6D. The net control officer is responsible for conducting an on the air vote, for any un-processed membership applications. The vote requires a yes from all club members present, and at least six members to be present.
6E. A general call should be made for new check-in stations. All new stations should be informed of the club's activities, intentions, and radio frequencies used. They should be asked if they would like to join.
6F. The net control officer shall send to the secretary, if not present at the meeting, a list of check-in club members, a list of non-member check-in stations with interest in membership, and the voting results of all new applications.
7B. At the time of his election to office, he shall affirm that the club web site is in satisfactory condition.
7C. He will be responsible for maintaining both the web page, and download page, posting of the Club Constitution and By-laws, up to date.
7D. He will be responsible for maintaining both the web page, and download page, posting of the Club Membership List, up to date.
7E. He will be responsible for maintaining both the club member personal, and swapshop web pages.
7F. He shall cause all club adopted Constitution amendments, changes, and additions to be noted thereon.
7G. He will be responsible for conducting an email vote on all Constitution and other club changes.
7H. He shall be responsible to maintain the club web ring applications.
B. The Constitution and By-Laws, as well as the membership list, can be downloaded from our club web site located at:
http://www.qsl.net/k0amc
B. For new applicants, a $20.00 first year assessment of dues will be is assessed with the application, and prorated for each following quarter of the remaining year. If the applicant is not approved, this assessed fee will be returned.
B. Any complaints of great importance should be submitted in writing.
C. We encourage all members to complain of anything club related, and not to their liking, so improvements can be made.
B. If you have any good ideas, please present them at any meeting.
B. It shall formulate adequate plans for disposition of any cases of interference to other radio services, where reported as caused by any amateur station in the area of club jurisdiction.
C. The club shall provide concerning equipment designs, and shall assist in frequency observance, clean signals, uniform practice, and absence of spurious radiation from club, and club member stations.
The club must maintain the following records:
B. A copy of all the past, and to include the latest, Amended Constitution's and their By-Laws.
C. A copy of all the past, and to include the latest, listing of all club officers.
D. A copy of all the past, and to include the latest, listing of all club members.
E. All active, and inactive membership applications.
F. Updated copies of membership amateur radio licenses, attached to their applications.
G. A register of all club monies received, and disbursed, showing who, why, when, and balance.
H. A separate register for each club member showing his payment record.
I. All minutes, and membership roll call, from all meetings.
J. All letters received, and copies of all letters sent.
K. All club radio licenses, and copies of all club license applications.
L. A current copy of the FCC and ARRL rules regarding repeater operations.
M. A List of all radio interference complaints, and corrective actions.
N. A List of all club equipment, serial numbers, and location.
O. A List of all membership complaints, corrective actions, and dismissals.
B. Officer elections for the coming year will be conducted at the December meeting.
C. Treasury reports are to be presented at Regular Meetings only.
B. The Net Control Officer will conduct the meeting, and the President, if present, will preside over the meeting.
C. The purpose of our club Net Meetings is to inform the membership of any new and/or old club business, and to conduct minor business, and vote on new membership applicants.
D. After all business is completed, a general round table chat, as well as an informal swap net may be conducted.
E. A Treasury Report will not be conducted "On the air" during a Net Meeting. Purchases may be discussed, and a estimate of club funds to cover the purchase only may be mentioned.
F. Any, and all, membership problems, will not be discussed "On the air". If you have a problem, contact the club Vice-President for advice, or wait untill the next regular meeting.
B. Any repeater or remote base station maintenance, modifications, alterations, adjustments, ect. must be done by, or under the supervision or permission of, the club station trustee officer.
This is a dual repeater, or back-to-back, system operating on six meters "AM" and 7Ø cm FM.
The repeater out-put frequencies are 5Ø.5ØØ mhz "AM", and 444.75Ø mhz FM. The in-put frequencies are 5Ø.4ØØ mhz "AM", and 449.75Ø mhz FM.
The 6 meter receiver is carrier squelch operation, and the 7Ø CM receiver has a tone decode access of 192.8 hz.
Note: The six meter repeater input is 6 khz wide, and depending on how strong your signal is received, your transmitter frequency could be received between 5Ø.394 and 50.406 mhz.
This is a dual repeater, or back-to-back, FM system operating on two meters at 146.925 mhz out-put, and 146.325 mhz input, interfaced with a 7Ø CM repeater operating at 444.55Ø mhz out-put, and 449.55Ø mhz input.
Both repeaters are CTCSS controlled, with encode and decode at 192.8 hrz.
This dual repeater system also has a Echo-Link internet interface, connected 24 hours, 7 days a week.
This is a 7Ø cm remote base repeater system operating on 444.85Ø mhz out-put, and 449.85Ø mhz in-put with a tone encode and decode of 192.8 hz. This 7Ø cm repeater is interfaced to a multi-band, multi-mode, remote base radio such as a FT-1ØØ.
Note: The remote base is user controlled, touch tone dial-up and control, and has capabilities of operating AM, FM, and SSB on up to 2ØØ User selectable, simplex frequencies on all HF bands as well as the 6 meter, 2 meter, and 70 cmeter bands. These remote base frequencies will be posted to club members as systems and antennas are completed.
AM: 29.Ø1Ø - 5Ø.35Ø - 5Ø.55Ø
USB: 28.4ØØ - 5Ø.125* - 5Ø.2ØØ - 145.240
FM: 29.5ØØ - 29.6ØØ* - 52.54Ø - 52.525* - 146.49Ø - 146.52Ø* - 146.55Ø - 446.ØØ* - 446.5Ø - 147.570
B. Emergency traffic shall have priority.
C. Any one transmission should be limited to 10 minutes maximum.
D. All stations should identify at the beginning, and must identify at the end of any transmission, and at the end of every 10 minutes of any continuous transmission.
E. During QSO's, wait a couple of seconds between transmissions to allow for breaking
stations, and to reset the repeater's timeout timer.
F. If an Echolink station is connected, you need to pause for up to 10 seconds for them to break in, this is due to the delay they get on their internet receive end.
G. Because FM is a fixed frequency operation, with squelch controlled radios, calling CQ
is not necessary. When making a general call, simply say your call sign, and that you are
monitoring. One time in every 3 minutes is plenty.
H. Members are asked not to use the repeater input or output frequencies for simplex
purposes, but to switch to a club adopted simplex frequency.
I. Long tuning, constant tone signals, or testing on the repeater frequencies are not allowed.
J. Un-identified transmissions are prohibited.
B. For adjustments, the Echo Link people have put a real nice modulation bar near the bottom-middle of their screen so adjustment is easy.
C. You need to tell Echo Link users to adjust their modulation level, while speaking close to their mic, so the blue modulation bar averages near three-fourths of the scale. Also, so it reaches the yellow mark some times, but never into the red.
D. The modulation adjustment controls are located on the Echo link screen. Tell them to pull down the tools window, and go to adjust volume, then click on recording. This will bring up the recording control window where they can adjust the microphone level slider control.
E. The Windows mixer, microphone level control, will not make any changes to the Echolink modulation level.
B. We all know that a FM simplex, or repeater system, on the 1Ø, 6, 2 meters, and above, is assigned squelch controlled RF channels, and a station is either going to be on the your frequency to hear you, or is not.
C. Calling CQ only takes up air time, and it can be annoying to a station monitoring for a call, or waiting for you to stop transmitting "CQ" so they can answer your call.
D. A simple, to the point, single transmission is all that is needed. I suggest saying something like: "(Your Call) monitoring" or "(Your Call) monitoring the frequency", or "(Your Call) is QRZ the frequency".
E. Calling "CQ" on the CW, AM or SSB Modes on any band, is just fine, and we wish more hams would do that.
B. We are not allowing in-coming connections from repeaters (-R), or link stations (-L). This is because it ties up the repeater system too much, not allowing local stations to communicate.
C. We have also set the time out period to disconnect a Echo Link station from monitoring more than 5 minutes of no repeater, or Echo Link activity. This is because we have conferencing limited to 2 stations, and if 2 stations are monitoring, it will prevent another echolink station from connecting.
D. We don't allow any stations to connect if they have their computer set to allow conferencing. This prevents them from connecting a repeater or link station to our system.
E. Maximum Echo Link station transmit key down time has been set to 5 minutes, after which the echolink station will get a warning tone, then disconnect. This is to prevent an Echolink station from locking up the repeater system when they forget to un-key and disconnect.
F. There is no time limit set for a QSO, just for Echolink monitoring time, and Echolink key down time.
G. The Echo Link out-going node dialing system has been disabled, and at the present, we have no plans to connect it. The reason is our internet connection is remotely located, and the repeater users would have to listen to touch-tones being re-broadcasted on the repeater.
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