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           Southern Oregon Amateur Packet Radio Association
                     
                 November Meeting Minutes for 11/11/00

          Scheduled Meeting at Providence Hospital, Medford.
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     Called to Order: 10:05 AM  Gene Burchfield, KO6DW, Presiding

Present:

Dick Suber K7DDI    Steve Grajeda WB6YQP    Gene Burchfield KO6DW
Paul       KF6QBG   Sean Smithers N7ZWU

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Minutes of previous meeting were read by Sean, N7ZWU and accepted
as read.

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Treasurer's Report by Steve, WB6YQP

We had a beginning balance of $1007.30 in the bank with one check
to ORRC for $15.00 clearing to leave a bank balance of $992.30.
Total Funds is $1007.61. Motion by Dick, K7DDI to accept. 2nd by
Sean, N7ZWU. Report accepted.

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Tech Report:

Steve hasn't talked to Mike about the antenna yet. Have been
changes at Scala. Steve, WB6YQP will work on it.

SCARA is back on the air. Power lead to the TNC had corroded
off.


Josephine Co. SET. Packet was used to transfer pictures with
YAPP protocol. It took about 8 minutes per picture at 1200 baud
using XPWIN. About 8 pictures were transmitted.

Discussion on standardization. Standard Operating Procedure
manuals.

Node is off Walker Mtn.

Mahogany site manager unknown at this time.

Keyboard network is OK.

Roof is back on the Hamaker building, hopefully antennas have
been reattached properly.

Need to contact Albert, WB7AWL about node passwords.

TALENT node. Check it out, you can keyboard with the whole world.

WB7VMS bulletin board is off the air permanently. N7ZWU-1:PVBBS
is now the local service BBS for Josephine Co.

CJ is off the air. Will bring equipment down for service.

KOPE, we need to bring the equipment down.

The Brookings Node is up.

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Old Business:

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New Business:

Motion to nominate the existing officers for the slate to run for
office by Sean, N7ZWU. 2nd by Dick, K7DDI. Accepted.

Election will be held at the December meeting. All are encouraged
to attend.

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Meeting adjourned: 11:19 PM

Sean, N7ZWU
SOAPRA Secretary.

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