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             Southern Oregon Amateur Packet Radio Association

                    April Meeting Minutes for 04/14/01

            Scheduled Meeting at Providence Hospital, Medford.
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       Called to Order: 10:00 AM  Gene Burchfield, KO6DW, Presiding

Present:

Gene Burchfield KO6DW   Leonard Coleman KB7TSX   Steve Grajeda WB6YQP
Dick Suber      K7DDI   Sean Smithers   N7ZWU

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Minutes of previous meeting were read by Sean, N7ZWU
Motion to accept by Dick, N7DDI. 2nd by Leonard, KB7TSX. Accepted

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Treasurer's Report by Steve, WB6YQP

Beginning balance was $1192.60 with deposits of $60.00 and no checks
paid out. Cash on hand of $15.30 brings total funds to $1267.61

We have one outstanding bill for $15.00 for ORRC dues.

Members paid this month are:

Robert A Welzbacker  WA7IZU
Albert Lawson        WB7AWL
NWS Medford          WX7MFR
George Malmstrom     KC7JJG
Anita Malmstrom      KC7MGH
Brian Fritzen        KK7BF
Don Barkemeyer       KI7UK
Wilma Barkemeyer     W1LMA

Motion to accept by Leonard, KB7TSX. 2nd by Dick, K7DDI. Accepted.

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Tech Report:

Sean, N7ZWU needs to send Kantronics information to W7ZQD

Dick, K7DDI needs an antenna for the KLMT Keyboard node. KLMT needs
to be rechipped to change it to K7DDI-3. The antenna may be involved
in causing KLMT not being able to connect direct to JOCO. The link
from MFR to KLMT is weak.

Sean, N7ZWU needs to send updated packet node information to
Ken, K7QQU.

EOC Standard Operating Procedures. Winpack seems to be the best
choice for software. It runs on Windows 3.1, 95 and 98. The URL
for information is www.peaksys.co.uk

Rich Zani, KJ6RA has been working on the Mahogany site doing
improvements.

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Old Business:

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New Business:

Gary at the NWS, need to know if they plan on implementing the
packet access as stand-alone or if it will connect into the
SOAPRA system. They won't really have coverage into Northern
California until it is linked into the SOAPRA system.

The next meeting is planned to be held in Grants Pass at the
Josephine County EOC.

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Meeting adjourned: 11:30 AM

Sean, N7ZWU
SOAPRA Secretary.

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Sean Smithers    seans@cdsnet.net