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             Southern Oregon Amateur Packet Radio Association

                   January Meeting Minutes for 07/14/01

            Scheduled Meeting at Providence Hospital, Medford.
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       Called to Order: 10:15 AM  Gene Burchfield, KO6DW, Presiding

Present:

N7KS    Will Calvert    N7ZWU  Sean Smithers  KO6DW Gene Burchfield
WB6YQP  Steve Grajeda   KB7EKF Warren Olney   KC7JJG George Malmstrom
KK7BF   Brian Fritsen   KI7UK  Don Barkemeyer

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Report by Albert, WB7AWL.

Minutes of previous meeting were read by Sean, N7ZWU
Motion to accept by Will, N7KS. 2	nd by Don, KI7UK.

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Treasurer's Report:

Beginning balance of $1192.30 with deposits of $60.00 and $15.31
cash on hand brings the total to $1267.61.

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Tech Report:

Linking north is difficult. Getting people involved between
Eugene and Grants Pass has been problematic. The northern
part of the state (Portland) has problems with accepting
internet forwarding into outer areas that have great
difficulties getting radio linking set up due to limited
resources and basically have no interest in extending
the network into these areas.

Packet band plans are local. Due to this, the dumping of internet
passed traffic and the lack of connections into outlaying areas,
the packet network is being regionalized into large disjointed
fragments.

On top of this, the ARRL doesn't promote packet.

Secretary Sean, N7ZWU reads resignation letter and resigns
from the office of secretary.

General discussion on what we expect from packet and what is
involved in network operation. We are an organization of
volunteers and need to work together.

Albert, WB7AWL reports that we need a UPS for Hamaker to
stop the voltage spikes that are causing the power supplies
to crowbar.

Motion by Brian, KK7BF to buy 3 UPS's (Hamaker, King, Soda
node stacks), price approx $149. 2nd by Don, KI7UK. Passed

We can do something about the connectivity north. We have
a 220 link to Lane Mountain. A proposal is to move the
King Mtn 430.75 MHz radio to 441 MHz and make this the link
to Lane. The 220 MHz radio on Lane then can be used to link
further north.

Motion by George, KC7JJG to have Albert pursue the above
plan. 2nd by Steve, WB6YQP. Passed.

The 430.75 antenna will probably have to be returned.

NWS BBS - we need to set up the BBS's for forwarding.

Since the W7OEK BBS is permanently gone we can reassign
its unused link for the NWS.

Motion by Sean, N7ZWU to reassign the 220 MHz link for
operation between the NWS and King nodestack to tie the
NWS into the SOAPRA network. 2nd by Will, N7KS. Passed

Questions about meeting times. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
are good evenings for Albert. Motion to hold next meeting
on September 8th passed.

We need to look into what's available for antenna
replacement on Hamaker. Albert, WB7AWL will do this.

Warren, KB7EKF will temp as secretary until January.

Motion by Steve, WB6YQP to accept the secretary's
resignation. 2nd by George, KC7JJG. Passed.

Meeting adjourned: 12:24 PM

Sean, N7ZWU
SOAPRA Secretary.

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Sean Smithers    seans@cdsnet.net