12/06/00 Longmont Amateur Radio Club - Board Meeting

Tha LARC board meeting for December, 2000 was held at the Fair-Grounds office building at 18:30 hours 12/06/00. Board members present were: W0LVQ, WA2EKU, N0XDA, K8CRM and W0IPL. Also present were KC0CWI and K0RFM.

• - Meeting Room Contract for 2001

  Jim, N0XDA handled signing the documentation for the meeting room for the year 2001 this last week. He presented copies of the documents.

• - Swap Fest for 2001

  Motion was made by Bob, WA2EKU to maintain the LARC allocation for the building where we have been holding the annual swapfest. He noted that if we give up the allocation it could take a minimum of several years to get another. Passed with all in favor.

  There was a discussion of how we could put together some form of swap fest without the lengthy process we have been using. Several ideas were presented and the one firm decision was that we WILL have an event. Please bring ideas on how we can best operate this event. It looks like it could be more of an electronics oriented garage sale with no pre-sale of tables and a requested $1.00 donation at the door. Possibly have McDonald's handle coffee and such like they did for BARC this year. Once again, please bring your ideas on how to best handle the event.

• - December Meeting

  The December membership meeting will be held at 19:00 on 12/20/00 at the Fair-Grounds office with a social hour starting at 18:00. There will be a short presentation/demonstration on: PSK31 and MFSK16 (Multiple tone Frequency Shift Keying - 16 tone). There will also be a very brief update on the ARRLs Emergency Communications course.

• - ARRLs Frequency Defense Fund

  Motion was made and passed to continue financial support for the ARRLs Frequency Defense Fund ($50.00/year) as we have been doing.

• - January Meeting will be handled by Sebastian NS0W

• - February Meeting will be handled by Jim, N0XDA

• - Dues due list

  An update will be posted this week (note will be sent to the reflector) of the list of members that have not yet had opportunity to pay their dues for this next year.

• - Sad note

  Dave K0IPH is in a Loveland Hospice with Lung Cancer.

• - Bob, WA2EKU and Chris, K8CRM will look into a change in the repeater that would allow persons without a 100Hz tone in their radio to be able to turn off the 100Hz tone for the duration of their conversation. It would most likely be turned back on after some period of time by the controller.

  This will be handled after the pending changes that Bob and Chris currently have "on their plate" for the repeater.

• - Meeting adjourned at 19:20

• - Board Votes:
  • Should there be a question before the board that requires a vote, a tie vote (equal number of votes for and against the motion) will be considered a failure of the motion.

• - Membership Input:

  • Membership input on any/all subjects is solicited.

  • Members that do not have regular E-mail can have their input displayed on the LARC-MEMB reflector by sending an E-mail to [email protected] - Pat will insure all E-mail received this way is forwarded to the reflector (members without regular E-mail will not be registered on the reflector and cannot submit to the reflector themselves).