Jim, KC0IBE brought up 2 club goals; do we want to have a Volunteer Examination team and hold test sessions, and do we want to become an ARRL affiliate. There will be more discussion at future meetings.
Also brought should we start an ARRES group geared toward weather spotting. Problems aired were who to notify when activated. Our local radio station is not constantly staffed, Benton County Civil Defense squad is not really active. The Warsaw Police Department, Benton County Sheriff Department, Missouri Highway Patrol and Local City and county officials can activate the alarm sirens. This too will soon be approached
Jim McNaron said the old Sheriff’s repeater was being removed from the water tower and maybe the “Club” could upgrade their antenna and hard-line from this removal project. In addition the radio equipment could be used as a NOAA weather repeater station for the county pending NOAA approval. He also mentioned that Henry County would soon be have a weather repeater and that may sway their approval.
The repeater will be taken off the air to be reprogrammed to correct the ID and to eliminate the troublesome transmitter time-out problem. Roger Cameron, N0YOX of Clinton will do this free of charge.
Jim also asked the “Club” to locate the source of the” “screeching” currently on the new Sheriff’s repeater. This started 3 months ago and lasts 20 seconds on the “hang-time”. The noise, is not suspected from the current antenna site but a could be a distant data transmission, digital control signals from a new local cellular site, or spurious emissions from another transmitter. The transmitter frequency is 158.745 with 156.7 CTCSS tone on the 153.860 input. Please listen for the “screeching” and locate it. Maybe the “Club” would get some great publicity by solving the riddle of just where the noise is from.
Meetings will be held each 3rd Tuesday, 7 PM at Hardee’s. The next meeting is for August 15th.

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3. New Business
A. Bill sent E-mail to the “World Radio” magazine to have the club added to their club list. It was suggested the same be done for QST. OPEN
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B. Dale, WA0YVH spoke on the twice-weekly club roll-call nets. Of the 294 possible check-ins in the past 2 months he only has 95 actual check-ins. He will begin to eliminate those calls who were single check-ins, keeping only those who routinely sign into the nets.
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C. Gene, KC0DRL said we need to “manufacture” some new members to keep the club growing. Jim, KC0IBE has written an article for the Benton County Enterprise to publicize us to the area, invite old hams to join and those wanting to become hams to come to us for the help they need to get there. OPEN
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D. To further advertise our presence Bill will look into having a Twin Lakes-Amateur Radio Club Radio Club booth or table at Heritage Days this October. OPEN
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F. Marvin, WD0GHN suggested we contact the ARRL for “PR” ideas and ways to demonstrate ham radio to the Benton County general public. Bill will look onto their web-site. OPEN
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The “South Side Ham Fest is October 21. For details contact Marvin.
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The next meeting is for September 19th, 7 PM at Hardee’s.
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Those in attendance were:

3. Old Business

A. From Gene, KC0DRL and the Missouri frequency coordination council meeting at the Columbia Ham Fest,
1) they would like all repeaters to have a maximum range of 90-120 miles so as not to interfere with other repeaters on the same or close frequency.
2) if your repeater is not active you will loose your frequency. The council stated that PL tones would soon be mandatory and assigned by area.
C. The “screeching” on the sheriff’s repeater has yet to be determined. Jim McNaron and Gene both stated that it could be from local pager antenna cable leakage. Weather connected from the cool and damp cycles this summer creating moisture at the connector and insulation leakage. Gene said that it also might be AM signal rectification as the signal is over 3Mhz wide. OPEN

3. New Business
A. Jim, KC0IBE called the regional Boy Scout office in Columbia to offer a local scout troop the Twin Lakes-Amateur Radio Club’s help in their “Jamboree-on-the-Air” (JOTA). He was told there would be a regular Jamboree set in Sedalia, but not the JOTA. The local troop never returned his calls. OPEN
B. The DesMoines Iowa ARC has offered through Jim Jr., KI0IP, 300’ of heliax to be used for trade for a dual band repeater antenna with Jim McNaron. The offer passed as presented by Jim Sr. CLOSED
C. Dale, WA0YVH stated there were only 27 check-ins for the current month of September, please remember to check in.
D. Dale mentioned the present US space shuttle mission was delivering amateur radio equipment to the joint space station and there are no American amateurs on board. The station will be identified as call sign RZ3DZR.
E. Bill reminded all of the Warsaw Heritage Days 21-22 October. The Warsaw Chamber of Commerce agreed for the Twin Lakes-Amateur Radio Club to set up a display at the main entrance, or inside if bad weather. The booth will demonstrate what we are and to “manufacture” new members. This came with the trade-off for us to provide handicapped parking control for the area. OPEN
The next meeting is for October 17th, 7 PM at Hardee’s.