Indiana County Amateur Radio Newsletter for the Month

January 2007 News Letter

Written - December 7, 2006

By: Darrell R. Norris - WA3AJQ

The following are the club officers, trustee, web master and EchoLink Attendant for 2007:

President: _ Darrell Norris, WA3AJQ__

Vice President: Jerry Kiehl, WB3DUD _ (Interim period)

Secretary/Treasurer: Kim Frech

Trustee: Elmer Sorisio, KB3WG

Board: One Carahan, KB3JOE - Al Fister, N3ZFZ -
Richard Stinson, KB3KBC and Robert Zugates, KB3JOF

(Total of 8 board members) By - Laws allow nine.

Web Master: Robert Zugates, KB3JOF

Echo Link Attendant: Robert Zugates - (Interim period)

ARES Emergency Coordinator: Currently vacant)

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New frequency allocations from the FCC will became effective December 15, 2006.

With the permission of the ARRL, we have posted their (ARRL's) new colored frequency allocation form on our web site, www.qsl.net/w3bmd.com, for your general information.

We are not authorized to revise or modify this form. We will make a concentrated effort to assure we're posting the latest version of that particular form.

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Our Christmas party is scheduled for 6:00 PM Sunday December 10^th at Hoss's in Indiana. We have about twenty five people signed up to attend. The club agreed to invite non members to the party this year.

We want to express our thanks to Roger and Kathy Lute for their having planned this event again this year.

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Again I want to thank all our members that participated in the clubs various activities this past year. I especially want to thank those who served as officers, Web Master, Trustee and our ARES Net Coordinator.

Thanks to those who supported our club financially, without your support we wouldn't exist.

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I hope we can increase our membership in 2007. If you know of anyone that might be interested in joining our club, please don't hesitate to invite them to our meetings.

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I'm looking forward to an exciting 2007.

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I hope everyone has a great holiday season and a very happy and healthy new year.

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Darrell R. Norris - WA3AJQ

2005 / 06 / 07 Club President

Meeting Minutes - Tuesday December 5^th 2006

Minutes from last meeting:

There were no additions or corrections.

Financial Report:

Financial Reported accepted as read.

Presidents Annual Report: Darrell Norris, WA3AJQ

In accordance with our club by-laws, ARTICLE EIGHT: DUTIES OF OFFICERS; SECTION 1; PRESIDENT; Darrell submitted the following:

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We currently have forty nine (49) members, consisting of the following: ten (10) Extras; fifteen (15) Generals; twenty two (22) Techs and two (2) non-licensed. Memberships consisted of the following: Thirty three (33) Individuals; twelve (12) Family and four (4) Associates.

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All club meetings were held at Eat- N-Park in Indiana. The Board meetings were scheduled for 7:00 pm with the general meetings at 7:30 pm. Meetings were held on the first Tuesday of each month except the July 4^th meeting was moved to Wednesday, July 5^th because of the holiday.

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The club participated in the following activities: MS Walk on April 23^rd; Torrance Walk on May 13^th; ARRL Field Day, June 24^th and 25^th; Club picnic, September 24^th; VE testing session, October 7th; Multi county breakfast, October 21st and the club Christmas party is scheduled for December 10^th. We had our club breakfasts at Eat-N-Park on Saturday mornings and Wednesday Hot Dog nights at the repeater site.

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We had a Sheetz coupon sale again this year.

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We mailed one hundred eighty four (184) invitations to local licensed radio amateurs, asking them to join our club or consider contributing something towards the operation of our repeater. We had twenty eight invitations returned, three were deceased, and the rest were wrong addresses. Out of all this, we gained two new members.

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For the first time, we held a multi county social breakfast on October 21^st at Eat' N Park here in Indiana. There were twenty four (24) people in attendance; Two (2) from Butler; Two (2) from Armstrong; One (1) from Cambria; One (1) from Westmoreland and Eighteen (18) from Indiana.

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We now have both our meeting nights and Saturday morning breakfasts advertised in the Indiana Gazette.

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The treasury was consistent with previous years.

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Out of forty nine members, we've averaged about twelve to fifteen members attending the regular monthly meetings.

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Non - club activities were: A mini field day held on September 16^th at the repeater site, in which a number of members participated. Also there were fifteen (15) people ate dinner and attended an organ concert in Dormont, December 2^nd.

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Some disappointments were; Not having a ham fest; having very few volunteers for Monday night net control operators; still not having an ARES Emergency Coordinator; not having more members attend the monthly meetings and the lack of cooperation in establishing the 2007 club nomination list.

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Lets all work together to make 2007 an even better year.

Darrell extended his appreciation to all who participated in the various activities and to those who served as officers during 2006.

He also thanked those who supported the club financially through dues etc. He noted without their help the club wouldn't exist.

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Elections of 2006 officers:

Darrell noted he will be in Florida 4 months, Jerry Kiehl WB3DUD will be filling in at the meetings while Darrell is away.

No secret ballots were necessary since everyone was unopposed.

The following are the club officers, Trustee, Web Master and EchoLink Attendant for 2007.

President:_ Darrell Norris, WA3AJQ__

Vice President: _Jerry Kiehl, WB3DUD _ (Interim period)

Secretary/Treasurer: _Kim Frech _

Trustee: _Elmer Sorisio _KB3WG

Board:_One Carahan, KB3JOE _ _Al Fister, N3ZFZ _ Richard Stinson, KB3KBC _ and Robert Zugates _KB3JOF_

(Total of 8) By - Laws allow nine.

Web Master __Robert Zugates, KB3JOF_

Echo Link Attendant: __Robert Zugates __ (Interim period)

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Motion to accept the nominations as submitted was by: Alton Strong, N3PHL and was second by: Fred Maize, KM3M. The motion passed with no one opposing.

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Old Business:

ARES: Jerry Kiehl, WB3DUD

Jerry Kiehl, WB3DUD, agreed to continue as net coordinator for 2007.

Jerry also noted he is in the process of getting Email service.

Line up net control operators; review and update the monthly call sheets as necessary and forward the updated sheets to our web master for posting.

Jerry also reported that he brought up the weather net on December 1^st as a result of the National Weather Services sever weather warnings. He had about, six check-ins.

Robert Zugates, KB3JOF, would still like to get an ARES ID card. He is also pursuing the ARES Emergency Coordinators position. If he's successful he will take over the net coordinator duties from Jerry.

2007 Net control operators are scheduled as follows:

January - Terry Carnahan, KB3JOD;

February - Jerry Kiehl, WB3DUD;

March - Darrell Norris, WA3AJQ (EchoLink from Florida?);

April - One Carnahan, KB3JOE.

Anyone else interested contact Jerry Kiehl.

RACES: Robert Zugates, KB3JOF

Robert reported the county apparently has the ID machine and are in the process of establishing an Identification card design.

ECHOLINK: Robert Zugates, KB3JOF

Robert, with the assistance of Rusty, made some necessary adjustments to our Echolink equipment at the 911 center.

Repeater Operation - Elmer Sorisio, KB3WG

Elmer was not at the meeting.

Sheetz: Kim Frech

Kim reported she has all the money in from the sale of the coupons. This item is now considered complete.

Mall Display: Robert Zugates, KB3JOF

Robert reported that he won't be able to do the display at this time because the schedule the mall gave him doesn't coincide with his work schedule.

The 50 /50 drawing was won by: Jerry Kiehl and was given to the club, thanks Jerry!!

New Business:

FCC Reallocation of frequencies: Dave Dzelsky, N3DZ

Dave noted there are some apparent digital conflicts that are to be worked out with the FCC.

Darrell, WA3AJQ, reported that with the permission of the ARRL, their colored frequency reallocation sheet is posted on the club's web site for our general information. (ARRL noted, we cannot revise or modify this sheet and to make sure we keep the most recent updated sheet posted)

Christmas party: December 10^th @ 6:OOPM (Hoss's "big" room in Indiana )

We pretty well finalized the intended list. It appears we have about twenty five people signed up to attend.

Notes or comments?

If you know of anyone that would be interested in becoming a ham or would like to join our club, please invite them to our meetings.

Darrell noted he has started collecting for our Saturday breakfast gang's gift for Terry. I will collect tonight and next Saturday at breakfast. I'd like to give her the card, maybe next Saturday. I won't be at breakfast the 16^th and the following Saturday is the 23^rd.

Motion to adjourn was by: One Carnahan, KB3JOE

Was second by: Robert Zugates, KB3JOF

ADJOURNED At: _8:11_ PM. (Local time)

ATTENDANCE:

Respectively Submitted by:
Kim Frech, Secretary / Treasurer

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