April 7, 2009 meeting Bill W3LAD called the meeting to order at 7:36PM_local time. READING OF THE MINUTES FINANCIAL REPORT: Insurance pd March 6 ,2009 Electric bill pending not received OLD BUSINESS:ARES: E.C. ROBERT ZUGATES, KB3JOF Reminder: Robert would like to have a ARES drill after net on Monday or when he can hold one. On March 5th, 2009, there was a Weather Exercise for Western Penna, The exercise took place in the Emergency 911 Center, which ran from 10:00 to approx. 14:00 local time. Robert KB3JOF brought up the Skywarn Net for Indiana County. Fred, KM3M, checked into the HF Net, passing messages to Harrisburg, Penna. Rusty, WB3EUQ, acted as intermediate between the Hams and the 911 center. NBEMS Digital Demo Narrow Band Emergency Messaging System (NBEMS) is the standard that the Western Penna ARES are be going to use for emergency communication messages. Where: Saturday May 30th - Time - 11AM Place :
Altoona Campus of Penn State Univ 3000 Ivyside Park
Altoona Robert said that he would like to give a demostration of the NBEMS at the June meeting. More information can be found at the W3BMD web site. Indiana County Emergency Plan Finished The Indiana County Emergency Plan is finished, all is needed is to put the new current roster of ARES members of Indiana County on the last page. Once, that is done, Robert will put a link on the Indiana County ARES Web Page for downloading. Any one who does not have Internet access should contact Robert for his/her copy of the finished plan. Robert wished to thank Greg Kerr, for using his copy as a reference plan, and also thank Fred, KM3M, for use of his copy of the earlier Indiana County Emergency Plan and also, but not least, Roger N3ULC for the editing and helping with the updating of the older plan. The next project is the insuring of the new ID ARES cards to the new/renewed ARES members. Robert said that anyone who would like to renew his/her ARES membership for the next two years, please contact Terry KB3JOD. Submitted by Robert Zugates KB3JOF NET COORDINATOR: TERRY KB3JOD Terry is looking for volunteers for the Monday night net. To conduct the net, you may take it for a month or week by week. Please contact Terry to sign up. FOX HUNT REPORT Fred KM3M Report up date Fox Hunt KM3M want to say Thank you to all that helped and worked the fox hunt Things went well and Christine KB3QJZ found the fox. Congration Christine. NEW BUSINESS :MS walk Chairman Rusty WB3EUQ April 19th will be the annual MS WALK. Location: Indiana High School Time Start time is one o'clock Meet in front of school around 12 noon REPEATER ACTIVITY: Monday after net, there has been some activity on the repeater, for round table discussion. Reminder: June will be field day for all Amateurs and quest. We will need a person to coordinate and help to set the field day site up. Friday evening set up night Larry N3LT going to cut the grass at the site Still need a coordinator to set up antenna’s and run organize field day. This is a good time to experiment with antennas and operate different types of modes. Club Picnic : More info at the next meeting Bill W3LAB and Jimmy N3TQR Suggested to have the picnic at either of their residence. The 50 /50 drawing: NO 50/50 DRAWING. For this month meeting. April 7 Meeting closed at 8:07 PM NEXT MEETING TIME AND PLACE EAT & PARK DATE MAY 5th 2009 |
( x ) CARNAHAN TERRY KB3JOD
( ) CARNAHAN MELISSA KB3MDS
( ) CARNAHAN RONALD KB3JOE
( x ) DZELSKY DAVID N3DZ
( ) FISTER ALPHONSE N3ZFZ
( ) FLETCHER KENNETH N3VFL
( x ) FREEMAN LARRY N3LT
( x ) HVOZDA CARL N3PIE
( x ) KIEHL JERRY WB3DUD
( x ) KIEHL LINDA ********
( x ) MAIZE FRED KM3M
( ) MALCOLM RICHARD KA3IYT
( ) MALCOLM MARCIA KD4ITP
( ) MCMILLEN WILLIAM N3QM
( x ) MENK BILL W3LAB
( ) MILLER CLIFF KB3AGT
( x ) NORRIS DARRELL WA3AJQ
( ) O' DONNELL RUSTY WB3EUQ
( ) SORISIO ELMER KB3WG
( x ) ST CLAIR JAMES N3TQR
( ) STINSON RICHARD KB3KBC
( .) STRONG ALTON N3PHL
( .) WHITSON DENNIS KB3LBQ
( x ) ZUGATES ROBERT KB3JOF
( x ) FISH FRED N3KMA
ROGER BARTLEBAUGH N3ULC
There will be a demonstration of the NBEMS digital mode on Saturday May 30th. The demonstration will be presented by Harry Bloomberg W3YJ, the Western Pennsylvania Assistant Section Emergency Coordinator. This digital mode is easy to install on any computer or laptop and the software is free. It performs exceptionally in high-noise conditions and is a reliable communications mode which is perfectly suited for emergency communications work. In fact, the WPA section has adopted NBEMS as the standard digital mode for the section. The demonstration will be held on the Altoona campus of Penn State University and will start at 11 AM. All ARES Emergency Coordinators and all local ARES members are invited to attend. If you have a laptop and HT, bring them along. You will have the opportunity to install the software and try it out on the spot. A laptop and HT is all that is required to get started in the mode. The meeting room we have reserved accommodates up to 70 people. If you would like to attend, please e-mail Drew McGhee KA3EJV at drm6@psu.edu. This will allow Drew to keep a head count of how many people will be there. If you are an EC, please forward this message to all local ARES members. We'd like to see as many people as possible attend, and it should be a lot of fun too. What: The meeting room accommodates 70 people. Reservations are recommended. Thanks, Amateur Radio Call N3SPW |
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