February 9th, 1999
King's Chapel basement, Wycliff Road &
Highway 95a
13 members present, meeting commenced @ 1938
Sick or
Injured Amateurs:
VE7 WAQ SK
VE7 ERV in hospital in
Fernie
Motion: Adopt minutes of the last meeting as read.
Moved
VE7TMG, Seconded
VE7 LOC. Carried
OLD BUSINESS:
VE7CRJ
Revised bingo budget was approved. Bingo
audit
received,
distributed to members at the meeting.
VE7CRJ Ham
course to be held March 27 & 28 @ Cranbrook
Health
Centre. 8
- 5 pm Sat, 8 - 2 Sunday. Cost $120.
VE7CRJ CRJ
& SKT were interviewed by Shaw cable 2 weeks
ago
and the show will
be aired sometime soon.
VE7CRJ The club insurance was
paid.
VE7CRJ Morse Code practice is being rebroadcast
on 146.52
Tuesday and
Thursday nights for interested persons.
VE7CRj VE7TMG
volunteered to let his name stand for
Vice
President, no
volunteers as yet for president.
VE7LOC Moved a vote of
thanks be given to Joe, VE7CRJ for
all
his work on behalf
of the club, as well as VE7CRJ
and
VE7OG for post
meeting activity organization.
VE7TED
seconded.
VE7OG Motorola Syntor 24 channel 60
watt radios may be
available from crown assets and we may be able
to
release them for
$40 - $60 to club members.
VE7BGO MIR mirror was tried
but failed. The idea was to
light
up Siberia
during the winter night, but the
Mylar
mirror got
tangled on deployment and was allowed
to
burn up on
re-entry.
VE7NEK MIR was transmitting SSTV
pictures. NEK receives
SSTV
using the sound
card audio in/out in his computer
and
would be willing
to share his info with
interested
persons.
TREASURER'S
REPORT
As of Feb
9th, 1999
Gemini
account $3445.57
Shares $
42.10
Total
$3487.67
Insurance
paid was $750.00
Church basement $ 90.00
NEW
BUSINESS:
VE7OG Pamphlet for interference methods
and techniques
available for interested persons at the meeting.
VE7CRJ
The next Bingo is February 20th, and March 20th.
Interested volunteers
to show up at the Bingo Hall
at
noon.
VE7LOC Next month VE7TMG will demonstrate how to
program newer
hand
helds to use CTSC codes in different ways.
All
members to bring
their hand held and the manual.
VE7NEK WE are now going
to be affiliated as a club with
the
national
organization, RAC. There will be no
extra
cost.
VE7TED
ADJOURN
NOTE: VE7OG presented an excellent and
very thorough
soldering/desoldering demonstration with many tips
and
hints on how to do
it properly, instead of the way
I've
always done
it! Thank you Reg.