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             Southern Oregon Amateur Packet Radio Association
                     
                   April Meeting Minutes for 04/08/00

            Scheduled Meeting at Providence Hospital, Medford.
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         Called to Order: 10:00 AM  Dick Suber, K7DDI, Presiding

Present:

Will Calvert   N7KS      Leonard Coleman  KB7TSX     Dick Suber  K7DDI
Steve Grajeda  WB6YQP    Sean Smithers    N7ZWU

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Minutes of previous meeting were read by Sean, N7ZWU

Motion to accept by Leonard. 2nd by Steve, WB6YQP. Accepted

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Treasurer's Report by Steve, WB6YQP

There was a $1900 deposit error by the bank into our account. When they
corrected it, they overdrew our account by $0.08 and will be fixing that.
We also seem to have $70.00 more in the account than deposited. It will
be checked out to make sure that it is ours.

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Tech Report:

Albert, WB7AWL 9600 link is back on line. The radio is bad and down for
repair. It will be returned to service in approximately two weeks.

Hamaker is OK.

KG7FU has retired. Ralph Cook will be working on Prairie Peak.

Keyboard Network

They are working up north on extending the network OAK into the network
to the north.

Everything else is OK.

Discussion on battery backup. The best solution would be a float charge
type system. A battery cutout is needed for a regulated power supply used
in this type operation to prevent reverse current flow when the AC
current is cut off. The reverse flow can destroy regulated power supplies
not designed to prevent it.

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Old Business:

Nothing further heard on Dave Putman. We need to contact Albert, WB7AWL
to see if there are any problems.

Discussion on getting APC Surge Protector for Hamaker.

George Doersch will be installing APRS chips for some of the CAP sites.

Report on the APRS demonstration given at the SCARA club meeting.

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New Business:

Roseburg node. Need to ask Tom Hires who they are connected to?

We need to send out a friendly reminder to users on the system. $20.00
dues. Necessary to keep the system running for your use.

Motion that Sean, N7ZWU draw up and send out the reminder by Leonard,
KB7TSX. 2nd by Will, N7KS. Accepted.

On April 22nd there will be a SET exercise to test simplex mountain
top to mountain top communications.

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Meeting adjourned: 11:40 PM

Sean, N7ZWU
SOAPRA Secretary.

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