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            Southern Oregon Amateur Packet Radio Association
                     
                  January Meeting Minutes for 12/09/01

           Scheduled Meeting at Providence Hospital, Medford.
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      Called to Order: 10:00 AM  Gene Burchfield, KO6DW, Presiding

Present:

Sean Smithers  N7ZWU	Dick Suber  K7DDI   Steve Grajeda  WB6YQP
Gene Burchfield KO6DW   Paul Melo   KF6QBG  Ozzie Diaz     W6ICM

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Minutes of previous meeting were read by Sean, N7ZWU

Motion to accept by Steve, WB6YQP. 2nd by Dick, K7DDI. Accepted

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Treasurer's Report by Steve, WB6YQP

Beginning balance was $992.30 with no outstanding bills. Cash on hand is
$15.31 for total funds of $1007.61. We have four memberships paid up for
2001 for a total of $80.00 to deposit.

Motion to accept by Sean, N7ZWU. 2nd by Gene, KO6DW. Accepted

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Tech Report:

Mahogany is up. New site owner is Richard Zani, K6RA. He will be putting
a new roof on the building.

CJ is down. TNC works, we need to check the radio.

Mike reports that Scala no longer manufactures the OG-4 antennas in the
amateur bands. The German division makes a fiberglass antenna, we will
check into it.

Sexton Mtn. The #GP8 radio and TNC have been taken out. This 220MHz link
will not be returning to service.

Route north. At this time we have connectivity between the DC node and
Newport.

Discussion on Mahogany - Soda mountain link and what it would take to
bring it up to 9600 operation. Would need to check with site manager
for permission to do this. Would have to swap 220 MHz radio and antenna
on both ends for 440 MHz and put 9600 baud modems into the TNC's. Will
also need to coordinate a frequency separate from Hamaker-Soda-King so
there is no interference with the backbone. Need to check with Albert,
WB7AWL.

APRS systems work on digipeating UI frames, no node software specific
for this. For anyone interested, check into Kantronics advance UIDigi
and UIFlood features, also Paccom.

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Old Business:

Discussion on emergency communications and need for simple operating
procedure manuals. They would need to cover as many basic commands,
etc. to bring the station up to function. Procedures to start up.
Turn on radio, TNC, Computer, check call. Needs to be done by someone
familiar with the station.

Nominations for officers. None from the floor.

Slate for officers is as follows:

Gene Burchfield, KO6DW      President
Dick Suber, K7DDI           Vice President
Steve Grajeda, WB6YQP       Treasurer
Sean Smithers, N7ZWU        Secretary

Motion by Dick, K7DDI to accept officers slate as it stands. 2nd by
Will, N7KS. Accepted

These are the officers for 2001.

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New Business:

DC nodestack on Lane Mountain. Need to check if 441 MHz will get into
Salem or Eugene. This would provide a good path north.

Need to contact Housekeeping to reserve the Evelyn Bergamini Room
#0178 for the 2nd Saturday of the month for 2001.

Dick, K7DDI is to get a list for personal SOAPRA support messages

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Meeting adjourned: 11:35 PM

Sean, N7ZWU
SOAPRA Secretary.

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