May 8th 2010 NWMOARES Meeting

Called to order by KC0QLU

Attendance

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After Action Review of Search and Rescue on May 2nd.

Things went pretty well. Needed code to link the 2M/70cm on Osborn.

Should we get group vests? Tractor Supply carries for about $20.

Financial Report

$738.09, received none, disbursed none last month.

Repeater Desense Issue

Need to spend a little money and buy the right jumpers for the repeater. Suspect the adapters in use now are part of the problem.

Motion to purchase proper adapters
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Pass unanimous

Contact info added to the website for those here. Can set up emails for everyone.

Field Day Plans

New truck unveiling for Plattsburg FD is on Field Day. Their event runs from 4PM to 8PM that night. They’ll be selling pork sandwiches, chips, cookies, soda pop.

List of what we’re going to set up? More bring something out and lets try it out.

Ron will do the QSL cards again.

Generators provided by group and by county.

Bug problem? Not really a problem the last couple years.

Need to talk to Porter and ask if he’s coming this year and bringing cooking materials

WINLINK is running at CRMC. 145.090 simplex.

Future meetings showcasing some of these special modes or equipment. Things like APRS, WINLINK, etc. Next meeting, we’ll set up the logging program and get it ready for field day.

Suggest we have an Extra training class. The meeting after field day, we’ll have a class afterwards, then another class the week after, then take the test. Blair will see if he can get the powerpoint slides. Then George will look into getting the manuals.

Month after, do a kit build. The TinyTracker 4? Will look into the costs associated. Individuals might buy their own kit, or we might get a price cut for a bulk purchase.

Remove the 2x on the Emergency or Priority traffic in Net Control script. Also drop the “On this frequency at this time”. Relays okay, but not proxy check-ins.

Meeting adjourned.