Month: April 2018

Last meeting of the school year.

Members Present: 4

E-Board Present: Mike, Matt

Meeting Start: 20:05

• Welcome back!
• Election Nominations
  • President: Matt M. (KD8OOS)
  • VP: Zack J. (KE8GGU)
  • Secretary: Mike V. (KE8FCR)
  • Treasurer: Zach J. (KE8GGU), Justin D. (KE8HXI)
  • Mike V. withdrawals nomination for VP
• Results:
  • President: Matt M. (KD8OOS)
  • VP: Zack J. (KE8GGU)
  • Secretary: Mike V. (KE8FCR)
  • Treasurer: Justin D. (KE8HXI)
• Congrats!
• Router and Tycon site monitor have been ordered
• Should start considering moving Arcadian Repeater Site

Meeting Adjourned: 20:30

Members Present: 7

E-Board Present: Mike, Matt, Zach

Meeting Start: 20:17

• Welcome back!
• Budget/Funding Request
  • Have not received anything…
  • If we don’t hear anything by next Wednesday, we will start poking people
• Almost end of the year
  • Next week is last meeting
  • Elections next week!
• Election Nominations
  • President: Matt M. (KD8OOS)
  • VP: Mike V. (KE8FCR), Zack J. (KE8GGU)
  • Secretary: Mike V. (KE8FCR)
  • Treasurer: Zach J. (KE8GGU), Justin D. (KE8HXI)
• HF Stuff
  • MI QSO Party is this weekend
  • Place we went last year is buried in snow
• Site News
  • Arcadian: Silence and not pushing issue
  • CAFS: Network link is down right now
    • Might need to take a trip up there
    • Next Sunday around 1PM
  • Shorewaves: They would be able to provide us some service if we want at CAFS. We want.
  • Healthy so far
  • Working on monitoring more complete
• New Site
  • Not much news
  • Kenton vs. Herman
  • Kenton is easy but not great spot
  • Herman is hard but is great spot
  • Need to do some modeling
  • South Range site for a possible second site
  • If Kenton is done, we would have enough money for a second site as well

Meeting Adjourned: 21:30

Members Present: 7

E-Board Present: Mike, Matt, Zach

Meeting Start: 20:17

• Welcome back!
• Budget/Funding Request
  • Have not received anything…
  • If we don’t hear anything by next Wednesday, we will start poking people
• Almost end of the year
  • Next week is last meeting
  • Elections next week!
• Election Nominations
  • President: Matt M. (KD8OOS)
  • VP: Mike V. (KE8FCR), Zack J. (KE8GGU)
  • Secretary: Mike V. (KE8FCR)
  • Treasurer: Zach J. (KE8GGU), Justin D. (KE8HXI)
• HF Stuff
  • MI QSO Party is this weekend
  • Place we went last year is buried in snow
• Site News
  • Arcadian: Silence and not pushing issue
  • CAFS: Network link is down right now
    • Might need to take a trip up there
    • Next Sunday around 1PM
  • Shorewaves: They would be able to provide us some service if we want at CAFS. We want.
  • Healthy so far
  • Working on monitoring more complete
• New Site
  • Not much news
  • Kenton vs. Herman
  • Kenton is easy but not great spot
  • Herman is hard but is great spot
  • Need to do some modeling
  • South Range site for a possible second site
  • If Kenton is done, we would have enough money for a second site as well

Meeting Adjourned: 21:30

Members Present: 9

E-Board Present: Mike, Matt, Todd

Meeting Start: 20:15

• Welcome back!
• Dashboard is working and reasonably stable
  • Will pick up all group calls
• Want to talk Mi5 about possible linking and get on same page between groups
• Reimbursement submitted for $1400
  • Missing a couple of receipts on that reimbursement
• $1400-$1500 left to spend
• Permanent home for new repeater site
  • Have funds for rest of site hardware, depending on the site
  • Have repeater, and most of duplexer
  • What site?
    • MPSCS
    • Kenton
      • Tower height
      • Power?
      • Network Connection?
    • Donken
    • Best two are Kenton and MPSCS
  • Kenton would be a lot easier to get on
• Stuff to buy
  • Will buy MikroTik’s, 5350 data radio, APRS radio, jumpers, and connectors.

Meeting Adjourned: 21:45