Meeting Minutes 3/22/18

Members Present: 5

E-Board Present: Mike, Matt

Meeting Start: 20:05

  • Welcome back from spring break!
  • USG Funding Allocations came out
    • We got same amount, $3000
  • Fill out reimbursement for stuff we bought recently
  • We should plan on what to buy very soon
  • Look at router for Arcadian site
    • Mikrotik
  • Arcadian is a mess
  • Elections
    • End of the year
    • Last meeting

Meeting Adjourned: 20:55

Meeting Minutes 3/8/18

Members Present: 7

E-Board Present: Mike, Matt

Meeting Start: 20:18

  • Welcome!
  • Copper Dog went well!
    • No one or dogs died
    • No major issues
    • Let eboard know if you want to keep equipment or if you leave it in the shack
  • New members!
    • Gi-KI7UTE
    • Ross-KE8IYF
    • Congrats on passing the test!
  • Spring break
    • If you are leaving and have stuff, that’s fine, just tell an officer!
  • No meeting next week
    • Matt and Tyler will be here though
  • Initial USG Recommendations came through
    • No change
    • We got $3000

Meeting Adjourned: 21:00

Meeting Minutes 3/1/18

Members Present: 6

E-Board Present: Mike, Zack, Matt

Meeting Start: 20:03

  • Welcome!
  • Copper Dog Stuff
  • Trying ARS on Wide 1
  • Going to talk to Mi-5 guys to see if they want to play nice
  • Budget Hearing
    • Went well
  • New radios are in!
    • Will be programmed soon
  • All programming cables are in!

Meeting Adjourned: 21:00

Meeting Minutes 2/22/18

Members Present: 7

E-Board Present: Mike, Zack, Matt

Meeting Start: 20:08

  • Welcome!
  • Everyone Ready for Copper Dog?
    • Will try to put up our new SLR on a pair, Matt will email out if that happens
  • Trailer work around noonish on Saturday
  • We will order 10 HT750 batteries and 20 antennas and one 6550 battery and a cheap charger
  • Purchasing two more DMR HT’s for $700 and a XPR3500 programming cable

Meeting Adjourned: 21:00

Meeting Minutes 2/15/18

Members Present: 6

E-Board Present: Mike, Zack, Matt

Meeting Start: 20:07

  • Welcome!
  • Budget Stuff
    • Approved
  • Copper Dog
    • Bill needs more ride alongs
  • Tower site
    • Tabled for next series of meetings
    • Not able to budget for
  • We will buy antennas and batteries for 4 channel HT750
  • Exam Sunday, 1PM

Meeting Adjourned: 21:45

Meeting Minutes 2/1/18

Members Present: 7

E-Board Present: Mike, Zack, Matt

Meeting Start: 20:10

  • Welcome!
  • Copper Dog
    • Bill LaBell emailed Matt
    • If not helping Chris with Safety, Bill is looking for ride-alongs
    • Let Matt know
    • High speed potato gun
  • Bear Chase
    • Weekend after Copper Dog
  • SSAR Trailer Work
    • This weekend
  • Cables
    • Yaesu: $30
    • 8-GR: $20
    • TURBO HT: Not Cheap
    • TURBO Mobile: Cheap
  • Other Purchases
    • Scanner: $400ish
      • Ours is currently working so we don’t need it but will need when Phase II upgrade is complete
    • TNC Radio: Reprogram or buy
      • Reprogram would pull a go box away
      • Should look, might be a radio laying around somewhere
      • Broken GM300 could be repaired (antenna connector dead)
    • Budget is due Friday February 16th
      • Sign-ups for hearing on the 10th
      • We will do budget the 15th!
      • Bring ideas!
    • New Tower Site
      • Have the repeater
      • Rest up in the air

We should at least buy

Meeting Minutes 1/25/18

Members Present: 5

E-Board Present: Mike, Zack, Matt

Meeting Start: 20:15

  • Welcome!
  • Motorola has simplex repeat
    • License feature for repeaters
    • Extended dual capacity direct mode
  • Antenna analyzer ordered
  • Things to consider purchasing
    • MotoTrbo HT and rear mobile cable
    • Yaesu cable
    • Yaesu 8Gr
    • Scanner
    • TNC-Purchase or Re-Program Old Radius?
  • Scanner is doing bad things
  • Need to sign up for ways and means meeting for next year’s budget

Meeting Adjourned: 21:18

Meeting Minutes 1/18/18

Members Present: 5

E-Board Present: Mike, Zack, Matt

Meeting Start: 20:10

  • Welcome!
  • Zack has new stuff
    • He wants to buy a new scanner and specifically a new antenna for outside
    • New scanner has DMR entitlement and P25 Phase 2
    • $400
    • Need to check budget-Zack says there is room
    • Need to make sure we don’t have other bigger projects we want to do
      • e. Tower Site
    • Budgeting meeting next week
      • Next Wednesday

Meeting Adjourned: 20:49

Meeting Minutes 12/7/17

Members Present: 9

E-Board Present: Mike, Zack, Matt, Todd

Meeting Start: 20:07

  • Welcome!
  • Card reader to HARC is broken
    • Reader has been acting funny in the past
    • Ticket has been submitted, should be quick
    • Call duty phone/public safety in the mean time
  • Bank trip went well
    • Accounts got reshuffled (people added and removed)
    • Get Don on account sometime
  • Tech Fund Update
    • Money has been moved from Tech Fund to another internal fund
    • Couple hundred more than what was in email
    • USG does charge a fee for storing…
    • We will be using it for a new repeater site
    • We should put together a proposal of what we are thinking of doing
    • What to do?
      • Ran some models in Radio Mobile
      • Herman looks best
      • Time to start talking to people
      • Let’s come up with a plan/proposal to present to the state
      • We will move forward with Herman tower
    • 6550 Batteries
      • Found some on E-Bay, aftermarket
      • Get two
      • No objections, they will be ordered
    • Exam on the 6th
      • BCRA is hosting

Meeting Adjourned: 21:21

Meeting Minutes 11/30/2017

Members Present: 10

E-Board Present: Mike, Zack, Matt, Todd

Meeting Start: 20:06

  • Welcome Back!
  • Hope everyone had a great break!
  • Tech Fund
    • We’ve got money!
    • Quite a bit of money
    • Not SAF money, just money for HARC
    • We can use it as we see fit
    • We need to find out who gave us the money
    • Need to take the money out of Tech Fund and put it in our bank account
    • Ideas:
      • Equipment Purchases
      • Tower Site Access (Herman or tall tower down south)
        • Tower Choices:
          • Herman-Ranked 1
          • Donken
          • Kenton Forest Service Tower-Ranked 2
          • Lots of hoops to jump through for MPSCS towers
        • Backhaul Hardware for CAFS
        • Start seeking pricing and access for both
      • How to link the Kenton or Herman towers to our IPSC network
        • Issue to resolve
        • Kenton needs to be decently tall for the best equipment to have a microwave link
        • Towers must be really stable
      • We need to model Kenton and Herman and work on a budget
      • Do some research and come back later with a final decision
      • Cell tower going up at Brockway
        • Contract update is happening
      • Project out that decodes a large spectrum of digital modes (DMR, P25, NXDN, etc.)
        • Subscription based service
        • DSD Plus
        • $25 for unlimited updates
        • Peticash can pay for it
        • We will get it
      • 6550’s batteries are dead
        • Propose to replace those and any other batteries that need to be replaced
        • We will keep an eye out for batteries
      • Need to deposit some cash in the bank…
      • CCRAA Christmas Party
        • Tuesday at 7
        • Potluck (but could show up with just chips or cookies)
      • BCRA needs liaison for exams
        • We will let them know when we have an exam
      • Next Monday evening
        • Copper Dog Board Meeting
        • Looking at doing real time tracking of all teams in the field through Trail Genius
          • Might not be offered by Trail Genius…
        • Might be able to do this as an APRS thing
        • Could use things for Copper Dog for other events
      • SARTrack Released Mandatory Update!
        • You must upgrade!
        • Do it now!
      • Chris talked to Joanne about Rally…More to come
      • Motorola Update
        • Have to poke the applications again
      • Tech still has our repeater

Meeting Adjourned: 21:18