Category: Meeting Minutes

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

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

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

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 16^th
    • Sign-ups for hearing on the 10^th
    • We will do budget the 15^th!
    • Bring ideas!
  • New Tower Site
    • Have the repeater
    • Rest up in the air

We should at least buy

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

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

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 6^th
    • BCRA is hosting

Meeting Adjourned: 21:21

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

Members Present: 9

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

Meeting Start: 20:07

• Welcome!
• Campus TRBO Update
  • Moving along a little faster
  • Auxiliary services repeater is dead
  • HARC has temporarily loaned our third SLR to them
  • Campus needs a new repeater, should move the TRBO system along quick
• Talked with Motorola after they visited
  • Expressed interest in TRBO ADK
  • They have an evaluation program that we might fall under
  • Might be able to get ADK!
  • Possibly conference call early next week
• Moto will be back on sites the 27^th or 28^th to do coverage tests
• Went to CAFS
  • It was raining inside and out
  • Tarp was good to have
  • Door was open, not broken…
  • Battery was good
  • Everything was well
  • Bunch of new Ubiquiti gen 2 stuff up there
• Fixed some linking issues
• Let anyone know if you have any issues (i.e. linking)
• Remote access not successful
  • Most likely due to Pasty NET
  • Long term optimal option
    • We need our own link
  • Coming up:
    • Break is approaching
    • Who will be here next Thursday?
    • There will be an optional meeting
  • “New” receiver
    • Returned from the 30’s
    • Really good shape, very clean
    • All-Band, side-band receiver
  • Exam on Saturday
    • 9 AM at Franklin Township Hall
    • CCRAA Hosting
  • Still need to take Jack’s repeater to the EOC
    • This weekend
  • Have a good Thanksgiving Break!

Meeting Adjourned: 20:52

Members Present: 9

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

Meeting Start: 20:10

• Welcome!
• Renewed the domain for website, w8yy.org
  • Good for another year
• Have like $602 in bank account
• Tuner order
  • Need to do that
  • We can buy that
  • We should buy that
  • $349
• Hope everyone had fun last weekend!
  • Thanks for attending the Negaunee trip!
• Events
  • No events for now
  • Chris is happy
  • Copper dog is next big event
• Need to go to CAFS!
• Need to take Jack’s repeater to EOC
• Need to fix the jack on the big trailer ASAP
• Should get the snowshoes out of the thing and put them in big trailer
• Where to put little trailer?
  • Talk to Husky Motors…maybe
• Looking for people to go do harbor damage assessment, if there is any
• What do we want to do next, trip wise?
  • Tower Site Proposal
    • Forest service tower is available in Kenton
    • North on Forrest Highway 16
      • Can use it if we find it…
    • January 1^st 2018 State towers will become available for commercial use
    • Stay tuned
  • Will not have Tuesday meeting for SARTrack training
  • Will have a SSAR meeting on Wednesday
  • Waiting for State for 800 template
  • Active shooter exercise at Hospital on December 4^th
    • We might be involved, but probably not
  • Todd has information
    • Moto Sales Executive Coming Up
    • Coming to Tech to roll out a Turbo system
    • He has been invited to talk with our group and he would like to
    • Will be headed this way later in the afternoon
    • Want to arrange a time after 5
    • 5:30
    • Location TBD
  • Two weekends left to get to CAFS
    • When do we want to go?
    • This weekend
    • Sunday at 10 AM
    • Dress warm, it’s always very cold inside the building

Meeting Adjourned: 20:51