Author: Husky Amatuer Radio Club

Meeting Minutes 4/26/18

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

Meeting Minutes 4/19/18

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

Meeting Minutes 4/19/18

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

Meeting Minutes 4/5/18

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

Meeting Minutes 3/29/18

Members Present: 10

E-Board Present: Mike, Matt, Zach, TODD!

Meeting Start: 20:05

  • Welcome back!
  • Stuff to buy
    • 2xMikrotik for Arcadian/new site discussed last week
      • Motioned
      • Passes, will be ordered (2x$160)
    • Data terminal radio for data services
      • Gen2 mobile (5350 or 2500)
      • Motioned
      • Passes
    • Replacement APRS Radio
      • Cheap mobile
      • $150 or less
      • Motioned
      • Passes
      • Just communicate if you buy it!
    • UHF Duplexer
      • Brand new or refurb the old one
      • Motioned
      • Will look at costs
    • DMR Plus
      • Have received some emails from Evan/Mike
      • Asking about coverage up here…should respond…
      • If someone (current member) wants to head up DMR Plus, get in touch with Kory (KE8AVN)
      • Do not want to turn over slot 2 to DMR Plus
      • Would make another IPSC Network to point DMR Plus to
        • Would give us control on how DMR Plus operates
      • Could push 9062 to DMR Plus
      • Who would like to take the lead?
        • Matt volunteers
      • This will give us Mi5 access
      • Ranting about closed-sourcing of DMR Plus and Brandmeister
      • Matt will go through email draft and move forward
      • DMR Plus is interested in our logging dashboard
        • Blew theirs out of the water!
      • Matt will get dashboard up and running again
        • Super technical things were said
      • Elections coming up
        • Think about it!
        • Nominations at any time
        • Elections last meeting of school year (4/26)
      • Email earlier today
        • Shorewave is looking to get into our specific room at Horace Greely to run some conduit
        • Looking at next Wednesday at 10PM
        • Offer to provide data service if we are interested
      • WMTU gave us full access to their Arcadian link
      • Sometime before end of school year we should get up to CAFS to do a general check up
        • Possibly build lean to for CAFS repeater this summer

Meeting Adjourned: 21:05

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