Juneau County Amateur Radio Club Ares/Races                 February 10, 2010 

Present: Jim R, John N, Nancy N, Glen S, Bud K, Jason, Jim F, Larry, Bruce, Sandy, Gary, Chris, Jim B, Matthew, Bud W. 

Larry called the meeting to order at 6:58 PM and a roll was taken.

A motion was made to approve the Jan minutes by Bruce and was second by Jim R. All approved.

The treasurers report was given by John N with a motion to approve made by Nancy and was second by Jim R. All approved.     

New Business:

1.     An amendment will need to be made to the bylaws to include the new positions of Tech Advisors for Bud W. and Jim R... When the change is finished in the bylaws it will be brought back to the club membership for final approval.

2.     Elroy Easter Parade will be held on April 3rd at 10 AM. Larry, Bruce and Chris will be taking the Comm. Trailer to this event and driving it in the parade.

3.     Club Flyers- Larry has been working on making some club flyers. He passed around two different flyers one on blk and white and the other was on colored paper. The cost on the colored paper is $35.00 for 50 and on blk and white is $15.00 for 100. A motion was made by Bud K to get the blk and white flyers and was second by Jim R. All approved.

4.     Bruce and Chris will present a weather spotters advanced video at the March 10th meeting for all present. There will also be a weather spotters class offered on April 13th at Mauston High School at 6:30PM. 

General information/discussion and future ideas:

1.     There was a general discussion to go around at a Wed meeting or weekends, to the different emergency locations in the county ( Hess Memorial, EOC, Elroy Fire, Necedah Fire and any other locations) that are set up for emergency communications to let the members become familiar with each location and what equipment is available to use at various sites.

2.     Another idea is to put on a demo for some of our county emergency officials, so they can become familiar with what can do in an emergency.

3.     There be a Hamfest on March 14th, 2010 in Jefferson City.

4.     Bruce L. will keep members informed on the progress of the Triathlon for this year since there will be several changes we will be needing more people and may have to use 2 repeaters. Updates as they are available.

5.     Glen will be checking out the comm. trailer furnace sometime before the months end.

6.     Bud K had a call to possibly have the VE secessions placed on a public service announcement on the radio station in Adams Co.

7.     Larry is looking for some ideas for changing up the weekly nets. Possibly running a simplex net or having some message handling. If anyone has any other ideas give Larry a call and he’ll get the ball rolling on the net.

8.     There will be a VE Testing Secession on March 13th at 9:00AM at Mauston City Hall, 4th floor Community Room.

9.     John has been working on getting Pay Pal set up for members to pay for club dues and possibly have a membership form set up in a PDF format for those wishing to join.

With nothing further for the club meeting, Larry adjourned this portion of the meeting at 7:40 PM.

In the absence of Howard, Gary S. gave the Ares/Races portion of the meeting. Gary passed around some sheets on break tags and a sheet for a severe weather report. We had some very interesting discussion regarding using the forms properly and using only language that is necessary from the break tags sheet for message handling and emergency communications. Thank you for you very informative and useful presentation.

A motion was made by Jason and was second by Jim to adjourn the meeting. Larry adjourned the meeting at 8:13 PM

The next meeting will be held on March 10, 2010 at 7PM at Mauston City Hall 4th floor Community Room.

The next Zilch will be held on Monday March 8th at Hearty Platter at 7PM for all to attend and bring ideas.  

Respectfully submitted Nancy Noga KC9KCC