Call to order
\nA regular monthly meeting of the Santa Cruz County Amateur Radio Club (SCCARC) Board of
\nDirectors was held via Zoom video conference call on 25 Feb 2021, and was called to order at
\n7:32 PM.
\nAttendees
\nBoard Members: Allen WB6RWU, David N6DTA; Richard K8SQB; Becky KI6TKB; Vince<\/p>\n
KM6YHE<\/p>\n
Others: Ron K6EXT; Scott KE6QCJ; Bill AJ6CQ
\nBoard Members not in attendance Don, K6GHA; Gary, K6PDL
\nAgenda
\nNovember 5th BOD regular meeting minutes approved.
\nNovember 20th special BOD meeting minutes approved.
\nJanuary 7th special BOD meeting minutes approved.
\nCommittee Reports
\nTreasurer — Allen<\/p>\n
reported balance approximately $3090
\nNo invoices received so far in 2021.<\/p>\n
Membership —
\nNo report
\nQuestion came up if all members of a family receive badges. Will discuss
\nat a future meeting
\nRepeater — Vince & Bill<\/p>\n
New control codes for repeater\/auto-patch\/IRLP\/echolink are in place, but
\nadditional testing is still desired. John and Bill will do this testing when
\ntime allows.
\nInvestigating anomaly which caused dropped audio for IRLP<\/p>\n
Website & Newsletter — Ron<\/p>\n
New link on home page linking to membership application.
\nWants a list of new members so that we can add a welcome message.
\nBecky will work on rewrite the membership information section to make it
\nclearer or more inviting to new members.
\nDiscussion of publishing zoom link again… We’re going to try it for March
\nmeeting to see if it makes things easier or allows for disruption.
\nBecky will have a followup article on fire evacuation.
\nBecky will be asking board members to write short intros for web site.
\n(see new business)
\ne-mail reflector — David<\/p>\n
133 users, 279 topics 894 messages in 16m This is an average of about
\n17 topics\/month or 2 messages\/day<\/p>\n
Emergency services —
\nNo Report<\/p>\n
Programs — Richard<\/p>\n
Richard is looking for a speaker on antennas. Also discussing with
\norganizer of Baycon for speakers\/topics.
\nEd Fong is believed to be scheduled for July, may move to August so as
\nnot to conflict with Field day report.
\nBecky will ask Chris to call David about publishing poll on topics.<\/p>\n
OLD BUSINESS
\nRepeater I\/O Panel —<\/p>\n
postponed to next meeting.<\/p>\n
Club Badges —Don<\/p>\n
he could not attend the meeting but here is his report:
\n1) I’ll pull together a list of folks and confirm it
\nwith Becky and Allen before I have them made up.
\n2) Do we want to send out another notification to club
\nmembers who may have lost their badge and offer them a
\nreplacement at $15 to cover shipping?
\n3) Also I’d to put into the minutes a thank you to John
\nN6QX for his support of the General Class License Exam
\nclass. I had a great time presenting a very short
\noverview of contesting and was really pleased with the
\nresponse and enthusiasm.<\/p>\n
Planning on ordering new badges at end of March.
\nBecky will send email to reflector to ask members who want replacement badges to send
\npayment before our next order
\nNEW BUSINESS
\nField Day 2021 — Becky, Scott<\/p>\n
Kerry KE3RRY will not be able to lead field day efforts.
\nBecky has not been in contact with SLV club yet. Richard will attend their
\nMarch meeting and will discuss planning for this year event.
\nThe vineyard has invited us to return, and this seems the best option.
\nLast years expenses were ~$360 split between the two clubs.
\nBecky will contact providers of portable toilets.
\nA tentative budget of $200 was approved.
\nTentative date for planning Friday 12 March 7:30PM
\nRichard will set up the zoom meeting.<\/p>\n
New Comm 2 Van —<\/p>\n
postponed to next meeting.
\nOfficer bios (2) for March Newsletter
\nRichard and Vince volunteered.<\/p>\n
Club Meeting Issues<\/p>\n
Will reach out to Carl about continuing his Zoom subscription.
\nIf he is not willing to donate further, The club would need to spend<\/p>\n
approximately $15\/month or $150\/yr to continue starting in May.
\nAdjournment
\nThe Board of Directors\u2019 Meeting adjourned at 9:05 PM
\nGeneral Membership Meeting
\nA regular monthly meeting of the Santa Cruz County Amateur Radio Club will be held via Zoom<\/p>\n
video conference call on 19 March 2021, beginning at 7:30 PM.<\/p>\n
Minutes by David, N6DTA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Call to order A regular monthly meeting of the Santa Cruz County Amateur Radio Club (SCCARC) …<\/p>\n