2016-09 Minutes

 Pawnee Amateur Radio Club

September 13, 2016

The Pawnee Amateur Radio Club held a meeting September 13th, 2016 at the Emergency Operations Center in Columbus Nebraska.  Club president, Dave AC0TF, called the meeting to order at 7:00 pm.  Adam KD0RIZ read the minutes of the August meeting.   Club Treasurer, Ted K7CLP, gave a treasury report as of 9/13/2016 with no outstanding bills for the month.  The treasurer report was approved as read.

Members Present – AC0TF, KA0TWD, WA0QCI, KE0AUP, N0RHM, K7CLP, KD0RIZ, AC0DN

 Old Business

440 repeater - Not working - Adam and Ted looked it over.  Power supply seems to be bad.  Fuses all looked good.  Might just use the new 440 repeater for the IRLP.  

IRLP - Internet Radio Linking Project - York tower owner is Mark KG0S.  AC0DN contacted KG0S and he was interested in placing his IRLP node at Columbus (currently set to 444.725 which will not work in Columbus, it can be retuned).  Would need to provide Internet access at the site or an Internet RF link.  AC0DN has contacted tower owner Rob Nall. – Waiting to hear back from the 440 repeater owner.  

DStar Tower Site – need to look at a new internet provider.  The current internet provider is taking down the damaged tower that we use now.  Perhaps look at putting a wireless bridge to the court house.  Need to also look at replacing the router up there also.  We will need a public IP address for the gateway.

Clean up at the tower site.

Columbus Special Event – 34 contacts on 20M and 16 on 40M.  9 requests for certificates.

Noise on 640 repeater has been noted, will need to investigate.  Still exists as of September meeting. Tim N0RHM and Chris AC0DN will check it out.

Larry KA0TWD mentioned a year end club dinner.  Take a vote on it on the September meeting.  Get together on the side before a meeting.  Thinking about before the December meeting. Golden Dragon is the thought.

New Business

With no further business, a motion to adjourn was made by Adam KD0RIZ  and seconded by Ted K7CLP.  Motion carried. 

Club Web site – Minutes posted here:  http://www.WA0COL.com