2017-07-Minutes

July 11, 2017

The Pawnee Amateur Radio Club held a meeting July 11th, 2017 at the Emergency Operations Center in Columbus Nebraska.  Club president, Dave AC0TF, called the meeting to order at 7:00 pm.  ACOTF read the minutes of the May club meeting.   Club Treasurer, Ted K7CLP, gave a treasury report as of 7/1/2017 with no outstanding bills for the month.  The treasurer report was approved as read.  

Members Present – AC0TF, KE0AUP, K7CLP, AC0DN, W0ZAG, KD0OBA, KA0TWD, N0RHM

Old Business

64 Repeater - No change in status.  Club would like to get the old antenna out of the attic and setup in a temporary location for testing.  If it is determined that the old antenna is OK, we will need to coordinate the replacement.

Field Day at WD0AAH's QTH.  Strong winds (80 mph) before field day weekend took town Mark's high-tower antenna.  They worked to get it back up before the weekend.   Members worked stations in the Virgin Islands, Hawaii and Canada.  Band conditions were not optimal, best results were on 15 meters.

The club received a thank you for supporting the Loup-de-Loup bike ride.  There were 98 people participating on the Loup-de-Loup Bike Ride $5,300 was raised.

New Business

Columbus Days Special Event Station - Saturday, August 19th.  Start time 09:00 am CST and tear down 13:00 CST.  Will plan on working  20 meters and 40 meters. QSL cards and Logbook of the World.  Planning on working on or around 14.270 Mhz and 7.25 Mhz.  Blue Valley club is volunteering two Honda 2000 watt generators that they would like us to use. ACOTF has talked with N0RHM and has secured the use of the EM HF radio.   WD0AAH will also bring a FT-100 radio and a G5RV antenna.

Larry KD0TWD noted that there are times that the 640 repeater is overloaded by one of the law enforcement repeaters located in close proximity.

After receiving reports of DStar issues, Gene KD0OBA visited the tower site and rebooted all of the Internet communication equipment.  This brought the 440 MHz DStar link back on-line.  Gene also took this opportunity to take the insulation off of the 440 analog repeater cabinet.

Gene also reported that it appears that the DStar Reflector 002 is off-line.  With the Reflector off-line the 2 meter DStar link will not work.  This is a computer maintained by someone in Nebraska.  Tim N0RHM will be contacting NEMA to see if they know the status of the Reflector.

With no further business, a motion to adjourn was made by Chris AC0DN seconded by Mark WD0AAH.  Motion carried.

Meeting adjourned at 7:30 pm

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