2024-02 minutes

February 13, 2024

The Pawnee Amateur Radio Club met in person  on  February 13th, in the Platte County EOC.  Club president, Dave AC0TF, called the meeting to order at 7:00 pm.  

Role was called by KD0OBA.  Members Present – AC0TF,  KB0GZZ, KD0OBA, KE0MKV, KF0GCK, KD0RIZ, K7CLP, N0RHK, N0RHM, WD0AAH 

This meeting is normally held in January, but due to heavy snow storms and extreme cold weather it was moved to February.

Old Business

Payment of club dues were collected by Treasurer K7CLP.

Treasurer report was given.

New Business

Election of club officers was conducted from the members present.  Motion from WD0AAH to submit the existing officers roster for 2024 consideration.  Motion passed.  Election was held with the results as posted:

AC0TF - President

KD0RIZ - Vice president

K7CLP - Treasurer

KD0OBA - Secretary

With no further business, the business portion was concluded and the club moved onto general discussion and the program for the evening. 

Program

AC0TF - presented an YouTube video on the 1,000,000 MW antenna.  General discussion around the video followed.

KD0OBA & KF0GCK discussed the planned new DMR repeater being installed at the Columbus tower site south of town.  This will be a 440 DMR repeater .  

KF0GCK showed his mobile DMR hotspot which is built using a raspberry pi and a MMDVM radio hat.  N0RHM, KD0OBA and KF0GCK showed their DMR hand held radios .  General discussion around DMR followed.

Meeting adjourned at 8:30 pm

Addendum:

KD0OBA reports that the Saturday morning 9:00am nets and the Sunday evening 7:30pm nets have been receiving consistant check-in numbers.  Thanks to eveyone for joining in.

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