Opp Amateur Radio Club July 2007 Minutes.

6:41 PM PRESIDENT BOB CALLS MEETING TO ORDER

INTRODUCTIONS AND ROUND TABLE DISCUSSIONS WERE MADE

Jeff Mills - KI4QBT

Steven - NOT LISCENSED

George Wheeler - KI4RNQ

Tip Moses - KE7GYO

Mary Ann Moses - KE7GYP

Dee Yingst - W4CKF

Vic Yingst - W4CKI

Robert Yingst- KI4WBW

Allen Scofield - KG4CNA

Wayne Alday - W4WEA

Robert Lawrence - KI4RWL

Ralph Dunn - K4TGU

12 In Meeting

President Bob then read the minutes for the previous meeting.

Dee Motioned to accept the minutes as read and seconded by Tip. Motion carried to accept minutes as read.

Bob invited Allen Scofield to be a part of our club. He was then directed to go outside to see if it was snowing.

Dee motioned to accept Allen Scofield to the Opp Amateur Radio Club. George seconded. Welcome to the club Allen.

Allen reported no snow in forecast.

The Treasurers report was read. We did not spend any money this month. Wow.

Motion by George to accept the Treasures report. Seconded by Dee. Motion carried.

Repeater report. It’s working. Tone board has been installed by Bob and Wayne and battery backup problem has been solved with a couple of diodes.

New Business:

Suggestion was made for Allen to make us an announcement for our net on Monday nights. He agreed to a price of free.

A suggestion was made to try moving our antenna to improve nonexistent coverage in Andalusia.

Bob made the suggestion to buy a new DB 224-E to possibly replace our current antenna.

Dee brought up that we might want to petition the local businesses for money. We would like to exhaust every possible solution before we did this.

Old Business:

Field day was discussed.

Motion was made we do our own Field Day next year by Vic and seconded by Dee. Everyone voted to do this.

Dee is chairperson of the 2008 Field Day Club. Allen was appointed as co-chair person.

Motion was made by Dee and Vic to use club funds to donate a tech licensing book to the public library. Motion Passed

Motion was made to adjourn the meeting  by Wayne. Motion seconded by Allen. Motion passed. Meeting adjourned at 8:15