LARC Board
Meeting – January 2011
The LARC Board meeting was called to order at 7:00pm by Jim
Walker(N0XDA) at the Clover Building, Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson
Rd, Longmont Colorado.
Officer Attendees:
|
Position |
Name |
Call |
Present ? |
|
President |
Jim Walker |
N0XDA |
Y |
|
Vice President |
(Open) |
|
|
|
Secretary |
Jerry Schmidt |
N0OUW |
Y |
|
Treasurer |
Marc Mollenhauer |
KD0GOC |
N |
|
Past President |
Sebastian Wessels |
NS0W |
N |
Additional Board Positions
|
Position |
Name |
Call |
Present ? |
|
Planning and Technical |
Bill Honeyman |
KG6CNL |
N |
|
Membership |
Duane |
WD0EEM |
Y |
|
Publicity |
(Open) |
|
|
|
Special Events |
Doug Altman |
KE0SI |
N |
Committee Chairman Attendees:
|
Position |
Name |
Call |
Present ? |
|
LARCFest Committee |
Jerry Schmdt |
N0OUW |
Y |
|
Primary BCARES Representative |
Ron Thomas |
KC0NEV |
Y |
|
Alternate BCARES Representative |
Jerry Schmidt |
N0OUW |
Y |
Additional Attendees:
None
1.
Officer
Reports
a. Treasurer
– Mark
Bank Balance as of 1/4/2011 = $4,999.55
$39.00 received since last meeting
(Misc funds found in briefcase and deposited)
$320.00 paid for insurance coverage for the upcoming LARCFest
b. Secretary
– Jerry
i.
Website Update
ii.
Equipment Inventory
iii.
RidgeviewTel
Hotspot Userid
iv.
LARCRadio Gmail Account for club emails
v.
Thursday Nite Net Activity Report
2.
Committee
Reports
a. Membership
– Duane and the Board
i.
Current count of active members
ii.
Up or down from last month or last year and by
how much
b. Technical
– Jim/Bill
i.
Repeater Enhancements under way
ii.
IRLP Status
c. Special
Events – Doug/Mark
i.
Christmas Parade
d. Publicity
–
i.
Position open
ii.
Discussion of what is needed here
e. BCARES
– Ron Thomas/Jerry
i.
Annual Meeting
– Mon Jan 24 – Details posted on LARC Website
ii.
EmComm Workshop – Feb 19 – Available details
posted on LARC website
iii.
Weather Spotting Training – Feb 12 – Details
posted on LARC Website
3. Presidents Report – Jim
a. Social
Networking
b. Lease
for the Fairgrounds Exhibit building
4.
LARCFest
– Jerry
a. Leasing
the Fairgounds Exhibit Building
5.
New
Business
a. None
6. Close – Meeting adjourned at
9:15
Discussions
Treasurer Report
As
noted in the agenda item above per e-mail from Marc prior to the meeting.
Secretary Report
Jerry
reported that he has been practicing with Drupal on a test version created by
Sebastian and was making good progress until we hit a bump with an imaging
module and few other roadblocks and are considering starting over with an update
version of the Drupal software. Rel 6.0
has been available for some time and the current 5.1 version appears to have a
lot of problems resolved in the newer version. Hope to restart that process in
late January.
Jerry
has been making updates to the event calendar on the current site in an attempt
to keep it current and more useful for club members.
Jerry
mentioned that the latest version of the clubs equipment inventory is available
on the website. Duane reported that he has 1 Vest and 2 Magnetic signs that
will be added to that list. Jerry will also contact Ray Warren to verify the
location of the second Doppler unit and Bob Dornan to verify the location of
two LARC banners that we suspect he may have.
Jerry
attempted to use the RidgeviewTel Hotspot during the board meeting without
success due to invalid userid and password problems. The signal strength did
seem good and should prove to be a viable option for projecting web based
material during future meetings.
Jerry
has created a G-Mail account for the club that we can use to e-mail information
to various groups within the club for various purposes. This is still in the
testing phase.
Jerry
is considering providing a Net Report on the website so folks can get an idea
of the how well the Thursday Night net is functioning for the club.
Membership Committee
Duane
reported that there has been no new members added since last meeting.
Technical Committee
Jim
reported that IRLP is getting closer to reality. There are still a couple
roadblocks to overcome. Jim led a brief
discussion on the possibility of a remote receiver linked to the repeater in
order to improve the repeater’s ‘ears’ toward the areas East of the mountains.
Special Events
Duane reported that there were approximately 6 folks that provided
support for the Longmont Christmas Parade in December. Duane later provided the following list of
members:
Mark Mollenauer KD0GOC,Ben Weglarz KD0GNX,Jim
Walker N0XDA,Bill Honeyman KG6CNL,George Kretke N0RUX,Duane Burtis WD0EEM,Ben
Fenster KB0OVM
Publicity
This
board position is still open and desperately needed and Jim advises that we all
need to keep mentioning this fact during our discussions with our fellow
members.
BCARES
Ron
Thomas (KC0NEV) provided information concerning the BCARES annual meeting on
January 24th and an EmComm workshop scheduled for Feb 19th.
Details for both of these events are available in the events section of the
LARC website. Ron also mentioned that BCARES would be happy to provide a
presentation at a future general club meeting.
Presidents Report
Jim
lead some discussion about the continuing need for a common database and all
that entails. Ron Thomas volunteered to work on that project and see if it can
be done within the current Drupal website.
Jim asked that I send Ron a copy of the XCEL spreadsheet that I have
been compiling over the past few months that has consolidated some new data
with data from the website, Dan’s treasurer pdf file and Doug’s gmail list that
he has been using for special events.
Jim
brought up the topic of social networking as a marketing tool and the possible
use of Facebook and/or other tools for club purposes. The plan is to poll the
membership for anyone interested and active in these areas that might have some
ideas.
Jim
floated the idea of having a nickname for our repeater. One suggestion was
‘Canyon Cannon’
Jim
also floated the idea of code proficiency within the membership and mentioned a
fantastic free program called Teach4 for that purpose.
Jim
reminded us of the need for filling the open position of Vice President for the club. The primary function of this
position is to solicit program material for our general club meetings.
LARCFest
Jerry
reported that the LARCfest advertisement is active on the ARRL website and
asked that we try to get ads placed also in CQ and Colorado Electric Radio.
Jim
will work with Mark to get the Fairgrounds exhibit building finalized for the April LARCFest.
Ray
Rayburn has agreed to loan the club the use of his portable speaker system for
use at the LARCFest
Jim
has suggested that we use this opportunity to offer 30 second advertising spots
to vendors to use during the event.
More discussion will be needed to flesh out this proposal