2008 February Meeting Minutes

Minutes for the Holland Amateur Radio Club business meeting for
February 12th 2008 at 7:15 PM.

* The meeting was called to order at 7:15 PM. 11 people filled in the
sign-in
sheet.

* Phil K8PVH gave the treasurer’s report : the main account had a
balance of $3024.93 and the swap account had a balance of $2847.00

* Ernie, W8EL brought up the fact that we need to hold a meeting of
the committee to work on the by laws. everyone tried to remember who
was on the committee.
Ernie will try to get a meeting setup for the by laws.

* Joe N8FQ informed the club that he has a buyer (Jim Miller ) for the
clubs old Ten Tec rig for $200.00. The club approved the sale of the
radio for $200.00 in a meeting some time ago. The club gave Joe the
okay to tell Jim Miller he may buy the radio for $200.00.

* Chuck W8GCW updated us on the proposed traffic circle project. He
said that he was told that we should be good until sometime in 2010.
He also said we should keep our eyes open for a new place.

* Chuck W8GCW read an Email from Brad ZS5D from South Africa about the
IRLP node being down most of the time. Laryn K8TVZ said that Echo link
has some type of IP address problems and that he would talk to John
KC8QED and work with him on it. John is a truck driver and is out of
town a lot and Laryn needs to talk to John to better understand the
Echo Link problem and the setup of the system.

* Phil K8PVH told the club that the 2008 field day package is on the
ARRL site and the he downloaded a copy and is reviewing it.

*Chuck W8GCE talked about the Clubs hamfest for 2008. We do not have a
date set yet, one possibility would be to team up with the Kalamazoo
club and have it on Saturday (the day before Kalamazoo has there
hamfest). The Kalamazoo club is talking it over the there members.
That would give us less time this year as it would be on Oct 12th. If
we do this we would be able to attract more vendors. A win win for all
of us. We are looking for a co chair for the hamefest to work with Ken
ZR5AAD. Hank KA8COB is going to be on the committee as well. Thanks
Hank and Ken.

*50/50 drawing. The jackpot of $9.00 was won by Steve N8UJD and
second place prize (Am/FM Weather radio) was won by Laryn K8TVZ.

*Ernie W8EL did not do his program on Antenna software because of the
bad weather and low turn out for the meeting. Ernie will tell us all
about antennas at the next club meeting.

* The meeting was adjourned at approximately 8:30 PM.

Chris KC8RQT