Board of Directors Meeting February 1, 2023
Robert Kocourek W9RKK Chairman called the meeting to order at 7:00 PM.
Attendees
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Secretary’s Report
Cliff Sowka K9QD: Dennis C. Calvey moved to approve the January BOD Minutes as published in the Radio Hill Gazette. Robert Kocourek W9RKKR seconded. Motion Carried.
Treasurer’s Report:
No Report
Public Service
Rob Glowacki N9MVO not present.
EMCOMM
No report.
Repeaters
Rob Glowacki N9MVO, Terry Jarnholm AE9TJ not present.
Construction Project (CP)
Cliff Sowka K9QD said all 17 Attenuator Kits have been delivered and paid-for. Attendance at the recent meeting was about 50% of normal. We were successful in bringing a member’s dormant equipment back to life.
VE Testing
John Schofield AC9JS reports
VE Tests Results for January 7, 2023
| Name | Call | Class |
| William | KA9DQB | General |
| Kurt | KC9IVQ | General |
| Paul | KD9FMN | General |
| Tom | KD9VNL | General |
| Barry | KD9WHM | Technician |
| Andrea | KD9 | Technician |
| Jason | KD9WHL | Technician |
| Alphonso | KD9WHN | Technician |
| Class | |
| Technician | 4 |
| General | 4 |
| Extra | 0 |
| Total | 8 |
Some of these licenses were issued as early as Monday, 1-9-23.
Participating Volunteer Examiners (VEs):
| Bill | Davies | K9WKD |
| Steve | Karson | AC9EM |
| Ed | Lishka | AC9SD |
| William | Riess | KW9WR |
| John | Schofield | AC9JS |
| Will | Sperling | W9WSS |
Next examination date: February 4, 2023 and there are 4 candidates already registered.
John Schofield
Session Manager
AC9JS
Nets
Don Dewar KD9NJR Chairman reports good attendance continues.
Radio Hill Gazette RHG
Mike K9KMV No Report.
Membership
Publicity
Dennis C. Calvey KD9HIK Publicity Chairman provides the following:
New Wednesday evening “Mike Shy Net” publicized on Facebook. (Thank you John Scrip, N9IJS and Don Dewar, KD9NJR).
Amazon is discontinuing the “Amazon Smile” program. Not a big deal for SARC as we’ve only gotten a handful of dollars from it.
Schaumburg Park District employees pulled some of the coax for the roof top antenna at the Tennis Plus Club on Payne Road. Unfortunately, it looks like they only pulled one run of coax. Unlikely we’ll be able to proceed until the weather breaks.
No progress on the AT&T bill for the DSL line to the Small Road repeater site. Because I’ve been unable to find the login passcode and challenge question, it looks like I will have to go to an AT&T company store to change the service type and billing information. Existing rate is still in effect.
Roberto Beltramelli WA9E has been active with SARC’s Facebook page, frequently contributing photos of events. He also has submitted a number of operators to have access to posting on the Facebook page. As originally configured, only two people have authority to allow new members to post to the page – John Scrip (N9IJS) and myself. Currently only SARC members are added. This was done to limit SARC’s exposure to undesirable posts. We’ve recently received a number of requests (~16), none of whom are SARC members.
Social
No Report.
John Schofield AC9JS thanked John Douglas KD9KSH for very enjoyable events (Picnic and Holiday Party) he successfully presented to our team. Maybe John KD9KSH would be able to create an outline of the steps he took to help guide our new Social Chair. His leadership is very much appreciated.
Education
Leo N9NBH not present.
Programs
No Report.
Old Business
Dennis C. Calvey KD9HIK previously moved to support $25 funding each to two organizations: AR Newsline and HAMQSL.com. Danny Kafka KD9HIL seconded and the Motion carried. We’ll need to send funds to these two entities.
Dennis C. Calvey KD9HIK previously moved to have SARC officially support HR 9670 Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act. Ed Lishka AC9SD seconded and the Motion carried. An Officer of SARC will need to author communication to Congress indicating our support.
Treasurer access to our BMO Harris account has been accomplished with visit to BMO Harris after Maxfield’s last Saturday.
Don Dewar KD9NJR noted our Club Roster currently indicates there are several previous memberships that have fallen-out of our database. An audit will be needed to determine the validity of these deletions.
New Business
Dennis C. Calvey KD9HIK has been experimenting with Net Logger. This is a freeware program currently being used by the Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network (SATERN) for logging the National DMR / Fusion net.
With a QRZ subscription (Dennis is subscriber) information about a net participant is automatically populated by entering a valid FCC Amateur Radio License number. The program allows exporting the information from a net session to a text file. With a little finagling, it can then be imported to an Excel spreadsheet.
Once in an Excel spreadsheet, the information can be tabulated a number of ways. For example, we could total the number of times an operator checks into a net over time. We could also look for members that haven’t participated in nets.
My experience suggests that it’s most efficient if there is a Net Control Operator and a separate Net Logger.
Does SARC have interest in adopting Net Logger? Discussion could be planned for the February Business Meeting.
Discussion regarding continuance of ZOOM availability for our Business Meetings. Equipment and account charge expense was reviewed with no action taken at the moment.
Danny KD9HIL will begin planning for Field Day and bring discussion forward during the February Business Meeting.
Adjourn 8:14 PM.
Submitted Feb 2, 2023. Cliff Sowka K9QD Secretary