Submitted by KE5RRA
Thursday April 8, 2010
The Amateur Radio Club of Sabine met for its monthly meeting on Thursday April 8, 2010.
The meetting was called to order by President Dave Cochran at 1902 hours.
Minutes were read and aproved, motion to adopt as read made by Cecil and seconded by Ryan.
Treasurers Report was read by Cecil. Motion to accept as read made by Jimmy D. and seconded by George H.
Old Business:
President brought the club up to date on the Skywarn class that was given last month and advised it woul dbe conducted once per year.
Reminded members that the club has an MFJ antenna Analyzer now and that it coul dbe signed out by any club member for use. Unit is to be taken care of and not abused.
Club members were also brought up to date on the remaining work to be done on the antenna system for the radios located at the EOC.
There was no further old business.
New Business:
President advised club that the seb site will be finished soon and the new controller for the 147.280 machine and the 444.200 machine is in and will be installed soon.
Also the 440 machine is currently down and will be repaired soon.
The upcoming Hmafest was discussed concerning who would do what, and be bringing items for the fest.
Mr. Cecil advised the club members that someone was one the 147.280 machine using very vulgar languauge. Whoever was on this machine appeared to be a trucker. Subject was told by a club member that he was on a ham frequency by the language persisyted. Cecil advised that there was a mechanism in place to take the machine off the air if there was a repeat occurance that this action would be taken. The repeater trustee and repeater technical support have the ability to simply turn off the PA on the repeaters via remote and local control.
Being no further business a motion to adjorn was made by Ryan and seconded by Cecil.
Meeting adjourned at 1949 hours.
