Minutes for the Board Meeting on July 17, 2019
Attendees:
Ron Jones, AJ6EG
Peter Melhus, AA6PM
Jeff Walker, N6ADE
Walt Spector, W6WS
John Glass, NU6P
Meeting called to order by Ron Jones at 19:42
Reports of officers and standing committees:
President’s report:
- Field Day outing
- Four SARA members went to the Palo Alto Field Day (Peter, Ron, Rebecca, Davina)
- They had 5 to 6 stations up including a GOTA station
- Great outing, stayed 1 1/2 hours, spoke to many participants and club leadership
- Net Checkins
- Between October 2018 – January 2019 : Averaged 20.3 checkins / week
- Between January 2019 – April 2019 : Averaged 24.4 checkins / week
- Between April 2019 – July 2019 : Averaged 24.9 checkins / week
- Membership outreach
- Need to obtain Saratoga ham mailing labels from wither ARRL or QRZ
- Need to then reduce the list by those who moved out, silent keys, and current members
- Then, we can get a good mailing out to try to grow the club
- Club Outreach
- Ron met with the palo Alto club president and is in contact with the Los Gatos club leadership
- Will continue to reach out to neighboring clubs to see what sharing or synergy is there
Meetings & Events Chair – Peter
- Schedule is rather full for all of 2019
- Aug Annual Picnic (Joint SARA / CERT members and families)
- Sept Ed Fong
- Oct Brent – Message Passing
- Nov The origins of Silicon Valley
Treasurer Report
- $4,598 in the bank
- $40 in cash
- 29 members
Website
- Jeff cutover the site to a WordPress site
- Ron commented that we might be missing a Officers page
- Ron also pointed out that the Contact Us page may not be fully built out
Off Topic Discussion
- Pacificon is coming up October 18-20.
- Maybe promote a group drive up on Saturday
- At least promote it on our website
- We should do a better job monitoring the repeater and answering QSOs
- Maybe find out if any club members is interested in learning or improving their CW skills
- Maybe find out if anyone is trying to prepare for a license upgrade (if so, maybe partner up or find a mentor for topic areas)
Previous unfinished business
- Net check-in time
- Decided to leave at 9:00 pm (no truly better time could be found)
- ARRL Field Day
- Discussed earlier in this report
- August meeting will be the picnic
- Saturday, August 17 12:00 noon – 4:00 PM
- Warner – Hutton House
- 13777 Fruitvale Ave
- Will have tours of: EOC, CERT storage, CERT trailer, SARA Repeater, maybe a visit by the local fire department
- Lunch will be hot dogs, hamburgers, chips, soft drinks, water, condiments, salads.
- Bring your own beer
- $5 per adult, under 18 free
New business
- Santa Clara County Drill – 9/28
- Recommended that we pair up with Los Gatos and run an exercise with them
- We might want to assist with mapping out a better CERT / Ham FRS/HT communications topology
- Found that many CERT divisions are unable to use FRS radios across the full territory of their division
- We might have the expertise to help identify a few go forward plans
- Google maps of Net Check-ins
Meeting adjourned 21:30
Respectfully submitted, Jeff Walker, Secretary