Meeting Minutes 2020/03/04

Minutes for the SARA Meeting on March 4, 2020

Attendees:

(19:30) Meeting called to order by Peter Melhus

Introduction of all members

(19:37) Guest speaker: Mike Flowers

(20:28) Officer Reports

• Vice President (Peter Melhus)
  • April meeting
    • Emergency communications
    • County Credentialing (Level 4 sign-off)
    • Groups.io
• Secretary (Jeff Walker)
  • Minutes just published a few days ago
  • PayPal integration is ongoing
• Treasurers report (Don Steinbach)
  • Solvent
  • ~ $6,000 in the bank
  • $108 outbound for P. O. Box rental
  • 49 members
• Other:
  • Packet issue at the EOC
    • Likely lithium battery (internal to the Kantronics TNC)

(20:35) Other business:

• Paul commented that the anniversary party was great
• Peter indicated that SARA badges are available. Need to contact Jeff with your request
• Discussion of the last quarterly drill:
  • Marriage of CERT & ARES/RACES worked well
  • Generated ‘real-world’ traffic and locations to operate from
• Somewhat ‘off-topic’ items:
  • Meeting attendance
    • In the past, meeting attendance was in the 6-8 members range
    • Now, 12 to 16 members present
    • A fair amount of club growth is from CERT
    • Could have the impact of driving off non-emergency communications types or HF operators
    • We, as a club, need to maintain a good balance
  • A future meeting will have to be a ‘Intro into HF’
  • Paul Wesling is involved with scouting and sees some renewed interest in teaching radio communications to the scouting community
  • There was a comment that hamtestonline.com is a great site to learn and develop your skills (something lie $20 for two years)

(20:57) Meeting adjourned

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