Murray State University Amateur Radio Club

Club Minutes                                                     February, 2005

 

The meeting began with introductions at 7:15PM. 

 

Mark Garland, K4SDI presented a program on Incident Command System

 

The business meeting was called to order @ 7:40 PM.  In attendance were:

 

Bill Slayman KY4NU                  John Hart KO4ZE

Mark Garland K4SDI                  Gary Bolton K1DXI

Sabrina Garland W4ZDQ            Dale Barrett WB7D

Randall Winchester WD4HVA     Valerie Barrett KG4OCJ

Robin Jones                              Bonnie Allen

Bill Call KJ4W                           Whipple Walker N4STW

John Dillion K4JFD                     Alice Dillion KI4EFZ

Rich Beam K4ADW                   Jim Taylor

Matthew Freeman WX4MET

 

First thing was a presentation by Jim Taylor of the LBL association asking for our help with communications for the 2005 LBL footrace.   It’s a 26.4 mile race from @ Piney campground to Wranglers campground.  Comms are needed with several points, with John Hart taking the lead on coordinating them.  LBL association has agreed to list MSUARC as a sponsor on their website in thanks for our help.

For more information see www.runbetweentherivers.com .                                     

                                                                                   

Reports

Minutes of the Jan meeting had been e-mailed to the member list.  There being no objection, they were accepted as presented.

Treasurer – Bill KJ4W – Reported current balance as $2163.14.  Bill also reported that 2005 Dues are due.  Report accepted.

University Advisor – John KO4ZE, reported on an issue with the online remote control for echolink.

Systems – Bill KJ4W – All systems were working well, except our mysterious buzzing noise has returned.

 

 

Old Business

Field Day – Agreed to use the Incident Command System for FD.  A list of sites will be compiled and presented at the March meeting.  Suggestion was made to purchase same logging program as last year.

 

New Business

Antennas -  It was decided to purchase one new Carolina Windom (sp?) antenna for the club.  A second one will be purchased by the local emergency management and placed in the communications trailer, so it will be available to the club at any time.

Secretary – John Hart has agreed to make sure that minutes are taken for the next few months as Sabrina will not be able to make the next few meetings.

 

 

The meeting was adjourned at 8:45PM.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Sabrina Garland